Putinism means considering nationalist legends so important that they should not be "besmirched" by historical facts.

I expect that many soldiers in Panfilov's division fought heroically. After all, they stopped the German advance on Moscow, and that could not have been easy. Does this need to be exaggerated? Isn't that victory good enough?

US citizens: phone the Army Corps of Engineers to ask it to stop the Dakota Access pipeline.

phone numbers:
Main: 202-761-0011, press 9
Regulatory (permits) office: 202-761-5903

Hello, my name is ________. I'm calling from {city, state, county}. It is your duty to pull the permits for the Dakota Access pipeline immediately. Police are violently attacking peaceful water protectors, putting their lives in danger by blasting them with water cannons in freezing cold weather. You must stop this pipeline now. It is dangerous in the long term, but right now, this very second it is a threat to the lives at Standing Rock.

Everyone: call for auditing the vote in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. This is to double-check that the computers were not rigged.

US senators, including theocrat Marco Rubio, have proposed personal sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for kidnaping Hong Kong booksellers.

In principle I support efforts to make China back off from crushing freedom in Hong Kong, and I would not reject an initiative just because it gets support from right-wing theocrats. But I think this response is too small to make China concede anything, and more likely to provoke a hostile response.

China reprimanded Trump for denying global heating and pointed out that Reagan and Bush I launched global climate defense negotiations.

Dubya was the first president to be so submissive to the oil companies that he worked explicitly to thwart efforts to protect the world from disaster.

Obama made small steps in the right direction while mostly continuing Dubya's practical policies and not saying much.