Congressional Republicans changed the rules of the Office of Congressional Ethics to make it unable to operate.

This is to protect various Republicans such as from any follow-up on the ethics complaints they would have faced.

Alas for poor Rep. Santos, it will not protect him from possible extradition to Brazil for the fraud charges he ducked out on a few years ago.

US citizens: call on Biden to keep fighting for the expanded Child Tax Credit.

Here's the text I used for the letter.

I know it won't be easy to get the House to pass expansion of the Child Tax Credit, but it is vital that you and the Democrats be no less stubborn than Republican terrorist politicians.

US citizens: call on ConocoPhillips to stop its proposed Arctic drilling project before it's too late.

Haiti has no elected officials left. It had a senate, but all the senators' terms of office have ended. The place is too chaotic to hold an election to replace them.

The chaos is partly due to a series of US interventions, including removing President Aristide from office twice, and imposing two unelected presidents, Martelly and Moise.

US citizens: call on Congress to stop the GOP plot to defund the IRS to protect wealthy and corporate tax cheats.