Accusing the US rail unions of being weak-spirited and divided.

Republicans have added to the NDAA a clause to repeal the Covid-19 vaccine mandate for the military.

This is more harmful than it appears. The vaccination requirement has convinced some right-wing fanatics to leave the US military, and we need to keep it going.

It also helps keep the troops healthy.

US zoning laws obstruct the conversion of surplus office space into badly needed residential space.

*Rural Arizona county certifies midterm results after judge orders vote.*

The Republican county supervisors in Cochise county had refused to certify that county's election. Then they got a court order which required them to certify the vote, so they did.

They presented no grounds for refusing to certify the results, but we can see that it was mad hatred: they hate the election so much that they wanted to fight it regardless of what effects that would have.

Ironically, if they had got away with not certifying that county's vote, the result would have been to elect one more Democrat to the House of Representatives. That would have been a major setback to Republican power nationwide.

I therefore conclude that the refusal was not an instance of Republican "by hook or by crook" cheating, but rather mad rage against free elections.

I previously posted that Cochise county's vote was majority Democratic, because had I read that in another article. That would have made the refusal consistent with by-hook-or-by-crook cheating. But it appears that that other article was mistaken about this.

The president of Peru was removed from office by Congress. He had attempted to prevent this by dismissing Congress.

I don't have enough contact with Peru to judge which side was basically at fault, but I lean towards trusting Arce's view. He is a leftist elected president in a country that borders on Peru, so he has surely paid plenty of attention.

More about the new president Dina Boluarte, who was previously the vice president.