Republican voter-suppression measures make it very difficult for some disabled people to vote at all.

Australia will buy the land of people in Lismore whose homes are now vulnerable to repeated flooding, so they can move without being made destitute.

This is the right way to deal with the spread of flooding, However, it doesn't mean that sea-level rise is no longer a problem. One way or another, society will inevitably bear that cost, and must go to great lengths to curb global heating to minimize this and other costs.

Democrats supported the campaigns of several extremists Republicans in the Republican primaries, hoping that they would be easier to defeat. This tactic worked: all those Republicans lost in the general election this month.

We have already used up the carbon budget with the fossil fuel reserves now being pumped, but the planet roasters plan to develop a lot more reserves which we cannot afford to burn.

*Automakers Poised to Sell 400 Million More Gas-Powered Cars Than Planet Can Handle.*

*US Mega-Banks [are] Behind 1/3 of [the world's] Climate-Destroying Oil and Gas Expansion.*

Thee banks are JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citi, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs.

A student at the University of Kentucky got drunk and shouted a taboo racist insult at another student. She has been expelled and charged with various crimes.

Racist insults are nasty behavior, and it makes sense to respond discipline students for them, as as to teach them not to be nasty to other students. But this punishment is too much for any insulting words to deserve.