Global heating is disrupting pollination of the early spider orchid.

It is done by males of a particular species of bee, but male bees are only flying around for a short time, and that no longer corresponds to when the flowers bloom.

If global heating were happening slowly, most species would adapt to it. However, aside from bacteria, most species don't evolve fast enough to adapt to what we are doing.

UK sex workers have mobilized and blocked the plan to criminalize their clients.

Swedish prostitutes say that criminalizing their clients has caused them to be treated worse in various ways.

Workers are trafficked and enslaved in many trades, including domestic service, farming, and construction.

I think we need general policies to thwart trafficking and enslavement — not repression of specific trades.

Florida activists including church leaders were arrested for offering food to the homeless in Fort Lauderdale.

Although I'm not a Christian, I agree with one basic principle of Christianity: we have a duty to feed the hungry. Anyone who tries to prevent this for no good reason (such as, to please businesses that want the street to look nice) is neither a good Christian nor a good Secular Humanist.

The people who enforce these law are not acting at gunpoint. They choose to do those jobs, and they are personally responsible for all things they do, including enforcing these laws. If they were decent people, they would quit their jobs rather than do this.

A Russian opposition activist died mysteriously. Friends say he was murdered.

We can't be sure, but I would not trust an autopsy done under Putin's government to be truthful.

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