The US adopted the child poverty tax credit as a response to Covid-19. It lifted millions of children out of poverty. Now Republicans (with Manchin's help) have brought it to an end.

I guess they figure that sloppy-thinking voters will blame Biden for the change, because it will happen while he is president.

Several recent Supreme Court decisions will kill Americans at random.

This reality is not quite analogous to the mythical "death panels" that were not in Obama's medical insurance scheme, neither as proposed nor as adopted. Those were supposedly going to decide whether individual persons were worthy of medical treatment. The Supreme Court decisions will lead indirectly to the death of victims selected by circumstances at random.

Indiana and West Virginia have banned abortion.

In the areas of Australia that global heating has made flood-prone, residents are systematically learning to use sandbags to protect their houses, stockpile food and potable water, and clear road blockages.

Can they put their houses up on stilts? That would protect more than sandbags could possibly do. Especially if a house needs rebuilding, they should not make it as vulnerable as the old one.

Republican election saboteurs are overloading election officials with requests for many kinds of records about the 2020 election.