*A 100km-long curtain moored to the Amundsen Sea bed in Antarctica could prevent catastrophic flooding elsewhere, say scientists.*

I can see things that might fail, but it may be worth a try.

US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act.

This would not do as much good as raising taxes generally on high incomes together with limiting the ability to shelter large amounts of wealth from taxation. We should continue to push for that as what we really want.

US citizens: call on the SEC to propose again the Stock Buyback Disclosure Rule.

Stock buybacks used to be prohibited entirely, before a plutocratist change in the law. We should undo that change and prohibit them entirely once again. But this rule will be much better than no change.

Mississippi Republicans want to make it impossible to repeal abortion restrictions through a vote by the public.

Reportedly, former president Do-Dirty of the Philippines is advocating secession of the large island, Mindanao.

Do-Dirty was elected for the fame he got by running a "war on drugs" in which official thugs killed people on the street, then claimed they were drug dealers. Some were really drug dealers and some were not. Without putting them on trial, the thugs had no way of knowing.

The article makes the error of describing Mindanao as a "town". I am not very confident about the rest of what it says, but I have no other information.