The Putin forces seem to be burying the dead civilians of Mariupol in mass graves, without identifying them (which would be a challenge). Estimates of the number of dead range form 22,000 to 90,000, and perhaps vary even further.

Bolsonaro has been encouraging violence against his opponents and threatening rebellion if he loses the election. Now one of his supporters has assassinated the treasurer of the Workers Party, which Lula leads.

*Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe documents the discovery of torture chambers … in Bucha.*

The report also asserts that the Putin forces used Ukrainian civilians as human shields.

*Sanders Warns Congress Is Working 'Behind Closed Doors' on $50 Billion in Corporate Welfare.*

Including 10 billion for Bezos.

*We're talking about giving $50 billion in corporate welfare with no strings attached — a blank check — to the highly profitable microchip industry.*

It makes sense to encourage companies to manufacture chips in the US, but not with a subsidy. We must stop "rewarding" companies for not doing some harmful practice. Instead we must punish the ones that do it.

The traditional way to do this is with a tariff. The World Trade Organization restricts that — its purpose, from the start, was to reduce the power that states have over businesses and give the businesses power over states, and it succeeded. That's why I call it a business-supremacy treaty. But there are ways to impose a tariff.

The problem is that when a country applies a tariff to a product that it does not produce, it only discourages use of the product. What we need is a tariff that applies to any given model of imported chips once some factory in the US produces comparable chips.

*More than 200 congressional staffers have urged the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate to finalize a reconciliation package that includes robust measures to tackle the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency before the August recess.*

Meanwhile, a plutocratist Democrat in the House is trying to eliminate the tax increase for the rich.