The UK allows people to fire lead shot at birds, and the lead gets into other birds and makes them toxic.

UPS is so profitable that it is cutting wages.

*The Russian leader’s pretext for invasion recasts Ukraine’s Jewish president as a Nazi and Russian Christians as true victims of the Holocaust.*

*US fossil fuel industry leaps on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to argue for more drilling.*

Fossil fuel companies led the US and Europe to become so dependent on those fuels that we became vulnerable to Putin. We must not let them off the hook.

The long-term way to defeat Putin and other petrostate autocrats is by decarbonizing.

*Russia speaks total lies. That doesn’t diminish America’s half-truths.*

However, the article's real point is that a government that speaks half-truths can sometimes be your only protection from the total lies.

Matt Taibbi apologizes for the error that blinded him to how horrible a deed Putin would do. He had become "so fixated on western misbehavior" that he didn't realize that the west's enemies could be worse.