The lack of rain on the California-Oregon border is endangering fish, and farmers.

There is no way to keep farming going without enough rain, but I think that the US government should buy out enough of the farms in such areas that the remainder will be able to subsist on the water that is now available. That would be of some help to them. Letting them fall into bankruptcy is the callous, Republican approach.

EU sanctions against Belarus and against Lukashenko's cronies are unlikely to endanger Lukashenko's dictatorship.

As long as Russia supports Lukashenko, the west cannot hurt him much.

Bolsonaro threatens to seize power if he loses the next election, giving "voter fraud" as an excuse.

Maine has prohibited state government use of face recognition, with small exceptions.

This is a substantial step forward but it may not be sufficient. I think it does not prevent private businesses from tracking everyone via face recognition — something we could call the China Syndrome.

Trickle-down neoliberalism appears to work as long as stock prices are rising, but occasionally it crashes. To keep it going requires a bailout of the rich. Each bailout incorporates more instability which results in a crash some years later.

The article also discusses the alternatives to continuing down that path.