*Leaked IPCC Draft Climate Report 'Reads Like a 4,000-Page Indictment' of Humanity's Failure.*

The US has put sanctions on some Chinese solar panel exports.

This is a tricky trade off between two goals: to punish China for its repression, about which it shows as little shame as the bully does, and to continue installing solar generation in the US. I suppose the aim includes encouraging a buildup of US production which would be a long-term decrease in the world's dependence on China for this.

Russia is excluding candidates from local elections because of their past support for Navalny.

The UK's supreme court dismissed charges against participants in an inconvenient but nonviolent protest in the name of the freedom to protest.

US hospitals, even those that are nonprofit organizations, refuse to hire enough nurses. The predictable result is that patients get injured.

Occasionally a patient develops a serious condition that went unnoticed because the nurses were always in a hurry.

I voted against the Massachusetts initiative, despite agreeing with the basic idea, because it seemed to me that putting a specific staffing ratio directly in the law was too rigid. In 20 years that ratio might call for change and would be very hard to change. Also, since the nurse I had known had died, I had no one to ask about whether that number was correct.