Israel's bombing of Gaza damaged a lot of the water and electricity infrastructure. 400 thousand have no access to water except by going to fetch some.

This makes it hard for people to wash their hands regularly, as they need to do.

Even as many public pension funds divest from coal, some others are gobbling up the shares that they sell.

The net result is not zero. It drives down the stock price of the companies that do coal development, which is a positive step. But not a big positive step. We need laws to make fossil fuel industries shrink.

A carbon tax is one method that can do it.

*A Third Reconstruction Is Pragmatically Achievable and Could End American Poverty.*

By "reconstruction", the author means the elimination of the systems that disenfranchise and impoverish poor people and disprivileged demographic groups.

The new head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, Kristen Clarke, has made a career of fighting against bigotry and bias.

The ACLU is continuing to advance the lawsuit challenging US border thugs' power to unlock any traveler's computers arbitrarily.

However, this lawsuit does not go far enough. The border thugs should have to ask a judge to sign a warrant before they can search a traveler's computer.

(Every smart phone is a computer. Maybe some nonsmart phones should also be treated as computers.)