*Belgium investigates alleged Russian payments to MEPs.*

*Belgian [prime minister] says Russia is trying to influence forthcoming elections to weaken European support for Ukraine.*

Enormous excesses of sargassum seaweed are choking coasts in the Caribbean, and emitting hydrogen sulfide gas, which is foul-smelling and even toxic in large enough amounts.

The dangerous excess is partly caused by the large amounts of fertilizer runoff that humans' farms now release to the Atlantic Ocean.

US citizens: call on the US to drop charges against Julian Assange.

1. Phone the White House at 202-456-1111 (only 11-3pm, Tues, Wed & Thur).
2. Phone the Department of Justice at 202-353-1555 x1.
3. Phone your congresscritter via 202-224-3121 and ask per to support H.Res.934.

It is useful to do all three.

See assangedefense.org/press-releases for more information

Foreign doctors who volunteered to work in Gaza claim that Israel intentionally targets medical facilities and personnel.

Let's not lose sight of where we want to end up.

*Alabama IVF ruling leaves Republicans stuck between their base and the broader public.*

I am not surprised by this good news As the bully pushes his followers into increasingly extreme and cruel positions, he is sure to generate more and more opposition. Republicans' usual methods of rigging elections won't help them if the demographic groups that normally vote Republican start doing rejecting them.