The US military have been pouring surplus gear into thug departments and many of them don't even say they have a use for it.

This is not to mention the equipment they use in SWAT teams that they may claim to need, but which we may consider harmful.

*One Year After Declaring Climate Emergency, Scientists Say 'Massive-Scale Mobilization' Necessary.*

(satire) *Betsy DeVos Apologizes For Ever Being Complicit With Something As Toxic As Public Education.*

*As Pro-Trump Mob Boasts About Roles in Deadly Capitol Invasion, Indigenous Water Protectors Charged for Peaceful Keystone XL Protests.*

This double standard has been shown over and over.

I continue to feel that the term "water protectors" understates in a distracting way the importance of the fight against building new fossil fuel infrastructure. They are protecting global civilization, not merely the water supply in a region of the US.

Senator Manchin, a Democrat whose views are similar to Republicans of 2015, will try to block giving Americans in general more immediate aid.

He's probably right that some of that money will go to Americans who did not lose income. But that is quibbling. Nearly all will go to Americans who are poor and need aid -- because the amount tapers off as the person's past income increases. For most of them, $2000 won't be enough.

Manchin puts more weight on small chance of giving some low-income American a little more than was supposedly intended for right now, than on the certainty of giving millions too little. These are the priorities of a plutocratist.