*How Seville is turning leftover oranges into electricity.*

I have occasionally wondered why the city does not replace the trees gradually with other orange trees that will produce fruit people will like to eat.

Biden has brought the issue of Americans accused of crimes in Iran into the negotiations on resuming the non-nuclear deal.

I think that is a mistake. Keeping Iran non-nuclear is far more important than freeing a few people who may be unjustly accused, and sanctions that interfere with medical treatment for millions can't be justified by those few either.

The Senate confirmed thoroughly plutocratist Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture.

He is expected to favor the big middleman companies over people that eat food or grow food.

Zuckerberg personally ordered Facebook not to ban Alex Jones when the company's policy said to ban him.

Nearly all US states make it too easy to subject a person to total, permanent control by a "guardian". This is often done without properly notifying the target of the court hearing which will decide about per fate.