FAIR: mainstream media often exaggerate what authority the conman really has. Many of his announcements pretend to make sweeping changes in laws that he cannot actually make.

*Evictions Aren’t Inevitable When Tenants Fight Back.*

As fracking companies go bankrupt, they leave wells leaking methane and other dangerous substances, and there are no plans to clean them up.

If this were the only bad thing about fracking, one possible solution in principle would be to require the company to post a bond to clean up the well, before starting it. However, as reported in Collapse, by Jared Diamond, this system has problems in practice when dealing with abandoned coal mines in Montana.

Anyway, fracking has other big problems (globally, CO2 from burning the gas, and locally, pollution of water sources) and it is taking us to frack and fruin. Fracking should be entirely forbidden.

*Livestock farming and fossil fuels could drive 4C global heat rise.*

A series of absurdities in Assange's extradition hearing.

The indictment against Assange was replaced, but the hearing is looking at the old indictment and ignoring the new one.

Glen Greenwald: *How "Cancel Culture" Repeatedly Emerged in My Attempt to Make a Film About Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova.*

In the area of sports, the dispute about trans women is a consequence of the artificial division of athletes into categories based on sex. If instead each athlete gets a personal handicap, they could all be in the same category, with the handicap of each athlete adjusted to null out per inherent bodily advantage.