*Twenty-four [human] brain samples collected in early 2024 measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight.*

That is so large it astounds me. And they are likely to cause various diseases.

Chicago thugs arrested protesters rallying near the Israeli Consulate. They arrested reporters covering the protest, too.

The thug spokesman justified the arrests with non-sequiturs in their usual way, then made typical right-wing threats.

Robert Reich:

Putting an end to collusion and price fixing is necessary today as it has always been, but that's not enough. The collusion is encouraged by the excessive concentration in large companies. We need to break them up or compel them to split up, with adequate new laws.

For the field of petroleum products, reducing the price is the wrong goal (it would exacerbate global heating). What we need instead is a windfall profits tax, to redirect that money to important needs (including more support for the non-wealthy). This could, in effect, serve as a kind of carbon tax.

For the field of rental housing, we would put an end to companies' owning large numbers of houses and apartments for rent. This can be seen as a strong form of deconcentration, bringing the rental housing market back to the way it operated 30 years ago.

Due to global heating, wildfires are a threat even in the Amazon rainforest.

Solar power has cut the cost of electricity in Gujarat by 2/3, making salt extractors' lives much better as well as less polluting.