*Radical ways to fix the Earth: are they magic bullets or just band-aids?*

* By denying the true ills of slavery, [DeMentis] is working to release the government from the obligation of fixing inequality today.*

This is in addition to unleashing the right-wing lie machine to claim from coast to coast to attack the movement to end racism at a fundamental point that we thought no one would dare deny.

The article linked to above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles that make important points, for instance about racism. That article is one of the exceptions.

A good fraction of the doctors in Idaho who treated complications of pregnancy have ceased to practice there, chased out by threats of fines or imprisonment.

I would suggest that all doctors who treat pregnant women in Idaho urge them at the first visit to make arrangements immediately for possible treatment later in a safer state, in case that comes to be necessary.

US citizens: call on Governor Newsom to save California's bees.

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Cyprus is considering legalizing assisted suicide, influenced by the David Hunter case.