Plutocratist Democrats are already working hard to defeat Sanders. Their left hand says that the dozens of others are all progressive so we no longer need Sanders, while their right hand says that few of us will insist on Sanders.

Either way, their real message is "Vote for someone who is less reliably progressive than Sanders."

A BBC cameraman covering one of the bully's rallies was attacked by his supporters.

What the bully says in his events is meant to inflame his supporters and distract the public from what the bully is doing. It would be better for reporters to stay away and cover events of some real significance.

Queensland shifted suddenly from years of drought to a flood that destroyed farms and killed hundreds of thousands of cattle.

The author does not tie this to the global heating that is likely responsible. Extreme weather in both directions is one of the typical results.

Bolsonaro's war on the environment has launched with an arbitrary (and illegal) suspension of funding for environmental protection NGOs.

The Tory government continues to exacerbate the poverty and hunger that it has inflicted on millions, pretending compassion while announcing occasional small steps forward, in between the giant steps back.

We should not forget, however, that it was Tony B'liar and New Labour that began the process of making wealth trickle upward. They did not target the poor particularly, but they gave the rich more power which they used to take from working people. This weakened traditions of compassion and solidarity, which then made it easy for the Tories to win popularity by promising to do more and better trickle-up, and hold it by squeezing the poor (but not acknowledging they were doing so).