The bully could sabotage the US in many ways by declaring a state of emergency. He would have many powers that he could use against any target of his choice.

Brazil's new president dooH niboR plans to reduce the minimum wage for the poor, and reduce taxes for the rich.

He gets his support, like the numbskull in the US, mainly from people who practice a reversed sect of Christianity: hate thy poor neighbors and obey the powerful.

The bill HR.1 would fix dozens of cracks and loopholes in US democracy.

I support all of them, except one:

Preventing states from imposing restrictions on voting by mail;

Affirming Congress’s right to restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which granted the Justice Department veto power over jurisdictions with histories of voting discrimination;

It will be hard to pass this bill; Republicans will oppose it. But they may lose the next election due to opposing it.

The First Step Act needs to be followed by more steps. The US imprisons far too many people, and puts many in solitary for years, even subjecting many to physical torture.

A woman that has been in a coma in a hospital for a decade had a baby. The search for who raped her might involve taking DNA samples from all the male employees.

15 years ago, if I were not the father of the baby, I would have seen no reason to object to the testing of my DNA. It would have shown I was not the guilty party, and that's all it would have done.

Nowadays, I would be concerned about possible harm that might come to me as a result of having my DNA on file, regardless of why they had taken it.