US citizens: call on Congress to ban bump stocks. They effectively convert rifles into machine guns.

Right-wing judges recently ruled against an executive order to treat them as machine guns. So a new law is needed.

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*Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study finds.*

The same is true in various other countries. I've seen places in France, Italy and Turkey that are likely to be inundated in a few decades. Some of them have millennia of history. Some of them are very important to excavate for archeology.

The UK's right-wing extremist leader, Farage, said that Ukraine should give Putin some of its territory.

Many right-wing leaders seem to be allied with Putin -- starting with the wrecker. The ones in the US blocked arms for Ukraine to help Putin conquer some more territory, while Farage cites that as a reason to accept defeat.

It may prove impossible to defeat the Putin forces completely, It may be unavoidable for Ukraine to cede some territory to him, but that would be a very sad victory for tyrannical conquest. We should not let a tyrant conquer without a hard fight.

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered 97% bleaching in some areas.

A coral reef typically has many species of coral. I have a suspicion that different species have different rates of survival. If the overall rate of survival is 10%, some species may have 20% survival and some 5% survival, and some 0% survival. If some species have become locally extinct, that region's coral reef may be changed permanently.

A substantial fraction Israelis are recognizing that letting the extreme right wing and the fanatical colonists lead Israel is harmful to Israel. Now Israelis are recognizing that they act like tyrants and lead the state into repression.

For decades there have always been Israelis who wanted to make peace with Palestinians, but their numbers have dwindled since the 90s. Maybe now they will increase.