Ben Carson, Saboteur of Housing and Urban Development, has attempted several important acts of sabotage.

Japanese eels are severely overfished and this year's catch is down by 1/3 from last year's. Short-termist governments are refusing to take the strong measures that will be necessary to protect the species.

The Gates Foundation set up a system of judging teaching based on "big data", which many states have employed for judging individual teachers. The system led to inconsistent results, on which teachers were fired.

An independent study found that the system's results are meaningless.

Don't let the trumpery make you demoralized. That's the bully's plan.

It is surely true that if Clinton had been elected president, the US government would be defending abortion rights, and probably not oppressing immigrants as much as is happening now.

Instead of right-wing extremist Gorsuch we would have a center-right "moderate" like Merrick Garland, who would defend Roe v Wade but might have joined in some of the bad decisions that the Supreme Court actually made last week.

With Clinton, we would have had the TPP, and might not have had the progressive resurgence that could take the US government away from the rule of the rich. It is not guaranteed that this resurgence will win, but it gives us a chance.

The right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis swim in a sea of Republican not-sees. Here are various tactics they use not to see.