Trump Team Politicizes Superstorm Harvey by Attacking Scientists for Doing Their Job.

US citizens: call for restoration of the federal flood safety rules.

After Hurricane Harvey, Will Houston Public Schools Be Charterized?

That's the sort of exploitation of disasters that Naomi Klein warns us about.

Something must be done to stop Assad from disappearing people.

Many were imprisoned only to use as hostages.

But what can be done.

There are even worse things going on in Syria. For instance, there is PISSI. There is war. There is the danger to refugees that have fled from war. There is the danger that Assad's forces will attack the Kurds once PISSI is defeated militarily. A scheme to end the disappearances has to fit into a scheme to end the other dangers.

Saboteur Sessions has nominated a long-time enemy of civil rights enforcement for the civil-rights division of the Department of Justice.