The practical details of the legal procedings against the corrupter are unimportant. When journalists dwell on those, they are playing into the hands of his attack on US democracy.

One thing you can help do about this, if you watch TV, is to change the channel (or turn it off) as soon as it focuses on the antics of the bullshitter. The details they focus on are not important. The importance is in the bullshit campaign overall, and you already know the important thing about that.

Some of the prison thugs in US federal prisons make a practice of pressuring prisoners for sex, especially prisoners who are not US citizens and might be deported. Those who testify about this are often punished with deportation.

Officials have invented bureaucratic excuses to block the factual investigation of accusations against prison thugs. Anyone who does this should be charged with obstruction of justice.

While a right-wing judge in Texas ruled that the FDA's approval of mifepristone must be cancelled, another judge in Washington State ruled that it must continue.

It is possible the drug may be authorized in 18 states and not in the other 32.

In 2020, shortly after the election, the CEO of Faux News ordered that fact-checking "has to stop now" because it is "bad for business".

*Markey, Merkley, Jayapal Lead Colleagues on Legislation to Ban Government Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technology.*

I support passing this law, but it does not go far enough. Nongovernmental operation of systems for facial recognition (and other 1984 surveillance systems) is equally dangerous and we need to put an end to that too.