Right-wing disinformationists have demonized electric cars:
the Guardian
How electric cars became a battleground in the culture wars
EVs have become weaponised amid fears over cost of shift to battery power and job losses at carmakers
 Now they are puppet fighters for oil company profits.
The richest people in the US took 47 TRILLION dollars from the rest of us during the past 05 years, by convincing Americans of the myth that taxing the rich to support useful activities inevitably leads to tyranny:
The Intercept
The Big Myth About “Free” Markets That Justified History’s Greatest Heist
The book ”The Big Myth” by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway details how the top 10 percent stole $47 trillion via intellectual warfare.
 What it did, in fact, was to make America great.
For Republicans, banning some books in school libraries is not enough. The next step is to abolish the libraries:
the Guardian
Houston school district to turn libraries into disciplinary centers
Critics condemn superintendent Mike Miles’s ‘new education system’ that removes students’ access to books
 We expected the new Republican-imposed school administration to sabotage education but this is worse than expected.
Spain proved that it is possible to reduce inflation with little pain by rejecting trickle-down policies and acting to protect non-rich people and small businesses:
the Guardian
Why is Spain’s inflation so much lower than the UK’s? Because it stood up to business | Carsten Jung
The reliance on Bank of England rate rises alone can’t go on. In other countries, rent caps and excess profit taxes are working, says the IPPR’...
 That's probably a consequence of having the Socialist Party in power instead of a plutocratist party.
US citizens: call on the Department of Education to fight against state and local book bans:
Join President Obama: Fight Back against Book Bans!
Republican governors like Ron DeSantis and dark money-funded conservative groups have launched a nationwide campaign to ban books about subjects th...
Accountability for the insurrection, and actions against future insurrection-ism, can start with prosecution of the 2020-2021 insurrection's leader, but must go far beyond that:
The Lever
Why Trump’s Indictment Matters
For a brief moment, America is refusing to be an accountability-free zone. Will it last?
[01/02] The railroads have blocked any legislative action to prevent toxic derailments such as the one that happened six months ago in Ohio:
the Guardian
Six months after the Ohio train derailment, Congress is deadlocked on new safety rules
It remains an open question whether the derailment that shattered life in East Palestine will become a catalyst for action
 Corporate Cash Derails Train Safety Bill. The people who were poisoned by the chemicals released then have not recovered from the damage. Perhaps the derailment site has been cleaned up, but it seems their bodies will never be cleaned up.
The Putin forces are systematically bombarding Ukraine's export facilities for grain:
the Guardian
Vladimir Putin aiming for ‘global catastrophe’, says Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Russian drone attacks hit Ukrainian port, halting loading of ships for food exports and triggering spike in grain prices
 This calls for retaliation against Russia's export facilities for oil.
3 Ways the US Refuses to Play by Global Rules:
TomDispatch.com
The United States Refuses to Play by the World’s Rules
In 1963, the summer I turned 11, my mother had a gig evaluating Peace Corps programs in Egypt and Ethiopia. My younger brother and I spent most of ...
 I have to point out that the US is hardly alone in dragging its feet on preventing global heating disaster. Most countries are doing that. The fact that a country is not alone in doing that is no excuse at all.
Some of the Jan 6 defendants pleaded remorse to get shorter sentences, and are now announcing in public that they were pretending: https://boingboing.net/2023/07/16/after-faking-remorse-in-court-in-hopes-of-getting-short-sentences-jan-6-rioters-renounce-their-apologies.html Shouldn't that be treated as a confession of perjury?