Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to impeach Biden based on bullshit:
the Guardian
A strong whiff of desperation surrounds threats to impeach Biden | Margaret Sullivan
Anything to please Trump and disparage the successful Democratic president
 Why not? Bullshit has worked for them many times.
Arkansas Republicans passed a law to jail librarians and booksellers for showing controversial books to minors:
the Guardian
‘Criminal liability for librarians’: the fight against US rightwing book bans
Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward, which helped block a controversial Arkansas law, says attacks will continue
"Despair is a luxury we can't afford": David Suzuki on fighting for action on the climate crisis:
the Guardian
‘Despair is a luxury we can’t afford’: David Suzuki on fighting for action on the climate crisis
The celebrated science broadcaster and environmental activist says we have to stop elevating the economy and politics over the state of our world
Oregon decriminalized possession of drugs. Right-wingers claim that this led to more crime, but a study of statistics of 911 calls found that it did not affect crime rates at all:
New research suggests Measure 110 in Oregon has not resulted in increased 911 calls for service
The Arnold Ventures-supported research involved examining publicly available 911 call data to compare Portland to Boise, Sacramento, and Seattle be...
North Carolina State Representative Tricia Cotham was encouraged by Republican leaders to run as a Democrat, then led to switch parties:
Jezebel
Turns Out Rep. Tricia Cotham, North Carolina Abortion Traitor, Was a GOP Plant All Along
New reporting shows that local Republicans urged Cotham to run as a Democrat and were planting the seeds for her party switch for months.
After a jury exonerated one of the Houston volunteers being tried for giving food to homeless people, the thugs failed to show up to testify for the trial of the other volunteers. Thus, charges were dropped against all of them: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-food-not-bombs-texas-18279213.php
US citizens: call on the EPA to tighten its proposed standards for greenhouse emissions from power plants: https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=55434 If you have disabled the page's JavaScript, you may get a blank response after signing. That does not mean anything is wrong; your signature has probably been sent in properly. The blank screen has text that is rendered invisible by CSS; if your browser gives you a way to disable the CSS in the page (as Icecat does), that should make the text appear.