Devastating Hawaii fires made "much more dangerous" by global heating:
the Guardian
Devastating Hawaii fires made ‘much more dangerous’ by climate change
Global heating is causing vegetation to dry out, priming it as fuel for an outbreak of fire, says scientist at Nature Conservancy
The British refugee prison barge in isolated Portland must be emptied due to the discovery of deadly legionella bacteria:
the Guardian
What is legionella and what damage can it cause?
We look at the health hazard of the bacteria discovered on the Bibby Stockholm barge and who is most at risk
US citizens: call on the US government to protect Americans squeezed by poverty by regulating digital payday lenders:
Sign the petition: Protect consumers. Regulate digital payday lenders.
In recent years, many harmful financial products and practices have been pushed on underserved communities in the name of “access to credit” an...
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the FATCAT Act to tax private jet travel:
Demand Progress
Tax private jet travel!
The mega-rich flying around on luxury private jets, like Elon Musk, produce 14 times more carbon emissions than people on commercial flights.
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The marine heat wave in Florida has spread around the Caribbean, and so has massive coral bleaching:
the Guardian
‘Huge’ coral bleaching unfolding across the Americas prompts fears of global tragedy
Scientists stunned by unprecedented heat-stress event say they can only hope it ‘motivates and unites people’
 Some of the corals are dying immediately. With 1/4 of marine species depending on coral, we are seeing a mass extinction actually happen. This heat wave is not killing all the world's coral, but there are surely species of animals, dependent on coral and endemic to the Caribbean, that are becoming extinct now.
The insurrectionist now faces charges in Georgia of trying to steal the election there:
the Guardian
What is Trump charged with in Georgia and what is the case about?
Trump and his allies made an aggressive push to invalidate the election results in Georgia as part of an effort to overturn results
 People have posted references to the complete text of the indictment at a page on documentcloud, a site that doesn't work without JavaScript. For moral reasons I can't refer people there. Can someone please send me a URL where the text is accessible from the Free World?
US citizens: call on the Senate and the Department of Justice to investigate the gifts Clarence Thomas has accepted:
Call on the U.S. Senate and Department of Justice to Initiate a Formal Investigation of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas Now
Americans deserve to understand the full scale and scope of the multi-faceted, decades-long effort to corrupt the Supreme Court of the United State...
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US citizens: call on Congress to permit televising the trial of the insurrectionist for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election:
Sign the petition: Televise the Trump trial
Public transparency is our best defense against corruption and disinformation. As the case against Donald Trump goes to court for his illegal act...
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Senate Democrats Blocked Watchdog for Ukraine Aid — Ignoring Lessons From Afghanistan:
The Intercept
Senate Dems Block Watchdog for Ukraine Aid, Ignoring Lessons From Afghanistan
“In Afghanistan, corruption was the existential threat. It wasn’t the Taliban, it was corruption that did us in.”