German parliament sued over anti-BDS resolution
16 October 2020
*Human rights defenders sue German parliament over anti-BDS resolution.*
The resolution equates boycotting Israeli companies with boycotting Jews — in effect equating criticism of Israel's occupation practices with antisemitism.
The Israeli government pushes to establish that those two are the same,
as a weapon against those who criticize the crimes of the occupation.
Meanwhile, its leaders are friends with people who really are antisemitic.
I support the existence of Israel, and I condemn antisemitism.
However, Palestinians have rights too, like everyone else, and Israel
must respect their rights.
Governments made the London thug department less racist
16 October 2020
The first head of the Black Police Association of London said that governments made the London thug department less racist, but this stopped in 2016 and racism is coming back.
(satire) Galaxies mating
16 October 2020
(satire) *NASA officials announced Tuesday that the Hubble Space Telescope had recently given scientists the rare opportunity to observe a pair of galaxies mating.*
Monopoly of privatized water
16 October 2020
A giant international monopoly of privatized water is being formed.
Privatization of water for residential use should not be allowed.
Chile's national police force
16 October 2020
*Calls grow for radical reform of Chile's national police force. The Carabineros face 8,500 allegations of human rights abuses in the past year.*
Canada's last ice shelf
16 October 2020
Canada's last ice shelf broke up and disappeared.
Great Barrier Reef corals
16 October 2020
*Great Barrier Reef corals have more than halved in past 25 years, study shows.*
University of Sydney law professor
15 October 2020
*University of Sydney law professor arrested while watching student protest.*
He sent his students to watch, because they were studying law and protest. It appears that the thugs went semi-berserk, thinking "Wheee, lots of people we can beat up!"
"Smart" meters in Australia
15 October 2020
"Smart" meters in Australia will enable the company to report when users turn certain appliances on or off by noticing momentary increases or decreases in total current used.
For "smart", read "snoop".
The worst thing is that people will have no choice about having their homes connected to these meters.
Snooping meters should be restricted by law about how fine grained their reports can be. I contend that informing the customer of per moment-by-moment current use, plus telling the electric utility the moment-by-moment current use of a block or neighborhood, is enough data.
Undermining the census
15 October 2020
The Supreme Court, now with right-wing bias, has allowed the wrecker to undermine the census count by stopping it early.
Homeless man pulled by leash from horseback
15 October 2020
Galveston thugs tied a leash to a homeless man and pulled him from horseback.
This is not only humiliating, it is dangerous. It can be hard to keep up with horses, so the person being pulled can easily fall and be dragged. That can cause all sorts of injuries.
Rio Tinto contracts with Australian indigenous groups
15 October 2020
The Rio Tinto mining company signed contracts with Australian indigenous groups, paying them money but demanding they remain silent about possible destruction of their ancient sites by mining. When some found out that a site was likely to be destroyed, they dared not complain to the government for fear of losing that income.
This confirms my view that these sites should have absolute protected status. No one should have the power to allow their destruction.
Twitter suspended apparently fake accounts
15 October 2020
Twitter suspended apparently fake accounts which claimed to belong to people that were black and planned to vote for the wrecker.
Israeli combat drones
15 October 2020
Israeli combat drones that were battle-tested by bombing Gaza may be bought by the UK and used to track (and kill?) asylum seekers in the channel.
Museum censorship
15 October 2020
A French museum had to defer plans for an exhibit about Mongol emperor Genghis Khan because China demanded that the exhibit not use the words "Mongol", "Empire" or "Genghis Khan".
Now that China has started a long-term plan to assimilate Mongols that live in China, it apparently would like to make the rest of the world forget that Mongols are ethnically different from Han Chinese. That will be difficult to entirely accomplish, since the rest of the world is well aware of the Mongol empire. Russia and the Middle East were conquered by it and they remember.
Bending rules against hate
15 October 2020
Right-wing sites pressure Facebook into bending its rules against hate and disinformation for them. An employee who collected a list of instances was fired for this.
Five things Facebook should do to avoid encouraging election violence.
Conversion to renewable
15 October 2020
Queensland (part of Australia) could convert completely to renewable generation in 15 years, generating around 10,000 permanent jobs.
Looking and looting
15 October 2020
Gideon Spiro writes of the looking of Arabs' houses and the looting of Jews' houses.
Hunger strike
15 October 2020
Israel has imprisoned Maher al-Akhras without charges, and his response is a hunger strike.
Imprisoning people without charges is a fundamental injustice, so Israel should free him immediately, or else state the charges against him so he can have a trial.
Exploiting COVID
15 October 2020
Naomi Klein: *I fear Trump will exploit his COVID infection to further destabilize the election.*
Definition of antisemitism
15 October 2020
Prominent academics warn that the IHRA "definition" of antisemitism lends itself to repression and censorship of defense of Palestinians' rights.
Even the author of that criterion warns it should not be used this way.
Partial shutdown
15 October 2020
Proposing to confront Covid-19 with a form of partial shutdown of society, with firm enforcement of the rules.
The cameras proposed here threaten oppression, but if the purpose of the system is simply and only to measure how many people are in a place and in general what they are doing, it could be designed not to identify people. Then it would be safe.
Sabotage
15 October 2020
Virginia's voter registration site crashed shortly before the deadline because a cable was cut.
The same thing happened in 2016. Do you think this was an accident? Once may have been; twice is not likely. It looks like sabotage to me.
Hypocritical
15 October 2020
(satire) *"For just $3 per shipment, Amazon users who are outwardly critical of our company can have their packages delivered in a blank cardboard box without any logos or branding so they’ll never get called out for being hypocritical."*
Voter suppression
15 October 2020
After Republicans stacked the appeals court, it approved the Texas voter-suppression measure of allowing only one ballot drop-off per county.
I am curious to see their rationale, but I suspect it is based on taking at face value the pretense that this is a measure to prevent fraud, and disregarding the question of what effect it will really have.
That gives officials a free hand to oppress people: just fabricate a motive that would have been legitimate, no matter how absurd.
Social Security's Cost of Living
15 October 2020
*Social Security's Cost of Living Adjustment Is Inadequate. Democrats Have a Plan to Fix That.*
Barrett's side
15 October 2020
*New Analysis Finds Barrett Sides Against Consumers, Immigrants, Workers, and More.*
Barrett is willing to consider letting the wrecker unilaterally delay the election. That would be quite a stretch to the US Constitution, and shows that she is prepared to go to great lengths to help the wrecker seize unconstitutional power.
Emissions policies
15 October 2020
*IMF warns emissions policies 'grossly insufficient' and urges green recovery.*
It is noteworthy that an organization which in general serves plutocracy says this. It seems that the planet roasters have lost out to other interests in one important contest.
Undermining Covid-19 response
15 October 2020
*USDA and Meatpacking Industry Collaborated to Undermine Covid-19 Response, Documents Show.*
I don't know whether that was illegal, but it is corruption.
Small Mexican border town of Sasabe
14 October 2020
US border thugs deport large numbers of people to the small Mexican border town of Sasabe, perhaps because they know it cannot process so many immigrants that fast and has no place for them to stay.
This sadism is typical of the US border thugs.
Cost of ending world hunger by 2030
14 October 2020
*Ending world hunger by 2030 would cost $330bn, study finds.*
That is much less than one would expect. Just $33 billion a year would be peanuts for the US government.
Cyprus scraps 'golden passport' scheme
14 October 2020
*Cyprus scraps 'golden passport' scheme after politicians caught in undercover sting.*
Protest movement led by a Thai student
14 October 2020
A Thai student leads a protest movement demanding reduction of the power of the king.
Fracking releases radioactive polonium
14 October 2020
Fracking releases radioactive polonium into the air.
Proposed law in Germany using feminine word endings
14 October 2020
A proposed law in Germany is causing consternation because it uses feminine word endings throughout instead of the usual masculine endings.
Any doubts about the meaning and legitimacy of this draft text could be resolved easily by adding a note saying that "In this law, words with feminine endings that refer to human beings include all humans, whether female or not."
Has the Labour Party still got a conscience?
14 October 2020
Has the Labour Party still got a conscience? Will it vote against a bill to permit infiltrating undercover thugs to commit crimes without limit, even murder?
Facebook greatest source of Covid-19 disinformation
14 October 2020
*Facebook greatest source of Covid-19 disinformation, journalists say.*
Koch-Funded group pushes for mass evictions
14 October 2020
*Koch-Funded Legal Group Pushes to Allow Mass Evictions During Pandemic.*
The greatest danger of putting Barrett on the Supreme Court is that it could adopt that philosophy — that "civil liberties" means there cannot be any limit on the power to evict tenants.
Showing Britain what real democracy could look like
14 October 2020
*Extinction Rebellion is showing Britain what real democracy could look like.* Big business gets to demand change in government policies at any moment, whereas the people get to do so only at intervals of years.
One of the reasons for Extinction Rebellion effectiveness is that it is absolutely, totally nonviolent (though its protests are sometimes disruptive).
China still allowing use of pangolin scales
14 October 2020
*China still allowing use of pangolin scales in traditional medicine.*
China is not egregious in failing to adequately protect endangered species. Many countries, perhaps most, fall short on that dimension.
Infiltrating real terrorist groups to stop terrorism
14 October 2020
State infiltrators are bad when they infiltrate peaceful dissident groups. However, infiltrating real terrorist groups is legitimate and can be very effective for stopping terrorism. Here is an example.
Tractors used to demolish Palestinian homes
14 October 2020
JCB, which sells construction equipment, is under legal pressure for selling tractors to an Israeli company and not taking steps to prevent their use in forcible demolition of Palestinian homes.
The size of the Supreme Court
14 October 2020
The US increased the size of the Supreme Court before, and for good reasons.
Faithfully serve the Constitution
14 October 2020
* Biden must call on federal workers to ignore illegal orders and faithfully serve the Constitution.*
The Broken Trust Model of Policing Police
14 October 2020
Announcing a new political article, "The Broken Trust Model of Policing Police"
A few weeks to provoke
14 October 2020
The bully still has a few weeks to provoke Iran into war. The provocations are already killing Iranian civilians.
Protect your students
14 October 2020
Academics call for universities to join to protect their students from persecution by China over criticism of China in their classes and academic work.
Students are afraid of being imprisoned if and when they go to China, even over what is said by others in the same class. To get the US to imprison you for what you publish, you have to do something heroic, such as exposing secret crimes.
China, by contrast, will imprison people merely for criticizing China, or even for nothing at all if they are useful as hostages.
Total collapse
14 October 2020
(satire) *several reports indicated Monday that the idea of the total collapse of democracy was so horrifying that America decided it hadn’t happened yet.*
Not interfering
14 October 2020
(satire) *Judge Amy Coney Barrett promised Monday that her Catholic faith’s tenets of generosity and humanity would not interfere with her duty on the court to crush the nation’s poorest and most downtrodden citizens.*
Avoiding exposure
14 October 2020
*Trump desperately needs to avoid another withering exposure that another debate would cement. That is why, true to the coward that he is, he’s hiding from it.*
Public banks
14 October 2020
An additional advantage of public banks is that governments could directly make them stop investing in fossil fuels.
For the other reasons public entities should put their money in public banks, see here.
Spy drones
14 October 2020
General Atomics has developed spy drones that can track everyone in a substantial area — such as a big city — at once. The initial application for them was for war, but now it is making thinly veiled attempts to fly them over American cities.
Myths and lies about poverty
14 October 2020
Jesse Jackson: *Myths and Lies About Poverty.*
I take issue with Jackson on one point: most Americans do support the laws that would eliminate most poverty. But plutocats have used (and created) flaws in our democracy to keep control of our government and defeat candidates such as Sanders that stand for the policies most Americans support.
CEPR: The US Census Bureau underestimates poverty in the US because it uses too low a value for the poverty line, one that doesn't relate to today's life.
Insults and denunciation
14 October 2020
Here's how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounced a Republican congresscritter that first insulted her on the capital steps, then tried to claim that we shouldn't blame him for that because he has daughters.
I was so moved by her strength and dignity that I found a recording to listen to via invidious. Her speech is even more impressive as spoken word.
Antibodies
14 October 2020
* To make experimental antibodies [for Covid-19] affordable will cost billions. If they are shown to work, it will be money well spent.*
Prosecuted for journalism
14 October 2020
Rafał Gaweł, who was prosecuted in Poland for journalism, has won asylum in Norway.
Herd immunity
14 October 2020
*WHO chief says herd immunity approach to pandemic 'unethical'.*
The reasons he cites are the simple, evident reasons that we can all see if we look.
Unauthorized ballot boxes
14 October 2020
*California investigates unauthorized ballot boxes installed by Republicans.*
Setting up an unauthorized ballot drop-off box is electoral fraud and I hope those Republicans get punished.
Time to take strong measures
14 October 2020
Scientific advisers warned the UK government three weeks ago that it was time to take strong measures to avoid a "large epidemic".
Either the ministers are timid and weak, or they are playing a game of trumpery.
Cutting off coal importation
14 October 2020
China has cut off its importation of Australian coal. It will presumably burn Chinese coal instead.
This could teach Australia to invest in something less damaging than coal mining. But I fear that the Australian government will be so desperate for China to resume buying coal that it will break and bow down to China. That would be very bad for freedom in the world.
The Australian government has a few oppressive policies — towards immigrants, towards software developers. Towards whistleblowers that reveal its dishonesty and crimes. However, in general it is much better than China.
In regard to global heating, to the first order this makes no difference. Australian coal and Chinese coal are both very damaging.
Sifting for food
13 October 2020
*People in Gaza sifting through rubbish for food, UN head says.*
Senate democrats have failed us
13 October 2020
Senate Democrats have failed us by not going to the mat to block confirmation of Barrett as a Supreme Court Justice.
The hearings are useless. Democrats could show she shot someone on Fifth Avenue and the Republicans would still confirm her, just as they confirmed Kavanaugh.
With her, the court will find it easy to use some excuse to set aside the election and make the wrecker president again.
*Judges' politics absolutely sway how they decide cases. I crunched the numbers.*
Unimportant
13 October 2020
President Xi is showing the people who served as his puppet government in Hong Kong just how unimportant they are to him.
Official state payment app
13 October 2020
China is luring Chinese people to adopt the official state payment app, which is even more Big Brotherish than the private payment apps they mostly use now.
Protect your country from going down that path — insist on paying for products and transportation with cash, anonymously.
Your civilization is killing life on Earth
13 October 2020
*This is my message to the western world — your civilisation is killing life on Earth.*
It is a justified rebuke to civilization, but limiting it to "western" is not fair. Civilization is global; civilization in Asia is involved too.
*[One] fifth of nations at risk of ecosystem collapse, analysis finds.*
Punished for getting pregnant
13 October 2020
The UAE punishes foreign workers that get pregnant, and their children, with homelessness and starvation, and the children with denial of education. This punishment lasts for an indefinite term; it could be years.
Many religions support injustice to women.
Lung cancer
13 October 2020
*Covid coughing link 'may be stopping people with lung cancer coming forward'.*
The delay in detecting and treating lung cancer can be fatal.
The UK's National Health Service has also caused delays in testing for and treating cancer, by being slow. People are dying from that. Covid-19 made this a lot worse, but it was starting before.
The NHS did a pretty good job, given the inadequate funding that governments gave it. However, plutocratist governments have cut its funds step by step over many years. Under those conditions, it will become less and less effective — but don't blame the NHS for that.
Shooting attacking protester
13 October 2020
A right-wing protester in Denver attacked a journalist's bodyguard, first with a punch, then with pepper spray. The bodyguard shot him dead. I am concerned by the fact that the bodyguard was arrested for defending himself.
Charged for attacking journalist
13 October 2020
The anti-distancing activist who attacked a journalist in Brooklyn faces criminal charges for doing that.
In Favor of deforestation
13 October 2020
* Rainforests face unprecedented fires, yet BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard have consistently voted in favor of deforestation.*
Report on climate risks
13 October 2020
*New Zealand Becomes First Country in the World To Require Financial Sector To Report on Climate Risks.*
Not endorsing bullshit
13 October 2020
*Anthony Fauci criticises Donald Trump for using his words out of context.* The bullshitter's campaign made it appear that Fauci was endorsing some bullshit.
Blocking coups
13 October 2020
The wrecker may try to seize power after the US election. How can Americans stop him? Here are methods that succeeded for blocking coups in several other countries.
Stretched to the limit
13 October 2020
(satire) *… members of a local white nationalist militia stated Friday they were stretched to the limit trying to attack everyone the president wants them to.*
Voter suppression
13 October 2020
Georgia kicked over 310,000 voters off the registration list on the grounds that they had moved. Supposedly it did this based on data from the USPS. Greg Palast's team checked properly with the USPS and found out that 197,000 of them should not have been deleted.
This is an example of voter suppression. The current governor of Georgia stole the election in 2018 by voter suppression like this.
Amazon bullies partners and vendors
13 October 2020
*Amazon bullies partners and vendors, says antitrust subcommittee.*
Facebook buys, copies or kills competitors
13 October 2020
*Facebook is a social network monopoly that buys, copies or kills competitors, antitrust committee finds.*
Costa Rica Anti-IMF protests
13 October 2020
*Costa Rica Holds Anti-IMF Protests for Tenth Day in a Row.*
Campaign to block China seat in the UN Human Rights Council
13 October 2020
There is a campaign for the UK to block China from having a seat in the UN Human Rights Council.
The very idea of China's presence in that group illustrates the fact that it has been taken over by the enemies of human rights.
Animal agriculture surveils and punishes critics
13 October 2020
*New Documents Reveal How the Animal Agriculture Industry Surveils and Punishes Critics.*
Texas order to shut down ballot drop-off sites
13 October 2020
*Federal judge blocks Texas governor's order to shut down ballot drop-off sites.*
I suppose this will go through two appeals and reach the Supreme Court. I wonder what it will say.
Toxic chemical smoke grenades
13 October 2020
*Federal Agents Used Toxic Chemical Smoke Grenades in Portland.*
Some protesters were sick for a long time after being attacked in this way.
Farming salmon on a large scale
13 October 2020
Farming salmon on a large scale, as today, causes a number of ecological dangers, and can also incubate diseases as well as parasites.
Charles Koch buying credibility
13 October 2020
*How Charles Koch Is Buying Credibility With Academic Investments.*
Persistently harassing possible future criminals
13 October 2020
Pasco, Florida, tries to prevent crime by persistently harassing people thought to be possible future criminals until they move out of town.
US response to Covid-19 driven by various wrong intuitions
13 October 2020
The US response to Covid-19 has been driven by various wrong intuitions so that it has been purely planned.
The article does not mention that the wrecker and Republicans intentionally undermined the effort so he could use the disease for his reelection. (I think we did not yet have proof of that when it was written.) However, I don't think that invalidates the article. The Republicans took advantage of these erroneous tendencies, and they are still doing so.
New York thug department patterns of injustice
13 October 2020
1/5 of the high-ranking officers of the New York Thug Department have substantiated patterns of injustice to the public. Substantiated to the department's satisfaction, that is. The department works hard to cover them up.
This article practices the fashionable symbolic bigotry of capitalizing "black" but not "white". I linked to the article despite that because its substance is important.
Masks in public transportation
13 October 2020
The CDC wanted to order people to use masks in public transportation, but the wrecker's political officials blocked it.
If our state and local officials were on our side and getting good advice, all trying to do the best thing to protect people from Covid-19 and bring it to an end, it might be better for these decisions to be made locally. Alas, led by the wrecker, many of them are on the virus's side, and this decision helped them spread it.
UK thug violence against anti-fracking and anti-HS2 protesters
13 October 2020
UK thugs display a pattern of violence and bodily harm against anti-fracking and anti-HS2 protesters.
Thug union faces criminal charges for pepper-spraying a person who was handcuffed
13 October 2020
The head of the Somerville, Massachusetts, thug union now faces criminal charges for pepper-spraying a person who was handcuffed.
It appears that the most thuggish of thugs feel drawn to becoming officials of the unions that protect thuggishness.
The saboteur is sabotaging science
13 October 2020
The saboteur is sabotaging science by forbidding research using fetal cells culture.
Dubya did the same thing. In the 2000s, a friend of mine hoped that research would find a way to prevent his developing blindness. Due to Dubya's policy, that research was not done. Now he is completely blind.
A fetus is not a baby, and a culture of human cells is not a human being. There is absolutely nothing wrong (barring unusual circumstances) with an abortion, and absolutely nothing wrong with using fetal cells (or their cultures) for research (medical or otherwise). When anyone acts less than proud of using the results of such research, we should speak up and say, "Be proud!"
Rust belt plant closures
13 October 2020
*Despite Trump's 'Jobs, Jobs, Jobs' Bluster, the Rust Belt Is Still Reeling from Plant Closures.*
Covid-19 in the Czech Republic
13 October 2020
Covid-19 transmission has been rising in the Czech Republic since August, and has reached the point where it will overload the medical system.
This demonstrates yet again that trying to trim the settings in the rules is a mistake. Once transmission starts accelerating, you must take firm action without delay. You're only safe if the number of new cases is decreasing.
Greenhouse emissions reduction
13 October 2020
Even a weak target for greenhouse emissions reduction can create many jobs and a booming economy.
It could slow down disaster, and pave the way for stronger steps.
Corporations entitled to human rights
13 October 2020
See which candidates have pledged to amend the Constitution to reject the idea that corporations are entitled to human rights.
I was disappointed to see that not one candidate in my state has endorsed it.
Sunken British slave ship
13 October 2020
A sunken British slave ship, of great archaeological interest, is being destroyed by unrestricted trawling.
Arguing for herd immunity
13 October 2020
A few dissident scientists purport to be arguing for letting Covid-19 spread to produce herd immunity. Superficial news coverage makes it look like a serious scientific dispute, but their position is not clear enough to make sense. And its supposedly scientific supporters are not all real scientists.
In other fields, such "skepticism" has been funded by businesses with something to gain by creating a false impression of uncertainty. There is no shortage of businesses that might want to create the appearance of doubt about whether we should try to wipe out Covid-19. And there are rich supporters of the conman who might do this.
I wonder if someone who knows how to investigate could check for such connections.
British practice of raising large numbers of birds
13 October 2020
The British practice of raising large numbers of birds to release them for wealthy people to shoot is causing ecological damage; stricter laws are needed.
Political officials alter the CDC's weekly reports
13 October 2020
Political officials alter the CDC's weekly reports for political purposes. They are pushing the head of the CDC to modify old reports too.
Dr. Rick Bright resigned from the National Institute of Health after he was sidelined for insisting on doing what was scientifically and medically called for.
World left unprepared for pandemic
13 October 2020
*'Catastrophic Failure to Tackle Inequality' Left World Unprepared for Pandemic.*
Political Article: An Extinction Rebellion activist comments about the London police by Clark Killick
13 October 2020
New political article: An Extinction Rebellion activist comments about the London police by Clark Killick
Urgent: Keep the Roadless Rule for the Tongass National forest
13 October 2020
US citizens: call on the Department of Agriculture to keep the Roadless Rule for the Tongass National forest.
Urgent: no vote on nomination of Supreme Court seat
12 October 2020
US citizens: call on Congress to have no vote on any nomination to fill Justice Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat until the winner of this election is inaugurated.
Urgent: Save Europe from Software Patents
12 October 2020
Everyone: Donate now to save Europe from Software Patents, says FFII.
If you are German, contact your representative in the Bundestag to oppose the "unitary patent".
Profiting from disinformation
12 October 2020
*Facebook Profited From Climate [Dis]information Even After Vowing to Fight It, Report Shows.*
These ads were not mere errors, they were intentional deception. Thus I call them "disinformation".
Not appealing enough
12 October 2020
(satire) *… millions of Americans worried that they weren’t appealing enough to land any potential commander in chief who didn’t constantly lie, steal, and cheat on them by having secret relations with numerous other countries."
One person attack
12 October 2020
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: the US should not allow any one person to have the power to launch a nuclear attack unilaterally.
The hard problem of solidarity
12 October 2020
Interesting article: *Binary Oppositions and the Hard Hard Problem of Solidarity.*
White supremacists monitoring polling places
12 October 2020
Republicans are sending armed white supremacists to "monitor" polling places and try to intimidate blacks other marginalized people from voting.
Their supposed excuse for the intimidation is to discourage fraud in voting, but even if there were fraud, they would be unable to stop it. (satire) Wisconsin Reports Zero Evidence Of Voter Fraud In Ballots They’ve Thrown Out So Far.
Fabrication of reason
12 October 2020
Bianca Williams rebukes the investigation of the incident where she was stopped by thugs, because it will consider only whether they treated her courteously, not whether they fabricated a disguise of a reason.
Stopping pipeline
12 October 2020
How people in New York City stopped a pipeline for fracked gas.
Fundamental rights at stake
12 October 2020
*Warning Fundamental Rights and American Lives at Stake, 5,000+ Lawyers Urge Senate to Reject Barrett.*
They wrote, "Rushing to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett will cause irreparable damage to the public's faith in the Supreme Court, the rule of law, and our democracy."
Plexiglass around building
12 October 2020
(satire) *… the South Carolina Election Commission announced Friday that urban polling places would feature large plexiglass barriers around the entire building.*
Delivery drone
12 October 2020
(satire) *Frisky Housewife Lets Revealing Robe Slip After Opening Door To Amazon Delivery Drone.*
Resisting coups
12 October 2020
Guidelines and examples for resisting coups carried out by heads of government that refused to leave after losing an election.
Intentionally inciting violence
12 October 2020
It is clear that the would-be tyrant intentionally incited violence including the planned plot to kidnap or assassinate Governor Whitmer of Michigan.
What I don't know is whether there is any way to hold him legally responsible — with criminal charges. I don't know where the line is for incitement of violence or other crimes this might possibly be.
Cult infection
12 October 2020
The cult leader is almost certainly still infected with coronavirus, but he is holding rallies at which he will surely not wear a mask.
From a rational perspective, this may seem crazy, but I think it makes sense psychologically, He inviting cult members to demonstrate their loyalty and faith in him by letting him expose them to coronavirus.
Next year there will be interviews with adults in the prime of their lives who suffer persistent medical problems stemming from this display of faith.