Friday, June 16th, 2023

Time	Event
2:32p	How journalistic, political cultures beget charlatans *[Bogus Johnson] was a symptom, not the cause, of a political culture that gorges on spectacle and trivia.* (Comment on this)
2:32p	Another greenwashing ad banned, UK The UK is taking serious action against misleading advertisements that greenwash companies by disregarding the environmental harm they have done. (Comment on this)
2:32p	Tory politics criminalizing protest Tories plan to allow local thugs to ban all but the most polite of protests. (Comment on this)
2:32p	Global heating: equitable funding, rapid phaseout *Greta Thunberg: not phasing out fossil fuels is "death sentence" for world's poor.* I think it will include more than just the world's poor. (Comment on this)
2:32p	A US first, OK: Religious school Right-wing religious fanatics want states to fund Catholic schools. Would they fund other religions? (Comment on this)
2:32p	Prison-time for abortion, UK In Britain, having an abortion after the 24th week of pregnancy is a crime. A woman was recently sentenced to prison for this. So there is a campaign to repeal the criminalization of late abortion. (Comment on this)
2:32p	Study: Twitter fails at hate speech Twitter has a rule against posting statements of hatred, but paid accounts seem to be unofficially exempt from the rule. (Comment on this)
2:32p	Urgent: Investigate governors tricking immigrants US citizens: call on the Justice Department to investigate governors Abbott and DeMentis for tricking immigrants into being taken to other states where they did not intend to go. (Comment on this)
2:47p	Legal imposition of flawed IHRA criteria The Biden administration took a step closer to endorsing the legal imposition of the flawed IHRA criteria for antisemitism. Its flaw is that it facilitates labeling criticism of Israel's occupation of Palestine as "antisemitism". (Comment on this)
2:47p	Pence less bad than corrupter Pence is less bad than the corrupter, but don't judge him by that weak standard. (Comment on this)
2:47p	Ecosystem environmental-DNA technology Surveillance of DNA in the ocean can report how the thousands of populations of marine species in any given area are increasing or decreasing, and whether and how they are shifting position. (Comment on this)

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