Sunday, September 17th, 2023

Time	Event
12:17p	NO digital learning, Swedish schoolchildren Sweden is moving strongly back to teaching school on paper. The main aim is to help children learn better, but it also provides an opportunity to free them from the grip of online disservices. (Comment on this)
12:17p	De-democratization: UK anti-strike law British unions will complain formally to the International Labor Organization about the Tories' new restrictions on strikes, which violate UN rules. (Comment on this)
12:17p	"Abortion-trafficking", Ala. Alabama is trying to prosecute anyone that helps a woman travel for an abortion for "criminal conspiracy". Texas and Idaho also have laws to punish helping a woman get out of the state for an abortion. These laws are designed for repressive terror. They show what fascist Christians stand for, and what they deserve. (Comment on this)
12:17p	Elena Kostyuchenko Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko went to Ukraine to cover Putin's invasion for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, but stayed after Putin closed it down. Then she learned that there was an order out to kill her. She got sick, with an unidentifiable illness, and doctors eventually concluded she had been poisoned by Putinite agents. As her writing describes, it is not just a few heroes that Putin tries to crush. It is also hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians that the Putin forces have conquered, then shot, kidnapped, brainwashed or tortured. (Comment on this)
12:17p	Voter-ID partial unwind, UK The Tories may be considering relaxing their voter-ID scheme somewhat, but not in a way that would reduce the suppression of younger voters that the plan was designed to achieve. (Comment on this)
12:17p	Voter-ID playbook, UK *Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds.* This is what people predicted and criticized in advance, and surely what the Tories sought. (Comment on this)

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