| Time |
Event |
| 2:39a |
California bill for officers who cover face on duty
*California bill
proposes
misdemeanor for officers who cover their
face on duty.*
I would expect there to be an exception for undercover cops that
infiltrate criminal activities. That activity is useful. But it will
be a challenge to draw up a rule to distinguish legitimate undercover
investigation from anonymous snatches.
</li> |
| 2:39a |
CDC official in charge of Covid data resigns
*CDC
official in charge of Covid data resigns ahead of vaccine
meeting. … She does not have confidence data will be use[d] to
make "evidence-based vaccine policy decisions."*
Resigning from an official position makes no impression on
magats.
They do not care about the capacity to judge carefully, based on
evidence, a question they prefer to judge based on emotion alone, so
the government's loss of that capacity does not strike them as
significant.
It would be more effective to stay in the position and criticize
vociferously whenever magat
officials. Eventually they will fire you,
and your reproach will win more attention.
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| 2:39a |
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| 2:39a |
Turkey's democracy is fighting for its life
Orhan Pamuk: *I've never seen such clampdowns in Istanbul. Turkey's
democracy is fighting
for its life.*
The country's most popular politician has been jailed, to stop
him from running for president and perhaps defeating Erdoğan.
Other dirty tricks are being used to stop him from running.
Even metro stations, buses and car travel in İstanbul are restricted,
as is entry to the city, to make protests difficult.
When we see the bully's
thugs
beating up members of Congress, we have
to wonder whether the federal courts will be able to protect democracy
effectively from the bully
if he does the sort of things Erdoğan does.
</li> |
| 2:39a |
Pushing for unified definition of racism
Organized groups of Muslims in Australia are pressuring for a
unified
definition of racism (or bigotry),
so as to block the push for an unjust criterion for antisemitism.
Bravo! This is an important issue, and they have chosen the right
direction for solving it.
Side issue:
The word "racism" means prejudice based on race. A prejudice based on
religion, sex, gender, national origin, or caste, is not racism. It
is a similar moral issue, and may be equally unjust, but it doesn't
fit into the word "racism".
Let's not adopt terminology that builds confusion into the moral
foundation of our views. When we want to reject bigotry whether based
on race or not, let's use the broader word "bigotry".
</li> |
| 2:39a |
Wrecker plans to abolish FEMA
To ensure Americans get less help in coping with disasters,
the wrecker
plans
to abolish FEMA and take direct White House
control over the distribution of aid.
Giving the job to people he has personally appointed
will also cause confusion that will surely reduce what really gets done.
</li> |
| 2:39a |
Israeli government issuing "illegal" orders
*Israeli government
issuing
"illegal" orders that must not be obeyed, say IDF
intelligence officers.*
Unlike the usual position of Israeli opposition to the war, based on
the wish
to ransom the Israeli hostages soon,
this opposition is based
on recognizing the right to life of Palestinians. The "illegal
orders" are illegal because they are orders to kill innocent
Palestinians, with no military justification — and that makes them
war crimes.
And they are being presented by prestigious army officers who back up
their criticism with defiance — refusing to obey those illegal
orders.
This resistance has the potential to shake the Netanyahu government.
I hope so.
</li> |
| 2:39a |
Test case of using military to crush peaceful protests
The fascist-in-waiting has prepared for years to create a test case
of using
the military to crush peaceful protests.
Defending democracy will require careful tactics to avoid giving him
a bogus excuse which he can then distort.
</li> |
| 2:39a |
Proposed "My Body, My Data Act"
The proposed
My Body, My Data Act would prohibit "collecting, using,
retaining or disclosing information about someone’s reproductive
health," except for a "specific request".
Because of the words "collecting" and "retaining", this might do
some real good.
Texas
can't use a subpoena retroactively to make a
system collect or retain data that it did not collect or did not
retain.
It would be crucial to make sure that offer the option of storing
the data solely on the device. If the only mode of operation that an
app offers is to store the data in some cloudy server, and the user
asks the app to do anything with per data, that might create a
loophole: asking the app to do anything might be construed as an
"explicit request" for the app/server to collect the data and retain
it.
Other dark patters or manipulative money saving offers might also
be used to manipulate people into making the poisonous "request".
As the Texas example shows, reproductive health data is not the only
data that can be used for faith-based repression of abortion, birth control and
medicine. Location
data can serve the same unjust purpose. The requirements
for collecting or retaining location records must be made bulletproof
against fanatical officials willing to distort the truth or lie outright.
</li> |
| 2:39a |
Campaign pressuring Target to support minority groups
About the campaign
pressuring Target to bring back some of support
for the minority groups that face unequal treatment by society.
</li> |
| 2:39a |
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| 2:39a |
Lawful protesters' right to cover faces
Lawful protesters should be free to cover their faces, and in the US,
the Supreme Court has
recognized
their right to do so.
The article contrasts lawful protest with civil disobedience.
However, it is an obvious error to categorized whistleblowing as a
kind of civil disobedience. Whistleblowing is not symbolic
disobedience, it is direct action.
</li> |
| 2:39a |
Wetland in Australia attacked by algae bloom
An ecologically important protected wetland in Australia has been
attacked
by a toxic algae bloom, brought about by human-caused global
heating and pollution. The bloom is likely to repeat whenever the
high temperatures repeat.
</li> |
| 2:39a |
How UK could take over water companies
Explaining how
the UK could take over the incompetent and corrupt
water companies without giving them to any other companies, and
without paying a ransom to anyone.
</li> |
| 2:39a |
(satire) Sen. Padilla had even deadlier opinion that failed to go off
(satire) *Kristi Noem: Sen. Padilla Had
Even
Deadlier Opinion That
Failed To Go Off.*
</li> |
| 8:39a |
UK government seems to have sold soul to nuclear power
The UK government seems to have
sold
its soul to nuclear power, and
cites arguments based on assuming the habitual problems of nuclear
power will inexplicably not happen this time.
</li> |
| 2:39p |
Israeli kills at food center, Gaza
Israeli
troops
shot 37 Palestinians who were trying to collect some food.
Similar incidents have been happening daily. |
| 2:39p |
Congressional bid to keep US out of Iran
A bipartisan resolution in Congress aims to
invoke
the War Powers Act to stop the bully from adding the US to
Israel's attacks on Iran.
|
| 2:39p |
Israeli leaflets over Tehran
Israel "ordered" people to
"evacuate"
a large part of Tehran, its capital city. It said that it would
attack "military infrastructure", but in fact bombs and missiles are
falling on civilian markets.
*[The bully]
brushes
off US intel reports on Iran to align himself with Israel.*
Millions of Iranians hate their government, but that doesn't mean they
don't love their country. The attacks by Israel are just the thing to
make them unite (at least for the while). Threats from the US will
make Iranians hate the US and look for more ways to support Russia.
Hmm, maybe the bully is still trying to serve Putin.
|
| 8:38p |
Los Angeles immigration protests
Massive
protests
against deportation are flooding Los Angeles, as the bully's
sub-bullies revel in threats.
There are situations where deportation is called for, and they may
need the option of using force in those situations. But deportation
thugs have a pattern of disregarding immigrants' legal rights -- sometimes
under commands by presidents, and sometimes as individual improvisation.
They treat laws as opportunities to stretch them into excuses to do wrong.
They also have a habit of making vague, blustery threats of violence,
and given their history of refusing to correct "mistakes" we can't be
confident that their exaggerations are nothing more than bluster.
The bully has
federalized
the California National Guard and deployed them in Los Angeles to
attack protesters. California is suing, claiming that the legal
requirements for doing that without permission from California's
governor, Newsom, were not satisfied.
Meanwhile, the Great Leader plans to
deploy
Marines in Los Angeles to emphasize the threat of repression. An
inside source asserted that the purpose of this is provocation for a
"manufactured Crisis". Governor Newsom said that the bully "wants a
spectacle — so don't give him one."
(satire) *Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration
Pretext For What It
Already Doing.*
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