30 Christians held a protest march on a street where there are clubs frequented by queer people. The march was condemned as "disgraceful" and "unauthorized protest activity".

I oppose those protesters' views, and I reject their religion; but we must respect their right to protest. Queers especially must defend that right — it was not that long ago that queers met with violent repression holding rallies, and even when not holding rallies. Didn't right-wingers call them "disgraceful" when they did not disguise their orientations and identities?

Western Europe, from Spain to Germany, is being hit by a shortage of rain (and snow) which is already causing major problems, and likely to get worse as weeks go by with little rain.

The autopsy results show that protester Manuel Paez Terán had his hands up when the thugs shot him and killed him, in Cop City.

UK ministers are disrespecting permanent staff of government agencies to the point where those become sycophants, giving the advice that ministers want to hear.

Perhaps this is why the UK government carries out almost any policy incompetently.

The FBI director acknowledged that the FBI had bought location tracking data. Data about Americans, no less. But this scandal is being understood only at the superficial level.

The most superficial scandal here is that the FBI bought location data about Americans in order to track them.

A deeper scandal is that the company which collected the data was able to sell the data without asking permission of the users the data is about.

The deepest scandal here is that the company was able to collect location data about Americans. For real privacy, we need to require systems to be designed so as not to track people's life activities.

No systems should be able to keep track of where people go, what they do there, or who they communicate with.