*Pollutants known as "forever chemicals"… have been found at high levels at thousands of sites across the UK and Europe,*

* Evidence collected from Kherson … shows Russian torture centers were not "random" but instead planned and directly financed by the Russian state, according to a team of Ukrainian and international lawyers headed by a UK barrister.*

People living near the River Ouse in England want to protect it from pollution. That's a good thing to do, but their method is based on a philosophical absurdity: to assert that the river itself is a person and has rights.

Giving corporations the same rights as people has worked out badly. Attempts to give fetuses the same rights as people causes grave injustice.

I forecast that the attempt to treat rivers as if they were people will cause no end of bad consequences as people (and as well as corporations, fetuses and rivers) deduce other absurdities from that absurd premise.

Furthermore, the more entities that are not people are treated by our legal system as if they were people, the harder it will be to stop treating corporations as if they were people.

Iran is basically ready to refine uranium sufficiently to make atomic bombs.

We can thank the bullshitter for canceling the non-nuclear deal with Iran, followed by Biden who gave low priority to restoring the deal.

The US government says there is no Russian "energy weapon" that could make embassy staff sick.

There are energy weapons — for instance, the laser that a Chinese warship pointed at a Philippine supply ship — but when those are used there is little doubt.