Twitter is sending messages to people that tweeted identifying names behind the "celebrity threesome injunction", pressuring them to delete their tweets "voluntarily" and warning them of legal action.

According to this not entirely trustworthy newspaper, such messages are going to people in the US and Spain, where the injunction does not apply and British courts have no authority.

The head of Victoria's government has apologized to the men convicted (in effect) of being gay.

Victoria is a state in Australia. Some years ago I proposed people should start a magazine to reveal corruption in Victoria; it could be called "Victoria's Secret".

Mohamedou Ould Slahi's brother, a German citizen, wanted to go to the US to advocate for Mohamedou's release from Guantanamo prison. The US denied him entry, after questioning him for hours about his family.

The US could easily have blocked him from boarding the flight, but that would have been insufficiently nasty.

Since imprisonment without trial is tyranny, the US must release all the prisoners in Guantanamo, or else charge them with crimes and give them fair trials.

Some California farmers are relearning to grow crops without irrigation. They can even grow tomatoes that are worth eating, unlike the usual commercial US tomatoes.

I doubt that all crops will work this way. California may have to stop growing almonds, for instance. I will miss them.

Vietnam systematically jails people that fled Vietnam and asked for asylum, after they are forcibly returned based on promises they would not be punished for leaving Vietnam.