Leaders of the Oath Keepers have been convicted of secitious conspiracy for organizing the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol, based on their conversations about same.

This gives the Department of Justice a basis for confidence in bringing that charge against others who were involved, including potentially the corrupter himself.

A fracking company accepted criminal liability for poisoning the water of Dimock, Pennsylvania and will pay to replace the wells with new water systems and to deliver clean water for the next 75 years.

Here is a timeline of how the company caused the damage, of enforcement efforts, and how the company resisted them.

This is justice in a narrow sense, but it won't clean up the water of that region. It won't undo the lasting diminiution of water supplies in Pennsylvania. There may not be any feasible way to do that.

There must be many other regions of the US which have already suffered similar damage.

We must not allow it to happen in any more places.

New York City's night-mayor has asked a wide variety of workers to incarcerate homeless people in mental hospitals — including people who are supposed to help the public. This plan is explicitly not limited to people who seem to pose a threat to others.

Many homeless people run away from shelters because the conditions there are so unpleasant they would rather be on the street.

A host of criticisms of this plan.

Once you get committed to a hospital — even if you did it by faking insanity — it is reported to be very hard to prove you are sane.

The Tories have adopted a "voter ID" law, which as always is systematic suppression of voting by voters who are poor, young, or marginalized. In addition, merely through the extra work it requires at underfunded polling places, it will cause chaos.

*Australian PM Anthony Albanese urges US government to end pursuit of Julian Assange.* Assange has been hounded for over a decade using a series of dirty tricks and twisting of the law. But this injustice has a bigger target than Julian Assange. Its main target is the freedom of the press to report on crimes committed by governments.

Democracy depends on whistleblowers, and it depends on journalists to publish what whistleblowers report. The prosecution puts democracy too in danger.

Massive surveillance is part of the threat to democracy. That is why we must limit the collection of databases of personal data, not merely regulate how the data are used.