Solitary confinement produces hidden mental scars, and in New York State prisoners are put in solitary confinement for ridiculous arbitrary reasons.

The Government Accountability Project says that other NSA staff are revealing information, inspired by Snowden.

The NSA instructed its speakers to defend massive surveillance with a vague reference to the September 2001 attacks. In effect, an allusion to the idea that we're supposed to believe their spying on all of us protected us from something more dangerous than a nondemocratic government.

Bill de Blasio, New York's first day-mayor (*) in several decades, will have to deal with protecting New York City from the effects of global heating, as well as the problem of housing used by rich people for vacations. As global heating accelerates, some areas will have to be abandoned.

^* Giuliani and Bloomberg were night-mayors.

What horoscopes would look like if astrology were really valid.