14 Turkish journalists have been injured by thugs while covering protests.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media continue ignoring the protests much as US mainstream media ignore Occupy Wall Street.

President Erdogan remains totally, absurdly defiant.

The UK wants to let people veto wind generators in their vicinity, which they might consider unsightly, but not fracking that could make them sick.

Cameron D'Ambrosio has been jailed without bail, accused of "terrorism", for his song lyrics.

Obama recently nominated Cornelia Pillard to the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit. I looked her up in Wikipedia. I can't be certain from what it says there, but she seems to have argued for several positions I think of as dangerous.

It looks like she is a supporter of mandatory arbitration clauses, which many companies impose so they can get away with mistreating customers and employees. This is a crucial area for US courts, and I would not want someone with these views to be on track for possibly being on the Supreme Court some day.

It appears she has also participated in efforts to bend over backwards to give thugs impunity, and limit the right to a jury trial.

In other words, she is the sort of candidate that I'd expect someone soft on like Obama to nominate. I will not sign the petition urging the Senate to vote on her nomination.

Obama has nominated two other candidates for that court. With the small amount of research I can do, I did not get enough information to have an opinion about them. Maybe they would be good people to put on the bench, but I'd like to see if someone has actually evaluated them from a progressive viewpoint before I support them in any way.

Journal editors call for pre-registration of experimental studies before the results come in.