*World "not prepared" for climate disasters after warmest ever January.*

Unprecedented disasters have just occurred in California (extreme rains) and the Valparaíso region (wildfires entering a major city).

Private equity is gobbling up large parts of the US nursing home business. This puts patients in danger since private equity can amass lots of money, create an oligopoly, and get away with abuses.

The study suggests that "regulation may be needed." I will take a stronger stand and call for firm limits — perhaps even prohibiting private equity combinations from owning home nursing businesses.

I've also proposed prohibiting private equity from buying up lots of rental housing.

Pakistan's government has democratic forms but the substance is military rule.

I have no way of knowing whether Imran Khan is guilty of those corruption charges. (I don't know the details of them.) I also don't know whether this is an instance of selective prosecution over something all politicians do. But the "un-Islamic marriage" charges clearly demonstrate that the Pakistani state is repressive and unjust.

That has, however, been true for a long time, because Pakistan sentences people to death for "blasphemy".

I urge everyone to stat away from Pakistan.

If misogynistic porn isn't bad enough, propaganda against masturbation goes one harmful step further.

I have a hunch that "masturbation abstinence" advice comes from the same people that campaign to prohibit abortion and birth control.

A UK court has ruled people cannot be fired for being anti-Zionist.

That policy is just: whether to be Zionist or anti-Zionist is a matter of political views, and people should not be fired for disagreeing about those.

Being antisemitic is a different matter: that is a form of bigotry, like antimuslimism or antiarabism. We must be careful to distinguish clearly between antisemitism and criticism of Israel or its actions.

I am pro-Israel and pro-Palestine.