The US has recently deported Russians who fled to avoid being drafted into the Putin forces, despite a previous statement suspending deportation to Russia.

This is not only cruel and treacherous, but stupid and self-defeating as well. It harms Ukraine's chances and helps Putin.

The precise rules for asylum are complex, and full of pitfalls that make it easy to fall into a trap where they say "You didn't follow some procedural detail so you're screwed, tough luck."

*The [Republican Party] Is a Party of Death, Not Life.* I'd say it more strongly: the Republican Party is the party of excuses to kill people.

The US is ramping up the war on people in pain.

The Nazi salute is disgusting, cowardly, and bullying, and naturally provokes "sadness, outrage and disbelief" — but its prohibition by the Australian government is a violation of freedom of speech.

Many Americans were angry at the ACLU when it successfully sued to establish that Nazis had the right to organize a public rally in the US. I may have agreed with that anger for a little while, but after more thought I concluded that the ACLU was right. Freedom of speech is not reliable for anyone if it excludes certain views that most people strongly disagree with.

A Christian university in Florida fired a professor because a student denounced what he taught about racial justice.

The student called it "indoctrination", but other students said it wasn't. For right-wingers, exaggeration even to the point of dishonesty is normal and legitimate.

That article was written before the actual firing. I chose to link to it because it explains more of the situation.