The Tories propose another blow to rule of law by planning to let ministers seize more powers over thug departments, including forbidding their chiefs from criticizing the government.

Putin forces soldiers are stealing textbooks for Ukrainian, and textbooks in Ukrainian, from schools in the occupied parts of Ukraine. They are using pressure and threats to demand teachers start teaching the Russian curriculum, but some teachers resist.

They are stealing schools' laptops too. Sad to say, these laptops are surely full of user-subjugating nonfree software, and if they are replaced, the replacements will have the same problem.

A Texas law forbids social media platforms from blocking or demoting posts, regardless of motive.

Right-wing ideas do not in practice face discrimination by the main antisocial media platforms. On the contrary, right-wing disinformation tends to get promoted and spread more.

The Supreme Court will eventually rule on that law. I have no confidence in it to make a good decision, but I won't try to forecast what it will say. I also don't have a clear idea of what the right decision would be.

That decision will probably take months; meanwhile, the law is in effect. So platforms face a quandary of what to do. I am not sure what I would do.

Please don't refer to people's postings as "content".

Biden is sending US troops back to Somalia.

It's a bad idea for the US to get involved in fighting every terror group in the world. Many of these fights can't possibly be completely won, and in the absence of that, the US would always have a reason to keep "helping" to fight them — and generating resentment that would fuel the terror group.

Protesters that blocked a coal train in New Hampshire have been sentenced to months of jail.