Parents of trans-kids talk about the Republican persecution that is just getting started.

*The US Spent 7.5 Times More on Nuclear Weapons Than Global Vaccine Donations.

This is the second level of an outrage. The first level is allowing the Covid-19 vaccines to be monopolized and thus very expensive, so that poor countries need to solicit donations instead of making their own.

Biden endorsed the proposal to waive these rules for the specific case of Covid-19 vaccines, but the US was as eager as other countries to impose these deadly rules world-wide in the 1990s.

France reelected plutocratist President Macron rather than the extreme right-wing Le Pen.

Philadelphia ended its newly restored mask requirement after just a few days on seeing that new Covid-19 cases had leveled off anyway.

I think they should have continued the mask mandate, so as to reduce the number of new cases and spare some people the risks of catching Covid-19. These risks include death, which is unlikely for vaccinated people, plus a fate worse than death — lasting disablement.

Hong Kong reporters (some of whom no longer do journalism) talk about the extreme propaganda requirements that China has imposed.