(satire) *Supreme Court IT Guy Walks Ketanji Brown Jackson Through Logging Into Gavel.*

The UK National Union of Students is under fire for for antisemitism.

Distinguishing between antisemitism and criticism of Israel's policy requires care. I take care because I condemn antisemitism and I oppose the occupation of Palestine.

The article presents an old example from an NUS leader which is real antisemitism. However, the NUS has adopted the IHRC's classificatory scheme for antisemitism

as a criterion for judgment. That draws the line at the wrong place, and thus systematically opens the door to repressing criticism of the occupation of Palestine. Past examples suggest that some organizations, perhaps including the British government, will try to make the NUS expel all those who criticize it.

Truck drivers protested again, this time against Greg Abbott's policy of searching all trucks entering Texas from Mexico, and made him cancel it.

The search was for smuggling, of goods or people. In principle, there is nothing wrong with checking for that, but the cost was disastrous.

An idea occurs to me. Every truck that crosses the border could be required to carry inside cameras and lamps that could be used at the border to inspect the inside of the cargo compartment quickly.

Since there are supposed to be people inside, this system would surveil any people unjustly.

Biden has restarted the sale of oil and gas leases on public land, but multiplied the royalty rate by 3/2.

A big enough royalty rate could discourage investment in these leases, but I have a feeling that around 20% is not enough to do that. Furthermore, I have to ask, "18.75% of what?" Many oil wells are run by smaller companies that sell the oil to a big company. If this is 20% of what the small company charges the big company, it may not amount to much money, or much dissuasion.

Unless we have a long-term increasing carbon tax big enough to make new investments unprofitable, we will have too many.

*84% of US Teens Back Urgent Climate Action to Save Future Generations: Poll.*

More precisely, they agree that "If we don't address climate change today, it will be too late for future generations, making some parts of the planet unlivable."

Most have already seen the effects of global heating in the short period they have lived.

It may be that the term "climate change" is losing its distractive ability, for teenagers, since they know the reality it stands for. However, not everyone is a teenager, so I still make sure to use terms that were not chosen to downplay the point about which overall direction this change is going.