The big increase in the already-bloated Pentagon budget is not necessary for supporting Ukraine.

Many US schools have installed "security cameras" with facial recognition. Perhaps most schools.

It's legitimate (and useful) to have cameras with computers that detect people with guns, or people without masks. Likewise to send the photos of those people to school staff, who could take appropriate action -- or sound an alarm. Those are legitimate precisely because they don't track anyone who hasn't done something that requires attention.

What is not legitimate is to identify students, or make pictures of them available to anyone else (at the same time or later), in the absence of a specific wrong that they are doing. They must be true security cameras, not >surveillance cameras.

Ukraine accuses the Putin forces of kidnapping thousands of Ukrainians and taking them to Russia. Due to obstacles to communication, imposed by the Putin forces, it has not been possible to verify the facts. I can't take for granted that the Ukrainian statement is accurate. However, I trust the Ukrainian state more or less. I wouldn't trust Putin to tell the truth about the time of day.

Some politicians call for rejection of the narrow and weak patent waiver proposal, because it would supersedes the adequate deal proposed by South Africa and India.

The UK policy for people who might have Covid-19 is, don't get tested (unless you're well-off), go to work anyway, don't bother with a mask, and make people sick.