*Ex-Shin Bet director Ayalon calls on Israel to release intifada leader [Marwan] Barghouti [and negotiate with him to recognize the state of Palestine].*

*“We Israelis will have security only when they, Palestinians, … have hope.*

Be careful to avoid confusion about Palestinian leaders named "Barghouti". There are other political leaders in the Barghouti family, and they follow different approaches.

*The Ukraine war is no excuse for endless fossil fuel expansion.*

Destroying everyone on all sides does not constitute victory.

*Florida school district pulls dictionaries for "sexual conduct" descriptions.*

They look for opportunities to be absurdly repressive as a way of proving their loyalty to extremism. The sad thing is that progressives go in for something similar — it is called "virtue signaling".

I resent being pressured to do anything for such reasons, so I often resist such pressure, even for a cause I fully support. I may like your way of stating these views, and follow you. But if I don't like it, I will state our shared views in my own way.

You're entitled to do that too.

Texas state thugs blocked US border patrol agents from approaching the border to rescue some Mexicans who had drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande.

I find it strange that article reports, unquestioningly, that Texas personnel could bar US border patrol agents from Shelby Park if the former insist. I would expect the border patrol to arrest them rather than heeding their objectives.

*World's First Trillionaire Just 10 Years Away as Richest Men Double Their Wealth.*