California thugs beat up and arrested women who were making videos of those thugs arresting the fiancé of one of them.

There was apparently no real grounds to arrest him in the first place.

A lawsuit that the city would have to pay is not enough for those thugs. They belong in prison.

Why the IRS is much more likely to audit poor people than rich people. The underlying reason is that rich people want it that way and they corrupt Congress to give it to them.

*Mining the deep sea is as destructive as strip mining the mountains of Appalachia, extinguishing whole ecosystems with a single blow.*

Can people design a way of mining the bottom without destroying ecosystems? It would be more expensive, but perhaps still profitable.

Nonfree software used in schools monitors students' email looking and notices various patterns that suggest "something is wrong."

This is a step towards a paternalistic tyranny that monitors everyone "for your own good."

I can envision a system which achieves the good part of this goal while respecting privacy and freedom. It would run on your own computer, in free software, and reports the problems it notices to you alone. You could then ask for help, if you think it is useful and safe to do so.

Several US states are now considering laws that would restrict abortion very strictly.

Women who have miscarriages are likely to face criminal investigation, one official admits.