Canadian cops are ready to end further truck blockades without delay. They say they will scrupulously respect the right to protest in other ways, and they seem to have done so this time.

Theory: plutocratist Democrats treat Republican insurrectionists like fellow members of the plutocratist (and, to some extent, racist) elite, even as the Republicans plot to overthrow democracy.

The Tories plan to cut the budget for research into Covid-19.

Apparently, eliminating rules to retard the spread will be an excuse to decide that the disease can be ignored by society.

George Washington University secretly tracked the movements of students and faculty, for a statistical study of how the campus facilities were used and how people travel around campus.

Making a statistical survey would be harmless, if it were impossible to recover any individual's data from it. With this survey, extracting data about an individual is possible. If it tracks people by their IP addresses, they should start changing those. Does the system try to stop them?

In order for people to trust the university, it needs to show them it cannot track them. Once tracking becomes an option that the university can turn on and turn off at will, people will feel they are being watched.

The Dakota Access pipeline has finally lost its fight against the court decision requiring a new environmental impact study. However, the pipeline will continue operating until that is done.

The company will surely try to delay the actual report. How many years of delay can they arrange? And if Republicans seize power, all they need to do, to keep the pipeline operating forever, is to slow down this environmental impact study so that it never reports any result.