*Turkey: prominent journalist detained for [indirectly] insulting president Erdoğan.*

The journalist was talking about an ox. It was Erdoğan who asserted that he was the ox.

Biden gave help to a substantial fraction of poor people in the US by raising the minimum wage for federal workers.

We need to raise it generally, but that would require help from Manchin and Sinema.

*[450 scientists] called on public relations and advertising agencies to no longer work with fossil fuel clients.*

*About a dozen Tory MPs said to have accused party whips of blackmail.* The aim of the blackmail was to make them vote to keep Bogus Johnson as prime minister.

7% of the population of England consists of people who for medical reasons are especially vulnerable to Covid-19. The elimination of anti-contagion precautions makes them choose between grave danger and the equivalent of prison.

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