The city of Chicago will pay 5 million dollars compensation to Anjanette Young your handcuffing her nude after breaking into her apartment with guns drawn.

They raided her apartment by mistake, but even when they have a valid reason to search someone's apartment, they should not treat per like dirt. Not everyone suspected is guilty, and even culpable criminals shouldn't be treated like that.

*Freelancer Soe Naing was arrested in Yangon [a week ago] while taking photos of a ‘silent strike’ protest against military rule.* He has died in jail.

Chances are he was tortured.

A mega-rainstorm may have cured California's drought, but it has done great damage too.

*Lawyers say their conversations with incarcerated people are being recorded and analyzed by private companies in at least nine US states.*

*The NHS will soon be overwhelmed unless coherent and strict rules are applied to social distancing.*

The same goes for US hospitals. Hundreds of thousands of Americans could die in the next few months, avoidably, due to the failure to follow safety precautions and the failure to enforce them.

Justice and public health require supporting people who get sick from working or commuting, or who must not take the risk of catching Covid-19 by going to work.

The governments that sustain the vaccine monopoly could have avoided this by permitting more vaccine production. We could have vaccinated most of the world by now and perhaos prevented the Omicron variant from evolving.