*[The corrupter]'s judges will call the shots for years to come. The [US] judicial system is broken [as a result].*

Remember that Republicans in the Senate prepared to do this, by blocking Obama from appointing any judges for years. [pol note]

DeSantis gave Florida a surgeon general that aims to spread Covid-19. "Ripper general"

would be a more fitting title for him. The ripper general went to a meeting in a state senator's office and refused, by ideology, to wear a mask. The senator told him to leave.

The article doesn't explicitly say so, but I think he did leave. The fact that this senator has cancer, and therefore is extra vulnerable to Covid-19, doesn't actually change the moral issue. If she did not have cancer, she would be no less entitled to have people wear masks when in a room with her.

Nigeria's population growth has taken up the land where herders

used to move their herds.

Our awareness of what the world has done to deal with Covid-19 leads us to envision, for the first time, a global medical system of dealing properly with a global pandemic. Alas, today's global medical system is far from sufficient.

It won't be ready for the next pandemic either, unless we make it a lot more capable.

How can you trust that an app really won't send some company your location data, when you tell it not to?

The only way you can trust a program not to do someting it isn't supposed to do is if it is free software, so that the user community can check it.