*‘Panic made us vulnerable’: how 9/11 made the US surveillance state — and the Americans who fought back.*

Hadley Freeman: When a friend asks, *what will happen to her when she’s old? Will she be all alone? So should she have a baby now? I look her right in the eyes and I tell her what I always tell women in these circumstances: don’t bother.*

*Louisiana Shell refinery left spewing chemicals after Hurricane Ida.*

The Department of Homeland Security, or shall we say Committee for Public Safety, has interrogated 180,000 US citizens trying to enter the US in a two-year period, 2017 to 2019.

14 were stopped from entering the US, effectively exiling them, and without a trial too — though exile is unconstitutional even as a sentence, since a US citizen has an unconditional right to enter the US.

During the French Revolution, the Committee for Public Safety was responsible for terror. For inflicting the terror, that is.

*Komodo dragon in danger of extinction as sea levels rise.* Along with 38,000 other species.