Americans blinded by thugs at Black Lives Matter protests are meeting up and organizing.

It is no accident when a thug blinds someone with a rubber-coated metal bullet. If thugs followed their official rules, they would not hit anyone in the eye. Thugs shoot to maim anti-racist protesters because the thugs are racist, or right-wing, or both.

The article linked to in the first paragraph displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I object to bigotry, and normally I decline to link to articles which promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles which give important information about racism or the fight to eliminate racism. That article is one of the exceptions.

As the US mainstream media cover Hurricane Ida, they mostly ignore its cause: global heating.

Of the few stories cited as not ignoring this, a couple did use terms such as "climate crisis" and "climate change-driven disaster" that put this "change" in its deadly context. Let's call on the media to do that, rather than "say 'climate change'."

*Hurricane Ida Makes a Mockery of Big Oil’s Philanthropy.*

Apple has made a concession to pressure against its anticompetitive practices by allowing other companies to restrict users of their apps through their web sites, rather than through the Apple Store.

The anticompetitive behavior that most restricts users is that they can't use alternate app stores with free software. In other words, that there can't be an F-Apple like F-Droid.

50,000 attended the Boardmasters festival in the UK, and 5,000 caught Covid-19.

The festival required proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test, but no other precautions against transmission. The photo shows that people were packed close together.

This shows that vaccination verification _alone_ does not ensure people's safety. Other precautions are still needed. Vaccination verification can make it possible to hold events and open venues which otherwise would have to be kept shut, but they do need masks and physical distancing,

Also, since people under 12 cannot be vaccinated, perhaps this must be limited to places and events where few children will go. Those that attract children may still have to be shut.