Right-wing extremist radio personality Larry Elder could become governor of California with around 10% of the overall votes cast unless > 50% vote to keep Governor Newsom in office.

The Taliban are maintaining safe and orderly queues outside Kabul airport. I gather that they are not trying to stop would-be evacuees from entering.

The campaign to drive sex underground on the internet just conquered a site that became successful for being a place you could publish images of sex.

This campaign for "women's rights" is backed mainly by right-wing Christians that advocate general repression of sex.

I consider the site OnlyFans unacceptable because it requires visitors to run nonfree software, and makes them identify themselves (through the payment system). (Of course, they are not planning to fix that.) But that is a side issue. What's dangerous is not specifically the change in that one site's policies, it is the overall campaign of sexual repression.

The first article contains the phrase "share adult content", which is a triple series of debasements of language.

We should not weaken the word "sharing" by using it for commercial distribution of works. Not that I'm against commercial distribution, but we should not discard the distinction between cooperation in society and commercial activity.

We should not refer to works as "content", either, because that disparages all works.

As for "adult", that's a euphemism. As a founding member-at-heart of the Anti-Euphemism League, I object to it.

Biden just demonstrated that he can order the cancellation of college loan debt, by cancelling the debts of permanently disabled students. Now he should cancel the rest of college loan debt.

Australia shows no mercy for churches that hold spreader ceremonies.