An analyst believes Putin is coming to realize he can't grab anything from Ukraine by bombastic threats. He thinks Putin will turn to war. That would be undesirable.

It suggests to me that the US should try to help Putin save face if he does not attack.

Three more US states are considering "free-range kids" laws, intended to free parents of the burden of supervising their children nonstop, 24/7.

*Prisoner’s secret filming appears to show torture in Cairo police station.*

The only surprise is that we get something like proof of this. The prisoners accused specific thugs by name.

Newt Gingrich warned us that if Republicans take over Congress next fall, they will invent excuses to jail the people who are now investigating the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol.

In other words, they will institute arbitrary rule, as we see in Russia and China, where the rulers invent crimes to accuse opponents of.

Julian Assange may get a chance to appeal the extradition decision to the UK Supreme Court.

This means there is a chance to reverse the disastrous general decision to extradite journalists for "espionage" changes, as well as the cruel decision to subject Assange to brainwashing prison conditions for at least a few more years.