Russia will extradite a Belarusian exile to Belarus, who is charged with protesting and is likely to be tortured there.

This is not surprising given that Putin is fundamentally similar to Lukashenko in his contempt for opposition and dissent.

*Why Israeli progressives have started to talk about ‘apartheid’.*

A fire in 2020 seems to have destroyed 1/10 of the world's giant redwood trees.

The fire's intensity was partly due to human fire-suppression activity. We could prevent wildfires from being intense enough to damage those trees by doing a lot more controlled burns, but that is easier said than done. It is hard to keep a controlled burn under control in times of deep drought, and even harder when flammable debris has accumulated.

It would make sense to grow more giant redwood groves in widely separated places.

In 2021, Apple has been shifting more production to China.

*‘If publishers become afraid, we’re in trouble’: publishing’s cancel culture debate boils over.*

40 years ago there were many substantial independent publishers with distribution to bookstores. If a few refused to publish a book, it could still reach the public. Nowadays there are four large publishing empires (or is it now just three?). It is easy to keep a book from reaching bookstores.

The concentration of book publishing results from plutocratist policies which continue to allow mergers in nearly all industries.

We need to deconcentrate industry, to make the large companies split up into many competing pieces. My tax proposal is a way to do this without needing a lot of lawsuits.