* Billions of dollars in public pension fund money flow to private equity–owned firms that union-bust, violate labor laws, and put workers’ safety at risk.*

Direct air capture of CO2 is useful in principle. But since it takes a lot of energy, would it reduce atmospheric CO2 more than reducing fossil fuel generation by that same amount of energy?

A right-wing supporter of the murderous 1970s military dictatorship was elected president in Argentina. I fear for that country.

400 or so people came to Atlanta for a nonviolent protest against Cop City. They held a nonviolence training first. They brought gas masks because they expected the thugs to attack them with violence.

That's exactly what the thugs did. They started attacking as soon as the protesters came close. The thugs also attacked press.

The thug department seems to be run by Putin. Is it perhaps run by a follower of a supporter of Putin? That would be, a follower of the insurrectionist -- a Republican.

Australia is rushing to make new policies for ex-convicts who are foreigners that it is impossible to legally deport. But they seem to be based on confusion of purpose.

The imprisonment policy that the court rejected was used ex-convicts who would be deported if that were allowable. However, they have been mixed with policies that seem to be directed at a possible threat to the community posed by the convict.

Each of those two purposes calls for its own response; mixing them up is a mistake.

For making sure the state can find the ex-convict in case deporting per ever becomes an option, keeping track of per movements is justified and should be sufficient.

As for protecting the community from a possible threat posed by the ex-convict, whatever Australia does with Australian ex-convicts is presumably adequate (or Australia should change that policy). So it should be adequate for non-Australian criminals too.

I presume that Australia makes these decisions for specific ex-convicts based on what crime each committed. For instance, if the crime was bank robbery or embezzling, there is probably no need to care whether the criminal goes near a school.

If Australian courts accept a certain restriction for a certain category ex-convicts when they are Australians, I expect it will accept the same restriction for the same category of foreign ex-convicts.