People in Glasgow massed in the street to block the arrest of immigrants for deportation.

The objection to their arrest was not focused on the idea of deporting them, not that as such, but rather the idea of keeping them for a long time in an immigration prison where prisoners are likely to catch Covid-19, as well as the idea of arresting Muslims on a Muslim holiday.

I can't empathize with that last; if I were going to be put in prison, I wouldn't care what day of the year it might take place. If I were arrested for advocating free software, and it occurred on the anniversary of the GNU Project, that would make it more ironic but would not make it more unjust or more painful.

Vaccine patents, vaccine manufacturing monopolies, are part of a neoliberal system of trickle-down.

Patents were supposed to trickle down both material benefits (products incentivized by the patent system) and knowledge (made available by the patent applications since the patent system requires it). Both of these trickle-downs have slowed to vary little. For example, the vaccine patents do not give enough information for other companies to make the vaccines commercially.

Let's eliminate the patent system. We have little to lose.

(satire) *Houston Authorities Scramble As Missing Tiger Disappears Into Crowd Of Tigers.*

Some epidemiologists, fully vaccinated, say why they will continue wearing masks when near strangers or non vaccinated people, and why they think the CDC made it too easy for anti-mask anti-vaxxers to risk their own health and other people's too.

*Cheney says some GOP members voted against impeachment out of fear for their lives.*