*Internal NYPD Documents Show Cops Were Sent to Protests With Barely Any First Amendment Training.*

It is complex, organizationally, to choose the personnel for a specific mission based on which trainings they have had. The easy thing to do is train everyone. The next easiest is to have specific units for specific jobs and give those units the training for those jobs.

Uganda has reprised an old law imposed by the British Empire which criminalizes homosexuality.

People who have been trafficked into the UK and forced into crimes are nearly always treated as criminals, not as victims. Parliament decided recently to make it even harder to escape this fate.

If Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland break away from the United Kingdom, they will have a chance of more democracy than Tories allow (though that will be limited by the European Union, which they would join).

Meanwhile, England, with most of the UK's population, would sink under inescapable Tory dictatorship, with democracy more tenuous each year.

England would have as much chance of restoring democracy as Hungary has. I can't see that as a happy ending.

Belarusian dissidents ask for Germany to investigate Lukashenko's crimes against them.