A librarian has been fired for taking books by Ann Counter and Donald Trump off the shelves and burning them.

Although I think those books are contemptible, destroying books in the library's collection is not acceptable. Burning books is especially bad.

*To Avoid Backlash, Facebook Reportedly Relaxed Fact-Checking Standards on Conservative Pages.*

Elsevier is corrupting "open science" in Europe by worming its way into operating the systems to monitor scientific publication.

That is in addition to publishing paywalled journals, which should not exist at all.

*Call to tax international flights to raise climate funds for poor countries.*

I am in favor.

The Tories are more or less undoing their previous harmful reorganization which introduced competition and privatization into the workings of the NHS, which they did based on plutocratist ideology.