*A British judge said US prisons are dangerously inhumane. Sadly, she's right.*

US prisons were, most of them, much more humane before the ideological increase in imprisonment started by Reagan for ideological reasons. Back then, US prisons tried to rehabilitate prisoners. It is hard to treat prisoners decently or try to help them rehabilitate when too many people are in prison.

If we end the war on drugs, we could could improve this. But it would still be wrong to prosecute Assange.

The debate about a proposed law to define some crimes as "domestic terrorism".

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid that bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I object to bigotry, and normally I decline to link to articles which promote it. But I make an exception for articles which give important information about racism or the fight to eliminate racism.

The proposed law would not directly attack freedom of speech, but there's a danger it would be applied with a racist bias, thus exacerbating the bias that we see in comparing DC thugs' harshness towards Black Lives Matter protests with their laxity towards insurrectionists.

In addition, it is an injustice to designate an organization as "terrorist" except by convicting it as a crime.

In 2017, Manchester (England) set out to get homeless people into housing. Almost 300 of them still have housing.

We could do this anywhere, with some priority and some money. The billionaires don't need quite so much.

In 2020, as a precaution against spread of Covid-19, the UK moved to get all homeless people off the street. But didn't continue paying for this.

If we gave more priority to the well-being of poor people, fewer of them would develop the sort of problems that make it hard for them to rent housing. Building more housing (public, and private) would also help.

Reducing population growth, which we need to do anyway, would help with this also. Rents would come down and thus so would the cost of living.

*Woman charged after falsely accusing Black teenager of stealing her phone* and then grabbing him.

Each day more of the Jan 6 insurrectionists are being arrested and charged.

I hope that the Capitol cop who did a fist bump with one of the insurrectionists has been fired.

More information on some of the charges insurrectionists could face.

I think that the "felony murder" law as it sometimes interpreted is too broad. A should only be guilty of B's killing if the killing is a natural possible outgrowth of what they joined in doing.

If A and B decide to do an armed robbery with a gun and B kills someone, A should be liable because killing is a natural possible outgrowth of pointing a gun at someone. It isn't the usual consequence in a robbery, but it is hardly surprising. However, if A and B decide to steal something without using weapons, and B pulls a gun and shoots someone dead, that isn't a natural outgrowth of an unarmed robbery, so A should not be guilty of the killing.