*Court finds police in France often use racial profiling in identity checks.*

This is no surprise — thugs do similar things in many countries including the US and UK.

*Ferdinand Marcos Jr drops Philippines holiday marking toppling of father.*

His father was a corrupt dictator who was toppled by massive protests. It looks like this adds to Marcos Jr's campaign to cover up the truth about that dictator.

The book Controlling Corruption, by Robert Klitgaard, describes in one chapter the measures that Marcos Sr used to stamp out corruption in the Philippine Customs Agency. In most of the government agencies, Marcos encouraged agents to take bribes and give part of them to him. But anyone practicing corruption in the customs agency was stealing from Marcos and he did not like that. The book points out that the measures in question were effective in the customs agency despite the fact that the whole government around it was pervasively corrupt.

Pharma companies are suing the US government, claiming that a price cap on a product constitutes "taking property".

That claim is something that right-wing economist that worship the concept of property might believe, but clashes with the US legal tradition. Alas, we can't count on the right-wing extremists on the Supreme Court to follow that tradition rather than bow to billionaires.

*Judge rules Texas's age-verification law violates First Amendment.*

If we had a standard system for verifying a user's age online without identifying per, I would not object greatly to requiring this for some sorts of publication. As far as I know, there is no such standard and what sites would actually demand is to see government ID.

* First complete "scientific health check" shows most global systems [are] beyond [the] stable range in which modern civilization emerged.*