Ex-Twitter has started requiring (in certain countries) every new user to verify per phone numbers and a payment method.

The user is required to pay a trivial sum, but the surveillance implied by the payment is more important than the payment itself.

House Republicans describe bullying intended to make them vote for Jim Jordan for speaker. The bullying may have backfired.

TikTok and Instagram banned a lot of new coverage of the HAMAS-Israel fighting and its effects, including the news site mondoweiss.net.

Mondoweiss is led by Jews that call for justice for Palestinians. I've made links to it on stallman.org.

UK thugs preemptively arrested founders of Just Stop Oil for planning a nonviolent protest in London.

The UK has been doing that for years.

The protest was at a meeting of fossil fuel executives and politicians. One must suspect they were meeting to make plans that stand a good chance of destroying civilization. Greta Thunberg was arrested there and has been charged with the crime of blocking a doorway.

The UK government's commitment to protecting the planet roasters is strong, and it appears ready to go to almost any lengths to defend fossil fuel plans that are likely to cause the death of billions later this century.

Biden persuaded Israel and Egypt to allow humanitarian aid to Gaza, passing through Egypt's Rafah crossing.