A progressive candidate defeated the incumbent district attorney of Los Angeles, who had protected killer thugs.

There will be rallies again on Nov 7 to resist the wrecker's attempts to set aside the election. Alas, once again the information necessary to participate is hidden behind nonfree software.

In Hong Kong, the Chinese tyranny invites people to inform on each other anonymously.

The US did invite informers in Afghanistan, and people fabricated crimes to obtain private revenge. Some of the victims spent many years in Guantanamo.

I linked to an inaccurate report claiming that a large number of postal ballots went undelivered on election day. The USPS says they were delivered specially to election commissions, skipping the usual delivery scan step.

The EU has just gained the power to punish an authoritarian national government without unanimous approval from all the rest.

This means the EU will be able to bring pressure on Poland and Hungary to restore the independence and authority of the national courts. However, I am not sure such pressure will be sufficient to achieve that goal. Once people are caught up in a spell of hatred, they tend to react defensively to criticism of that spell.