San Francisco has voted for additional taxes on tech companies and CEOs.

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

This means 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 that will be sufficient to change anything. Once people are caught up in a spell of hatred, they tend to react defensively to criticism of that spell.

The election outcome has refuted the arguments that Biden has a better chance of winning than Sanders.

In Florida, the referendum to increase the minimum wage won as Biden lost. Biden was not too progressive, he was insufficiently progressive.

An icebreaker left a time capsule in the ice at the North Pole in 2018. This year it floated out and was found in Ireland.

In recent years the Arctic ice cap has been getting much thinner. This is probably a consequence of that.

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.