Poland is seeing large protests for abortion rights every day.

The last protest had 100,000 people.

Poland's latest attack on abortion rights affects women whose fetuses are dead or so damaged that they cannot be born alive. For Polish Catholics, granting the fetus one more day of non-consciousness is worth any amount of human grief caused.

Right-wing nasties organized for violent attacks against protesters, which they consider legitimate because the protesters are not fetuses. ;-{.

In the US, recessions typically start when there is a Republican president.

Missouri voters passed a ballot initiative against gerrymandering. Now Republicans are pushing another ballot initiative which would reverse that one, and reduce the voting power of some minorities.

They hoped they could mislead the voters into passing it.

Preston Kulkarni, running for Congress in Houston, has stated support for the RSS, a violent anti-non-Hindu hate group in India.

People should pressure Kulkarni and the Democratic Party hard about this, but despite his connection to a hate group, he is clearly the lesser evil this year. After all, his opponent is a member of a violent domestic hate group called the Republican Party.

Hong Kong thugs arrested Tony Chung as he tried to ask the US consulate to shelter him, and charged him with political opposition.

The reason Chung could not simply leave Hong Kong is that the government had taken his passport and accused him of advocating independence for Hong Kong.

A number of others also facing political charges tried to leave Hong Kong in a boat, but China caught the boat.