Israel warned Palestinians to flee a large part of Gaza before a bigger attack, which might be carpet bombing or a ground attack. Civilians are leaving their homes in terror.

Gaza being small, they don't have far to go. But there is no safe place they can flee to in Gaza today. When the fighting is over, they will probably have no homes to return to. Israeli bombers have already flattened entire neighborhoods.

People in Gaza caught between evacuation order, Hamas and bombs. There is no way to move badly sick patients in hospitals, and no guarantee those hospitals won't be bombed. The UNWRA is not evaluating schools in Gaza; will Israel bomb them for revenge?

*Blinken urges Israel to avoid civilian deaths and set up safe zones in Gaza.*

That is at least a step in the right direction for the US.

I warned that the stretchable term "sexual assault", which extends from grave crimes such as rape through significant crimes such as groping and down to no clear lower bound, could be stretched to criminalize minor things, perhaps even stealing a kiss. Now this has happened.

What next? Will a pat on the arm or a hug be criminalized? There is no clear limit to how far this can go, when a group builds up enough outrage to push it.

Criminal prosecution and harassment of drug users are both cruel and ineffective for reducing use of the dangerous drugs. San Francisco in particular, and the rest of the US, should decriminalize the forbidden drugs.

Israeli soldiers in occupied Palestine, and fanatical "settlers" whose goal is ethnic cleansing, have killed 51 Palestinians in the past week and expelled everyone from small Palestinian villages.

This is terrorism, and it cannot rationally be presented as any sort of defense against HAMAS.

*When the US Media Silences One Side's Suffering, Only More Death and War Follow.*

We should mourn the Israelis killed by HAMAS. We should mourn the Gazans bombed and shelled by Israel. We should mourn the Israelis killed by the intifadas. We should mourn the Palestinians killed or merely oppressed by the occupation. And we should make a peace agreement the goal.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and ask per to cosponsor the OLIGARCH Act, which would establish a graduated wealth tax starting at a household wealh 1000 times the median US household wealh.

As of 2019, according to Wikipedia, [Wealth in United States] the median household wealh in the US was a little under $100,000. Going by that fiture, the tax would start at a household wealh of 100 million dollars.