California is setting up an alert system to help find missing black women and girls who may have been kidnaped or coerced.

Russia failed to get enough votes for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. This says the world has a little more moral commitment than I thought.

Ex/Twitter's coverage of the conflict in Gaza is so full of lies and deepfakes that it is hard to find anything that is truth.

I urge people to stop reading Ex/Twitter — to avoid wasting their time, as a protest against what the Musk-rat is doing, and to reject the nonfree app that Ex/Twitter says you have to use.

I tried recently to look at a specific tweet using Nitter, and it did eventually work after a substantial delay.

HAMAS carried out a massive terrorist attack on Israeli civilians in areas neighboring Gaza, killing at least 1000. It also took over 100 hostages.

In revenge, Israel bombed residential neighborhoods of Gaza. It has not finished yet, and I expect it will kill many thousands of Gazan civilians. The report I've seen is that at least 830 in Gaza have been killed by shelling which has hit a school a well as hospitals and homes.

In the past, Israel has always offered some sort of excuses after killing unarmed Palestinian civilians, individually or massively. But the excuses are often strained. Israel's attacks have hit press offices and medical clinics, as well as residences too. Israeli snipers have shot medics attending protests.

I can't conclude that Israel's attacks on Gaza are really other than larger terrorist attacks.

Meanwhile, Israel has put Gaza under total siege, keeping out food and medicine even as the hospitals are overwhelmed.

I expect that Netanyahu will use this to force through the final blow against judicial independence in Israel.

The principal of a public school in Louisiana punished a student for dancing at a party. The punishment was grave — it could hurt per academic future.

The principal admitted he was trying to impose his religion the student. That is prima facie unjust, and unconstitutional to boot.

The fact that students paid for the party venue is a side issue, because such imposition of religion would have been unjust even if they had been dancing in the public school.