*The QAnon orphans: people who have lost loved ones to conspiracy theories.*

Cults like these used to be run as businesses: Scientology, and the Moonies. As far as I know, there is no one business profiting off QAnon. But with so many credulous people, I'm sure there are people with plans to profit off exploiting them in a tight, cult-like way.

Hong Kong's puppet government has derecognized most journalists, as a preparatory step for repression.

Remember this if politicians in your country try to impose rules about who is a journalist and who is not. For instance, if they claim that Julian Assange is not a journalist.

*If Report Proven, ACLU Says Federal Agents Tapping Phones of Protesters Would Be 'Outrageous' Constitutional Violation.*

The developers of the Pebble Mine in Alaska pretend it will be 5 square miles, which is merely large, but what they say in private is that it will be enormous.

Amnesty International rebukes the UK for denying it access to monitor Assange's extradition hearing.

If it were not for Craig Murray's coverage, the hearing would be effectively secret. This is what we expect from outright tyrannies such as China, but apparently the UK is approaching the same level of decay.