*A third of my country (Bangladesh) was just underwater. The world must act on climate.*

Australian thugs found a man drunk and asleep, so they pepper-sprayed and tased him to wake him up. Then they made false charges against him. So far, so usual. Except that he was a famous professional rugby player and there is a video of what they did to him.

The thug commissioner seems to have a great capacity to sympathize with thugs, but insufficient sympathy for everyone else. I was surprised that his list of ways to deal with the situation did not include having four people pick him up, each holding one limb. That doesn't generally hurt, and he might have stayed asleep.

Bloomberg is paying the fines for 31,000 Florida ex-cons so that they will be able to vote this year.

It should not be forgotten that the Florida election was not actually close. It appeared to be so after Republicans disenfranchised around 50,000 voters, chosen systematically in a way that ensured most of them would be black and therefore probably Democrats.

Bogus Johnson has tuned the distancing rules for the UK, hoping this will stop the rapid growth in Covid-19 cases.

Experience with him suggests that he has no solid basis to think that it will do so. I don't have a solid basis to think it won't, but since tuning has been insufficient in many other places, I predict it will be insufficient this time too.

Republicans put a lot of effort, 10 years ago, into winning control of state legislatures so they could gerrymander subsequent elections. Democrats need to win them back.