Activists doxed 1,000 Belarusian thugs.

We don't know from the information in the article whether they are hackers. We also don't know whether they are crackers — we don't know whether they had to break computer security to get the data.

But I can say with certainty that they struck a good blow against Lukashenko's tyranny.

Doxing someone is like a kind of violence. Ordinarily, it is bad to do violence to others, but there are situations where it is justified. When the thugs are carrying out violent repression of dissidents, it is justified for dissidents to respond with counter-violence.

It may or may not be a good tactic. In this case, because doxing is a warning rather than actual physical harm, I think it is a good tactic.

*World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam.*

However, I disagree with the recommendations. Instead of "using the carbon budget for the best," we must use as little of it as possible.

When we speak of the carbon budget, we are making an estimate of how much more emissions we can make before a certain level of disaster. We don't know exactly how much, and more emissions means a worse disaster. It is valid to say, "If we emit considerably more than the carbon budget, we will make life horrible." It is not valid to say, "If we emit a little less than the carbon budget, we will be ok."

If we could be certain, absolutely certain, that we had done enough to avoid disaster, perhaps at that point we could switch to the goal of helping the poor.

But since disaster is already starting, it is pretty clear we have already failed to do enough. So we must do the most we can.

*The climate crisis will sweep away my country if the world doesn't keep its promises.*

What we have to do for the people of many regions that are threatened — many of whom are among the poorest 50% — is cut emissions ASAP.

UK cops report that they have learned how to shut down the gangs that sell cocaine and heroin outside cities.

I congratulate them, because cocaine and heroin are dangerous, but this focus on the punitive approach can't ever stop the sale of those drugs. As the article recognizes, someone else will always show up to sell them.

What will make those drugs nearly disappear is to adopt a more intelligent approach — the one that works in the Netherlands and in Portugal.

This approach is for the national medical system to let addicts register, then give them drugs of reliable purity to use, and safe places to use them. When the main buyers are not buying from private sellers, most of the market will disappear, and so will the private selling.

The smoke from wildfires, when breathed by pregnant women, causes lasting harm to their fetuses in later life.

In some US states, women could be prosecuted for breathing the smoke. Perhaps millions of women would commit this "crime".

One could imagine prosecuting oil companies too, but the right-wing officials in those states don't want to go after oil companies, only women.

Congressional Democrats call for investigation of Barr for politicizing his office as Attorney General.

I don't know if this can have much effect. The bully has already placed his officials are above the law by showing that he will fire any inspector general that tries to investigate their crimes.