Thugs in Melbourne arrested peaceful protesters (though some of them threw fruit), saying that protest is forbidden.

The hell you say, Australia! A government which forbids protest is tyranny.

Not that repression is unusual in Australia, the country which paid Nauru to hold Australia's immigration prison and then to abolish freedom of the press so that journalists could not reach the prison.

As long as the protesters wore masks and maintained distance, they were entitled to protest.

Defending their right to protest does not mean I support their protest. Some of them reportedly are QAnon fantasists. That fantasy, which mutates as fast as HIV-1, is too incoherent to support a serious inquiry of whether "it" is true, because "it" would be different next week. I wish they were displaying their steadfastness for a good cause.

Campaigning for a posthumous pardon for 2500 women executed for witchcraft in Scotland.

This cruel form of scapegoating continues to this day in Africa.

A court ordered the USPS not to send out "helpful" mass mailings to Colorado voters that contain misinformation about voting in Colorado.

Tesla persistently harasses and cheats workers.

Whistleblower Christopher Pyle, starting with an article in 1970, reported on how the US Army was systematically tracking Americans' civic engagement — not limited to actual dissent — and won the political support to shut it down completely.

He was able to do this because Americans at the time recognized the danger of tracking and surveillance. Legislators recognized it because they came from a people that recognized it.

It's up to us to lead the development of a people that detests tracking and surveillance. Otherwise the people and legislators of the future will fail to shut down the dangerous systems of the future.