The Court of Appeals of the DC circuit continues doing its utmost to deny all legal recourse to the prisoners in Guantanamo.

The US owes each prisoner either a fair trial or release from prison. If the US cannot do so, because by torturing them it eliminated the possibility of a fair trial, the US should release them and then think about avoiding such a foolish actions in the future.

Arguments about expediency cannot override those rights — but I think they lead to the opposite conclusion. Freeing the prisoners would end a practice that motivates some people to hate the US.

US citizens: call on Twitch to disallow US military recruiting.

Recruiting on Twitch is tantamount to aiming recruiting at children, even if the military does not acknowledge that.

Everyone: call on corporations to stop supporting "police foundations".

(satire) *… residents of a small town in western Wisconsin expressed relief Friday that all of their beloved local businesses had been forced to close down long before Covid-19 struck.*

Indigenous Australians demand rules giving them the power to block destruction of ancient indigenous people's sites.

If their demands are granted, they will probably preserve most of these ancient sites, and that is good. But not necessarily all of them. The "traditional owners" of a site would have the power to permit destroying it, and sometimes they would do so.

These archaeological sites are important records of human history, all the more important because few other sites are so old. The most important thing to do with them is study them, and that should take precedence over all other use. No one, capitalist or indigenous, should be allowed to destroy them.

If they indigenous groups agree to protect the sites and cooperate with carefully planned scientific investigation, I would support giving them full authority over all other aspects of use of these sites.