Alexei Navalny is "seriously ill" in the Russian prison.

Since the Russian state poisoned him once, maybe it is doing something similar now.

* Extinction Rebellion is planning to step up its campaign against the banking system with a series of direct action protests and debt strikes*

*Can an assault weapons ban reduce killings if firearms last 100 years?*

Perhaps the clips don't last as long as the guns.

Western governments need to end their support for human rights abuses and authoritarianism in order to be able to exert effective pressure on China.

*Your 'smart home' is watching — and possibly [sending] your data [to] the police.*

I am glad to see that awareness of this threat to everyone's freedom is spreading, but it continues to be associated with an inadequate proposed solution: laws to "protect privacy" by limiting how companies use the data that they accumulate about the public. This would reduce the abuse of people's accumulated personal data but not stop it.

Please don't use the word "sharing" to describe propagation of surveillance data.

The police are plural, so the pronoun "they" fits them — but "roommate" ought to be plural as well.

Before my freshman year of college, I stated my preference for a roommate that was invisible, inaudible and intangible (if I couldn't have a room of my own). I forgot to add deaf and blind.