The UK's "hostile environment" applies even to its military veterans.

The fundamental wrong here is the intent to look for every possible bureaucratic excuse to kick someone out.

Massachusetts is investigating many impoverished parents because their children are not participating in remote education.

The ironic part is that someone who rejects the injustice of Zoom or Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams might also be threatened with this. However, I don't think these parents reject that software on political grounds. I suspect rather that they are desperately trying to make enough money to feed and house those children, leaving them no time to make sure that the children are being surveilled by the school's software.

Disastrous poverty is spreading around the United States.

Calling for a full investigation of Apple's use of Siri for snooping.

That investigation will be useful, but we already know the root cause: nonfree software. Apple controls the client-side Siri software. Apple controls iOS. That gives Apple power over the user, and that power corrupts.

Tens of thousands rallied in Belarus (perhaps 100,000) demanding that Lukashenko leave office. Lukashenko's thugs did not intervene.