The spouse of the L.A. district attorney pointed a gun at protesters at their home, and faces criminal charges for doing so.

I don't know the facts, but I agree with the ideas underlying the protesters' criticism of DA Lacey's conduct in office. I think the couple has the right to insist that the protesters get off their porch, but Mr Lacey had no right to threaten their lives with a gun, so I think the charges against him are morally valid.

The protesters have a right to protest nearby, on the sidewalk, as long as they don't harass people going in and out. (Think of the right-wing protesters outside the doors of abortion clinics, who harass patients and staff.)

*Landmark obesity guidelines in Canada treat problem as chronic illness.*

Further census sabotage: the anti-voter plans to cut the census off a month early.

*A year on from a devastating siege, Kashmir is being turned into a colony.*

It is subject to what is in effect a permanent military occupation, with the repression that would normally imply.

*Rats and bats that host pandemic pathogens like Covid-19 increase in damaged ecosystems, analysis shows. It found that the damage benefits smaller, more adaptable creatures that also carry the most pathogens that can pass to humans.*

Farms in the middle of wilderness also bring these animals in closer contact with humans, from which they could pick up diseases that can also infect humans, and later transmit them back to humans with some sort of mutations.