Americans are getting evicted because they could not attend a court hearing carried out via Zoom.

Zoom is an injustice — it is a nonfree program, and using a nonfree program is always an injustice (fsf.org/tedx). Furthermore, it collects personal data, which means it is malware. Requiring people to use Zoom, for any purpose, is an injustice.

Denying them their legal rights because they couldn't, or wouldn't, use Zoom is an injustice too.

I will fight for the right not to use Zoom.

2/3 of sharks living at the sea bottom, near the UK, have consumed plastic.

The danger of being bitten by a shark is tiny, but the danger of biting shark meat could someday be significant. Of course, it will be the same for biting any kind fish — if there are fish left to catch, after the effects of global heating and ocean acidification.

The cruelty and stubbornness of the US deportation thugs is illustrated by their many-year quest to deport Rebecca Trimble to Mexico because her parents didn't handle the paperwork right when adopting as a newborn, 30 years ago.

Not only does she speak no Spanish and know no one in Mexico — the US is famous for deporting people there under such circumstances — but Mexico says her records are contradictory. She may not be allowed to work in Mexico, except for a gang.

The case to accept her as American is so strong that the officials' refusal to see it shows the cruelty in their hearts. They are not fit to exercise the power they hold.

I wonder whether she could get asylum in Canada, now that Canada will allow people to apply from the US.

What if we had videos of the civilians killed by US drone attacks in forever wars?

* Hundreds of mothers have attended demonstrations and stood as a human barricade between protesters and federal officers.*

*Federal agents retreat to Portland base as protesters control streets.*

The protesters would be wise to stop attempts to set fire to or near the courthouse. With a just government, we will still need that courthouse. To burn it now would not be an act of uncontrollable immediate passion, but rather an act of excess. And it is the one thing that works against the protesters case for public support.