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The US gave Russia information about Chechen and Russian Muslim dissidents living in Europe. Russia used this to kill some of them.
The supposed reason for the cooperation was for Russia to kill Islamist exiles fighting in Syria.
We should support the Chomsky et al letter for justice and open debate regardless of disagreeing with some of the people who signed it.
In other words, if you won't sign a letter whose points you agree with, simply because among the 150 other signatories are a few people that you disagree with passionately on some other specific political questions, you're practicing and fueling the harmful divisive approach of cancellation.
I excoriated J. K. Rowling's unjust lawsuit against readers in 2005, and called for a boycott of Harry Potter in response. She has not apologized so I continue the boycott. Please do not use Harry Potter books or movies (or fan goods) in a way that will give her income.
Nonetheless I am glad that she signed this letter, because her signature will support freedom of speech. I would gladly have signed my name right after hers, despite my disagreement with her on the other issue.
Biden's new climate plan shows that public activism can push him towards doing more for climate defense. We need to push him a lot farther.
The wrecker has ordered hospitals to stop sending Covid-19 statistics to the CDC and send them instead to a new agency which will keep them secret.
Suggesting that hospitals defy this order.
It would be good if all hospitals did that, but would the CDC accept those data? Even if it did, that doesn't fix this artificial problem. If only some hospitals send data there so, that won't add up to valid statistics about the whole US, or even entire states and cities.
State governments dominated by wreckers are already trying to cover up the extent of spread of Covid-19, and this policy will help them cover up more.