*‘Yazidi women are strong’: Kurdistan's female landmine clearance teams.*

Many trans rights activists and many feminists want to reach agreement and support each other.

The FBI says that China is trying to coerce Chinese dissidents in the US to go back to China, using threats against them and their families. Those that do could face a horrible fate.

The article uses the term "intellectual property espionage"; as always, "intellectual property" is intended to confuse.

I presume this is meant to refer to spying to obtain trade secrets, "Trade secrets" is a coherent term, unlike "intellectual property". That does not mean we should reflexively condemn attempts to "steal" those secrets, because keeping a generally useful technical information secret is an attack against humanity. Since 1984 or so I have refused on principle to accept a nondisclosure agreement for generally useful technical information, such as software. I carefully refuse such agreements, because it is wrong to carry them out.

So if China is trying to obtain the trade secrets of US companies, the morally valid response is to obtain the trade secrets of Chinese companies — and publish them.

*Purdue Pharma Made Political Contributions After Going Bankrupt.*

Seattle has once again enacted a tax on business income, but better this time: the tax rate is progressive.

Only big businesses have to pay the tax: just 800 of them in the city of Seattle.