*New York [thugs] take seconds to restore reputation for brutality.* Thugs attacked protesters for no reason on many occasions. They even besieged protesters on a bridge. Even worse, Mayor de Blasé legitimized their violent attacks.

When repressing protests or preparing to, they cover their badge numbers so they can get away with crimes.

*Student protesters and journalists in 1989 recall the joy and hope before the crackdown* in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

Someone I don't know sent this to me, describing surveillance in China today.

I live in Hangzhou, and here are some of my experiences. It still remain mandatory for people to show the app's readout to get into subway, trains and supermarket, and etc which could be the most of the public areas. For instance, there is at least one security guard in each entrance of that area, almost all of residential areas have only one entrance by now. And except the health code (jian kang ma) you have to have in order to get elsewhere, you aslo have to identify yourself to get another ID card to get in the residential area, and have to show the ID card every time before you get in. In their practice, residential A area's residents won't be allowed to go to residential B area, vice versa. If you don't have these identifiers, the so-called security guard would love to harass you even they know you just got out the area. It's ridiculous to check that out again. If you forgot your phone or card, they would take down your personal information, and they don't have to take a picture of you since the cameras just in front of you!

*Jane Goodall: humanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19.*

This change will require much less sacrifice from each person if we let the human population peacefully decline.

George Monbiot: *Britain's claims to being a functioning democracy are only skin deep.*