A right-wing group is suing to try to force various parts of the US to aggressively purge voters. This is a practice that Republicans do voluntarily to try to suppress the Democratic vote.

Reportedly Minnesota is using contact-tracing to investigate the social graph of the protesters.

Contact-tracing is a preventive medical activity, like vaccination. According to that report, Minnesota is using it as a front for a criminal investigation. This is a very dangerous tactic.

Remember what happened after the US disguised a manhunt as a polio vaccination campaign? The Taliban and allied Islamist fanatics became suspicious of polio vaccination, and blocked the vaccination efforts for years. Polio is still not eradicated in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Would we have eradicated it forever if not for this US action?

This backfire was no surprise to medical experts; they rebuked the US.

Disguising a criminal investigation as action to stop an epidemic threatens the same sort of backfire.

Can anyone find confirmation of the report?

A Kurd in Istanbul was murdered in a possibly racist attack. This has focused attention on Turkish prejudice against Kurds.

The civil war of 2015 was started intentionally by Erdoğan after he did not win as many seats in Parliament as he thought he deserved.

He figured that war would get him a better result, and it did.

Covid-19 caused Pakistan to cancel polio vaccination, and the disease is now spreading around the country.

It could spread to other countries, too. I suppose some other countries have interrupted polio vaccination for the same reason.

The fake polio vaccination team that was actually searching for Osama bin Laden may have made the difference between eradicating polio and suffering from it forever.

The bully is training US troops to get comfortable with attacking American protesters.

US soldiers are supposed to refuse to obey an illegal order, and military veterans are calling on soldiers to refuse orders to attack civilians.

That it is a daunting step, since the military can claim the order was legal and put soldiers on trial for disobeying it. Then a court will decide, typically a military court which is biased against the accused.

I urge US soldiers to discuss, in advance, at what point they will deem an order illegal and refuse to obey it.