Paul Manafort was moved from prison to house arrest to protect him from Covid-19.

Since he does not pose a threat of violence, I think moving him was the right thing to do. What is wrong is that so many other prisoners in similar situations are still held in prison where they are likely to catch and spread Covid-19.

When we criticize favoritism, we should advocate being equally harsh to everyone.

*As Coronavirus Spreads Behind Bars, Prisons Release Very Few People.*

[The corrupter] fired the State Department’s inspector general. The immediate occasion may be that he started investigating Secretary of State Pompeo, but the corrupter treats anyone who interferes with corruption as an obstacle. Now that he is getting away with firing inspectors general, he takes this as an opportunity to displays his contempt for honest government. He will keep doing it until they cease to do their jobs, and it ceases to shock. The he will do something even more disgusting.

The saboteur in chief is working hard to sabotage the US Postal Service, and has pushed out the members of its governing board that want to keep it running.

What could he gain from this? He could make it impossible to vote by mail. Any other ideas?

His reelection strategy (people suspect) is based on forcing people back to work even though many workers and customers will get sick.

To make sure they have to accept it, he wants to protect the employers totally from liability if they do get sick.

I suspect that he actually wants a lot of people to get sick, too. Why else strive persistently to keep masks in short supply? He can't help knowing that many cases will follow, and if he did not want that, he wouldn't be making it happen.

George Monbiot: Education must aim to teach everyone the crucial basic understanding of physical world and the natural world, at the levels that make the environment for our lives.

An academic study of nutrition reports that 1/9 of the world's children suffer from hunger. Of young children, under 5 years old, 1/4 are stunted from lack of food.

The worse figures for younger children make me wonder about the cause. Do parents feed younger children less? Is the situation getting worse as years pass?