Parents: call for prohibition of facial recognition in schools.

*Taiwan calls for global coalition against China's aggression as US official flies in.*

I think it would be interesting for several important countries to open diplomatic relations with Taiwan, and let China break relations or keep relations, however it wishes. After a few years, I believe, China would decide that it needs the diplomatic relations more than it needs to show aggression against Taiwan.

Belarus protesters are pulling the masks off thugs to identify them. This seems to dissuade them from violence.

It is an interesting reversal, to use face recognition against the servants if a tyrant. I think it is justified in that situation,

This suggests to me that the thugs of Belarus are just barely clinging to obedience to Lukashenko, and that at any moment they could snap.

How the oil-and-plastic companies have organized world-wide to block efforts to reduce plastic pollution.

This is yet another facet of the harm done by plutocratic rule.

The House of Representatives passed a bill prohibiting discrimination against pregnant workers, and requiring employers to make reasonable accommodations so a pregnant worker can keep working.

There is no chance that the Republicans who control the Senate will agree to this, but passing the bill is useful as political pressure.