A prominent Hong Kong protester was arrested incommunicado and subject to forms of torture, so he fled to Australia. Chinese people came to his home in Australia and attacked him.

I wonder how they knew where to find him. Perhaps Huawei had something to do with that.

*If we don’t start holding the Washington DC foreign policy establishment to account [for launching and continuing wars that unjustified and/or stupid], they will continue to act with impunity.*

* … residents of Burleigh County, North Dakota, rejected a proposal that would have made the county the first in the nation to refuse entry to refugees.*

Human behavior choices are strongly governed by systems (physical and social). If the goal is to change people's patterns of using energy, changing the infrastructure is the effective way.

For instance, the construction of bicycle lanes (often separated) in Boston and Cambridge may make a big difference in how much people commute by bicycle. Having more frequent buses would encourage a lot of people to give up their own vehicles.

Macron's pension cuts now affect public school teachers, so they went on strike too.