Twitter employees have been charged with spying for Salafi Arabia — specifically, getting the private personal data of dissidents so as to identify them.

This leads me to question whether it is proper for Twitter to demand personal info from dissidents that might make it possible to identify them. I'm told that Twitter makes it very difficult to use an account without using a portable phone for authentication. Given the harm that a portable phone does to the user's freedom, it is wrong to demand users have one.

One of the Twitter spies of Salafi Arabia got data on a friend of Jamal Khashoggi.

Republicans, Not Russians, Threaten Our Elections.

Many US oil refineries use hydrogen fluoride, an extremely toxic gas. If you breathe it, it turns into hydrofluoric acid in your lungs. Some of these refineries are in cities, and a ruptured HF tank could kill or injure hundreds of thousands of people in the surrounding area.

The EPA just rejected a request to ban use of HF in refineries.

Israel will deport the local head of Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir, who is a US citizen and not an Israeli citizen. The reason for the deportation is HRW's support for the boycott of products made in Israel's colonies in Palestinian territory (the West Bank). HRW says that Omar Shakir did not promote the boycott himself while working for HRW.

I too support that boycott, which was started by Uri Avnery and Gush Shalom.