The saboteur in chief has finished cancelling Obama's rule to protect wetlands and streams.

Twitter has blocked Raúl Castro's account.

If it can do that, it can block the bullshitter's account too.

California has banned private prisons.

California had already moved most of the prisoners out of them as preparation for closing them.

The bill covers deportation prisons.

Climate change will create 1.5 billion migrants by 2050 and we have no idea where they'll go.

As these people desperately try to flee, tens of millions of them will be trafficked. (Maybe hundreds of millions.) They will accept "job offers" in other regions or countries which will turn out to be slavery. They may even do so knowingly, since the alternative would be a substantial chance of death.

Major contributors to global heating, such as David Koch and Stephen Schwarzman, will through their intentional acts of destruction be predictably responsible for a fraction of this result. That fraction, for each one, will amount to thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of people enslaved.

I think that MIT should reconsider whether to have institutions named after those people.

I don't think MIT is obligated to return or give away the money they donated. Rather, it should spend the money doing something good. (The introduction to Major Barbara explains the reasoning of the Salvation Army on this question; I found it convincing.) What is clearly wrong is to give those donors something — favorable publicity, or access to people — in exchange.

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