Reportedly China is deploying robot judges.

I suppose text-to-speech is sufficient for announcing a verdict that was decided in advance.

Donna Green asked her boyfriend, Robert Ronald Cooper, to give her a fatal dose of heroin to end her painful illness. He did so, and has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Given the other stated circumstances, I could understand doubting his assertion that she requested this. But supposing she did so, he does not deserve to punished at all for helping her escape that pain.

Perhaps the US voters prefer Biden because of his lack of excitement.

If so, how sad and how foolish, because he won't do anything to restrain the plutocrats, not push hard enough to save us from global heating disaster. If he is nominated, I will vote Green. I'd rather vote for a good candidate that loses than a useless candidate that wins.

US government policies, compared with racist voting restrictions, took away the land of a million black farmers, especially from 1950 to 1969.

Under Reagan, most US family farms (even those owned by whites) were wiped out by luring owners to take loans they could not pay back.

Salvini is keeping a hundred refugees, rescued at sea, bottled up for weeks on a ship where they have no room to walk. None of the refugees would stay in Italy — they already have invitations to other EU countries. But that does not deter Salivini's sadism: he hurts them because he can, to demonstrate his strength, fascist style. We know the recipe: pick some people too weak to defend themselves, call them a menace, and vent sadism at them. If they die, that proves Salvini's worthiness to rule and wreak more suffering.