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.

New York City has fired the thug that put Eric Garner in a choke-hold and thus killed him.

It should not have taken years to do this.

California has made it easier to prosecute killer thugs. Now they need a reasonable basis to feel threatened — just claiming to have felt threatened is not enough.

Assad's forces and Russian forces are bombing Idlib into rubble, advancing in a wave behind which is a desert. No civilians wait to be captured.

Here's why it is so hard for the US to end the wars that it can't win: because fools say we owe it to the soldiers that died to keep sending more soldiers to die.

We did not know in 2001 how the war in Afghanistan would turn out. Perhaps the US could have achieved a better outcome if Dubya had not conquered and occupied Iraq. But now we know that continuing the war achieves nothing except to kill more Afghans and more Americans. It behooves us to stop.

Then the Taliban can fight PISSI.