A writer who decided to travel from Detroit to LA by bus as an adventure discovered that traveling around the US by bus has become ugly, highly uncomfortable, even dangerous. All the things that made it acceptable and enjoyable decades ago have ceased to exist — stations have no food, no water fountains, no real toilets, no ticketing facilities, no staff, and hardly any chairs. And even the cheapest hotels in cities are painfully expensive.

If, as she says, it is "all digital now", in some cases that is because people do not think of saying no. I bought a ticket on a Greyhound bus a few weeks ago; I paid cash, I got a paper ticket, and I didn't show an ID card. That was possible in Boston — but is it possible in cities where the "bus station" is a mockery>

Flixbus should not have been allowed to acquire Greyhound (and Lucky Star). That merger is anti-competitive. For now, the three lines' operations are still separate. It is possible to buy tickets for Greyhound buses with cash, but as far as I can tell tickets for eFlixbus buses can only be bought over the internet.

I am concerned that Flixbus will integrate Greyhound and Lucky Star buses into its own operation and eliminate cash purchase of tickets for them too.

I wonder how poor people who have no officially valid ID cards, and in many cases no payment cards either, travel to another city nowadays. If they are blocked from voting with an ID requirement, they would be blocked from buses too. Does anyone know?

A Briton faces contempt charges for holding a sign reminding potential jurors of their right to acquit defendants for any reason.

That includes, in particular, the reason that the state is railroading heroic nonviolent protesters who are trying to protect the people alive a few decades now from global climate disaster.

There is still a chance to limit disaster to something civilization can survive, but it depends on defeating planet-roaster governments.

After a jury exonerated one of the Houston volunteers being tried for giving food to homeless people, the thugs failed to show up to testify for the trial of the other volunteers. Thus, charges were dropped against all of them.

A judge ruled that Texas's abortion ban must not prohibit abortion of pregnancies that endanger the pregnant woman.

A fanatical state official immediately appealed this decision, of course. No amount of suffering they cause to other people will change their minds about imposing their cruel religion.

Orcas have been attacking boats and ships occasionally for centuries. One naturalist observed that they used the same approach that they use for hunting seals.

This does not tell us what their motives are, but does suggest it has nothing to do with revenge for altering Earth's ecology.