Natural history museums hold specimens with DNA of species we are driving to extinction, but the museums are endangered too.

I don't expect hungry mobs to break in to museums to eat the specimens — nobody would think they are edible — but in 50 years they may be considered a luxury that society cannot afford.

Israeli colonists in part of Palestine's West Bank have threatened to deny work to Palestinians that cooperate with some Israeli human rights organizations.

These organizations act as witnesses for when some of those colonists commit crimes against Palestinians.

The rate of such crimes has been increasing for years.

The bully has invented a new excuse to stop funding Planned Parenthood for providing medical services other than abortion.

The millions of fraudulent comments opposing network neutrality regulation, that the FCC received, have been traced to the company CQ Roll Call based on detailed data about the filing of those comments.

China is forcibly collecting DNA samples from large numbers of Uighurs. China likes to say that this repression constitutes "fighting crime".

China describes its prison camps for a million Uighurs as part of the "war on terror".

Think of it as the Chinese Guantanamo, 10,000 times as big.

US thugs have shown a tendency to spontaneously repress progressives and support neo-Nazis. We need to limit their power to collect DNA samples (and do other things).