South Carolina officials refused to evacuate prisoners from a prison that is in danger of being flooded.

The prisoners could be left for days with no food, water, medicine, even sanitation. Isn't that cruel and unusual punishment?

New York State has reduced solar power subsidies, causing a slowdown in installations.

I understand that net metering has a problem — sometimes solar installations have more power to sell than the grid can use. So adopt some other system to subsidize solar installations. It will be cheap compared with the costs of global heating disaster.

The EU plans aggressive censorship rules for "terrorist" postings.

Platforms that can't afford to hire people to work 24 hours a day to carry out deletions would be wiped out immediately. And if they are big enough to pay for that, they still won't be able to develop automated filters.

The automated filters can't really understand what is "terrorist" and what isn't, so they will be designed to err on the side of caution and delete lots of other publications.

Well, if you delete everything, at least you can be sure you deleted everything that is "terrorist".

(Please don't refer to publications of any sort as "content" https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#content.)

Palestinians Still Live under Apartheid in Israel, 25 Years after the Oslo Accord.

Indeed, it is worse now that the government has made apartheid overt and official.

Spain found an excuse to proceed with selling bombs for Salafi Arabia to drop on Yemen.

If weapons to hit precisely where they are aimed, that won't protect children in a bus if the weapon is pointed at that bus.