Animal rights activists are on trial in Utah for filming in factory farms, and for "stealing" diseased pigs that would have died soon, and curing them.

The prosecutors have corrupt personal links to factory farms, but the biggest corruption is that which procured these laws themselves.

Puerto Rico's nondemocratic imposed government has made its priority paying the creditors — which means neglecting the people's hardship.

The Environmental Poisoning Agency has weakened its standards for judging toxic chemicals.

This won't cause any immediate changes, but it is likely to enable some toxins to remain in our food, clothing, cosmetics, etc., in the future which would otherwise have been banned.

The son of an undercover thug (who lied to his mother) supports the "spycops" campaign and hopes it will pressure the thug department to tell him something about his father.

Please don't think that your own identity depends crucially on who your parents were or what they did. Their actions surely affected you, just as their genes did (in the usual case), but you are not responsible for them and they don't define you. It wasn't you that did them. You might regret those actions, appreciate them, reproach them, or admire them, but you never have a moral reason to feel ashamed of them.

Google is trying to patent a data compression system that Jarek Duda invented. He wants to make available to everyone for all use freely.

Applying for a patent on a computational idea is wrong, inherently wrong, unless it is blocked from use for aggression. One way to do this is with something like Twitter's defensive use commitment.

I urge people to demand that their employers do this. Or find another employer who will.