Professor Scott Warren faces 20 years in prison for providing unauthorized immigrants with supplies and a place to sleep. The border thugs used to respect this humanitarian aid, but now they are trying to snuff it out.

The border thugs dehumanize unauthorized immigrants. Some dream of torturing them, and they generally drool over the idea of hitting them on the head with a flashlight. In other words, they have a culture that trains them to be unfit for any such job.

They regard augmenting the danger of death for people crossing the border as a legitimate means of deterring them from trying, and they equate any effort to reduce the danger as obstruction of their deadly plans.

I suspect they wish they were permitted to simply shoot apparent migrants.

An anti-Trump Republican seeks to run for Al Franken's old senate seat.

Being against the bully is only the first requisite for being someone we should want in the senate. It is not enough. I hope a progressive candidate beats him in the primary.

The Israeli defenders of Palestinian human rights and peace face state repression and death threats, as Israel becomes ever less free, but they don't give up.

Philadelphia adopted a tax on sugar-loaded drinks, which has been very effective in reducing consumption of them. So the companies that sell these have gone to the state government to prohibit cities from doing this. Other states have already done it.

Republicans are reliable boosters of products that are dangerous to people.

Australian scientist David Goodall, who has reached the age of 104, says that maladies are making his life not worth continuing. He is going to Switzerland where he will be allowed aid in suicide.

He can't do this in Australia because his maladies are not fatal. They merely make his life unbearable.