Some pro-Russian Ukrainians, in occupied territories, have taken their neighbors' children to Russia in order to get financial benefits, using lies to convince them. If they apply for adoption papers, the Russian system will not let their parents get them back.

The article calls this "deportation", but I don't think that term fits the example that it presents. Neither, I think, does "kidnaping." Those terms do properly apply to many Ukrainian children, who were forced to go to Russia by the Putin forces.

*We desperately need a government who will say it: Britain is still reeling from Covid.*

The US is, too -- but not in one uniform, simple way. The policies for dealing with Covid-19 were different from state to state. At the start, some big cities were hit worst. Later, for many months, Republican states were hit worst, because Republicans seized on Covid-19 as an opportunity for disinformation and sabotage, especially after they realized that blacks were more likely to die from it.

One harm that most people don't recognize as one is that many activities and institutions in our society have imposed the use of nonfree computing technology. This includes most schools at all levels. Most talks at MIT still require using Zoom to listen. Whether you want to listen at the time of the event, or listen to recording later, the only way is through Zoom's nonfree surveillance system.

Erdoğan was reelected as president of Turkey.

This is bad for human rights in Turkey, and good for authoritarianism in general.

US citizens: call on the EPA to tighten the proposed standards for power plants' greenhouse gas emissions.

US citizens: call on Biden to stop Big Oil's next disastrous fossil fuel project on the Colorado River.

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