The US border patrol has cut down border visits between US citizens and their relatives who can't enter the US.

I share the suspicion that "This has to do with the message of hate that Trump screams out."

The British housing crisis is the consequence of Tory ideology and goals. Kicking out the Tories is the first step to taking all the necessary measures to end the problem.

Britons, hiss at the Tory government when you vote and you can make it hiss-tory.

Belgium has ruled that some aspects of Facebook data collection are illegal, and ordered Facebook to delete the data or face a large fine.

While this is firm compared with the usual levels of regulation of companies nowadays, it is inadequate in recompense because it assumes that deleting the data will entirely undo the wrong to the users. There are two reasons that is not so:

• Facebook has already had a chance to manipulate and mistreat users by means of that data.
• The US government may have collected some of that data, using PAT RIOT Act blanket surveillance powers. If Facebook deletes that data now, that won't make the US delete it.

The Onion: "The Laureate-IV military robot pens haunting verse describing death, grief, and senseless violence to capture the grisly realities of war."

Turkey has arrested the leaders of the Green Left Party.

Turkish journalists have been sentenced to 30 years in prison, in cruel conditions reminiscent of US "Supermax" prisons.