*CNN’s Trump debacle suggests TV media set to repeat mistakes of 2016.*

Or are they mistakes? The CEO of CNN's owner seems to be quite content to have attracted more support from fascists.

CNN gave the bullshitter a big situational advantage over the moderator.

It sank lower than that. Staff spoke to the audience shortly before the show, saying they were welcome to applaud but that booing was forbidden.

China has given itself the power to bar foreign lawyers from working in "national security" trials (political repression). It had already terminated the residence visa of the British lawyer that Jimmy Lai wanted to hire, and postponed the trial 'til after that lawyer was compelled to leave; but apparently China was so worried about the presence of a lawyer that might actually try to defend Lai that changed Hong Kong law to make sure this could never happen.

Hindu fanatics in India are sabotaging traditional celebrations in which various religious groups joined harmoniously for hundreds of years.

Banning hijab in India is basically the same injustice as requiring hijab in Iran.

George Monbiot: *The coronation arrests are just the start. [Thugs] can do what they want to us now.*

The thugs can now arrest people in Britain for almost any sort of protest that could attract attention, or even carrying harmless tools for one. In addition, experienced organizers can be ordered pre-emptively to stay away from all protests and other protesters, and jailed if they disobey.

Britain is at the tipping point of joining regimes such as China and Russia in repression of dissent.