Students in several European countries, plus Uganda, are holding occupations to demand an end to building fossil fuel facilities.

Georgia thugs outdid themselves in defying reality and stretching laws by arresting activists who were putting flyers on mailboxes. They gave the address of one of the thugs who was involved in killing protester Manuel Paez Terán in the forest which is to be cut down to build Cop City.

*The inquiry into [his] death has been marred by contradictory information released by officials.*

I hazard a guess that the thugs and judges involved in this are right-wing. Contempt for law, justice and truth is the hallmark of the right wing, and these look like examples of it.

*Anti-monarchists [in the UK] receive "intimidatory" Home Office letter on new protest laws.*

Putin has cancelled national celebrations on the dishonest pretext that Ukraine would attack crowds of civilians. Perhaps he's really afraid that those crowds of civilians would show their opinion of him.

Americans are suffering illness and death due to the level of disconnection from other people. The amount of direct contact with other people has been decreasing since the 1970s.

The essay "Bowling Alone" took note of this development in 1995, but it has continued since then.

By going to the store to buy things, you can have a little more social contact with a variety of people — and you can pay cash and resist surveillance capitalism.