*Officers in ‘Cop City’ raid shot pepperball gun into [Manuel Paez Terán]'s tent first.*

This means that the thugs started the shooting. They said he did that.

The article presents reasons to distrust their testimony, in addition to the likelihood that (being thugs) they are probably habituated to perjury.

Armies are developing weapons to attack countries by manipulating how people think. TikTok can be seen as one, and Facebook too.

The author is right to generalize this beyond TikTok, since many other antisocial media platforms can do similar things.

Systems to attack or control the human brain are being worked on. Even if technology never reaches the point of planting specific thoughts in a brain, it could be capable of conditioning people. All that takes is the ability to make someone feel good or bad.

Eventually this will be one of the reasons to reject nonfree software.

Rahul Gandhi, leader of India's principal opposition party, was expelled from Parliament after being convicted of "defamation" for insulting Prime Minister Modi.

It was, indeed, rather insulting to all other Indians named Modi. Gandhi should not have said that. But it is not grounds to put anyone in prison.

In the US, I am pretty sure that saying that "all thieves have Trump as their common surname" would not not be slander against Trump. So I am pretty sure that India's standards for convicting someone of defamation of a politician are too weak.

*Hotel Rwanda's Paul Rusesabagina to be released from prison* in response to US pressure. The US considers his trial for "terrorism" to be unfair.

US citizens: call on state legislatures to continue participation in ERIC, an organization of states which help each other reconcile their voter lists.