The Nazi salute is disgusting, cowardly, and bullying, and naturally provokes "sadness, outrage and disbelief" — but its prohibition by the Australian government is a violation of freedom of speech.

Many Americans were angry at the ACLU when it successfully sued to establish that Nazis had the right to organize a public rally in the US. I may have agreed with that anger for a little while, but after more thought I concluded that the ACLU was right. Freedom of speech is not reliable for anyone if it excludes certain views that most people strongly disagree with.

A Christian university in Florida fired a professor because a student denounced what he taught about racial justice.

The student called it "indoctrination", but other students said it wasn't. For right-wingers, exaggeration even to the point of dishonesty is normal and legitimate.

That article was written before the actual firing. I chose to link to it because it explains more of the situation.

*Minnesota Becomes 4th State to Provide [gratis] School Meals to All Kids.*

To reduce the confusion of the two meanings of "free", I carefully avoid using it to mean "gratis".

* The total weight of Earth’s wild land mammals — from elephants to bisons and from deer to tigers — is now less than 10% of the combined tonnage of men, women and children living on the planet.*

* US tech innovators have a culture of regarding government as an innovation-blocking nuisance. But when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, investors screamed for state protection.* Socialism for the rich, laissez faire/laissez mourir for the rest.