Several French cities, including Paris, will refuse to present the video of the world cup of soccer, as a rebuke to Qatar for its abuse of human rights and the environment. In particular, the abusive treatment of the foreign workers who built the facilities for the world cup.

A famous Iranian pop musician played a song whose words are the words protesters have posted. The regime arrested him, but the song is heard everywhere.

The article says that copyright threats are being used to try to get the song taken down. The details are not clear in the article, but it seems to involve a false attribution of the song; why that claim is there is not explained.

Technical systems of copyright enforcement are repressive in their own right, and here they are being used to support of more general repression.

Candidate Herschel Walker's son publicly called him a lying hypocrite for denying he paid for the son's girlfriend's abortion.

That doesn't surprise me. Right-wing leaders talk about "morality" to stir up hatred that is the fuel for their campaigns, but they often believe that they and their family are exempt from the rules.

Big Oil is gouging American customers with a 13% increase in retail prices compared to the last time the crude price was the same as now.

A tax on oil would boost conservation by raising the price in a predictable way. People could plan long-term investments in reducing their greenhouse emissions based on that. But this unpredictable gouging doesn't encourage anything positive.

Mexican journalists that investigate corruption have been snooped on with Pegasus spyware after the Mexican government promised to stop doing this.