Everyone: call on CVS to publicly and permanently stop blocking Medicare for All.

*Eliminating invasive species on islands has high success rate and big benefits [for protecting native wildlife].*

Pavel Filatyev, Russian paratrooper, has published a forbidden memoir about his experiences in the Putin forces.

His unit was sent to help capture Kherson. He saw how badly the army treated the troops. (Paratroops are generally thought of as elite units, which normally would get the best equipment.)

Then he figured out he had been forced into a war of conquest — recall that Putin lied to Russia about that — and was in the Putin forces. After being wounded and sent home, he published his memoir.

After hiding for a couple of weeks in Russia wondering when he'd be arrested, he decided to flee the country

I disagree with him on one point. If he had escaped the front, and surrendered, that would have been a step toward ending Putin's invasion. He could have continued by writing the memoir, and it would have done the same good, while being less dangerous.

But I don't mean that as criticism of him. Filatyev did a heroic deed, and it may help end Putin's invasion. Bravo, Filatyev!

(satire) *Texas Schools Require Clear Bags To Prevent Students From Bringing In Books.*

Some Britons are moving back to cash payments to help themselves avoid unnecessary spending.

This side benefit of using cash is well-established. But even if you don't need to economize, paying cash is a step against mass surveillance. This very recent trend back to cash goes against a long-term trend of surrender to surveillance.

Please join the resistance! While others reject surveillance technology for the sake of valuable short-term benefits, you can reject it for the sake of freedom, whether you need those side benefits or not.

The first step is to make sure, when you leave the house, that you have enough cash for what you might want to buy that day, plus some extra.

If you don't have enough, don't identify yourself to a merchant! Get cash from an ATM, then come back to the merchant and pay cash. Giving a little data to your bank is not as bad as giving more data to a store as well as your bank.