Barcelona has removed bus line 116 (which goes to the beautiful Parc Güell) from Google and Apple maps, to discourage the tourists from using it to get to the park.

This seems perverse to me. Do they want the tourists not to visit Parc Güell? To take taxis to get there? To travel by a more circuitous route? To walk a long distance?

If lots of people use line 116, the sensible and helpful thing to do is to run more frequent buses on part or all of that line.

California cities have privatized destruction of homeless encampments. Companies have been paid at least $100 million, and perhaps much more.

Privatizing a government activity tends to make it more expensive. It also tends to become less accountable, leading to more cruel abuse and more callous careless abuse.

*Arizona Republicans again block effort to repeal 1864 near-total abortion ban.*

(satire) *Eric Trump Only Potential Juror Uninformed Enough To Serve At Father's Trial.*

Kari Lake, an insurrectionist Republican candidate for the US Senate, called on Republicans to carry guns around the time of the election. We know that will lead to killings, which insurrectionists hope will give them a chance to steal the election.

Lake said that Washington is a swamp. Evidently she is an alligator that can't wait to get in and bite people.