Florida Republicans have used gerrymandering to assure they will control 20 out of the state's 28 congressional seats.

Republicans do have a majority in Florida, but nothing like that.

New Zealand agreed to extradite to China a defendant accused of murder there. Now there is a campaign not to extradite him, because China might torture him and give him an unfair trial.

Indeed, that is quite possible. However, it is not only China that does this. The campaign against extraditing Julian Assange to the US cites the danger of similar conduct by the US.

One ethnic group in Tanzania has taken up the project of defending lions, while also protecting livestock from lions.

*DOJ Files Appeal to Revive Travel Mask Mandate.*

Students in Vermont Law School have demanded that a school get rid of a mural which depicts the Underground Railroad (in which whites helped escaped slaves reach Canada and freedom) in a tone they don't agree with.

I have no opinion on the mural itself, because I have not seen it. I don't know whether I would agree with the reported criticism. It doesn't say precisely what aspects of the mural are being criticized, and I don't know if I would recognize them without more explanation.

I think the court's ruling was correct. To remove a piece of art from view is not "distortion, mutilation, or … modification", just as deleting a file does not make a modified version of it.

It would be ludicrous to give whoever painted a mural in a publicly visible place the power to require it to be preserved there forever. Imagine if the mural showed adulation for Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin — should this compel the building's owner to display propaganda for them? The school must have the choice to cover up or paint over art that it does not wish to display. Indeed, it may someday wish to remodel or demolish the building, and eliminate that wall entirely.

Although this means the school has the right to decide to hide the mural, I disapprove of that decision. It is partly for the reasons stated in the article, but it is more than that.

Although I am not sure what aspects of the mural some students criticize, I can tell that it is a matter of nuance. It is _not_ like a painting that admires Trumputin. That means that the critics are being demanding more than anyone in a free society has a right to demand. They must learn to respect disagreement on such points. I say this without knowing whether I would agree or disagree with them on their specific criticisms of the mural.