*Oregon’s bold drug decriminalisation sees some success — but use still rising.*

Many government agencies, and anyone pretending to represent a government agency, can get people's personal data from Apple and Greater Facebook just by saying, "This is an emergency".

People will be tempted to try to fix this problem through a system for authenticating real government agencies and real emergencies. My view is that companies should not have so much data about people.

Zelensky spoke to the UN Security Council and pointed out that it is a failure at its stated goal.

That truth is well known. We also know why it is true: because we don't know of any way to set it up that would make it able to enforce justice without being corruptible too.

The head of Australia's government, planet-roaster Scott Morrison, is a bully as well. One of his party's members of Parliament has quit the party, denouncing him as a bully for trying to offer flood aid only to the towns .

He's still trying to corrupt the few decarbonization measures that Australia has.

Viktor Orbán has won an unfair election to be reelected the ruler of Hungary. He handles elections the way US Republicans do.

The EU needs to be tough on Putin, and tough on Orbán, but is that possible?