Columbus, Ohio, thugs have been charged with crimes for spraying pepper spray on peaceful protesters who were violating no law or order, and for covering up lies.

A Louisville thug faces criminal charges for nonfatal brutality: hitting a suspect on the head with a stick while the latter was kneeling with his hands up.

No matter what that person was arrested for, or what he had actually done, nothing can justify hitting him under those circumstances.

Prosecuting thugs for unjustified violence even when it is nonfatal is crucial for teaching them to practice self-control as required for a police officer.

Kevin Strickland was convicted of murder in 1979. Since then, everyone involved in his case agrees he was falsely convicted, even the prosecutors. The governor of Missouri is grasping at straws to excuse keeping Strickland in prison anyway.

These strict "law and order" fanatics believe that it should be unthinkable to question a court's decision to punish someone. Unless that person is trying to destabilize our democracy for right-wing ideology.

A growing problem: resistance to fossil fuel infrastructure now frequently downplays the main danger of extracting and transporting fossil fuels — that they might leak methane into the air, or be burnt and release CO2. This example does not trouble to mention it at all.

What's with these people? I get the impression that they are more concerned with who owns certain land or waterways than with whether civilization survives.

Ironically, the same can be said of the companies that want to extract the fossil fuels.

The reason not to build the Line 3 pipeline applies to every other new oil or gas pipeline, every new refinery, and every new well or mine: there is >no room in the world's carbon budget for any more fossil fuel infrastructure.

(satire) *Desperate Employer Offers Basic Dignity To Incentivize New Hires.*

*Wealth Tax on World's Billionaires Would Raise $345 Billion a Year.*