Yang Hengjun, prisoner of China, says he was tortured and drugged, and made to say things that were probably recorded to be presented as (false) confessions.

* We must ensure that rich companies and nations stop this destruction of life in the oceans, which not only impoverishes wildlife but also the coastal communities that are truly dependent on small-scale fishing for survival.*

* The Arizona Legislature is continuing its attack on voting by mail. In a party-line vote, the state house advanced a bill that would turn allegedly mismatched signatures on mail ballots into potential criminal cases.*

A Republican who rejects the very idea of truth would have little difficulty reporting a "mismatch" between two identical signatures.

A voter who is informed of an alleged mismatch might wish to go through the process to cure it, but there are various innocent reasons why perse might not do so. Here are a few that occur to me.

• Perse is out of town.
• Perse has no time off from work.
• Perse fears persecution by racist officials.

The new Texas voter-suppression law will do more than stop disprivileged people from voting. It will also give judges an easy way to perceive a problem of election fraud, even when there wasn't one.

Democrats blocked it for the moment because the legislative session was ending.

19 members of Oath Keepers militias have been charged with attacking the Capitol.