*Facebook is banning leftwing users like me — and it's going largely unnoticed.*

It seems to be yet another case of false balance. When right-wing fanatics are attacking the Capitol, false balance takes the worst thing progressives are doing, and arbitrarily treat that as equivalent to attacking the Capitol.

Israel has convicted Issa Amro for peaceful political campaigning against Israel's colonization of Palestine, and in particular against seizing land and settling Israelis on it.

His "crimes" include "insulting a soldier", which in a free country is not a crime.

Haredi Jews in London are holding large weddings where they spread Covid-19 to each other.

One response would be to permanently shut and seal the venues where they hold these weddings. Another would be to say that if they are all determined to get Covid-19 there's no need to try to stop them. They mostly keep to themselves, so they may not be a big danger to anyone else.

Books that refute a pleasing picture of the British Empire.

Biden seems to be turning away from calling out right-wing terrorism, perhaps to focus on only certain sectors of it and not the main body.