*Republicans considering more than 100 (state) bills to restrict voting rights.*

Fanatical lunatics are barging into hospitals in the UK and claiming that patients badly ill from Covid-19 are not really sick — and that the hospitals are killing them.

Despite the danger of that lunatic movement, I see danger also in censoring them. Consider another movement which is much more rational, the animal rights movement. One of its methods was to enter farms and make videos of how they treated animals. Some US states have repressed this with special laws, the "Ag Gag" laws. Although I do not support animal rights, I condemn those laws for their offense against the activists' human rights. It will be difficult to oppose the Ag Gag laws while endorsing laws against doing the same thing in a hospital.

However, if the intruders don't wear masks, it is legitimate to prosecute them for that.

*Global shark and ray population crashed more than 70% in past 50 years.*

*Climate crisis: world now at its hottest for 12,000 years.*

Opponents of the HS2 high-speed train line secretly built a tunnel next to Euston Station to block construction, using techniques from prison escape tunnels.

What astounds me even more is that they consider blocking an electric train line to be part of climate defense. The usual reason for high-speed trains is to substitute for air travel and thus reduce global heating.

It does seem like bad design to run that line out of Euston rather than from St Pancras, where the high-speed trains arrive from France. It is only 10 minutes' walk from St Pancras to Euston, but the need to change trains will make a much bigger delay.