China lured Gulbahar Haitiwaji to return from France to sign some retirement papers in Xinjiang. This was pretext to imprison her in a 're-education' camp for Uighurs. She describes the torture and brainwashing carried out there.

New "domestic terrorism" legislation would be very effective for crushing Black Lives Matter and other progressive causes.

Some Republican-controlled state legislatures have started planning new laws to repress protest, supposedly to be used against domestic terrorists but actually to be used against protesters against pollution and abusive businesses.

There is a push to increase the PAT RIOT Act surveillance powers.

No special surveillance facility was needed to see that fanatics were talking about attacking the Capitol. What was missing was the willingness to take their threat seriously.

Does anyone know what ultimately happened to the felony charges, mentioned in one of those articles, against the "J20" activists for being near where property damage was committed?

(satire) Lobbyists are disappointed that congresscritters are so easy to influence. It hardly even takes a bribe any more.

Everyone: call on John Kerry and the US Congress to include military greenhouse gas emissions in agreements to reduce emissions.

A vast network of Republicans colluded with the wrecker to organize the Republican autogolpe effort on Jan 6.

The preparations included orders to prevent the National Guard from protecting the Capitol. I am not sure that obeying orders is properly called "collusion" — I think the word implies actions taken by choice. However, the giving of those orders was culpable.

The Spanish word "autogolpe" is used to describe seizure of power by the current head of the government — not an attempt to install a new government, but rather to keep it in power in defiance of the country's constitution. That is what the wrecker was trying to do.