The UK's thug minister vows to protect Britons from Extinction Rebellion.

Who will protect Britons from extinction?

Remote school does not protect children from the school-to-prison pipeline. Colorado school officials suspended a child for playing with a nerf gun (a harmless toy which does not look like a real gun) while visible on camera, then sent a thug to his house.

It's not that the officials are unable to tell the difference between a real gun and a nerf gun. It's not that they can't tell the difference between having a gun near you and seeing one on TV. It is much worse than that: they have been convinced that it is their job to ignore the difference.

This is much worse, because it can become far more widespread. We can expect that not more than a handful of school officials would lose track of the difference between reality and a picture; but if someone teaches them to ignore the difference, they could all do it!

The article presents this as a matter of racism. The child is black, and the parents assume the officials acted insanely because of that. Perhaps they did, but the article does not present evidence for that. Maybe they would have been insanely cruel to any child, regardless of race.

Let's hope these parents sue the pants off them, so they and other school officials will learn not to do this to any child, ever.

Matt Taibbi: To understand the bullshitter, think if him as a salesman who sells the experience of being sold to. Just what he says he is selling makes no difference to him.

The Democratic Party can't make a serious response because it has no serious response to America's problems, and its attempts to respond play into the bullshitter's hands.

I am no expert, but I think we should ignore his outrageous verbal provocations, and focus on the real harm he does, and the good we can do.

The bully backed off on his plan to close the newspaper Stars and Stripes.

A Tennessee thug faces criminal charges for attacking Andrew Golden, who was making a video of a traffic stop from a safe distance.

The thug should be charged with reckless endangerment for breathing, maskless, in Golden's face with no justification.