Thugs in Saskatoon made a practice of arresting indigenous people and leaving them at isolated places, on freezing cold nights, when their clothing was not adequate to survive. They were likely to die as a result. One victim knew a place where he could find shelter, and survived to testify.

Two thugs who were known to have killed indigenous people in this way were later convicted of a crime for that, and sentenced to prison. That's better than what usually happens to killer thugs, which is that they are never prosecuted at all; but the crime they were convicted of was an understatement.

They should have been charged with murder. They must have expected that the men they dumped in the cold were likely to die as a result, and intended that result.

It seems that the attempt to kill Darrell Night was motivated only by his being merely a nuisance.

Things are looking up in Turkey for democracy; a secularist and democratic opposition party won most of the votes in local elections.

But it is not certain that the public will be allowed to go ahead peacefully to vote that way. Erdoğan has used horrible dirty tricks before,

even starting a civil war

as an excuse to redo an election and get more votes by appealing to a misguided idea of patriotism, much as Dubya did by attacking Iraq.

Paris is constructing "15-minute neighborhoods" (what most people want every day is available close by), and people generally like them a lot.

It is a shame that right-wing disinformation killed this in the UK. This is far from the worst harm that right-wing disinformation has done, but it is noteworthy for being so evidently false, so easy to confirm as false. We need to change our social systems so that they cease to facilitate lies, even lies as blatant as this.

*US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions… inmates who died of preventable conditions were deemed malingerers and "time wasters".*

(satire) *Clarence Thomas Announces 50% Discount On All Favorable Rulings.*