*Across America, police are responding to peaceful protests with violence.*

The author says they are trying to prove the protesters right.

*Across America, police are responding to peaceful protests with violence.*

The article compares the "police" to "armed thugs," and suggests sending social workers or firefighters to handle most kinds of emergencies to which thugs would now be sent.

As protesters rioted and damaged property, thugs profited by rioting and damaging people almost indiscriminately.

That is my terse summary of a very thoughtful article by Rebecca Solnit.

Whistleblower Reality Winner in prison is in great danger if she catches Covid-19. Prisoners like her, that pose no danger to the public, are supposed to be sent to house arrest at home, but in practice that is reserved for cronies of powerful politicians.

Old Americans are taking their support away from the numskull. They are worried that his incredibly bad handling of Covid-19 will kill them.

Meanwhile, the numskull's cronies are supporting a minority of doctors that profess strange medical theories and want states to encourage people to circulate again and transmit Covid-19.

Exactly what so many old voters fear.

In trying to make sense of this, it occurs to me that he is hopping to suppress the votes of old Americans. If they are afraid to go to the polls, or if they are dead by November, they can't vote for anyone other than the numskull.

US judges are considering a rule to stop judges from being members of private organizations that connect them with campaigns for changes in laws. Right-wingers oppose the rule.