Plant researcher Lewis Ziska quit the Department of Agriculture in protest against its political censorship of scientific work (especially, but not only, his own).

The planet roasters fund propaganda campaigns to undermine respect for science. Now they think they are in a position to kill off the science. They have thrown out reference libraries, killed of repeated measurements so that there won't be a series of comparable measurements to study later, and now censoring scientific publication.

Remember how global heating denialists argued that past climate measurements could not be analyzed over decades because they were not all made the same way?

When there's a new system of measurement, scientists must do careful work to correlate the old measuring system with the new one, and even after they arrive at the best correlation, it offers the denialists an avenue for injecting and magnifying doubt.

By killing off repeated measurements. the denialists hoped to create another opportunity to do that in the future.

Making a federal law against "domestic terrorism" is superfluous in regard to real terrorists, but would endanger others who might be falsely labeled as terrorists.

This includes animal rights activists who have already been labeled as "terrorists".

It might also lead to injustices against non-terrorist right-wingers, comparable to those that have been inflicted on US Muslims.

However, I tend to think that their political power will more or less protect them from that.

Millennial generation parents are teaching their own parents to protect the privacy of their young children.

Alas, they are probably also snooping on those same children 24 hours a day.

But appreciation of any aspect of privacy is a step forward.

The next step is to spread awareness of how companies and schools spy on their children.

About the campaign to save old footpaths in the UK, which are in danger of being legally eliminated if they are not redocumented by 2026.

Several officials have resigned from the US State Department for reasons of conscience.