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A mother faces prosecution in Minnesota because her child's car seat fell out of the car on the road.

Punishing parents for mistakes is stupid as well as unjust. The accusation itself causes stress to the family, which harms the children as well as the parents.

This is part of the overall US pattern of pressuring parents, even by threats, if they fail to be stiflingly overprotective. Antiabortionists even extend this to miscarriages.

It constitutes one additional secondary reason why it is better not to have children.

A verbal confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial between protesting right-wing white students and a group of protesting blacks became verbally nasty. It sheds light on the level of hostility in the US.

The students probably were bigots and racists, since they were wearing right-wing extremist symbols such as "MAGA". That is no ground to infer anything about their parentage, or to insult homosexuals by calling someone "faggot". Nor to insult them for their race. The right way to oppose them is to focus on criticizing the views they choose to advocate.

Indonesia is accused of heavy repression in response to a guerrilla attack in West Papua.

I believe the accusation, both because Indonesia has done such things before, and because another article said Indonesia was not allowing journalists into the area.

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