The authors of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C kept some of the most alarming predictions out of the executive summary hoping to reduce the resistance from planet-roaster governments such as the US and Australia.

Appeasing the planet roasters is as mistaken as appeasing Hitler was. They don't respond with "What a relief, we got enough" but with "They seem to feel weak; let's attack them now."

Citizens of Washington DC are fighting an attempt to privatize the city's transit system.

Mass transit systems should never be privatized.

Over 20% of writers surveyed by PEN reported that they avoided writing about certain topics because they knew about surveillance.

That survey was in Scotland. Here are some reports:

One participant who had covered the conflict in Northern Ireland in 70s and 80s stated that they would not cover the conflict in the same manner if it took place now; another stopped writing about child abuse when they thought about what their search history may look to someone else; when they heard of a conviction based on the ownership of the Anarchist Cookbook, a participant who bought a copy for research shredded it. Further to this a participant stated: "I think I would avoid direct research on issues to do with Islamic fundamentalism. I might work on aspects of the theory, but not on interviewing people…in the past, I have interviewed people who would be called…'subversives'."

An earlier survey of US writers found that 1/6 reported self-censoring because of surveillance.

US citizens: call on the FCC to investigate phone network companies for selling location data.

The US government has imposed something almost equivalent to a national ID card. Without it, people cannot use airplanes or enter a federal office building.

I suspect that exclusion from federal office buildings denies people a number of rights.