Australian documents show that Australia worked with Nauru to set up Nauru's policy of blocking access to reporters.

The Australian government directly lied about this, pretending that it had no control over its puppet.

Selling the US Postal Service would be a grave error.

Its financial problems result from a requirement that is not imposed on private companies. Converting it to a private company would fix the problem, to be sure, but simply removing that special requirement would fix it too.

A crowdfunding campaign to support Senator Collins' eventual opponent (but only if she votes for Kavanaugh) has received around 2 million dollars in donations. Recently the site crashed because of the high volume of donations.

I wanted to post a reference to that campaign, but I determined that there was no way to contribute to it without running nonfree Javascript code.

Rwanda's president Kagame has repressed dissidents for decades. Now he has released over a thousand political prisoners.

He is reputed to govern fairly well in areas other than human rights. He should be able to get reelected honestly, so his repression was gratuitous as well as wrong. I hope he is learning to stop it.

Nadie Murad, who won the Nobel Peace Prize, tells how she was made sex slave by DAESH (*), which made a detailed plan for enslavement of its captives (after killing all prisoners except attractive women).

She later escaped to Germany and started a campaign against enslavement.

* My usual term, PISSI, feels too flip for this context. I've read that the Arabic acronym DAESH means, more or less, "What crushes things".