Cutting the budget for mental health care in the US has dumped the responsibility on prisons by default. They do a bad job of treating patients, but they can't refuse a patient.

Israeli soldiers shot 773 Palestinian protesters in Gaza.

Only 16 were killed, but the Israeli blockade is making medical treatment in Gaza nearly impossible, and that may cause many of the wounded to die or be maimed who could have recovered more with proper care.

The non-drug hemp is banned in the US because it is the same species as marijuana. Maybe Congress will soon recognize this.

63 countries have allowed Facebook to become the de-facto default gratis ISP, making it very expensive for internet users to avoid Facebook surveillance.

Republican legislatures in several states want to define civil disobedience as "conspiracy" and imprison protesters for many years.