Glenn Greenwald: In Europe, Hate Speech Laws Are Often Used to Suppress and Punish Left-Wing Viewpoints.

If the US abandons freedom of speech, censorship of many causes I support (and that many of you support) is not merely a painful possibility. It is nearly certain.

UK environmentalist campaigner Helen Steel got the UK thugs to apologize for having an infiltrator seduce her. But now they demand she pay around $10,000 for an appeal that she was compelled to drop because it could have cost her even more.

She has announced she will not pay them.

10 states have now adopted automatic voter registration.

To do this in all states would be a step forward. What is not clear to me is whether it would be a big step or a small step. Would automatic voter registration protect voters from the Republican voter suppression measures found in so many states?

It's not much use to be registered to vote if Republicans find an excuse not to let you vote.

Nuclear power plants in Texas are in danger of being flooded. They should be shut down now as a precaution.

Seattle thugs shot Charleena Lyles in the back, then claimed she was coming at them with knives when they shot her.

But what else would you expect from thugs?

The obsession about the fetus is not only silly and pathetic, it is dangerous, because right-wingers use it to make abortion seem like a bad thing. A fetus 15 weeks old doesn't have as much consciousness as a mosquito.