The Zetas drug gang massively bribed politicians and thugs in Mexico while carrying out lots of murders.

The "War on Drugs" fuels all this. Help get that poor war off drugs!

Jelani Maraj (who I had never heard of) could be imprisoned for a long time for "sexual assault". What does that concretely mean?

Due to the vagueness of the term "sexual assault" together with the dishonest law that labels sex with adolescents as "rape" even if they are willing, we cannot tell from this article what sort of acts Maraj was found to have committed. So we can't begin to judge whether those acts were wrong.

I see at least three possibilities. Perhaps those acts really constituted rape — it is a possibility. Or perhaps the two had sex willingly, but her parents freaked out and demanded prosecution. Or, intermediate between those two, perhaps he pressured her into having sex, or got her drunk.

The thugs of Hyderabad have taken the homeless people off the streets for "rehabilitation" because the bully's daughter is going to visit.

Maybe some of them could use rehabilitation for some reason. But surely some of them are homeless and begging simply because they are poor.

US citizens: if your congresscritter is a Democrat, call on per to read the Democratic Party autopsy and respond to it.

You can sign this without running the page's nonfree Javascript code using the Salsalabs workaround.

A former president of Facebook admits that the system was designed to exploit the "vulnerability" of users.

Please don't let yourself be used by Facebook. Especially, don't let it use you to get data about your friends. (Giving data about your enemies might be ok.)