Governments don't have some magic wand they can wave to basically make prejudice disappear. And what levers they have, cannot - and must not - be pulled in a way that tips the balance from protection to authoritarianism. I just don't think that the difficult balances and trade-offs are acknowledged.

The Venezuelan tanker seized today was Chinese-owned.

AP:

Ww have an example of this in Oxford today. Fewer than 15 far right people on a pathetic march compared to 150 anti-racist counter-demonstrators. And what does our local paper do? This biased reporting focused on one of the far right. 1/2

If you’re giving the president of the United States a cognitive test to identify animals that a kindergarten class could identify then we have a serious problem. We are in extreme danger.

Basically, they are completely bungling this. They cannot do a coverup properly, if that’s what they’re trying to do. A partial release of documents, more redacted than they should be, with a clear political slant to what’s in batch one, and then deletions…all of that keeps the story going.

Believe the survivors