Notes Today:

• Key document may be fake in LGBTQ+ rights case before US supreme court. and it’s false,” he added. “Nobody’s checked it. Anybody can pick up the phone, write an email, send a text, to verify whether that was correct information.”

• World Organization for Animal Health releases statement on H5N1 bird flu in cats. 16 cases so far. "A direct role from infected wild birds is unlikely as a common source" and no indication of cat-to-cat transmission. Suspected cases should be isolated and handled with PPE.

• Confirmed H5N1 bird flu cases in cats so far this year: - Poland: 16 (all this month) - USA: 6 - France: 1 

• Russians fall out of a lot of windows: Kristina Baikova, 28, VP at Russian Bank, Loko-Bank, fell to her death from an 11th floor window of her Moscow apartment in the early hours of Friday morning. 

• Bill Browde @Billbrowder
• Genius idea. New US legislative proposal to pay bounties to individuals who help the US government freeze and seize assets of sanctions evaders. Since oligarchs have invested so much in hiding their money, we need to create a profit motive in finding it.

Problem with these notes: some tend to run up against a deeply rooted feature of human cognition - the desire not to think about anything unpleasant…Sorry about that.