Plutocratist politicians are so in thrall to lobbyists that they voted to deny the US military the right to repair its own equipment.

In peacetime, the inability to make a nontrivial fix can waste taxpayers' money. In battle, it can be deadly. There may be no time to fly a repairman to a war zone; the repairman might even refuse to go.

Everyone deserves the right to repair — which is related to software freedom.

A UN committee reports: "Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour."

That is 51 trillion dollars per year.

We should not hesitate to invest trillions of dollars to end that damage. It will be a profitable investment if we invest enough.

But we should take care not to let big businesses own the results of that investment.

Advice to Americans from anti-fascist activists in Hungary, Turkey and El Salvador.

US citizens: call on Amazon to come to the table with Amazon Labor Union.

See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.

The corrupter has accused couple of appointed officials of mortgage fraud because they got mortgages on two properties and described both as primary residences. It turns out that he did the same thing.

Whether this actually constitutes fraud, I don't know. Let's not follow legal advice from a habitual liar.