A large fraction of US employees are tracked in their movements 24 hours a day by their employers. Most states have no laws against this. Basically, if your employer gives you a portable phone, or software to run on one, don't trust it!

If you have a union, it can help you fight against being tracked when there is no valid reason.

If you don't have a union, you need one.

A proposed natural gas pipeline from Pennsylvania to North Carolina is facing increasing local opposition.

Aside from whatever local problems it will cause, the pipeline would act as inertia for extraction of natural gas. The owners, having built the pipeline, will do all in their power to make sure it gets used for a lot of natural gas. That will speed our fall over the climate cliff.

The FDA has a new rule to limit the indiscriminate dosing of farm animals with antibiotics. But it is a weak rule, and it's not clear how much good it will do. Since our lives are at stake here — resistant bacteria could kill anyone — we need a strong rule.

US citizens: phone the White House on Jan 23 and remind the troll he said he would protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

SCROTUS protect their disinformation from comparison with: their new rules package tells the Congressional Budget Office not to report on the likely costs of repealing or changing Obama's medical insurance program.

One estimate is that it would cost the economy almost a trillion dollars a year, and eliminate 3 million jobs. And that's not to mention the suffering of people who can't get medical care.