The EU accuses Facebook of lying when it applied for permission to buy WhatsApp.

If Facebook is fined $100 million, that won't be enough to deter it from lying again the same way. Laws should be changed so that mergers approved as a result of fraud can be undone, with fines far larger.

Workers in the UK should unite against "free trade" that means moving jobs to places where workers can be paid a pittance.

And then they should insist that all workers get enough pay, and enough hours, to make work pay.

"Taking back control" does not mean people should get offered a few horrible alternatives to choose from. That's like choosing between a proprietary Microsoft system, a proprietary Apple system, and a mostly proprietary Google system.

More officials have been charged about the Flint lead poisoning.

It is good to prosecute the individuals that are responsible, but we must also get rid of the system that is responsible: the "emergency manager" system that Republicans in Michigan created so they could set aside democratic local government in Detroit and Flint, so as to screw the residents there.

The troll is continuing to hold campaign rallies, apparently to stir up his supporters with the latest bullshit.

That he praises them for being violence-maddened suggests to me that he intends to use them as a kind of private army, for some sort of harassment that he won't be able to get official thugs to do.

A UK woman is suing the thugs for having an undercover infiltrator seduce her and break up her previous relationship.