Wallonia gained some changes that weaken CETA, perhaps making it less damaging, and providing more opportunities to kill it later.

Everyone: call on major social networks to stop helping monitoring companies.

US citizens: call on the Pentagon to investigate and disclose civilian deaths in Syria.

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The FCC has tightened privacy policies for ISPs, but only as regards advertisers. While that will limit profiling somewhat, it changes nothing about the more important privacy issues.

It is still wise to browse through Tor or use a popular VPN hosted in a country that wouldn't cooperate with the US government on snooping.

Republicans have a history of stealing elections. Dubya stole the election of 2000 through several forms of cheating in Florida. However, Nixon and Reagan tricked voters through treacherous sabotage of US foreign policy.

This year, Republicans are trying a broad range of different methods to stop Democrats from voting, from terrifying them at the polls to denying them the right to vote.