US politicians, to give more money to rich idlers, want to cut support for poor people that work (or can't find work, or are disabled).

When non-rich vote for the right-wing, they are "turkeys voting for Christmas" (or, in the US, for Thanksgiving, which is when we tend to eat turkeys in the US).

The article also shows , almost without intending to, a crucial part of why they do this: right-wingers in control of the state have done them harm over and over, and taught them to blame this on the state rather than on right-wing government. Thus they give up on the only avenue that they could use to stop this.

It's not the only reason many poor people didn't support the Labour Party. The article is right that it didn't try to offer them much.

DEA agents took $16,000 in cash from a black teenager who was heading to LA to make a music video with it. The DEA says it presumes "the money is guilty".

Money is not a moral actor; it can't be guilty of anything. It is the person whose money they took that they treated as guilty, without trial. What the government calls "civil forfeiture" is really arbitrary confiscation.

Verizon's Just the Latest Big Evil Media Conglomerate Waiting to Happen.

In Iowa, a pipeline company is facing opposition which is promoting a law to stop the company from using eminent domain.