A badly designed survey overestimated the rate of defensive use of guns by perhaps a hundred times. Gun nuts cite it to bury the fact that guns are used far more to attack people than to defend people.

US citizens: call on Congress to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose "fast track" for the TPP. And your senators too!

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

A court ruled India must allow Greenpeace to receive funds from abroad. The government arbitrarily blocked the funds to stop Greenpeace from protecting the environment from businesses.

The FBI wants to be able to search computers without showing probable cause, if the computer uses Tor or a VPN.