US citizens: Tell Congress, don't go on vacation without extending unemployment benefits.

US citizens: support Senator Warren's bill to forbid employers to look at job candidates' credit reports.

An Italian protester that kissed a thug's helmet has been charged with "sexual violence" and insulting the thug.

The first charge is blatant distortion of the facts, but the second shows blatant disrespect for freedom of speech. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to insult anyone, especially including officials. A state that denies this right is clearly in the wrong.

A lawsuit against NSA bulk collection of phone records has more or less won at the trial court level. The judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering the NSA to stop collecting this metadata.

However, it's not really in effect because it will be appealed. I expect this case to go to the Supreme Court before anything really happens.

The US Senate should release its report into Bush regime torture practices.