The practice of having many products delivered is increasing urban air pollution (as well as use of fuel).

The UK's current prime minister was chosen by the members of the Tory Party. They include foreigners who don't live in Britain and can't vote in elections. They also include rich people who secretly buy a share in party decisions.

*The more loudly a politician proclaims [per] patriotism, the more likely [perse is] to act on behalf of foreign money. Every recent Conservative prime minister has placed the interests of transnational capital above the interests of the nation. But, to a greater extent than any previous leader, Truss’s politics have been shaped by organisations that call themselves thinktanks, but would be better described as lobbyists who refuse to reveal who funds them. Now she has brought them into the heart of government.*

Starbucks plans to replace the current system for Covid sick leave with a new one, and deny the new system to union workers.

Do you want your coffee to be made by someone who has a transmissible respiratory illness? Of course not. The law should require paid sick leave for all employees who, when working, can transmit a disease to others.

In the mean time, if you do business with Starbucks, tell the managers of the stores that you disapprove of Starbucks's exclusion of sick pay for union workers.

US citizens: call on the Federal Reserve to issue strong guidelines to stop greenwashing by Wall Street banks.

US citizens: call on the Senate to pass the PRESS act, protecting reporters from searches to find their sources.