*There can be no middle ground in the fight between democracy and authoritarian fascism.*

Right-wing extremists make threats of domestic terrorism in the hope of intimidating the defenders of democracy. We must not be intimidated out of defending it.

*Columbus [thug] shot Donovan Lewis within a second of opening the door to his room, and then, while he was dying, told him to 'stop resisting.'"*

I have a hunch that thug said "stop resisting" to a man who was not resisting as a way of pretending that he was resisting — to create a fake excuse to use later.

New York City is suing Starbucks for firing a union organizer. Rather than using federal labor law, which generally prohibits this too, it is using a New York City law that is stronger.

Proposing a progressive price system for electricity and fossil fuels, as a way of helping the poor without subsidizing fossil fuel for the rich.

That would be much better than giving rich people the same subsidy as the poor, but I've already explained that a subsidy for energy is a terrible mistake.

Ralph Nader invites people to help form an organization to defend the right (and the option) of using cash to pay.