The campaign to limit use of facial recognition has stalled, and some regulations are being reversed, or expiring.

What makes facial recognition so dangerous is its capacity to track everyone's movements. The only legitimate cases for using it are in systems that cannot be used to track everyone's movements. To use it for "lead generation" is exactly the danger.

Governor Dementis advocates a long list of right oppressive right-wing policies. One that is subtle and long term is the distortion of civics education in favor of government promotion (effectively, establishment) of religion.

Republicans have been increasing income taxes and cutting support for working people for 40 years, but they are not satisfied, so they are proposing extreme ideas for how to do even worse. Ron Johnson proposes to make Social Security and Medicare payments a year-by-year decision.

People like Ron Johnson and Rick Scott deserve to be sentenced to live on $100 a week, and forbidden to receive gifts except through begging from strangers.

A bubble barrier is removing most of the plastic particles from the Oud Rijn river, with a modicum of energy and little human labor.

*Massive Quantities of PFAS Waste Go Unreported to EPA.*