The American Data Privacy and Protection Act takes a step toward limiting how companies can snoop on computer users. But the bad part is that it preempts state laws.

I suspect that the ADPPA is fundamentally based on limiting the use of data once collected, an approach that it is inadequate, because the only method that will really work is to limit the collection of the data.

If states can't pass laws that go beyond this, all progress will stop.

So I think this law should not be passed.

*Tyre dust: the "stealth pollutant" that’s becoming a huge threat to ocean life.*

Governments' mission requires compelling tire manufacturers to disclose what the tires contain. No one is entitled to keep secrets about chemicals that may be endangering ecosystems. The idea that businesses should have such powers is sheer plutocracy.

Republicans ruling Arkansas and Nebraska, for ideological reasons, rejected federal rental assistance for poor people in those states. They prefer to see poor people evicted.

*If Biden isn’t willing to really fight the climate crisis, he shouldn’t run in 2024.*

I disagree with the article on one subpoint: it is not only the results that count. When something really important is at stake, we can forgive you for being defeated, if we see you fought really hard. But if you fail to do that, you have failed us.

Starmer is taking the Labour Party a step closer to plutocratism.

"Growth" as a political goal tends to be an excuse to reject other more important goals, such as "tax the rich and help the rest."