Right-wing organizations are using Faux News as a model for how to provoke hostility in various democratic countries.

Pfizer is accused of price gouging on its Covid-19 treatment, Paxlovid.

I criticize this articles for using misleading terms, such as "global south" which is a progressive PR campaign whose spirit is laudable but whose specifics are misleading.

"Intellectual property" is a PR campaign for giving various businesses various special privileges. Lumping those privileges together is an obstacle to thinking clearly about the specific harms of each one, and judging against them any supposed benefits are each one. I have taught myself never to use that term in my thinking, my speaking, and my writing.

(satire) *Court Delays Inmate's Execution To Brainstorm Even Grislier Method.*

My view is that the death penalty is wrong regardless of the details.

Many major US companies are providing abortion travel benefits to their employees. Republicans are looking for ways to persecute them.

California can turn some of these measures around to punish companies which don't provide such benefits.

Ultimately, companies can move operations out of the states controlled by religious fanatics.

Tennessee's latest attack on abortion rights is to prohibit sending abortion medicines by mail.

I think people will find it easy to defy that law. In addition, I suspect that Tennessee cannot actually prohibit the sending of such mail in places outside Tennessee's jurisdiction.