Arguing for the unlimited right for anyone who is pregnant to have an abortion, at no cost, — with no exceptions.

Future people, not yet born, are entitled to certain things in case they are born: namely, a livable world to be born into, and a free and compassionate society to be part of. But that does not impose an obligation to bring someone into that world.

A US court further weakened the Voting Rights Act by ruling in favor of a mass challenge of 36,000 voters, based on an algorithm with no attempt to investigate those individual voters.

This is a practice right-wing parties use to suppress minority voters. People whose lives are stressful may just give up. The purpose of the Voting Rights Act, passed in the 1960s, was to block voter suppression, but right-wing judges have ruled for weakened interpretations that negate the law's purpose.

Republicans know that the only way they can win power in the US is by rigging the electoral system. Voter-suppression is one approach; gerrymandering is the other.

Students at the University of Massachusetts held a sit-in strike calling for disassociation from manufactures of weapons Israel uses in the occupation of Palestine. The university is prosecuting 57 protesters for trespassing.

Limitarianism on why the super-rich need to level down radically.*

An absolute limit on any person's wealth is roughly equivalent to a 100% marginal tax rate on income beyond a certain point. A 93% tax rate would give similar results, and we know it is feasible and works. So I think we should try that instead.

To fully implement that 93% marginal tax rate entails eliminating the deductions and manipulations currently used by the rich to shelter much of their wealth and income from it.

US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Raise the Wage Act, which will raise the US minimum wage.

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