Explaining Biden's plan for the billionaire's tax, and how it would tax their asset appreciation every year.

I think it would require people with more than 100 million dollars in assets to report those assets to the IRS. That is fine with me.

I campaign against the sorts of government surveillance that put dissidents and whistleblowers in danger. The worst things for the government to know about people are where you go, what you do there, and who you talk with.

Knowing the large property holdings of centimillionaires is not much of a threat to dissidents and whistleblowers. And even for them, it would collect little information about their daily activities.

West Germany's first elected chancellor, Adenauer, used the country's intelligence agency to spy on political rivals.

*LA jail guards routinely punch incarcerated people in the head, monitors find.*

Each of these thugs deserves to be prosecuted, and then experience jail as a prisoner.

Ketanji Jackson has been confirmed for the US Supreme Court.

That is a relief; it would have been very bad if she had not been confirmed. But I don't feel joy, because we are not out of the woods yet.

Her confirmation prevented the Supreme Court situation from getting one notch worse. But I don't see how we are going to make things start to get better.

A mining company has, after years of pressure, joined in supporting a proper archaeological investigation of an old Australian aboriginal site, in cooperation with the local aboriginal group.

This is very good news, as it will lead to more understanding of ancient humanity.