Cuba has sentenced protesters to prison for as much as 30 years.

Throwing stones is violence; overturning cars can damage them. But people would never ordinarily be sentenced to 4 years in prison, let alone 30, for crimes like that. Those long sentences can only be understood as repression of dissent.

It isn't the first time in this century that Cuba did that.

US wealth-hiding facilities, available from certain states to anyone rich enough to find them useful, helps hide Putin's untraceable hidden wealth.

Thousands of lesser crooks must use them too, to the great detriment of various countries. We must abolish them, in the US as well as other countries.

US citizens: call on the Small Business Administration to reveal how many Covid Paycheck Protection Program dollars actually went to saving jobs.

US citizens: phone your congrescritter and your senators to oppose a system of broad and almost unlimited lifelong surveillance of everyone who has been a college student. Here's what the ACLU and other organizations say about it.

(I could not link to the URL that was sent to me, because it was on Google Drive, and I could't see that page.)

This bill is in the last stage of consideration by Congress; it got there quickly and quietly. This is the sort of thing Bill Gates wants, so I wonder if Bill Gates's money greased the wheels for it.

The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.

If you call, please spread the word!

(satire) *Americans Celebrate 4th Consecutive Victory Over Covid.*