The CDC, to encourage vaccination, warns that a stay in a US hospital for Covid-19 treatment could cost thousands of dollars. This to motivate people to get vaccinated and avoid the need for hospital treatment.

Some progressives condemned this ad campaign. One said that the government is "boasting" about the crushing expense of the US medical system — but that is false. To cite painful facts does not excuse them.

Progressives should not object when the CDC acknowledges that medical treatment in the US can have crushing costs. Instead, progressives should take advantage of the CDC's help (reminding Americans about how bad the current system is) for the campaign for a national medical system, also known as "Medicare for all".

US citizens: call on the Small Business Administration: force private equity big businesses to pay back Covid-19 bailout money now.

(satire) *New Initiative Decreases Stigma Against Homeless By Making Majority Of People Homeless.*

It would decrease inequality, too.

Robert Reich relates the movie It's A Wonderful Life to US politics, which seems to have been its purpose.

Protesters camping out near Biden's home call on him to declare a climate emergency.

He definitely must do something more. What, concretely, would a "climate emergency" do? Would it have legal consequences (as it did in British courts), or would it be a no-op?