New York City should deal with anti-vaxx thugs by getting stricter.

I suggest asking the public to send in photos of thugs who are unmasked in public — and fine the thugs $100 for each occasion they are proved to have been maskless. Half of that could be a reward for whoever took the photo.

Robert Reich: The US rich have got much richer because their political clout enabled them to cut their taxes. They have mostly neutralized the wealth taxes that the US adopted around 1900.

We can make them function again, if we are determined.

*Julian Assange and fiancee claim they are being blocked from marrying.*

*'I get scared': the young activists sounding the alarm from climate tipping points.*

What they are warning about is not specific tipping points. We usually don't know exactly where those are located. Rather, it is the fact that systems are starting to tip.

It is not unusual for a thug to shoot and kill a black man who is driving a car, then claim, falsely, that the car was a deadly weapon and the victim had threatened the thug's life with it.

Sometimes the thug jumps in front of the car, notices that the car is heading straight at him, and then shoots and kills the driver. How easy it is to turn any driver into a deadly threat that you simply must shoot.

This explains why it is very helpful to adopt a policy that thugs should not stop a car for a minor traffic violation.

The article linked to at the start of this note displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I object to bigotry, and normally I decline to link to articles which promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles which give important information about racism or the fight to eliminate racism. That article is one of the exceptions.