Facebook's "metaverse" means many more kinds of sensors feeding new kinds of data into each zucker's dossier.

Facebook's attempt to rebrand itself is much worse than a distraction.

Biden offered two California school boards federal funds to compensate for the salary funds that Disease DeSantis denied them as punishment for requiring masks. Now DeSantis has arbitrarily fined them the same amount again.

This act violates federal law, so maybe a court will order Florida to deliver those funds.

US citizens: call on Congress to refuse to vote on the weak infrastructure compromise without a vote on the Build Back Better Act.

Even though plutocratists such as Manchin and Sinema got rid of 4/5 of the original Build Back Better proposal, the Build Back Better act is still crucial because it has a lot of climate defense. We must insist that it pass.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say, refuse to have a vote on the infrastructure bill until the Build Back Better bill is settled and certain to be adopted.

The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.

If you call, please spread the word!

The companies that created the world's biggest environmental problems also launch PR campaigns to distract individuals into striving to reduce their personal contributions to these problems, instead of organizing to change the systems that cause them. They also lull people with the fantasy that they might someday enjoy the life styles of millionaires.

I disagree with Monbiot's dismissal of a carbon tax. If the tax rate is big enough, and schduled to grow steadingly year by year, it can mobilize massive investment in decarbonization along with general divestment from fossil fuel companies. What won't work is a small, token carbon tax.