The urban segregation of 1960 persists in US cities, though it has shifted around to some extent. Partly this is maintained by the desire of the wealthier to use their influence and political power to create advantages for their children. They take advantage of many political systems to do this.

A new New York City law protects a few basic rights for gig workers that do food delivery. However, the companies will continue mistreating those workers in other ways, as the article says.

The food delivery companies do other nasty things. They mistreat their customers by insisting on identifying them via digital payment, and make them run nonfree software. Some of them exploit restaurants, which feel compelled to surrender to the exploitation because customers demand it.

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, there are signs on the street urging people to pick up take-out themselves rather than use food delivery companies. Hear, hear!

The US has gone on a world-wide paroxysm of violence for 20 years, and naturally the effects reach the US as well as other countries.

There is a lot of violence in the human world (though humans are less violent than apes, and modern society is less violent than it was before). It is unfair to judge yourself as others as "complicit" in all that violence. Just having something in common with those responsible is not enough grounds to deduce complicity.

But it does mean we should try to reduce the violence.

US unions that represent fossil fuel workers are starting to reconcile the the short-to-medium-term needs of those workers with the overriding requisites for saving civilization.

In the past, those unions have lobbied against decarbonization. I hope they are now changing their positions. I support helping those workers get through decarbonization and avoid poverty.

I think this would be a lot easier if the US adopted progressive policies to help all poor people.

Misguided comparison: is it more effective to insulate large numbers of homes, or to block a highway as a protest?

If you're the government, it is more effective to insulate homes.

If you're a band of a few dozen citizens with no particular power, only willingness to make a sacrifice to increase the pressure on the government, blocking a highway could help. At least people will notice.

When the government starts taking real and effective action to reduce greenhouse emissions, your job will be done. That has not happened yet.

*‘Low-hanging fruit’: Insulate Britain’s message makes sense, say experts.*