A Spanish hotel cleaners' union has developed a reservation app that rates hotels on how well they treat their staff.

That is good — but does that app treat the customer any better than the other reservation apps? Does it work without making the user run nonfree software? I doubt it.

I am sure it requires users to identify themselves, which is one of the reasons I hate staying in hotels in most of the world.

*Two decades after 9/11, the real threat to the US is our own far right.* Republican politicians, both minor and prominent ones, are fomenting violence against school boards with the aim of intimidation, so they won't require masks in schools.

When right-winger bullies win a victory through intimidation, they call it a victory, and they vaunt it to whip up more bullies. We must give them, instead, failures and defeats.

It would make sense for school board meetings to bring more than 20 strong men they can trust, perhaps some armed, to maintain security at the entrances and inside the room. Plus a few cops, chosen for being police officers, rather than thugs, to arrest anyone that unmasks or threatens.

(satire) *New VA Initiative Helps Get Homeless Veterans Into Bigger Tents.*

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: we should be investigating possible future paths of nuclear arms development and (we hope not!) use, to try to choose better paths and avoid the worst ones.

50 House Democrats (the progressive ones) demand removal of fossil fuel subsidies from the Reconciliation Bill.