Explaining the details of how gerrymandering fits through loopholes in the rules for legislative districts.

A woman in Alabama faces a felony charge for taking a painkiller while pregnant. Pregnant women will be scared to talk to doctors when they realize that doctors might be required to turn them in.

The UK uses a dumb automated contact-tracing app which tells the user to stay home for 10 days when it detects a possible contact. Just now it has told so many people to stay home that many of society's systems are failing, including trains, hospitals and food distribution.

Contact tracing is a very important method of keeping Covid-19 in check, but it is usable only when the infection rate is low enough that the burden of isolating the contacts is bearable. The UK has too high a level of infection.

Contact tracing in the UK never worked as well as it should have, because the Tory government applied its usual bad management and its usual corrupt contracting.

This problem is one of many consequences of the underlying bad approach: allowing Delta to run almost unimpeded through the population by ending nearly all measures to hold it back.

*Indonesia loosens Covid restrictions despite record deaths.* The new case rate is supposedly falling, but that may be because they are testing fewer people.

The striking workers at the Frito-Lay plant accepted a new contract offer which somewhat reduced their overtime. However, when you see that one of the things they won was a 6-day work week, it shows how far in the wrong direction US labor law has been driven in the 40 years since Reagan attacked unions.