The big US insurance companies are eagerly profiting from encouraging business that increase global heating, destroy ecosystems, and violate human rights.

This is to be expected. The US adopted a twisted policy around 1980 which says that corporations are legally required to maximize profit at the expense of everything else that ought to matter, and this is the natural result.

Far from requiring psychopathic behavior, we should require all entities to have a care for the rest of society.

The US should block Amazon from merging with MGM.

In general, large companies should not be allowed to merge at all. The larger the company, the more lobbying power it has, and the more it can mislead the public about science and the public interest. We should take steps to make it difficult in general for companies to be large.

Imposing sanctions on violent regimes is usually ineffective, and often hurts the people that the regime oppresses.

He is mostly right, but (as is his tendency) he falls into simplistic exaggeration.

I contend that some of the sanctions against Belarus are likely to be more effective than usual.

• Making it hard to fly to the west from Belarus will mainly hurt the elites. The borders are not closed. Ordinary people travelling out out of Belarus can take a bus or train; it is not far.
• Cutting down on purchases of oil via Belarus pipelines will hurt the regime directly, and can fit into a plan to reduce fossil fuel use.

US citizens: call on Biden to hold firm on increasing corporation taxes.

Everyone: call on large store chains to reject using face recognition technology on customers.