Everyone: call on BlackRock, Fidelity, State Street, T. Rowe Price and Vanguard to vote for shareholder resolutions 4–8 at Facebook’s annual meeting on May 26.

European ministers look forward to joining Biden in policies that give businesses further power over democracy in the US and the EU.

The area of business-supremacy treaties was one of the few policy areas in which the corrupter made things better, keeping the US out of the TPP and modifying NAFTA to remove the ISDS clause (I Sue Democratic States).

Will Biden return to something like Obama's bad policy? Can progressive legislators block it?

Even though the Jan 6 investigation had been pre-undermined with a requirement for Republican agreement to issue any subpoena, most Republicans in the House voted not to have any investigation.

Democrats compromised by giving Republicans equal representation in the commission, hoping to win some Republican support. In response to that, Senator McConnell called it a "slanted and unbalanced proposal."

McConnell can probably kill the investigation entirely.

It was foolish of the Democrats to agree to a compromise without getting a final deal as part of the compromise. It appears that what they will ultimately get for their concession is nothing — and making a concession uselessly only looks weak.

*The Most Colossal Planning Failure in Human History:* setting up a civilization to run on fossil fuels without planning for how to stop using them.

(satire) *Congress Reaches Compromise To Investigate Events Of January 9.*

(There was nothing on January 9 that Republicans don't want investigated.)