The Build Back Better relief bill includes a new tax on profits of large corporations, which will reduce their tax dodging. Not as much we ought to reduce it, but it is a step forward.

Biden's nominee for comptroller of the currency moved to the US from the Soviet Union just after it collapsed. Republican senators tried to call her a communist simply because she was born there.

*US mountain states battle wildfires despite impending winter.*

*SF received $1.5 million to explore online voting. Critics think it’s a horrible idea.

Using computers to receive and record votes is already foolish and dangerous. Letting those computers communicate with anyone else is totally asking to lose.

*Climate campaigners take South Africa to court over coal policy.*