Contrasting the cases of Alexei Navalny and Julian Assange: they receive similar repression, but the former gets mainstream western support, and the latter does not.

I support them both. I have some political disagreements with each of them, but I set those aside because of their heroism in a good cause.

In general, the right way to criticize a double standard is to apply the right standard, and criticize judgment based on a wrong standard.

The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act would forbid the government agencies in the US from buying location tracking data.

This is a good but small start at what we need to do to restore privacy. We should prohibit systems that collect personal data without a specific warrant.

Several large US cities have adopted a policy of not prosecuting anyone for prostitution.

This is a big step forward. I think sex work should be legal, and sex workers should be free to work with support businesses for advertising, security and finance. If they cannot work because of an epidemic, they should get unemployment payments.

Legalization does not have to mean deregulation. It is reasonable to require sex workers follow hygeine standards and get regular tests for STDs, for public health.

Meanwhile, some sex workers are enslaved. Prohibiting sex work has failed to prevent enslavement; indeed, it can help keeping trafficked sex workers in slavery because they don't see how they could survive if they escape. We should design other methods so that they work.

When Ireland helps multinational corporations pay less tax, they pay Ireland a fraction of the tax they avoided paying elsewhere. Ireland says it will fight hard to continue this betrayal of the rest of the world.

My proposed progressive tax on businesses can be implemented by one country or several coumtries, regardless of what the rest of the world does.

*To Confront 'Systemic Failures,' DOJ Announces Federal Probe Into Minneapolis Police Department.*

That's the sort of thing we need, to reduce the lawlessness of cops.