Biden has brought the issue of Americans accused of crimes in Iran into the negotiations on resuming the non-nuclear deal.

I think that is a mistake. Keeping Iran non-nuclear is far more important than freeing a few people who may be unjustly accused, and sanctions that interfere with medical treatment for millions can't be justified by those few either.

The Senate confirmed thoroughly plutocratist Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture.

He is expected to favor the big middleman companies over people that eat food or grow food.

Zuckerberg personally ordered Facebook not to ban Alex Jones when the company's policy said to ban him.

Nearly all US states make it too easy to subject a person to total, permanent control by a "guardian". This is often done without properly notifying the target of the court hearing which will decide about per fate.

Google is paying powerful News Corp (the Wall Street Journal, etc) for presenting its articles in Australia, but don't forget about smaller publishers.

I think it is good to make large, profitable online services pay to make use of publications, but we must be on guard against any attempt to turn that into a part of copyright power and impose the same requirement on nonprofit web sites.

However, it might be good to direct some of this money to the authors. Why not?