US citizens: call on senators to vote against Tom Vilsack.

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California is relaxing Covid control measures in response to a fractional decrease in the Covid-19 case rate.

The hospitals are no longer full, so everyone that gets badly sick can at least get treated. But allowing the case rate to remain so high will mean that many do get sick and die — and more infectious strains will take over. I share the view of the experts quoted that this is foolish.

(satire) *Late-Arriving Protester Has No Idea What He’s Chanting.*

I think the chant that he could not make out was, "The gostak distims the doshes!" See the story, "The Gostak and the Doshes," by Miles Breuer.

"Innovative" businesses are selling privatized automated education to US public schools.

Implemented with unjust nonfree software, of course. I expect that the system collects data which sooner or later helps profile the subjects.

Jesse Jackson: *The US System Is Rigged So the Minority Can Rule Over the Majority.*