*Coalition Calls for Urgent Action On Livestock Antibiotic Overuse.*

We've known for decades that this will kill people. Now it is killing people. But keeping herds producing without indiscriminate use of antibiotics would apparently cost more.

How many thousands of deaths will it take to overcome the lobbying power of Big Ag?

Republican senators delayed the wrecker's second impeachment trial. Then almost all of them voted that it is too late to hold the trial.

Today's Republicans don't notice that there is a conflict in principle between the two actions, so Republican senators don't need to recognize it.

Biden ordered the Department of Justice not to sign contracts for privatized prisons. That means that privatized prisons will gradually disappear from the Department of Justice's activity.

However, this order did not apply to immigration prisons.

*Schumer Says Biden Should Declare a Climate Emergency.*

Facebook said it will make some kinds of data about its political ads from Aug 3 to Nov 3 available to researchers.

It is a step in the direction of permitting society to find out what Facebook actually does and how that affects public thought, but there is a long way to go.