The catch-all relief bill eliminates one repressive policy: denying aid to students based on criminal convictions.

Policies like that one compel anyone convicted once to endure a life of poverty or crime or both. If we want people to get out of crime, we must remove the artificial barriers that prevent it.

Congress has put copyright repression measures into the Covid relief bill.

I greatly regret that I did not hear about Fight for the Future's campaign until now. If I had, I would have supported it. Not that I expect that would have given us victory, but at least I would have done my part.

Copyright law is based on a balance, but not the one people usually cite (between interests of readers and interests of writers). That is a fundamental misunderstanding of the intended purpose of copyright.

The right balance is between the public's interest in promoting the making of new works, and the public's interest in using existing works.

Current copyright law is nowhere near giving the public the best results, because it is designed to maximize the income and power of the big companies that get most of the benefit of copyright. It is an unjust law that deserves to be spat on, and those companies deserve to be wiped out entirely.

The murderer in chief pardoned Blackwater mercenaries for the massacre they committed in Iraq in 2007.

A Pakistani human rights activist, living in exile in Canada, was found dead while taking a walk. It seems likely she was murdered.

Balochistan has a strange situation. Balochis are a distinct ethnic group and face persecution by the majority because they adhere to a different sect of Islam. Some of them started a violent independence movement, and the Pakistani state responds by violence against Balochis based on suspicion.

US thugs get tremendous amounts of location surveillance data from phone companies, and now have special analysis software to understand the activities of many individuals.