Mark Flessner, Chicago's head lawyer, resigned, and it seems to be related to the thugs' mistaken raid on Anjanette Young's house, in which they handcuffed her naked and wouldn't let her cover herself. (And wrecked the door of her house.)

The article does not specify why he resigned, but it looks like the city's lawyers were trying to prevent her at all costs from demonstrating what had happened to her, trying to thwart justice.

Even if the head lawyer did not specifically tell the other lawyers what to do about this case, it was his job to teach them what values and goals should guide their work for the city.

Maybe the feeling of responsibility for what the other lawyers did impelled him to resign. If so, that is very honorable by US standards.

The pandemic has hastened the elimination of jobs and their replacement with low-paid precarious gig work which surveils and oppresses workers and customers alike. This report is about Australia but I expect it is similar in the US.

The real solution to this is a guaranteed income. However, we can help make work activity less precarious by rejecting the gig platforms.

The food delivery companies parasitize restaurants so much that it can drag them under. In Cambridge, Mass, I've seen signs on the street that urge people to pick up the take-out food they order, rather than asking using a gig platform to deliver it. The restaurant gets more money from the former than from the latter, even though the customer probably pays less. And if you pick up the order yourself, you can pay cash and avoid even more surveillance.

In a store, you can reject the self-checkout machines, as I do. In some stores, the self-checkout machines won't accept cash, which is another reason to refuse to use them. But even where the machines do accept cash, I refuse to use them because they should hire more humans instead.

Academics that investigate connections between past slavery and existing UK institutions and fortunes are experiencing politicized attacks.

This is part and parcel of right-wing disinformation.

A cash benefits pilot program in Indonesia was observed to reduce deforestation in the areas where it was tried.

Navalny says he tricked one of the agents involved in poisoning him into explaining how it was done.

Here's a transcript of the call.

This is not necessarily the truth. For one thing, the agent could have been lying.