*Racism literally ages Black Americans faster, according to our 25-year study.*

Iran has a penchant for accusing dual-nationals of spying, even the unlikeliest of them.

Google fired AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru, who studies the effects of AI systems, after she refused to retract a paper when ordered to by management.

The paper draws negative conclusions about Google's textual machine learning.

Google claims there are flaws in her paper, but criticizing a scientist's research paper is a job for other scientists (mostly not from the same company), not for per managers.

I support the three demands made in the letter that defends her.

It may well be that Google's working environment manifests racism and sexism, which I disapprove of. But I don't think that is what this wrong is about. I don't think that Google made this demand because of her gender or her skin color.

Rather, it seems that Google is attempting to suppress the truth.

A crazed bar owner in Staten Island (the right-wing borough of New York City) continued serving customers indoors although that was forbidden. Cops arrested him for repeated violations, so he allegedly drove his car into a sheriff's deputy, injuring per.

We can't be sure that a report from cops is true, but I expect that videos will show for certain what he did.

Some progressive leaders state satisfaction with some of Biden's choices for high officials.

Robert Reich: *Joe Biden's economic team beats Trump's goon squad — but it faces a steep challenge.*