*Top Japanese virologist warns of risks of Tokyo Games during pandemic.*

The Olympic games tend to do lasting harm wherever they are held: to homeless people, to anonymity (via public surveillance), and to the public treasury.

If your city proposes to hold them, I suggest campaigning against the bid. This has been successful.

Republican state governments are using federal funds, meant to support poor families, to fund phony "crisis pregnancy centers" whose purpose is to spread religious opposition to abortion.

*Hawaii bill seeks to gut funding aimed at protecting environment from tourism.*

NYC unions plan to move their retirees onto Medicare Advantage programs whether they like it or not.

These insurance programs reduce the subscriber's costs when the subscriber is more or less well, and can increase them by thousands of dollars when the subscriber needs expensive medicines.

In Australia A plague of mice is destroying crops, even houses, but the poison that might be effective would kill endangered parrots, as well as predators that eat mice.