(satire) *Reporter Presses Biden On Lack Of Own Plan To Trigger Widespread Violence.*

Students are organizing petitions against the intrusive exam-monitoring systems imposed by many universities.

If you launch a petition at your university, please make sure to give people a way to sign the petition without having to run any nonfree software, and that includes JavaScript software sent by a web site. You can invite people to send email to add their names.

I suggest it is unwise to focus on issues of effective discrimination against subsets of students. Why so? It's not that these problems don't matter — they do. What makes them weak focuses is that the developers of the systems can probably fix them, resulting in a system that mistreats students in those subsets only as much as it mistreats everyone else.

Another mistake to avoid is to weaken your demands as a "compromise" before you state them. Start the negotiations with what you really want.

By demanding a real solution for the problem, you can build a stronger movement. You can agree to a compromise later — but it will be, explicitly, only a partial victory. So it won't make your movement scatter.

Many rural hospitals in the US, which now face a lot of Covid-19 cases, are in danger of going broke.

The USPS chief of logistics, in July, made a presentation to local chiefs pressing them to implement the service cuts.

Although DeJoy was not in that meeting, various vice presidents were, so it is clear he did this with DeJoy's own support.

The up-to-1200-dollars stimulus checks enabled 7% more Americans to handle a surprise medical expense. Even that small amount did real help.