Uber and Lyft have put a referendum on the ballot in California to define their drivers a new legal status combining the worst aspects of being an employee with the worst aspects of independent contracting.

The article also describes other deceptive tricks that they are using. This is in addition to making customers identify themselves and run nonfree software,

Florida's Republican government proposes to build 300 miles of unneeded toll highways through vulnerable ecosystems so that people can burn more fossil fuels.

The plan will succeed in providing income to construction companies, filling the air with more CO2, and provide an excuse to leave poor people without food, housing or medical care.

This is the epitome of Republican Party philosophy.

*With World Closing in on Paris Warming Limit, UN Report Makes Case for 'Transformational Action' to Remake Global Economy.*

The predicted climate disaster is already starting. What should we do?

The article's title is a gross understatement. The California megafires are not our "wakeup call". They are our "The meeting is already starting and you're still in bed???" call. If this were a job, humanity would be fired.

I wonder why the understated term "climate change" is becoming fashionable again.

Brian Murphy accuses the trumpets running the DHS of ordering him to fabricate intelligence, and suppress other intelligence, so as to mislead the public. Eventually they demoted him for refusing, and he has filed a whistleblower complaint denouncing them.

I believe he is sincere, because filing a complaint is a serious matter.

I am curious what his job title was — the article does not say.

In general, I agree that China is a bigger threat to world freedom than Russia. Whether that means Xi threatens the US election more than Putin, I have no idea. But it is clear that rich Americans threaten the US election more than any foreign country. However, those are all side issues for this. What we see is that the corrupter is corrupting US government agencies, and the trumpets who run them are lying to congress. They should go to prison for that.

*Trumpet preventing Fauci from discussing Covid children risk.*