Black Lives Matter protesters in Nutley New Jersey posted a photo of a thug who was friendly with menacing right-wing counterprotesters and had hid has badge number. Instead of firing that thug, the thug department placed felony charges against the people who posted that photo.

Now the thug chief should be fired.

Protests have galvanized black voters' determination to register to vote.

Everyone: Demand an end to the harassment of Palestinian scientists and academics and an immediate release of Prof. Imad Barghouthi.

Amazon offers several new surveillance microphone products, meant to be carried around by people during daily life. That will enable them to listen to whoever the device's "owner" comes near.

But don't worry — Amazon is learning how to talk the talk about privacy in a way that more people would find comforting.

A voice command system that is safe for its owner would be one that runs only free software, and does the whole job locally, communicating with other sites only when asked to. With the software inside free, the owner of this device would truly own it.

But even that would not respect the privacy of other people nearby. How to deal with that issue is not obvious.

USPS work rule changes are delaying mail for as much as a week. This poses a real threat to postal voting. Democrats plan to insist on including support for USPS and elections in the next relief bill.

Can there be a next relief bill? Senate Republicans say they will not agree to one unless it cuts Social Security. They could easily reject anything that will help fair elections, for their own reelection's sake. They need only old out for three more months.