US citizens: call on Pelosi to reject the Republican plan to spend billions for more weapons as "Covid-19 relief".

How do you spell relief? "W E A P O N S".

This article clearly explains the effect of patents on fruit. Its only error, that I can see, is to use the term "intellectual property" to refer to patents and trademarks. Since the article clearly explains trademarks as well, you can see what an error it is to use any term to lump them together.

I have not used the term "intellectual property" even once since 2004. In explaining the various disparate laws that term supposedly "refers" to, that term is never helpful, and the idea of generalizing about those laws is the biggest obstacle.

NYC thugs said that the woman grabbed off the street by thugs out of uniform was specifically wanted for arrest. Supposedly she had committed some sort of crime at protests.

They also said that the other protesters threw rocks and bottles at the thugs who were doing this, but the protesters say that didn't happen. (I wonder what the video shows.) Should we believe what the thugs say about the woman they grabbed?

Increased economic inequality is stopping the non-rich from giving to charity. This means charities become dependent on a few rich, and don't dare disagree with them.

This happens even more and faster when some rich person, such as Bill Gates, makes a special effort to gain influence over a field, such as education reform.

One charity which this is not happening to is the Free Software Foundation. In most years it gets only a small part of its income from corporations or big donations. That's not to say it would reject a large donation if you give one ;-}.

*As many as 1,000 babies born to surrogate mothers in Russia for foreign families have been left stranded in the country.* The parents-to-be cannot come get them.

This is bad for the babies, as well as for the parents-to-be and the surrogate mothers. It must be possible to organize transport for most of them.