The UK wants to make all NHS doctor visits "remote by default".

In principle, that is not unjust. But what software do they want patients to run? Will they accept use of free software? If not, this seems like "surrender your freedom or die."

Would someone in the UK like to see what software they normally use? If it is nonfree software, how about explaining that you'd be happy to do a remote visit if they will do it using free software?

I wonder also whether patients can use the NHS web sites without running nonfree Javascript code. The clinics I have used in the past few years want patients to communicate via online dis-services called "patient portals". They all demand running of nonfree software, so I don't use them. Nowadays they won't allow me to communicate with doctors by email, which means that all I can do is ask the doctor to phone me. That will be inconvenient if I am travelling in another country. Would the doctor even be able to try?

The Democratic Party platform committee rejected an amendment to endorse Medicare for All. It also rejected smaller extensions to Medicare.

The Democratic Party formerly supported something like this. But President Clinton dropped it in favor of catering to medical insurance companies.

It was Clinton who shifted the Democratic Party to plutocratism. Progressives are reversing this by replacing plutocratist Democrats with progressives, but it is slow going, as the Democratic Party itself opposes it.

(satire) *Defensive Chicago [thug] Dylan Wilson told reporters Monday that he was perfectly capable of disappearing protesters without help from the Department of Homeland Security.*

Since March, various US cities have reduced how many people they hold in jail. Some reduced this more than others. A study found that the size of a city's reduction is not correlated with crime trends there.

In other words, fear of crime is no reason not to save lives by letting many prisoners out of jail.

The Supreme Court decisions that extend human rights to corporations, which are considered "persons" only as a fiction, enables companies to cover up toxic and dangerous products such as Roundup.

I support the We the People Amendment mentioned in the article. I am very sad to report that the organization referenced in the article carries out its activities in ways that require nonfree software. Rather than ask anyone to run that software, I ask people to phone their senators and representative to support the amendment.