In the UK, only well-paid people are allowed to bring a foreign spouse or child to live with them. Many essential workers, including medical personnel, are not paid enough to bring their spouses.

Google has abandoned its project to turn part of Toronto into a surveillance-pervaded "smart" city. For "smart", read "spy".

It may be possible to develop a way to benefit people with tracking that does not identify them. But I would not trust the system not to track people unless it is developed by people who hate tracking as much as I do. If Google did it, I would expect Google to give itself loopholes so that it could identify and follow people in practice.

The lunatic wants to reduce Covid-19 testing in the US so as to hide the magnitude of the epidemic.

I suspect he has been working behind the scenes to interfere with testing. He wants to reopen the economy without the preparation needed to stamp out Covid-19.

US citizens: call on American officials at various levels to end water shutoffs and restore water service to everyone.

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to cosponsor the ReWIND Act, which would stop handouts to fossil fuel companies.

Of the points listed, I disagree with one: I think it would be wise to fill up the strategic petroleum reserve while prices are low. Indeed, the US should maintain reserves of all sorts of supplies of which a shortage could cause big trouble.

But this is less important than the other points, so I still support the bill.