US citizens: call on Congress to end surprise medical bills in the next COVID-19 package.

If you call, please spread the word!

The biggest disaster ever, for a free and ethical internet, is the current pressure on everyone to rush to do things on line.

When people talk about "being online", that as become an abbreviation for "carelessly running any nonfree app someone tells you to use." However, if you don't want to be subjugated and kicked around online you must take the opposite approach: rejecting software unless we can determine it is free/libre, and that it doesn't send any data beyond what we want it to send.

You can support internet freedom simply by saying no to organizations' online portals, saying, that code does harm to the users. I hope you will redo this code, but in the mean time I can do this activity only by phone or email."

I've been doing that, with airlines and medical clinics, for some time now.

10 years after the Big Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the damage has not disappeared.

We know how to prevent a repeat of that disaster, but the oil companies would rather take the risk; they figure that the public will suffer most of the costs of the next disaster, just as it suffered most of the costs of the last one.

Biden is proud of his role in repressive intervention in Latin America.

The US is slowly building up the capacity for protective gear, testing, and contact tracing, but is nowhere near the level necessary to eliminate Covid-19 here. The numskull wants to reopen business anyway, and never mind getting ready.

A Koch-funded protest group is being organized to protest to demand that.

I am glad to see that some Americans are ready to protest despite the danger, which they do reduce by applying the usual measures. Too bad they are not doing it for a sensible cause, such as reducing surveillance by business and government, or pushing for more production of the things that are necessary to reopen business safely.