* Poverty [in the US] increased sharply in 2022 due to safety net cutbacks and inflation shock.*

*Six [Mississippi thugs] known as the "Goon Squad" plead guilty to torturing two [black] men, using a sex toy on them and shooting one of them [almost killing him].*

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that practice it. But I make exceptions for some articles that I consider important — and I label them like this.

Intuit claims that TurboTax is "free", but it has never been libre. A judge has ruled that it isn't gratis either, and ordered the company to stop saying it is "free".

That they exchange money for using it is what most people are worked up about, but the fact that users can't use it while keeping their freedom is what's truly important.

The Philadelphia thugs that killed Eddie Irizarry lied to create an excuse, and the police chief said so and told a different story which nonetheless gave them an excuse. The cops refused to release to videos that ought to have proved it was true. But now a video has appeared which shows that too was all lies. They had no grounds at all for violence.

(satire) *Yevgeny Prigozhin Leads Army Of 25,000 Undead Toward Kremlin.*