US using coronavirus pandemic to unlawfully expel asylum seekers, says UN.

Decades of systematic right-wing attack on scientific experts and government action have spread a bias to reject them. Neither of them is immune to corruption, but the right-wing alternative is corrupt at the root. How can we get back to a way of thinking that has room for something other than corruption?

Danger: vending machines for meat and vegetables seem like a great idea until you find out that they track who buys.

Now more than ever we must defend the right to pay cash — but insisting on paying cash. Covid-19 will not last forever, but rights lost tend to be lost forever.

The ACLU position's on contact tracing by phones identifies some valid issues.

However, it misses other valid issues. Whatever privacy protections this one app offers are at best one watertight wall on one side of a leaking ship. The phones themselves allow location tracking in many ways. And you can't trust any nonfree program to do only what its developer says it does.

Ilhan Omar has proposed a bill for the government to pay people's rent and mortgages for a while.

I suggests paying corporations only a part of the usual rent.