*Decline in Fossil Fuel Emissions Due to Coronavirus Lockdowns No Substitute for Climate Action, Advocates Say.*

Covid-19 will be licked in a year or two, and greenhouse gas emissions will rise again (the plutocrats intend to make sure they do), so the bigger (but slower) danger of climate disaster will still be waiting for us.

US citizens: call on HHS secretary Alex Azar to declare abortion an essential medical procedure.

US citizens: call on Instacart to give workers supplies for self-protection, and paid sick leave.

Even if the company treated its workers well, I would refuse to use it for the protection of my privacy, because it can't be used anonymously. And I expect it requires clients to run nonfree JavaScript code, which for my freedom's sake I refuse to do.

Republicans reluctantly agreed to a law to send checks soon to non-rich Americans. Then they cheated on the deal, by making an arbitrary rule that poor people who live on government pensions or aid, and don't file tax returns, would not get checks. Unless they find out about this and file a return solely for this rule, they will get shafted.

Yielding to a wave of criticism, Republicans dropped the new requirement only for those who receive Social Security pensions. They must hope that this will divide the opposition, so they could get away with shafting the other affected people: military veterans, and those whose income is small enough to qualify for the existing income assistance.

Why deny this aid to the poorest? Those politicians' overriding goal is to transfer money to the rich, so they take advantage of any opportunity,

I do not submit my tax returns on line because it requires nonfree software. I use xournal to write my data on the PDF form, and print that. As I have no printer, I will visit a copying store to do the printing.

I do this because keeping safe means protecting our freedom as well as our health.

The conman is firing the inspector general of US intelligence agencies as punishment for noticing the conman's crimes.

This is part of his general campaign to intimidate anyone in the government who would criticize him.