US citizens: call your senators at (202) 930-8115 and urge them to let PAT RIOT Act surveillance systems expire. Say that if the government wants to get information about people from data bases, it should get warrant to investigate specific people and then get data only about them.

If you call, please spread the word!

Social media (that's what the article means when it says "internet") are making participation in discussions difficult for women.

Intimidating women into leaving discussions is an injustice and a major social problem. However, it does not constitute violence. Calling it "violence" is an exaggeration, which invites solutions that carry a danger of repression.

I suggest looking for fixes that change the servers' algorithms so that they are difficult for trolls and bullies to exploit. This might be easier if the servers were not making money from targeting advertising.

*Maryland man fatally shot by [thugs] while asleep in his bedroom.* They shot from outside the house without informing anyone inside they had come. Then they claimed he had "confronted" them — presumably awake. Lies like this are standard practice for thugs who have killed someone.

They wounded his girlfriend too.

*When [the bully] no can longer lie or deny, he’ll blame immigrants, journalists, [disprivileged racial groups], liberals and other enemies.*

I replaced the term "people of color" because color is not something a person can be "of".

*'I can't get above water': how America's chicken giant Perdue controls farmers.*

This is one more example of how concentration of US big business harms many small businesses.