US citizens: call on the FCC not to damage the lifeline program. (It provides phone and internet to poor people at low cost.)

If you sign, please spread the word!

Gossip about Julian Assange.

UK universities are ordering academics to keep silent on social media about issues affecting their work environment.

Republicans propose to destroy the climate in order to "save" it. This is done in the most blatant possible way: by extending a tax cut on oil.

*How to Support Your Children in Turning Climate Angst Into Climate Action.*

The comparison with the "Keep America Beautiful" campaign illustrates a common paradigm: business change the system in a way that tends to create a problem, then tells the millions they deal with that compensating for that tendency is their responsibility.

Bloomberg acts like a true oligarch, using his money's power to reshape the political system so he can squeeze more money out of it.

The idea of “hate the game, not the player” is sometimes valid when the game is one that people play for recreation — because they can play some other game instead.

However, the idea is inapplicable when they treat our political system as their game and exploit people through it. Those who take advantage of a bad political system to exploit people are always personally culpable, even if the system is too.

*Bloomberg in 2014: "We Should Hope" the NSA Is "Reading Every Email".*