Jesse Jackson: *Myths and Lies About Poverty.*

I take issue with Jackson on one point: most Americans do support the laws that would eliminate most poverty. But plutocats have used (and created) flaws in our democracy to keep control of our government and defeat candidates such as Sanders that stand for the policies most Americans support.

CEPR: The US Census Bureau underestimates poverty in the US because it uses too low a value for the poverty line, one that doesn't relate to today's life.

General Atomics has developed spy drones that can track everyone in a substantial area — such as a big city — at once. The initial application for them was for war, but now it is making thinly veiled attempts to fly them over American cities.

An additional advantage of public banks is that governments could directly make them stop investing in fossil fuels.

For the other reasons public entities should put their money in public banks, see here.

*Trump desperately needs to avoid another withering exposure that another debate would cement. That is why, true to the coward that he is, he’s hiding from it.*

(satire) *Judge Amy Coney Barrett promised Monday that her Catholic faith’s tenets of generosity and humanity would not interfere with her duty on the court to crush the nation’s poorest and most downtrodden citizens.*