Two Italian thugs have been sentenced to 12 years in prison for beating a prisoner to death.

US citizens: call for banning the use of cyanide to cull wildlife.

If you call, please spread the word!

Facebook sponsored the rightwing Federalist Society to host a dinner honoring Justice Kavanaugh, who tried to commit rape years ago and lied about it while testifying to Congress.

Various little-known companies are setting up America's embryonic social-credit score systems. Well-known internet dis-services give them data, and they make the derived scores or ratings available to those dis-services and others.

Requiring these companies to give you the raw data they store about you will only give you a partial idea of just how much power they wield. To reduce their power would require reducing their data collection.

Fraud is not a good thing, and in principle I am in favor of preventing fraud, but doing it by prejudging people (often based on bias along with the data) is not a solution. We should adopt solutions that respect anonymity and stop fraud — such as GNU Taler — so that there is no need to guess who might be likely to commit fraud.

US citizens: call on the Senate to restore the DACA program, that allows people brought to the US as children to remain and become citizens.

If you sign, please spread the word!