Re-enacting the 1811 Louisiana slave revolt.

Cutting the US military budget could easily pay for the domestic programs we need. Ingrained militaristic thinking works to prevent this.

Thus, we are pressured to endorse the idea that US soldiers are "serving their country" when they spread destruction in other countries, regardless of the circumstances, and that we should thank them.

This is why starting in 2003 I said that Dubya had hijacked the US military and converted it into the Bush Forces. They may have joined with the idea of serving their country, but in fact they were serving Dubya and his oil cronies.

The US "health care provider" Ascension is giving Google the medical records of 50 million patients.

Merely notifying the patients and the doctors would not make this legitimate, or safe. That calls for an approach in which nobody at Google has access to any patient's data. More information.

Contracts between Google and Ascension may put limits on what Google is ostensibly allowed to do with the data, but Google is very clever about finding loopholes in such rules. As for anonymization, that is easy to defeat.

How the bullshitter uses rhetoric to get others to frame the issues as he wishes — including "quid pro quo" as the criterion for impeachment.

Kshama Sawant won reelection to the Seattle city council despite the 1.5 million dollars Amazon spent to defeat her.