The bully is campaigning for increased repression of homeless people.

Plutocratist policies make Americans homeless; now plutocratist politicians aim to make use of their troubles by scapegoating them.

How useful is it to require companies to give workers some shares and some seats on the board of directors?

This won't directly give most poor people a decent life. It won't do anything for the unemployed, the retired, the students, or those who cannot work. It won't do anything for the millions who are compelled to be "independent contractors".

But it could be one part of restraining corporations from predatory behavior and from lobbying for more suffering and inequality.

Australia's former destroy-the-environment minister blocked a wind farm even though the inhabitants of the region were in favor of it.

The wind farm would have replaced burning diesel fuel.

Introduced carnivorous plants, in places they were not naturally found, can smother other growth like kudzu.

They can't eat other plants, but can drive them into extinction.

300,000 Indonesians have signed a petition opposing a proposed law that would make it a crime to have sex outside of marriage.

It would impose many kinds of repression. For instance, since same-sex marriage is not permitted there, homosexuality would also be a crime.

This repression is an expression of religious fanaticism. I would like to coexist civilly with people of various religions, but those religious people refuse to coexist civilly with anyone who won't knuckle under to their laws.