When plutocratists call something "socialism", it means "not good for plutocrats".

President Truman: "Socialism is what they called public power, … social security … bank deposit insurance … free and independent labor organizations, anything that helps all the people."

Hong Kong thugs attacked protesters; the protesters then attacked the thugs. The head of the government, chosen by a process fundamentally controlled by China, now reproaches them for that.

I can't say that the protesters did wrong, but it would have been more effective to maintain nonviolent discipline.

The US Department of Agriculture wants to allow beef processing plants to inspect their own products.

Allowing Boeing to do that resulted in the death of hundreds of people.

Allowing this for meat could kill a lot more people, with less public attention. Rather than dying hundreds at a time in a few spectacular incidents, they will die one by one and the cause won't be immediately obvious.

Scott Daniel Warren was tried for giving water, food and a night's sleep to border crossers. The jury was unable to reach a verdict.

Given the cruelty of the US government towards border crossers, I expect it will try him again and again until it gets a verdict.

State monitoring of prescriptions has little effect in limiting abuse of prescription opioids, but it is a big intrusion on patients' privacy.

Abuse of prescription opioids is only a small part of the problem of opioid addiction anyway.