Movie and TV streaming is fundamentally unjust because of DRM, requirement to identify oneself, and the antisocial contracts where users commit not to share copies with other people. For these reason, I have never used those streaming dis-services.

Now Disney is trying a secondary injustice — what looks like a kind of tax fraud. It is deleting many old programs, supposedly because they no longer bring in revenue, and claiming a tax writeoff of $1.5 billion for them.

Those two claims contradict each other, so it looks like we need the IRS to cut down Disney's tax writeoff.

Republicans, the party of the plutocrats, are trying to cut the IRS funding so it can't do this job.

It doesn't make economic sense for a company to renounce the profits from selling something that basically costs nothing to sell in order to avoid paying a share of those profits to someone else. The idea that this really a way to punish actors on strike has the virtue of being a rational (though vicious) motive.

Republicans put at least 74 vicious clauses into bills drafted last week. Some serve the rich; some serve authoritarianism; some block climate defense; undermine the separation of church and state; some attack Republicans' favorite scapegoats.

*Australia [plans] to measure indirect [greenhouse gas] emissions from public works.*

*ALEC [proposes states blacklist] companies that voluntarily recognize unions.*

*"Trying to make the world starve": [Putin forces'] drones destroy grain warehouses at Ukraine ports.*