California's supreme court ruled that employees of Oober Eats have the right to sue that company collectively.

If they sue and win. the company will exploit them less. But the food delivery gig companies are parasites, on their workers and on the restaurants they deliver food from.

Please join me in never using them.

Meanwhile, it should be illegal for companies to require either their workers or their customers to agree to mandatory arbitration. That deck is typically stacked in favor of the company.

Britain has convicted 28,000 people of violating Covid-19 lockdown regulations, mostly minor violations, and is still prosecuting people for offenses some years ago.

The Greenwood district of Tulsa recovered after the Tulsa race massacre, but was destroyed again by building an interstate highway through it. Now there is a plan to let Greenwood recover again by removing the highway.

There may be a lot of practical opposition to removing the highway which is not based on racism. Does a renewed Greenwood necessarily have to be in the same place?

Jamie Driscoll, Labour mayor who quit the party to run as an independent, says that Labour voters in his region support him, and are unhappy with the way the party is going.

The Freedom to Vote Act would prohibit states from rigging elections using voter suppression, gerrymandering and election sabotage.

It would also help expose secret campaign contributions that billionaires use to buy influence and set the political agenda.

This is important, and if we cannot pass it now, we can use it to elect representatives who will do so.