Google and other surveillance-based companies are closely integrated with the US government, feeding it all the data they get about people.

Neither Google nor the US government deserves this ingenuous trust. We must put an end to the data collection; regardless of the fool's convenience it offers, we must squash it.

US citizens: call on Congress to bring back the Violence Against Women Act.

If you sign, please spread the word!

US citizens: call on Senator McConnell to hold a vote on restoring funds for the US government.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Proposing an upper limit on what companies pay their top executives: 100 times the pay of the lowest-paid workers.

I support this idea, but in order for it to be effective, we would have to close the loopholes. These include hiring via subcontractors, and making workers into "independent contractors".

We can also limit the stock options that executives can get in a similar fashion.

I also support raising the maximum income tax rate for high incomes.

A study found that people buy less sweets and eat less sweets, if sweets are not displayed in the line for the cash register.