Progressives: Be Careful of the Comfort of Placating the Privileged at the Expense of the Afflicted.

This article refers to a letter in which Martin Luther King, Jr., criticized white "moderates" who said that blacks should not be in such a hurry to win equality — they should wait a few centuries and see what happens.

The area in which I most hear the argument that "We must not tell people how bad things are, or it would discourage them" is that of global heating, in which we know from the hard figures that each year lost makes it less likely we can avoid the disaster at all.

Using mobile computers tends to make children neglect other ways of interacting with people, and promote insomnia.

This is before we even get to the intentionally manipulative and controlling nature of the software IN the computers.

Extinction Revolution is organizing more climate defense rallies around the world.

This is the spirit we need, to have any chance of doing enough and soon enough to avoid global heating disaster.

The Global Compact for Migration is an agreement, to be developed, that will aim to protect the rights of migrants, including preventing trafficking and enslavement, and preventing the disasters that force people to migrate.

Unknown people attacked security guards posted around a home in Ireland after they had evicted the inhabitants.

An eviction without a court order would certainly be wrong, but having a court order does not automatically excuse it. When the law, and the power of the state, serve the banksters against the poor, they do not have moral authority.

The Irish state should first make sure nobody is made homeless by eviction, and only then attend to the wishes of the banks.