US citizens: call on Congress to protect the Endangered Species Act.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter to support restoring the network neutrality regulations.

One Republican recently signed the discharge petition, showing that it isn't hopeless to try to convince others.

Saboteur of Housing Carson presents his plan to raise rent in subsidized housing as a way to pressure poor people to work.

40% of Americans can't handle an unexpected expense of $400. These rent increases would add up to more than $1000 a year.

Poor people in the US today are in such desperate situations that they would all work — if they can. So the idea of pressuring then to work, regardless of what kind of pressure it would be, is fundamentally absurd.

What those people can do, and will do for a while, is go without food and/or medicine.

Elon Musk donates substantially to keep Republicans in control of Congress.

$33,000 is a small amount for him. If he cares about a cause, he would surely put far more money into it than that. I suspect he has donated a lot more through various other channels.

Two years ago, supporting Republicans meant promoting concentration of wealth and cutting most Americans off from medical care in general (as well as abortion in particular). Nowadays it also means supporting fascism, racism, and the death of the idea of honesty.

One payment app publishes all the data about payments (unless the user has changed the settings). A researcher has analyzed what this leak does.

The other payment apps don't publish the transaction data — but they provided it to the stores, to the banks, and to the state. Which is almost as bad. The analysis from this one payment app can teach us, if we are willing to learn, how bad the others are.

Can you be confident that your country's government will respect everyone's human rights? What about 5 years from now? 10? 20?