Florida Republicans have given coastal landowners the power to control access to beaches.

This is not a very important issue as political issues go, but it shows how Republicans kowtow to wealthy people and spit on the rest.

Decades of Republican assault on unions has weakened them, but teachers have shown they can strike and win despite that.

There is a threat to wipe out bitcoin, and all cryptocurrencies, using a strained legal excuse. The threat is to confiscate individual bitcoins if those specific coins were used previously in some illegal transaction, or passed through a broker that was later accused of any sort of crime.

The article describes two alternative plans for choosing who to punish in this way, but the effect would be the same: to punish ordinary users of bitcoins effectively at random. Ostensibly it is not random, but rather based on a criterion that ordinary users couldn't hope to check, so it's effectively equivalent to punishment at random.

It is fundamentally unjust to subject people to punishment at random. Constitutions ought to insist that no one can be punished, or legally discriminated against, or have property seized, based on circumstances not feasible for them to have recognized and avoided.

The campaign to prohibit porn finds Metoo tremendously helpful.

Facebook made a concession, agreeing to inform useds about what part of their data was obtained by Cambridge Analytica.

I don't think this reduces the fundamental wrong of Facebook significantly.