The reason Social Security won't have enough income after 2034 is that rich people have taken a much bigger fraction of all the income in the US. And rich people pay the social security tax on only a limited amount of their income.

Manchin is responsible for increasing the income taxes on poor Americans with children by around 10%.

Canadian thugs used to grab indigenous men in the city at random, take them by car to the woods, then leave them to freeze to death. One victim, Darrell Night, was able to survive and blew the whistle on this practice of murder for fun.

It's not too late to prosecute some of the murderers, if the government has the spine for it.

The first step in fighting the billionaires who have seized power over our democracy is to use deprecatory terms to refer to them. For instance, "billionaire".

A billionaire may have acquired a substantial part of per billions, but billionaires don't usually "earn" the wealth they acquire. The reason they acquire so much of it is that they collectively rig the rules so that they acquire, then keep, a much bigger share.

We shouldn't assume different kinds of prejudice are equivalent, or to try to set up a fixed order of how bad they are.

How harmful any given kind of prejudice is can vary from place to place, and over time.

For example, antisemitism in the US was much worse before World War II than it has been since the 1950s. My mother told me a story about her childhood in Brooklyn, about childen from of Catholic schools screaming "Chris killer" while running after Jewish children — every year after Easter. The rest of the year they might be friendly.