Some US states are eliminating the bail system that pushes poor people into penury and pressures them into false confessions. But the bail bond companies are fighting to preserve that bad system because they profit from it.

I am looking for people to help maintain and operate savannah.gnu.org.

A petition to the FDA calls for the end of sales of some high-dose opioid pills.

The article uses misleading terms such as "high-grade" and "powerful". What distinguishes these pills from other painkillers is not their quality, as the first would imply, nor the strength of effect of the active ingredient, but rather the amount of that ingredient in one pill.

Withdrawing them might be a good idea.

Charter schools are pushing to get rid of requirements for being a schoolteacher. This will enable them to slash pay for teachers by hiring unqualified teachers.

The school administrators will claim, of course, that they hire only the best. And, like so many claims that privatization companies make, it will often be at variance with the facts, which they won't help people to investigate.

Glenn Greenwald: In Europe, hate speech laws are [already] often used to suppress and punish left-wing viewpoints.

We need not rely on speculation: there are already campaigns in the US to ban criticism of Israel's occupation of Palestine, as well as Black Lives Matter. In both cases, the would-be censors misrepresented what they seek to ban, which should be no surprise. It's the same sort of distortion campaign that the troll demonstrates (and I would guess that he spreads those distortions himself).

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to say things we despise as well as to say things we support. It includes the freedom to criticize, condemn, insult or mock any person, group, organization, belief, church, act or cause. Including your country and my country. Including you. Including me.

Most of the "free" countries in the world do not properly respect freedom of speech. Now it is threatened again in the US as well.

Americans, please support the ACLU in defending freedom of speech in the US.