The racist that attacked Deandre Harris with a metal pole has been arrested and charged with a felony.

The other racist man arrested might be the shooter described here, who tried to shoot a counterprotester dead, but was prevented by the pistol's safety which gave him a chance to think twice. He fired into the ground to let off steam of his hatred.

Or they might be two different shooters.

The supermarket chain Aldi, in Australia, is suing the truck drivers' union to silence its complaints that Aldi pressures drivers to drive unsafe long hours (which is illegal as well).

Aldi's statement appears intended to mislead. It said, "We value our employees and pride ourselves on paying our staff well." But even supposing that is true (I won't take Aldi's word for that), it has nothing to do with the truck drivers; they are not employees of Aldi.

Aldi demands "specific information" about the abuses. Would that mean the names of drivers as witnesses? We can guess what Aldi would do to any drivers that come forward as Aldi demands.

It appears that Aldi doesn't directly impose this violation of drivers' rights and public safety. Rather, it subcontracts the driving through companies, and pays the companies so little that they are effectively compelled to do this to the drivers.

So subcontracting facilitates this wrong and makes it deniable.

I think there should be legal limits on the amount of work of any particular kind that a company can subcontract. Subcontracting should be limited to the amount of work that needs to vary from week to week during any particular month. For the base load of any kind of work, a company should be required to hire full-time employees to do it.

Everyone: call on Virginia to remove its statue of Confederate General Lee from the US capitol.

I am looking for people to (in India) make and sell buttons that say, "DON'T BE TRACKED  PAY CASH", in English and/or a local language, to resist the campaign against cash. Talk with a local company that makes buttons, buy a batch of 50 to 500 buttons for a quantity price, then sell them for 2 or 3 times that price.

A study demonstrates that US taxation has become less progressive.

The US needs to return to the "bad old days", when Americans in general could have a decent life, not penury; when the US could afford to build what the public needed instead of privatizing everything with a toll.