*Oxfam Report Highlights Deep Harms of IMF 'Austerity Drive' in Poor Nations.*

The IMF has been bashing poor countries for decades. Behind the scenes, that's its mission: to help big companies extract their wealth.

* Because [the UK doesn't] pay doctors enough, there are too few of us. It's all we can do to stop people dying in NHS waiting rooms*

DeMentis threatens to imprison anyone in Florida who gives transportation, shelter or work to an unauthorized immigrant.

Punishing people for not participating in some sort of repression is a standard fascist tactic, and you can gauge how fascist a party is by whether it has recourse to that. The Republican Party has turned thoroughly fascist, but Democrats have supported fascist policies in the area of immigration.

There has been a law since the 1990s under which employers could not avoid demanding employees show government ID to prove they are authorized to work in the US. This imposition of government control and surveillance over life makes me boil.

US citizens: say no to anti-voter laws.

*Manhattan DA who indicted Trump sues Republican Jim Jordan over interference in case.*

The interference consists of demanding to subpoena one of the DA's investigators, trying to find something to accuse him of.

I don't understand the legal issues enough to know whether there was any actual wrongdoing, but in general no one is more likely to lie than a Republican official.