US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 1-202-224-3121 and say to preserve the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program. This protects unauthorized immigrants from deportation if they were brought to the US as children, many years ago, and have lived here ever since.

I am looking for people to write site-specific Firefox extensions or local scripts to operate specific web sites.

Brazil has abolished a large reserve in the Amazon, exposing it to deforestation which will destroy it forever.

Saboteurs in the US have presented supposed reasons for "reviewing" US national monuments. They are bogus.

The economic analysis makes the frequent economic error of measuring the "health of the economy" by totals, or equivalently per-capita figures. This is a fallacy because it disregards the harm done by inequality. If one billionaire gains a million dollars, and 9000 minimum-wage workers lose 100 each, the total increases by 100 thousand but the net effect is more suffering.

However, the article's point is valid nonetheless.

The US Department of Labor will spit in the face of workers by honoring President Reagan, union buster, saying his "distinctive contributions to the field of labor have enhanced the quality of life of millions yesterday, today, and for generations to come."

The real heroes of the south were the hundreds of thousands that fought for the United States, and against slavery.