US citizens: phone your senators at 888-659-7351 and urge them to vote against any version of the Dontcare bill.

Any one of them would cut off medical coverage for tens of millions of Americans.

Center-right Democratic donors want to choose newly elected senator Kemala Harris as the 2020 candidate for president.

We have been there before. In 2008, the Democratic Party ran a first-term black senator who used vague slogans such as "hope" and "change" but didn't match them with substance. I smelled something fishy and didn't vote for him. I chose well, because once elected he turned out to be the plutocrats' pet. He didn't lift a finger to stop banks from defrauding millions of Americans out of their homes.

(I'm not exaggerating when I use the word "defrauding" -- the banks went to court using falsified documents.)

We should not rush to put faith in a "savior" just beginning to hold a major office. Instead we should choose, as candidate, an official that has spent decades firmly resisting the plutocrats:

Bernie Sanders.

As for Senator Harris, let's wait and see what she does in the senate. In 10 years she will have a record we can judge by. If by then she has stood firm for democracy, human rights, and the good of the non-rich, I will support her.

Homeless people on the street face a constant stream of cruelty, including being pissed on or beaten up by passersby.

The author reports that some food stores refused to sell food to people who are buying for the homeless. I have never encountered that sort of refusal when buying them food, but I trust the reports. Perhaps that happens only in the UK.

Poland's president will veto the bill to give the right-wing government control of the supreme court.

Turkey's leading opposition journalists are on trial, and the charge amounts to "journalism".