US citizens: see how your congresscritters and senators responded when the troll pulled the US out of the Paris climate agreement, then phone them and insist that the US must do its share to prevent global disaster.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

The UK "special branch", a division of thugs, had undercover thugs snoop on several Labour MPs, including Jeremy Corbyn.

Reportedly, spying on him was no rogue operation — it was approved by the chiefs of the special branch.

An Insider's View: The Dark Rigidity of Fundamentalist Rural America.

The author asserts that a substantial fraction of (mostly rural) white Americans are white supremacists and believe in a perverse Christianity that has replaced charity with cruelty. They answer all rational arguments with "God told us this". They ignore the contradictions of their position by denying all the facts that get in their way.

If the Dontcare bill starts killing their relatives, perhaps they will learn something.

Amazon has so much power over the US retail economy that it imposes its power over all participants.

If it is going to be a monopoly, it should be regulated like other monopolies. Or perhaps more.

Poland has made another effort to force women to have babies by requiring a prescription to obtain a morning-after pill.

I hope Polish women will organize smuggling so as to defeat this law.