The NSA said it will stop examining Americans' email merely because it mentions some coordinates associated with a foreign surveillance subject.

This is a small change in the right direction, but I emphasize "small". The fight to disestablish massive collection of data about our activities is just beginning.

The troll set up a phone number for people to report crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants. The system is entirely useless for curbing crimes or catching criminals. Its sole purpose is to spread, by existing, the impression that they commit a lot of crimes.

People immediately began reporting supposed crimes by aliens of another sort, flying in UFOs.

In general, the victims and witnesses can't tell whether the person who committed the crime is an unauthorized immigrant, unless they know that person. However, Serious investigation says they commit fewer crimes on average than US citizens.

The troll wants to put a persistent antiabortion campaigner, who also opposes effective birth control, in the Department of Health.

The US is apparently going to escalate its bombing campaign against al-Shabaab in Somalia, reducing the care taken to avoid civilian casualties.

Selling abortion medicines without prescription seems to be safe, and it would protect women from antiabortionist repression.