US citizens: call on the USPS Board of Governors to stop DeJoy's USPS privatization plan.

The practice of fully protecting all depositors from bank failures while letting the bank speculate with the deposits is an invitation for banks to take foolish risks.

Readopting Glass-Steagal would prevent some of the mismanagement that can make large banks fail. However, the author calls for nationalizing the largest banks.

The UK government offered many NHS workers in England a bigger raise, which means more or less victory for their strikes.

Texas officials are using a pretext to take over control of the Houston Independent School District. The pretext consists of one problem school that the city was improving. State officials have not presented any plan to do better. We can anticipate that they will make some aspects of the schools worse, and I conjecture that that is their real goal. We must expect deceit from Republicans.

The imposed state board will have the power to impose censorship, and I expect it will use that to prompt racism and sexism and interfere with sex education, as DeMentis is doing in Florida.

I expect Republicans will also ramp up the school-to-prison pipeline. With so many black students in that district, this will be a great opportunity to put many of them in state prisons and thus disenfranchise them.

*Vast releases of [methane] gas, along with future "methane bombs," represent huge threat — but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating.* -->