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Fines for poor on welfare
The UK fines poor people who receive welfare benefits if they break
rules. The aggregate effect is to make it harder for them to find
work and push them into jobs with lower pay. |
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Expensive gifts received by Justice Thomas
Justice Thomas received many expensive gifts from a billionaire
over a period of decades, without reporting them.
*Demand Justice renews calls for Senate investigation into Supreme
Court justices' ties to far-right donors.*
*AOC Says Clarence Thomas 'Must Be Impeached' Over 'Almost Cartoonish'
Corruption.*
I agree he deserves to be removed from office, but it's useless to
try to achieve that by impeaching him, because the Supreme Court
is now thoroughly politicized — Republican senators won't remove
someone who is on their side. |
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Oilfield in North Sea
*New oilfield in the North Sea would blow the UK’s carbon budget.*
Like the "Willow project" in the US, it shows a government that is
letting Big Oil pull the world to disaster. But this one shows how
the presupposition that "carbon capture and storage" will cancel
out the carbon emissions is being used to excuse going further
out on the limb. |
| 9:17a |
DeMentis' censorship ban
*Democrats bid to use [DeMentis'] censorship law against [him] and
ban his book.* |
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Atlantic mackerel
Atlantic mackerel was considered a "sustainable fishery", but it seems
that was not actually so — fish stocks are declining, which implies
it fishing for them isn't really sustainable. |
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Prohibition on leavened bread during Passover
Israeli religious fanatics have imposed by law a prohibition on
bringing leavened bread into hospitals during Passover.
Religious fanatics seek above all to impose their religion's
obsessions on everyone. The amount of trouble those obsessions cause
varies greatly. Banning bread for a week is rather mild as these
things go. Shutting down public transport on Saturday, which the same
group achieved some decades ago, is worse, but still minor compared
to the ban on abortion that some Christian and Muslim fanatics impose.
However, giving religious believers the power to impose their
obsessions on everyone is harmful in itself, independent of the
specific obsessions they choose. |
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Education in Puerto Rico
The series of disasters in Puerto Rico — Hurricanes interspersed with
Covid-19 — have ruined education, leaving most students years behind
their grade.
These disasters have combined with the crushing debt burden
exacerbated by the nondemocratic fiscal controls imposed by Congress
which are designed to pay the debts at no matter what cost to Puerto
Ricans. This is driving people to migrate to various US states where
they have somewhat more rights (whatever Republicans do not take
away). Education is another motive to migrate. Even in a state with
lousy public schools, they are better than Puerto Rico's schools.
The more people migrate, the greater the debt burden per person
remaining. Eventually, I expect, this will force everyone to leave,
and the land will be sold to corporations. |
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Urgent: Increase the estate tax
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say to increase the estate
tax, and stop the use of trusts to bypass that tax. Millionaires'
families should not be allowed to accumulate growing fortunes across
generations.
Then phone your senators and make the same point.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
+1-202-224-3121,
+1-888-818-6641 and
+1-888-355-3588.
If you phone, please spread the word! |
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Urgent: Reject the RESTRICT act
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators and call on them
to reject the RESTRICT act, which would allow the US government to ban
arbitrarily the accessing of non-US web sites.
I see nothing about TikTok that would excuse its existence, but we should
ban sites for disrespecting privacy, not for being under the control of China.
Please do not use the EFF's recommendations. for how to contact your
Congressional officials. That method depends on running nonfree
software, The only ways of doing that which don't treat you unjustly
are (1) phoning and (2) sending snail mail.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
+1-202-224-3121,
+1-888-818-6641 and
+1-888-355-3588.
If you phone, please spread the word! |