Tuesday, April 11th, 2023

Time	Event
10:17a	Biden's cave to insurance industry *Jayapal Laments Biden's Cave to Insurance Industry on Medicare Advantage.* (Comment on this)
10:17a	Ban on Mifepristone The biased Republican judge who was asked to ban Mifepristone went ahead and did it. The appeals court and the Supreme Court, both Republican, are likely try uphold the ban. (Comment on this)
10:17a	Ocean surface temperature *World’s ocean surface temperature hits record high.* (Comment on this)
10:17a	US withdrawal from Afghanistan The White House blames decisions that the corrupter made, that were effectively impossible to reverse, for the chaos of the 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan. (Comment on this)
10:17a	Clarence Thomas' secret luxury trips * "Please": Critics Scoff at Clarence Thomas' Defense of Secret Luxury Trips.* (Comment on this)
10:17a	Keeping people in prisons based on algorithmic predictions Australia's right-wing government is keeping people in prison based on untrustworthy algorithmic predictions. (Comment on this)
10:17a	High-tech "lie detectors" High-tech "lie detectors" are unreliable for the reason older ones are: because they are based on a simplistic model of how people behave. (Comment on this)
10:17a	Merger of two US railroads The US Surface Transportation Board approved the merger of two of the very large railroads. This will hurt customers and workers while benefiting (as usual) the owners. Large companies, or companies that have more then 5% of a market they operate in, should never be allowed to merge. (Comment on this)
10:17a	Biden's Medicare Advantage reform Biden has taken some steps to reform Medicare Advantage, but didn't have the gumption to do enough to make the insurance companies deal fairly with the public or the government. (Comment on this)
10:17a	Plastics in food containers There is evidence that some of the plastics used in food containers makes people tend to get fat. (Comment on this)
10:17a	Ohio oil and gas drilling *Green groups sue to stop Ohio from leasing state parks for oil and gas drilling.* A new Ohio law defines fossil fuel as "green". We can call it a "liar law", and it shows the dishonesty of Republicans. The basis for the lawsuit is that the legislators disregarded Ohio's constitutional rules for passing a law. (Comment on this)
10:17a	Democratic Tennessee legislators The two Democratic Tennessee legislators that Republicans expelled for joining a protest in the legislature are planning to be appointed as their own "replacements" — and then run to replace themselves permanently. (Comment on this)
10:17a	Cheater's campaign rally in Waco The cheater held a campaign rally in Waco, but Waco officials made him sign a contract so strict that he won't be able to avoid paying the costs. For instance, it required him to pay in advance. (Comment on this)
10:17a	Biden's rejection of neoliberalism Biden has explicitly rejected neoliberalism and the cult of the invisible hand. This is an important victory, though we need to advance further in order to change all dooH niboR policies that squeeze wealth up to the rich. Nothing like this has occurred in the UK. *One in three young teachers in England skipping meals to make ends meet.* (Comment on this)
10:17a	Ending capitalism to avoid climate collapse Mark Dunlea: *Avoiding climate collapse requires ending capitalism.* I hope he is mistaken, because ending capitalism entirely would imply communism, which in practice has implied repression and terrible economic problems. We have good societies with a great deal of socialism, but capitalism persists as well. (Comment on this)
10:17a	Tesla staff sharing videos from car cameras Tesla cars record videos of activity inside the car, and company staff can watch those recordings and copy them. Or at least they were able to do so until last year. They may have changed some security functions so that this is harder to do. But if Tesla can get those recordings, that is because it is planning for some people to use them in some situation, and that is unjust already. It should be illegal to make a car that takes photos or videos of the people in the car. Or of people outside the car. (Comment on this)
10:17a	G20 countries spending on liquefied gas G20 countries are spending big on constructing more liquefied gas exports. The owners of these facilities will pay politicians to let them continue to profit from them. (Comment on this)
10:17a	Battle in Gaza provoked by attack Israeli attacks on Muslim worshipers in al-Aqsa provoked battle in Gaza. I'm sure the right-wing government could predict this -- such things have happened many times — which implies it sought this. I conjecture that this is a plan to to manipulate Israelis to drop their resistance to what the government really wants: to attack democracy in Israel, permanently. (Comment on this)

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