The Luddites destroyed high-efficiency weaving machines because the factory owners used them to cut wages and starve the poor.

The same thing is happening today. Worker productivity in the US has soared since 1980, but the rich take all the benefit.

I've read that some McDonalds outlets in NYC have replaced service personnel with keyboards. If you see one, take your business to a place that employs humans rather than robots.

The only way to avoid the violent fight against robots is to win by nonviolent resistance now.

Changes in society, especially in the nature of work, discourage people from joining organizations which meet physically and can take political action. That's super-convenient for the rich.

Leaked memos say that the troll has been feeding Putin intelligence for 8 years, partly because he is being blackmailed, and that his lawyer helped arrange the cracking of Democratic Party sites.

That lawyer says the memos are phony.

I have insufficient basis to reach a conclusion, but the idea of blackmailing the troll by threatening to show that he had sex with prostitutes in a bed Obama had slept in seems implausible to me. I'd expect the troll to crow about that as if it were some sort of victory for him.

More analysis of the credibility of this report.

SCROTUS displays blatant support for corruption in multiple ways.

A change in House rules allows congresscritters to conceal some of their papers from ethics investigations.

US citizens: On Jan 23, phone the White House at 202-456-1111 and call on the loser to keep his promise to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.