Billionaires strive to undermine democracy to pass laws to transfer more wealth to them. But desire for even more wealth is not their only reason. Some also make a political calculation that if workers are in penury they will be unable to organize to resist. So they seek to push workers down to penury.

That ideology appeared by the late 1700s and it is still influential today among billionaire right-wingers.

*Wild caught, freshwater fish in the United States are far more contaminated with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” than those commercially caught in oceans,*

This makes sense. The PFAs in a lake is basically stuck there, while those released into the ocean can diffuse through the whole volume of the ocean.

What is clear is that we must stop filling the water with these toxins.

(satire) *Debt-Ridden 4th-Grader Shouldn't Have Recklessly Invested In Lunch.*

The UK had plainclothes thugs infiltrate anti-apartheid protesters in the 1970s, to snoop on their protest planning and their discussions with their lawyers about defending them in trial.

Ethiopia works hard to forget about the past practice of slavery, which was abolished there only in 1942. The subject is embarrassing so people are encouraged to forget about it.