US citizens: call on representatives to vote against the TPP.

US citizens: support the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter to support the Dingell-Ellison letter, calling on Obama to restrain Saudi the attack on Yemen and pursue diplomacy.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

The Obama regime has backed off on the idea of requiring back-doors in products that do encryption.

They may try again at any time.

The US has given up on training non-jihadi Syrian rebels, since that didn't work. But it does not have a better plan.

The only useful plan that I can envision is to reinforce the Kurds, but it is clear that the US is unwilling to do that.