A one-off victory over NSA surveillance is likely to get smaller: the US Senate is on the way to pass the "USA FREEDOM Act" which makes inadequate changes.

But the NSA might not even obey these changes. If so, how will be find out? We will need another hero…another Snowden.

Phone call records tracking is just one element of massive surveillance. We need to organize a stronger movement to limit other forms of pervasive surveillance. We need to require redesign of digital systems so that they don't accumulate dossiers about people in general.

Please join me in rejecting Facebook and Amazon. Support your local physical stores, and protect your privacy, by paying cash to buy things.

In the US, 15% of whites killed by thugs were unarmed. 32% of blacks killed by thugs were unarmed.

Global heating is tied to the position of the jet stream, which leads to blizzards and floods in the US and Europe.

Sweden is giving new fathers 3 months of paid parental leave, to go with paid leave for mothers.

The reason why parental leave is important is so that newborn people get a good start on life. Likewise for other programs that support families; skimping on a child's nutrition, medical care, education or causing stress can cause irreparable lifelong harm.

These programs may also encourage some people to have more children. This is a negative effect, but surely small by comparison with the good done for children. We can easily overcome it through birth control assistance to the poor.

The Supreme Court ruled against a company that refused to hire a woman because she wore a headscarf for religious reasons.

US companies are far too intrusive about their employees' looks, especially about female employees. Nonreligious people need protection from this too.