A brain-eating amoeba is spreading in range, apparently due to global heating.

Thugs in a town near Chicago shot Randy Green's dog for no reason. The dog had got loose in the yard, but never showed any hostility towards the thugs.

I read in an article I don't want to link to (because it focuses on a video in YouTube) that thugs in California shot a man's dog because he made a video of them.

Doctors in some Catholic hospitals secretly perform medically necessary abortions, hiding the practice so that bishops can't stop them.

I wonder if it would be possible to pass an initiative in the State of Washington saying that hospitals may not impose a policy of refusing to provide a lawful life-saving medical procedure for non-medical reasons. This might make the Catholic Church sell its hospitals there, which would be a decisive victory.

Calling on the US government to respect the rights of all participants in journalism.

As e-commerce makes retail more efficient, lots of jobs are disappearing in the US.

If retail were the only sector increasing efficiency by eliminating jobs, it might not be a problem. But it's happening, or will soon happen, in many other sectors, resulting in a large pool of people who can't ever get work. Of course, the plutocrats want to get rid of those people by condemning them to sickness, or pushing them into crime so that they can be locked up and turned into slave labor. The school-to-prison pipeline is part of that scheme.