US citizens: call on the EPA to ban neonicotinoids.

If thugs demand additional "security" powers, remember that they have lied about this before.

"Security" measures are only addressed to a narrow part of the spectrum of crime. The biggest and most damaging crimes in the US are committed by banksters, and the state refuses to prosecute them even when they are caught. The "security" apparatus did nothing to the perpetrators of foreclosure fraud even though their victims number in the hundreds of thousands (at least).

Systematic reasons cause thugs to prioritize the War on Drugs over investigating reports of kidnapped people.

The US has several bad or difficult options to choose from if it is to intervene in Syria.

The road to the victory over access to Plan B: "We followed a cardinal rule of the radicals of the 1960's Women's Liberation Movement: we demanded what we really wanted, rather than toning down to be respectable."

This is my rule too. Many others demand small changes in the DMCA or DRM, or talk about "open source", and say it's because they don't want to be dismissed as "radical". It means they can't reach for much.