From Free Press: US citizens, please phone Senator Maria Cantwell at (202) 224-3441 and call on her to hold the vote to confirm Gigi Sohn in the FCC before the end of January. If no one answers, please leave a message.

An opposition candidate defeated one of Maduro's lieutenants in an election for Congress.

The article doesn't say which opposition position the winner supports — was it the "surrender to the US" golpista opposition of Guaidó, or was it the honest-government opposition? I wish I could find out.

The Taliban have jailed a professor for criticizing their policies.

Proposing to unite the racial groups in a society by defining them as not exclusive of each other. The article proposes this specifically for the case of New Zealand, but it could be applicable elsewhere.

The FTC has investigated what personal data ISPs collect from their customers. However it is thinking in terms of regulating how ISPs can use that data, rather than whether they can collect it. In general, that choice is the ineffective choice.

If you can find a way to tell the FTC, "Limit the data ISPs can collect!", that would be useful to do — and I would be glad to post here the way to reach that agency, if it does not require running nonfree Javascript code.