Schools use "social media monitoring" disservices claiming that this is a way to detect and stop shootings before they happen. But the disservices don't seem to work very well, because their "understanding" is fragmentary and confused. The few real danger cases are hidden in an ocean of irony, humor and unrelated conversations.

Even worse, schools use the disservices to monitor protests, too.

Some of the wrecker's supporters invited him to order seizure of voting machines so as to "prove" he had really won the 2020 election.

The Supreme Court's crooked path of reinterpreting the Second Amendment to wipe out gun control.

Republicans have developed a six-point plan for increasing fossil fuel emissions.

Meanwhile, their UK equivalents approved development of a new oil field in the North Sea, disregarding the fact that there is no room in the carbon budget for any more.

Republicans plan to terminate the extended school breakfast and lunch program that is feeding ten million American children.

Their parents could apply to be covered anyway, but only some would be accepted. Meanwhile, the cost of food has increased greatly and even more would have to go hungry now.