The bipartisan infrastructure sellout-or-deal include an attempt to crack down on fraud in unemployment insurance.

Whatever it does, it is likely to screw people who are entitled to unemployment support. And the supposed amount to be saved is likely to be way exaggerated.

A "good guy with a gun" shot a murderer. Then a uniformed thug shot him dead without giving him time to explain.

*Nathan Maung says [Burmese prison thugs] punched, slapped and beat him, and kept him blindfolded for over a week.*

They also chained him in painful positions and denied him sleep.

They didn't know, for the first few days, that he was a US citizen. So his treatment may be representative of how they treat political prisoners who are citizens only of Burma. But he says that some prisoners got worse torture than he did.

Black Lives Matter activists and supporters in the UK are getting death threats; when they state their support, they are accused of "inflaming racial tensions".

I think that the thugs who are quick to murder blacks are the ones who inflame the racial tensions. The issue is how to change their behavior.

US citizens: call on Congress to protect workers from Amazon's oppressive surveillance.