The Communications Workers of America is trying to organize unions in tech companies.

I support this, even though many of those companies distribute unjust nonfree software or operate online dis-services.

Those companies should not exist in their current form — but as long as the company does exist, it's good to make it workers better.

Records show that nonwhites in the US tend to get worse punishments than whites for violations of Covid-19 emergency regulations. This demonstrates racist injustice at work.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid that bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I object to bigotry, and normally I decline to link to articles which promote it. But I make an exception for articles which give important information about racism or the fight to eliminate racism. That article is one of the exceptions.

People have noticed that the Capitol police were very gentle with the insurrectionists, and contrasted this with the violence of thugs in many cities towards peaceful protesters for Black Lives Matter and other progressive causes.

That the Capitol police restrained their violence was a good thing, and I think that helped some Republican leaders to withdraw their support from the wrecker. What was not good is that thugs did not extend the same respect and decency towards progressive protesters.

Why this difference? I think the Capitol police have been trained in how to deal with protesters with restraint and respecting their rights. They expect protests and expect journalists to be watching.

By contrast, the thug departments of cities vary. Some of them have a culture of violence toward progressives and especially blacks.

As has been pointed out, most thugs are right-wing and have cheered on right-wing counterprotesters even when those are killing Black Lives Matter protesters. I saw a rumor that some even took selfies with the insurrectionists at the Capitol.

Republicans dominate the Pennsylvania state senate, but they decided to increase their majority by arbitrarily refusing to seat one Democratic state senator.

Democrats criticized this action, but I wonder, can they do anything to stop it?

Pennsylvania has a Democratic majority, but Republicans have imposed minority rule in the state senate via gerrymandering.

The world's oil and gas companies are still making a profit and still planning to increase their extraction to make more profit.

When they talk about "going green", it is part distraction (look at the wind farms we are building and ignore all the CO2 our oil generates, look at our reduction in emissions from our own operations and ignore the emissions when customers burn our product), and part co-optation (when Shell buys a solar energy company that doesn't necessarily increase solar energy investment). All designed to let them keep increasing the problem.

They want us to give them subsidies for green energy systems even bigger than the the subsidies they get for extracting oil and gas. Then they would make the transition, but slowly.

They would be quite capable of putting earnest efforts into a transition to green energy, if we eliminate the subsidies for gas and oil and replace them with a carbon tax.