*White US neighborhoods have more EPA air quality monitors, study finds.*

This despite the fact that white US neighborhoods tend on the average to have more pollution than black neighborhoods — so the EPA is not doing that part of its job fairly.

This systematic racial unfairness is one of many kinds, which add up to what is called structural racism.

I have a hunch that the system involved, in this particular case, is a simpler system than in many other cases. Perhaps studying how this system functions, and how it produces unfair results, could shed like on how structural racism more generally, and on how to prevent it.

*Ex-FBI officials worry that Kash Patel as director may wield unlimited power.*

That could include *opening investigations unilaterally*.

Some past FBI directors have done such things, and their power threatened freedom in the US. The fascist might relish that.

Man Americans are jumping on a bandwagon for raw milk based on choosing a political side

— rather than based on medical facts.

Some of the arguments are evidently irrational. For instance, one proponent argues that more dangers is virtuous because that requires producers to be more careful: if raw milk increases the danger caused by "cutting corners".that will make everyone more careful.

Experience says, however, that increasing the danger that can result from any sort of slip-up will mean more people harmed by slip-ups. Safety engineering is based on recognizing that everyone makes mistakes, so we should design a system in which mistakes don't cause bad consequences.

US citizens: Oppose the creation of Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" (or, better described, Department of Government Evisceration").

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators and tell them to extend the ACA Advance Premium Tax Credits, to avoid a large increase in the cost of medical insurance.

If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121