If Democrats win the election, and if the Republicans that have seized the Supreme Court don't impose a Republican victory, the Democrats must legislate to undo the dirty court tricks.

Increasing the size of the court would do the job, but decreasing it might be even better. Imagine reducing the court to six judges, based on seniority: all three of the wrecker's appointees would be pushed off.

The constitution says that they remain federal judges for life. But they can be judges in lower courts.

The same method could be used to remove many of the wrecker-appointed judges from federal appeals courts.

Iran's UN ambassador: *"The eight violent wars that the United States initiated or joined since 2001, under the rubric of war on terror, have resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, countless broken societies and families… and unprecedented extremism."*

I would guess that these include Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen. Iran has also intervened to some extent in those countries during this period. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Iran intervened much less violently than the US. In Syria, Iran intervened more strongly and violently than the US. In Yemen, Iran intervened by proxy, which the US ls also doing, but the US carried out direct bombings before that.

*Despite CDC Moratorium—and With Help From White House—Corporate Landlords Have Gone on Eviction Spree.*

I think we should have a law putting a real-estate tax on corporations owning more than a few rental houses, or more than a few apartment buildings, and likewise on the corporations that own them, etc.

*UK mobile phone firms to be banned from selling locked handsets.*

This doesn't alter the basic injustices of mobile phones — that the phone network tracks them and they can be converted into listening devices — so it would not convince me to carry one. But it does eliminate one common secondary nastiness.

*College students make a last-ditch effort to make Election Day an academic holiday.*

I am in favor of this.