The BREATHE Act would stop the Pentagon from filling US thug departments with military weapons and systems.

NBA players went on strike, and quickly won agreement to use NBA stadiums as special safe voting facilities in elections starting this year. Also for efforts to promote voting and promote criminal justice reform.

*USPS is telling people their mail is being held 'at the request of the customer.' It isn’t true.*

The rich use charity (along with buying politicians) to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. This charity will not correct the huge injustices of our time — that requires government programs.

The article makes many criticisms against the US nonprofit sector, and some of them are mistaken. For instance, I think museums are an important contribution to society. But the article's main points are valid.

Near the end the article presents a grab-bag of criticisms, some of which are logically invalid. For instance, when ACLU offices discriminated against queer people, that was wrong, but that does not invalidate the ACLU's work. It should not reduce in the slightest our appreciation of the ACLU's campaign to make it illegal to discriminate against queer people, or for many other legal rights. We must reject the fallacy that failure to totally live its principles makes an organization (or a person) worthless.

When mail-in ballots make it through the USPS, the gauntlet is not finished. Many localities and states are not prepared to handle large quantities of postal ballots.

In addition, as Greg Palast has informed us, local officials have opportunities to discriminate in rejecting postal ballots, and they use them.

I decided to use early voting rather than postal voting.