Senate Republicans seem to be feeling pressure to compromise on a new relief bill, but they are yielding only a little.

This article does not mention the damaging provisions that Senate Republicans previously insisted on including in any relief bill. Those include giving businesses immunity for dangerous working conditions that let workers transmit Covid-19, and cutting Social Security in the future. They would do lasting harm, and we should not agree to them in exchange for temporary aid. In the long term, that would be a change for the worse.

Have the Republicans dropped those demands? Can anyone tell me?

The article mentions the need to provide funds to the CDC, the postal service, election protection, and Covid-19 testing, but it does mention them in regard to the negotiations. Have Senate Republicans agreed to funds for those? Can anyone tell me?

UK police are considering criminal charges against one thug who put his knee on a person's neck.

I have to acknowledge that the UK treats discipline for its cops very seriously. When the government decides that a practice is unjust or endangers the public, it can take firm action to teach cops not to do it. I wish the US could do likewise.

Ralph Nader: Economists should develop [an index] to rank the "greed-with-power" status of the 500 largest U.S. corporations.

I think his proposed term, "hedonistic index", does not do justice to the proposal: that word does not imply greed or power. There is nothing evil about hedonism as such — imperfect, yes, but not evil.

Some US veterans say their prescriptions from the VA pharmacies have arrived as much as 20 days late.

This suggests that the cheater's efforts to sabotage voting by mail are very effective. And the saboteur plans to go even further.

US thugs are so lawless that we should not be terribly surprised to learn that they have their own secret criminal gangs.

Also their own right-wing social media hate groups.