Greg Palast's recommendations for ensuring your ballot does get counted.

The first step is now: make sure you have not been "purged" from the voter's list, while there is still time for you to register again if necessary.

The National Trust in England is going to educate visitors to its old buildings about how they are linked to slavery or conquest.

The country houses and castles of the National Trust are interesting to visit, and worth preserving, because they were built lavishly &mash; by rich people. They surely got their riches by exploiting someone. If it wasn't slaves from Africa, or the natives of conquered territory, it must have been British people.

When we appreciate those buildings we should keep in mind why they exist.

Republicans want to cut the extra unemployment insurance from $600 per week to $200 per week.

They say the current level is "too generous". Republicans believe that generous is only for rich people.

US citizens: call your senators and tell them to pass a Covid-19 relief bill that generously helps non-rich Americans.

New Zealand has adopted new principles for government use of algorithms to make decisions about how to treat individuals.

I think this is a big step forward. The article says that citizens might have the right to demand to see the source code of software that makes decisions about them. However for that to be fully effective, the government should insist that these programs be free/libre. Otherwise, agencies might deny those requests, saying "We signed a contract not to redistribute that source code", "it's a trade secret", or "We don't even have a copy."