Around the US, cities are removing the protections against corruption and privatization of public schools.

ALEC is organizing pressure for states to compel low-wage workers to return to work.

Republicans are also organizing to make sure that, if they get sick, they will get no treatent and their families will get no income.

*Vice President Pence’s office threatened to retaliate against a reporter who revealed that Pence’s office had told journalists they would need masks for Pence’s visit to the Mayo Clinic…*

The Republican rule is, "You have no right to show the world what we really do."

Xiaomi phones report many actions the user takes — starting an app, looking at a folder, visiting a web site, listening to a song. They send identifying information too.

You are probably aware that lots of other nonfree programs and disservices snoop on users. For instance, Spotify and other streaming dis-services make a dossier about each user, and they make users identify themselves to pay. Out, out, damned Spotify!

It is peculiar that Forbes exonerates the same wrongs when the culprits are not Chinese — but we shouldn't make that mistake.

*We must recognize that there was an affordable housing crisis before the pandemic and there will be one after.*