The conman's supporters are eager for the end of the world and they expect him to make it happen. They regard anyone who disagrees with them as an enemy to be spit on with contempt.

(satire) honoring [Aetna's] courageous employees who continue to seek and collect insurance debt from customers “proudly and by any means necessary” in this difficult time.

Oceania reports that the US oil industry has done little to improve safety of offshore drilling since the Big Spill 10 years ago.

The IMF cancelled 6 months' worth of debt payments for the poorest countries, but that is just the beginning of what they need.

A bookstore owner writes about how her bookstore has continued to operate…as a surveillance system.

She presents this as a story of triumph over adversity, disregarding the implications of imposing surveillance on all purchases. For me, this outcome is perverse and alarming. Paying for a book with a credit card tracks people and what they read. So does shipping it to the customer.

I won't give a store any information that could identify me, and especially not a bookstore. So until there is a store that lets me enter, browse, pay cash, and take the book away, I won't buy a book from a bookstore. If bookstores "survive" by converting themselves into collectors of data, all of which is available to the FBI without a warrant under the law Biden helped write, they will become part of the problem.

Can we count on them to let people pay cash again some day?