US citizens: call on Congress to stop the continuing practice of taking immigrant children away from their parents and subjecting them to cruel conditions including denial of medical treatment.

If you sign, please spread the word!

US citizens: call on American officials at various levels to end water shutoffs and restore water service to everyone.

If you sign, please spread the word!

US citizens: call on Congress to staff the new Congressional Oversight Commission with aggressive watchdogs to prevent corruption in coronavirus relief spending.

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Robert Bork's evisceration of US antitrust law allowed a gouging company to dismantle the US government's contract for making copious inexpensive ventilators.

More information about those events (though it doesn't trace the connections to antitrust law and Medtronic).

But it does mention that the US government pushed to reduce the number of hospital beds because it expected that the business-based US medical system would seek excuses to keep all hospital beds full.

A National Health Service can maintain extra beds as a reserve, given political will to provide good medical care.

The ACLU won a US court ruling that disobeying a server's terms of service (or disservice) does not violate the CFAA.

This will be a milestone victory, if it endures, but we cannot take it as final yet. I expect the big digital quasi-monopolies will arrange to try to reverse this decision.

Too bad we could not bring Aaron Swartz back to life if the decision stands.