Covid-19 is still dangerous, and infection rates are increasing. Governments are neglecting it.

Robert Reich: *Biden is turning away from free trade — and that’s a great thing.*

*[Business-supremacy treaties] have brought cheaper goods. They’ve also destroyed millions of US jobs and caused US wages to stagnate.*

They have done similar harm to other countries.

And the ISDS clauses have blocked efforts to curb global heating and protect the environment, public health and the general standard of living. And then there is the oil investment treaty.

*Climate crisis to create "acute" challenges for Australia’s economy, incoming [Royal Bank of Australia] governor says.*

A San Francisco city commissioner organized a "doom loop" tour to highlight the city's problems. It received a lot of media attention so he felt compelled to cancel it, and then resign.

It turned out he is an executive in a real-estate company. Naturally he would perceive civic issues in terms of profit in the real estate market. Not the best sort of person to appoint to a municipal office in a city where high rents are devastating low-wage workers, as ell as many niche businesses that would employ them. San Francisco has a real housing crisis and saying things are just fine will not help.

San Francisco needs to find a way to let people use the abandoned office buildings and stores as housing — fast! Even if it means relaxing or substituting, for these conversions, some codes that apply specifically to residential buildings. In this case, the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Burning Man has changed, over the decades, from a reunion of hippies to a rich people's gathering where some fly in on private jets. So environmentalists protested by blocking the road.

They call on Burning Man to stop permitting private jets, as well as a few excessive forms of consumption of fossil fuels and single-use plastics.

It's sad how so many billionaires (and the far more numerous decibillionaires) distort our society. If Burning Man agrees to these demands, some decibillionaires might stay away.