The US and Salafi Arabia allied with the forces of corruption to kill a proposed European blacklist for countries that disguise money from taxation.

This might be one good reason for the UK to leave the EU: to be able to set up such a blacklist on its own.

In the US: call on the governors of New York and Pennsylvania to protect trans people in those states' national guard.

If you sign, please spread the word!

US citizens: Tell the FDIC to stop the mega-bank merger of SunTrust and BB&T.

If you sign, please spread the word!

The Dakota Access pipeline company lost its SLAPP lawsuit in federal court, so now it is suing in a North Dakota court.

North Dakota has given plenty of indication of being in the oil industry's pocket.

The University of California system has refused to resubscribe to Elsevier journals.

The cause of this decision was something shallow — disagreement about price. The UC system lacks the courage to reject paywalled scholarly journals in order to put an end to them. Nonetheless, this could pull a big brick out of the paywall system, as I've called for since 2001, and moving to free/libre scientific publishing.