A special SIM card blocks all non-Tor data communication, so that mobile services can't tell the user's real IP address and perhaps not per location either.

However, the phone network can still determine the user's phone's location.

The official that moved Dodge City's sole polling place out into the countryside claims to have done it for the sake of pedestrian safety. We are asked to believe that Republicans think it is safer to have pedestrians cross a state highway than to have them cross a local street.

I expect Republicans will really believe that, once they get the instructions to believe it.

Global heating threatens many everyday foods.

The public rarely sees, and thus rarely thinks about, proposals to take action that would suffice to prevent global heating disaster.

I am not convinced it is necessary to eliminate capitalism entirely. Clearly, however, it is necessary to eliminate plutocracy. Perhaps the author identifies the two; many progressives do.

I don't think it is necessary to eliminate computers, the internet, or entertainment. They do not have to consume a lot of rare materials and energy; they don't inherently need to be built to last a short time. Rather, the general tendency of the modern economy towards planned obsolescence affects computers just as it affects coffeemakers.

Meanwhile, I urge people to have no children. Why drag more people into impending disaster? Having no children will reduce the size of the disaster, even as it spares some potential human beings from having to undergo it.

With the Italian Fascists and the German Nazis, calls to imprison political opponents were linked with violence against them.