The disastrous Republican farm bill was blocked because some Republicans demand more repression of immigrants.

We can't expect this to save us permanently from the nasty provisions of the farm bill.

Facebook plans to work with a right-wing think-tank funded by rich fossil fuel interests, supposedly to "protect" democracy.

The funding suggests that what they plan to protect is plutocracy

This is one more reason to stop being used by Facebook.

Even as Facebook oppresses real useds with its "real name" requirement, it is easy to buy and run a realistic Facebook account that is completely fake.

Many towns in Britain repress homeless beggars, fining them or jailing them for begging. It almost resembles the US.

If you don't want people to beg, don't make them destitute!

The LocationSmart web site enabled anyone to roughly track the position of any mobile phone, due to completely missing security.

However, anyone willing to commit a crime can get the same data through the bad security of the SS7 protocol through which one phone network talks with another phone network.

Even worse, the data is easily available the government.

This is one reason I refuse to carry a mobile phone. The other is that it can be modified through a back door to listen and transmit all conversations in its vicinity.