Defendants in US courts are sentenced based on secret AI programs and told they are not allowed to find out what the basis was for the decision.

The founders of the US considered trade secrecy antisocial, to the point that one argument for having a patent system is to discourage trade secrecy.

How about if we discourage trade secrecy by eliminating the laws that artificially facilitate it?

The Janus decision doesn't have to kill public employee unions. It does mean that they have to put much more effort into organizing.

Destruction of tropical forest has hit a record pace. It is a positive-feedback system for global heating.

Plutocratist governments that promote deforestation for the sake of business are a big part of the cause.

Tim Wilkins encountered multiple groups of teenagers and children being moved around the US in commercial flights, accompanied by people who tried to stop them from talking with him.

One of them very much wanted to talk with him, but was scared to do so. Probably she had been punished very harshly and knew what they would do to her. She said she had arrived in the US alone, but the toddlers were surely brought by their parents.

The word "detained" is designed to deemotionalize a vicious crime. Please join me in refusing to use that word in this context. We don't have to let official policies impose vocabulary on us.

Thugs force prisoners in immigration prison to recite the US pledge of allegiance every day to express their "respect" for the US. The US should show more respect for them, but I think that the one-sidedness of this is intentional. The bully's idea of making America "great" is that all bow down to it. The authoritarian followers that are his supporters will groove on seeing him make others bow down. "You have to respect us and we don't have to respect you" is what he stands for.