As large, centralized companies come to dominate the internet for most users, they become choke points for censorship. (Please don't call them "cloud" anything — the real cloud is in the minds of the people who use that term.)

In the free world, we do not depend on those companies, or any specific companies. That is necessary for freedom.

Note that Telegram's cryptography software is not "proprietary" in the usual sense; the Telegram client is free software. WhatsApp, by contrast, is proprietary software, which is plenty of reason to refuse to run it.

The Wall Street Journal Keeps Peddling Big Oil Propaganda.

When big chain stores close, to revitalize shopping districts calls for non-chain stores, each different from the rest.

The US deportation thug department (ICE) was created in the name of "homeland security", and this promoted the fictitious idea that unauthorized immigrants are threats, even "terrorists".

This may explain the use of tactics that verge on terrorism — such as taking babies and children away from their parents, for no purpose except to terrify.

Since there is no real need for this agency, let's get rid of it.

I support this particular proposal despite the fact that it comes from the Antisocialist Party.

The bully has given Salafi Arabia the total military support of the US. He even accepted a medal from the king.

The US has no legitimate grounds to be involved in Salafi Arabia's attack on Yemen even slightly, and no sensible reason to want to be involved.