Groups Denounce Energy Department’s Sneak Attack on Solar.

The attack consists of setting up a study that seems designed to provide an excuse to eliminate net metering -- the practice of buying electric power from owners of home solar power systems.

I met someone who said per business was "selling solar systems." So I asked, "How do people that buy solar systems travel to them? Have you got faster-than-light travel?"

Medicare for All, by disconnecting medical care from employment, would free Americans from being stuck to a specific job.

If employers did not have to pay for employees' medical care -- if that came from taxes not associated with employing anyone -- that would also reduce the pressure to replace workers with automation.

A Portuguese ISP shows what the loss of network neutrality would lead to: separate fees for access to various services.

A court in Mississippi banned a woman from contact with her baby because she had not paid fines.

The article makes it clear that this is part of the general US practice of loading down the poor with fines they can't pay. It is noteworthy that the mother was jailed while looking for work. It is clear that the system is designed so that the fines cannot be paid.

If you want to be able to fine any American, you must stop making millions of Americans so poor that they have to go to jail rather than pay.

John Kelly expressed regrets that the US didn't reach some sort of "compromise" about slavery in 1860.

This is the same false-equivalence veil for bigotry that the troll has used.

The US Congress made a series of compromises over slavery in the decades preceding the Civil War. (See the Missouri Compromise in Wikipedia.) The effect of these compromises was to perpetuate slavery, and that would have been true in 1860, 1880, 1900, and 2000 if the North hadn't said "No more compromises."