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Hard Times

We should stick together. Here’s how.

The Great Thaw is Already Happening

We don’t think of the ground beneath our feet as anything but solid. But climate change is coming for that, too.

We Are Choosing to Make Hundreds of Thousands of Americans Live Outside

One of the more bizarre and pathetic aspects of capitalism is the self-congratulatory coverage of free meals given to the homeless and poor on holidays like Christmas, presented as though people don’t need to eat, or live inside, 365 days out of the year. Meanwhile, millions of homes are abandoned, wasted vacation homes or warehoused […]

The 2018 Carpenter v United States decision that police must get a warrant to access cell-site location information has been cited in hundreds of cases in 2019. Here are five privacy-invasive technologies that it has, or could, rein in. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/courts-grapple-sea-change-fourth-amendment-law-after-carpenter-v-us-year-review

One thing is certain: public pressure to halt face surveillance—whether on the land or in the skies—is working. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/fighting-back-against-face-surveillance-skies-year-review-2019

Good news...

Ring and Amazon hit with federal lawsuit over security concerns - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/ring-amazon-sued-federal-court-security-hacking-2fa-2019-12?IR=T

Antarctic Ice Melt May Have Hit an All-Time High on Christmas Eve
https://earther.gizmodo.com/antarctic-ice-melt-may-have-hit-an-all-time-high-on-chr-1840679498 #climatechange #climatecrisis

This makes you think...

George Orwell's '1984' became too real this decade
https://mashable.com/article/1984-george-orwell-2010s/

I’m in today’s Wall Street Journal

Check out my piece in today’s Wall Street Journal. It’s about how Bernie Sanders could very well still be the Democratic nominee and is being under rated by the Democratic and media establishments. You can usually evade the pay wall by going through Twitter.

Called Out

Mike Bloomberg for President used prison labor to make 2020 campaign phone calls

New Year, Same Monsters

It’s new years’ at the White House.

Some Items of Questionable Provenance at the British Museum

A tour of imperial plunder.

This is Something Republicans Would Never Do

Mainstream Democrats constantly argue that their party must move toward the center, the right, in order to win elections. Republicans never argue anything similar, yet win elections. Go figure.

Capturing CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%

Researchers have patented a new concept that could cut trucks' CO2 emissions by almost 90%. It involves capturing CO2 within the exhaust system, converting it into a liquid and storing it on the vehicle. The liquid CO2 would then be delivered to a service station and where it will be turned back into fuel using renewable energy.

How to Beat the Post-Holiday Blues

Really lean in to that new-years resolution.

Get-Well Gifts For the Un-Vaccinated

They’re going to need them.

Got My Eye On You

Introducing: Eye! Get one for your home today. Don’t worry about it.

The Problem with Voting Strategically Is That You Vote against Yourself

Many self-described liberal Democrats say that they plan to vote for someone to the right of them because they want to be strategic, they want to vote for someone who could appeal to moderate or centrist swing voters. But how do they know their strategy makes sense? It never has worked in the past.