Some mastodon-looking vehicles are going to be sharing the roads pretty soon. Their technology goes beyond our current definition of a Tesla-like ‘autonomous’ vehicle. These are the real thing. A Swedish company has received approval from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to operate its fleet on certain…

Today the Supreme Court flaunted its regal ruling: Roe vs Wade has been overturned and so have the rights of millions of citizens. It is a decision that is totally out of touch with America today, and adrift from legal logic. Some 80% of Americans want access to abortion. One…

Today the Supreme Court demonstrated its incompetence once again, convincing even more Americans that it is totally out of touch and out of logic. It found that a New York state law violated a person’s right to carry concealed guns outside home: “We know of no other constitutional right that…

The Texas boat sailed. And sank. Some of the white folks in Texas want to split away and become their own country. There is no indication that anyone without ‘white privilege’ is at all that worked up for it. The problem for the Texas’ whites is that they just became…

I just found out how much my bees are worth. The Nova Scotia provincial government is helping blueberry growers increase their yields, by putting extra money into bee hives. Bees pollinate the blueberry flowers. So the province is putting in extra money to help farmers expand their number of hives…

Something is rising from the grave of America’s most violent unresolved conflict. The last remnant of the Confederacy is dying off, and it is clutching at America, flying its flag in the Capitol Building as it takes America down with it…down with the Lost Cause. According to the American Political…

Earlier today we edged closer to the start of a hot war with Russia. Lithuania started to implement EU sanction rules as part of a swathe of measures intended to punish President Vladimir Putin for the invasion of Ukraine. It closed the transit of goods to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave on…

A public media alternative is fundamental for democracy. A new study shows unequivocally that high levels of secure funding for public media systems is consistently and positively correlated with healthy democracies, together with strong structural protections for the political and economic independence of those systems. In America, we are now seeing the obliteration of free opinion by very…

Trump’s try-everything strategy to overturn the election encouraged many monsters to lurch out…people like Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. Ginni was special. She: - Tried to pressure Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to overturn the election; - Sent letters to…