The Death of the Mind

Uber and Lyft have put a referendum on the ballot in California to define their drivers a new legal status combining the worst aspects of being an employee with the worst aspects of independent contracting. The article also describes other deceptive tricks that they are using. This is in addition to making customers identify themselves and run nonfree software,

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Philadelphia court officials will announce a temporary stay on lockouts related to eviction orders Tuesday, PlanPhilly has learned. The move comes as landlord-tenant proceedings begin to ramp up at city courts after months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic and a statewide moratorium on evictions that ended on Aug. 31 despite calls to the Pennsylvania legislature to extend it from Gov. Tom Wolf. But while some restrictions remain in place, the Tuesday reopening of courtrooms means at least…

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On September 9, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge J. Andrew Crompton issued an opinion in In Re Nomination Paper of Scroggin, 460 M.D. 2020. The opinion rejects the challenge against Howie Hawkins being on the ballot for President. However, it accepts the challenge to his vice-presidential running mate, Angela Walker. The basis for the objection had been that the stand-in presidential and vice-presidential candidates had not submitted proper declarations of candidacy. But it turns out the…

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Power to the people! We have the power to change if we stay united. We have incredible opportunity now. We see the movement’s growing, especially after the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention. The conventions showed us that those parties do not represent the people and that our power is not in elections. Our power is in building people power — and we see that happening. We need to build power, so that in…

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court wants the State Election Commission to file a response by 4 p.m., Tuesday, September 8, in the ballot access lawsuit filed by the Green Party and Howie Hawkins.

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On Saturday, September 5, the Texas Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in In re Texas House Republican Caucus PAC, 20-0663. The Court has seven members, but two of them are running for re-election (with Libertarian Party opponents) so they recused themselves. The five justices who participated ruled that the Republican Party effort to keep Libertarian candidates off the ballot for congress and state office was filed too late. Texas elects its state judges in…

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