In the News (#1660)

“Company destroys two million books” is not a headline that generates sympathy. – ISBNdb Welcome to the Future (#1351) Minority Report meets 1984: The FBI office in charge of maintaining the terrorist watch list is seeking an a[lgorithmic] system for pre-crime policing…just as [the Trump regime shifts] its focus…from Islamist terrorism to domestic dissent… Business Opportunity (#1527) Politicians are increasingly brazen in their attempts to circumvent the Constitution: A federal court has slapped down an attempt by the town of Johnston, Rhode Island, to [keep the poors out by stealing] a vacant lot slated for affordable housing development…[After] a [federal] judge [previously returned the deed to its owners and blocked politicians from taking any action to steal the property again]…the town passed a resolution creating its own…eminent domain [process that it declared superseded state and federal law]…but the district court was having none of it. “A municipality is not in and of…