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The FLSA and NLRA are hardly unique in being ineffective because their fines are too low. The fines should have, at the very least, been increasing since the acts' passage at the rate of inflation (just as should the minimum wage). Criminal penalties would be good, too.

Manchin and Sinema have no interest in making things better for their constituents. They want to please their donors. Someone, please, show me that there's an alternative explanation.

META has some very disturbing implications. Imagine MAGAs wearing Oculus glasses undergoing training on insurrection and indoctrination by Steve Bannon et. al., hundreds of thousands at a time, with NO possibility of "moderating the content" because we're not talking about static posts on Facebook. This could be the final straw. What the living Hell is the matter with Zuckerberg- everything he does just makes things worse.

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