The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the 1.6 million women who wanted to file a class-action discrimination lawsuit against WalMart. As disgusted as I am that a company can now evade class action lawsuits merely by virtue of its size, I see the same silver lining some lawyers see -- that scads of smaller class-action lawsuits, significantly more provable by Mr. Scalia's standard than the huge class-action suit against the corporation, will proceed and possibly exact more justice, just in smaller amounts. Anyway, the National Women's Law Center sees the Wal-Mart suit as an occasion to help you support the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would tighten enforcement loopholes in the Equal Pay Act, and which Republicans filibustered with their bare Senate minority last term. Further, the National Women's Law Center will sponsor rallies today in solidarity with the Wal-Mart women; you can find a rally near you here.

Meanwhile, Keystone Progress still helps you oppose HB 934, Pennsylvania's voter ID bill. Why oppose a voter ID bill, you may well ask? Because "stricter voter ID bills" is a solution in search of a problem, voter "fraud" being nowhere near the problem right-wingers want you to think it is, and furthermore it's a solution that makes problems worse. How? By demanding government-issued ID from seniors, minorities, and low-income voters who do not routinely get government ID and haven't needed it to vote in many years, Pennsylvania's government would effectively disenfranchise those same seniors, minorities, and low-income voters. You have to wonder, sometimes, if that's the idea. And imposing unnecessary government-based requirements, keeping people from voting -- these ideas emanate from nominal conservatives, yet they don't sound particularly conservative. Actually, they sound anti-conservative. Again, you have to wonder.

Finally, NETWORK helps you instruct Vice President Biden that any "deal" over increasing the debt limit must include revenue-raising provisions. This would make Republicans fly into horrible tantrums, but I don't care so much about the tantrums of Republicans as I do about cutting deficits responsibly, and cutting deficits responsibly means taxing upper-income earners responsibly and closing tax loopholes responsibly. We're telling Mr. Biden, by the way, because he's been in charge of negotiating the whole debt limit "deal" with which we'll avoid another economic armageddon. Now these are Beltway elites we're talking about, so they're going to make a "deal" which will hurt you and please their elite friends. But, again: it doesn't matter what they want. It matters what we want. Otherwise, we might as well give up on democracy, and I'm not doing that.