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2024-07-23 15:38:41

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/low-income-households-face-power-shut-offs
*Half of Americans live in states without rules restricting disconnections for unpaid or overdue bills.* With the dangerous and occasionally deadly heat caused by humanity's cumulative greenhouse gas emissions, that system can kill them. Republicans value keeping rich people rich above keeping poor people alive. Their policies accord with those values. They have those values because …

2024-07-07 07:26:14

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/13/keir-starmer-uk-election-labour-manifesto
The UK and the US both have many crucial national needs that call for spending money. If a party tries to woo wealthy voters whose priority is not to pay more tax, by promising not to raise taxes, it has made a choice not to address the long list of pressing national needs that require spending more money. By making this choice for Labour, Starmer has limited it to small change. Many …

2024-07-05 11:35:38

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/01/blast-exposure-brain-damage-us-navy-suicides
People exposed to explosions tend to show certain kinds of brain damage which often result in problems in thinking. One case was an instructor who taught soldiers to use hand grenades. He surely did not explode them close enough to wound him externally, but he was wounded internally nonetheless. I wonder how close to him they were when they exploded.

2024-07-03 08:37:27

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-807878
Israel's parliament is working on a law to allow the Communications Minister to arbitrarily shut down any foreign journalist organization by citing "national security".

2024-07-01 17:09:08

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/censorship-wont-make-kids-safe?nowrapper=true
https://stallman.orgtel:+12022243121
US citizens: call on Congress to reject KOSA, so-called "protection" for children that would compel users of all ages to prove their identity. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

2024-07-01 16:41:51

[2/2] … shrug off damage it will do to the whole world, but damage specifically to its clients is hard to disregard.

2024-07-01 16:11:54

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/israeli-far-right-minister-bezalel-smotrich-annex-west-bank
https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#14_December_2019_(Silencing_boycott)
https://stallman.org/archives/12_January_2020_(Imprisonment_for_nonviolent_criticism)
Smotrich, a right-wing extremist in Netanyahu's cabinet, stated his aim to annex the West Bank. I suppose that would lead to making it araberrein, as Uri Avnery foretold.

2024-06-30 00:04:41

[2/2] … to put scores of major cities, from New York City to Shanghai, below sea level and to affect billions of people.*

2024-06-29 23:37:42

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/25/israel-anti-war-movement-impossible
A substantial fraction Israelis are recognizing that letting the extreme right wing and the fanatical colonists lead Israel is harmful to Israel. Now Israelis are recognizing that they act like tyrants and lead the state into repression. For decades there have always been Israelis who wanted to make peace with Palestinians, but their numbers have dwindled since the 90s. Maybe now they …

2024-06-29 22:05:35

[3/3] … satisfy that criterion. To attack the convoy would be a war crime. If Israel did attack the convoy, that would be interference with delivery of US humanitarian aid. Under US law the US would have to suspend weapons deliveries to Israel. The US thus has plenty of leverage to make Israel stop blocking this aid, but does not use it.

2024-06-29 20:41:41

https://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/petition_2024_abusive_credit_card_fees/?variation=1437&source=e240618_1409-fin-rest&amount=10&tandembox=show&t=1001&akid=87953%2E636740%2EccIw5f
US citizens: call on Congress to defend the CFPB's new rule limiting credit card late fees. These hit mainly Americans who are poor.

2024-06-29 19:26:24

[2/2] … while Farage cites that as a reason to accept defeat. It may prove impossible to defeat the Putin forces completely, It may be unavoidable for Ukraine to cede some territory to him, but that would be a very sad victory for tyrannical conquest. We should not let a tyrant conquer without a hard fight.

2024-06-27 15:23:10

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/gaza-blockade-israel-banned-items
*Toys, spices, sewing machines [and many other things]: the items Israel banned from entering Gaza.*

2024-06-27 15:06:36

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/24/linda-tirado-journalist-shot-police-protests-hospice
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
Photojournalist Linda Tirado was covering a protest about the murder of George Floyd when a uniformed thug shot her in the eye, perhaps with a tear gas canister. She is now dying from the damage that did to her brain. Thugs know from their training that firing a gas canister at someone's face is likely to kill. That one should be …

2024-06-27 13:07:14

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/24/ten-commandments-religion-us-public-schools
Posting a religious text in a public school classroom isn't harmless, let alone neutral. It would be difficult to write it in English and be neutral between monotheism and polytheism, and including atheism in the range of views respected would be even harder.

2024-06-27 12:39:54

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/intense-phase-israel-war-hamas-near-end-benjamin-netanyahu
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html
Netanyahu rejected the idea of a lasting cease fire in Gaza. He spoke of "pauses" but it is not clear that those would allow in enough aid to save Palestinians from dying from shortages. I think that whatever Netanyahu says about what he will or might do in the future is bullshit, …

2024-06-26 16:23:46

[2/2] … government's participation, but if the UN decides to help the people of Afghanistan via non-state channels, the government will have only two choices: to permit the aid, or to block it. By blocking it, it would help no one in Afghanistan and would incur condemnation. Either way, it would look bad, and the UN would be seen to be helpful and dutiful.

2024-06-26 16:23:45

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/21/shutting-afghan-women-out-of-key-un-conference-to-appease-taliban-a-betrayal
The UN seeks to hold an international meeting about Afghanistan and have the government of Afghanistan participate. That government demands the total exclusion of Afghan women from the event. (I can't tell from the article whether the UN has accepted it or not.) Should the UN accept that demand? I can understand the desire for the Afghan …

2024-06-26 15:54:24

[2/2] … criminalize advocacy of war against Taiwan. This way, if China seizes Taiwanese hostages to threaten, Taiwan could seize some Chinese hostages in return.

2024-06-26 15:11:47

https://kathmandupost.com/columns/2024/05/30/strict-separation-is-not-the-answer
https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html
Yanis Varoufakis: establishing a state of Palestine should not aim for symmetrical two-way apartheid; the proper goal is to bring the two groups closer together. Let's not lose sight of where we want to end up.

2024-06-26 14:44:22

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/21/billionaire-tim-mellon-trump-donation
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
One right-wing billionaire has given $75 million to the wrecker's campaign and $25 to the confuser's campaign (RFK Jr).

2024-06-26 13:53:21

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/21/us-states-heatwave-fossil-fuel-money
*Elected officials in sweltering US states prioritizing fossil fuel cash over people.* This includes the Republican governors of Florida, Texas, Louisiana and Nevada.

2024-06-25 19:23:33

[2/2] … predictably killing many civilians.

2024-06-25 19:23:32

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/22/israeli-airstrikes-gaza-city
Israel tried to assassinate a HAMAS commander, disregarding the presence of numerous civilian bystanders nearby and the evident likelihood of many civilian casualties. Not surprisingly, many civilians were killed by the attack. This was a war crime according to the Geneva conventions, if I understand this point correctly. The presence of a valid military target, even an important one, does not excuse …

2024-06-25 15:12:32

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/comstock-act-democrats
*Democrats move to repeal anti-obscenity and anti-abortion act from 1873.* I expect Republicans will fight to keep the Comstock Act, hoping to use it for repression. But maybe that will convince some people not to vote for them.

2024-06-25 08:45:02

[2/2] … that agreement included Israel and HAMAS, then using it for a combat operation (such as the hostage rescue operation) was a violation of that agreement by Israel; I've read that the World Food Program stopped transporting aid from the pier because of this. This makes sense. No humanitarian organization will be allowed to continue operations in Gaza unless it satisfies all parties that it is militarily neutral.

2024-06-25 08:26:23

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/13/2246520/-Ukrainian-journalists-made-a-spreadsheet-of-US-opponents-of-Ukraine-aid-It-caused-an-explosion
https://texty.org.ua/fragments/112618/roller-coaster-summary/
Ukrainian data-journalists studied published statements and made a list of prominent people in the US who were publicly opposing support for Ukraine's defense. The summary of their conclusions.

2024-06-25 08:09:12

[2/2] … concluded for years about nuclear power's lack of practical use for electric power on Earth. For the public it is a waste of money; for business it is an opportunity to get paid lots of money and achieve no good.

2024-06-25 07:26:18

[1/2] https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-06-18-2024-2a7aeb71867150c5a9d84ae57e2e7bf2
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/21/headlines/aipac_affiliated_groups_pour_record_sums_into_defeating_progressive_ny_rep_jamaal_bowman
Netanyahu complained that Biden is carrying out his announced intention to delay delivery of heavy bombs to Israel. AIPAC, the Israeli Hawks' (and extremists') lobby, has been putting lots of effort into defeating Rep. Jamaal Bowman in a …

2024-06-25 06:57:46

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/20/meredith-walker-signal-boss-government-encryption-laws
*Police have used the "very legitimate grievance" the public has with large tech companies like Meta about data collection and surveillance as a pretext to undermine user privacy*. The first step in protecting our privacy from snooping dis-services is to reject nonfree (non-libre) clients and apps. Nearly all apps are nonfree, and most organizations' web sites run …

2024-06-25 05:58:08

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/20/animal-homosexual-behaviour-under-reported-by-scientists-survey-shows
*Study finds same-sex sexual behaviour in primates and other mammals widely observed but seldom published.*

2024-06-25 05:07:24

[2/2] … competition. The idea was that if a company makes location A compete against location B, any subsidy from A must get B's approval and vice versa. For the specific case of sports teams, a law outright prohibiting all governmental subsidy to them might do the job well, but the proposal above would help also in situations which are not cartels and which do work that is more important than artificial contests.

2024-06-23 15:54:41

[2/2] … Putin."

2024-06-23 15:32:58

[4/5] … juxtapose commemoration of racism with commemoration of the movement against racism. I am not sure what to think of them, but I think they are too soft on slavery. It is ironic that the article linked to above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and usually I will not link to articles that practice it, but I make some exceptions. I think the article linked to …

2024-06-23 15:32:56

[2/5] … as erasing all good that perse did. We should judge a person by the magnitudes of the good and the bad. Any individual who owned slaves or supported the Confederacy did wrong that way, but each such individual did other things too. In most cases those other things were of no special importance, so they don't change our conclusions. But there are exceptions. In rare cases, a person's other activities have been such great contributions to humanity as to justify our admiring that …

2024-06-23 08:08:34

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/advance-act-actually-a-retreat-on-nuclear-power-safety
Congress is about to dilute the safety mission of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with toxic fallout — a second mission to keep nuclear industry profitable.

2024-06-23 07:48:32

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/17/mount-fuji-crowd-control-gate-limit-tourists
Measures to limit overcrowding and avoid dangers in climbing Mount Fuji have the unjust side effect of requiring each climbers to (1) identify perself and (2) carry a snoop-phone. If I ever go to Japan again, that is one thing I certainly won't do.

2024-06-23 07:31:42

[1/2] https://theintercept.com/2024/06/17/pentagon-ai-kamikaze-cheap-drones-replicator/
The Pentagon is thinking about using large numbers of more-or-less autonomous drones for fighting China. This raises concerns that the drones will chose targets autonomously, and kill lots of civilians — something I expect Ukraine's drone controllers avoid, although Israel's drone controllers may not care. Putting that issue aside, it seems like a good plan, but I don't see how the US can expect …

2024-06-23 06:42:06

https://350.org/g7-2024-us/
https://stallman.orgtel:+12024561111
US citizens: call on Biden to fund the transition to renewables and stop funding fossil fuels. If you phone, please spread the word! White House: +1-202-456-1111 and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

2024-06-23 05:47:33

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/10/disappointing-and-surprising-why-isnt-this-a-climate-election-in-the-uk
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/17/nigel-farage-launches-reform-uk-manifesto-a-contract-with-british-public
There seems to be far too little attention to coming climate disaster in the UK general election. However, the lunatic right-wing party proposes to replace climate defense with climate surrender.

2024-06-23 05:27:19

[2/2] … to honor that.

2024-06-23 05:27:18

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/19/ten-commandments-louisiana-public-schools
Louisiana Republicans passed a law to require every public school classroom to display a copy of the Ten Commandments. This sectarian requirement obviously contradicts the First Amendment (combined with the subsequent amendment which says states can't do those things either). It prohibits establishment of religion. But we can't count on those Republican wreckers on the Supreme Court …

2024-06-22 07:26:05

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/18/your-plastic-is-here-how-easter-island-rapa-nui-copes-with-500-pieces-of-rubbish-an-hour-washing-ashore
Enormous amounts of plastic debris wash ashore on Easter Island. They have to clean the beaches repeatedly. Over 5 million pieces of rubbish wash ashore there each year. They have no way to dispose of it all.

2024-06-22 05:44:21

[1/2] https://ajw-origin.potaufeu.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15309830
In Japan, many restaurants have required customers to order using the restaurants' tablets, or even with their own snoop-phones. This makes it impossible for blind customers. The restaurants have cut staff drastically, so blind customers find no one who can help them. They are effectively excluded. If the restaurant requires customers to bring a snoop-phone, or to pay using a digital system that identifies the user, that …

2024-06-20 18:23:38

[2/2] … size of tsunami sufficient to cause a disaster will decrease. Meanwhile, they surely don't know what they will do with the nuclear waste. Nuclear generation is so expensive that it cannot be worth that cost anywhere in the world. Simply for this reason, I have to suspect corruption is behind it somehow.

2024-06-20 18:23:37

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/17/kenya-plans-first-nuclear-power-plant-kilifi-opposition-activists
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
A proposed nuclear power plant for Kenya's coast is sure to be an enormous waste of money at best, contributing to global heating because renewable generation would have been cheaper and finished many years sooner. At worst, a tsunami will destroy he reactor. As global heading raises sea level, the …

2024-06-20 17:54:26

https://www.freerangekids.com/every-day-is-the-worst-day-ever-signed-the-media/
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_(Rate_of_violence_in_US_schools_has_been_declining)
The US murder rate today is less than in the 70s, 80s and 90s, but parents are more terrified than ever. We know that the high crime rates of the 60s to 90s were due to lead in the gasoline; eliminating leaded gas was followed, after under 20 years, by decreases in crime.

2024-06-20 17:32:22

US citizens: phone your congresscritter to demand an investigation into corruption in the Supreme Court. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

2024-06-20 17:06:13

[2/2] … free software, and why you should not systematically expect programs under the control of a company to maintain your security. Even if it never seeks to attack you, it can have a motive to let you down. Side issues about terminology: the article uses misleading propaganda terms such as "intellectual property" and "cloud", and says "hackers" when it ought to say "crackers".

2024-06-20 17:06:12

[1/2] https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing
https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian crackers, Whistleblower Says. This shows the error of assuming that a proprietary program is going to be more secure than …

2024-06-20 16:43:54

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/article/2024/jun/14/what-is-social-health
Social heath consists of having social connections to other people. Our age seems to be creating massive social illness. Roughtly 330 million adults around the globe endure weeks at a time without speaking to a single family member or friend …

2024-06-20 16:28:48

US citizens and residents: phone your state governor to say to veto any attempt to restrict or criminalize mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs used to cause abortions and for various other purposes. (Can anyone tell me a convenient place to get phone numbers for governors' offices?)

2024-06-20 15:59:15

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/17/global-spending-on-nuclear-weapons-up-13-in-record-rise
The US has greatly increased its spending on nuclear weapons, and other countries have followed suit.

2024-06-20 15:42:57

[6/6] … I do not hold them personally responsible for this wrong, because they are surely not aware of the issue. But I can't close my eyes to its presence and let it run on my computer.

2024-06-20 15:42:56

[5/6] … "your elected representatives." That problem is caused by something outside actionnetwork's control. The nonfree JavaScript for those campaigns comes from the officials' own web sites in the official web sites of Congress, not from actionnetwork.org, and I know of no way to bypass it, and no way to reach them digitally. All I can do is phone them. It's sad and ironic that our elected representatives require their constituents to run nonfree software to communicate digitally with them. …

2024-06-20 15:42:54

[4/6] … visiting it, is the only additional work needed to sign with nonfree JavaScript code blocked. I'm sure you'll agree it is a small effort to stop some unjust, and potentially malicious, software from running on your computer. This method works for letter campaigns that send letters to a fixed destinee, the same destinee for all senders. I have posted this campaign, and these instructions, because it is of that kind. Alas, there is no workaround for the letter campaigns that send to …

2024-06-20 15:42:53

[3/6] … all, but by editing its URL in the browser's address bar, you can finish sending your letter. First, if `&redirect' appears in the address bar, delete that and everything after it, until the end of the URL you see. Then, unconditionally, add `&nowrapper=true'. Then type ENTER to make the browser access the modified URL. This will give you a version of the page that works without JavaScript. In that page you can edit the text of your letter, and send it. That step, editing the URL and …

2024-06-20 15:42:51

[2/6] … server not to add unnecessary material that depends on JavaScript. Following that link should show you a page that starts with the message, `Letter campaigns will not work without JavaScript!' But that message mostly refers to material that `?nowrapper=true' has suppressed. In that page, fill in the personal information in the box on the right side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter. Then click the "START WRITING" button. You will get a page that does not work at …

2024-06-20 15:42:50

[1/6] https://actionnetwork.org/letters/free-leonard-peltier-3?nowrapper=true
US citizens and residents: call for parole for Leonard Pelletier. This is an actionnetwork.org "send a letter" campaigns with a single, fixed destination. It normally runs nonfree JavaScript code. Here's how you can sign it while using LibreJS to block nonfree JavaScript code from running. The first step, I have done for you. I added `?nowrapper=true' to the end of the campaign's URL. That parameter directs the …

2024-06-20 15:19:25

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/15/over-50000-children-in-gaza-need-treatment-for-malnutrition-un-says
https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html
UNRWA says that 50000 minors in Gaza are on the edge of starvation. UNICEF describes the constant obstruction applied by Israel to transport of aid into and within Gaza. Let's not lose sight of where we want to end up.

2024-06-20 15:04:11

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-justices-alito-and-thomas-must-recuse-themselves-from-cases-related-to-jan-6?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-bowers-news-media-main-list&source=20240521TAR_BNM
US citizens: call on Justices Thomas and Alito to recuse themselves from cases about the Jan 6 insurrection.

2024-06-20 14:40:40

[3/3] … Modi imposed martial law and an internet shutdown on the whole state (which India asserts is no longer a state).

2024-06-20 14:40:39

[2/3] … will prosecute Arundhati Roy for her political opinions, under a law passed by Modi's party for that purpose. Other human rights defenders in India have been persecuted too.  India promised Kashmir a referendum on whether to be part of India, then never held te referendum. There has been unrest in Kashmir ever since. A few years ago, …

2024-06-20 14:40:37

[1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/15/india-author-arundhati-roy-to-be-prosecuted-over-2010-kashmir-remarks
http://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Mhammed_Zubair_arrested_in_India)
http://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html#15_July_2017_(Young_people_in_Kashmir_organizing)
http://stallman.org/archives/2019-nov-feb.html#8_January_2020_(Internet_ban)
http://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#10_August_2019_(Kashmir_converted_to_a_pair_of_territories)
India …

2024-06-20 14:14:53

https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/no-bibi
https://stallman.orgtel:+12022243121
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/no-bibi">call on Maj Leader Schumer</a>
not to give Netanyahu a platform in front of Congress.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
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2024-06-18 17:37:10

[2/2] … "content"!), and won't train machine learning models with it. (Please don't call them "artificial intelligence"!) But it does indeed intend to snoop, having effectively forced users to give permission for that. This is a big step towards a society of total surveillance, in which privacy and the US fourth amendment are reduced to fragmentary relics.

2024-06-18 17:37:08

[1/2] https://www.engadget.com/adobe-is-updating-its-terms-of-service-following-a-backlash-over-recent-changes-120044152.html
https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content
https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArticicialIntelligence
Adobe corrected some misconceptions that were suggested by loose wording in its newly imposed requirement that users give Adobe permission to snoop on their work. Adobe agreed not to publish their work (Please don't call anyone's artwork …

2024-06-18 17:14:42

[2/2] … should tell their officials to refuse to visit countries that might be seeking pawns to capture and trade.

2024-06-18 17:14:41

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/15/swedish-eu-diplomat-johan-floderus-freed-from-iran-jail-in-prisoner-swap
Sweden ransomed Johan Floderus, who had been imprisoned in Iran based on political accusations, by releasing Iranian convict Hamid Noury, who was convicted of participating in the killing of over a hundred political prisoners of Iran. One must suspect that the accusations against Floderus were fabricated specifically to use him for this trade. Governments …

2024-06-18 16:44:59

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/15/jail-jp-morgan-fossil-fuels-civil-disobedience
Amy Pritchard is the first person to be jailed for a campaign in which climate protesters targeted banks across London. She explains her decision to break windows at the office of JP Morgan.

2024-06-18 16:29:12

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/15/tories-and-labour-on-course-for-lowest-share-of-the-vote-since-1945
Tories and Labour on course for lowest combined share of the vote since 1945. It looks like a lot of people don't want to vote for plutocratists.

2024-06-18 16:04:46

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/15/labour-and-tories-would-both-leave-nhs-worse-off-than-under-austerity-says-thinktank
Labour and Tories would both leave NHS worse off than under previous austerity, says thinktank.

2024-06-18 15:24:21

https://act.ourrevolution.com/signup/biden-asylum-executive-order/
US citizens: call on Biden not to imitate the bully's asylum restrictions.

2024-06-18 15:03:32

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/15/republicans-no-fault-divorce
Republicans want to make it harder to get a divorce in the US. That fits into the general plan to impose their religion, and its sexual prudery, on everyone. We must defeat them.

2024-06-18 12:25:41

https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/
Stanford University is shutting down the elections research of the Stanford Internet Observatory because defending against Republican lawfare was too expensive.

2024-06-18 12:04:40

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/11/four-tops-alexander-morris-hospital
Singer who joined the Four Tops in 2019 was involuntarily hospitalized for claiming to be a member of the Four Tops.

2024-06-18 11:38:28

https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/end-trump-tax-cuts-musk/?t=1001
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#corrupter
US citizens: call on Congress to undo the corrupter's tax cuts for the rich.

2024-06-18 11:11:57

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/13/kids-no-iphone-screen-time
Some teenagers can recover from antisocial media addiction if they simply don't have a user-manipulating device to be used by. Remember that part of what enables them to manipulate the users so much is that the client programs of the antisocial media platforms are nonfree software. Companies design them to be addictive, and users cannot modify them to be less so.

2024-06-18 10:56:46

https://act.ourrevolution.com/signup/oppose-netanyahu-speech-schumer/
US citizens: call on Schumer and Jeffries to withdraw their invitation to Netanyahu to address Congress.

2024-06-18 10:37:40

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/12/rare-tropical-birds-central-america-cocaine-drugs-trade-trafficking-deforestation-study-aoe
Cocaine traffickers have put two-thirds of Central America's key habitats for threatened birds under threat, study finds.

2024-06-18 10:14:11

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#plutocratist
https://www.levernews.com/license-to-drill/
Some plutocratist Democrats in Congress are pushing to fund new export terminals for fossil gas, provided it is "certified" as emitting somewhat less greenhouse gas than other fossil gas. This is a swindle - replacing a small but real contribution to climate defense with mere lip service.

2024-06-18 09:47:10

[3/3] … into the Eventbrite data base to find out who attended this performance. The performers were aware that Chine would try to identify the attendees; they should have protected their audience from digital identification as well as from cameras. And did they insist on making it possible to pay cash? As China demonstrates every day, making people identify themselves to buy things is the foundation of repression.

2024-06-18 09:47:08

[2/3] … political prisoners in China are often not allowed to leave China. Using Eventbrite for access to an event is always bad because signing up using Eventbrite requires running nonfree software. Also, it requires identifying yourself. Those are two injustices to the attendee; I would not attend a performance if it required me to give my name to get a ticket. In this specific situation, the injustices put some attendees in danger, too. It would not surprise me if Chinese crackers broke …

2024-06-18 09:47:07

[1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/13/thanks-for-the-free-rent-cheng-lei-jokes-about-china-detention-in-comedy-debut
https://stallman.org/on-hacking.html
Cheng Lei, formerly a political prisoner in China, has used her prison experience as the basis for stand-up comedy in Australia. Cheng Lei is an Australian citizen who was working in China as a journalist for an Australian organization. China allowed her to return to Australia. Chinese who have been …

2024-06-18 09:19:58

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/06/13/big-oil-backs-gop-effort-to-shield-the-industry-from-climate-litigation/
Republican state attorneys general are working with Big Oil to block lawsuits over harm to people caused by oil combustion.

2024-06-18 09:04:42

[2/2] … with the party's goals.

2024-06-18 09:04:41

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/14/tory-party-ceo-stephen-massey-cancer-care-firm-genesiscare-nhs-waiting-lists
http://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Starmer_purge_debacle,_UK)
Tory party CEO is director at cancer care firm benefiting from NHS waiting lists. The Labour candidate running against Jeremy Corbyn is an owner of a company that profits from the NHS's failings. I'd want to support a party in which such people would feel out of step …

2024-06-18 08:41:21

https://www.commondreams.org/news/chiquita-brands-international
A US court convicted Chiquita (the banana company) of paying a terrorist group (paramilitaries) to kill some of its workers.

2024-06-18 08:13:26

https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/354635/divorce-no-fault-states-marriage-republicans
The Christian right-wing is coming for divorce next.

2024-06-18 07:43:38

https://www.theonion.com/tesla-announces-plan-to-add-up-skirt-cameras-on-all-veh-1851517472
(satire) Tesla Announces Plan To Add Up-Skirt Cameras On All Vehicles.

2024-06-18 07:21:30

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/14/us-imposes-sanctions-on-extremist-israeli-group-for-blocking-gaza-aid
US imposes sanctions on "extremist Israeli group" for blocking Gaza aid. So far, so good, but what about when the Israeli government blocks aid by not permitting it to be brought to Gaza.

2024-06-18 06:52:37

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/ban-utilities-and-corps-political-contributions?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-hd&source=group-hd
US citizens: call on Congress to support legislation banning political contributions from utilities, monopoly corporations, and corporations seeking government contracts.

2024-06-18 06:26:22

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/our-elections-cannot-be-for-sale-demand-congress-overturn-the-citizens-united-decision-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-50-families-have-already-spent-more-than-600-million-on-the-2024-elections
https://stallman.orgtel:+12022243121
US citizens: call on Congress to overturn the "Citizens" United decision. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

2024-06-18 06:07:51

[2/2] … from a bullshitter are meaningless. Lately more billionaires have been giving their support to the wrecker, so they must not think he will reduce their unparalleled profits. So why does anyone believe that the wrecker will drive prices down?

2024-06-18 06:07:48

[1/2] https://robertreich.substack.com/p/its-greedflation-stupid-b3c
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
Robert Reich: for most US voters, the most important issue is the high prices that are caused by greedy corporations without much competition to restrain them, and most voters think that the wrecker will push prices down. I don't think the wrecker will even try to reduce prices. He seeks to bamboozle the public, not to serve it. Promises …

2024-06-18 05:52:44

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/13/unrwa-israel-frequently-preventing-aid-deliveries-gaza
UNRWA says Israeli authorities are hampering aid delivery operations by failing to grant requests for access permits.

2024-06-18 05:37:08

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/washington-teen-airsoft-gun-shot-dead
Washington teen returning replica gun to store shot dead by security guard.

2024-06-18 05:14:34

[3/3] … "children" or "child" to refer to anyone under age 18. A 17-year-old is not a child. A 13-year-old is a teenager.

2024-06-18 05:14:32

[2/3] … theories and even plots for insurrections by such systems. This policy also threatens to lead to requiring a user to show ID so as to prove per age. So the policy should apply to all users regardless of age. Instead of basing suggestions on what you have previously looked at, a platform should make available for download that list , as URLs one per line. Given that list, you could process it any way you like to get suggestions, then ask to look at those. Please do not use the word …

2024-06-18 05:14:31

[1/3] https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/09/new-york-moves-to-limit-kids-access-to-addictive-feeds/
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#8_September_2023_(Taking_control_away_from_social_media_sites)
New York State is about to prohibit communication platforms from offering user's-history-dependent feeds to users under age 18. I think this policy is very wise, but limiting it to only some users, based on their age, is misguided. Millions of adults have been sucked into conspiracy …