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Richard Stallman will give a talk in Rotkreuz, Switzerland, March 6th, 2026 at 17:00.
Richard Stallman will give a talk in Rapperswil, Switzerland, March 9th, 2026 at 17:00.
US citizens: call on Congress to repeal qualified immunity for federal officers.
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US citizens: call on the Tennessee Valley Authority to keep its promise to retire coal plants.
US citizens: call on major news organizations to cover the bully's action on the Department of Justice as a system of lobbying, revolving-door influence, and regulatory capture — examining financial ties, past clients, and enforcement outcomes.
US citizens: Call on Congress to pass the Qualified Immunity Abolition Act, to end qualified immunity for federal officers, including deportation thugs. This will give the victims of their violence a real chance of winning lawsuits about said violence.
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From October: *Growing number of US veterans face arrest over protests [against deportation thugs].*
An ordinary perjurer lies about facts and expects there will be no proof that perse lied. These federal prosecutors did blatant blackwhiting about basic notions of right and wrong.
The epitome of an arrogant, dishonest bully punches you, then accuses you of "Hitting my fist with your face." Prosecutors did essentially that when they knocked over Briggs and then charged him with having "made physical contact with an agent's arm."
Teaching prosecutors to blackwhite on command is moral damage that many will not recover from. If we ever regain control, we will need to disbar them and replace them. Justice requires prosecutors who will prosecute thugs for documented attacks on protesters and other innocent people, not the thugs' victims.
With luck there will be former a pool of prosecutors who resigned rather than do such things, whom we could reappoint.
*Merrily we bring microplastics into the wilderness with our hiking shoes.*
Starmer's plans for prohibiting protests would have prohibited the creation of the Labour Party, if they had been in effect at that time.
Scientists can create incomplete embryos cloned from an adult human. They lack the beginnings of a brain, but develop plenty of important parts that could, if they can develop far enough, be transplanted into that human to save per life.
Antibiotic resistance in disease bacteria is reaching a tipping point leading to danger for everyone, but governments are still not addressing the danger strongly or systematically.
*Australian tropical rainforest trees [have changed] from carbon sink to emissions source.*
A court found the UK's banning of Palestine Action to be illegal because it was a major interference with the right to protest.
But this has not yet translated into the lifting of the ban.
*Nothing says love like roses coated in a fine chemical cocktail.* Especially when many of the pesticides on it are banned in your country for reasons of toxicity.
An Australian police force decided to disregard accusations of domestic violence against one of its thugs because he had already been fired. This left his wife still in danger from him.
The inJustice Department keeps on persecuting people chosen solely because of their political opinions. Leakers keep on proving this by revealing the raw data that the department has.
New York City must stop giving patients' medical data to Palantir, since Palantir can't be trusted not to use it against them.
The bully has returned to bullying Ukraine to offer Putin quasi-surrender.
This demonstrates once again that if he seems to have accepted some sort of reasonable compromise deal with you, he will break it later and demand servitude.
*The Palestine Action ruling vindicates the courageous – and shames the complicit.*
The ruling, if sustained by the appeals court, will put an end to the ban on the organization.
The article compares Palestine Action to the suffragettes and finds that their tactics were similar.
A British bank closed the personal savings account of a retired British couple of activists for Palestine, and refuses to give them any justification for this. They believe it must be political repression.
T-Mobile will implement the feature of passing everything said in a phone call to a powerful computer system.
The advertised feature is to translate between languages using "Artificial Intelligence", though it might really be mere Pretend Intelligence.
But if it can do that, with millions of conversations at once, what else can it do to everyone at once?
It can try to recognize you from your voice. It can convert your conversation into text, with a scattering of errors, and save that for Big Brother.
The bully is trying to focus self-important Americans' hostility on Democrats by shutting down two faster manners of going through airport security checkpoints, supposedly because of Democrats' refusal to fund the Department of Hatred and Sadism.
These two programs give preference to passengers who sign up and give their fingerprints. However, in the 2000s, the TSA would sometimes route some frequent fliers through the TSA Pre line even though we had not signed up. Apparently they didn't really need passengers' fingerprints to send them through the faster scan. So why demand fingerprints?
I suspect that was meant to teach Americans to be happy to be fingerprinted in exchange for saving some time.
The Democrats who criticize the government for halting these programs are being foolish and shallow. The bully is doing so many cruel, damaging and vindictive things; it is lacking a sense of proportion to complain about something that only causes a little more delay.
Robert Reich: the wrecker responds to setbacks with redoubled cruelty and stupid tantrums.
I paid no attention to what he said about pulling some thugs out of Minneapolis, because when he talks about making a concession, it is never a real concession.
The obedience-trainer demands that Netflix remove someone from its board if it wants to be allowed to take over another large TV and movies company.
I recommend refusing to do business with Netflix, because of unjust aspects of its business.
Warner Bros Discovery does many of the same injustices. So I expect never to be a customer for either one, whether merged or not.
However, the merger of two such large companies will be harmful to the US and its people. Two such large companies should never be allowed to merge.
*A Guardian analysis of government records has found that the vast majority – 77% – of people who entered deportation proceedings for the first time in 2025 had no criminal conviction.
This demonstrates solidly that what the bullshitter says about this is in fact bullshit.
The Supreme Court invalidated the bully's bogus excuse for arbitrarily raising tariffs, but his henchmen claim to have other excuses for the same increases. we will see what excuses they present in the next court case
US citizens: call on Attorney General Bondi to drop the charges against Georgia Fort and Don Lemon now.
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US citizens: call on Congress to end Big Tech tax breaks.
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US citizens: call on your state's Secretary of State: No deportation thugs at our polls.
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US citizens: call on Congress to investigate why the IRS gave taxpayers' personal data to the Department of Hatred and Sadism.
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US citizens: call on media to stop supporting the bully's false picture which denies the cruelty of sending deportation thugs, and soldiers, to occupy American cities.
US citizens: call on local and state officials to stop cooperating with the deportation thugs.
US citizens: call on the Social Security Administration not to let the deportation thugs weaponize Social Security.
US citizens: call on Congress to block the corrupter from getting government money for his bogus board of peace.
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The bully's henchmen have demanded, from various states, databases with a lot of information about each registered voter, and sued some states that would not hand them over. A judge decided one suit in favor of Michigan's refusal.
Federal thugs raided a race track with a warrant to arrest its owner for illegal gambling — but they violently seized and tied up all the spectators (including children) and wouldn't even let them go to toilet.
Now they are trying to sue over this outrageous conduct, but need to have recourse to a rather obscure legal argument to make it possible.
Google can hand over video footage from Pest surveillance cameras on subpoena even after it tells the "owner" it has "deleted" that footage.
States should prohibit remote transmission of "security" camera footage, so that anyone who wants to obtain it has to go to the camera and extract it physically.
The bully continues to defend the racist video that portrayed Obama and his wife as apes. Worse than that, the video spread election disinformation lies that are aimed at undermining future elections.
The head of government of New South Wales banned a protest on behalf of Palestinians on the occasion of a visit by the President of Israel. Thugs attacked would-be protesters, who accused them of crimes. Now he is trying to prevent those accusations from being investigated.
All around the world we see efforts to equate the protesting of Israel's war crimes with antisemitism. That is so evidently absurd that I don't understand why anyone takes it seriously.
Amazon and Walmart are heavily subsidized in the US by SNAP — their staff are paid so little they need food aid.
Other companies that frequently appear at the top of the state lists include McDonald’s, DoorDash, Uber, Dollar Tree, and Dollar General.
We need to increase the minimum wage.
Democrats in the Senate blocked the rest of the deportation thugs' funding with a filibuster. They demand putting some specific limits on the deportation thug department's ability to get away with violence.
I agree with these demands, and I agree with the position that the thugs should also have some of their funds taken away and given to poor people.
Bondi told Congress that the Ministry of Justice has a secret list of "domestic terrorist organizations", but did not answer when asked whether the Ministry of Love would try to kill them without a trial.
*The Guardian view on Israel and the West Bank: the other relentless assault upon Palestinians.*
It looks like the FBI is investigating Extinction Rebellion NYC.
Extinction Rebellion is (or perhaps was) an effort to defend the world against threats of devastation. The making of such threats has a resemblance to terrorism. But I have a feeling that the FBI has not been directed to investigate those threats and help Extinction Rebellion defend civilization from them. More plausibly it is following the wrecker's Orwellian practice of labeling nonviolent protest as "domestic terrorism".
In 2021, China banned fishing entirely in the Yangtze River. Since then, the quantity of fish in the river has doubled.
The government formerly headed by President Maduro is allowing more political freedom now that Maduro is gone.
We cannot take for granted that this will restore the political freedom that President Chavez respected, and the persecutor cares no more about freedom for Venezuelans than he does about freedom for Americans. Nonetheless, if the result of his intervention turns out to be freedom in Venezuela, I will rejoice at that result.
(satire) OpenAI Introduces Premium Video Generator For White House Advisors Manipulating [the maximum leader].
*The tragic end of CBS News.* It has been converted into a puppet show in which puppets pull each others' strings.
Debunking the bullshitter's lies about the people in his deportation prisons: the vast majority have never been accused of a violent crime.
* Arizona senator Mark Kelly warned that the Trump administration's failed attempt to secure an indictment against him and five other Democratic lawmakers for a video urging service members to resist unlawful orders was a "master alarm flashing for our democracy."*
Zelenskyy says he demands a 20-year "security guarantee" from the bullshitter to make a peace deal with Russia reliable.
Under a previous US government, such a 20-year commitment might be a basis to trust the deal, but the bullshitter never respects any commitment except to a billionaire who is paying for that commitment. The bullshitter could make a deal with you this month, and next month tell you that he expects you to pay a fortune for that deal.
(satire) *Finnish Ski Jumping Team Caught Tampering With Earth's Gravitational Field.*
Senators are demanding justification for the EPA's decision to deregulate planet-roasting greenhouse gas emissions, knowing that they will find no justification except nonsense.
Protesters who damaged weapons in an Elbit factory were acquitted of the most serious charges, which were clearly trumped up. On the lesser charges, the jury could not reach agreement so they face a retrial.
US citizens: Support Rashida Tlaib's Defund the Oligarchs, Fund Our Communities resolution.
US citizens: call on the Florida Senate to end state funding for Alligator Alcatraz.
US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the deportation thugs' 400 arrests ruled by courts to be illegal, and their defiance of court orders to free the people arrested.
US citizens: call on Tell Congress: Investigate DOGE's Misuse of voters' private Social Security records.
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The persecutor intends to declare for his henchmen the power to jail any and all admitted refugees, who do not yet have green cards, and hold them indefinitely for "re-screening".
The plan does not establish any required grounds for this jailing, so it makes no sense except as a system of repression.
Republicans corrupted by big banks are pushing a law to undermine states' limits on interest charged on bank loans.
The heads of the German and Italian government, both right-wing, seem to want to tear up the European greenhouse emission reduction agreement.
That, and China's efforts, are the only major regional efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions. They are not enough by themselves to save civilization, but they could be a good start. But those two right-wing governments are listing to a billionaire who is so greedy that he would destroy civilization rather than share its wealth with future generations.
Ralph Nader: *Tyrant Trump Declares End of Laws Saving American Lives.* (And occasionally also laws saving millions of lives in other countries.)
*California bill would ban ICE agents from being near polling sites.*
There would be a court battle over the practical consequences of that law, but it can't be worse than no law on this issue.
If laws like this are obeyed, they can protect fair elections in states that pass them. However, to kick the Republicans out of power, we need elections to be fair also in the states where Republicans now control the legislature — and they will not pass these laws.
US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the corrupter in chief's $1.4 billion profit from the presidency.
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US citizens: call on Congress to protect the Arctic by stopping reckless oil exploration there.
Exploration for fossil fuel should be pretty much stopped entirely because we can't extract it without destroying ourselves; but this threat to the Arctic is an additional reason.
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US citizens: Demand insurance commissioners stop hiding insurance industry report data from the public.
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US citizens: call on Congress and everyone else with influence to defend the recognition that global heating endangers the the world and specifically the US.
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US citizens: call on Congress to stop the deportation thugs from from terrorizing children.
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US citizens: Tell the EPA to protect clean water from corporate greed: reject proposed weakening in local approval for development that can affect water supply.
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US citizens: Tell your governor, no tax breaks for Big Tech data centers.
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Here's the text of the letter I sent.
I’m writing as your constituent, and as recipient of two awards from the ACM for programs I have shared with the public in freedom, to urge you to reject efforts in our state to provide Big Tech with tax breaks to build data centers.I’m concerned about the harms that data centers can do locally, including siphoning our water, using up our land, creating noise and light pollution, and hiking our electric bills.
I’m also concerned that providing tax breaks to giant Big Tech corporations will deprive our schools and local budgets of their already insufficient funds.
I'm also concerned that these data centers will mostly operate Pretend Intelligence (PI) -- software that *tries to* imitate what an intelligent entity would say, but without really understanding the words it plays with. The use of these digital dis-services does society harm.
We should never allow business to play one state against another by making states compete to offer them the biggest tax break, because that perverse competition harms *all* the states for the benefit of business owners. So please reject efforts to give Big Tech (or *any* business) specific tax breaks to operate in our state. The states should form a union and bargain collectively with these businesses.
The states could call their union the United States of America. Wouldn't that be a good thing to have?
US citizens: Call on the media to report loud and clear on the amazingly unusual refusals by grand juries to indict people accused of bogus political "crimes".
US citizens: call on state officials to protect your state from the spread of measles.
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Japanese fossil fuel companies invest in Australian fossil fuel extractors, and they appear to have lobbied Australia to prolong fossil fuel extraction.
This may be part of why the Australian government has neglected its responsibility to help save civilization from global heating.
Global heating is starting to melt the rapidly heating Arctic permafrost, and this is releasing large quantities of methane at an accelerating rate.
This could lead to a tipping point into much faster heating.
Australian thugs attacked protesters who refused to remain passive in the face of a visit by the President of Israel, who is responsible for tens of millions of Palestinian civilians' killings.
*Britons' right to protest is under threat like never before. If you value it, speak up now.*
The Iranian regime is becoming ever more fanatic, arresting important politicians close to the "reformist" official prime minister.
Gallup polling announces it will cease its 88-year-old practice of tracking the approval ratings of the president.
Some suspect this is because the current president — the bully — is threatening to sue Gallup if it continues to report on how many people detest him.
I would compare this to his sabotaging of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They add up to a practice of trying to deny the public information that makes him look bad.
*As Congress debated the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, civil rights advocates argued that immigration enforcement would be distorted — and weaponized — by its merger with the national security state.*
*In response to such concerns, Congress created an unusually far-reaching internal watchdog office for Homeland Security and its various arms, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): The Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.*
The wrecker, cognizant of the danger that that office was meant to prevent, has reduced the office to a skeleton crew.
*House Republicans make rare, albeit symbolic, rebuke of [the bully] over Canada tariffs.*
Congress could cancel those tariffs if it wants to. It could do that by putting a clause limiting tariffs into a bill that the bully would find damaging to veto.
* New evidence shows Gregory Bovino hailed [the deportation thug] who fired at Marimar Martinez five times in her car*. The thugs tried to frame her, too.
Does a statistical survey about death of young children in England demonstrate a problem in their medical treatment?
This result suggests that consanguinity is leading to the birth of children with doubled harmful recessive genes — which is what we expect it to do, more or less. But in order to be sure of this conclusion, we need to know what fraction of children born have consanguineous parents. If that too is 7%, it would imply that those children face no greater danger of early death than other children. If that is less than 7%, it would imply that they do face a greater danger of early death.
If the risk is indeed higher for children of consanguineous parents, the next crucial question is how big a problem this is. What fraction of children of consanguineous couples in England die young? What fraction of children born in England die young? If that is a very small fraction, this problem affects few children.
Another question remains: supposing that this problem is substantial, how big is it compared with the other threats to the health of children in England?
And another one is, supposing that this problem causes a big danger to the children of consanguineous parents in England, is there an effective way to reduce that danger?
The House of Representatives passed a bill to block a substantial fraction of adult US citizens from voting.
Reportedly drug gangs in Mexico have obtained newer and more powerful arms than the Mexican government can get, including drones.
They may be a real threat to Americans, but it is minuscule compared with the threat to Americans from the deportation thugs. Let's not let the secondary threat distract us from the primary threat.
Grand juries almost never deny prosecutors the indictments they ask for. But several grand juries have recently refused to authorize bogus indictments meant for political persecution.
* The American Medical Association (AMA) will partner with the Vaccine Integrity Project to review the evidence on vaccines for influenza, Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) for the fall.*
The US government used to do this, but the wrecker put anti-vaxxer RFK Jr in charge of this area.
According to the latest poll, half of all Americans strongly disapprove of the persecutor's repression of immigration.
Over 60%% express disapproval of various specific aspects of it.
The deportation thug agency hires lawyers to pursue deportation cases in a court which is a mockery of a court, before a judge who is a mockery of a judge.
There is no official quota for judges to rule for deportation, but they know they may be fired if they don't do that often enough. When the agency lawyer simply asks the judge to rule for deportation — "to dismiss the case" — giving no specific reasons, the judge often unceremoniously does just that.
In effect, the whole thing is a sham designed to smear a perfume of justice over the stench of arbitrary, dishonest cruelty.
The wrecker's sabotage of the NLRB has been substantially effective — the number of union votes dropped by 30% in 2025.
Almost unstoppable wildfires in Patagonia, mostly caused by global heating, have killed many of the trees that have lived thousands of years.
Planet-roaster officials plan to repeal the ruling that allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases.
Now that it has become the Environmental Poisoning Agency, protecting the environment is considered inappropriate.
* The world is closer than thought to a "point of no return" after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said.*
Michigan has sued some big oil companies, accusing them of forming a cartel to stifle renewable energy and cover up the danger of fossil fuels.
Ai Wei Wei talks about facing Chinese censorship and British censorship.
*Recently, the Rowsons accidentally invented a new game that anyone can play at home. I have yet to come up with a world-beating name for it, so for now let's just call it "How bloody stupid is [some so-called] AI?" The playing of the game will change from player to player, depending on their circumstances – but essentially the rules remain the same. Ask [some so-called] AI a simple question about yourself, and see just how wrong it gets it.*
He that knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool -- shun him.
It that knows not, and knows not that it knows not, is an LLM -- switch it off.
*RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say.*
The deportation thugs have taken to arresting legal observers, while continuing to threaten them with weapons.
There is no limit to the hatred that twists them.
New York City's public funding system was crucial for giving Zohran Mamdani the possibility of overcoming rich people's money.
The Department of Harassment Surveillance sometimes punishes people for posting criticism of US government policies by demanding lots of information about them from Google's databases.
Substack does not censor right-wing and Nazi views -- its owner dislikes their views but doesn't believe in censoring views he dislikes. I find that honorable and proper.
What makes US Nazis dangerous is not the fact that they can publish their views in the same way anyone else can. Rather, it is the support they get from powerful people such as the persecutor and his henchmen.
Australia is trying to establish control of protest as the standard response to murder.
Deportation thugs continue making many arrests in the cities they targeted for occupation, but they don't mass in large numbers as before. As a result, they draw less attention and less protest.
I think that they intentionally chose tactics that made them so noticeable, as a strategy of state terrorism.
And I speculate that they have dropped those tactics partly because the public's reaction was effective pressure on them.
A court quashed the bully's demand to have Penn Station renamed with his name.
*[The persecutor's] lawyers aim to deport five-year-old [Liam Conejo Ramos] after judge ordered his release.*
*The government's decision to roll out the red carpet for President Herzog while simultaneously establishing "exclusion zones" for the public is a misstep, one likely to deepen the rift between already polarised communities. People must be able to peacefully voice their objections to the horrors of war in Gaza, against the violence of ultra-Orthodox settlers in the West Bank, the massacre of Iranian protesters or the terror unleashed by Hamas. Protest, when done peacefully and without hate, is not only legitimate – it is vital.*
I think Australia should not have invited Herzog, but since it did, it should not silence Australians' condemnation of the violent actions that he stands for.
The essence of a state built on terror is that no one can rely on being safe, and people who were not persecuted this week can only guess why not.
Who was or who wasn't persecuted is usual a minor detail, which is why it often operates based on quotas.
*[The corrupter]'s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We've hardly noticed.*
The corruptor has changed the rules to make it easier to fire some US government employees and to weaken protection for whistleblowers who report corruption.
He wouldn't want them to dare reporting corruption, in case it is his corruption.
Facebook is running ads for the deportation thugs, ads that *included imagery and music intended to appeal to white nationalists and neo-Nazis.*
*Israel accused of spraying cancer-linked herbicide on farms in southern Lebanon.*
Bernie Sanders: *We can reverse America's decline.*
A British supermarket accused a customer of shoplifting based on a reported face recognition match — in fact, it had accused the wrong person — and then demanded he run nonfree software to clear his name.
That was successful, since the database had no record of his face. But if that error had happened to me, since I would not run that nonfree software, I think would have not been able to clear my name.
Peter Mandelson, a clear example of the sort of sell-out to business that had come to fill the Labour Party leadership, asked Epstein for help in 2010 in angling for contracting work for both Billionaire Polluters and Glencore. BP is, of course, a fossil fuel company. Glencore mines and trades various commodities, including oil.
The enablers of these companies are contributing to harm—possibly deadly harm—to over a hundred million female teenagers, a like number of male teenagers, as well as around eight billion children and adults. No one on Earth is safe.
(satire) *AI Chatbot That Only Responds "Huh" Valued At $200 Billion.*
Long Island has got 5°F hotter in the winter (on the average) since 55 years ago. This leads to various dangers to human health, wildlife, homes, and farms, including the spread of insect pests as well as weather itself.
The US has deportation prisons for children, and thanks to RFK jr, one of them is spreading measles.
*Families of Americans killed by Israel face uphill climb to justice.*
*The long history of failure to tackle UK police racism.*
More about this.
The executives of the Drax electric generator insisted that the wood it burns came only from young, renewable trees, but in private many of them recognized that was false.
Vance was presented at the Olympic Games, and received more boos than applause. But NBC News hid the boos, in its broadcast stream. And the White House promoted that falsified broadcast.
This sort of lie is not as directly harmful as some other lies, but engaging in it proves NBC News is corrupt.
A thinktank that helped Starmer win leadership of the Labour Party was headed by a minister of state, who received secret intelligence files about journalists investigating the actions of that thinktank.
This looks like corruption of the state's mission for partisan purposes, and Starmer ought to resign for that.
California, Hawaii and New York lawmakers propose laws to allow those states to sue fossil fuel companies for the cost of local disasters caused by their fossil fuels.
This has the potential to gradually make fossil fuels so expensive, across a period of many years, that people will gradually stop using them.
Senator Warner warns that the saboteur in chief may really try to sabotage the 2026 election.
When the saboteur in chief claims he will do something, we must not assume he will do it. But when he threatens to do something, we had better plan to stop him.
US citizens: call on Demand Congress Address the Housing Crisis: Pass the Make Housing Affordable Act!
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Congress has restored much of the foreign aid budget that the persecutor unilaterally erased early last year.
*Israeli Military Admits Murder of [50,000 or more] Palestinian Civilians.*
In some places, they killed Palestinians indiscriminately without trying to distinguish fighters from civilians.
Now the persecutor is trying to punish Harvard for not sufficiently repressing student protests which said exactly this.
Bezos bought the Washington Post for small change, then decided to ruin it totally to gain more valuable rewards from the corrupter.
Many subscribers dropped the Washington Post in response to his first turn toward the right wing. Now his flunkies cite that setback as a reason for another turn toward the right wing.
Foreign correspondent Lizzie Johnson was fired while freezing in Kyiv.
I feel no regret about the dismissal of sports reporters.
It appears that someone is buying up large blocks of tickets to the movie Melania and giving them away to groups. Most of them never actually get used, but they inflate the apparent popularity of the movie.
Nothing means what it pretends to mean when the bullshitter and the billionaires get together.
US citizens: call on your senators to block corruptive bills about cryptocurrency.
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US citizens: call on Verizon to stop supporting the Department of Hatred and Suffering and the deportation thugs.
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US citizens: Tell Apple & Google CEOs: End your contracts with the deportation thugs. Also call on them to allow people to freely share and install libre apps.
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US citizens: Tell Amazon to end contracts with deportation thugs.
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US citizens: call on Target's New CEO to help protect Minnesota from deportation thugs.
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* As much as half of some British beaches' coarse sediments consist of human-made materials such as brick, concrete, glass and industrial waste, a study has found. Climate breakdown, which has caused more frequent and destructive coastal storms, has led to an increase in these substances on beaches.*
This doesn't imply that those substance do specific harm when present in a beach, but they demonstrate the magnitude of change that humans are already causing in this early stage of climate breakdown.
(satire) *ICE Agent Scores Easy Win By Deporting Own Family.*
*New "hate speech" rules for NSW schools could stifle classroom discussions about Gaza, teachers warn.*
Punishing "hate speech" as a crime generally tends to lead to repression.
*Environmentalists decry "crushingly disappointing" PFAS action plan for UK.*
This weakness was predictable, because Starmer Labour's first priority is catering to business.
*Cars sold in China will now be required to have a mechanical release on both the inside and outside of every door except the [trunk].*
That exception is disturbing. I had heard, years ago, that cars were designed so that a person inside the trunk could open the door of the trunk. It seems a shame to retreat from that safety measure.
Contacts with Epstein pulled the plug on the career of Peter Mandelson, a Labour MP and minister who worked unceasingly to strengthen the power of business — and not only in Britain.
*Music and dancing signify defiance at celebratory funerals of Iran's protesters.*
*Sanders Secures Vote on His Amendment to Cut $75 Billion in [deportation thug] Funding and Redirect Those Funds to Medicaid.*
This would undo one of the disastrous things in the Big Bad Bill.
FLOCK "security" license plate readers installed by California towns were being accessed secretly by federal agents who were surely up to no good.
Amazon as an example of enshittification: mistreating customers and manufacturers in many different ways, explained in this article.
Do you feel disgusted with Amazon, but yield because "boycotting Amazon is impossible"? I find it possible! I have never ordered anything from Amazon, and I don't find it hard to continue refusing. If a product I want is sold only by Amazon, I look for a substitute.
As a separate matter, I never order any product remotely, not directly. Instead I ask a friend to order it — not from Amazon! — and reimburse my friend before or after. That way, no data is collected about me.
Indeed, when someone wants to buy a present for me, I ask per to "Please not get anything for me from Amazon. Not anything, ever!"
Amazon is not the only company to engage in the injustice of DRM — Digital Restrictions Management.
The practice of DRM is vicious no matter who does it. I boycott all media that have DRM. What I say about Netflix and Spotify goes for Amazon too.
I detest DRM so much that I refuse to listen or watch someone else's DRM's copy using per own DRM-supporting media player, because that would be surrendering to DRM. The only morally legitimate copy of such a work is an unauthorized copy.
Robert Reich: Congress should write into the law to fund the deportation thug agency an explicit requirement that failure to obey any court order will immediately terminate all funding for it.
Last fall the Israeli army bulldozed graves in a war cemetery in which were buried Allied soldiers who died in World War I and II. Some people are shocked.
You'd think that some people are more concerned about symbolic insult to deceased Australians than about the killing of living Palestinians.
Illinois has established a connection with WHO, to coordinate with global response to diseases.
This is necessary because the saboteur in chief has blocked the US government from doing this job.
*Trump suggests Republicans should "take over" elections to protect the [Republican] party* from losing elections.
Discussing the possibility and danger of artificial species of life, being created and released.
It should be noted that AlphaFold2 is not perfect. It can predict the three-dimesional shape of of most amino-acid chains, but there is a substantial fraction that it gets wrong.
Nonetheless, it does a better job of this than any other known system, including a human being, so I think it qualifies as "intelligence".
Michigan and other states are suing Big Oil for conspiracy to block the success of electric vehicles and clean electric generation.
*[The unjust digital communication site] Discord says users' government IDs [which it demanded for government-mandated] age checks [were] stolen by [crackers].*
Three anti-fascist activists in the UK accuse an undercover cop who infiltrated their group of trying to recruit them into a plan to firebomb a store. He told them that the store was a front for some right-wing activity.
They were not inclined towards violence, so they rejected the suggestion immediately. Will he be prosecuted for this attempt to organize crime?
*Democrats' 10 demands to "rein in" [the deportation thugs] – the full list of proposed reforms.*
I support all these. I also support taking away the extra funds the deportation thugs received in the Big Bad Bill and giving them to medical treatment for nonwealthy Americans, and we ought to demand both. But if we must choose one or the other, I would choose the former. Fascist government is a worse problem than poverty.
US citizens: call on Congress to block US military intervention against Iran.
I can imagine a specific manner of military intervention against Iran's murderous repression. This intervention would target the bases of repression forces, such as Basij, and the court buildings used to try protesters (but not when protesters or their families and lawyers would be present).
But I don't think the bully would choose to do that. He doesn't care about Iranian protesters, or any Iranians except perhaps oil billionaires seeking to give him fealty. Practically speaking, if he orders an attack it will be designed to achieve his selfish and imperialistic aims.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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Please spread the word.
US citizens: call on certain CEOs to end their collaboration with the US deportation thugs.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: call on Congress to restrict deportation thugs from jailing children or doing anything in or near public schools.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
In my letter I said this should apply to private schools too.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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Please spread the word.
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the Billionaires' Income Tax.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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Please spread the word.
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to insist on taking back the extra money granted to deportation thugs by the Big Bad Bill, and explicitly prohibit various unjust and cruel practices.
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US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
US citizens: ask your congresscritter and senators to investigate the attempt to undermine our elections by giving private Social Security data to election deniers.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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Please spread the word.
US citizens: call on mainstream press outlets to report accurately and plainly on Republican plans and promises — quoting them directly, explaining their real-world impacts, and not softening extremist agendas in the name of "balance".
I have seen a report that Adobe Acrobat is pressuring users to upload their own documents to Adobe's Pretend Intelligence summarization tool. But I don't have a source to cite. Can anyone send a report I can refer to?
US citizens: support passage of the Illinois Human Rights Advocacy Protection Act, which would repeal the specific prohibition on boycotting business with Israel.
Americans should be free to boycott any country.
US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the corruptor's own corruption.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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Please spread the word.
US citizens: call on the SEC and other federal regulators to crack down on white-collar financial crime and enforce the law without fear or favor.
That will take courage — the corrupter wants laws enforced with thorough personal favor.
*It is beyond naive for Democrats – and Europe – to think [Mr Grabby's] retreats are real. He never backs down for long.*
I've stated a similar point by saying that he never really commits to a deal with anyone.
London thugs arrested campaigner Peter Tatchell for carrying a sign at a protest. The sign said, "globalise the intifada", followed by "Non-violent resistance. End Israel’s occupation of Gaza & West Bank."
I've explained how "globalize the intifada", by itself, is used as a dog whistle for violence including suicide bombing. However, the full text of Tatchell's sign clearly rejects that implication, so it isn't a dog whistle at all.
People should not be arrested for dog whistles anyway, because that practice amounts to massive repression.
I don't have memories associated with the name Tatchell, but his statements reported here show an admirable clarity of thinking.
The film, Melania, paid for by Amazon, was an opportunity for Bezos to pay a bribe to the extortionist and his wife. However, he doesn't mind spending millions on a bribe, if it gets him billions of dollars of our money.
New York State will form an official team to monitor the actions of deportation thugs, checking for violations of applicable laws.
US citizens: support the newspaper editors that are recognizing the perversion and corruption of the wrecker.
US citizens: Tell the Media: Report on what is really happening in Gaza (bombardment and siege) and the West Bank (violent expulsions).
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A town in Wales will buy the houses on a particular street from their residents in order to demolish them. It has become impossible to protect them from flooding.
As soon as Mayor Mamdani was sworn in, he dove straight into the work of making NYC run better.
The offshore wind generator projects that the wrecker shut down are moving forward again, but he is having complete success in preventing the US from starting any new projects.
*It's time to defund the oligarchy and invest in the American people.*
Mississippi legislators are working on a state-level voting rights act to fill the gap that the Supreme Court threatens to create in federal law.
Wael Tarabishi had an incurable disease that tended to get worse, and depended on his father Mahr Tarabishi to take care of him. The deportation thugs jailed Mahr; without him, Wael's condition rapidly deteriorated and he died in three months.
Then the thugs would not allow Maher to go to the funeral.
In December, the bully ordered work stopped on five offshore wind farms under construction, but construction has now resumed in all five.
A federal judge has blocked the attempt to cancel temporary protected status for Haitians.
Praising anti-fascist activists' collective skill in identifying the masked thugs who committed vicious crimes.
Everyone: call on Google and YouTube to stop showing recruitment ads for the deportation thugs.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: call on your congresscritter to sign the discharge petition for preserving temporary immigration permission for Haitian refugees.
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US citizens: call for firing the gnome (Kristi Noem).
What's happening with Section 702 of the PAT RIOT Act, which allows massive collection of Americans' communication because they get lumped in with the communications of foreigners.
Separatists in Alberta are accused of treason because they met secretly with US officials seeking assistance in launching a referendum to break up Canada.
There is little chance the referendum would win, but the corrupter might fabricate the claim that it was defeated by supposed "fraud".
Civil society organizations called on the EU to phase out purchases of fossil fuels from the US.
The fossil fuels carry a threat of global disaster, and buying them from the US carries a threat of global fascism.
*Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined.*
This demonstrates which people the politicians listen to. Australia needs a Spread the Wealth party that will prioritize the non-rich.
Australia outsources deportation prisons. For an additional shock, it outsources them to a multinational company accused of "gross negligence" in its deportation prisons in the US.
Outsourcing any government service to specific companies invites them to skimp on the work and gouge the state. The practice should be abolished.
11 days before deportation thugs killed Alex Pretti, he was at or near a protest and made an angry but harmless gesture against deportation thugs' car, whereupon some came out and violently attacked him.
On that occasion, the thugs didn't shoot him, but they committed violence against various people present at the protest.
I'm gratified to see that others have joined me in calling cops that commit wanton and gratuitous violence "thugs". Whether cops act like thugs depends on their training. The persecutor's haste to hire tens of thousands more deportation thugs, with little qualifications and little training, surely encourages their gratuitous violence.
* Doctors are being arrested in Iran for helping save the lives of some of the tens of thousands injured during Iran's [murderous] crackdown on anti-regime protests.*
The magat administration plans to use Pretend Intelligence to write federal transportation regulations.
It may do no harm as long as the numskull is in charge, since he often tells his officials to ignore what regulations actually say and impose unrelated requirements or no requirements.
* Australia's law that is supposed to protect the environment and cultural heritage doesn’t work.* Analysis of one major recent case demonstrates this.
Chicago is preparing to investigate deportation thugs for crimes they commit.
If the US government succeeds in forcing the University of Pennsylvania to hand over a list of students and employees who are Jews, it could make any school or any employer give a list of Jews, a list of Muslims, and maybe even a list of Atheists.
The irony of starting the persecution of a group by pretending to be working to protect it would be a fillip of delight for the cunning persecutors of Project 2025.
*We Venezuelans must choose our own path. We need fair elections, not bombs or contracts with the US oil industry.*
A lawsuit claims that WhatsApp "can access virtually all of WhatsApp users’ purportedly 'private' communications."
I don't know any facts about what WhatsApp can decrypt at present. What I do know is that the app is nonfree software. As a matter of fundamental principle, you can't trust a non-free program to deal with you honestly. Meta certainly could rig the WhatsApp app to save the cleartext of messages, and send it to the server (encrypted in a way the server can decrypt, just so users can't tell what it is doing). I know of nothing that would prevent or deter it from doing so.
As for whether it has actually done so, I have no knowledge about that. Maybe the lawsuit will give us information. But if we learn that Meta has not done this, that won't prove it can't do so next year.
Identifying many diagnostic aspects of fascism in the wrecker's misrule.
*The Farcical Case Against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for Protest Reporting.*
The arrest of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort in Minnesota was ordered by Persecutor General Bondi, after two courts had ruled there was nothing to arrest them for. It is an example the bully's attempt to eliminate freedom of the press.
Israel's army has accepted HAMAS's figures for casualties in Gaza. This is after two years of claiming they were lies.
The persecutor is walking back his outrageous accusations against the victims of the thugs' crimes, but not very far — now it is a "tragedy", as if no one were responsible.
Bovino, whom the persecutor chose to lead the mad stampede of deportation thugs in Minnesota, has returned to his previous local post. Alas, his replacement is just as cruel
even if not as wild.
I think all this represents unstated recognition that the blatant lies that high officials were telling about the people that thugs had murdered were driving some of their supporters away.
The corrupter has continued a decades-long trend of increasing the resources put into policing (and punishing) of ordinary people's behavior, and reducing the policing (investigation) of rich people's self-enrichment behavior.
Biden went against that trend when he gave the IRS more money to investigate tax dodgers. Of course, the corrupter reversed that change, precisely because it was effective.
An IRS employee leaked the corrupter's private income tax data, and was properly convicted and sentenced for doing so. Now the corrupter is suing the IRS and demands ten billion dollars in damages for the leak.
The president should not be allowed to sue federal agencies at all, because that creates an opportunity for corruption.
The deportation thugs are expanding pervasive surveillance in a way that threatens the rights of everyone in the US.
*Ian McEwan calls for assisted dying rights to extend to dementia sufferers.*
My mother used to say to me: 'If I ever become really terrible, I’d like you to finish me off.' But of course, that’s to commit murder as things stand. Imagine standing up in court and saying: ‘Well, she did say when we were on the beach 20 years ago …'By the time my mother was well advanced and could not recognize anyone, she was dead. She was alive and dead all at once. It was a terrible thing.
Such a person is effectively a zombie. We should have the right to register in advance, when we still have the capacity to think about the question, the request to be killed painlessly if we become zombies.
The next No Kings protest will be held on March 28th against the deportation thugs' "reign of terror".
US citizens: call on your rep and senators to have Congress stop funding DHS’ and ICE’s inhumane and lethal tactics.
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In the US: call on your state attorney general to stop deportation thugs from invading people's homes without a warrant.
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In the US: call on Verizon to terminate its contracts with the Department of Hatred and Sadism and with I Can't Empathize.
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US citizens: urge your representative and senators to support continuing the New START nuclear arms limitation treaty and the moratorium on testing nuclear weapons.
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Amazon is giving up on its surveillance-based stores that require every customer to be tracked. Hooray for the failure of an initiative that tried to expand surveillance! But that still leaves so much surveillance that we need to put an end to.
*Bushfires in Victoria push threatened species to the brink.*
One kind of human-caused disaster thus tends to cause other kinds.
Everyone: call on Tell Chevron’s CEO: Stop evading Chevron’s responsibility for your destruction of Louisiana's coast.
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Scotland has legislated new buildings must include swift bricks that provide nesting spaces for swifts.
These special bricks contain a cavity that small birds can nest in. The added cost of construction is minuscule, but business owners think a little more profit is worth destruction of endangered species.
People who use Pretend Intelligence for work meetings and job interviews are causing chaos in business. Some of them are trying to use it to compensate for their own lack of ability or knowledge. People who catch on to this learn they cannot be trusted.
US citizens: call on your local and state leaders to block Big Tech data centers in your community.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US homeowners whose homes were destroyed by fire report that some insurance companies seem to be trying to fob them off with much less then the actual value of the destroyed home or what rebuilding would cost.
The UK government tried to cover up its report on ecosystem collapse, after first deleting some of the most frightening parts. (What was not deleted is plenty frightening anyway.)
*"Ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair)." This presents a threat to "UK national security and prosperity". It says "the world is already experiencing impacts including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. Threats will increase with degradation and intensify with collapse." The results will include geopolitical and economic instability, increased conflict and competition for resources. "It is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food." It also warns that "conflict and military escalation will become more likely, both within and between states, as groups compete for arable land and food and water resources".*The Starmer government is tossing out environmental protection commitments made by the Tories.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds before midnight.
*The scientists cited risks of nuclear war, the climate crisis, potential misuse of biotechnology and the increasing use of [pretend intelligence and] artificial intelligence without adequate controls.*
How drug searches at events increase the danger to participants from drugs.
The corpse of the last remaining hostage was found -- in the Israel-occupied area of Gaza, were HAMAS could not easily search for it.
This demonstrates that Netanyahu was using that corpse as an excuse to continue the occupation and siege, and the killing of Palestinians.
The article does not say who actually found the corpse. I am curious about this because I conjecture that Netanyahu did his best to avoid its being found.
Modeling projects that 40% of the world population will face extreme heat by 2050, if the world reaches 2°C of global heating by then.
The article says 41%, but such a prediction cannot be exact enough to justify stating the result with two significant figures. The proper scientific way to state it is 40%.
The study reports that every nation is unprepared for this level of heat, which generally kills some people. However, instead of planning to treat the symptoms in 2050, the wise priority is to curb global heating so that we don't reach that level of danger. The ecological side effects of that much heating (fires, floods, crop failures and hunger, spreading parasites, diseases, extinctions) may be far more dangerous to civilization and humans than the direct effects of high temperatures.
Is presenting your children's lives on Instagram somehow dangerous to them?
This article seems to take for granted an emotional conclusion that makes no sense to me. I just don't get it. Why would being talked about on Instagram hurt a child?
I am not saying it can't do that -- I don't know. But I can't see why the writer expects that result.
I have never seen Instagram, and have never wished to look. I am not interested in gawking at the details of someone else's luxuries or activities. Why waste time on that when there are so many more important or more interesting things to do?
But I know of bad things that Instagram tends to do to anyone.
Connecting to Instagram requires identifying oneself. I don't want anyone to track what I look at. I don't want anyone to track what you look at, either -- such tracking is the foundation for repression.
Another reason is that connecting to Instagram requires running nonfree software (either an app or JavaScript programs sent to our browser). Running them implies surrendering freedom. I refuse to be a zucker, and I hope you won't be one either.
Instagram seems to promote parasocial relationships. I don't want a parasocial relationship with anyone, because that strikes me as a kind of self-delusion. If I wish that a certain famous person were my friend, I also wish to remain aware of the reality of the situation. I can't tell you what to do, but I hope you'll focus on reality.
Starmer's appointees have blocked authentic Labour activist Andy Burnham from running for an open seat in Parliament. Evidently his priority for the Labour Party is to ensure it never returns to championing workers and the non-rich, as it was founded to do. He'd rather nail its coffin shut than allow it to win by allowing it to be true to its purpose.
*NRA and pro-gun groups call for full investigation into killing of Alex Pretti.*
Any person or group that upholds any right whatsoever for citizens in general will have conflicts with the magat position, which is that magats can do whatever they like to anyone else.
Gun lovers are up in arms at the statement (by the persecutor's henchman) that thugs are entitled to shoot anyone who has a gun (even if perse doing nothing threatening with it).
The article also says that one of the thugs took Pretti's gun before other thugs shot him. So it seems that thugs are entitled to shoot anyone who had a gun, even if perse has since been disarmed.
I advocate gun control laws, but those who are permitted to carry a gun should not be killed for carrying one as long as they don't threaten anyone.
Israel has ceased using the last hostage corpse as an excuse to continue the siege of Gaza. It is instead searching for the corpse, which at least is not hurting anyone.
Whether Israel will really end the siege now remains to be seen.
A right-wing extremist joined a chat with people discussing how to identify and find deportation thugs, presumed that this was for some illegal plan, informed the henchman in charge of the FBI (who he knows), and the latter eagerly started investigating them in the hopes of finding such a plan.
By contrast, when deportation thugs commit major crimes including murder, federal agencies look aside.
Families of two men killed by a US attack on a small boat are suing the US government.
A federal judge in Minnesota ordered the acting head of the deportation thugs to come personally to court and answer questions, since the agency has ignored court orders and questions from the court.
*Responding to the unlawful activities of [deportation thugs] in our community*, not far from where I live.
US citizens: call for removing the name "Trump" from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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US citizens: call on Congress to stop the wrecker from abandoning prosecution of fraud so as to persecute immigrants instead.
If you sign, please spread the word!
US citizens: call on governments to start taking notes about when a person dies while in jail or prison, or otherwise in the power of cops.
The EPA has mostly abandoned enforcement of limits on pollution.
The occupation of Minnesota by deportation thugs may give way to an occupation by the US army. This could start a civil war.
I don't have high hopes that the occupation forces would lose.
*Criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu may be an offense under Australia’s new hate speech laws, Greens warn.*
An expert said, *It seems that the implication is criticism of Israel, and the Israeli government, and suggesting it is engaged in genocide or something of that kind, would be enough to at least trigger the start of the process, by satisfying the provisions about inciting racial hatred.* But whether a court would see that as permitted
I oppose the prohibition of so-called "hate speech" because it tends to result in censorship of legitimate political condemnation of politicians that practice of advocate cruel and violent policies — in effect, defending that cruelty and violence, as in the case of Netanyahu.
A friend pointed out that the "loot box" gambling machine in the Pentagon could introduce things that shouldn't be inside the Pentagon — including surveillance devices and poison traps.
Palestinian Sami al-Saei describes being raped by Israeli prison guards.
*European leaders who know their continent's history must now see that the US president is siding with the forces of tyranny.*
A spokesman for the deportation thugs claimed that, while doing their work, they have the power to ask questions of anyone. What they seem to think that means is the power to seize anyone and take per to jail to question per there.
Nurse Alex Pretti was shot dead by deportation thugs at a protest as he tried to aid a person they had attacked. They killed him after knocking him down to the ground.
He had been observing the protest, not participating.
The thugs stated that Pretti had a gun, and indeed he did (with a license), but videos show he did not hold it — he was in fact carrying a phone/camera. They must have found it after he was dead, and decided to make it an excuse to falsify justification for the killing.
Mayor Frey exhorts the bully to pull back his thugs and allow peace and tranquility to resume in Minneapolis.
Good on Mayor Frey, but I don't think the bully will change his tune. He creates violence so his henchmen can take advantage of it.
*Google [PI] Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests.*
Protesters rebuke Target stores for allowing deportation thugs to enter for hunting people. That is a choice — the company could decide that they cannot enter without a specific warrant.
The terror spread by deportation thugs in Minneapolis is traumatizing schoolchildren. Many don't dare go to school.
ChatGPT is worse than lacking in intelligence — its store of text comes from Grok, which spouts Nazi propaganda.
Sweden, pressured by a right-wing extremist party, is kicking out asylum seekers who have been in Sweden for over a decade and have fully integrated into Swedish society.
I wonder how serious a crime must be to serve as grounds for expulsion.
Syrian government and mostly-Kurdish Northeast Syria have agreed on a one-month cease fire for sending PISSI prisoners to Iraqi prisons.
This is good as far as it goes, but the Syrian government should allow people in Northeast Syria should not be stripped of the rights and social advances that they have fought for.
(satire) *God Informs Humanity [that] Choking People [are] Meant To Die.*
(satire) *What To Know About [the bully]'s Board Of Peace.*
Almost all the 21 countries that signed up for the persecutor's "Board of Peace" are authoritarian.
Paraguay is arguably democratic. I don't know about Armenia, Bulgaria, Kosovo and Mongolia; perhaps they are democratic. Indonesia was democratic but is heading towards military domination.
Chris Madel, Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota, has dropped out of the race and simultaneously out of the Republican Party.
He condemned the occupation by marauding thugs as racist and un-American.
Global heating is starting to cause ecosystem collapse, which will tend to make the growing disaster irreversible.
Unless you are pretty old already, this could kill you eventually.
Since the persecutor wants to cancel the naturalization of immigrants who violated US visa rules and subsequently applied falsely for US citizenship, this article directs his attention to two people closely associated with him who did just that: Elon Musk and Melania Trump.
I won't be surprised if he applies the law one way to his friends and followers and another way to everyone else. That is what kings used to do, and he wants to be king.
One of Gavin Newsom's flaws is that he opposes the billionaire wealth tax.
While the design of California's one-time wealth tax proposal is clever in that a billionaire can't save any money by moving out of the state now, I don't think a once-time wealth tax will do what is needed to make the US start working again. Billionaires' under-taxation has made many aspects of the US work badly.
The US made a deadly attack on yet another civilian boat, once again choosing to kill on mere suspicion of crime, rather than arrest those accused and put them on trial to determined whether they had really committed that crime.
This is murder, committed by a conspiracy that included all participants from the pilot that fired the weapon through the officers that ordered the mission and up to Hegseth and the persecutor. They all deserve to stand trial.
*Texas Black man exonerated 70 years after execution in case marked by racial bias.*
A thug fabricated the claim that the murder victim had identified her killer to him, though other witnesses said she was beyond speaking by then. Then other thugs beat a false confession out of him.
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 normally I will not link to articles that practice it. But I make exceptions for some articles because I consider them important — and I present this comment about them.
The autopsy on Geraldo Lunas Campos ruled that he was killed by the thugs while a prisoner in a deportation prison.
The Department of Hatred and Suffering publicly claimed that Mahmoud Khalil and other foreign students were "supporting terrorism", but internally admitted that they were only advocating Palestinians' human rights.
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the VISIBLE Act, which would prohibit deportation thugs from concealing their identities.
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US citizens: call on your state's attorney general to keep deportation thugs out of public schools.
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*How [the persecutor] changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police.* It was a matter of changing their targets and priorities.
*This is what fascism looks like — there is no bright line between democracy and autocracy, it's a spectrum, and not all of the country will experience that switch at the same moment in the same way. But let’s be clear: There is a US city living under occupation by fascist presidential secret police right now.*
(satire) *ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks.*
The Massachusetts legislature is working to put an end to dishonest tactics cops use to falsify witness testimony.
Massive public rebukes have driven the bully and his henchmen to drop their insults against Alex Pretti.
According to Mayor Frey, they are also starting to reduce the number of deportation thugs operating in Minneapolis. (That may not be a cause for rejoicing if they are only moving thugs to occupy another city.)
Henchmen, at their Orwellian finest, are saying, "We never said anything unkind about Alex Pretti."
(satire) *Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders.*
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A UK official banned the fans of an Israeli team from a football match, believing that they had got involved in fights with fans of another team in a previous match.
It turns out that previous match had never taken place — the report was bullshit, output by a bullshit generator.
Please don't call these errors "hallucinations" — that term is designed to maintain the claim that those systems really perceive (whether correctly or incorrectly) events that they then understand.
The Injustice Department (formerly called the Justice Department) is now investigating the governor of Minnesota and the mayor of Minneapolis for "obstructing" the federal terror campaign in Minneapolis.
Governor Walz said,
Two days ago it was [Senator] Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, [Senator] Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
That is not precisely valid. Neither Slotkin nor Kelly is being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good, though that was a real crime and its real perpetrator really should be investigated. Kelly and Slotkin are being investigated for correctly citing US law, which is not a crime at all.
The Chicago Teachers Union is being investigated too, but nothing to do with Renee Good.
*US cities [are] increasingly compelled to police abuses by [deportation thugs]* because the officials in charge of the deportation thugs encourage them to commit crimes against the public.
Magats in the Pentagon plan to make the military newspaper, Stars and Stripes, follow the strict party line.
The bully demands that HAMAS hand over its heavy weapons, while saying nothing about Israel's heavy weapons.
*US mixed messaging on flu shots alarms experts: "Children should not be dying."*
The UN committee against torture has found Australia responsible for torture carried out in an immigration prison in Papua New Guinea on an immigrant that Australia paid Papua New Guinea to jail.
Australia pioneered the idea of denying asylum to refugees who arrive by small boat, no matter how repressive the country they escaped.
Texas A&M ordered a philosophy professor to drop readings from Plato's Symposium, and a discussion of the issues they raise, from his class on the grounds that they "advocate" about "race theory" and "gender theory".
This article explains what those readings from Plato talk about and show why magats want to quash such discussion — even though the professor had no intention of "advocating" anything, only holding rational discussion about the issues raised.
I am disappointed that he ultimately obeyed rather than suing. But since he did that after consulting his lawyer, I suppose that suing was not likely to fix the problem.
That makes the tragedy even worse, and shows that the saboteur in chief is the enemy of the thinking and knowledge, not only human rights and the well-being of the poor.
The president of the university defended the university's order by misrepresenting and evading the issue. This page shows what he wrote and precisely explains the dishonesty.
Philosophy professors' resistance is not enough to save freedom in the US, but they can clearly explain why we need to save it, and that helps.
Prison thugs in many or all US states often carry out illegal violence towards prisoners, causing suffering, damage and occasionally death.
*DHS Used Neo-Nazi Anthem for Recruitment After [killing of Renee Good].* We know that they are looking for the personality profile of violent right-wing loonies.
Deportation thugs blinded or half-blinded two protesters by shooting them in the face with "less-lethal" munitions. They barely survived the attack.
One of them, Rummler, still has one working eye, it seems. For the other, Rodriguez, I can't tell from the article.
Naturally, the thugs' PR person misrepresented the situation, pretending they were under heavy attack.
It makes sense that they do the opposite of standard techniques for de-escalation. The persecutor's strategy is to spread terror among the public, so teaching thugs tactics that create opportunities for terror serves the purpose.
On the division of Iran's opposition between supporters of the son of the Shah and those who oppose him.
Scientists disagree about measurements of microplastics in human bodies. By studying the conflicting results, they will find methods to work out the correct facts.
European countries, and the UN, have discovered that depending on US companies for digital services puts them at risk of harassment or attack.
The marketing term "the cloud" is used to lull people into disregarding the question of where their data is really kept, and who controls it. We have been saying for ten years that "There is no cloud — only computers belonging to others." When the "other" is a US company, including Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft, you're making a mistake by using it.
But the US is not the only country that might attack you. When the "other" is a non-US company, that too may be a mistake.
So do your computing on your own computers, running only free software (since that's the software that users can control), and keep your data on your own computers too.
It is safe to encrypt an archive on your own computer with the GNU Privacy Guard then save the encrypted file on someone else's computer. But don't let the only copies be saved like that.
*RFK Jr's new diet guidelines pose risks for health and the environment, experts say.*
*Rushed laws after a tragedy are "never good", warns father [and mother] of youngest [Bondi Beach mass shooting] victim.* They show wisdom by resisting the temptation to go overboard into their own loss and preferring that society choose the best response.
In the same way, a law named (even unofficially) after a person who suffered injustice tends to be insufficiently thought out.
The bully is trying to bully Europe with tariffs into acquiescing to his demand to sell Greenland to him. Now European countries are moving towards uniting for confrontation with him.
I don't think that the bully cares very much about Greenland. I think his real goal is to make Europe submit to him, using a demand chosen to be outrageous and threats chosen to be daunting.
Past experience suggests that if he sees that he won't gain the submission he seeks, he will back off — for a while.
The writer describes the sense of liberation of deactivating his ex-Twitter account.
Or perhaps nowadays should we call it "shitter"?
The plastic industry is likely to weaponize the present real uncertainty about the concentration of microplastics in human tissues.
Meanwhile, measuring the level of harm that microplastics do to the human bodies they are found in is another difficult medical challenge. A few decades from now, it may be easy to determine which medical problems correlate with higher concentrations. But we would like to know this before being exposed for decades.
I wonder if microscopic structures could be made which would attach to microplastics and drag them out of the body.
Unjustified killings by the deportation thugs are not anomalies, and not the result of agents with insufficient training. They are part of how the agency was meant to operate.
I agree with the demand that everyone facing deportation have the right to a lawyer to defend per. Deportation is usually exile for life, yet because it is not legally considered a punishment, it can be imposed with less protection than a month in jail.
*FBI supervisor resigns after trying to investigate agent who shot Renee Good* and being pressured to stop.
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Dr Ahmed Muhanna was seized in Gaza where he was working in a hospital and jailed in Israel for almost two years without any charges. While jailed, he was tortured sadistically, even including beatings which broke a rib, and then denied medicine for that.
He saw other prisoners die of medical problems which could have been cured if they had received treatment, as prisoners are entitled to.
Now he has been released and is back in Gaza, but the shortages of medical supplies and destroyed equipment, what doctors can do is limited.
Labour plans to restrict the right to protest even more, by banning frequent protests in the same "area".
To allow protest only as long as it never inconveniences anyone is to make protest so weak that it hardly counts for anything. The policies that large crowds protest repeatedly do much worse than inconvenience people. They usually amount to cruelty and injustice, usually toward the disprivileged.
*Children aged two with highest screen use can say significantly fewer words, UK government research finds.*
This is adding to the evidence that using computers tends to be bad for young children.
Google Search has stopped presenting pseudo-intelligence overviews for some questions because they gave incorrect medical advice that was endangering people's health.
But since this pseudo-intelligence doesn't really understand the meaning of thing, the criteria had to be written at a superficial level — somewhat like trying to identify spam with regexps. Some paraphrased questions still do elicit the "overview".
A federal judge rejected the saboteur in chief's executive order that purported to make states demand ID from voters, and other restrictions.
A lawyer explains why Minnesota can prosecute Iceman Ross, though keeping the evidence away from the state might make it difficult in practice.
The bully ordered a criminal investigation of Jerome Powell, nominally for alleged misuse of government money. I suppose they hope to find something they could dress up as misuse, but the real motive for the investigation is to punish him for lack of subservience to the bully in setting interest rates.
There are real clashes of interests that affect the setting of interest rates. For instance, which is more important: the comfort of the wealthy, or more employment? In the past, some Democratic presidents convinced the Federal Reserve to help workers, but Obama and Biden appointed Republicans to head the Federal Reserve to assure the wealthy nothing like that would happen.
When courts rule that congresscritters have the right to inspect deportation prisons, the gnome publishes another cockamamie excuse to forbid it. She probably expects that each one will be overturned, but each order will delay the visits for a while until the courts reject that one too.
*US judge lets Danish firm resume Rhode Island offshore wind project halted by [the saboteur in chief].*
The US government demanded that the University of Pennsylvania hand over a list of Jews in the university, including faculty, staff and students.
This is a peculiar reversal. So far, magats have mostly tried to persecute Muslims and those who condemn Israel's atrocities towards Palestinians — often in the name of "fighting antisemitism". This demand seems more like preparation for committing antisemitism.
Given how many Nazis and Christian bigots there are among the magats, it doesn't surprise me that they want to persecute Jews in addition to Hispanics and Africans.
*US carbon pollution rose in 2025 in reversal of previous years' reductions.* It was clear from the polluter in chief's policy decisions that this would be the result.
*An ophthalmologist in Tehran has documented more than 400 eye injuries from gunshots in a single hospital, as overwhelmed medical staff struggle to cope with the toll of an increasingly violent crackdown on nationwide protests by Iranian authorities.*
Doctors treat injured protesters out in the street as the hospitals are full.
I wonder at the support of some Iranians for the son of the former shah to reestablish a monarchy. The shah was a bloody tyrant too, and aroused big street protests that forced him out. Of course the Iranians want to get out of the fire, but why choose a possible frying pan as refuge?
I wish the US were capable of inspiring Iranians to fight for democracy, but I expect that the bullshitter/bully has made his contempt for democracy clear even as far as Iran. The past US aggressions, including putting the shah back in power, won't help either.
Hegseth says that Grok will be integrated into "Pentagon networks" including secret ones.
That can now be a security hole as well as an asshole. Imagine the leaks: "I sometimes ask Grok to make a picture of me as a soldier in a war zone. Two weeks ago it showed me in Caracas, but now it shows me in Tehran!"
But the bullshitter's Nazi supporters will rejoice.
The gnome declared that Somalia has become a safe country and ordered Somalis with temporary protected status to start arranging to leave the US.
I don't know whether Somalia is now safe — its civil war/terrorism has not been in the news much lately — but we cannot expect her to tell the truth about such questions.
Reports say the US attacked a supposed "drug boat" using an armed plane disguised as civilian.
The article explains that this, in war, would constitute the crime of "perfidy" — but since the US and Venezuela were not engaged in war, it was simple murder regardless of whether weapons were visible.
The saboteur's henchmen have removed or excluded the specially trained lawyer-soldiers who are supposed to advise officers about such issues, thus learning officers to commit war crimes unawares.
I wonder who would be held responsible for those war crimes? The officer who ordered the action? The civilians responsible for denying advice to per?
*[One] quarter of developing countries poorer than in 2019, World Bank finds.*
*[At least four] DoJ attorneys resign over decision not to investigate agent [accused of shooting Renee Good].* This is the work of Harmeet Dhillon, an election-denying Republican made an official by the bully. Her assiduous service to him has been to demolish parts of the Justice Department.
The next goal is to establish that the bully's henchmen can order the killing of anyone and protect the killer from prosecution, while fishing for excuses to call the victim a criminal.
Some experimental detection of microplastics in tissues may be errors due to contamination.
*New York Attorney General Pro-Israel Group Betar U.S. for Biased Harassment of Arabs, Muslims.*
The organization is shutting down in response to a settlement it reached with New York State.
*Ilhan Omar said [the House Progressive Caucus] will "oppose all funding" for immigration enforcement unless militarized policing ends.*
The bully's henchmen are spreading Nazi influence.
This goes with the Nazi-like cruelty and arbitrary political punishments aimed at universities law firms, and major media.
*Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds.*
This is a measure of steady progress. The momentary measurement is not greatly important, but the steady progress is.
Estimates show that eliminating juries from some trials would make hardly any difference to the backlog of trials in Britain.
Deportation thugs in Minnesota are jailing people who are in the US lawfully, including young children, and using them as bait.
* The US has been awarded a new dubious distinction: it has been selected as this year’s focus of an international coalition of legal groups and bar associations as a country where lawyers and judges are so politically intimidated that the rule of law is under threat.*
The bully agreed to a "framework for a deal" about Greenland which backs off from his intolerable demands about that place
For the moment, there is no more Greenland crisis…until he changes his mind again. But since nothing guarantees this framework will lead to a legitimate agreement (and officials of other countries are not confident about that).
He has all he needs to restart the crisis whenever he wishes.
Even if it were a detailed and specific deal, you can never trust the wrecker to keep a deal.
Reports that many of the four-year-olds who have spent substantial time using screen-controlled computers display major weaknesses in intellectual and social skills.
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, and her brother (head of the National Assembly), promised in advance their cooperation with the US once the US had grabbed President Maduro.
An appeals court temporarily suspended the order that deportation thugs in Minnesota could not arrest peaceful protesters or fire less-lethal weapons at them.
I would like to know the court's stated reasons.
Parts of England are in danger of using up their water reserves.
*The water company texts: we are so sorry; colleagues are working to restore connection; everything should soon be normal. You want to believe them, but the more it's repeated, the more it becomes a kind of hold music. There’s no supply the next day, and the day after, and the day after that.*
This danger is not limited to England. Many countries are using up their water reserves.
*Good morning. [The megalomaniac] wants to be the supreme leader of the world.
That may sound hyperbolic, but it is difficult to read the latest plans for his so-called "Board of Peace" as anything else. What was initially framed as a narrow mechanism to oversee Gaza’s reconstruction has quietly shifted into something far larger.*
And far more dangerous too.
A megabankster concedes that the use of artificial "intelligence" may need to be slowed in order to reduce the rate of disruption.
However, he continues to insist on the PR claim that those systems are "intelligence" and that they provide a benefit to society.
The main "benefit" of Pretend Intelligence is that businesses can save money by replacing human workers who can apply real intelligence with computers that do a lousy job.
*Washington Post demands government return electronics seized in raid of reporter [Hannah Natanson]'s home.*
The contain the information from confidential sources that she cannot obtain again.
The dispute between the Syrian government and the mainly Kurdish northeast broke into fighting again.Some imprisoned PISSI fighters escaped in the chaos, and there is danger more may escape.
Scientists discuss what is known and what isn't know yet in regard to the biological effects of microplastics.
Refuting the bullshitter's latest lies and wild exaggerations.
The bullshitter's White House staff altered a photo of an arrested protester being arrested, to falsely give the impression that she was crying.
They did this using a Pretend Intelligence system.
The bully's principal domestic policy focus is a campaign of retribution toward anyone who refuses to bow down to him.
This is intended to partisan bias in every part of the US government, and obedience in other important institutions in society.
Proposing a "grand bargain" on US immigration policy, which would speed up decisions on applications for asylum and create a statute of limitations on deportation for simple overstaying.
* [Magats] "Deliberately" Tanking Morale to Get [National] Parks Staff to Quit, Official Says in Leaked Tape.*
Four heuristics for interpreting what the bullshitter says.
His bullshit has been observed to follow certain patterns, and these heuristics are based on those patterns.
Labour leftist Andy Burnham has been a success as mayor of Manchester, and he may want to run for Parliament and challenge Starmer for leadership of the Labour Party.
Starmer is pulling strings to block him, so that a nebbish Labour right-winger will run instead.
If Starmer blocks leftists from running for Parliament while leftists are the ones the public will vote for, he is acting the role of a saboteur who would rather destroy Labour than let it stand for what it used to stand for.
(satire) *ICE Deems Being In Privacy Of Own Home Obstruction Of Justice.
(satire) *Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants.*
The Syrian government proved has made a peace deal with the Kurdish-centered Syrian Democratic Forces. The former definitely won the military confrontation but seems willing to coexist with the latter.
This may be a good outcome.
A narcissist feels others owe him whatever he desires, even a Nobel prize, and is inclined to punish whoever is slow to do so. The bully says he is punishing Denmark because Norway didn't give him the Nobel Peace Prize.
It looks like he doesn't recognize the difference between individuals or states — either they all bow down to him obsequiously or they are all at fault.
The Department of Injustice has sent subpoenas to several Minnesota officials who oppose the mayhem of the deportation thugs there.
The article explains why the accusation of "impeding" federal thugs is bogus.
Europe is now dependent on importing liquefied fossil gas from the US. This is dangerous, since the bully can weaponize it.
Britain's Science Museum runs science courses for teachers. Alas, it has given Billionaire Polluters control over what the courses can say.
The global pattern of draining aquifers faster than they can refill threatens regional no-water-left crises that could happen at any time.
Large lakes are shrinking, and major rivers are ceasing to reach the sea.
The whole world is vulnerable to the consequences, through economic interdependence.
Macron sent the cheater a private proposal for group negotiations about Greenland and other issues. The cheater contemptuously published the proposal
and rejected it.I think his motive was to reject the idea of negotiating a compromise: "Don't think of looking for a deal — obey my demands or I will shit on you!"
This accords with what I said previously: you should never expect that the cheater has made a deal he will carry out.
The so called "board of peace" that the Security Council voted for has been twisted into a swindle.
Arguing that Europe must respond to the bully's artificial Greenland crisis with firmness.
The idea of a deal with the persecutor is self-delusion — they should accept that they can't rely on the US as long as magats are in control.
* Children, including the very young, have been spending weeks or months in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in a remote part of Texas where outside monitors have heard accounts of shortages of clean drinking water, chronic sleep deprivation and kids struggling for hygiene supplies and prompt medical attention, as revealed in a stark new court filing.*
I don't see how any practical factors could lead to all of this maltreatment. Hatred and sadism must play some role.
The corrupter's corruption is estimated at 1.4 billion dollars in the first year alone.
Deportation thugs broke into ChongLy Thao's house without a warrant to justify it, refused to let him show ID to prove he was a US citizen, then refused to let him don outdoor clothing before forcing him out into the cold.
A responsible law-enforcement agency would punish employees who did even one of these things, but there has been no punishment for those. It seems that the deportation thug agency is run by lawless sadists.
Borrowing a tactic from the persecutor, the supreme ayatollah of Iran is facing massive protests by labeling the protesters as followers of the persecutor.
A global deal to require businesses to pay a certain minimum amount of income tax has been modified to make a loophole for large US-based multinational corporations.
Those are exactly the companies that worst rip off the whole world by paying an insufficient share towards keeping things going, while increasing the world's inequality.
The Committee to Protect Journalists warns that the bully's proposed restrictions on visas for foreign journalists in the US could result effectively in censorship.
I suppose that's the whole point.
More info about proposed new visa restrictions.
Magats are censoring US museums and bullying them into self-censorship. Most museums seem to be trying to duck under the desk in the hope that censors won't notice them. That will not be effective.
Deportation thugs blocked medics twice from reaching Renee Good to see whether she was dead or alive.
*Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank.
Tender posted for construction of 3,401 homes in settlement designed to "bury idea of a Palestinian state"* by fragmenting the remaining land.
A small but significant fraction of the women protesters that the deportation thugs attacked with tear gas are reporting continuing medical problems afterward.
Similar problems occurred among protesters at Black Lives Matter protests who were tear gassed.
The article reports on medical studies that found harmful effects of tear gas. But it is hard to study the issue because the composition of any given tear gas product is secret.
Clearly the law should require manufacturers of any gas or liquid product intended to be applied to people at random to publish full details of its composition.
Studies show that when mainstream parties show hostility towards immigration, it boosts support for right-wing extremists. When social-democratic parties do this, it boosts the far-right vote and reduces their own.
This reinforces a conclusion I posted some decades ago: in politics, when the best outcome you can get is a compromise, you must never give the bad side of the compromise any moral legitimacy. Tell the truth, that with the limited influence you have, winning on this issue was beyond your reach.
Protests have been organized across the US condemning the deportation thugs' murder of Renee Good. Some also condemn the murder of people in small boats in the Caribbean — people who were accused of smuggling, but never put on trial to prove them guilty.
There wasn't enough notice to promote these protests here with non-JavaScript announcements, but we will try to do that in the future.
Two enormous mining companies want to merge. Whenever two enormous companies want to merge, governments should stop them. Capitalism with insufficient competition is effectively fascism.
The Iranian government had killed hundreds of protesters, by now perhaps tens of thousands; the bully is messing with the situation by threatening a military attack in the name of protecting protesters.
His idiotic meddling is enabling the government to cast the protesters as tools of the US.
Meanwhile, observe the irony of comparing how the bully speaks of Iranian protesters who demand human rights and democracy with how he speaks of American protesters who demand the same.
Here are fragmentary reports of events in Iran — I don't think we can be sure of their accuracy. What is clear is that this is repression, a crime by the state.
Vaccinating any and all babies against the RSV virus is reducing the number who need hospitalization, but the idiot officials want to vaccinate fewer rather than more.
Decades of mergers have left US business dangerously concentrated, with giant corporations operating under many brand names using PR meant to give the impression that they are alternatives to big business.
These combined businesses are so powerful that they can prevent the government from taking crucial actions to protect the health of their consumers, their workers, and the general public. (And animals too, but I think any human being is more important than a cow or a cat.) They also drive wages down so that most people are impoverished.
This article focuses on the food industry but the same issue applies to many other fields.
Another effect of this dangerous power can be seen in the states that passed "ag-gag laws". These laws criminalize making unauthorized videos inside farms or meat processing plants, even to prove illegal or dangerous practices of those businesses.
*Ilhan Omar and two other House members blocked from visiting [deportation prison] in Minnesota.
[They were] ejected even though judge ruled Congress members can’t be barred from visiting [such] facilities.*
Is there anything the judge can do to make the deportation thugs obey the order? Can perse dispatch federal marshals to arrest them for contempt of court if they don't?
The practice of paying web sites is risky — there are constantly fake sites that lead innocent people to pay fraudsters instead.
People should always have he right to pay with paper; and if there is no inherent reason why that would be absurd, people should have the right to pay anonymously.
Directing charges to a car license plate is inherently unjust surveillance.
China is trying to bully European countries into forbidding visits by Taiwanese officials.
The US is threatening punitive tariffs on countries that do business with Iran.
Senator Kelly is suing Hegseth and the War Department for trying to punish him for accurately citing laws that the corrupter wishes did not exist.
Senator Warren shook up the Democratic Party's "moderates", then mostly joined them — but this commentary says she is returning to her firm progressive roots.
(satire) *Users [of ex-Twitter] Ask Grok To Put More Clothes On Elon Musk Pictures.*
The cheater threatened to send the national guard to seize voting machines in the next election. Only in places where he loses, one supposes.
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US citizens: call on Congress to protect officials of the Federal Reserve from harassment prosecutions meant to bully them on questions of policy.
This does not mean I agree with the de-facto "mainstream" consensus of the past two decades, that the Fed should be totally independent on basic political questions, Fed chairs must be Republicans to insure that their independent decisions will be right-wing, and investors "comfort" must take priority over employment.
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x A judge ordered the deportation thugs to stop using pepper spray against peaceful protesters, and the gnome replied that, by definition, any protesters sprayed do not count as peaceful.
Deportation thugs told a lawyer that they don't allow lawyers to visit the clients who are prisoners, but pretended that for some unstated reason it didn't matter.
Things like this happen when someone who lies without qualm is allowed to appoint subordinates who do likewise.
(Satire) *Starmer's calm diplomacy makes the mistake of assuming [the bully] is a sentient being.*
Starmer's real mistake is in supposing that the bully is bullying Europe over Greenland because he attaches serious importance to Greenland. I think that he chose Greenland as a handy opportunity for bullying Europe.
Perhaps Europe should respond by offering to trade Greenland for a specific tract of land in the middle of Washington, DC, containing the White House.
*Bill Gates charity trust's holdings in fossil fuel firms rise despite divestment claims.*
(satire) *White House Plumber Reminds Staff That Only Donald J. Trump Commemorative Food Waste May Be Placed Down Donald J. Trump Commemorative Garbage Disposal.*
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US citizens: call on Minnesota to arrest Renee Good's killer without waiting — there are enough grounds already.
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US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say, as suggested by Robert Reich:
Don't vote for the DHS spending bill unless it (1) disarms the deportation thugs (agents of "ICE") (2) prevents them from targeting people based on their race, language, or accent, and (3) stipulates that agents who harm civilians are liable under criminal and civil laws.
Even better in my view: abolish the deportation thug agency entirely with no replacement.
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The US antidemocrat has replaced Maduro with another Venezuelan antidemocrat, while continuing the unjust regime.
Syrian government forces have been fighting with the SDF, the armed forces of the northern enclave of Kurds and other ethnic groups.
The two groups both state that their goal is a multi-ethnic free Syria. I hope that they can make peace.
Robert Reich proposes how Monty Python would satirize the bully.
US citizens: call on CBS to dismiss Bari Weiss as head of the news department.
US citizens: call on US mass media to Stop calling it a ceasefire. Report on what is really happening in Gaza and the West Bank.
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*Emergency managers say the [wrecker] has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters.*
Nicaragua's tyrant couple have started a wave of repression as a response to the bully's seizure of Maduro and his wife.
US citizens: call on Congress to stop the march to war — no attacks on Cuba, no escalation in Latin America, and no more US-driven violence in our hemisphere.
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US citizens: call on Congress to resist the bully's attempts to freeze child care funds.
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Deportation thugs sometimes mess up laughably, hardly the competent professionals they would like you to think.
Of course, their worst screw-ups are when they fail to keep their professional cool and respond with violence to nonviolent teasing.
Portland Communications, a PR company whose founder works far Starmer, has been accused of changing Wikipedia to favor its clients.
*The fate of the planet's coastlines depends on how fast Antarctica's ice sheets melt. We don't know what' coming.*
A Florida Democrat bought the domain nazis.us and made it redirect to the persecutor's Department of Homeland Subjugation (dhs.gov).
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to subpoena Big Oil for its role in the bully's illegal war.
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US citizens: call on Congress to Protect Medicine for Veterans — Strengthen the VA, Don't Cut It.
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US citizens: call on the Department of Justice to drop its demands for voters' personal information.
You know how they will use it — for persecution, making eligible voters fear to vote.
US citizens: call on Congress to condemn threats against Greenland.
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US citizens: write to your senators and rep to stop funding the deportation thugs until they cease their unjustified violence.
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US citizens: call on Congress to investigate all killings by the deportation thugs.
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US citizens: call on your representative and senators to pass the Billionaires Income Tax.
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US citizens: Push to impeach RFK Jr to defend public health.
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US citizens: call on Congress to hold down skyrocketing medical costs.
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US citizens: call on the DOJ to stop the Warner Mega-Merger.
We should not allow large companies to get larger through mergers.
US citizens: call on news media to challenge RFK jr's attacks on vaccination.
US citizens: call on the mass media to cover the bully's intimidation honestly, instead of pretending it is legitimate conduct for a president.
US citizens: call on Congress to impeach the gnome.
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US citizens: call on Tell Trump to make good on his promise to curb institutional investors: Pass the Stop Wall Street Looting Act!
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US citizens: call on Congress to refuse funds for the deportation thugs unless it is accompanied by making them respect people's lives and human rights.
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US citizens: Call on Apple & Google CEOs to end their contracts with the deportation thugs.
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US citizens: call on Raytheon's board to invest in improvements rather than buying back the company's stock.
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US citizens: call on Congress to block the magats' attacks on congressionally approved education, housing, and other human needs programs.
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US citizens: call on Ford to bring TJ Sabula back to work — don't punish workers for criticizing hateful visiting politicians.
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US citizens: call on your state governor to stop giving businesses special tax breaks on the supposition that their investment would do wonders for the state.
[Please include the following URL as literal text. You can also place on that text a link to that same page.]
I mentioned https://stallman.org/articles/states-union.html in my letter.
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US citizens: call Senate Crapo to investigate the coverup of data leakage at the Social Security Administration.
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*[The persecutor's] cannabis order will still leave users at risk of prosecution, experts say.*
And he has permitted prosecuting people for simple possession of marijuana, as an excuse handy for the deportation thugs.
Contrast this with Biden, who did not change the official classification of marijuana, but halted federal prosecution for simple possession.
As usual, Biden did something good (though not enough), whereas the persecutor acts to increase suffering.
The Adelaide Writers Festival has been canceled, after most of the invited writers and most of the organization's board resigned in protest of the political censorship of Randa Abdel-Fattah.
They were incensed that her legitimate political criticisms of Israel had been treated by the board as if they were antisemitism, based on vague notions of "sensitivity" in the wake of a real act of violent antisemitism.
Microsoft is pushing Pretend Intelligence onto users of Windows, set up to be able to take real world actions on the user's behalf. This starts with a subset of users but the company is probably planning to push it onto everyone, not limited to suckers.
Warning, this article seems to ridicule the idea that users might use a feature to limit what the PI has access to on their own machines.
Since Windows 11, like several previous versions, has a universal back door enabling Microsoft to remotely change the system code, any limits the user specifies for what Microsoft can do to per are no more than requests. If you don't want to be messed with, you should not run Windows. Nonetheless, Microsoft might heed those requests.
A deportation thug sought out and shot Keith Porter in cold blood in Los Angeles, pretending he was a threat to someone. Porter had fired a shot up into the air to celebrate New Years Eve.
Celebratory firing of guns is somewhat dangerous. The bullets that go up do come down, and occasionally they fall on someone and hurt per. Why take the chance? If you want to celebrate with a gun, fire a blank.
But firing in the air is not "threatening" anyone, not a reason to kill the celebrant. That claim is the sort of absurd bullshit that we have learned to expect from deportation thugs.
The US fits the usual pattern of declining empires, according to historian Alfred Mccoy.
Is it bad that the US is declining? Not inherently. But the rise of China, which is the sort of brainwashing and lying empire that the US is heading for, bodes terribly ill for the world.
*[The bullshitter's so-called] Great Healthcare Plan is impressive only in the fact that it isn't great, wouldn't substantively improve healthcare, and isn't even detailed enough to be considered a plan.*
Data centers in space would be unfeasible to launch, unfeasible to cool, and vulnerable to collisions with space junk.
*Even low levels of common agricultural pesticides can stunt the … lifespan of fish.* They do this by causing shortening of telomeres.
California applied its shield law to refuse extradition to Louisiana of a doctor who mailed abortion pills to a woman in Louisiana.
(satire) *Conservatives Say Renée Good Was Brainwashed By Bible Into Loving Thy Neighbor.*
*A Palestinian citizen of Israel has been granted asylum in the UK on the basis of a "well-founded fear of persecution".*
Does anyone know whether Palestinians living in the West Bank have got asylum for their well-founded fear of persecution? Palestinians in Gaza?
*Taking [acetaminophen] in pregnancy does not raise chances of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability, "gold standard" review finds.*
Iran is hunting down the Starlink connections that are still running, trying to eliminate all external communication.
People think that Iran is planning to sever its domestic internet entirely from the rest of the world.
Robert Reich: *If agents of the federal government can murder a 37-year-old woman in broad daylight who, as videotapes show, was merely trying to get out of their way, they can murder you.
Even if Trump and his vice president and his secretary of homeland security all claim, contrary to the videotapes, that Renee Macklin Good was trying to kill an agent who acted in self-defense, they could make up the same about you.
Even if Trump describes her as a “professional agitator” and his goons call her a “domestic terrorist,” they could say the same about you regardless of your political views or activism. If you have left-wing political views and are an activist, you’re in greater danger.
How can we believe what the FBI turns up in its investigation, when the FBI is working for Trump and is headed by one of his goons, and is investigating possible connections between Renee Good and groups that have been protesting Trump’s immigration enforcement?*
When a corrupt and dishonest president packs government agencies with his corrupt and dishonest henchmen, everything they say and everything they do becomes suspect.
As Reich put it,
We must commit to peacefully fighting this regime, to ending Republican control of Congress in 2026, and to sending this dangerous gang packing in 2028 — assuming we’re still free and alive by then.
*Subject: Trump Bullies Flip-Flopping Senators Into Defeating Vote to Block Venezuela War.*
That was just barely enough to defeat the resolution.
*[the bully] is making China – not America – great again, global survey suggests.*
US citizens: Call on Interior Secretary Burgum not to let Big Oil destroy Chaco Canyon.
US citizens: call on Big Tech to cancel contracts with Israel's government.
An experiment demonstrates that horses respond to odor of human sweat differently depending on whether the human was feeling fear at the time of collection.
Deportation thugs on streets around Minneapolis have been observed on various occasions making slightly veiled threats to shoot protesters.
They have become a murderous criminal gang that shelters under a distortion of legal authority.
Journalist Laura Jedeed applied for a job with the deportation thugs, expecting to write a story later about the process and how they rejected her for what their background investigation would reveal about her politics. But they did not bother to investigate — they accepted her even though she had not actually even filled out the forms.
She is concerned that they may be accepting all sorts of violent criminals without bothering to check.
Denmark has ordered its soldiers to fight any armed attack on Danish territory, including in Greenland.
Denmark's army cannot militarily stop the US army from seizing Greenland. The point of this order seems to be to prevent the imperialist from sending his troops to seize Greenland and then pretending that the attack didn't start a war.
The EPA been ordered to give weight to the cost of pollution control but not to the cost of the human damage done by pollution, as a basis for relaxing the limits on soot pollution.
The economic cost of a person's death is a callous way to judge the importance of saving a person's life. But ignoring it, as an excuse for allowing more toxic pollution, is even worse.
How can Europe defend Greenland (and the rest of Europe) from the bully?
A special company in New South Wales, Australia, is authorized to fell trees in areas that are a habitat for endangered native species (plants and animals). It is supposed to take care not to harm those species, but it seems to take insufficient care.
It is so prone to mistakes that I wonder who profits from them.
The wrecker has halted immigration visa consideration for 75 countries, ostensibly because too large a fraction of immigrants from those countries end up needing some sort of public support.
This is not a rational response to the problem. I was treated a couple of times by doctors that had immigrated from Albania — I am sure their income was adequate not to need welfare. By lumping everyone from each country together, the US shoots itself in the foot.
*1.5°C target likely to be passed by 2030.*
After the imperious bully told Iran he would launch an attack if Iran executes protesters, the Iranian regime reacted just as I expected: by saying executions would start soon.
The bully is cruel and unpredictable. The mullahs are cruel and rigid.
*[Some] Labour MPs plan to oppose move to restrict protest at animal testing sites.*
I support using animals for drug tests and medical experiments, but the people who oppose them must have the right to express their views by protesting.
Americans mostly oppose the construction of new datacenters, meant to enable Big Tech to force Pretend Intelligence on users -- but few politicians have the stomach to go against those companies.
The Pentagon is saving money by terminating activities for avoiding and tracking civilian casualties.
(satire) *WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the "clearest proof yet" of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., may have once been used for legislating.*
(satire) *You're Bidding Against BlackRock* (for that house).
British right-wing extremist Farage vented racist hatred eagerly while he was in school. One of his school fellows describes it. His racism has not changed much since then.
Arguing that US fracked oil is peaking, and Venezuelan oil (if that starts flowing in larger quantities) will drive it out of the market.
The corrupter's war may have backfired on his Big Oil sponsors.
The Most Corrupt Presidency Ever -- compared with others high on the list.
The bully is repeating in Venezuela some of the mistakes that the US made in its conquest of Iraq.
London mayor Sadiq Khan has greatly reduced violent crime with policies that are "tough on violent crime, and tough on the complex causes of violent crime."
The Adelaide festival canceled a speaking invitation to a non-terrorist Palestinian, saying that presenting her would be "culturally insensitive" after a shocking terrorist gun attack on Jews in Sydney.
She rebuked the idea that the mere presence of a Palestinian with political views is somehow offensive in a way that one can at most hint at.
*Both Human Rights Watch and the cross-party law reform organization Justice say recent legislative changes [in the UK] have created a chilling effect on lawful protest and should be repealed. Their reports, simultaneously published on Thursday, also say that proposals for more curbs should be halted.*
What the bully wants to impose is not a "new world order" but a return to the same old imperialist international chaos.
One point in the article is a conceptual confusion:
Yet this is not an administration that wants to colonize; instead it demands compliance. The new bosses in Venezuela are the same old bosses, the same henchmen and yes-men, only now with the No 2 running the show. This isn’t “imperialism”, not a new US protectorate nor some southern principality for son-in-law Jared, but something much cheaper and less onerous to the Oval Office: rule by remote control.
That statement adopts too narrow a definition of "imperialism". US imperialism in the 20th century often operated by working with local strongmen who were, in all but name, vassal rulers. It was different from the kind of imperialism practiced by European countries before 1950, but they often switched over to this new kind with the colonies that they had given independence to.
Robert Reich: we must eliminate laws that attribute personhood to things which are not people, and also the laws that treat some people as less than persons.
We can protect things like species, rivers and forests without falling into those practices.
Republican politicians in Minnesota are stubborn magats; they continue to insist on the party lie that Renee Good attacked deportation thugs before one of them killed her.
*[The bullshitter said] he will ban big investors from buying single-family homes.*
If that were actually done, it would be a substantial good thing. Nowhere enough to compensate for undermining human rights, democracy, and the principle of impartial justice, but good nonetheless.
I don't think he will actually do it. Perhaps, he will drop that proposal when those companies give a few billions to his ballroom fund.
The Indian government arrested climate defense activists for campaigning for India to sign the fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty with support from foreign organizations.
Prohibition of foreign support for humanitarian organizations is a standard fascist policy nowadays, pioneered by Orbán in Hungary.
There is a fashion these days to propose granting legal rights to all sorts of things — even hypothetical intelligences that some companies predict they will develop any day now.
It is fun to speculate about what life would be like in a world with real artificial intelligences, but it is pure folly to suppose that today's bullshit generators are even remotely like that.
Medical professionals campaign against pervasive monitoring of children.
RFK jr has started repeating some diet advice that is mostly uncontroversial.
Magat officials have fabricated an excuse to arbitrarily block funds for needy families with children, based on vague accusations of paying support to some families that are not eligible.
Since no human system works perfectly, I am sure that some errors do occur. What the level of error is — whether it is worth a fuss to investigate — I don't know. Perhaps an investigation to stop fraud and error would result in savings enough to justify its cost. Or perhaps it would teach us that the criteria ought to be relaxed so as to legitimize supporting some families that are currently not eligible.
Either way, it is no excuse for stopping everything and demanding proof of a negative.
Magat officials have taken 1/3 of childhood vaccinations off the recommended list, based on false assertions and no scientific grounds.
It may be hard for American parents to get their children vaccinations which are not on this list.
*Nations' plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction "will put climate goals beyond reach".* In other words, they will push civilization off the climate cliff.
NASA, driven by magats who don't really like science or historical investigation, is closing more and more of its research libraries.
*Federal judge blocks White House freeze of childcare subsidies in Democratic states.*
That is the arbitrary stoppage described here.
Alas, the Supreme Court has a pattern this year of canceling the temporary court orders that have saved Americans from arbitrary punishment by the wrecker and his henchmen.
The US deportation thugs have resisted scrutiny for abuse of force, which they do often. Screaming false accusations against the victim is just the first step in that resistance.
Renee Good's wife directed sarcastic criticism at the deportation thugs, but sarcastic criticism is no justification for killing someone. Neither she nor Renee physically attacked them or threatened them.
The FBI has given us reason to suspect that its "investigation" of the killing of Renee Good will have a result decided in advance by Attorney General Bondi. The FBI is adding to this suspicion by excluding local cops from that "investigation" while denying them access to crucial evidence, including the gun that was used to kill her and the car she was killed in.
Everyone in Iran, except the government, has been cut off from the internet in the middle of nationwide protests against religious repression. This will help them hush up news of brutal torture and killings such as the state has applied to previous waves of protest.
The Senate passed a war powers resolution to stop the bully's use of the US army for bullying.
The UK cops that infiltrated nonviolent protest organizations reported to MI5, the state counterintelligence agency. It seems the government envisaged the protesters as Russian agents, though there is no evidence that they worked for or supported Russia.
(satire) *Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession.*
US repression of protesters reaches a new level as students are charged with a felony for an occupation on campus and pouring fake blood.
The students hope to use the trial to put Israel on trial for pouring the real blood of tens (or hundreds) of thousands of Palestinians.
*With [the would-be emperor's] military action in Venezuela, the US has made every other country less safe.*
*[His] lawless actions in Venezuela demand a resolute response.*
*It's Safe to Look Back! The Worst Free-Range Kids Stories of 2025.*
General Paul Eaton (retired) says the saboteur's purges of the US military could have dire long-term consequences to the military's reputation and efficiency.
*"There is an active effort to politicize the armed forces," Eaton said. "Once you infect the body, the cure may be very difficult and painful for presidents downstream."*
Eaton compares this to Stalin's purges of the Red Army in the 1930s, which removed nearly all the generals and left the Soviet Union weak and vulnerable, which led Hitler to decide to attack it, and greatly hampered its defense.
Here is background on Eaton.
International failure to condemn the US for attacking Venezuela is likely to encourage Russia and China to aggression.
Two conflicting strands of American history, one enlightened side that stands for liberty and one dogmatic and brutal Christian side, have been in conflict since the beginning.
European NATO members are preparing to help resist a threatened US invasion of Greenland.
*Researchers estimate roughly 115 million people – more than a third of the US population – live in areas that could [suffer] the next fire disaster.*
Resisting spread of urban fires requires removing anything that can burn from a certain zone around each house or structure — up to 5 feet away.
This should be a condition of fire insurance, or even part of the fire code.
Most of America's "leaders" are sucking up to the saboteur in chief, and worst of all are the billionaire "captains of industry".
"Our analysis shows that [the saboteur's] ridiculously reckless drilling plan could cause thousands of new oil spills, threatening almost every U.S. coast," said Kristen Monsell, oceans legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity. "Nobody wants beaches and marine life coated in crude, but that'll be our future if [his] scheme goes forward. Every new drilling project signs us up for decades of problems, and our wildlife and coastal economies will suffer the most."
[This] analysis assumes average spill rates for platforms and pipelines based on 1974-2015 data. It does not include catastrophic events like the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, which released more than 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
*"Everybody loses" if [oil extraction] supercharged in country with largest known oil reserves, critics say.*
This is likely to push civilization over the climate cliff.
*The US president has been quite clear that Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Greenland are in his sights. We must believe him.*
I would say, we must consider that a serious threat. Any of his threats can be bullshit, but we can't assume it is bullshit.
People unidentified massacred Muslims in Delhi, so Modi's government (Hindu-nationalist) charged Umar Khalid, a leftist political activist who is Muslim, with being behind the massacre. This is a priori implausible, but they have kept him in jail for 5 years while the prosecution drags slowly on.
The Senate is investigating UnitedHellth for cutting costs in nursing homes by resisting sending inmates to hospitals when they needed hospital treatment. It demanded some of the company's internal documents, but UnitedHellth continues to "engage" with the Senate by not providing the demanded documents.
Step by step, Britain is following the path of fascism that Orbán imposed on Hungary.
A masked deportation thug murdered Renee Nicole Good as she tried to drive her parked car away from him. He had nothing remotely like grounds for violence.
Then federal officials told lies to try to excuse the killing.
Outsourcing state services to companies makes the services unaccountable. That is a disaster directly — but it has a secondary bad effect: ministers have little effective control to convert new policies into changes in actions.
Outsourcing may appear cheaper for the state in a superficial sense, but it is not cheaper for the people that the state is meant to serve, and that ultimately pay for it one way or another. The outsourcing company may charge the state less, but it skimps on maintenance while gouging and screwing the people.
Poor people in poor countries often burn plastic for heating and cooking. The fumes are toxic — especially for the families who do this, but also generally for the population.
Join an ICE protest today, (Sunday), in your city.
ICE has killed a friendly protester and lied about it, so the Facsists are in full swing with their extreme acts of injustice and oppression.
Deportation thugs jailed US citizen Dulce Díaz and refused to believe she was one even after presented with her birth certificate.
They respond to evidence that they are wrong by denying it. People with that attitude are unfit for any kind of public service.
Ralph Nader calls on the four living ex-presidents of the US to join together and demand impeachment and removal of the persecutor. He makes a good case that the four of them together could persuade enough of Congress.
However, shame on Nader by using "draft-dodger" as a cheap-shot insult.
The Vietnam War was an unjustified colonial war, started using a lie about the imaginary "Gulf of Tonkin incident". No one can be blamed for desperately trying to not to die to defend a lie. Not even if it is a person who tells other evil lies.
The Department of "Homeland Security" dismissed four freedom of information requests from the Freedom of the Press Foundation saying they had no records to release. This leads to suspicion that they are simply blowing off these requests without looking for what they have.
US citizens: call on Congress to defeat Ted Cruz's bill to criminalize protests.
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US citizens: call on CBS not to let its magat news director slant debate to the right wing.
The US has restored part of the foreign aid budget that had canceled early in 2025.
*Hundreds of Detroit home demolition sites may have been filled with toxic dirt.*
Paralyzed Waymo robotaxis stopped together at some intersections in San Francisco blocked emergency vehicles from carrying out their missions.
After a real physical disaster, such as an earthquake, they may have continued blocking emergency vehicles until towed away one by one.
In the midst of a slow-motion fascist disaster, the widespread use of taxis that require every customer to identify perself could lead to the arrest of dissidents and journalists. Uber and Lyft have already partially this sort of harmful effect, but robotaxis will exacerbate it.
In one generation, part of the dry "sertão" region of Brazil has become just enough dryer that the inhabitants can't eke out a living there any more.
The sertão is known for a style of music called sertanejo, about which a Brazilian quipped, "Everything has a good side, except a sertanejo record." However, while I don't admire that music, I am sad for the people who lived there and won't be able to live there any more.
An ex-marine is leading the Vet Voice Foundation, which organizes the opposition to criminality and authoritarianism in the US military.
Walgreens was bought by a "private equity" company through a leveraged buy-out. This fall it imposed a new CEO that started closing many Walgreens stores.
The same CEO previously did the job on Staples, and I noticed the results myself: it seems that all the Staples stores in Boston that could get to by subway train had shut down. I had to find other sources of supplies for writing and printing. I wondered why a company would do that, but now I think I know.
The bully punishes people for displaying hatred, when they are not on his side, and promotes them when they are on his side.
(satire) [The government relaxes] species requirements to join [the deportation thugs].
The antivaxers in control at the CDC voted to delay the Hepatitis B vaccination from birth to two months later.
Even if every baby gets vaccinated two months after birth, that delay creates a window of unnecessary risk, during which any babies that get infected are very likely to have lifelong problems.
Due to the general antivax buzz, some babies won't get vaccinated at all.
In the largest deportation prison in the US, the prisoners are given rotten food and bad water.
*Google [LLM] Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice.*
The article gives examples and explains them.
The FCC proposes to nullify local and state regulations on the installation and location of cellular towers.
Cellular towers are not dangerous to people who are merely physically near them. The danger comes only from the surveillance they do to people's cellular devices, which track their owners and can also transmit what they (and any others) say while close enough to be heard.
Ironically, the persecutor is threatening to attack Iran for persecuting Iranian protesters much like the way he persecutes American protesters that criticize him.
Sometimes he will find it convenient to support, on some issue, the side that we defenders of human rights will agree with. It never represents real support for anyone's human rights.
Ralph Nader's criticism of public radio in the US starts with their practice of being funded mostly by payment from businesses which buy lots of advertising. Then he calls for various changes.
One of his criticisms is that NPR focuses on injustices of discrimination, but not enough on "indiscriminate injustice" which falls on the poor regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, and so on.
Ironically, the article displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that practice it. But I make exceptions for some articles because I consider them important — and I present this comment about them.
Mayor Mamdani has overturned many of Adams's night-mayorish executive orders: all those issued after he was indicted on corruption charges. One of those orders was the adoption of the IHRA criterion for antisemitism, which is often used to label criticism of Israel as "antisemitic".
* Daisies and dandelions are among hundreds of native plant species blooming in the UK* in winter.
This won't directly hurt anyone, but it is a sign of the magnitude of changes we have caused in natural ecologies. Those changes will have large consequences, including disasters. And those are already starting to happen.
*In some UK woodlands, every young tree has died.* And the large trees have a shorter life expectancy.
Unusual heat in Jordan has killed most of the olive harvest, and is killing the olive trees too.
A funny cartoon (use yt-dlp HMGD1KCYFOw) satire of Disney cartoons, targeting the bully.
Robert Reich: the bully attacked Venezuela and kidnapped President Maduro and his wife. The he said that the US government would "run the country of Venezuela," which would signify resuming military colonization such as the US used to do to Latin America ad the Caribbean.
Venezuelans are mostly cynical about Maduro, and I don't think they would fight to bring him back, except for corrupt reasons. But that doesn't mean they have no patriotism.
The Danish contractor being paid to finish the Cape Wind offshore generators is suing to make the US government resume paying for that.
Canada warns that US government institutions should not be trusted for medical advice.
I've urged my clinics and my state government to refer to something reliable rather than US institutions such as the CDC.
The bully no longer tries to justify the war with Venezuela based on alleged drug trade, but rather claims that the US (or US oil companies?) owns Venezuelan oil deposits.
It is unlikely that the US intervention in Venezuela will have a simple resolution.
The wrecker and his henchmen have stated no plan for what to do next, which suggests that whatever they do will make an even bigger mess.
The US used to intervene militarily often in weaker countries in the Americas.
The US government is expected to claim that its attack on Venezuela was justified self-defense by pretending that smuggling of drugs — mostly not even from Venezuela — constituted making war on the US.
The US will surely veto any effort in the Security Council to oppose this act of US aggression. But demonstrating the weakness of the UN in restraining the great powers from making war will be nothing new. The UN's effectiveness for keeping peace has long been limited, and it will remain limited, but it is not zero.
What will be next? Maybe China will attack Taiwan.
US citizens: call on the US government to require comprehensive environmental impact statements from proposed data centers. Don't let them lock in fossil fuels.
US citizens: call on the corruptor to fully staff the Federal Election Commission.
US citizens: call on news media to stop presenting oversimplified statements about inflation and its effects.
The bully's henchmen arbitrarily ordered denial of US visas to five Europeans who campaign against online hatred. One of them, Imran Ahmed, lives with his wife in the US as a permanent resident, and they want to jail him and deport him. A judge ruled he is entitled to a court hearing about that.
Robert Reich asks why the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association have not taken action against lawyers and medical professionals who violate the ethical rules of their professions obeying the saboteur in chief.
Most of the Americans that magats seek to kick off Medicaid for "not working" do in fact work, but the difficulty of proving this over and over will kick them off anyway.
*Israel used to lie about killing journalists; now it barely bothers to do so. What happened?*
*Court staff cover up Banksy image of judge beating a protester.* Banksy painted in on the side of a court building.
(satire) *RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism.*
Right-wing extremists are trying to eliminate all vestige of the 20th century ideas of equal rights for non-whites, for non-Christians, and for women.
When part of San Francisco had a power outage, and traffic lights shut off, Waymo driverless taxis (which are not "autonomous") were commanded simply to stop at intersections. That was better than driving normally without traffic lights, but it blocked intersections and they stayed blocked.
Crisis Intervention Training for cops, teaching them how to treat someone having a drug overdose, makes for a decrease in overall deaths from drug overdose.
Writing Cyrillic letters as "funny" stand-ins for similar-looking letters in the Roman alphabet is annoying to some people whose languages use that alphabet. And it has no wittiness to make up for that.
I too look down on mockery of the Cyrillic alphabet, or of umlauts. Not as strongly as Viv Groskop does, but enough to give me a low opinion of whoever did it. Likewise for mockery of Chinese characters and Indian alphabets. The first time someone did these things, it may have been clever, but nowadays it is merely silly and trite.
I was just a little more clever when I pronounced Toys-Я-Us as if the Я were Cyrillic — as Toys-Ya-Us. I wasn't the one who chose to write it that way, rather I mocked the company by pronouncing its name in the correct way which it probably did not expect.
European institutions including hospitals and courts have been using a company called Zivver to transmit and save confidential documents and records. Investigators report finding that documents are sent to Zivver's server in plain text, and encrypted only on the server. That is fundamentally insecure and untrustworthy.
However, things have got worse. Zivver was recently sold to a US company, so now the US government can access all those documents, including before they are encrypted.
Making it even worse, the executives of that US company are associated with Israeli Intelligence. So the Israeli government can get that access too.
Europe should insist that purchasers of companies that hold European people's personal data be European companies, with no exceptions.
But this is a secondary issue compared with how bad Zivver itself did. Even before Kiteworks purchased Zivver, Zivver was offering fundamentally weak security, which no one should have accepted.
Secretary of Politicized Justice Hegseth threatened a military trial of Senator Kelly (a former Navy officer) for reminding the US military that it is lawful to disobey an illegal order, but the Pentagon shows no particular interest in prosecuting Americans who committed war crimes in Vietnam.
*White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List.*
A new report says that worldwide, the maximum [temperature] reduction that carbon capture and storage could manage for the atmosphere would be 0.7C, far short of the 5C to 6C industry and governments claim.
In effect, CC&S is a distraction that enables planet roasters to reduce the social pressure to reduce their greenhouse emissions.
*[In 2017,] Kate Crawford of Microsoft Research warned that [machine learning] is ripe for abuse. Crawford, who researches the social impact of large-scale data systems and machine learning, described how encoded biases in [machine learning] systems could be abused to target certain populations and centralize power in the hands of authoritarian regimes.*
The article uses the term "artificial intelligence", and it seems to use it properly, to refer to systems that try to know and understand some (perhaps narrow) aspect the world, and not about LLMs which understand nothing.
On Friday, January 23rd, RMS will give a talk, "Free/Libre Software And Our Freedom: Our shield against many digital injustices." at Scheller College of Business.
Seats are unreserved. Please bring cash to get FSF merchandise.
Amnesty International rebuked the EU for strict new asylum policies that can arbitrarily send a refugee to an unrelated country with which person has no connections.
They define many countries as "safe" including Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Kosovo, India, Morocco and Tunisia. India denies the citizenship of Muslims, Morocco and Tunisia are more or less Islamist, Bangladesh is wracked by Islamist mobs, and Egypt imprisons dissidents.
A UK political party calls for investigation of political interference by hostile foreign states to include interference by the US.
It needs to include the US if its results are to be meaningful.
The bully threatens to move highly profitable global sporting events out of US cities that don't bow down to him.
The head of FIFA has been sucking up to him so much as to suggest it would willingly cooperate with being used as a stick to beat US cities with. This article suggests that FIFA and the corrupt US government have become a partnership for plunder.
As for the Olympic Games, they have a decades-long history of demanding and getting laws that are unfair to the non-rich, including general surveillance of the public.
Meanwhile, the great expense to taxpayers goes to boost some local businesses.
This is why I support citizens' campaigns against hosting the games.
I make myself invulnerable to being bribed or manipulated by Big Sports by resisting the impulse to care who wins a sports match. The matches that I care about are elections for office, and I always root for the progressive-green-human rights defender. And, beyond just caring about the outcome, I can help them win.
*In many parts of the country, there are new work requirements to get food aid. But starving people doesn’t motivate them — despite centuries of this rhetoric.* In other words, poor people who can work will work, if work is doable.
Progress in breeding perennial grains has already resulted in a commercially grown wheat-relative. Breeders hope to produce one with the same yield as ordinary wheat, but more efficient to grow.
"Private school voucher" systems, where a US state pays a fixed amount towards the fees of a private school, generally do not enable poor people's children to attend a private school. They typically charge substantially more than the voucher amount. The real effect of the voucher system is to subsidize the private schools attended by children of fairly wealthy parents.
These schools typically inculcate an extreme version of Christianity, which should not be able to get a subsidy.
20 years ago, even in the most right-wing states the voters defeated proposals for voucher systems.
*I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today.*
Israel has made hundreds more checkpoints to impede Palestinians' movement, the number of "settlers" has gone from 400,000 to 700,000, and their attacks to expel Palestinians are more violent.
The persecutor vetoed two bills to fund regional improvements in safety of drinking water, as apparent political retaliation for unrelated lack of submission.
One of them was passed unanimously by the House and Senate. It will be interesting to see if his sycophants dare vote to override the veto.
It appears that CBS omitted the 60 minutes segment about El Salvador's brainwashing prison because of an arbitrary decision not to cover that topic without a statement from the persecutor or a henchman.
This decision is foolish submission — which is surely what CBS intended by putting a well-known magat in charge of news.
The world economy is rapidly centralizing ownership of the world by enriching billionaires.
Henchmen have suspended childcare payments to all 50 states.
This is ostensibly a response to vague accusations of funding irregularities; he demands that states prove they have done nothing wrong.
How the perverter's new appointees in the Kennedy Center board arranged to block the other board members from voting.
* In Eating Behind Bars, author Leslie Soble details how food is used to further punish incarcerated people in the US.*
*[Australian] officials warned in 2005 of major economic, environmental and social disruption to Australia [in the future] due to its dependence on coal.*
Americans report how global heating is impacting various aspects of life. No more snow in the winter in Washington, no natural water for 30 miles in the Appalachian Trail. The garden no longer grows well in Sacramento. Butterfly species endangered in Santa Cruz.
*EU legislation intended to fight deforestation has been effectively "dismantled".* Without verification of sources of supply, it invites fraud.
The loss of the world's forests will cause a massive extinction and increase greenhouse gas concentrations, and that threatens to wipe out civilization.
Several of the magats' retaliatory prosecutions have failed for lack of any basis for convicting the accused.
*Mukund Krishna, chief executive of the Police Federation of England & Wales: Bad cops prey on the public — and their fellow officers. To stop them, we must break the culture of silence.*
The biggest cause of injustice by cops is, I conjecture, bigotry of various kinds. A cop who despises a certain group of people will find many excuses to treat them unjustly. When that bigotry is shared by most cops, they will encourage each other. I am sure Mukund Krishna, being of Indian origin, has experienced being the victim of this.
Even when bigotry is not a factor, individual thugs can commit heinous crimes, even rape and murder, and other cops miss it because they don't want to look closely at it. That is what he is writing about.
Israel made an extreme demand — that Gaza aid agencies hand over a lot of personal data about all their staff — and uses this as a pretext to exclude them.
The aid organizations thus excluded include ActionAid, International Rescue Committee and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), as well as others.
The wrecker is trying to corrupt the nonpartisan stance of the US military.
A judge rejected the magats' artificial excuse for cutting off funding to the CFPB.
*Only a third of world's river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024.*
Feral honeybees establish themselves in wild areas and are so successful that they leave insufficient food for all the other bee species.
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call for impeaching RFK Jr.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
US citizens: call on Congress to reject renaming the Kennedy Center as the "Trump-Kennedy Center".
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
US citizens: phone your state legislators and call on them to reject digital state ID systems. Details may vary, but those systems will surely require people to run nonfree software to use them; in addition, they will enable government agencies to identify people more often.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
US citizens: Condemn the official White House enemies list as an attack on the press and on democracy.
US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the corporations that have donated to the cheater's new ballroom.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
Conjecture: the undisclosed purpose of sending deportation thugs into major Democratic cities and cause chaos is to perfect a system for causing chaos — with the plan to use it to rig the next election.
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The cops of metropolitan London appear to be using new "stop and search" power to harass and intimidate protests on behalf of Palestinians' rights.
The nominal purpose of this power is to catch people who are carrying knives. However, it appears that none of the protesters they searched had a knife.
*Activist groups to challenge New South Wales's [anti-]protest laws on right to free speech grounds.*
The bullshitter has presented a new excuse to cancel offshore wind generator projects — claiming that they might interfere with military radar coverage.
The military studied this question before but concluded it was not a real problem. I suspect that the bullshitter's henchmen made this up as an excuse to cancel wind generators.
The mayor of Manchester apologized to queer people for the persecution that the Manchester thug department systematically directed at them in the 1980s (and, I suspect, before and after that decade). Many other police forces in Britain have apologized.
The persecutor's henchmen plan to store prisoners for deportation in warehouses, literally. Up to around 10,000 people in each. In effect, concentration camps.
Warehouses are not designed to provide water, toilets or even air ventilation for so many people, let alone keep the temperature warm enough for people with little clothing.
ChatGPT appears to have led one user into a world of delusions, in which he murdered his mother then killed himself. It refuses to release the log of his conversations with ChatGPT to the court. Given the circumstances, the court ought to compel the company to hand over the full log.
However, looking at the issue more generally, a system which insists on identifying each user is unacceptable for any serious matter. The ability to track a person's interest is sure to be tracked by the secret police.
Canada is adopting artificial restrictions on applying for asylum, designed to prevent many people's applications from ever being considered on the merits of the facts.
One of these excuses is to pretend that the US is a safe country for refugees, which it certainly isn't nowadays.
The persecution of Cop City protesters continues as the US Department of Injustice retains seized property (letters, phones, etc) of many protesters for years.
An article explains the economic danger of the current "AI" bubble, and the long-term menace of possible human-level artificial intelligence controlled by a manipulative and powerful company, while it also punctures the hype campaign that says LLMs are "intelligence" and capable of thinking, understanding and believing.
The magats plan to eliminate the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Its climate modeling demonstrates the danger of greenhouse gas emissions, so planet roasters want to put an end to honest climate modeling.
When only fossil fuel companies do climate modeling, they will be able to conceal some parts and spin others, leaving no opportunity for peaceful democratic action to save civilization, democracy and science.
* Cutting-edge therapies exist, but the market cannot deliver them cheaply. Britain must build NHS capacity so that cures become collective goods, not expensive products.* This conclusion goes for every country.
We should replace the patent system, which systematically makes new medicine too expensive for most people, with a different way of funding medical research.
A UK group that accepts donations to provide aid to people in Palestine has had its bank account frozen as part of an investigation into the arbitrarily banned protest group "Palestine Action." The investigators and the bank have told the group nothing about the reason it is being screwed.
For years, UK organizations that support human rights and welfare in various ways have had their bank accounts frozen without explanation.
Coping with the future of the climate disaster demands political honesty about extreme weather.
Because it's not enough to cope with the current level of disaster. Even more important is to avoid making it worse.
Protecting the rainforest of the Darien Gap.
In general, protest movements are often very effective — don't write them off.
Some Christians have shaped their versions of Christianity to take care of the people that the bully wants to persecute.
This won't convince me to believe in a god, but I recognize that this way is better than the bully's way.
The UK government's new "national security" law prohibits a broad range of political activities that might aim for results that benefit a foreign power. In some cases, even in the absence of any contact between the people doing them and any representative of that country They *could extend into politics, journalism, protest and other day-to-day activity.*
*It could in theory affect individuals arguing for "arms to Ukraine/ Israel; foreign aid to Pakistan; rapprochement with Russia; more access to domestic markets for Chinese cotton" in the media or thinktanks or "foreign-funded NGOs or journalists who use deception ('prohibited conduct') to expose corrupt individuals".*
*It could drag in "journalists, politicians and private individuals [who] may argue passionately in favor of arming Ukraine in its war against Russia or returning the Elgin marbles".*
It also allows government thugs to shut down protests near (but outside) military bases and some other state land.
Win Without War has put up billboards near some US military bases to remind troops of the laws that say they can and should refuse illegal orders.
The article shows that the persecutor has renamed Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg, to bear once again the name of a Confederate general who fought to continue slavery. I suppose that shows the persecutor's true attitude towards the USA.
China's support is helping the Burmese military rulers recover from a very weak situation.
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