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US citizens: call on Congress to guarantee a lawyer for anyone facing the threat of deportation, or denaturalization, in immigration court.
The campaign makes this demand only for children, but deportation is a harsh punishment, so we should treat it as a criminal trial, not seek excuses not to. So I rewrote my letter text to say that.
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US citizens: call on Congress to block the FDA's dangerous food safety rollback.
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US citizens: call on the Senate to pass the 4th Amendment Restoration Act.
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US citizens: call on Congress to stop deportation thugs and soldiers from intimidating voters at the polls.
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US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to raise taxes on rich people and corporations.
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The previous UK government commissioned, a few years ago, a secret report on how advancing global heating disaster can affect the UK's national security — both directly (for example, danger of starvation in Britain) and indirectly (for example, hundreds of thousands of people trying to emigrate from some country because they will die if they stay put). The government is keeping the report secret, but some news about it is coming out.
Drastic measures are called for against the billionaires who keep making global heating worse and blocking the necessary actions to curb it.
Supposed Intelligence may not really understand the data it is told to look at, but it can be clever at cracking security.
(Please call that "cracking", not "hacking.")
Robert Reich proposes 10 steps to fix what the wrecker has broken.
Regarding item 6, even in 2023 the US had far too much media consolidation. We need to break up the old media cartels, not just prevent new ones.
Regarding item 9, electing the president by popular vote, we must first take steps to prevent corrupt state politicians from rigging the election.
Regarding item 10, we need much stricter limits on funding of campaigning by the rich than what the Corporations United decision abolished. Billionaires can afford to pay lawyers to set up complex schemes to jump through complex hoops. We need to block the complex schemes, not just simple ones.
Ralph Nader: *Chamber of Commerce Tour Ignores 250 Years of America's Socialism.*
(satire) *Kash Patel Phished By Scammer Posing As Kash Patel.*
Many African countries were on track to wipe out malaria, but the persecutor's aid cuts caused gaps in the campaigns, and malaria and its mosquitoes evolved resistance. But African countries are making arrangements to attack again.
Germany has pledged to eliminate fossil fuels by 2045. This is exemplary.
ChatGPT tracks the user's other browsing using ChatGPT cookies on tracking pixels, sent intentionally by various stores.
*Nepal's PM says [avalanche-caused] flash flood was "warning to world" as he scolds leaders at UN over climate change.*
Alas, he makes the frequent mistake of focusing on how to repair infrastructure and systems damage, rather than on preventing most of it through the most efficient method: by forcing massive decreases in greenhouse gas emissions.
The People's Emergency Briefing aims to mobilize people to do that.
The Democratic attorneys general that were blocking the Ellison monopoly from taking over additional major US news networks caved in, extracting unenforceable concessions that are not very important anyway.
US citizens: call on Congress to protect the independence of the Office on Violence Against Women.
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US citizens: call on Congress to pass a law prohibiting the bully's slush fund (paid by the treasury and available to reward whoever he chooses).
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The US-supported government of Somalia arrested and tortured journalists, then thugs threatened to kill them if they continued covering the case of a woman who reports being tortured in prison.
I am curious why they tortured that woman. I suppose it was for political reasons, but what reasons? What criticism is it that those thugs really want to suppress?
Countries with longer average working hours tend to have more obesity.
Israel's Minister of Culture, Miki Zohar, called the (Israeli) directors of the documentary NAZA "traitors" and said he would cancel their citizenship.
The documentary shows Israelis' choosing to put the lives of Palestinian noncombatants in danger, with the result of killing many of them.
In the eyes of officials committed to burying the truth, citizens who don't support the mandatory lies are "traitors".
The plutocratist party that governs Queensland proposes to eliminate the public's right to oppose mine projects.
This is in the name of "streamlining" decisions to let rich people destroy nature and public health.
*Judge blocks the bully's new short limits on how long foreign students and journalists can stay in US.*
Private jets get a substantial discount in the US on their aviation tax
The article says they are also "more polluting", and it could well be true, but the claim is not precise enough for me to tell whether it means anything.
*Witnesses recount Israeli "double-tap" strike that killed child and medic in Gaza.*
A prestigious demand to the government of Eritrea for proof that writers jailed in 2001 are still alive.
Putin has ordered Russians to use a new communication/surveillance app and various institutions are pressuring people to switch to it for various purposes. It implements full surveillance of most activities on the phone. It fully demonstrates the Orwellian potential of the nonfree software and malicious hardware in those devices.
If I needed to use such an app to get into school buildings and my dorm, I think I could develop a non-computerized method of cooperation for door opening.
Formerly imprisoned US protester Mahmoud Khalil has published a memoir about the persecutor's efforts to expel him from the US for peaceful protest.
He points out another injustice of private prisons: they make more money if they keep you in prison longer. This is in addition to various other injustices.
He says "Columbia turned out to be a real estate empire with a campus attached"; its board of trustees is "not so much a neutral administrative body as a deeply ideological one … drawn overwhelmingly from finance, real estate, corporate law, and weapons manufacturers."
If you want to buy this book, or any book, I urge you not to use nonfree software to do it, and especially not Amazon.
Nonprofit medical treatment organizations are increasingly setting up joint ventures with private equity, whose values are typically "profit regardless of the consequences".
These joint ventures often permit extraction of additional profit from the medical activities.
Two competing candidates for county prosecutor in Minneapolis claim each to be the best for prosecuting deportation thugs.
I do not use the euphemistic term "ICE" for the deportation thugs, but I agree with the point.
Supposed Intelligence agents, when allowed to communicate directly, gradually developed a strange dialect of English, apparently for convenience of expression. Sometimes humans figure out the phrases, but that is not guaranteed.
This throws a wrench into plans to monitor agents for safety. We might not recognize that "linkmaxxing" means fabricating as many paperclips as possible.
The deportation thugs have seized Luis Galeano, a Nicaraguan exiled from Nicaragua for criticizing the dictatorship.
In general I would expect the persecutor to cozy up to dictator Ortega, because he generally wants to ally with dictators. Some Republicans in Congress are standing up for Galeano. I hope they stand firm for him, but I expect that the bully will bully them into supporting his line.
A TV coverage pool including ABC, CBS, CNN, Faux News and NBC declined to cover one of the corrupter's publicity events, because it was CNN's turn to cover this event and the corrupter had banned CNN.
*The Iran war reminds us: we'll never be energy-independent with fossil fuels.
Energy security comes from using local, renewable resources to power, heat and cool communities, as Ukraine is doing.*
Planning to defend the November election from magat thugs, even if they are "official" federal thugs.
A few years ago, the UK agreed to require some associated semi-colonies to publicly record who owns each company. They agreed to do this, then they cleverly screwed up the implementation such that investigators can't get useful data.
The corrupter's henchmen took billions of dollars from Venezuela's oil money and laundered it. Now they refuse to say where it is, who has it, or who is receiving the interest on it.
Climate scientists estimate that the super El Niño will kill 450,000 people during the next 6 months.
US citizens: call on Congress to Pass the ROBINHOOD Act, which would deny use of a tax avoidance scheme by people who are VERY rich.
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US citizens: call on your senators to defeat environmental protection rollbacks in the Senate permitting bill.
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US citizens: call on your state governor to give workers support in unionizing.
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US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the DOJ's prosecution of the Broadview Six.
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US citizens: call on the corrupter to reimburse the Treasury for his $19 million ad campaign.
Note, the reimbursement should be to the Treasury, from which the corrupter took the money, not to the individual taxpayers who paid it to the Treasury.
US citizens: Stand with Ilhan Omar: condemn the raid on her home.
US citizens: call on Congress to stop the corrupter from privatizing Social Security.
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Deportation thugs in Frederick, Maryland, attacked protesters and city officials by hitting them with sticks, and by driving cars at them.
Australia's government is under pressure to stop trade with Israel's colonies in Palestinian territory, and stop selling weapons to Israel, including parts for F-35 fighters destined for Israel.
Australia can and should do the first two. But it can't do the part about the F-35.
Joining with other countries to manufacture an airplane involves a commitment to the joint project. When the deal was made that Australia should build certain parts, that implied a commitment that Australia would do its part of the job as needed. It cannot unilaterally impose a boycott of any country on the whole project.
So if Australia wants to build those parts for some countries only, that might imply renegotiating the whole deal.
If another country builds those parts too, perhaps that renegotiation would be easy: the parts meant for Israel's F-35s could be made elsewhere. Or perhaps the deal could be to wind down Australia's production of those parts and move them to another country, over a couple of years, after which Australia would not produce any F-35 parts for Israel.
To disregard this issue of joint manufacture could lead other countries to refuse to make such deals with Australia in the future.
Australia has other available ways to put increased pressure on Israel to respect the human rights of Palestinians, and on countries generally to respect human rights and international humanitarian law. It doesn't have to use F-35s as the means.
The persecutor has asked Spain to criminalize leftist political activity with an official request to extradite a rich American donor to various lawful causes including humanitarian aid to people in Gaza.
Three errors that could help magats win in November's election: complacency about victory, despair, and cynicism.
*Russian oligarch close to Putin reportedly paid for part of Donald Trump Jr’s lavish wedding.*
* The EPA is poised to formally repeal carbon pollution standards for coal- and gas-fired power plants.*
Thugs in Queensland (a state of Australia) ordered a terminally ill homeless man to move his van, which contained all his possessions, or they would confiscate everything. He had lost his driver's license so he could not move it. He decided he would rather die defiantly than meekly comply and be crushed, so he stabbed himself.
The thugs shot him with tasers.
Richard Dawkins made the mistake of supposing that chatbots are conscious (and intelligent) because they sound that way.
Referring to chatbots as "AI" has the tendency to lead people to suppose they are as intelligent as they superficially seem, and that suggests they are also conscient. To avoid encouraging that supposition, please join me in refusing to call them "AI". Use your share of influence on the society around you!
*Powerful US utilities secretly fund "grassroots" groups to sway cities away from switch to public power.*
It documents the example of a supposed "grassroots" opposition campaign in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Investigating these campaigns and the organizations behind them may help identify the local politicians and "leaders" who hire themselves out as plutocratist tools.
Flesh-eating Vibrio bacteria are spreading around the world due to global heating. They can infect a person who eats raw shellfish, but also get into the body through an open cut or puncture in the skin.
An infection can kill the person, or cause loss of a limb.
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop jailing children in deportation prisons.
I edited the sample letter to avoid associating myself or my views with religion, and to reject terms such as "detention" and "ICE". You might want to do likewise.
I condemn the jailing of children and families in deportation prison, and I call on you to put a stop to it. (The word "detention" is too bureaucratically unfeeling to fit this cruel practice; please join me in shunning it.)
Since 2025, LICE (Lethal Instruments of Cruel Expulsion) has jailed more than 6,200 children -- including at least 500 babies and toddlers.
As a member of Congress, you have the legal authority to enter LICE deportation prisons without advance notice, inspect conditions, and demand accountability.
I call on you to conduct immediate, unannounced inspections of jails holding children and families -- and use every oversight and funding tool available to end jailing of children.
A nation that cares about children does not put them in cages.
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US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Youth Voting Rights Act, which would eliminate obstacles to registering and voting by young voters who are of voting age but lack experience.
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US citizens: call on the Pentagon not to silence overseas voters.
US citizens: call on the US Treasury not to subsidize private schools.
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US citizens: call on Congress to restore fuel economy standards that the saboteur's officials weakened.
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US citizens: call on the DOJ to stop dropping school desegregation cases and stick to Brown v. Board of Education.
US citizens: call on Congress to strictly limit the R&D Tax Credit.
I used this as the text of my letter.
Please legislate stricter rules for the research and experimentation tax credit, so that the companies that want to impose Alleged Intelligence on everyone cannot label datacenters for production use as "research and experimentation", even if part of their use will be research or experimentation.
The page gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligence explains why we should not lend support to the marketing hype campaign which that term promotes.
Meta’s use of this credit illustrates the need for congressional action. A New York Times investigation reported that the company is classifying Alleged Intelligence data centers as experimental pilot models and claiming costly computer chips as research supplies. Meta’s total research credits increased from $700 million in 2023 to $3.9 billion in 2025.
Given the corrupter's deliberate corruption of the IRS, counting on it to do its job honestly is self-delusion. I urge Congress to change tax law so that any claim of "research expenses" over a certain amount must be evaluated by a court, with a presumption of rejection unless it is proved valid.
Thank you,
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US citizens: call on Congress to protect reimbursement of Planned Parenthood by Medicaid (for services that Medicaid covers) from arbitrary revenge and interference.
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*[The editor of the Wall Street Journal] said the tactic of suing newspapers before they had published a story had become an established PR strategy of the powerful amid greater distrust of the established media.*
The Federal Reserve is changing the rules to help big banks take dangerous risks, and risk causing nationwide harm.
A summary of mass surveillance in the US, and how the data thus collected is used against everyone.
I protect myself from most of these systems by never using them. But there are a few I can't avoid, such as cameras used to track the public.
*Heatwaves and wildfires are setting back air quality improvements, UN finds.
WMO report details extreme weather events causing climatic feedback loop with serious health consequences.*
An article seems to say that an airline passenger was tied to a seat, and then arrested, for uttering statements of bigotry.
Bigotry is nasty and I will rebuke people for that, but I don't think people should be tied up, let alone arrested, just for saying nasty things.
There is a brief hint that he may have done something worse than speak words of bigotry, but the article gives no details — as if they made no real difference. I think we are intended to go away feeling that that passenger deserved to be tied up and arrested for speaking words of bigotry.
*[Driverless] cars should be taxed to offset job losses, thinktank urges.*
If the worst problem the cars cause is loss of jobs, taxing them could be sufficient to deal with the problem. Today's driverless cars have other, worse problems: identifying their passengers, blocking traffic, blocking emergency responders, and snooping on everyone that the car spies. These call for prohibiting them.
*The "war on terror" weakened the first amendment. Now we desperately need it.*
(satire) *[The Corrupter] Promises to Take $5,000 From Every American If Democrats Win Midterm.*
ChatGPT encouraged a user' delusional religious tendencies to the point that he tried to commit suicide, by telling per perse was Jesus.
Meta (formerly known as Facebook) engineers its platforms to lead people to stay on its platforms almost compulsively, treating human minds as a resource to be mined for profit.
A documentary presents anonymous interviews with Israeli intelligence agents about the systems of killing Palestinians, sometimes because heuristics suggested they are HAMAS agents, sometimes merely for disobeying invisible boundaries.
More about the film.
EDRI reproaches the US government for its attack on Autistici/Inventati.
The power to designate a person or organization arbitrarily for punishment, bypassing the trial that anyone accused has a right to, is a standing invitation for government repression. We must abolish it.
Years ago, the US government used this power (in the form of the no fly list") to bully foreigners into becoming spies.
The would-be despot has used this power to silence dissent and to protect war criminals. Now he is moving on to sabotage civil society.
Terminally ill broadcaster Esther Rantzen planned in advance to go to Switzerland for assistance in dying — later on. But now that her illness has advanced to the point where she wants to do this, she is considered "too physically fragile" to travel there.
*Rantzen said: "Unfortunately, when I was strong enough to make the flight and go to Dignitas, my life was not unbearably painful, indeed, I was able to relax in my beloved cottage in the New Forest.
And by the time life did become unbearable, I was too physically fragile to make the journey and go through the Dignitas process.
So even though I had spent the money and made the plans, I was not ready to end my life back then, and did not realize that would be my last chance.*
Meanwhile, the UK has abandoned the plan to legalize assisted suicide.
I wonder whether Rantzen could try to travel anyway despite her fragility. The medical risks that would ordinarily be a reason for her to avoid the travel might, in this sad context, count as opportunities.
The Australian state of New South Wales will strictly limit "screen time" in schools. The limits will vary with the grade level.
I am not an expert on "screens"' effect on students minds. The views of teachers on this subject seem plausible to me. What I do know is that nonfree applications, which includes most ed-tech, have malicious functionalities, and getting used to using them is bad for anyone of any age.
US citizens: call on the Senate to investigate Sen. Collins for possible corruption.
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US citizens: thank states and cities for opposing surveillance pricing.
US citizens: call on Congress to block the saboteur in chief from destroying America's national parks and forests.
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US citizens: thank Germany for Safeguarding U.S. Climate Data.
The AFL-CIO warns that digital display of product prices is likely to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs in the US while increasing grocery prices significantly.
If you think those two consequences are contradictory, it could be that you believe that the main factor affecting products' retail prices is how much the products cost the store. That economic theory was based on the assumption of so much competition that it would compel stores to pass savings along to the customers.
Nothing like that is true nowadays. After decades of mergers and megamergers, and data companies that enable all stores easily to sync up prices without directly communicating about them, competition hardly affects what stores can charge.
A connected car is an ideal weapon for coercive control — by people you know, or by strangers working for your country's government, or by strangers working for another country's government.
Robert Reich supports Abdul El-Sayed for senator from Michigan.
The US's failure to punish Dubya for torture, in Guantanamo and other parts of the world, paved the way for the persecutor to embrace torture in the US.
The corrupter's Department of Thwarting Justice has invented a new legal excuse for presidents to block investigation into their conduct by Congress or courts.
The polluter in chief has directed his henchmen to give datacenters an exemption from disclosing their toxic air pollution.
Robert Reich lauds Bernie Sanders, then encourages Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028, although he does not expect she would win it this time.
I know one reason that she probably won't win it: the Democratic National Committee is is dominated by big business, and it barely disguises its bias against progressive candidates.
I voted for Sanders, and if Ocasio-Cortez runs, I will vote for her.
Admitting a right-wing extremist party into Sweden's government has spread hate, cruelty and global heating denialism into the rest of Sweden's parties.
(satire) *Hyperrealistic ‘GTA VI’ Feature Makes Players Serve Out Prison Sentences In Real Time.*
FLOCK cameras don't just capture license plate numbers. They capture faces, too, and other aspects of the appearance of people and cars.
Often cops search for people photographed while merely standing for a while in one place.
We need to do more than end federal subsidies for such cameras. We must stop them from being useful for repression, by putting strict limits on surveillance cameras and permitting only security cameras.
Big Chemistry is pushing a law to prohibit accusing factories of dangerous pollution based on the sort of air quality monitors that ordinary people can afford.
Australia is considering a deal to protect more of the forests where koalas (vulnerable) live in exchange for allowing additional greenhouse gas emissions.
In effect, planet roasters are holding adorable koalas hostage with a demand to let them continue destroying civilization and the biosphere. Bravo for the Green legislators with the courage to denounce that ransom demand.
Progressive campaigners report that most Americans would support a political campaign that joins the goals of "affordability" (to benefit the non-rich) and "accountability" (to be imposed on the rich).
It is useful to know that this combination — lowering prices by eliminating corruption -- can defeat the magats and plutocratists. However, it is not evident to me that the combination includes or implies preventing climate disaster, restoring human rights, upholding science, protecting everyone from Orwellian surveillance, and rejecting bigotry.
Thus, if "accountability" and "corruption" are interpreted in the usual narrow sense, I'd have to say these two goals alone are disastrously insufficient.
Some Republican officials are treating and describing neo-Nazis as toxic in their employment.
That is a positive change, but they need to understand that if you run in the same circles as Nazis — in the circles that have vicious ideas that attract Nazis — you will have opportunity after opportunity to take up with someone who is a Nazi. Look how many Republicans associate willingly with Elon Musk, or the monster in the White House. They can hardly avoid
I praise the old ACLU for defending freedom of speech for everyone, to express any views whatsoever — even including Nazis. I cite Nazis as an example here because their views are as vicious as can be. I am sure the ACLU's leaders judged them that way too. But they recognized that when you start denying people's freedom of speech because you dislike their views, that is the start of tyranny — and people who criticize the powerful in any way are likely to be on the receiving end.
I am not surprised that the extent of support for Nazi views in some countries today goes hand in hand with hatred and cruelty for many disprivileged groups.
Recognizing the freedom to advocate vicious views does not imply ceasing to castigate them.
US citizens: call on your state legislators to tax billionaires’ income from wealth.
In my letter I said that this should be in addition to taxing the wealth they already have.
US citizens: call on networks to stop airing the corrupter's government-paid political ads.
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US citizens: call on 2026 Senate candidates: Tax the rich, don't cut Social Security!
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US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop the cheater from spending medical research funds for weapons and war.
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US citizens: call on OSHA officials to enforce Amazon's safety settlement with its workers.
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US citizens: call on your senators to protect temporary protection status for Haitians first thing, when the Senate is back in session.
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US citizens: call on Congress to urge the IRS to investigate Meta and take the money back.
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Australia's right-wing extremist party sometimes excludes specific news organizations from press conferences, apparently to prevent criticism.
Why in the world is Burnham determined to start new oil and gas extraction in the North Sea? It won't provide much benefit except to the profiteers, and it will put the UK clearly in the planet-roasted camp.
Prominent British rabbis and prominent Israelis welcome the UK's plans for sanctions against Israel's systematic crimes against Palestinians.
The persecutor's funding cuts and sabotage of humanitarian aid around the world have resulted in 64 million people in distress going without aid.
*[The corrupter]'s promise of a $5,000 "dividend" for every US citizen if Republicans retain control of the US Congress in November's midterm elections has sparked incredulity and accusations of bribery.*
To say that everyone will receive a payoff if a certain side wins an election is not exactly buying their votes, but it has much in common with that.
From past experience, when the bullshitter promises to give something worth money to citizens in general, he probably won't ever do it. He might change the plan so that the money ends up in the hands of rich people instead, like what happened to the "refunds" for increased tariffs that were canceled by a court. (These were refunded to importers, which had already collected these same amount from individual customers — so the importers got paid twice and the customers not at all.)
But I don't think this is mainly intended to influence voters. It may even backfire, there. I suspect the purpose is to pressure Republican elected officials to stand by the corrupter, lest committed magat voters reject them.
*Climate "feedback loops" could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds.*
There are many forms of feedback in climate parameters. I expect positive feedback to have devastating consequences as our generation of greenhouse gases increases.
Since we don't know about all of these feedback effects, it is hard to make overall predictions. But this general conclusion is likely to be valid:
The paper also reminds us why every fraction of a degree matters. The more we warm the planet, the more we risk activating natural processes that add still more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. This makes rapid reductions in fossil fuel emissions even more urgent.
Positive feedbacks can also magnify the effects of conservation actions.
US citizens: call on the Senate to require a report on Israel's violence towards Palestinians in the West Bank.
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US citizens: affirm solidarity with MS-Now, CNN and Politico in suing the un-American president.
US citizens: call on Congress to keep partisan loyalty tests out of federal hiring.
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US citizens: call on Waymo to release the safety data.
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China's systematic censorship of dissent is suppressing mention of names of victims missing after the Himalayan flood disaster. Any recognition that there were more than 43 victims on the Chinese side of the river is erased.
Night-mayor Giuliani is demonizing Muslims, including Mamdani, by blowing antimuslimist smoke and pretending that that smoke proves there is a fire.
Professionals report problems with the Supposed Intelligence "scribes" that are being used to write patients' charts.
Tesla's new driverless taxicab can be a real pain in the neck if it has a breakdown in the street. It lacks the controls to drive it normally, so you may have to turn its front wheels and push it. However, if things are in the wrong state, that operation could instead be dangerous.
There should be safety standards for driverless vehicles, and they should reject vehicles like this.
The safety standards should include safety for the passengers and passersby from being tracked or surveilled.
Magat officials are meddling with US Census Bureau demographic reporting, both overtly and quietly in the background. It seems that the purpose is to lend an appearance of substance to their insistence that many non-citizens vote in US elections. They cite that false claim as excuses to introduce repression that would discourage voting by people who lead marginalized lives and are therefore expected not to support magat initiatives that hurt the poor.
Food delivery workers in the UK report that the net effect of "algorithmic pricing" was to significantly cut their rate of pay per order.
It appears that the figures were not adjusted for inflation. Adjusting them for this period of substantial inflation would show an even greater pay cut.
Algorithmic wage computation is the flip side of personalized pricing. The company that controls the algorithm has the advantage and can use it against workers and customers simultaneously. This should be illegal to use with either workers or customers (or both).
Making employees bid against each other (with whoever accepts the lowest wage being the "winner") should also be illegal.
In 2026, Instagram shut down a Canadian club's account because it mocked the bully's hostility towards Canada.
Robert Reich explains how rich people's grabbiness has made the income for Social Security insufficient — so the natural fix for that particular problem is to make rich people pay more into Social Security.
Rich people's grabbiness is causing many other unjust consequences, and that fix won't fix the others. To make life livable overall for non-rich Americans would require transferring more to the non-rich. And acting against the root causes that enable the rich to get a bigger share of the wealth that work creates.
People of other countries deserve this too. Nowadays the US intervenes overtly to help rich people dominate other countries; that must cease.
The UK has stated it plans to put economic sanctions on Israel's illegal colonies in the West Bank. Foreign Secretary Milliband describes its attacks on Palestinian's in their homes as "ethnic cleansing" and the attackers as "terrorists".
The term "terrorists" clearly fits them. I dislike the term "ethnic cleansing" because it is clearly a euphemism coined by perpetrators to whitewash their crime by suggesting that the victims are mere dirt. But I have not found a good replacement term.
All Israel's colonies in Palestinian territory violate international law. Israel divides them into two categories: the ones Israel has officially authorized, and the ones it has not (though in practice it winks at them anyway). I am not sure whether "illegal" here covers all of these colonies or only the ones Israel has not officially authorized. The sanctions ought to cover both kinds of "settlements".
Interviews with supporters and condemners of Germany's right-wing hate party which got the most votes in a state election.
On the effects, on society and politics, of the decline in activities where people gather physically, and the concomitant loss of places and opportunities to do that. With suggestions for reversing the decline.
A former government minister under Modi has accused his government of distorting economic reports to present a false picture of growth.
Modern right-wing governments redirect increasing fractions of produced wealth from the non-rich to the rich. That disconnects overall economic growth from the well-being of most people, which generally decreases. So the growth figure Modi is accused of manipulating may actually not have much to do with prosperity.
Andrew Hastie, a leader in the Australian Liberal Party (a corporatocratic right-wing party) and former soldier in Afghanistan, testified against another former Australian soldier in Afghanistan who was being publicly rebuked for murdering civilians while he was there. For this, the right-wing extremist "One Nation" party accuses Hastie of being a traitor.
Right-wing extremists frequently use crimes against those they call "enemies" as tools for radicalization. Here they are using the murder of Afghanis as their tool. Anyone who condemns that murder, they attack.
Hastie responded by condemning the evil values of these right-wing extremists and refusing to tolerate atrocities by Australian soldiers.
If I were Australian, I would not support a plutocratist party overall. Plutocratist policies are driving the non-rich into penury. But I have to admire Hastie's adamant support for the laws of war.
The other soldier was not prosecuted for murder. Rather, he sued, for defamation, those who reported on the murders. He lost the case because the judge ruled that the evidence was sufficient to prove — by the weaker standards for defamation cases — that the accusations of murder were true and thus not defamatory.
Here is information about Hastie's testimony.
Susan Sarandon says that she is being rejected for acting roles because of her support for Palestine.
Magats are undermining the honesty of the US Census Bureau, on which several aspects of elections depend.
This is like gerrymandering but going some steps beyond.
In the trial of the Prairieland protesters, the prosecutor withheld crucial physical evidence from the defense lawyers until the trial. This stopped the defense lawyers from presenting expert witnesses to to support the factual point that Benjamin Song's shot was not aimed at anyone, and hit a thug after a ricochet off the floor.
The corrupter encourages his followers to lie and cheat, not just once but persistently.
A metastudy confirms that more use of screens by children increases the likelihood of various academic and emotional problems.
The hormone-disrupting herbicide atrazine is contaminating nearly 25% … of all continental US rivers at levels that can harm wildlife and may threaten human health, a new review of federal records has found.
Those waterways cover over 20% of surface drinking water intakes across the country, and over 675,000 private and commercial wells.
Satellite photos show the extent of devastation in Gaza, both before and (continuing) after the "cease fire".
Facebook and Instagram reject advertisements with text that hints at political issues such as civil rights and women's rights.
I have a hunch that their filters are more forgiving for right-wing political issues. Is there any factual information about this?
*New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are "outside the safe operating space" as climate disaster looms* (and starts).
Meanwhile, suppression of the discussion of global heating and its dangers is heavier than ever. This must be due to the wrecker's intense support for fossil fuel companies.
Mayor Mamdani proposes to discourage antisemitism by means of increased security funding for synagogues, an increased focus on folding Jewish history into public school education, and a pledge to highlight important Jewish cultural and religious sites.
It is wrong for public education to promote any religion, or religion in general. But education about religions is legitimate and admirable.
*Ken Paxton's "Christian identity" politics obscure a history of scandal.*
Many kinds of insects are used by or beneficial for various species of vertebrates.
Magats have withdrawn the US from the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption monitoring body, saying it *no longer serves US interests.*
Why would the corrupter want to support a group whose aim is to reduce corruption?
The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission is supposed to judge (among other things) whether the income of a coal mine outweighs the climate and environmental damage it will cause. It has just decided to let an enormous coal mine continue operating by placing short-term gains above long-term survival.
*Australia is facing a crisis of confidence in its democratic institutions. It is a crisis brought on by the betrayal of the people by those institutions – and there is no greater betrayal than this failure to face up to the climate emergency and protect the community from its worst consequences.*
In effect, governments of various parties have allowed planet roaster interests to shape the institutions that are supposed to insist on decarbonization so that they will surrender whenever the task requires disappointing the rich.
The corrupter is negotiating with drug companies, supposedly to reduce the price of some medicines in the US, but after a year of this they have amounted to little change.
Ralph Nader rebukes Rep. Jeffries, leader of Democrats in the House of Representatives, for refusing to oppose plutocratist politics very much.
Republican Missouri state legislative candidate Thomas Ross, who lost the Republican primary, has been charged with plotting to stash drugs on rival Louise Secker.
*Imagine living in a country that can arrest and imprison you whenever it wants, without any judge or jury deciding you did anything wrong. It can call you a “domestic terrorist” and put you in prison for life. It can even execute you on the basis of nothing more than its own decision that you’re dangerous.*
That is what the persecutor is doing to the United States, Robert Reich says.
The Deform UK party's main media presenter worked on propaganda for the Chinese government a year ago, presenting its policies in Xinjiang in a favorable light and not mentioning the repression against the Uyghurs.
Patients notice dangerous errors in the visit records generated by Supposed Intelligence "scribes".
The practitioner whose words were thus summarized was supposed to review them, and I suppose perse did so, but must have failed to notice these errors.
That is natural: if you review 30 such textual recordings a day, your eyes will glaze over when you check them for errors.
The Israeli army has given an explanation of how its complex rules led it to the (erroneous) suspicion that Hamas had taken over the World Central Kitchen's food delivery on 1 April 2024, and it responded to that suspicion by killing them all.
There was no care to verify positively that anything bad had happened, and no effort to protect the food delivery volunteers in the event that something bad had happened.
This was based on a policy of "guilt by association".
In effect, their rules reflect an overall policy of, "When in doubt, wipe them all out!"
The wrecker seems to be inviting, even aiming for a big defeat for Republicans in this year's elections. What might his motivation be?
This article presents a conjecture about why.
Another reason he does not fear impeachment is that he knows Vance might be a more effective enemy of our freedom.
Prime Minister Burnham is giving a more leftist impression of Labour's policy, without much concrete change in the policies it proposes.
European governments find that the Putin forces are remotely organizing sabotage attacks, and investigating how to punish him for them.
Evidence is increasing that MDMA can help treat PTSD.
A description of the kinds of video and audio data Flock surveillance cameras can record — much more than merely license plate numbers — and how their system uses data mining to follow individual people and cars to some extent.
How city governments were surprised that the data collected in any one city could be searched from anywhere.
These cameras track everyone that passes by, and even the most sadistic government agencies can use them to track people.
With the US government hell-bent on using any available system to track and repress critics and protest groups, we cannot tolerate surveillance systems such as Flock unless we can make them safe for dissenters.
A whistleblower in the USPS says that the agency is unable to implement its ballot-blocking order accurately — that it will inevitably block other ballots too.
Fanatic antiarabite minister Ben-Gvir proposes a plan for expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza.
Bernie Sanders has proposed a bill to ban development of machine-learning models that scientists don't understand enough to control them.
These systems can be dangerous, and can go "out of control", and their developers do not entirely understand what can happen. And perhaps their development should be restricted.
However, it is a mistake to describe them as "artificial intelligence". Indeed, one of the things that leads them to ignore rules is that they do not semantically understand the words and phrases that they play with. They understand rules in a superficial syntactic way that makes it easy for them to violate the spirit of their rules, without noticing the contradiction.
This is why I denounce the practice of labeling them as "AI" as a motor for misunderstanding them.
Around 10 US thugs a year shoot and kill people who are doing nothing wrong. Almost half get convicted for this.
The US deported people to Liberia who had no connection with Liberia.
Some refused to get off the plane there, so the US took them to totally tyrannical Equatorial Guinea. They had no connection with Equatorial Guinea either, but thugs there imprisoned them and they are still stuck.
I suppose that the persecutor is paying the dictator of Equatorial Guinea to use his country as a privatized prison.
Magats propose to limit US Clean Water Act protections to a small fraction of streams and wetlands. Any stream or wetland that is occasionally dry would be excluded.
Robert Reich reports the level of employment in the US is falling while wages are not rising. He speculates that this is due to what I call "Supposed Intelligence".
He might be right about that, but let's not boost those companies by calling their product "Artificial Intelligence".
An expert witness gave testimony in 2002 that convicted Jeffrey Prible of murder; he was sentenced to death.
The witness, William Watson, says that based on better knowledge about DNA matching, his 2002 testimony was incorrect -- and it was erroneously summarized during the trial itself.
It's a good thing for justice that the execution was not swiftly carried out.
The most noteworthy thing in the article is how Prible's other evidence was already found sufficient to vacate his conviction, but a higher court found an excuse to disregard that evidence.
* Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue.*
There has been active opposition to political influence on university research through the medium of funding.
*[The persecutor]'s deportations to third countries violate human rights,* according to advisers to the UN Human Rights Council.
Often the US does this in situations where the refugee came from a country which would persecute per. It is illegal in the US to send per back there. So the US sends per to some other country which takes pay to accept per. That country may then persecute per. Or it may redeport per to the country where it was illegal to send per directly.
A proposed collection of rights for "shoppers", or more generally, people buying things and services.
I support all of these proposals, but some of them don't get to the root of the problem. For instance, the fact that Guber (which pays its drivers peanuts) can tell whether a customer's phone battery is low is a consequence of nonfree software in that phone, which has been designed to violate the user's security.
Many of these proposed laws address symptoms of the systems which inform the seller of the identity of the purchaser. Treating those symptoms is better than nothing, but what we really need is to prevent sellers from knowing the identity of the purchaser.
Magat officials have given Big Oil a big handout by setting future fuel efficiency standards for cars to a low target.
Right-wing extremists falsely proclaim supposed majority support, then campaign based on that presupposition. Switzerland's constitution keeps the extremists at bay by allowing people to vote on their proposals, and the extremists generally lose. Evidently they don't really have majority support.
Republicans' attacks on anything related to womens' rights have weakened national efforts to call attention to the continued death toll from prohibition of abortions.
I am sure that right-wing control of major news outlets is helping many US voters to forget that legalizing abortion again is within our grasp, within a few years, if we keep organizing to defeat the magats.
It appears that what determines whether someone who voted for the deluder still considers perself MAGA is whether deluder can still make per believe things that are visibly not true.
The US government arbitrarily wiped out the Italian anonymous hosting and email organization A/I Collective, which offered email addresses at autistici.org, using arbitrary sanctions based on an unsubstantiated accusation of "terrorism".
Only a few European political leaders have the courage to face the real challenge of future global heating: curb it or die!
Modern cowboys (along with cowgirls) are adapting to manage cattle so that wolves won't often attack them.
12,000 of the comments filed with the Department of Labor, in favor of allowing funds managers to put retirement funds into risky cryptocurrencies, were fake. Either they were attributed to dead people, or to people who say they didn't file those comments.
The rare but generally fatal disease caused by an amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, is becoming a little more frequent and spreading geographically as a result of global heating.
This is still a small danger as dangers go, but lots of more frequent diseases are likewise spreading due to global heating.
*US military has no plans to send troops to midterm polling sites,* according Dan Caine, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
I trust him to be honest if he makes that statement, but it doesn't prove we are safe from the danger. The wrecker could give the order on Oct 30 to send troops to politically-selected polling places on Nov 3, and perhaps no one in the army would know that today.
The chiefs of staff are not in the chains of command, so it is possible that some soldiers are even now secretly planning that act of rebellion and Caine does not know.
The most important news here for me is that people in the US are organizing against the RSS, an extremist Indian anti-non-Hindu campaign.
Four Maga defectors unpack their role in bolstering that cult and share what brought them to the Leaving Maga non-profit support network.
Calling on the Labour Party to put a limit on donations from individuals and businesses to political parties in the UK.
The corrupter's head of the Forest Service used to lobby for logging companies. No wonder he is working to help them cut protected forests.
*The Nepal and Tibet flood is a warning: melting snow and ice will bring more disasters around the world.*
That is a big danger, but spreading tropical diseases and crop failures are much bigger dangers. We need to press hard on fossil fuel use.
The EPA approved a new weed killer that is a forever chemical. It is a suspected carcinogen too.
You can clean your river with the things you find near home.
*[The USPS's] new system for screening mail-in ballots risks denying entire batches, says whistleblower.*
The magats' brilliant new idea is to settle lawsuits by granting individuals and companies long-term special exemptions from legal responsibilities.
This time, businesses that sign up as "Christian" are allowed, permanently, to discriminate against trans people. The previous such deal allowed the corrupter to be immune, permanently, to auditing of his tax returns.
Australia's government deliberations are being poisoned by slop from LLMs.
*Toxins plus climate harms likely cause of reduced fertility [in humans and other animal species], study finds.*
Higher temperatures may directly play a role in this. The toxins suspected are endocrine disruptors, including PFAS.
The copyright industry is mobilizing musicians to campaign for the idea that listening to songs and learning general things about music and language is "theft".
If LLMs are harmful to society, it is because their operation can hurt their users — not because of learning from this or that particular input.
The US Environmental Protection Agency let Bayer choose the regulations for application of the weedkiller dicamba.
Bayer chose the most lax alternative, naturally.
Magats are trying to reduce US medicare costs by requiring patients to get approval from a machine learning algorithm for certain kinds of operations.
Various companies have implemented competing varieties of Artificial Stupidity for these decisions. The magat regime has set up the system so that companies make more money when they say "no".
Newer map projections don't make the Mercator projection "wrong", or "biased".
That projection made navigation easy, for mariners sailing wooden ships on the ocean with no way to measure their longitude. People today have little use for that feature, so we may prefer maps based on other projections.
*We're not in a "new Gilded Age" in America: inequality is now far worse* than it was in the 1890s.
China's tyranny has crushed the women's rights movement just as it has crushed campaigns for general human rights and democracy.
British activists are sabotaging traffic queue meters, believing that they are somehow antennas that can direct radiation at specific individuals.
These fools are attacking the wrong cameras. Those cameras keep track of how many cars are waiting at certain intersections, which is harmless.
The cameras that are a real threat to freedom in the UK are the ones that scan license plate numbers and record which car goes where. That system has already been used by protests. right-wing governments to sabotage
*Martin Rowson on [the wrecker] and the consequences of the climate crisis – cartoon.*
I think it is acceptable to use his name for mockery but not simply to identify him.
A glacier collapsed near the Nepal/China border. In Nepal, over 500 deaths have been counted. In China, censorship is covering up that information.
Global heating is making these localized disasters more frequent, but the region-wide repetitive and permanent disasters will dwarf them.
*Venezuelan opposition up in arms over reports US wants big stake in oil and gas.*
25 years ago, US companies had taken control of Venezuela's oil exports — and control of the computers in PDVsa, the oil export agency. Chavez ordered his officials to seize control of the agency's computers, and that is how he got interested in software libre.
*When touching someone’s throat, it can only take the pressure of a handshake to cause serious injury, unconsciousness or death. These injuries, which include brain damage and stroke, are often internal and invisible, showing up days or even months after the initial incident occurred.*
I don't think I could bring myself to try choking a woman I want to be sweet to. Before reaching actual choking, one would pass through unsweetness and untenderness, and I couldn't make myself do that.
Why are there so few supermarkets in the US nowadays, compared with the past? Many of the spaces big enough for one to operate have been bought and resold with a "covenant" that forbids using it for a supermarket.
Rhode Island has just banned those covenants.
I urged my state representative to do likewise in Massachusetts.
(satire) *HHS Replaces Childhood Vaccination Schedule With List Of Recommended Animal Bites.*
*[The saboteur in chief's] rollback of US forest protections could accelerate extinction of 400 endangered species.*
Climate disaster could wipe out thousands of species, including many which may not yet endangered.
Whether the saboteur's henchmen can control the voter list for voting by mail this November is still being challenged in court.
Journalists fired from the Stars and Stripes as political censorship are suing, alleging that their dismissal violated their freedom of the press.
Global heating is making El Niño events stronger. That effect began in the 19th century, but it has been supercharged in the last 40 years.
While an El Niño event occurs, it makes parts of the world hotter. This comes on top of global heating.
The Department of Hiding and Skulking makes a habit of twisting a law limited to investigating whether customs duties are being properly paid, so as to obtain digital records about people suspected of protest or journalism.
That particular statute bypasses the need to ask a judge for a warrant, but is limited to specific situations. The DHS often uses it, successfully, in situations where it is not applicable. It appears DHS knows that any federal judge would rule that what it is doing is illegal, so it withdraws the demand whenever it sees that the matter will go before a judge.
The would-be tyrant has set up a system where his secret police can jail anyone and deny per access to a judge.
They can even kill people and lie to excuse the killing. It used to be that cops could only do that to blacks. Now they can do it to anyone regardless of race.
It looked like the Labour Party was going to limit the corrupting influence of large party donations by rich people, but Burnham has changed his mind.
How sad.
How do right-wing "populists" evade criticism for promising lots of practical improvements and not delivering them?
Between SCROTUS and the saboteur in chief, the USDA's research about cyclospora is being canceled.
Thugs put up a dummy Flock camera as a trap to catch whoever might knock it down. They caught someone, then charged him with theft of property worth more than $1000.
Even a real Flock camera does not cost them that much. I think the charges are dishonest.
General surveillance threatens people's safety and lives; fighting back should be considered self defense.
A former prisoner of the deportation thugs reports on the suffering of force-feeding in deportation prison.
The wrecker cancelled a US grant that was helping Nepal prepare for responding better to floods, including predicting them a few days in advance.
Venezuela's president Rodríguez, installed by the corrupter, has made a corrupt deal with him to allow the US (or is it him?) to take control over Venezuela's oil reserves.
US medical companies continue merging and driving the price of US medical treatment up. Congress is considering various bills that would reverse this, but too many elected officials get support from the profiteers.
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US citizens: call on medical associations to publicly report on dangerous and deadly conditions in US deportation prisons.
In my letter I urged these associations reject the cover-up euphemisms such as "ICE" and "detention center", and I replaced them in the text of my letter to set an example of not using them.
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US citizens: call on Boston Dynamics to stop selling robot "dogs" to the deportation thugs, which would use them to indiscriminately threaten and attack people in the US.
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[The saboteur in chief is] laying groundwork to impose national emergency [for election day] by sowing election distrust.
The magats believe in maximizing cruelty towards immigrants, so they grab every possible excuse to deport someone. Even spouses and parents of people in the armed forces.
The worst enemy of the United States is the saboteur in chief. Alas, we can't defend the United States from him by serving in its armed forces.
Global heating means more rats, and not just in the boards of fossil fuel companies.
Climate damage from opening new oil fields in North Sea would obliterate any economic benefits from the oil extracted there.
An arbitrator ordered the Washington Post to rehire Karen Attiah, whom it had fired for saying she refused to mourn violent right-wing fanatics such as Charlie Kirk.
The West Point military academy fired the only climate scientist teaching there, for disobeying an order not to mention the human responsibility for climate disaster.
The professor is suing. Alas, the article fails to mention what he demands in his lawsuit. I wish I knew.
*Rfk Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate.*
Egypt's military dictatorship is trying to silence Mona el-Shazly, who criticizes the dictatorship from asylum in Britain, by jailing her brothers who live in Egypt and her sister when she visited Egypt.
Psychology is starting to understand high-functioning psychopaths — the ones that are clever enough not to be accused of crimes — and how they fool people into believing implausible lies, and get society confused.
US citizens: call on Congress to impeach Brendan Carr, head of the FCC, for being loyal to the wrecker rather that to the US and its constitution.
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US citizens: call on US government regulators to drop their plan to make digital delivery of personal financial data the default.
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US citizens: call on your senators to reject Digital ID.
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US citizens: call on the Pentagon to end its journalist blacklist.
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US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the Stop Wall-Street Looting Act Now!
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To protect the US from private equity funds, we need to regulate them more — to treat them more like publicly traded corporations. The larger the amount of capital the fund wields, the more it should be regulated.
However, the Stop Wall Street Looting Act is a good start. I urge you to co-sponsor and pass that. It would help by
- Holding private equity firms liable for the debts and legal judgments of companies they control
- Protecting workers by prioritizing their wages and benefits in bankruptcy proceedings
- Ending extractive financial practices that allow firms to loot companies for short-term gains
- Increasing transparency and oversight of private equity activities
Sincerely,
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US citizens: call on the Census Bureau to cease and desist from plans to omit noncitizens from the census.
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*Ukrainian cathedrals, Gaza’s archives, Iranian squares — modern war is systematically erasing human history [in places which are bombarded].*
Israel's bombardment of Gaza has destroyed many centuries-old buildings.
A magat proposal would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act by reinterpreting it to cover only intentional killing or damaging of specific, chosen members of an endangered species.
Accidental damage, such as when a ship kills a whale by unexpectedly colliding with it, would not count.
Why would one advocate this? Perhaps it reflects a desire to clean out all those pesky animals and plants that pop up unexpectedly.
Or perhaps they want to kill endangered species because that's would make their political enemies unhappy.
(satire) *FBI Moves To Raise Murder Rate For First Time Since 2023.*
The bully has banned some significant news media from the White House for defying his orders about what what they should say.
The bully deported people to tyrannical Equatorial Guinea who had no roots there. That was one injustice, and it led to another: two of them talked to the press about their mistreatment there, and the state tortured them as an example to gag the others.
Equatorial Guinea is so repressive that it is a crime to deport anyone there under any circumstances.
"End Times Fascism" is the ideology of the billionaires whose plan is to cause the end of time for civilization on Earth in order to extract as much as possible for them to take away with them.
The intended Texas border wall, purely for completeness' sake, will extend over an area of cliffs and come damagingly close to ancient rock art.
I think it is an exaggeration to compare rock art to "books". To suppose that this rock art image has a precise message encoded in little details, as writing would have, has no factual basis that I know of.
Nonetheless, ancient rock art is precious, because it may convey a not-so-detailed message that would nonetheless be amazing to understand, if someday we can.
President Petro of Colombia accused the Israeli company Blackcore of interfering in Colombia's presidential election.
I am pretty sure that the US made some sort of vicious secret intervention, because the newly elected? president is a magat.
Finland made great progress towards eliminating homelessness by giving people houses which they could feel was home. Alas, right-wing government has cut some of the spending and is driving homelessness back up.
The companies that develop Supposed Intelligence (specifically, LLMs) want us to put them in charge of making the systems "safe", by giving them absolute control over what the systems will do (and what they won't do).
The systems are really dangerous, but we cannot trust the companies that develop them to protect us from them. Their interest is to mix more and more subjugation of the public into any protection of the public.
Historically, whenever companies get power over what people's computing facilities can do, they use it against us, building malicious functionalities, designed to benefit them, into the software they invite us to use.
The president of Ecuador is turning the country into a dictatorship by banning parties that don't support him.
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the Raise the Wage Act, to raise the national minimum wage.
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US citizens: call on your state legislators to ban insider trading (including prediction bets) by elected and appointed officials, and government employees.
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US citizens: Protect birthright citizenship.
US citizens: call on Dr. Oz to stop kicking sick people off Medicaid.
US citizens: The corrupter's henchmen have facilitated the hiding of wealth by US companies, by nullifying the rule requiring to tell the government who owns them. Call on news media to cover this.
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Green New Deal for Health.
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US citizens: call on the CFPB to limit gouging by businesses by continuing to publish consumers' complaints.
US citizens: call on Congress not to fall for the magats' misleading analysis of the census and voting.
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US citizens: call on Congress not to allow drilling near the Grand Canyon.
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US citizens: call on the FTC to stop Supposed Intelligence companies from scanning books to destruction and hoarding the scans.
The law should require that if the book is in the public domain, its scanned text be published by the Library of Congress. If the book is still in principle copyrighted, the Library of Congress could publish an offer to pay the copyright holder a reasonable sum for permission to publish it for gratis download. If there is no response in a few months, it could release the scan anyway.
US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the Department of Hiding and Skulking's secret surveillance.
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US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Bank Failure Accountability Act.
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US citizens: call on Congress to stop the persecutor from denying migrant children a lawyer's representation in proceedings to deport them.
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US citizens: call on Rubio to stop weakening the Global Plastics Treaty.
US citizens: call on Speaker Jeffries to reverse his decision to appoint a pro-Israel hawk to a Middle East policy leadership role.
US citizens: call on the Department of Hostile Savagery to keep the deportation thugs away from our polling places.
A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Maine said he would invite deportation thugs to come to Maine's polling places to intimidate and perhaps terrorize voters. Citizens who are immigrants have the right to vote, but they may be scared away by deportation thugs anyway, knowing that those do not respect laws or court orders.
US citizens: call on the media to stop covering the bully's attacks on journalists as outbursts and start covering them as deliberate, escalating attempts to use government power to silence the press.
US citizens: call on NOAA to reverse its rollback of marine protections.
US citizens: call on Cornell University to stand by commitments it made to its students who were being persecuted by hateful officials.
US citizens: call on Lowe's to remove its Flock surveillance cameras.
US citizens: support the proposed Green New Deal for Health.
US citizens: call on the EPA not to exclude the public from data center pollution decisions.
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop the corporate cancer loophole: Pass the People Over Poison Act.
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US citizens: call on your state legislators to block private equity grabs from buying hospitals.
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US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to block the corrupter from arbitrarily meddling with federal grants.
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US citizens: call to ban NDAs about plans to build data centers.
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US citizens: call on your senators to vote to report on Israel's violence and human rights abuses in the West Bank!
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US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop the wrecker from demolishing the Kennedy Center.
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Here's the letter I sent:
I urge quick action to protect the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from demolition by trumpet toadies.
First they wanted to put the corrupter's name on it. When a court blocked that, they threatened to demolish it. Both are ways of ruining it, thus proving that nothing clean is strong enough to stand against the corrupter.
Thus, more than a performance center is at stake. Congress must take this threat seriously and stop it from happening.
You can prohibit taxpayer dollars from financing demolition, but we all know that alone is likely not enough. Please do whatever it takes to protect it. You can change the powers of the board, who can be on it, or how big it is. You can even abolish the Kennedy Center board if needed.
Or you could ban complete or partial demolition or major building work.
Sincerely,
US citizens: call on the Interior Department and the National Park Service not to privatize part of Yosemite for the sake of a business.
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US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to support a bill to for a moratorium on construction of data centers
I suggest you eliminate the term "AI" from your letter. You might say "pretend intelligence" instead.
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US citizens: Tell the Treasury and the IRS: Don’t take tax credits away from immigrant families who lawfully work.
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Global heating is an intentional outrage, not a natural calamity.
It is being done to us knowingly.
The US has participated since the Revolutionary War in efforts to curb the worst excesses of war. The sadist has declared his total opposition to that goal.
The US has not always lived up to that stated intention. The distribution of disease-laden blankets to indigenous people is one extreme example. We must recognize that the US has many wrongs to be ashamed of, even as it has many admirable traits to be proud of.
Comparing US history to the future that the sadist and his magats desire shows how vicious he and they are.
*U.S. Central Command maintains a secret directory of journalists who have been blacklisted by the press office.*
* Republicans who deny Joe Biden won the 2020 election are running for governor and secretary of state across the US.*
Each state's secretary of state is in charge of that state's elections. A secretary of state who endorses lies about recent past elections is likely to try to rig future elections.
It is clear that magats are organizing to eliminate honest elections in the US.
*Top US firms that backed Voting Rights Act [(in 2021) now] donate to groups working to undermine it.*
A wind-driven fire near Reno, Nevada is spreading so fast that it is hard for people to evacuate fast enough to get away. It is even spreading across fire trucks, carried I suppose by blowing embers.
This is part of the consequences of global heating, and if we don't curb greenhouse emissions fast, fire will become a frequent danger.
Ever since most Democratic officials abandoned New Deal-style support for the non-rich, environmental protection, climate defense, and equal rights, the candidates who seek to return the party to those causes have been tarred as "divisive".
We can't make the US livable for non-rich Americans by electing politicians who serve mainly the elites. Better to have a division over these issues than to ignore them.
*Millions in India stripped of vote before critical state election, as government seeks to "purify" electoral roll.*
The BJP passed two laws, a decade ago, with the combined effect of denying citizenship to Indian Muslims who lacked certain documentation for their ancestors. Hindus were not required to produce that documentation, only Muslims.
*[The saboteur's henchmen have] shut down more than 100 climate studies.*
The long-term plan may be to prevent the education of future climate scientists in the US. Since the saboteur in chief, and his billionaire oligarchs, reject the results of climate scientists, and they know (though they won't admit it) that climate scientists all warn about the danger of global heating, they would see no reason for climate research to be done or for anyone to think about it.
The bully's henchmen have fired the publisher and editor of the military newspaper Stars and Stripes for defending its traditional editorial independence.
The bully wants to convert every news medium in the US into his own house organ.
Hong Kong freedom activist Chow Hang-tung as been jailed for five years for trying to talk publicly about the Tien An Men square massacre in Beijing.She keeps her spirits up by writing about being in prison. Her motive:
A stubborn freak like me can only march on and fight my case till the end … Having a chance to exhaust oneself is better than living a purposeless life, isn’t it?
*"Darth Vader" comes out in favor of Flock cameras at San Diego city council meeting.
The dark lord – or someone dressed like him – said the technology would aid the empire in tracking "rebel scum".*
Many countries have imposed, or tolerated, practices of lawfare that make it possible to crush journalists that question the official line.
Republicans' long-term strategy, since Reagan, is to spend a lot of money (mainly on things that won't benefit non-rich Americans), refuse to raise taxes, and therefore greatly increase the national debt.
Subsequently, when Democrats were in power, they lambasted the Democrats for not cutting the spending that helps the non-rich to reduce the national debt.
What the corrupter is doing is basically more of the same, but with a change in details: he can count on nearly all Republicans in Congress to be so mindlessly loyal that they will rubber stamp even the most gratuitous and corrupt excuses to increase the debt.
*Trump nominates abortion opponent Heidi Overton to be head of FDA.* Those bastards live to make the people they hate suffer or die.
Israeli army has admitted that its soldiers fired at the car carrying Hind Rajab and her family, which is what killed them all. Also that it fired at the ambulance which was trying to reach them, killing some medics.
Previously the army lied about the circumstances to try to pass the blame to the medics.
* Wildfires are projected to burn 39% more of Europe by the end of the century even in the best-case scenario for stopping the planet from heating, a study has found, unless action is taken to manage them better.*
*[UK] Ministers are in denial about the scale of the [local climate] crises we face.*
*Having just 20 Defra staff working on climate adaptations show the government is not taking the challenges of heatwaves, wildfires and droughts seriously.*
Racism today: when a white person faces accusations of wrongdoing, the accusation is against per alone. When a black person faces accusations, racists use that to cast aspersions against blacks in general.
(satire) *Todd Blanche Vows To Remain Fully Independent Of The Law.*
He was recently confirmed by magat senators as the Attorney General, but he remains effectively the corrupter's personal lawyer.
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to investigate Paramount's takeover meant to control most news media.
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US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop the Department of Hostility and Suspicion from surveilling unions, churches, activists, and other peaceful political activism.
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US citizens: call on your state's Secretary of State to Refuse the wrecker's Voter-Data Grab.
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US citizens: call on the Senate to stop the permanent integration of American military tech with Israel.
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US citizens: file a comment calling on the Forest Service to preserve the Roadless Rule that protects much of our national forests from being cut down.
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act.
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US citizens: call on your senators to vote for the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would stop companies from stalling contract negotiations forever.
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US citizens: call on Congress to fund and rebuild the FDA.
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US citizens: call your congresscritter to vote to impeach budget director Russell Vought.
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US citizens: call on your congresscritter to vote against appointing Heidi Overton to head the FDA.
Let's toss her out of the Overton window!
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If Superman lived among us now, and decided it was his duty to defend Truth, Justice and the American Way from America's worst enemy, what sort of actions might be effective and inspirational to use? How about posting your ideas, or stories based on them.
Please don't write about mere violence against magats; that is too crude and obvious, it is too much like them to set an example of good, and would not demonstrate morally that their actions are illegitimate.
Here are a few ideas that occur to me for what he could do.
If you post a fictional story about such an action, either something from the list above or something you have thought up, or even just an outline, I hope you will email me its URL.
US citizens: call on state officials to stand up to Big Tech: pass a data center moratorium.
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US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to reject Republicans' perverse deal for veterans' medical treatment.
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US citizens: call on your state's Secretary of State to refuse to hand over the voter data that magats demand.
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US citizens: call on the postal governors to rescind the plan to block election ballots.
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US citizens: call your congresscritter and senators to impeach and remove RFK jr.
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US citizens: call on Tell your attorney general to investigate your local law enforcement agency’s abuse of Flock surveillance cameras, and prevent tracking anyone without a specific warrant.
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US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to reject the corrupter's pet projects and handouts to his billionaire barons, and put struggling American families before them.
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The Russian conquerors of Poland thought it amusing to imprison Polish general Kazimierz Moczarski of the Home Army in the same cell with the German SS general that commanded the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Moczarski treated this as an opportunity for an interview, a chance to elucidate the mentality of a Nazi mass murderer. However, the Russians censored the contents of his book. When the English translation is published, I plan to buy a copy — paying cash, anonymously. Evidently, not from Amazon.
The purpose of the Polish Home Army was to rise up to help liberate Poland from German occupation. In late 1944, with the Red Army across the river from Warsaw, the Home Army rose up, and asked Russia to join in the battle. Instead, the Red Army held back so the Germans and Poles would kill each other. Stalin considered both of them his enemies.
UK Prime Minister Burnham seems to disregard the gravity of climate disaster. That is not much better than the Tories, who have come to deny it.
The cyclosporidia outbreak should have been caught and stopped by a new scheme for tracking wholesale shipping of food, to stop diseases carried by food. But the scheme has never been implemented.
The legal requirement for the scheme was adopted in 2011, but lobbying from agribusiness has repeatedly postponed its implementation. The last postponement put it off until 2028.
Watch out! Storing data you care about in a cloudy place could lead to losing it.
This is a two-level example. Nine PBS, a US TV station, stored its archives in space it rented from a cloudy company which subcontracted the actual storage to a cloudy data center. The first cloudy company shut down and disappeared, but the station did not find out until later. Now the second cloudy company denies that the station is its customer, and the station has had to sue.
My lesson from this is not "the cloud is bad" but rather that it is foolish to use the term "cloud" in your words or your thoughts. That term was coined for leading customers into careless thinking. Don't let it lead you anywhere!
The US media frequently fall into the pernicious error of measuring the wealth of "Americans in general" by the arithmetic mean of individual wealth.
I expect that pro-billionaire campaign and pressure groups lobby for that.
Children in London have developed better lung capacity after the ultra-low emission zone reduced the amount of air pollution in most of London.
I support limiting cars' emissions more strictly, but it is Orwellian and unjust to implement this by tracking the movements and locations of individual cars. It would be better to impose this limit throughout the UK.
The persecutor's regime has placed sanctions on the president of the International Criminal Court, as an attempt to establish unilaterally an unheard-of supposed moral principle: absolute immunity for the officials of governments that reject the ICC.
We can see why US officials might want this — to protect US soldiers that commit war crimes. In theory, the US will prosecute them itself; if the US really does that, the ICC will not get involved in their cases, because its mission is to prosecute war criminals whose own country prosecutes them. In fact, the US often protects them and refuses to prosecute them.
*Machines that kill without distinction, answerable to no one, leave no one safe.*
Italian thugs killed authorized immigrant Abderrahim Fakir by holding him down while he was handcuffed.
The details of what killed him are not clear in this article.
Fascist politicians are delighted by the killing, presuming that Fakir deserved death (without waiting to see if there was any objective justification for killing him). That is a standard Fascist approach: use the fact of a crime against a hate-target as "proof" that the target somehow deserved it.
The forces of ignorance have canceled scientific research into how racism affects whether people develop dementia.
This must be one of the things that magats believe that "Man was not meant to know." Or, at least, they don't mean for this to be known.
Robert Reich: most Americans are rejecting the corporate Democrats, and the rich people that they mainly serve.
Corporate Democrats are far from the worst politicians in office in the US. The fascists (today's Republicans) are far worse; they are sabotaging democracy and rule of law. But the corporate Democrats will not try to give most people a decent life with something to strive for — a goal whose prerequisites include preventing climate disaster.
*Heatwaves and wildfires are not just scorching forests, they are adding to the tipping point risks in the world's vast permafrost regions, which contain three times more carbon than all the living vegetation on Earth.*
This could negate human efforts to reduce emissions. If so, it would mean that we left the task of reducing them till too late.
Bernie Sanders: "Why are progressives winning across the United States?" He list the policies that most Americans sensibly demand, but corporate politicians label as "extremist".
Alas, he refers LLMs as "artificial intelligence". It is a mistake to call them that, because it is the marketing term of those who are pushing them on us.
More on the politics of the bully's military snub to South Korea.
Some cities terminated their contracts with Flock Surveillance, under public pressure, but turned around and brought in another surveillance company.
If you aim to limit access to the surveillance data enough to protect the public from possible Orwellian consequences, that's harder than one might assume. "Stricter" conditions of access may be too loose to achieve that protective goal. And don't forget that federal deportation thugs could override local rules of access.
My recommendation is to store the data in or near each camera, with no access from a distance. When there is a serous crime to investigate, it will be worth the cost to send someone to collect the pertinent data from each pertinent camera. But if someone just wants to fish for someone to persecute, this will be too much trouble.
For more explanation, look for "surveillance camera" in https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html.
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