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23 April 2026 (
Urgent: Congress: tax-payer, hush monies
US citizens:
call
on your federal legislators
to make Congress release the names of
members of Congress who used taxpayer money to silence sexual
harassment claims.
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23 April 2026 (
Urgent: Impeach Hegseth
US citizens:
call
on Congress
to impeach Secretary of Aggression Hegseth.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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21 April 2026 (
Dave Gauer, a kindred spirit
A rant by an old-time personal computer user who
loathes today's big
tech
and briefly suggests he might be using a Libre operating
system — seems to be completely unaware of the free software
movement.
I think he might sympathize with it if he knew it.
21 April 2026 (
About a thousand US billionaires
Bernie Sanders:
*We
need a 5% wealth tax
on America's 938 billionaires.
… The richest people in America have never ever had it so
good. … The American working class has been under savage
attack for years.*
21 April 2026 (
Reversing Corporations United decision
Each state of the US has the power to reverse the
Corporations United
decision
for corporations
incorporated
in that state
21 April 2026 (
Urgent: Overturning ban on voting by mail
Over 20
state
attorneys general are suing
to overturn public enemy #1's
executive order to mostly ban voting by mail.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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21 April 2026 (
Urgent: About Jews employed at UPenn
US citizens:
call
on universities
to join UPenn in the case to overturn an order to
identify its Jewish employees to the government.
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21 April 2026 (
Urgent: Blocking weapons: the vote count
US citizens: thank the senators who voted to block
weapons
for Israel
and hold the rest accountable.
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21 April 2026 (
Former PM calls on ICC
*No Israel prosecutions for killing Palestinian civilians in occupied West
Bank since start of decade.* Ehud Olmert, former prime minister of Israel,
hopes to spur the
International
Criminal Court
to intervene.
Several former heads of the army, the police and the spy agencies are
supporting the campaign.
An Israeli lawyer (whose name I don't recognize) responds, "The system is
programmed to manufacture impunity, not accountability. But it was
smart enough to also have very rare occasions of accountability,
that could be referred to as examples of how law enforcement was
working" (so as to convince the ICC it had no basis to get
involved).
A Palestinian (whose name I don't recognize) responds, "Such Israeli critics
often give the impression that settler violence could be tamed by
simply ousting the (current) far right government. That would
certainly have an effect, but it doesn’t recognise that the
settlements are a project of the state that was shaped and led across
the political spectrum."
That is true; indeed, Olmert was a right-wing politician.
Nonetheless, what he is doing now takes courage.
21 April 2026 (
The case of two fired judges
The bully's minions fire immigration judges who uphold the first
amendment rights of immigrants, and praise judges who deport people
for
exercising
those rights.
21 April 2026 (
Psychiatrist Examines the Nazi Criminals
A psychiatrist studied the imprisoned surviving Nazi leaders and wrote
that such people were not a special problem of Germany — rather,
people inclined toward tyranny and enormous crimes could be found in
any country,
including the US.
21 April 2026 (
Peace deal deadline
Proposing a plausible peace deal for Iran and the US — if they are willing
to
accept it.
21 April 2026 (
More than 600 measles cases
*Utah reports more than 600 measles cases as outbreak
spreads
across US.*
Utah is full of Republicans, and many of them are now magats.
I hope the rest of the country learns from this example
of stupidity not to believe magats.
21 April 2026 (
No more US military aid to Israel
Bernie Sanders's speech to the senate calling for an end to arms
transfers
to Israel.
The resolutions were defeated, but it is only a matter of time
before public opinion prevails.
21 April 2026 (
Court strikes down anti protest law
A court has voided the protest ban law of New South Wales, which was
used to ban protests against the president of Israel
while he was
visiting.
21 April 2026 (
AI in legal proceedings
Australian lawyers rushed to use LLMs, but encountered the risk that
the argument presented in court might cite a
nonexistent
decision
in
a nonexistent case.
21 April 2026 (
Norway's state telecoms firm
*Lawsuit in Norway alleges Telenor passed on data helping Myanmar
military arrest 1,200 [opposition] activists,
some
in safe houses.*
Telenor should have considered the question of how it would respond to
demands like this before deciding to do business in Burma. If it
could not come up with a response it could justify, it should have
stayed out. Norway and other countries should pass laws making
it clear how telecommunications countries must protect dissidents in
situations like this.
21 April 2026 (
Social media platforms harm
*It is no fluke that social media platforms are addictive and causing harm.
They
were
designed that way.*
20 April 2026 (
Google AI Overviews
Empirically, Google Search so-called "AI" Overviews have a 10% chance of giving
incorrect answers.
Google says users should check them before trusting them, but this
is just an excuse to avoid being liable for the errors. At the same time,
Google uses the hype term "AI" so that users
will
trust them.
If you don't want to be misled by them, don't look at them.
Even better, don't use Google search at all.
I can't use Google search because it doesn't work at all, for me. It
requires users to run nonfree JavaScript programs, and my browser is
set to refuse to run such programs, so if a link ever takes me to
Google search, it has no chance to mislead me.
20 April 2026 (
CDC leadership vacuum
The CDC is nearly paralyzed, as 80% of the group
leadership
positions
are vacant.
This adds to a lot of other damage — 1/5 of the staff were fired (or quit).
The previous acting director, Bhattacharya, was previously infamous for
advocating allowing Covid-19 to spread unhindered and advising old people
to protect themselves by avoiding contact with other people.
Either RFK jr is nuts or he is committing intentional sabotage — I
can't see any way around it. But neither alternative fully makes
sense.
20 April 2026 (
US consensus over military aid
Most Democratic senators now oppose providing arms to Israel,
like most
Democratic
voters.
Israel's callous chain of atrocities had to have an effect, and it
has.
20 April 2026 (
Tufts University student
Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student who was jailed for publishing in support
of Palestinians' rights, has finished her PhD and
returned
to Turkey.
That is a good and just outcome for her, but the US won't be a safe
place to live in until we remove the officials who are inclined to
persecute people for criticizing government policies.
20 April 2026 (
Big Oil Above the Law
Big Oil is pushing Republicans to sell them immunity from lawsuits over
damages they cause by
roasting
our planet.
There is no way those companies could ever pay for all the damages
that global heating will do, because eventually the damages will add
up to the worth of just about everything in the world. But these
lawsuits, even before they are decided, can help slow Big Oil's march
of damage.
19 April 2026 (
Urgent: Voting rights
US citizens:
call
on your congresscritter
and senators to protect our voting rights
— reject the corrupter's takeover of our elections.
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the
instructions
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JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
19 April 2026 (
Urgent: Freedom of the press
US citizens:
applaud
the court decision
insisting Pentagon respect freedom of the
press.
Main switchboard:
+1-202-224-3121
Please spread the word.
19 April 2026 (
Fertilizer shortage, India
*"India is going to face
food crisis
": Farmers panic over fertilizer shortages amid Iran
war.*
19 April 2026 (
Recent US Presidents' abdications
Ralph
Nader
: *The Deafening Abdication of Four Ex-Presidents on [the
wrecker].*
19 April 2026 (
US casualties of Iran war
The blusterer is covering up the few US
casualties,
and airplane losses
, from the war with Iran.
The losses are rather small. If the war were justified and necessary,
these losses would be insignificant. We should focus on the stronger
reasons to end this war, and why there is
no
reason
to be fighting Iran in this way.
19 April 2026 (
Cheap drones VS US military
Ralph Nader: The enormous US military may now be vulnerable to attacks
with cheap drones
even
in the US
. If one happens, the would-be dictator would use it to
whip up support for his regime in the name of "patriotism."
If one does not happen, he might arrange for one to happen, to create
an excuse to wrap himself in the flag as if it were anti-drone armor.
No moral scruples would discourage him.
17 April 2026 (
US lawfare targeting UN on Palestine
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in
Palestine, has been singled out by
the persecutor
as a special target
for the
most
extreme possible lawfare persecution
It is shocking that the US has the power to block use of bank payment
cards world-wide. No country should have that special power, and
European countries ought to set up their own networks that the US
cannot censor. But I can affirm that it's not hard to live without a
bank card. I never use mine except to buy airline tickets, which I do
perhaps once every few years — and I could pay cash if necessary.
The other forms of harassment and punishment described in the article
are harder to cope with.
17 April 2026 (
ICE protests working
Massive
public resistance
to
the bully's
deportation sweeps is partly
successful, and they have weakened his appetite for them.
The worst thing about them, in my view, is not that they are deporting
people but that they stretch the law and the facts to create false
excuses for it, and that they use deportation as a tool for political
repression. These pervert justice and human rights, which harms
everyone in the US.
17 April 2026 (
Protesters arrested en masse, UK
The UK arrested 500 protesters
for
carrying signs
to support Palestine Action.
Although a court ruled that the ban on supporting Palestine Action
is illegal, the government decided to appeal that decision rather than
give in. It seems awfully desperate to carry on the repression.
It has given no rational reason that would justify this desperation.
17 April 2026 (
About that US-Iran ceasefire
The bully
claims to have agreed to a
two-week
cease-fire
with Iran, but it is dubious that the two actually
agree on anything. Both sides have announced
conditional
offers
of cease-fire that don't meet each other.
Perhaps it will suit each side to pretend that other side has met its
condition, so they can stop actually fighting. But I don't have confidence
that this agreement to disagree will last. Announcing renewed hatred is
a frequent part of
the bully's
playbook in a dispute.
17 April 2026 (
US as war criminal
*Retired
military
officers
call
[the bully's] threats against Iran "likely war
crimes".*
*Congress Must Restrain [
the bully
] from
Nuclear
Weapons First Use
, Says Union of Concerned Scientists.*
The bully's
deranged threats against Iran constitute proof that the
attack he threatened would be an intentional
attempt
at genocide
By contrast, we know that the US military's bombing of the Shajarah
Tayyebeh elementary school was due to
out-of-date
records
which said that it was still part of the adjacent IRGC
base. To have chosen knowingly to bomb a school, in the absence of
some specific military need (which did not exist) would have been a
war crime, but an error is not.
By contrast, I tend to think that the bombing of Iran's B1 bridge, a
primarily civilian facility, was a war crime.
Moreover, the bully
and Netanyahu are, I believe, guilty of the crime
of aggressive war.
One of right-wing extremists today is to erase both the goal and the
means for punishing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and
aggressive war. They are so carried away by hate that they regard
all attempts to limit acts of hatred as outrageous interference.
17 April 2026 (
Anti-vax disinformation down
The wrecker's
antivax officials are spreading antivax views less
for the moment, having learned that
voters
dislike that
Do not be fooled by this. It is not a change in substance and does
not imply they will reverse the harmful changes they have already
made. To make America safe from contagious diseases again requires
replacing the
magat
public health officials with public health
officials dedicated to protecting public health, and ready to
use scientific knowledge to do so.
17 April 2026 (
LLM influences on humans and LLMs
LLM-generated communications are systematically different from human
utterances. As LLM output influences people, and other LLMs, these
tendencies could bring
important
changes
in how people communicate
, even with other people.
One change the LLM companies have brought about intentionally is the
practice
of
referring
to them as "artificial intelligence"
, which presumes they are more
capable than they really are.
17 April 2026 (
Recreational misogyny
Feminists
have
denounced
new forms of recreational misogyny
for over 20 years, warning that
they were designed to recruit more male supporters.
17 April 2026 (
SUVs and potholes
Drivers often choose SUVs to cope with potholes, but
SUVs
make
the problem worse
: they cause more wear to roads than cars do.
17 April 2026 (
Netherlands rainwater storage
People in the Netherlands are building tanks
to
store
large amounts of rainwater
in the event of too much rain. This
can prevent flooding and the water can be used later when hotter
summers cause drought.
17 April 2026 (
King Donald's contagious madness
The madness of King Donald
is
contagious
to other countries' leaders
17 April 2026 (
Netanyahu
*The Forever Spoiler: Netanyahu Has
Been
Blowing
Up Diplomacy
With Iran for Decades.*
17 April 2026 (
Hospitals shutting down
Last year's Big Bad Bill cut the funds for Americans' medical care.
Around the
country,
hospitals
and clinics are closing
as a consequence.
17 April 2026 (
Kushner corruption
For the corrupter's family members, any official responsibility is
chance
for corruption
Magats used to blame President Biden for his son's business crimes,
even though the president did not set him up for those. When their
opponents commit a real crime, they jump on that, but always in a
hypocritical way because they commit similar crimes without a qualm.
17 April 2026 (
Incoming Rocky Mountains drought
A very warm winter and spring has left the Rocky Mountains
with
little
snow
. That means drought and fire this summer.
17 April 2026 (
War crimes
*Is the
US
committing
war crimes
by targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure?*
The answer seems to be "it depends but very likely yes."
17 April 2026 (
US and Russian fascists for Orbán
US government fascists join Russian government fascists
in
supporting
wannabe tyrant Orbán's
reelection in Hungary.
17 April 2026 (
Betting and oil prices
Commodity traders are turning to
the
betting
site Polymarket for inside information
about fluctuations in oil
prices (including the secret government plans that will determine
coming fluctuations).
17 April 2026 (
Sue Higginson's phone calls monitored
*The [New South Wales] Greens' justice spokesperson, Sue Higginson,
alleged that her phone calls
were
"routinely"
monitored
despite it's being against the law for [prison thugs] to
listen to calls between parliamentarians (such as Ms Higginson) and
prisoners.*
17 April 2026 (
Feral cats
New Zealand plans
to
eradicate
feral cats
. This will help protect endangered native birds.
I support requiring people that keep pet cats to keep them indoors.
17 April 2026 (
Urgent: Arrest deportation thugs breaking state laws
US citizens: call on your governor and attorney general to
arrest
federal deportation thugs
who break state laws.
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17 April 2026 (
Urgent: Protect our voting rights
US citizens: call on Congress to
protect
our voting rights
— to
reject
the corrupter's
takeover of our elections.
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17 April 2026 (
Urgent: Don't renew FISA section 702
US citizens: call on Congress
not
to renew FISA section 702
with its
indirect authorization for snooping on Americans with no warrants.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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17 April 2026 (
Urgent: Congress must investigate DOGE's Social Security Data breach
US citizens: call on Take action:
Congress
must investigate DOGE’s Social Security data breach
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17 April 2026 (
Urgent: Deportation thugs near polling places
US citizens: call on your state's Secretary of State
not
to allow deportation thugs to loiter near polling places
in your state.
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17 April 2026 (
Meta buried "causal" evidence of social media harm
*Meta
buried
"causal" evidence of social media harm
, U.S. court
filings allege.*
17 April 2026 (
Bully's new Columbus statue
*[
The bully's
new Columbus] statue isn't about preserving history –
it's
about asserting the power to rewrite it
.*
The bully
and his right-wing extremists aim to make rape and
enslavement acceptable again.
*The question is no longer what Christopher Columbus did. Most
Americans, if pressed, know enough. The question is whether that
knowledge is allowed to matter, and who gets to decide when it does.*
17 April 2026 (
Arab-American student demonstrated commitment to civil liberties
An Arab-American student in Michigan demonstrated her commitment to
American tradition of civil liberties by
suing
her school
after a teacher
punished her for refusing to stand during the pledge of allegiance.
She stood up for freedom of speech when it counted, and that for an
American is true loyalty.
17 April 2026 (
Pretend Intelligence used in surveys
Some survey organizations trying to measure trends in society pay
their participants. Many participants make more money by
delegating
the responses to Pretend Intelligence
, and the Pretend Intelligence
generates responses which don't reflect the actual public.
17 April 2026 (
China has brought millions out of poverty
*China has
brought
millions out of poverty
. The US has not — by choice.*
17 April 2026 (
Privatization of Britain's electric supply
Britain's privatization of parts of the electric supply
paralyzed
its ability to upgrade standards for its electric grid
by making many organizations
that need to be convinced to agree and coordinate.
This shows another way that privatizing a public service can lead to gratuitous
national problems.
17 April 2026 (
America's billionaire oligarchs despise democracy
America's billionaire oligarchs
despise
and reject democracy
because
they want to be able to live like lords. Some of them they say so,
flat out.
Perhaps we should have No Kings, No Lords protests,
to target them as well as
the corrupter
in chief.
17 April 2026 (
Order to restrict mail-in ballots
*[The
saboteur in chief
signs order to restrict mail-in ballots in
probably
unconstitutional move
.*
17 April 2026 (
Anti-abortion crusaders
Anti-abortion crusaders
continue
pushing to define a fetus as a human being
and redefine abortion as murder.
17 April 2026 (
Iran has large national minorities
Iran has
large
national minorities
, some of which seek independence.
The regime knows that some of them would seize opportunities to rebel.
17 April 2026 (
Bill to make medicines more expensive in US
Big Pharma is pushing a bill to
make
medicines more expensive in the US
17 April 2026 (
Magats have incapacitated CDC
The
magats
have
incapacitated
the CDC
even for activities they don't
say they aim to abolish — such as testing for diseases.
17 April 2026 (
Untaxed wealth hidden offshore by richest 0.1%
*Untaxed wealth hidden offshore by richest 0.1%
surpasses
entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity
.*
This issue is one of the reasons I am not a supporter of cryptocurrency.
We need to compel the very rich to pay their fair tax rate,
and the fair tax rate for them must be larger than the fair tax rate
for anyone less rich.
17 April 2026 (
Civil rights groups sue over order to limit mail-in voting
Civil
rights groups sue [US government]
over [the voter suppressor's]
order to limit mail-in voting.*
17 April 2026 (
Fire fatality risk of CyberTruck
The CyberTruck is
17
times more likely to have a fire fatality
than a
Ford Pinto was.
The Ford Pinto caused a national scandal because the manufacturer
disregarded the known flaw, despite deaths it caused. Today, a worse
scandal about the CyberTruck can barely get off the ground.
Perhaps that is because we are accustomed to businesses treating their
customers with contempt, and the main news media have mostly been
bought up by billionaires.
17 April 2026 (
Iran plan to execute hundreds of prisoners
Iran seems to plan to execute hundreds (or thousands?) of prisoners,
many of them for protesting, and is
hiding
the news
by threatening the
relatives if they tell anyone.
17 April 2026 (
Israel's death penalty law
*Israel's death penalty law marks a
new
phase in its dehumanisation
of
Palestinians.*
17 April 2026 (
Pretend Intelligence leading to deficiency in critical thinking
Pretend Intelligence is leading secondary school students in England
to be
deficient
in critical thinking
, creativity, writing, even how to
have a conversation, teachers report.
17 April 2026 (
Global super-rich hidden 3.55tn from tax officials
*Global super-rich
may
have hidden $3.55tn from tax officials
, says Oxfam.*
17 April 2026 (
Muskrat's Grok talked about "white genocide"
For one day,
the muskrat's
chatbot, Grok,
talked
about (imaginary) "white genocide"
in response to just about every query.
One way this might have been implemented was by changing the
primary prompt.
It is surely not a coincidence that, soon after,
the muskrat
began
ranting about this nonexistence injustice.
15 April 2026 (
Urgent: Private equity in 401Ks
US citizens:
call
on Congress
to stop private equity from taking over Americans'
401(k) retirement plans.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the
main switchboard is
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15 April 2026 (
Urgent: Tax the rich
US citizens:
call
on Congress
to make the ultra rich pay their fair share.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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15 April 2026 (
Urgent: War profiteering
US citizens:
call
on Congress
to investigate possible war profiteering.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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15 April 2026 (
PM of Hungary, and Putin
Orbán
privately told Putin
in October that he was at Putin's service.
15 April 2026 (
Orbán voted out of power
Hungary voted
authoritarian Orbán and his party
out of power
I have to wonder whether Peter Magyar, who only two years ago was a
member of Orbán's party, wishes to undo all the damage Orbán has done.
Has he said that he does?
15 April 2026 (
Iran's war-ending demands
Iran's conditions for
ending
the war
include big demands.
The lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions on Iran.
Continued Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz.
US military withdrawal from the Middle East.
An end to attacks on Iran and its allies.
The release of frozen Iranian assets.
A UN security council resolution making any deal binding.
An end to attacks, the lifting of sanctions, and the end of freezes on
assets, are natural concomitants of a permanent peace. However,
demanding Iranian control over the strait, and total US withdrawal,
are in effect demands for the US to surrender. I doubt any US
government would accept peace on such terms.
Sharing the control between Iran and Oman might make it more
acceptable as a demand.
15 April 2026 (
Response to Iran's demands
The disagreement about what the
supposedly
agreed cease-fire
with Iran requires has become sharp: Israel is
back to bombing Lebanon and Iran has closed the straights of Hormuz again.
15 April 2026 (
US threatens more bombing in Iran
The temporary cease fire negotiations failed, so the monster is raging
again and threatening attacks on Iran's vital
civilian
facilities
, including water plants. Threats like that are just
the thing to convince Iran's rulers they need nuclear weapons, like Mr
Kim.
He also said the
US
would blockade the Straits of Hormuz
, which basically repeats what
Iran has already done, except that it would block Iran's oil exports
as well as other countries' oil exports. Perhaps the two countries
could take a step towards reconciliation by establishing joint patrols
to make sure no oil exports travel through the straits ;-!
We would all be so much better off if
the wrecker
had not
canceled
the non-nuclear deal with Iran
that Obama negotiated.
15 April 2026 (
Israel bombing hospitals in Lebanon
*Israel got away with targeting [medical facilities] in Gaza. It's no
surprise it is doing it in
Lebanon too
.*
15 April 2026 (
Israel destroys villages in Lebanon
*Israel destroys
entire
villages
in Lebanon.*
15 April 2026 (
The Israel lobby in US
AIPAC is
disguising
its campaign funding
through organizations which in no way
indicate their connection with AIPAC, or that they choose candidates
based on their positions about Israel and Palestine.
As expected, the Democratic National Committee
rejected
a resolution to condemn the influence
of AIPAC, and of dark money
generally.
It is dominated by "moderate" (right-wing) Democrats, who serve the
power of rich donors. Some rich donors are Zionists, and some are
evangelical
Christians
and they support Israel's injustice towards Palestinians.
Meanwhile, almost all of them demand to keep most of America's wealth
flowing to the rich, by rejecting the New Deal policies that most
Americans support.
15 April 2026 (
Last month's US heatwave
* The continental US registered its
most
abnormally hot
month in 132 years of records.* And it will get
worse and worse over the coming decades.
15 April 2026 (
Oil pipelines as wanted
It may be possible to negotiate peace between the US and Iran,
but
the bully
still thinks he can get total victory through
willingness
to cause damage
The Straits of Hormuz tollbooth can be very lucrative for Iran (and
maybe Oman too) until someone builds a competing toll road. One of
the Gulf states (Qatar?) has a pipeline that bypasses the straits and
arrives at the open sea, but it can carry only a fraction of the total
rate of export. Part of the UAE's shore is outside the straits but it
isn't set up to do all its export through there.
After a few years of construction, Qatar and the UAE could arrange to
export their whole production, bypassing the straits by a wide margin.
15 April 2026 (
US Foreign Service-crippling effect
Rubio decimated the US Foreign Service (at the wrecker's orders),
firing (among others) the staff that had experience in organizing
evacuations
of American civilians
from countries where war breaks out.
As a result, once
the wrecker
launched war against Iran and made an
evacuation necessary, the US had no way to do it.
15 April 2026 (
US still bombing little boats
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights was looking at the
legality of the deadly US campaign of bombing boats in the Caribbean
and the Pacific Ocean, but the US is now
threatening
to retaliate
against it if it does that.
15 April 2026 (
Justice Dept opposing justice
The corrupter has perverted the Justice Department
to work systematically for the
opposite
of justice
. It is prosecuting Cassidy Hutchinson for testifying
to Congress about
the corrupter's
involvement in the Jan 6 attack on
the Capitol.
The idea is that prosecuting her for "lying to Congress" will lead
magats
to blindly assume her testimony was false.
15 April 2026 (
Russian psych-war agents
Russian psych-war agents are manipulating vulnerable Ukrainians to
make
and set off bombs
near where they live.
To me it is incomprehensible that these efforts can succeed, but
apparently they do.
15 April 2026 (
Ocean food stocks dwindling, UK
Too much fishing for
cod
and mackerel
, around Britain, is driving the population to
extinction.
Regulation of hunting and fishing is one of the classic examples of
how everyone can benefit in the long term by having a state that can
make and enforce limits. The sea tends naturally to be an unregulated
commons, because each fisher or boat crew may catch as much as it can
or will. If some catch at an unsustainable rate, eventually that
species will disappear and they will all be the worse for the loss.
It is possible for fishers to make a social agreement and keep it
without a state. Lobster fishers in Maine and Canada adopted the
practice of marking the pregnant lobsters they catch and throwing them
back; this averted a previous crisis. (See
The Secret Life of the
Lobster
by Trevor Corson.) But this sort of voluntary measure is
harder to establish than to imagine, especially when fishing involves
a big investment in a boat. A state can save all the fishers (and all
the people who eat fish) from the consequences of their own temptation.
That is, the state can do so if it has the moral strength to stand
firm against the the short-term thinking of the fishers who lobby to
be "allowed to catch more so they don't go broke next year."
They could not stay in business very long after wiping out the fish,
but they kid themselves that this can't really happen — until it
does. Cod near North America were almost wiped out, and after
protection was set up, they have remained at a low population for
decades despite the prohibition of catching them. Apparently,
once the population gets far too low, protection is not sufficient.
It needs to be done before the disaster.
The British government lacks that moral strength, and has lacked it
for a long time. I wonder what the E&W Green Party says about this.
15 April 2026 (
Emperor penguins in peril
Emperor penguins have been tagged an endangered species because global
heating effects have
killed
a large fraction
of them.
15 April 2026 (
Cuban doctors program
*US accused of pressuring
Latin
America to cut ties
with Cuban doctors program.*
15 April 2026 (
Rightwing dominance in Chile
Chile's right-wing extremist president has demonstrated support for
the dictator, Pinochet, and specifically for his
systematic
torture
of people who opposed him.
15 April 2026 (
Death studies of recent heatwaves
*Heatwaves are
already
breaching human limits
, with worse to come, study finds. Analysis
of six extreme heatwaves found that when temperature and humidity were
accounted for, all were potentially deadly for older people.*
I expect the situation to become much clearer in 10 or 20 years:
heatwaves then will simply be deadly to many unprotected people.
15 April 2026 (
Iran and Russia as allies
*US ignoring evidence
Russia
is helping Iran
because it trusts Putin, says Zelenskyy.*
It is natural that Putin would help Iran, because it
depends
on Iran's military support
as well.
It is natural also that
the wrecker
would look
for opportunities to support Putin, because that is
his
basic inclination
and has been for many years. His support for
Ukraine is reluctant and he keeps threatening to end it.
14 April 2026 (
Urgent: Censure bully for threatening reporters
US citizens: call on Congress to
censure
the bully
for threatening
reporters with treason charges.
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14 April 2026 (
Urgent: Restore PBS and NPR funding
US citizens: call on Congress to
restore
PBS and NPR funding
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14 April 2026 (
Urgent: Fully fund conservation programs
US citizens: call on the USDA to
fully
fund conservation programs
14 April 2026 (
Urgent: Don't cut funds for Americans' medicine
US citizens: call on Congress
not
to cut funds for Americans' medicine
for the sake of unjustified war.
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14 April 2026 (
Urgent: Reject budget packages that slash basic needs programs
US citizens: call on Tell Congress:
Reject
any budget package
that slashes
basic needs programs to give additional billions to deportation and war.
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14 April 2026 (
Urgent: Protect Jewish employees from federal persecution
US citizens: call on universities to stand with he University of
Pennsylvania to
protect
Jewish employees from federal persecution
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Magats
don't actually care about Jews, but they find "stopping
antisemitism" a convenient excuse to persecute people who speak up for
the rights of Palestinians. However, threatening Jews in the name of
"stopping antisemitism" is even more perverse.
14 April 2026 (
Urgent: Reject wrecker's military budget
US citizens: call on Congress to
reject
the wrecker's proposed $1.5 trillion military budget
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14 April 2026 (
Urgent: Fight Republican schemes to cut funds for medical care
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to
fight
any Republican scheme
to cut funds for medical care or boost funds for war with Iran.
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14 April 2026 (
Urgent: Ban junk fees for rental housing
US citizens: call on the Federal Trade Commission to
ban
junk fees
for
rental housing.
In my letter, I also said that would-be renters should not be required
to use any web site in the process of seeking, accepting, occupying
and paying for the rental. Those web sites are usually malicious,
since they run nonfree software in the user's browser. And they do
various sorts of snooping.
By raising this issue in your letter, you will support software freedom.
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14 April 2026 (
Urgent: Expand investigation of torture of prisoners
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to
expand
the investigation
of torture of prisoners to
all
deportation prisons.
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14 April 2026 (
Urgent: Pass Fossil-Free Insurers Act
US citizens: call on your state legislators to
pass
the Fossil-Free Insurers Act
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8 April 2026 (
Urgent: The Home Team Act
US citizens: call on Congress to
Support
and Pass the Home Team Act
, to hamper sports team owners from squeezing money out of cities.
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8 April 2026 (
Urgent: Impeach Russell Vought
US citizens: call on your officials in Congress to
impeach
Russell Vought
, head of Project 2025 and White House Budget Director.
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8 April 2026 (
Planned strict safety limits on exposure to formaldehyde
Chemical companies
worked
with trumpets to kill
planned strict safety
limits on exposure to formaldehyde.
It involved disregarding the data from experiments that showed the
danger, and choosing instead data from experiments chemical companies
had sponsored.
8 April 2026 (
Arrangement of assassinations of Iranian exiles
A former Iranian minister boasted in an interview about
arranging
several assassinations of Iranian exiles
8 April 2026 (
Wrecker cries "emergency" based on no real grounds
The wrecker
has a
pattern
of crying "emergency" based on no real grounds
Each time, it is based on a lie.
Right-wing members of the Supreme Court are unwilling to call a lie a lie.
8 April 2026 (
Inquiry of 1984 British police attack on striking miners
In 1984 British police rioted and attacked a crowd of striking miners,
then charged many of them falsely with crimes. Now, belatedly, the
government will
hold
a proper inquiry
8 April 2026 (
Bills prohibiting market consolidation in medicine
A series of bills in Congress would
prohibit
various aspects of market consolidation
in medicine.
It used to be the case that large investment funds needed a publicly
traded corporation to raise so much money. Publicly traded corporations
were regulated more strictly. But increasing concentration of wealth
made it feasible to raise such sums without a publicly traded corporation,
and thus to avoid the regulation, with
harmful
consequences
I believe that any investment vehicle over a certain size should
be required to be a publicly traded corporation.
8 April 2026 (
Scammers recruiting and scamming workers
Scammers recruit people to "work" writing and posting fake reviews of
whatever. The reviews are usually blocked by the sites where they are
posted, and the
real
goal is to scam the "workers"
8 April 2026 (
Violence used on protesters in Australia
Australia invited the president of Israel to visit, which naturally
inspired protests. The
thugs
seem to have had it in for the protesters,
and came up with
dubious
claims that violence was necessary
8 April 2026 (
Maduro's political prisoners released describe torture
Some of Maduro's political prisoners have been released and
describe
horrible torture
even more active and aggressive than the horrible
torture
in US deportation prisons
8 April 2026 (
FCC banned importation of foreign-made routers
The FCC has
banned
importation of foreign-made routers
, except for models
already approved.
This addresses a real problem, but the supposed solution addresses
only a part of it. When a router is made in a country other than the
US, it's possible that that country's government has imposed spyware
to snoop on Americans — or perhaps only on selected Americans.
However, other countries have the same reason to suspect routers made
in the US. The US government maintains systematic ways to snoop on everyone,
even
its own citizens
in defiance of its laws and constitution.
Perhaps other countries should ban US-made routers as well as
China-made routers.
But national governments are not the only entities that might make
a router manufacturer snoop on users. The company might do this for
its own purposes or to sell data.
To address this problem thoroughly, governments should insist that
routers' software be released under a free/libre license, subject it
to systematic analysis looking for security holes,
and
that the
router allow the user to install other software through a method
that involves pressing a physical button.
8 April 2026 (
Texas State University fired professor for talk about Israel and Palestine
Texas State University
fired
professor Idris Robinson
for giving a
talk, at a book fair unrelated to the university, about Israel and
Palestine. Now he is suing the university for violating its contract
with him.
Hate activists worked on line to identify the speaker and then push
for firing him, distorting his talk to into an excuse.
8 April 2026 (
Pretend Intelligence chatbots defeat safeguards
Increasing numbers of Pretend Intelligence chatbots are finding ways
to
defeat
safeguards
If you assume they are intelligent, you could see this as a sign of
cleverness. The reason that I say they are not intelligent is
that they often can't tell they have output pseudoinformation.
8 April 2026 (
Bully has tried to pervert US public health
The bully
has
tried
to pervert US public health
, but is having trouble
putting people into office who can stay in office.
Instead of the smoothly functioning disinformation agencies he sought,
he has got evident failure.
8 April 2026 (
Laws to tax the rich more
America is starting to enact laws to
tax
the rich more
This is a step in the right direction, and it can enable states to do
much to help the poorest. However, the small amounts of these tax
increases won't reduce the political power of billionaires significantly.
If we cut their income and wealth in half, that would start to do it.
8 April 2026 (
Two thirds arrested in Minnesota had no criminal records
*Two Thirds of People Arrested by [deportation
thugs
] in Minnesota
Surge
Had
No Criminal Records
[or pending charges], New Data Reveals.*
The
magat's
persistent false claim that the deportations they do
are protecting us from criminals demonstrate their contempt for the
truth, and that demonstrates that the real targets of their deportation
campaign are human rights and justice.
8 April 2026 (
Democrats who want to fight for something
* A New York congressional primary is exposing the gap between
Democrats who want to fight [the
saboteur in chief
] and Democrats
who
want to fight for something
.*
6 April 2026 (
Talk in Austin, Texas
Richard Stallman will
give
a talk
titled "Free/Libre Software and Freedom in the Digital
Society" at 4pm on April 15 at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.
6 April 2026 (
Urgent: Invest in America
US citizens: call on Congress to
invest
in America — not in war with Iran
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6 April 2026 (
Urgent: Protect vote-by-mail
US citizens: Urge the Postal Board of Governors to
protect
vote-by-mail
6 April 2026 (
Urgent: End bully's war in Iran
US citizens: call on Congress to
vote
to end the bully's war in Iran
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6 April 2026 (
Urgent: Stop Delta assisting deportation flights
Everyone: call on Delta Airlines to
Stop
Assisting Deportation Flights
6 April 2026 (
Urgent: Restore real-time postmarks
US citizens: call on Congress to make
the USPS
restore
real-time postmarks
, for the sake of mail-in voting.
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6 April 2026 (
Urgent: Reject budget package that funds deportation and war
US citizens: call on your representative and senators to
reject
any budget package
that slashes basic needs programs to fund deportation
and war.
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6 April 2026 (
Urgent: Block warlord's gift of bombs to Israel
US citizens: call on Congress to
block
the warlord's gift
of 20,000
bombs to Israel.
Sad to say, we must expect Israel would use them in unjust and
harmful ways.
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6 April 2026 (
Urgent: Support Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act
US citizens: Support Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Pramila
Jayapal's
Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act
6 April 2026 (
Urgent: Hold Pam Bondi accountable
US citizens: call on Congress to
hold
Pam Bondi accountable
for
refusing to testify.
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6 April 2026 (
Urgent: Call on state governors to act where USDA is failing
US citizens:
call
on state governors to act
, where the USDA is
failing, on climate and biodiversity crises.
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6 April 2026 (
Urgent: Stop computer-driven medical claim denials
US citizens: call on your state insurance commissioner to
stop
computer-driven medical claim denials
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4 April 2026 (
Urgent: Ban Insider Gambling
US citizens:
call
your members of Congress
to Ban Insider Gambling by Government
Officials. In my letter I asked for this ban to include all
government officials that are sometimes privy to policy decisions not
yet publicly announced.
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4 April 2026 (
Urgent: Fund public schools
US citizens:
call
on state officials
to fund public schools, rather than private or
church schools.
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4 April 2026 (
Urgent: Iran-US war troops
US citizens:
Ask
your congresscritter
and senators to block
the war-lover
from
sending over 20,000 bombs to Israel.
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4 April 2026 (
US destroyed a bridge, Iran
The US bombed and destroyed
Iran's
biggest bridge
Of course, the Iranian military will find this somewhat inconvenient,
but the bridge was civilian infrastructure and used mainly by
civilians. There was no military reason to attack it, and the ruining
of the bridge will do nothing to loosen the repression. All it will
do is cause general damage and suffering.
Iran has already threatened to retaliate against the Gulf states'
civilian infrastructure when it is attacked in this way.
4 April 2026 (
War-phosphorous removes forests, LBN
*Israel using white phosphorus
to
scorch earth
in south Lebanon, researcher says.*
4 April 2026 (
ISR soldiers attack cameraman, West Bank
Israeli soldiers attacked a
CNN
team
that was reporting on Palestinians being attacked in their
homes by fanatical right-wing Israelis. The soldiers did nothing to
protect the Palestinians, but they treated the CNN team as if it were
an enemy unit.
One soldier violently attacked a cameraman.
The army announced that this was totally against its rules and spirit
to attack and threaten non-Palestinian journalists, but there was
another attack on CNN journalists a week or two ago.
Meanwhile, in Lebanon,
Israel
killed a journalist team
working for a Hezbollah-owned TV station
by firing a missile at them.
Israel said this was justified because one of them had previously
reported the location of some Israeli soldiers. However, attacking
journalists doing journalism is a war crime regardless.
4 April 2026 (
Instant death penalty, ISR
Israel will use military courts to try Palestinian terrorists who kill
Israelis,
sentence
them to death
, make it especially easy to convict them, and rush
to execute them.
The law has been contrived to discriminate between Palestinian terrorists
and Israeli terrorists. However, some of these distortions of justice
should never be allowed, regardless of the crime or the circumstances.
*The Guardian view on
Israel’s
death penalty
: capital punishment is always wrong. This new law is
doubly so.*
4 April 2026 (
Coffee tree casualties, BRA
Unprecedented
floods
in Minas Gerais, caused by
global heating
, are damaging
coffee production and driving the price up. (Not to mention killing
human beings.)
4 April 2026 (
Krill nets in Southern Ocean
Humans are fishing more and more for krill, the
food
most whales eat
. This threatens to drive whale populations down,
just after the decrease in whale hunting enabled them to recover.
I wonder what people do with krill caught by these large boats.
I also wonder whether ocean acidification, expected to wipe out
crustaceans along with coral, would indirectly wipe out whales too.
4 April 2026 (
SAU conundrum with Iran war policy
Crown Prince Bone Saw, effective ruler of
Salafi Arabia
, reportedly
urged
the wrecker
to
bomb
Iran
to smithereens.
The name refers to how his henchmen chopped up the body of exiled
dissident reporter Jamal Khashoggi after killing him in the Salafi
Arabian embassy to Turkey. The prince is a murderous Islamist
fanatic, like the rulers of Iran, and there is nothing to choose
between them -- or between them and
the wrecker
4 April 2026 (
Pam Bondi, fired!
The bully
fired Bondi
as
attorney general
. Good
riddance
, but will her replacement be even worse?
Robert Reich says
he fired her for not succeeding
in all the harm he
asked her to do.
4 April 2026 (
Volunteer-surveillance initiative, CA
Milpitas, California, will
distribute
video cameras to residents
to enable them to upload videos to the
cops when they choose. They will be gratis, but not free in the sense
of respecting freedom.
It proper that uploading will nominally be a decision for the camera
owner, rather than for the cops. But unless the software installed in
the camera is free/libre, the owners and the public can't be sure that
the camera's
manufacturer
isn't snooping for other reasons of its
own, such as
tracking
everyone by facial recognition
4 April 2026 (
Uprooting the US Forest Service
The wrecker
is planning to uproot the US Forest Service by moving it
to a different city and
closing
its regional offices
This move, given the basic favoritism towards big business, could enable
logging companies to get away with just about anything. I suppose that is
its motive.
If the agency were already centralized, moving its center to the
Rockies could indeed bring that center closer to the majority of the
forests. But closing the regional offices will have the opposite
effect, just about all over the country.
3 April 2026 (
Urgent: Voting by mail
US citizens: call on Congress to
protect
the USPS
for November's election.
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3 April 2026 (
New pun
New pun:
Show us warrants
2 April 2026 (
The loser's Iran "excursion" as fiasco
*[
The bully
]'s Iran war is
holding
him hostage
.*
2 April 2026 (
Iran rockets vs US interceptors
The best estimate is that
Iran
still has roughly 1/3
of its missile stocks and 1/3 of its drone
stocks. So much for
the bullshitter's
bombastic claim to have destroyed nearly all of them.
I think serious people already knew that such claims coming from him
were not to be taken seriously.
1 April 2026 (
Solidarity with victims of hate
Solidarity
with the victims
of hate
extends
to both Arabs and Jews
1 April 2026 (
Earth being pushed beyond its limits
*Earth being "pushed beyond its limits" as
energy
imbalance reaches record high
.*
1 April 2026 (
Hong Kong thugs demand people hand over their passwords
Hong Kong has given
thugs
the power to
demand
people hand over their passwords
The UK has a similar repressive law, which it used on
David Miranda
when he carried a copy of the Snowden leaks to Glenn Greenwald.
It was a terrible mistake for him to carry with him the password to
decrypt that data, and likewise a terrible mistake to pass through the
UK on his way to Brazil. Someone involved with the Snowden leaks
should have told him to avoid those risky choices.
1 April 2026 (
Pentagon response to courts on restrictions on journalists
The henchman in charge of the Pentagon responded to the court ruling
that its biased restrictions on journalists are unconstitutional
by
promulgating
a modified set of restrictions
1 April 2026 (
Canadian woman married to US citizen and her daughter jailed
Deportation
thugs
have
jailed
a Canadian woman married to a US citizen
and
their daughter
She has papers authorizing her to be in the US, but not currently in
her possession because she submitted them to another US agency for
some sort of bureaucratic step. She warns all Canadians in the US
that they are in danger, especially while their papers are in
"processing".
1 April 2026 (
Toxic smoke from bombed oil processing plants
Israel bombed oil processing plants near Tehran. They released toxic smoke
which is
causing
respiratory damage to people in Tehran
*The Guardian spoke to residents who described having headaches,
eye and skin irritation and difficulty breathing. Experts have warned
those symptoms could be just the beginning, with long-term risks of
cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, DNA damage and cancer.*
This makes two reasons why that bombing is particularly culpable: for
grave harm to a substantial fraction of Tehran's population of ten
million, and for escalating the war to include attacks on energy
infrastructure. Iran threatened to retaliate against the energy
infrastructure of the Gulf oil states if Israel (or the US) continues
attacking Iran's oil infrastructure.
1 April 2026 (
Argentina politically divided
Argentina is
politically
divided
between those who wish to remember
and punish the crimes of the murderous military dictatorship in the
70s and twisted right-wingers who celebrate them.
The main political position of the twisted right-wingers is to promote
the usual right-wing positions, allowing the privileged groups to
exploit and castigate the
disprivileged groups
. Just as in the US,
the right-wing in Argentina have found that celebrating the
dictatorship is a way to appear powerful and win the support of people
who want to feel powerful.
1 April 2026 (
US sanctions placed on UN official Francesca Albanese
The
US
sanctions arbitrarily placed on UN official Francesca Albanese
threaten anyone with US connections who does any sort of business or
cooperation with her with punishment, even without a trial.
This includes US academics who investigate the patterns of Israel's
war crimes in Palestine, as well as other students and faculty. Some
of them support the lawsuit that aims to declare such sanctions
unconstitutional.
1 April 2026 (
Responding to Hegseth's Christian hatred
Democratic candidate Talarico. who is Christian,
responds
to Hegseth's Christian hatred with Christian love
I am impressed favorably with Talarico's tolerance, and I am sure he
is a better person and better citizen than any Republican candidate.
However, while this reflects well on him, it is not evidence that any
gods exist.
1 April 2026 (
iMonsters in UK demanding proof of age
iMonsters in the UK are now
demanding
users "prove their age"
by identifying themselves.
Age verification has become a universal excuse to demand that all users
identify themselves, an injustice to every user of whatever age.
1 April 2026 (
Rocky Mountain meadow transformed to dry patch of sagebrush
2°C of heating
transformed
a Rocky Mountain meadow
with grass and
wildflowers into a dry patch of sagebrush.
Global heating
isn't just that most places are somewhat hotter.
They can become very different.
1 April 2026 (
US left with no one authorized to authorize vaccines
The court's rejection of RFK jr's vaccine-wrecker panel leaves the US
with
no
one authorized to authorize vaccines
1 April 2026 (
Activists delivering food to immigrant families
Activists in Memphis are
delivering
food and other necessities
to immigrant families who don't dare leave the house.
1 April 2026 (
Old weapons dumped on sea bottom
Old weapons dumped on the sea bottom become a
for large amounts of wildlife
1 April 2026 (
Four weeks in to "four day" war
Four
weeks into a war that was going to take four days
Washington is further away from a diplomatic agreement with Iran than
it was in May 2025.
Not only has the war failed to persuade Iran to agree to dismantle its
nuclear program in the comprehensive and irreversible way the US
demanded, Washington is now having to negotiate to reopen the strait
of Hormuz.*
The idiotic attack on Iran
could
doom Ukraine
1 April 2026 (
Urgent: Insider trading
US citizens: call on Congress to investigate insider trading on
prediction
markets
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1 April 2026 (
Urgent: Impeach Brendan Carr
US citizens: call on Congress to impeach
FCC
Chair
Brendan Carr now
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Urgent: Protect whistleblowers
US citizens:
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on Congress
to protect whistleblowers from
the persecutor's
attacks.
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Urgent: Protect nonprofits
US citizens:
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of nonprofit organizations that criticize injustice.
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Urgent: Childrens' rights
US citizens: call on your officials in Congress to
protect immigrant
children's right to education in public schools.
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1 April 2026 (
US-Embassies as Musk/military diplomats
*US directs American embassies to wage
campaign
against foreign "hostility"
– with Musk's help.*
If you know anything about
his
online dis-service
ex-Twitter
, and
its chatbot, Crock
, you understand that this is a campaign to crush
the idea of truth.
The
bullshitter
wants a battle between his bullshit and Putin's
bullshit and fanatical Muslim bullshit — and whichever one wins,
truth loses.
1 April 2026 (
Endangered Species Act revoked, Gulf MEX
The
magats
are planning to cancel endangered species protection
for various endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico,
as a gesture to show that they will let nothing stop them from
drilling
more
fossil fuel wells there.
The current crisis will be long over by the time those new wells
are finished, but they are concerned with fooling the public,
not with real needs.
1 April 2026 (
Spain denies US war-machine accomodation
Spain has denied its
territory
and airspace
to the US for purposes of war with Iran.
1 April 2026 (
US soldiers positioning to invade Iran
The US would
find
it hard
to make the Strait of Hormuz safe for oil tankers by
force. It could perhaps capture Kharg Island, but that would not
protect oil tankers, and occupying the island would not make it easy
to capture much oil.
Basically, these threats seem to be bluster.
The bully's
pattern of bluster followed by pulling back has
backfired
completely
against Iran.
While it gives me a wry pleasure to see him thwarted, seeing Iran's
murderous religious fanatics defeat America's murderous religious
fanatics in foreign relations is no pleasure. That will lead to great
suffering for Iranians, and no alleviation for Americans.
1 April 2026 (
EU nations: political-legal spectrum
*Five EU governments found to "consistently"
dismantle
rule of law.*
They are Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia.
1 April 2026 (
New pun
New pun:
"Ifs, ands or buts"
After my cataract operations, they gave me a strict rule, "no ifs,
ands or buts." But I used those words anyway, and I got
conjunctivitis.
31 March 2026 (
Electric power status, Europe
*Europe has made "staggering progress" in producing clean power but
neglected
efforts
to phase out fuel-burning machines, the head of an
electrification industry group said.*
30 March 2026 (
(Satire) Sandwiched
(satire)
*Chick-Fil-A Announces
Two Halves Of Buns Must Be Married
Before Becoming Sandwich.*
30 March 2026 (
Windfarmer persecuter hits again
The bully
has paid a billion dollars of
US
funds to persuade TotalEnergies
to drop two offshore wind power
projects near the US East Coast.
He will go to any length to keep the US and the world dangerously dependent
on the fossil fuel that threatens to destroy civilization.
I once speculated, facetiously, that this is a secret plan by hidden
conquerors
from another planet
who are trying to make Earth hot enough for
them to live on.
30 March 2026 (
Polluting with mine tailings
Mines usually put
toxic
wastes, known as "tailings"
, behind a dam.
Global heating's
torrential rains are breaking these dams and allowing the toxic wastes
to reach rivers, lakes and farm fields, where they kill almost
everything.
30 March 2026 (
Social networking defrauding seniors
Banning minors from using antisocial networks isn't enough. We
seniors
need to be banned
too, for our own protection, lest we fall prey
to romance fraud or companionship fraud.
30 March 2026 (
Funding only the TSA part of the DHS
The whole US Senate wants to resume funding
for
the TSA
. Republicans demand to restore funding for the whole
Department of Hatred and Sadism in order to fund the
TSA
. Democrats
won't fund the deportation
thugs
without explicitly requiring them to
respect the human rights they have been trampling. They plan to
propose a bill to fund the
TSA
alone.
If Republicans reject that, it will demonstrate that they are making
air passengers suffer inconvenience as a ploy to continue making
immigrants, and some US citizens among them, suffer terribly.
30 March 2026 (
War on Iran's oil-exporting
The wrecker
threatened to attack Kharg Island, Iran's
main
oil export
terminal.
Iran has already threatened to respond by attacking Persian Gulf
countries' oil export terminals. This could lead to an oil crisis
that would last for years.
I wonder whether
the wrecker
aims to bully them with the threat of
such a crisis. That is a typical pattern of his. However, I can't
envision what concession he might hope to get from them in this
instance. I wonder whether anyone else has an idea.
If the goal is to reduce Iran's oil exports, the rational way to do
that is by seizing tankers once they exit the Persian Gulf (or
stopping empty tankers from entering it and heading for Kharg Island).
They would have no way to resist, so it could be done without actual
violence. The US could seize and sell the oil, too. With a wiser
leader than
the wrecker
it could offer to return the ships, and pay
Iran for the oil, when peace is agreed.
But I don't think
the wrecker
would see such an outcome as a
sufficient triumph.
30 March 2026 (
Southern Lebanon hospitals targeted, ISR
Israel
deliberately targeting
medical facilities in south Lebanon, say
health workers.
Medics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes
in campaign to make the south uninhabitable.*
30 March 2026 (
Vietnam war escalation as Nixonian
Nixon sabotaged Johnson's peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War,
so as to deny Johnson a success that could have enabled Hubert Humphry
to win the
1968
presidential election
30 March 2026 (
Gov- and industry-tracking ongoing
The FBI can track most Americans using the personal data data bases
that
it
regularly buys
"OpenAI", which we could call "OpenSPY", buys it too. Its contract
with the US government supposedly impedes snooping on Americans,
but the wording is weak and may not do any good.
The collection of these data bases is a threat to the freedom
of Americans generally, not merely to a few of them.
28 March 2026 (
ICE to TSA positions
The bully
is
talking about stationing deportation
thugs
in airports to substitute
for
TSA
agents
watching
exits
from the secure area (to ensure no one enters through them).
If that's all they do, I suppose it is safer to have them there doing
that, than to have them walking around your town, jailing
unauthorized
immigrants
authorized visitors
authorized permanent residents, and sometimes
US
citizens
too. And
shooting
protesters
But I have to wonder: if they are willing to stretch
the law, can't they find excuses to harass people and jail people while
nominally watching an airport security exit? I'd expect
the bully
has been
looking for ways they can harass people while working there.
27 March 2026 (
How freshwater fish migrations are doing
*Freshwater fish populations worldwide have
crashed
by about 81%
since 1970.*
27 March 2026 (
Satire: Airstrikes on US gas stations
(satire) *[
The bully
Threatens
Airstrikes On U.S. Gas Stations.*
27 March 2026 (
New coal seam exploitation, AUS
*Australia approves new coal seam gas expansion.* Is that really
"Like lighting a cigarette while
trying
to quit
"?
In my view, that comparison is not quite valid. Rather, extending the
gas mines is like taping extender segments onto the mouth end of the
cigarette, so that it never burns out.
27 March 2026 (
Renaming AI to SALAMI
*Let's forget
the
term AI
. Let's call them Systematic Approaches to Learning
Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI).*
27 March 2026 (
Putinesque Iran to target water, elec.
*Iran says it will "irreversibly destroy"
Middle
East infrastructure
if US attacks energy sites.*
It is a war crime for either side to destroy civilian energy
infrastructure, and this would be a disastrous one. But the bigger
evil would be that of whichever country starts doing this. The
wrecker says he plans to do so.
27 March 2026 (
Israel still hitting West Bank territory
*Israeli settlers have carried out a series of attacks across the
occupied West Bank, setting homes and vehicles on fire and
wounding several Palestinians in what witnesses described as
coordinated
raids on communities
.*
The fanatical and violent "settlers" have been carrying out terrorist attacks
on Palestinians for
more
than a decade
, with police and border patrol watching passively,
escalating step by step as they shift the government's stance.
26 March 2026 (
Ignorance, misunderstanding and obfuscation ended US-Iran nuclear talks
*How ignorance, misunderstanding and obfuscation
ended
[US-] Iran nuclear talks
.*
They had made substantial progress before they were abruptly ended
when the US and Israel started to attack instead.
*Oman
claims
Israel pushed US into Iran war
when deal [with Iran] was
possible.*
26 March 2026 (
WATCA bill
The WATCA bill, which is one way of taxing the rich more, will provide
only
a small benefit for non-rich Americans
That's because its main method of helping them is by reducing their
income tax, and poor people's income tax is already low.
In and of itself, WATCA is better than nothing, but we should focus on
supporting
other
bills
that would
tax
the rich more
than that in order
to help the non-rich more than that.
26 March 2026 (
The imperialist says Israel attacked Iran gas wells without telling him
The imperialist says Israel attacked Iran's gas wells without telling
him, and he has
ordered
Israel not to attack them again
Whether or not he is telling the truth about what happened, it is at
least somewhat of a relief that he seems to realize how much any
further such attacks would backfire.
26 March 2026 (
Heavy-handed actions accelerating US's decline
Owen Jones: *[
the Bully
thinks brute force will arrest the US's
decline. His heavy-handed actions in Iran are
only
accelerating it
.*
26 March 2026 (
Gulf of Hormuz closure sending enormus profits to rich people
The closure of the Gulf of Hormuz is sending
enormous
windfall profits
to a few rich people.
There should be a windfall profits tax in place all the time for the
sake of future fossil fuel price spikes, so that governments won't
need to act fast.
26 March 2026 (
Parents deported to Honduras had no chance to arrange childcare for their children
* In interviews with dozens of parents deported to Honduras, as well as
physicians and psychologists, government officials and staff at
reception centers for deportees, researchers found that many
parents were deported quickly after they were [jailed],
without
a chance to arrange for the care
of their children.*
We understand the cause of this: deportation
thugs
are acting out hatred
towards immigrants in general, and are eager for the chance to be cruel.
26 March 2026 (
Christian Zionists want to help Israel conquer Middle East
Christian Zionists want to
help
Israel conquer
much of the Middle
East, believing that then sacrifices will trigger biblical prophecies
which will result in forcing Jews to convert to Christianity or else
be damned.
It is not easy to get along with fanatics like that. It is unlikely
that the prophecies would actually come true, but there is no telling
what might they do if the situation arises and the prophecies do not
come true.
26 March 2026 (
Amazon Alexa to better understand speach uttered in a relexed manner
A new upgrade of Amazon Alexa will be
better
able to understand speech uttered in a relaxed, usual manner
The better to snoop on you with, my dear.
26 March 2026 (
US courts generally rejecting equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism
US courts are
generally
rejecting attempts
to equate criticism of
Israel or support for Palestinians' rights with antisemitism.
26 March 2026 (
New York City cops pressed charges against snowball fight participants
New York City cops have
pressed
charges
against some of the
participants in a snowball fight which they entered, apparantly
as an excuse to find fault with Mayor Mamdani.
26 March 2026 (
Bondi treated Congress with contempt
Bondi
treated
Congress with contempt
by refusing to take an oath
for her testimony.
At least she showed a minuscule level of respect for the oath to tell
the truth — by refusing to take the oath and then lie anyway. That is
a start, at least. Perhaps in the future she can be convinced to show
truthfulness a little more respect, and then a little more, and so on.
26 March 2026 (
Connection focused platforms less harmfull than algorithm-driven apps
* World Happiness Report finds platforms focused on connection
less
harmful than algorithm-driven apps
.*
For example, Instagram was more damaging to mental health than WhatsApp.
Both of the client programs are nonfree software, thus damaging to users'
freedom.
26 March 2026 (
Canadian and daughter are in deportation prison
The deportation
thugs
are once again working unpredictable cruelty.
A Canadian who married an American, and her daughter, are in a deportation
prison,
being
pressured to "self-deport"
The
thugs
have given no explanation for jailing them despite their
valid visas.
26 March 2026 (
Pentagon ordered to cease political censorship policy
*A judge ordered the Pentagon to
cease
its new political censorship policy
for press coverage.*
26 March 2026 (
US banks a step closer to weaker regulation
The wrecker
has
granted
the biggest US banks a step towards weaker regulation
Banks can cause a disastrous crash if they are not careful in
how
much and how readily they lend
. That's what caused the 2008 financial
crisis.
In Europe, the result was disaster for countries that needed deficit
spending to get out of the recession but were banned by the
Euro
zone rules
from doing that: Spain, Italy and especially Greece.
But the crisis was profitable for the biggest banks, since
governments were compelled to bail them out rather than allow them to
actually fail.
Naturally, the biggest banks wanted to be allowed to do this again.
And naturally
the wrecker
gave it to them.
26 March 2026 (
India banned The Voice of Hind Rajab
India
banned
The Voice of Hind Rajab to placate Israel
26 March 2026 (
Russia shutting off mobile phone networks
In the name of "security", Russia is
shutting
off mobile phone networks
but in an unpredictable way which causes trouble for many activities,
some of which Putin has no evident motive to shut down.
Ironically, it means people have to live the way I choose to live. It
is a little inconvenient and much less vulnerable to surveillance.
26 March 2026 (
Survivor from boat US military attacked
Finally,
there
is a survivor
from one of the boats that the US military
attacked and sunk.
Maybe the survivor will testify about what the people on the boat were doing.
26 March 2026 (
Woman arrested for "murder" for taking abortion pills
A woman in Georgia has been
arrested
for "murder" for taking abortion pills
26 March 2026 (
Smokeless fuels produce ultrafine particles
Burning "smokeless" fuels at home produces produce less particulate
pollution of the usual size, but
instead
produces lots of ultrafine particles
The usual particulate pollution damages people's health. Does the
small particulate pollution do likewise?
26 March 2026 (
Deportation-protests as terror, US
Why
We Have to Fight
Back Against [deportation] Protesters' Terror
Convictions.*
26 March 2026 (
Democracy metrics in steep backslide, US
According
to the V-Dem Institute
, democracy is in rapid decline globally,
and the US is leading the decline.
World-wide, only 18 countries are observed to be democratizing. The
article does not give a comparable count of countries that are autocratizing,
but they are 40% of the world's population.
26 March 2026 (
Heatwave covering CA, NV
Temperatures in California, Nevada and Arizona are
22-25
°F above normal
. Temperatures are about to reach as much as
108°F. The heat will put some people's health in danger, and it's
only the very beginning of spring.
If part of July is 22-25 °F above normal, that will kill thousands, or
perhaps tens of thousands.
This is
global heating
25 March 2026 (
Urgent: Speaking engagements, Europe
I expect to have a trip to Europe in May - June.
The start and end dates remain to be decided.
If you would like to invite me to speak during that trip, please write
to me now so we can start discussing it. Write to `-invitation'
following my three-letter username.
25 March 2026 (
Kennedy Center closing down for two years
The board of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, newly altered by the
saboteur in chief
voted
to close down for two years of "renovations"
I can imagine what the building will look like after that remodeling:
every 20 feet along any wall there will be a molding depicting his face.
It will be necessary to spend more money to undo that.
25 March 2026 (
Greatly reduced homicides in Oakland, CA
How Oakland, California,
greatly
reduced homicides
25 March 2026 (
"Emergency Order" to restart leaky oil pipeline
California law shut down a leaky, polluting pipeline under the Pacific
Ocean from Santa Barbara, after it spilled a lot of oil on a beach.
so the oil spiller in chief gave the pipeline's owner, as a favor, an
"emergency
order" to restart it immediately
California and the federal government continue legal action over whether the
pipeline will be allowed to operate. What is clear is that having one more
oil pipeline operating is not overall a benefit for the world.
25 March 2026 (
Democratic candidates backed by AIPAC
Democratic candidates that are backed by AIPAC are now
reluctant
to admit that
25 March 2026 (
Google dis-service offering online medical advice deactivated
Google has
deactivated
an online dis-service
that until recently offered
medical advice based on applying Pretend Intelligence to what users
with no medical training said.
This may have been the wise course, since
Pretend
Intelligence
does
not actually understand the text it inputs or outputs.
25 March 2026 (
Criticism of streaming platforms in mainstream press
In the mainstream press, even criticism of streaming platforms
takes
for granted that they are entitled to the power to control what you can do with a recording
and thus reinforces that assumption. Here's
an example.
Once you recognize that that power is based on
Digital
Restrictions Management
which means using nonfree software to control what users
can and can't do, you can resist that implicit argument in favor of
subjugating you.
25 March 2026 (
Many infants start practicing deception before they can talk
Many infants
start
practicing deception before they can talk
, at an
age of less than one year.
25 March 2026 (
Eight protesters in Texas convicted
Eight protesters in Texas, allegedly supporting of the alleged
organization "Antifa", were
convicted
of "material support for terrorism"
In their trial, prosecutors cited the fact that some of them wore
black clothing, used Signal, and/or carried guns.
Right-wingers also carry guns at protest, and use Signal, but somehow
do not get prosecuted for that.
20 and 2021 (
higher than accounted for
Scientists claim that Covid deaths in the US in 2020 and 2021 were
around
18% more than the ones counted as such
, and also
which demographics they mostly belonged to.
25 March 2026 (
US Department of Health ignored administration of Title X
The US Department of Health
quietly
ignored the administration of Title X
which provides birth control and sex-specific medical treatment for
females, and the system may soon collapse.
I have a suspicion that this mysterious failure was engineered by
right-wing extremist Christians who seek to force females to have
babies.
25 March 2026 (
Wrecker's new nominee to head of Department of Hatred and Sadism
The wrecker's
new nominee to head the Department of Hatred and Sadism
has a pattern of speaking so as to give the
false
impression that he has military experience
This deception marks him as untrustworthy, but if he were honest about
his lack of military experience, that might not be crucial. The DHS
does not manage soldiers, after all.
I expect that anyone nominated by
the wrecker
would regard it as per
mission to be cruel and sadistic, and thus should not be confirmed,
but that is a separate issue.
25 March 2026 (
Burning Tesla "cybertrucks" locked passengers inside
Tesla "cybertrucks" have locked passengers inside and burned so hot
they've
disintegrated
drivers' bones
States should designate vehicles which can lock passengers in
as unsafe and illegal to drive on a road.
25 March 2026 (
Populations of insect-eating birds in EU
Just 8 years after the EU banned neonicotinoid pesticides, the populations
of insect-eating birds are
starting
to recover
Because these pesticides are persistent, full recovery will take a long time.
I hope other human-caused effects, such as
global heating
, will not swamp it.
25 March 2026 (
British "Reform" party trying to bribe voters
The British right-wing extremist "Reform" Party is
trying
to bribe voters
by entering them in a lottery, where winning may depend on which party
you voted for, and stating which one you will vote for next time.
25 March 2026 (
Zelenskyy offers Europe help in countering drone attacks
Zelenskyy offers Europe Ukraine's
help
in countering drone attacks
whether from Russia, from Iran, or from criminal gangs.
25 March 2026 (
New link
Just added a
new link
to
a podcast
about political and moral issues in computing.
25 March 2026 (
Urgent: Energy market
US citizens:
call
on Congress
to investigate energy market manipulation.
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24 March 2026 (
Urgent: No funding for Iran war
US citizens:
call
on Congress
to reject the $200 billion funding request for the war
with Iran.
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24 March 2026 (
Urgent: Unwanted pro-war propaganda
US citizens:
call
on Congress
to investigate FCC Chairman Carr's threats to silence
news media that report on the Iran war without slanting it to favor
the war-starter.
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24 March 2026 (
Urgent: Families, child care unfunded
US citizens:
call
on your federal legislators
to stop
the bully's
attack on child
care and families.
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24 March 2026 (
Urgent: No Kings
On March 28, or a date close to that, join one of the
No Kings protests
23 March 2026 (
Alzheimer's drug that occasionally kills patients
A drug that is used to slow Alzheimer's disease occasionally kills
patients. This article reports on an
alleged
conspiracy
to
get the drug wrongfully approved, and threats against someone
who wrote about deaths that it caused.
Corruption
of
the medical system by Big Pharma is rife
, and it does a lot of harm.
Threats of violence against journalists are part of the evil of fascism.
But this drug raises an deeper question. Can a treatment for
Alzheimer's disease be beneficial for patients, and thus morally
deserve approval, despite killing a small fraction of the patients who
take it?
Alzheimer's disease turns its victims slowly into zombies. Although
the patient's body continues to live, the person who became a zombie
is dead. This begs the question, if a certain drug gives a large
fraction of patients several more years of non-zombie life, but kills
a small fraction of them, does that make it a failure? If on the
average it extends patients' non-zombie life, does that make it a bet
worth making, one that drug regulations should allow people to make?
This question is important to me personally because I can envision
being in that situation in a few years.
23 March 2026 (
Fabrication by undercover infiltrator cop
One of Britain's undercover infiltrator cops seems to have
fabricated
an accusation
that an animal rights activist wanted to get a gun and
attack someone with it.
Fortunately, his handlers distrusted the accusation.
I speculate that a cop whose job includes lying as part of false
friendship will tend to normalize lying to anyone else.
23 March 2026 (
Falsely identified by facial recognition system
A facial recognition system
falsely
identified a suspect
as Angela Lipps,
and she was jailed for 6 months; then, when she was brought to a courtroom
in another state, the court noticed that the criminal could not be her.
Meanwhile, she had lost her home and her car.
False identifications will always occur. Although this one used
digital face matching, recognition by human witnesses makes mistakes
too. But I think that the main mistake here was to wait 6 months
before noticing her alibi and without granting her bail.
23 March 2026 (
Charges dropped against soldiers accused of raping prisoner
The Israeli army has
dropped
charges against soldiers
accused of
raping a Palestinian prisoner.
The grounds given for dropping the charges are that (1) the prisoner
had been released to Gaza and (2) *the conduct of senior officials had
affected the chance of holding a fair trial.* To me, this says that
(1) they are exaggerating to create an excuse and (2) high officials
created an excuse and have suffered no punishment for it.
23 March 2026 (
Bayer's CEO met with US regulators
*Top US regulators
met
with Bill Anderson, Bayer's CEO
, last year to
discuss "litigation" issues – including "supreme court action" over
its glyphosate weed killer – just months before henchmen
administration took a series of steps to boost Bayer's case at the
high court, internal government records show.*
This sounds like a betrayal of the US — analogous to treason except
that it occurred in a civil dispute rather than in a war.
23 March 2026 (
Cops use license plate cameras to help deportation thugs
Local cops of some US towns
regularly
search license plate cameras
to help the deportation
thugs
to track immigrants.
More
about this.
23 March 2026 (
Israel blockade traps U.S. doctors
*Israel's Deadly Blockade
Traps
7 U.S. Doctors in Gaza
.*
23 March 2026 (
Deportation thugs testified in court
In a class-action lawsuit against the deportation
thugs
, some of them
testified
about their arrest quotas
, and the digital tools whose vague
output often leads them to arrest people who are present in the US
lawfully.
Violent practices, such as breaking car windows with only a hint of an
excuse, seem to be systematic. They figure they will nearly always
get away with it, and for typical victims (whether unauthorized
immigrants or authorized immigrants or citizens), the expense of
repair will create hardship. Releasing a person hundreds of miles
away from home can make it very difficult to get home.
The officials in charge of deportation agencies have the duty to stop
these practices, but it is clear that they are not really trying.
23 March 2026 (
Magat policies set to increase lung disease
*[Various different
magat
policies
set
to increase rates of lung disease and death
, study finds.*
23 March 2026 (
Limits on no-knock warrants being cancelled by magats
Breonna Taylor was shot dead by a
thugs
who had burst into her home
without warning, and then fired wildly. Americans demanded and got
policies to limit no-knock warrants. But now
magats
are
canceling
the limits
Why do this? I don't think it will make any legitimate activities of cops
significantly more effective.
I speculate that
magats
expect that killing people that they can
demonize (for instance, blacks) will win them increased support from
their base.
23 March 2026 (
Lies about abandoning renewables
George Monbiot: *Rightwing politicians, Tufton Street
junktanks and the billionaire press tell us our energy security will be
enhanced and our bills will fall if we abandon net zero policies, ditch
renewables and reinvest in North Sea gas. These claims are not just a
little bit wrong. They are the
exact
opposite of the truth
.*
23 March 2026 (
Wearing all black at protests
Wearing
All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism
Prosecutors Tell Jury.*
More precisely, they claimed that wearing all black is a sign of support
for the nonexistent US organization, "Antifa".
23 March 2026 (
Spycops inquiry found undercover thugs snooping
The Spycops inquiry in the UK found that undercover London
thugs
snooped
on the relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes
, because they
had denounced
thugs'
murder of him.
It is impossible not to suspect that they did this because they wanted
to prevent his relatives from making the
thug
department look bad by
teaching people about the killing by exposing its cover-up.
23 March 2026 (
Threats to shut down broadcasters
A henchman
threatens
to shut down broadcasters
for saying things
that
the bullshitter
chooses to call "hoaxes".
This is a threat of arbitrary censorship, and I'm sure the TV news
broadcasters understand it as such. Many have already bent the knee
to
the bullshitter
they have nothing to worry about. But the rest
will now face another kind of threat.
23 March 2026 (
Age-checking in Australia pushing adults away from sites
Age-checking in Australia is pushing adult internauts away from the
sites that are banned for minors,
because
they fear the tracking
that is a side effect of the age-checking systems.
23 March 2026 (
Bullshit generators encouraging delusions in patients
A study observed bullshit generators
encouraging
delusions
in some
patients.
23 March 2026 (
US and Israel lying, according to University of Tehran student
"They
[the US and Israel] are also lying! Like the regime has been lying to us,"
said Amir, a student at the University of Tehran. "You
are all worse than each other."*
It appears to Iranians that Israel and the US are attacking
infrastructure rather that the regime's SS-equivalent, trying to
weaken Iran for the long term rather than free Iran.
It doesn't surprise me that they were only trying to use the Iranians
who have opposed the Iranian tyranny. Neither Netanyahu nor the
bullshitter cares about human rights, democracy, or well being, not
those of ordinary people in any country, and neither one hesitates to
lie.
Even so, with even a lick of sense they would have tried carefully to
protect those Iranians and keep them on side. It would not have cost
much.
23 March 2026 (
Ultrawealthy put the wrecker in power
Paul Krugman: *The ultrawealthy put
the wrecker
in power but
other
people will pay the price
.*
23 March 2026 (
Seventeen Impeachable offenses by Trump and counting
Ralph Nader:
Seventeen
Impeachable Offenses by Trump and Counting
He urges Americans to send this list to their congresscritters and
senators.
23 March 2026 (
ChatGPT eroding critical thinking skills
ChatGPT
May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills
, According to a New
MIT Study.*
Any kind of skill fades if a person stops practicing it.
23 March 2026 (
Upcoming talk in Cesena, Italy
Richard Stallman will
speak
on March 26 in Cesena, Italy
at the Engineering and Architecture Campus of Cesena of the University of Bologna. Pillars of Tech
Free/Libero Software And Freedom in the Digital Society The talk is
in English from 15:30 to 17:30 in Aula Magna (Room 4.3), Via dell'Università
50, Cesena. We suggest you bring cash.
22 March 2026 (
Urgent: Block deployment of U.S. ground troops in Iran
US citizens: phone your congresscritter
and call on per to support an Emergency War Powers Resolution to
block the deployment of U.S. ground troops in Iran — and
vote NO on any bill for conscription.
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.
22 March 2026 (
Urgent: Do not let polluters off the hook
US citizens: call on Congress
not
to let polluters off the hook
for climate damage.
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.
22 March 2026 (
Urgent: Refuse to fund bully's war
US citizens: call on Democrats in Congress to
refuse
to fund
the
bully's illegal war.
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.
22 March 2026 (
Urgent: Block bully's machine-learning-powered surveillance
US citizens: call on Congress to block
the bully's
machine-learning-powered
warrantless surveillance of Americans
We must support this by blocking the collection of data about us. We
can do so by refusing to give our names, addresses or other personal
data when we pay for products or transportation.
At 73 years of age, with arthritis in the knees, I have multiple
justifications for getting a discount card for the Boston buses and
subways. I reject it because that card would identify me whenever I
use it to travel. We must not surrender to massive surveillance
for the sake of convenience!
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the
main switchboard is
+1-202-224-3121
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22 March 2026 (
Urgent: Investigate corrupter's profit from presidency
US citizens: call on your members of Congress to
investigate
the corrupter's $1.4 billion profit
from the presidency.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
22 March 2026 (
Urgent: Comment to reject corrupter's attacks on diversity, immigrants and nonprofits
US citizens:
submit
an official comment to reject the corrupter's attacks
on
diversity, immigrants, and nonprofits.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
22 March 2026 (
Urgent: Censure Republicans who called f or violence against American Muslims
US citizens: call on Congress to
censure
Republicans who called for violence against American Muslims
and for taking away their committee seats.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the
main switchboard is
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22 March 2026 (
Urgent: Support Equal Tax Act
US citizens: call on your senators to
support
the Equal Tax Act
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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22 March 2026 (
Urgent: Protect students from retaliation for protesting deportation thugs
US citizens: call on your state education leaders to
protect
Students from federal retaliation
for protesting deportation
thugs
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
22 March 2026 (
Urgent: Stop war-lover from sending American troops into Iran
US citizens: call your members of Congress to
stop
the war-lover from sending American troops into Iran
– And Vote NO on the Draft!
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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22 March 2026 (
Urgent: Stop $10 billion scam to fund Board of Peace
US citizens: call on your members of Congress to
block
the $10 billion scam
to fund
the corrupter's
Orwellian Board of Peace.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
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22 March 2026 (
(satire) Addition of Ballroom to Air Force One
(satire) [The nincompoop]
Defends
Addition Of Ballroom To Air Force One
.*
22 March 2026 (
Interesting analysis of differences between generations
An
interesting analysis
of differences between generations. For instances, the differences
in attitudes nowadays are much less than in the past, but marketing
makes them look bigger than they are.
It is unfortunate for me that hitchhiking has ceased. There are times
when I have no way to get anywhere except to beg, such as when the bus
over the Golden Gate Bridge rejected me as a passenger because I had
the luggage that I had taken on a flight.
I don't feel danger in getting into a stranger's car; by contrast, the
potential danger in a proprietary surveillance system (for example,
Guber
is intolerable. The probability that the driver would do wrong to me
is minuscule, but the probability that the proprietary surveillance
system would do wrong to many passengers is quite large.
22 March 2026 (
Thatcher's greatest achievement
Thatcher said that the "New Labour" of
Tony B'liar
was her greatest
achievement — shifting the Labour Party to put business and rich
people first. A Labour MP
describes
the major changes needed
to
restore democracy and give priority and political power to the people.
22 March 2026 (
White South Africans myth of reversed racism
White South Africans have spread a myth that
ending
apartheid led to a reversed system of racism against them
that blacks hated and persecuted whites much as white racists in
power had formerly hated and persecuted blacks.
Right-wing extremists have propagated this falsehood to justify the
cause of continuing or bringing back racism.
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)
denounce bigotry
, and normally I will not link to articles that
practice it. But I make exceptions for some articles because I
consider their information important — and I present this comment about them.
22 March 2026 (
Germany's right-wing government
Germany's current government is right-wing, and competing not to let
the extreme right-wing outdo it in wrongdoing. It
intervened
in the prize for best independent bookstore
by arbitrarily excluding some
candidate bookstores.
It refused to give any explanation, but it may be because they are
antifascist.
22 March 2026 (
Black people more likely to be searched in rich areas of London
*In richest areas of London, black people up to
48
times more likely to be stopped and searched
[than other people].*
It is hard to be sure why cops' behavior is prejudiced in this way,
but the tendency to search people because of perceiving them as
making "furtive glances" suggests that unconscious racism is at work.
Suspecting someone because of a vague impression is exactly the sort
of thing that gives unconscious prejudice an opportunity to influence
the decision.
22 March 2026 (
Fears for women's rights in Chile
Fears
for women's rights in Chile
as anti-abortion president set to take
office.*
The new president is literally a fascist — a
supporter
of the coup-leader Pinochet
, who in power was a murderous dictator.
I wonder how he managed to win the election. Was it stolen?
22 March 2026 (
Values of right-wing politics
The values of right-wing politics, based on dominating other people,
have led to pressure on men to
make
their faces meet an imposed idea of what looks powerful
The wellness-influencer axis
plays
a part as well
22 March 2026 (
North Korean agents hired for remote work
North Korean agents are
getting
hired for remote work
under fake
identities by using Pretend Intelligence to disguise their appearance
and voice.
22 March 2026 (
Adam Smith never held "free" market ideology
Adam Smith
never
held the "free" market ideology
that its
supporters claim he held. He endorsed many of the progressive
causes we stand for, such as making the rich pay more taxes.
22 March 2026 (
RFK jr quietly drops idea of terminating Covid-19 vaccination
Public opposition has made RFK jr
quietly
drop the idea of terminating the recommendation for Covid-19 vaccination
He will continue undermining US public health as long as he is in a
position to do so. But it is not
only
him. Many of
the saboteur
in
chief's appointed henchmen seem to have been chosen for their
inclination to cause chaos; he seems to think that their chaos will
open the door for him to destroy more of the institutions that protect
the Constitution, human rights, and democracy.
22 March 2026 (
Corruptor's favorite methods of fomenting corruption
One of
the corrupter's
favorite methods of fomenting corruption
that can bring him extra income is by
firing
the inspectors general
of various agencies.
22 March 2026 (
Exploitative career of "influencer"
The exploitative career of "influencer" is based on
deluding
suckers into spending money on artificially enhanced alluring dreams
Knowing this, you can easily refuse to contribute any of your own
attention to their "attention economy."
22 March 2026 (
El Salvador's democracy eliminated
Bukele has eliminated El Salvador's gang violence,
and
El Salvador's democracy with it
replacing it with arbitrary imprisonment and torture.
22 March 2026 (
Badly designed studies on effects of vaccine
Researchers doing badly designed studies on vaccine effects in Guinea-Bissau
are connected with some of RFK jr's vaccination sabotage team, and some
fear that they will
try
to impose policy based on badly designed studies
in the US too.
22 March 2026 (
Australia arrested and charged protesters
Australia has
arrested
and charged protesters
for saying the words,
"From the river to the sea."
One was arrested for giving an explanation of what the phrase refers
to and history of its use.
22 March 2026 (
Failure to limit global heating
*The failure to limit
global heating
to 1.5C is a
"moral failure and
deadly negligence,"
the UN secretary general [said] at the opening
session of the COP30 climate summit.*
Alas, COP30 proceeded to (in effect) abandon that goal,
which many countries had abandoned already in the preceding year.
The causes of that abandonment are not visible, but I suspect the
impetus comes from billionaires who are sucking up to governments that are
more or less fascist and in cahoots with the fossil fuel companies.
One of them is Bill Gates, who has
called
for offering palliative care
to the billions of poor who will be wiped over coming decades by
accelerating
global heating
By the way, I do not endorse the straw man claim that
global heating
could literally render humanity extinct. Humans, even without science
and the technology it led to, were very flexible about surviving in
a wide range of environments. But the number who could survive would
be far less than today.
22 March 2026 (
County in Florida replaced some bus routes
A county in Florida has
replaced
some bus routes with an ULU system
(Unjust Like Uber) that requires an individual user to make a request
via a snoop-phone.
22 March 2026 (
Waiting 1,088 days for rape case to reach court
*MP [Charlotte Nichols] tells Commons she
waited
1,088 days
for her
rape case to reach court.
[Nonetheless,] Charlotte Nichols opposes plan to cut jury trials in
England and Wales and calls [instead] for creation of special courts to hear
rape cases.*
I basically agree with her: prosecuting crime is vital and so is the
right to a trial by jury. There is no fundamental conflict between
them — all that's needed is to
tax the rich
enough to pay for these
and the other things that even non-rich people deserve.
20 March 2026 (
Gas prices a windfall for big oil
*Democrats urge
windfall
tax
as big oil set to make billions from Iran war.*
20 March 2026 (
Journalists flee Bukele's rule, SLV
President Bukele's repression forced the
news
site El Faro
and its journalists to flee El Salvador.
20 March 2026 (
Poor nations' children dying
*Most of the 4.9 million children who died in 2024
could
have been saved
, according to a new UN report.
20 March 2026 (
US media as propaganda engine
The corrupter
is following
the
usual fascist playbook
for clamping down on the free press and
converting it into a propaganda engine.
20 March 2026 (
US bills do become law if not signed
The wrecker
said he will refuse to sign any bills until Congress
passes a bill to disenfranchise millions of American citizens. This
seems to imply that he will veto every bill — but it does not in fact
imply that.
The president can allow a law to pass by
waiting
ten days
(not counting Sundays) without either signing or vetoing
the bill. He hasn't said whether he will do that. He might go for
the greatest possible sabotage by vetoing every bill passed — but he
also might not.
Of course, he is not at all honest and doesn't hesitate to contradict
whatever he said he would do, so maybe it makes no difference what he
said.
20 March 2026 (
Political betting influencing journalism
Political prediction betting has led to threats against a journalist
demanding
he retract
an article, supposedly coming from a bettor who stood
to lose millions of dollars because of that article.
20 March 2026 (
Israel bombing Iran gas fields
Israel attacked an Iranian fossil gas extraction complex, and Iran is
now threatening to retaliate against
other
countries' fossil gas extraction complexes
Israel's attack was unjust and dangerous, because there was no
military basis for it. Iran's threatened response would likewise be
unjust and dangerous, for the same reason. However, Iran has not done
it yet; if other powers deter Israel from continuing this, Iran may
not start.
20 March 2026 (
Iran survives officials' assassinations
The US/Israeli attempt to make Iran's
government
collapse
by killing high officials appears to have failed —
it is organized to survive assassinations.
Iran's regime has committed enormous violence against the opposed
public, violence at a level that
magats
might dream of but have not
yet fallen to.
20 March 2026 (
The physics of worker burnout
Optimizing systems for efficiency when
running
at maximum capacity
means aiming for minimum slack. It is a mistake for an individual,
but an even more devastating mistake when a country does it.
20 March 2026 (
Young-worker medical disability, UK
Almost
half
of the Britons
age 16 to 24 who are neither working nor studying
say the reason is due to a medical problem.
I think it is alarming that life-hampering diseases are increasing in
frequency.
20 March 2026 (
Childhood obesity, KOR, DNK
Some countries'
successful
interventions
to reduce childhood obesity.
Some of them cost money. Governments must bite the bullet and take a bite
out of the billionaires' assets.
20 March 2026 (
Deportation arrest requires warrant, OR
Deportation
thugs
arrested authorized
permanent
resident Juanita Avila
without looking at her green card, but her
daughter recorded the arrest and that shamed them into releasing Avila
with merely some gratuitous physical injury.
Then Avila and others sued, and a federal court in Oregon ruled that
deportation
thugs
cannot arrest anyone without a specific warrant
unless they present a written justification that satisfies strict
legal standards for arrest without a warrant.
20 March 2026 (
CBS interviews President of US
*CBS News
heavily
edits 60 Minutes
interview [with
the corrupter
], cutting boast
network "paid me a lotta money".*
A year ago, he sued CBS for editing an interview with candidate Kamala
Harris in a way he did not like. It paid him millions to settle that
lawsuit, and he explicitly presented that as a success in humiliating
CBS. And suggested that CBS not broadcast that remark, and other
humiliations, but he knew they would be reported.
Was it wrong for CBS to edit out
the bully's
boast about having made
CBS bend the knee to him? Is it better for freedom and democracy to
make a company look bad for having let us all down, or would that be
likely to help him bully other companies into subservience? I don't
know, but I would not trust news from companies that have given fealty
to a would-be king.
19 March 2026 (
US vaccine-advisory committee as illegal
*The appointment of a controversial slate of [antivax] vaccine
advisers by Robert F Kennedy Jr likely violated federal law, and all
votes taken by the committee over the past year
have
been stayed
, a federal judge ruled on Monday.*
In particular, their vote to remove many vaccines from the US
childhood schedule has been rendered inactive — for now. But if a
higher court reverses this court decision, that will reactivate the
vote.
*These "advisers" "missed 99% of data" on Covid vaccines before making
recommendation,
memos
reveal
.*
19 March 2026 (
The hardship-happy Tehranians
Interviews with civilians in Tehran who aren't sure
which
side of the war
they need to fear more.
19 March 2026 (
Iranian dissident disappeared, CAN
Masood
Masjoody
, an Iranian dissident in exile in Canada, disappeared and
it looks like the regime had him murdered.
19 March 2026 (
Betting on Iran war
Calling
for investigation
of bets about the attack on Iran, because of
suspicions the bettors had inside information, and the implications if
they did.
19 March 2026 (
New supreme leader, IRN
Iran has plenty of supporters for its new supreme leader, just as it
has
plenty
of protesters
who hate him.
He is reported to hate the protesters and plans to ramp up the
repression in Iran.
19 March 2026 (
Refusing to sign bills into law, US
The wrecker
threatens to go on strike by refusing to sign any bills
that Congress might pass, unless/until it passes the voter-suppressing
Subjugate
America Act
If he does go on strike, that would protect American from many bad
bills that Republicans want to pass, bills which would attack our
freedoms, crush the poor, or subject us to diseases.
Alas, we can't expect him to keep his word. He might at any moment
break his own strike by signing some particularly vicious bill.
19 March 2026 (
US/Israel-Iran war condemned, AUS
A famous and celebrated Australian defender of human rights
has
condemned
the government's endorsement
of the US and Israeli attack on Iran.
19 March 2026 (
Iranians' dilemma: they are all tyrants
*"They [the US and Israel] are also lying! Like the regime has been
lying
to us
," said Amir, a student at the University of Tehran. "You are
all worse than each other."*
It appears to Iranians that Israel and the US are attacking
infrastructure rather that the regime's SS-equivalent, trying to
weaken Iran for the long term rather than free Iran.
It doesn't surprise me that they were only trying to use the Iranians
who have opposed the Iranian tyranny. Neither Netanyahu nor the
bullshitter cares about human rights, democracy, or well being, not
those of ordinary people in any country, and neither one hesitates to
lie.
Even so, with even a lick of sense they would have tried carefully to
protect those Iranians and keep them on our side. It would not have
cost much.
18 March 2026 (
Urgent: Democratic National Committee investigation
US citizens: call on the Democratic National Committee to
release
their investigation
into the causes of their defeat in the 2024
election.
18 March 2026 (
Mexico's cartel violence fueled by US firearms
*Mexico's cartel violence
fueled
by trafficked firearms from US
.*
It's no surprise that American right-wing extremists turn this on its head
by claiming that guns come into the US from Mexico.
18 March 2026 (
Antivax rhetoric spreading measles around the world
Antivax rhetoric boosted by the US government is
spreading
measles around the world
It is truly sickening.
18 March 2026 (
Iran shut down communications again
Iran has
once
again shut down communication with other countries
for
nearly everyone.
18 March 2026 (
Proposed bill to tax billionaires' wealth
Another
proposed bill to tax billionaires' wealth
has been introduced
by Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna.
It doesn't have enough support now to pass, but it will focus public pressure
on politicians.
18 March 2026 (
UK university halted human rights research
UK university
halted
human rights research
after pressure from China.
It is crucial to limit the influence on your country's institutions of
individuals, groups, companies and institutions in a repressive
foreign country.
18 March 2026 (
Abraham Lincoln argued against presidential power to counterinvade
How Abraham Lincoln
argued
against
giving the president the unilateral
and unchecked power to counterinvade.
18 March 2026 (
Funds that keep global internet visible where access is blocked
The wrecker's
henchmen
eliminated
most of the funds
that help keep the
global internet visible inside countries that try to block access to
foreign news and discussion. These funds reduced the effectiveness of
Putin's imaginary world propaganda.
18 March 2026 (
DoJ drops legal case against law firms
US DoJ drops legal case against law firms that stood up in court
against
the bully's
arbitrary demands for subservience by these big
law firms.
Case involved henchmen's orders targeting major law firms for
representing
clients or causes
the president wanted to blow away.
18 March 2026 (
Texas increased tax on poor
Texas has
increased
the tax on the poor
represented by the system of cash bail.
Nominally, bail is money handed over by or on behalf of the defendant,
to be returned if the defendant does appear for trial. This would
appear to be fair (except when the defendant can't come up with that
much money and is kept in jail during months or years of waiting).
But the way the system usually really works is that the defendant gets
the money from a "bail bonds" company for a nonrefundable fee of
around 10% of the sum. The company will later get its money back from
the court, but the defendant pays, in effect, a tax for being charged.
18 March 2026 (
(satire) Kim Jong Un daughter executing boys
(satire) Kim Jong Un Can't Believe
Daughter
Already Executing Boys
18 March 2026 (
The "homogenocene" epoch
In the "homogenocene" epoch,
human
effects mess up specialized niches
and drive their specialized species extinct, and they are replaced
by generalist species such as pigeons and rats.
I think it is a mistake to extend this to the disappearance of coral, since
that is due to a systematic trend human-caused that damages coral.
18 March 2026 (
Indirect method of measuring sea levels
An indirect method of measuring sea levels at points around the world
has been
found
to be inaccurate
Remeasuring with better methods will give a more accurate picture of
soon any particular piece of coastal land is likely to be inundated.
The rate of sea level rise is
mostly
under human control
The question is which humans will prevail: the inhabitants of coastal
regions, or the
planet roasters
18 March 2026 (
(satire) Deportation agent trying to detain people in mural
(satire) *
[Deportation]
Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural.
18 March 2026 (
Prioritizing socially and ecologically destructive growth
* Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur [107]on extreme poverty
and human rights, says politicians must stop prioritizing "socially and
ecologically destructive growth" that only increases the profits – and
serves the consumption demands – of the world’s richest individuals and
corporations.
"The scarce resources we have should be used to prioritize the basic
needs of people in poverty and to create what is of societal value
rather
than serve the frivolous desires of the ultra-rich
."*
I agree.
18 March 2026 (
Using Pretend Intelligence to plan wars
The lunatic is
using
Pretend Intelligence to plan wars
. This is a
risky thing to do.
Please don't refer to PI as "Artificial Intelligence". If you train
yourself to take for granted that it really is intelligence, you'll
come to learn to expect it to be far more intelligent than it really
is.
It is clear that computing companies' rules can't effectively bind
a powerful government.
18 March 2026 (
Deportation thugs tricked Oregon cops
The deportation
thugs
tricked
Oregon cops
into helping them
by hiding their raid for deportation behind a raid by other federal
agencies for alleged growing or marijuana.
Just goes to show you can never trust what a federal agency tells you
when
the bullshitter
has anything to do with it.
18 March 2026 (
(satire) NBA commitment to gamblers
(satire) *NBA Reaffirms Commitment To Gamblers
Only
Ruining Their Lives Legally
.*
18 March 2026 (
Kash Patel halted probe into killing of Renee Good
Kash Patel
Halted
Probe Into [the killing of] Renee Good
[for PR purposes:
so she would not be described as "victim"].
18 March 2026 (
Attacking the moral basis of civilization
Robert Reich: The unlimited use of military and monetary power
is
attacking
the moral basis of civilization
18 March 2026 (
Kristi Noem's firing from the DHS
*Kristi Noem's [firing] from the DHS
won't
mean an end to agency's violent tactics
.*
Some details might change, as the new head of Hatred and Sadism may
have a different set of fetishes and cunning ideas. But the overall
mission from
the hater
won't change much.
17 March 2026 (
US SecDef: "No quarter", no survivors
Henchman Hegseth ordered "no quarter" at war, which means to execute
any enemy soldiers that surrender. Doing that would be a war crime:
killing
prisoners
17 March 2026 (
Urgent: War as "operations", "campaigns"
In the US:
call
on the media
to call the war with Iran a "war".
17 March 2026 (
Iran war: war-lover's distraction tactic
*Why would
the bully
launch a foreign war when he is so domestically weak?
Precisely because
he is weak
.*
The article presents the war as a distraction from how weak he is,
and from his plans to rig
the
election in November
17 March 2026 (
Iran war images faked
*[Pretend Intelligence]-generated Iran images are widespread.
How
do we know
what to believe?*
I think the advice in that article is wise.
17 March 2026 (
Iran war as "wishful thinking"
*Israel did not have a realistic
plan
for regime change
when it attacked Iran, multiple Israeli security
sources have said, with expectations that airstrikes could lead to a
popular uprising having been driven by "wishful thinking" rather than
hard intelligence.*
17 March 2026 (
Iran war damaging heritage sites
*Dismay as ancient heritage sites across Iran damaged in
US-Israel bombing
The most serious confirmed damage to date has been to Tehran’s Golestan
Palace, dating back to the 14th century, and the 17th-century Chehel
Sotoon Palace in Isfahan.
Judging from videos and public statements, neither historic building
was hit by a missile directly but the shock wave from nearby blasts and
possibly some missile debris shattered glass and brought down tiles and
masonry.*
Why aim a missile that close to a unique ancient treasure? Whatever
legitimate target was near either of those palaces, it could not have
been so militarily important as to justify the risk of damage to them,
nor the risk of alienating Iranians.
17 March 2026 (
Unwanted Iran-war failure points, fixes
Robert Reich: *The best way for us to respond to the devastation of
this war … is to
strengthen
the mechanisms
that should never have allowed it to occur in the
first place.*
17 March 2026 (
Iran War images illegal, UAE
Dubai is especially repressive about posting photos or videos of
anything related to the war, and even commenting on such postings.
Foreigners are shocked when they face many
years
in prison
for that.
17 March 2026 (
Iran's defiant stance
Iran's rulers believe that
they
can hold out
despite US attacks, and are unwilling to agree to any
concessions.
The article reports an expert as saying that Israel bombed Iran's
infrastructure, with that the people now see this war as an attack
against their country rather than as an attempt to liberate them from
religious tyranny.
speculated a few days ago
that Iranians would be torn between
these two perspectives.
Predicting this result, *Iranians living in UK tell Starmer that
war
will only strengthen Tehran regime
.*
Thus, it seems that Netanyahu and
the wrecker
were carried away by
foolish overconfidence and defeated themselves: they turned a
potential ally, the Iranian people, against them.
17 March 2026 (
US aerial attack on Iranian school
Available evidence shows that the Minab school was attacked by the US,
as part of an attack on the Iranian
military
buildings right nearby
I think this convincing proof that US fired at a missile at that
school, not intentionally, but through assuming erroneously that
it was a military structure.
The US military had pictures that should have indicated the building
was a school, so it had the responsibility to recognize this and spare
the school. I think that makes the attack a culpable error, but that
is not as bad as an intentional atrocity.
17 March 2026 (
DSHS head was recently fired
The gnome has been
fired
as head
of the Department of Hatred and Sadism.
*She committed the cardinal sin of making
the bully
] look stupid.*
17 March 2026 (
Bait-and-kill-medics tactic in Iran war
The US and Israel are using in Iran the
terrorist
tactic
of dropping a second bomb just when medics have had time to
attend victims of the first bomb.
17 March 2026 (
Iran war ideologies
Arguing that
the bully
and Netanyahu have misunderstood Iran's
governmental system and
Iranian
people's
attitudes.
The writer suggests they are not likely to collapse. If Iran does at
last fall apart, it won't be the way they expect.
17 March 2026 (
Kurds asked to join Iran war
I have a hunch that any non-Persian group in Iran that allies itself
with
the US
will arouse hostility among Persians.
17 March 2026 (
Iran war startings and endings
The wrecker's
bombings have made Iran unstable, but he and his
henchmen have no clear idea of how this will end, or even
how
they wish
it will. At some point he will say, "It's over, we
won."
But it may not be "over" in any meaningful sense. The repressive
Revolutionary Guards, the Iranian people, the Gulf states and Israel
have conflicting ideas of how they want Iran to end up, and they may
fight over this for months or decades.
The US is encouraging
Kurdish
and Balochi separatists
outside Iran's borders to enter Iran and
destabilize the border areas.
Perhaps the US commanders see this as a way to make the situation even
more tactically complex for Iran's military. But it could also give
the Revolutionary Guards a way to rally the support of Iranians whose
sense of nationalism takes offense at the possibility of
"dismembering" Iran.
To come out of this crises with peace and respect for freedom calls
for someone with the understanding of statemanship together with the
political strength to win people over to an outcome. I don't see who
that could be, or what the outcome might be.
17 March 2026 (
Why war with Iran?
*[
The bully
and his henchmen have] still
not
settled on reasons
for going to war with Iran.*
17 March 2026 (
Iran War: escalation paths
The wrecker
and Iran have different escalation paths available, and both
include
making
the war broader
and harder to halt.
14 March 2026 (
The Society of Authors
*UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify
books
written by humans.
I support this specific campaign, because it is a campaign for honesty
and against worthless Pretend Intelligence. It may help people reject
PI slop.
However, I continue to reject the selfishness of most of the same
authors, when they demand the power to stop human readers from
honestly and truthfully sharing copies of
human-authored books with
other humans.
14 March 2026 (
Urgent: call on US media
US citizens: call on US media to take seriously the threates by
the saboteur
in chief and his henchmen to sabotage the
2026
congressional election.
14 March 2026 (
Urgent: Save Act voter suppression
Everyone: call on news organizations to cover the SAVE Act clearly
and directly as a voter suppression measure — examining who would be
blocked from voting, how implementation would work, and why these
requirements are
being
advanced now.
13 March 2026 (
Iran as a threat, UK
Britain's right-wing extremist politician, Farage, bizarrely says
that Iran is a
bigger
threat to the UK than Putin
This seems bizarre and irrational, but it is understandable seeing
that that's what
the corrupter
thinks of the question. Farage is simply acting as a repeater for him.
13 March 2026 (
Media for the Iran war, UK
The influential spokespeople of the British
political
class are pushing
for joining
the wrecker's
war with Iran, giving
absurd reasons that the people are solidly rejecting.
Why, I ask, are people with those views the ones highlighted in the media?
The British major media are mostly right-wing, often viciously so. I
conjecture that the media's owners, and those of big advertisers, want
to keep business in charge, and they have decided that if Britain
swears fealty to
the wrecker
he will reward those owners.
What happens to the rest of Britain counts for little with them.
13 March 2026 (
Iran bombs' environmental impact
*Bombing of Iran's
oil
infrastructure
to have major environmental fallout, experts warn.*
13 March 2026 (
Nuke-less in Iran
*[
The bully's
Iran war will reinforce
North
Korea's view
that nuclear weapons are the only path to security.*
13 March 2026 (
Urgent: Section 702 of PAT RIOT act
How
section 702 of the PAT RIOT act
allows the US government to collect and
search Americans' communications without warrants.
Section 702 will
expire
soon unless renewed
Please phone your senators to call on let this section expire, by refusing
to extend it.
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.
13 March 2026 (
National Public Health Coalition
Fired CDC workers have
organized
the National Public Health Coalition
to advocate for public health, despite
the wrecker's
damage to the
CDC.
13 March 2026 (
Passport services in illegal West Bank settlements
*US to
offer
passport services to citizens
in illegal West Bank settlements.*
Step the US moves towards legitimizing mass expulsion and annexation.
13 March 2026 (
German state fired head of Berlin film festival
The German state has
fired
the head of the Berlin film festival
apparently for refusing to ban criticism of Israel there.
She had opposed calls for the festival itself to take a specific
stand, instead saying that artists presenting films there should be
free to express their views. Apparently such freedom is now
considered "antisemitic".
13 March 2026 (
Germany abandoning laws on future fossil fuel use
Germany is
abandoning
laws
designed to decrease future fossil fuel
use.
This can only be called a surrender to
planet roasters
. The US and UK are
doing similar things
The inevitable result is disaster.
13 March 2026 (
Taliban have banned music
The Taliban have
banned
music
, and have a campaign to destroy all the
musical instruments in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's traditional musical styles are now threatened, as they
can only be passed on outside the country.
Islam has had a thread of such fanaticism for a thousand years, at
least. Muslim fanatics, the Almohads, took over Morocco in the 12th
century, then parts of Spain. The Wikipedia entry does not mention
this, but they banned music too.
If you want to listen to the example linked in the article,
please
don't
simply follow the link to Youtube! Use invidio.us or yt-dlp,
preferably through a proxy so that it can't be tracked to you.
Later in the article, there is a link for a different kind of music.
I warn you, it is on Spotify.
Out, out,
damned Spotify
13 March 2026 (
(satire) Kash Patel partying with Nancy Guthrie's captors
(satire) *Kash Patel
Faces
Backlash
After Partying With Nancy
Guthrie's Captors.*
13 March 2026 (
Deportation thugs claimed to be city cops
Deportation
thugs
falsely
claimed to be city cops
in order to enter
a Columbia University dorm and seize an international student.
Was this an instance of the crime of impersonating an officer?
Can they be prosecuted and imprisoned for this?
13 March 2026 (
Bomb threats on Shen Yun performances
Performances of Shen Yun are
encountering
bomb threats
emanating from China.
I watched a Shen Yun performance once in Paris with a French friend.
The impression it produced on me was curious: it reproached the Chinese
government as
cruelly
repressive
(which indeed it is),
and spread on such a thick layer of this teaching that I began to
find it annoying, despite the fact that I agreed in advance with that
reproach.
I told this to my friend, and she had felt the same. "It preaches too
much," she said.
I still condemn China's repression and threats — like what
the bully
is trying to impose in the US — but I have no appetite to see another
Shen Yun performance.
13 March 2026 (
Hillary Clinton testified at congressional committee
Hillary Clinton
testified
at a congressional committee
hearing in
which the questions were meant primarily as harassment and distraction.
She had to repeat that she did not know Epstein, and was asked
repeatedly about UFOs and about
Pizzagate
Republicans imposed a rule against releasing photos, then Rep. Boebert
(Republican) secretly took a photo and released it, violating that
rule.
13 March 2026 (
US banks may be required to check citizenship
The
saboteur in chief
is thinking of requiring US banks to
check
the citizenship
of all their clients.
This might imply that some non-citizens could no longer have bank
accounts, who now are permitted to have them.
13 March 2026 (
States can deny corporate support of political campaigns
Individual US states can
deny
corporations
the power to support
political campaigns.
Montana is planning to do this, and soon maybe California too.
13 March 2026 (
Ancient stepwells in India
*Ancient stepwells
brought
back to life
as India begins to run out of water.*
This is a nice form of historical preservation, but it can't get more
than a tiny fraction of the water that's needed for India's rapidly
growing population. India (and the world as a whole) need to stop
population growth.
13 March 2026 (
Women arrested for kissing in public
*Two women
arrested
in Uganda for allegedly kissing in public
could
face life sentence.*
That is one item in a long catalog of unjustified cruel bigotry
that is fueled by various religions.
13 March 2026 (
Carbon levy on shipping
*US ‘bullying’ could
scupper
carbon levy on shipping
, warn experts.*
I can only envision one motive for this: the
saboteur in chief
is
determined to maximize fossil fuel consumption.
Would it be possible for countries to impose a tax on importation of
goods based on the computed fuel use for transporting those goods from
the place where they were produced? From the ship's actual
consumption one can calculate the fuel use per gram of cargo along
that trajectory, and make the tax proportional to that. The fuel
needed to move the ship over that trajectory without cargo could be
"charged" to the actual cargo through some formula.
13 March 2026 (
British cops to start using facial recognition
British cops will
start
using facial recognition
implemented in snoop
phones.
Nothing will stop them from using it to identify protesters and then
place grave charges against their protests. The efficiency of the system
will help them repress many more protesters than before.
13 March 2026 (
Kansas invalidated trans people's driver's licenses
Kansas has
arbitrarily
and abruptly invalidated
all trans people's
driver's licenses.
Such arbitrary and abrupt invalidation of anyone's credentials is
cruel and unjust regardless of the criteria for which licenses to
invalidate, but cruel injustice is precisely right-wing extremists'
goal: it is performative cruelty, naturally aimed at one of their
usual hate targets.
Some of the people targeted
are suing
13 March 2026 (
US laser weapon to knock down threats
Twice, the US army
used
a laser weapon to knock down
a supposed
"threat from Mexico." Each time, the flying object had not come
from Mexico and it was not a threat at all.
The second one was a US government drone.
It could just be a series of human incompetence events. But it could
also be worse than that. I wonder if they are basing their targeting
on pretend intelligence generated by a Pretend Intelligence system.
Israel used to do that when bombing Gaza.
They seemed to consider
that method a success, but perhaps that is they preferred to kill
any Palestinians in Gaza rather than none.
13 March 2026 (
Hannah Spencer elected to Parliament for Green Party
Hannah Spencer, plumber, has just been elected to Parliament for the
Green Party. Her victory speech presents a person
who
would have been a Labour activist
, and then a Labour MP,
back when Labour was true to
its founding ideals and goals.
Starmer Labour has
completed
the discarding of them
, and put the rich
firmly in the driver's seat,
after expelling or
driving
away many of its elected officials
who
still believed in those ideals.
These ideals fit well with a Green Party, since the rule of the
billionaires, which Starmer Labour supports, and the global
environmental disaster they have decided to impose, is likely to kill
of most of the world's population and
reduce
to serfs most of the survivors
A Green Party would naturally oppose both aspects of that.
13 March 2026 (
Rules requiring chemical companies to prepare for chemical disasters
The
EPA
has
cancelled
the recently adopted rules
requiring chemical
companies to prepare for chemical disasters, so as to protect workers,
rescuers and people living within miles of the company's plant.
Repeal of
EPA's
Endangerment Finding
Will
Have Devastating Impact
13 March 2026 (
Palestinian solidarity in the UK
*Palestinian solidarity in the UK is
being
"silenced, criminalised and sanctioned,"
with more than 900 examples of repression
[recorded] across Britain in the last six years.
People had been targeted with smears, disinformation, harassment,
doxing, visa cancellations, financial blacklisting, loss of
employment and arrest.*
12 March 2026 (
Urgent: Investigate facial recognition
US citizens:
call
on Congress
to investigate the deportation
thugs'
mass
surveillance and use of widespread face recognition.
12 March 2026 (
Iran VS Israel plus USA
Iran's government has a planned long-term
strategy
for winning
the war. US officials didn't bother to think about
one, assuming that resistance was impossible.
Since the Iranian regime and the US regime are both cruel and
repressive, it would be unjust for either of them to control Iran.
But there is no evident way for Iran to avoid both of those outcomes.
*Democrats must defund [the fascist's]
Imperial
war
.*
11 March 2026 (
Cutting down endangered native forest in Australia
A US mining company has been
cutting
down endangered native forest
in
Australia. The Australian government secretly made a deal to allow it
to continue this, to placate
the wrecker
11 March 2026 (
Corruption is about who Washington is shielding
*Corruption is no longer envelopes of cash – now it is about
who
Washington is shielding and who it is sacrificing
.*
11 March 2026 (
Afghan women's book club reading Orwell
*The secret Afghan women's book club
defying
the Taliban to read Orwell
[and other important writers].*
11 March 2026 (
Freemason UK police
The UK
requires
police to declare whether they are freemasons
because a masonic lodge "is hierarchical, has confidential
membership and requires members to support and protect each other."
This policy is necessary because masons in a police department
will come across the requirement to support each other against
the perpetrators and/or victims of crimes or bad policies.
11 March 2026 (
Australian censorship thugs seized art posters
Australian censorship
thugs
seized
*art posters
depicting [the
persecutor,
the muskrat
],
Putin and Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms.*
Because Nazi symbols stand for hate, it is now perhaps prohibited to
condemn acts and policies embodying hatred by comparing them to Nazis.
This would be good for a laugh at the cops' expense, if it weren't
seriously dangerous.
11 March 2026 (
Increase in hot dry days
*Study finds
global
increase in hot, dry days ideal for wildfires
.*
Over the last 45 years, the frequency of such days has increased from
around 20 days per year to around 60 days per year. About 60% of that
(36 days per year) are caused by fossil fuel, but some of the rest
is caused by other human activities such as deforestation.
As long as we keep driving
global heating
, we will increase our
vulnerability to fire. This is why I reject the idea that today's
fires, floods and storms are "natural disasters".
A secondary problem of this increased temperature level is
damage
to coffee cultivation
, in the main coffee-producing countries.
11 March 2026 (
Manipulation to use Pretend Intelligence
An influential PI company is
manipulatively
urging officials and voters
to
worry about being "left behind" if they don't embrace Pretend Intelligence.
Therefore they should race to give PI companies tax breaks, waive
environmental regulations for them, and teach students to disregard the
danger of letting companies get your data and store it in
cloudy systems
11 March 2026 (
Biometric identification company
A company that does biometric identification (on behalf of LinkedIn)
collects
12 kinds of biometrics and consults 6 kinds of government and commercial databases
Then farms out processing of face data to 17 other companies.
Those companies are North America, so in practice they can ignore the
EU's "data protection" regulations, and the US government can seize
any and all of that data.
This example shows the concrete meaning of dis-services operating in
cloudy servers. Don't trust them! I never do.
Of course, I would never ask to be identified on LinkedIn.
I do not use LinkedIn at all, because it too is cloudy processing,
not to mention the
other unjust things it does to its users
But LinkedIn is just one example, and the broad conclusion
applies to nearly any business that wants personal data from you.
11 March 2026 (
Machine learning tools to flag office misconduct
Metropolitan [British] police
using
[machine learning] tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct
It is legitimate to monitor the conduct of
police officers
in ways
that would not be morally legitimate for workers in general, because
police officers
have special authority and face the temptation to
become
thugs
However, giving their personal data to Palantir is not
excusable.
Sad to say, use of
"bossware"
for monitoring of workers with no
special authority has become widespread.
11 March 2026 (
CIA and MI6 saw Putin moving to invade Ukraine
The CIA and MI6 saw that Putin was moving to invade Ukraine, months before
he did so, but they
could
not convince either European allies or Ukraine
that it would happen. Until it did.
11 March 2026 (
From polluting the seas to polluting the rivers
When the UK's privatized water companies were effectively blocked from
polluting the seas, they
switched
to polluting the rivers
— massively.
Starmer Labour's ministers say Britain needs "investment stability",
but that is a bad outcome when it comes to investment that is a kind
of exploitation. That ought to be criminal, not protected.
The UK, like most countries, is unstable against being consumed from
the inside out by business. The way to put an end to this instability
is to make the owners of water company stock forfeit the entire value
of their "investments".
11 March 2026 (
Students in Iran resumed large protests
Students in Iran have
resumed
large protests
, condemning the state
for killing many thousands of students in January.
11 March 2026 (
Treating severe cases of polio
No one in the US today has experience in
treating
severe cases of polio
. There haven't been such cases in so long that the doctors who
had that experience have got old and died.
As a result, when American children start developing polio thanks to
the lunacy of RFK Jr (and his boss,
the wrecker
), they won't even get
the treatment that sick children in the 1950s used to get.
11 March 2026 (
Iran's universities
Iran's universities face
armed
repression and the exclusion of students from campus
11 March 2026 (
Nexus of sexist influence in academia
Epstein and his friends were a
nexus
of sexist influence in academia
11 March 2026 (
Putin hates Telegram
Putin hates Telegram, and is
trying
to arrange Russian criminal charges
against its developer, Pavel Durov.
This leads me to suspect that he is planning a military-style attack
against Durov or the people who operate the servers behind Telegram.
against Durov or the people who operate the servers behind Telegram.
11 March 2026 (
War situation in Ukraine
About the
war
situation in Ukraine
11 March 2026 (
Investments in planet roasting
Some big US banks have "invested" in planet roasting, and some have not.
That means
large
organizations have a significant choice to make
11 March 2026 (
Last antitrust expert purged from "justice department"
The bully's
henchmen have
purged
the last antitrust expert
from the
"justice department".
The bully's
criterion for whether to permit any particular merger
involving large companies is based on how much those companies have
given to him or his fund-raising activities.
10 March 2026 (
Urgent: Stop Paramount's mega-media monopoly
US citizens: call on state attorneys general to
stop
Paramount's mega-media monopoly
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
9 March 2026 (
High immigrant application fees, UK
Non-privileged people permitted to into the UK but those whose permission is
not permanent have to pay over USD
1500
per year
on formalities to reapply for permission.
This continues for ten years.
This is not nominally a fee for residence, but it is tantamount to that.
No wonder Starmer Labour, competing in harshness with right wing
extremists, proposes to require extend that fee to 20 years.
8 March 2026 (
More air polluting allowed, US
The wrecker's
commitment to fossil fuel knows no bounds. Not only is he inviting
fossil fuel power plants to roast the world, he is willing to
let
them poison people
with mercury and other chemicals.
8 March 2026 (
Unsafe to travel in US
Karen Newton, Briton, went to the US with permission for tourism, with
her husband.
They
were jailed
for 6 weeks based on no reason she was ever told.
They soon signed forms to agree to deportation, but instead of being
sent home, they were kept in jail for weeks first, separated. She was
sometimes kept in constant cold, without a bed.
Eventually the deportation
thugs
stole their luggage.
What she heard in prison was that a
thug
gets a bonus for each
victim
perse
jails.
6 March 2026 (
Urgent: Repercussions of war in Middle East
The war in the Middle East is having
major
repercussions
including strengthening ties between Russia and China.
Robert Reich calls on Americans to phone their members
of Congress in support of invoking Congress's power
to stop the US intervention.
There is no need to worry about how this might affect
subsequent events in Iran, because nobody in the US government
has a plan anyway. One more random shuffle won't make it
any more random than it already is.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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6 March 2026 (
Urgent: Transfer military spending to human needs
US citizens: call on Congress to
transfer
military spending to human needs
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6 March 2026 (
Urgent: Shut down US deportation prisons
US citizens: call on Congress to
shut
down the US deportation prisons
rather than permit them to continue torturing.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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6 March 2026 (
Conn Selmer's factory moving production to China
A billionaire supporter of
the wrecker
told the employees of Conn
Selmer's factory that it will
move
production to China
You can't expect a bullshitter to be sincere when he says he cares
about your jobs.
6 March 2026 (
People that needed rescue after military attacked boats
After the US military attacked three unarmed boats on Dec 30, 8 people
jumped into the stormy and dangerous water, and needed immediate
rescue. The US military waited 40 hours to send a plane to try to
rescue them. It
did
not find anyone
No survivors have been rescued after any of these
murder missions
The article speculates that this was intentional — that commanders
intended the survivors to die. What is indisputable is that they did
not make a competent attempt to rescue the survivors.
6 March 2026 (
UK and US medics who have denounced atrocities by Israelis
Volunteer medics in UK and US who have denounced atrocities committed
by Israelis that they witness while in Gaza say that Israel has
refused
to let them return to Gaza
to work as medics again.
This retribution seems designed to intimidate present and future
medics in Gaza so that they will help Israel cover up atrocities.
6 March 2026 (
FBI investigating members of Extinction Rebellion
The FBI is
investigating
members of Extinction Rebellion
This is an instance of how
the wrecker
aims to get things backwards.
The FBI ought to investigate those who are contributing, knowingly,
to the danger of extinction.
6 March 2026 (
Fuel use of plugin-in hybrid cars
Many plug-in hybrid cars use
considerably
more fuel
than manufacturers
claim. How much more, varies from model to model.
6 March 2026 (
FDA tried to reject flue mRNA vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration tried to
reject
the new mRNA flu vaccine
without even examining it, in accord with antivax ideology,
but has changed its mind and will now examine it.
6 March 2026 (
US wants alliance with right-wing countries
The US told Europe it still wants an alliance — but
only
with tyrannical, right-wing countries
The EU should avoid agreeing to this, and avoid being scared by the
threats, while accepting the alliance as if it didn't have those
conditions. This way it can play for time hoping the US kicks out
these right-wing jerks, and use the time to prepare for the US to
break off with them.
6 March 2026 (
Digital systems to control parts of your home
Aside from the danger of remote surveillance and control, digital
systems to control parts of your home have a
tendency
to be too smart for your own good
When I looked for an apartment in 2019, I rejected outright any building
with digital rather than metal keys. I do not trust whoever controls the
system not to track residents' movements. I also rejected outright any
building with a security camera.
6 March 2026 (
Increase in union workers despite attacks on unions
Despite
the bully's
attacks on unions and unionizing rights,
there was a
small
increase in 2025 in the number of union workers
6 March 2026 (
President of museum about US constitution fired
The US government's museum about the US Constitution has fired its president,
and
people
suspect he was fired because he wasn't a magat
6 March 2026 (
Long Covid still here
*Long Covid is
still
here
. I know – my life came to a stop because of it.*
6 March 2026 (
Amazon Alexa listening device report
Someone asked Amazon for a report on everything that their Alexa
listening device had listened to since they first got it. It
was enormous
Think about which words Amazon might have set it up to alert various
US government departments about — and which departments those might
be. (That might depend on which country you are in.)
Amazon never hears anything in my home.
6 March 2026 (
Journalists tortured in prison
*The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reviewed dozens of
testimonies, photographs and medical records documenting what it
describes as serious abuses by Israeli soldiers and prison guards
against Palestinian reporters. The report draws on in-depth interviews
from 59 Palestinian journalists. Of those interviewed, 58 reported
being subjected to what they described as torture [in prison].
"While conditions varied at different facilities, the methods those
interviewed recounted – physical assaults, forced stress positions,
sensory deprivation, sexual violence, and medical neglect – were
strikingly
consistent
," the report states.*
6 March 2026 (
Zohran Mamdani's comments on "globalize the intifada"
I just saw
Zohran
Mamdani's comments
on "globalize the intifada" from
last October,
and his stance had much in common with
mine
I also recognize the tone of the criticism he received for
discouraging that phrase. There are people whose attitude is, "If you
reject my method of expressing disapproval of X, you're weak, and
effectively a supporter of X." This reasoning is not valid.
6 March 2026 (
Social media sites eliminating fact checking
As part of
the bullshitter's
War on Truth, social media sites that suck up
to him have
eliminated
fact checking
. Since he equates fact-checking
to censorship, they do too.
The difference between fact-checking and censorship is that the latter
blocks or prohibits saying something, while the former labels it with
a criticism that is labeled as such.
There is no absolute and inherently inerrant source of truth.
Therefore, freedom of speech must include the freedom to make
statements that others call "false". (If that becomes prohibited,
everything that
magats
call "lies" will be censored.)
But that is no reason to get rid of fact checking.
6 March 2026 (
Deportation thugs demanding antisocial media posts
The US Department of Hatred and Sadism, parent organization of the
deportation
thugs
makes a practice of subpoenas to demand antisocial
media
hand
over identifying information about users
who post, track,
or criticize deportation
thugs
This comes after convincing Google and Amazon to
censor
the special apps
for exchanging information about where
thug
operations are taking place.
The pretext the
thugs
give is that this information might perhaps be
used for planning violence against the
thugs
. That is a rather weak
pretext, since violence started by protesters is very rare, whereas
violence
(sometimes deadly)
by
thugs
against
protesters
and
journalists is frequent.
That might be an argument for quashing the subpoenas, if anyone
went to court to try to do that. But these companies, since they
suck
up to the persecutor anyway
don't resist the subpoenas very hard.
The long-term lesson from this is not to trust your data to a
cloudy
storage system
under the influence of a Big Tech company.
Especially not if company
makes
users identify themselves
, or blocks them from
connecting via Tor.
Such a company is generally a willing tool for a
fascist regime such as
the persecutor
is trying to impose on the US.
6 March 2026 (
Apps for facial and iris scanning used by deportation thugs
Deportation
thugs
use
special
apps for facial recognition and iris scanning
6 March 2026 (
US citizen George Retes arrested and jailed by deportation thugs
US citizen George Retes was
arrested
by deportation thugs
while he was
commuting to work, then jailed for days without access to family, an
attorney, or information about the charges against him.
He is now free,
and suing. I hope he wins, but this is not enough.
The fact that Retes is an Army veteran does not seem significant to
me. It would be just as bad if they did this to someone who was never
in the US military.
I believe in being very tough on government crime.
When individual official
thugs
break the law in a significant way,
they deserves to pay a penalty, such as a prison sentence. When the
government agency broke the law, the agency
also
should pay a
penalty. But when the agency follows a general practice of breaking
the law, and that practice was accepted by upper management, the upper
management should get the prison sentence.
6 March 2026 (
Law about 3D printers proposed in California
A bill has been proposed in California to require all 3D printers to
come
equipped with gun-pattern detectors
, starting in 2029.
In principle, I don't defend the right to make your own guns.
I don't think what this law requires is inherently unjust.
However, there will be a tendency to implement it by making it
impossible or illegal to modify the software in a 3D printer.
That
would
be unjust.
6 March 2026 (
Society's assumptions of how to collect and use data
Criticizing
society's assumptions
of how to collect and then use data,
and what makes data valid or useful.
6 March 2026 (
Molding the media, Hollywood control
The corrupter
has found he can order some Hollywood billionaires
around, much the way kings ordered their
courtiers
around.
4 March 2026 (
Urgent: Stop big news merger
US citizens:
call
on Congress and the FCC
to protect local news, by blocking the
Nexstar-TEGNA merger.
4 March 2026 (
Urgent: CBS capitulating to US gov
US citizens:
call on CBS
to stop yielding to
magat
bullying.
4 March 2026 (
Urgent: Planantir immigrant surveillance
US citizens:
Call
on Congress
to stop the deportation
thug
department from using
Palantir's massive surveillance system to track and target immigrants.
4 March 2026 (
Urgent: Palantir's congressional funding
US citizens:
call
on your congressional officials
not to accept
campaign funds from Palantir.
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without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
4 March 2026 (
Urgent: Climate science
Everyone:
Tell the IEA
Ignore Chris Wright’s Threats, Follow the
Science on Climate Change.
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instructions
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without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
3 March 2026 (
Yanis Varoufakis
The Greek right-wing government is prosecuting Yanis Varoufakis
on the absurd charge that his description of using MDMA once
constituted
"promotion"
of the drug.
Prosecution of political enemies on obviously absurd charges is a common
tactic of fascist-minded governments, and it is no joke.
3 March 2026 (
Prep Software Naviance
Many US colleges demand applicants run a nonfree program, Naviance,
whose purpose is to
collect
data about them.
To that injustice, the program adds the annoyance of ads.
Some public school systems demand that students run this surveillance
package for many years. But running it even once is an injustice.
Of course, many of those school systems demand that students run other
nonfree programs. Each one is an injustice; each one deserves
fighting back. One injustice doesn't become less evil merely because
there are others.
3 March 2026 (
Nuclear negotiations
*Yet another mid-talks attack jeopardizes chances of
Iran taking Trump
seriously.*
In 1941, Japan launched a mid-talks attack against the US —
but it was mid-talks because of a screw-up.
(The Japanese embassy was slow
in translating the note that declared war, and when Washington learned
of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the translation was still not
finished.)
3 March 2026 (
Trump’s global tariff war
*The real winners of
[the wrecker's]
global tariff war: law firms,
hedge funds and
[bubble-blowing
machine learning].
Businesses are vying for a refund, with nearly $175bn on the line, but
customers are unlikely to benefit from reversal.*
3 March 2026 (
Cuban sovereignty
*[Some] Caribbean countries pledge humanitarian support for Cuba amid
rising
tensions with US.*
3 March 2026 (
Israel’s Iran war
Israel is using its attack on Iran as an excuse to starve
Gaza
completely.
3 March 2026 (
Polymarket trade betting on Iran's supreme leader
A gambling site permits people to bet on questions such as "Will
Ayatollah Khamanei be
out
of power tomorrow".
People who have secret information, such as "we attack at dawn",
are allowed to bet. That makes the bet a cheat.
3 March 2026 (
Hegseth on Iran
While
the bullshitter
gives an array of bombastic excuses for
attacking Iran, Henchman Hegseth
treats
the question of "why"
as
irrelevant.
When the US entered World War II, it published a series of short films
collectively entitled, "Why We Fight." That responded to
understanding that something as violent as war requires a moral
justification, not merely an order. However, according to
magats
"The ruler says so" is supposed to suffice.
The one reason that in my mind could have justified the attack is if
the Iranian people had implored the US to defeat their cruel
government.
The bullshitter
addresses Iranians, calling on them to
rise up, so as to make people imagine they are doing so.
Many Iranians hate their government and for good reason, but it
doesn't follow that they want a foreign enemy to attack their country.
Meanwhile, Hegseth and Vance says that they don't care whether
Iranians overthrow their government or not, and that is not the aim of
the attack. I hope Iranians do eliminate that religious repression,
but if they do, the US won't deserve any credit for it.
3 March 2026 (
Banned Speech State
Florida, the
Banned
Speech
State.
3 March 2026 (
Talk in Bern Switzerland
Richard Stallman will
speak
on March 11 in Bern, Switzerland
, for the Guild42 group, at
Berner Fachhochschule, Brückenstrasse 73, 3005 Bern
Title: Free/Libre Software and Freedom,
touching on how they relate to machine learning
An explanation of the issues of justice and injustice
in distribution and running of software,
and in use of computing services and dis-services,
with discussion of how this relates to machine learning,
including both Artificial Intelligence and Pretend Intelligence.
Location:
Brückenstrasse 73, CH-3012 Bern, Room: Aula
Time:
17:30
As usual, the event will have around an hour of presentation
and around an hour of Q&A.
2 March 2026 (
Urgent: Block construction of deportation prison-warehouses
US citizens: call on your state legislators to
block
construction
of
deportation prison-warehouses in your state.
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instructions
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2 March 2026 (
Urgent: Protect Vote by Mail
US citizens: call on
Protect
Vote by Mail
. Tell Congress to act now! Demand
the USPS Restore Real-Time Postmarks.
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2 March 2026 (
Urgent: CBS political censorship
US citizens: call on CBS to
stop
engaging in political censorship
to fawn
at
magat
officials.
More information:
2 March 2026 (
Urgent: Tel IEA Ignore Chris Wright's threats
Everyone: Tell the IEA:
Ignore
Chris Wright’s Threats
, Follow the
Science on Climate Change.
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2 March 2026 (
Urgent: Campaign funds from Palantir
US citizens: call on your congressional officials
not
to accept campaign funds from Palantir
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2 March 2026 (
Urgent: Stop deportation thug use of Palantir's surveillance
US citizens: call on Congress to
stop
the deportation thug department from using Palantir's massive surveillance system
to track and target immigrants.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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main switchboard is
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2 March 2026 (
Urgent: Stop CBS yielding to magat bullying
US citizens: call on CBS to
stop
yielding to magat bullying
2 March 2026 (
Urgent: block Nextstar-TEGNA merger
US citizens: call on Congress and the FCC to protect local news, by
blocking
the Nexstar-TEGNA merger
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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main switchboard is
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2 March 2026 (
Urgent: Fight to impeach Bondi
US citizens: call on your congressional representatives to
fight
to impeach Bondi
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2 March 2026 (
Urgent: Stop next great recession
US citizens: call on your representatives and senators to take action
to
stop
the next great recession
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Here is what I used as my letter text. I hope it inspires you.
The wrecker's
henchmen at the Securities and Exchange Commission are
laying the groundwork to bring back one of the core financial products
that led to millions of foreclosures during the 2008 crash — even as
economic and climate conditions make its return all the more
destabilizing.
The SEC is intended to act as Wall Street’s top regulator, but they
want to do the opposite of their job. Then the megabanks will "need"
another big bailout, and Republicans will eagerly give them one.
Please fight hard to prevent this big theft.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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main switchboard is
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28 February 2026 (
Talk in Rotkreuz, Switzerland
Richard Stallman will give
a talk in Rotkreuz, Switzerland
March 6th, 2026 at 17:00.
28 February 2026 (
Talk in Rapperswil, Switzerland
Richard Stallman will give
a talk in Rapperswil, Switzerland
March 9th, 2026 at 17:00.
25 February 2026 (
Urgent: Repeal qualified immunity for federal officers
US citizens: call on Congress to
repeal
qualified immunity
for federal
officers.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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25 February 2026 (
Urgent: Tennessee Valley Authority coal plants
US citizens: call on the Tennessee Valley Authority to
keep
its promise to retire coal plants
25 February 2026 (
Urgent: News coverage of bully's action on Department of Justice
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.
25 February 2026 (
Urgent: Qualified Immunity Abolition Act
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.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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25 February 2026 (
Veterans facing arrests over protests
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.
25 February 2026 (
Microplastics in the wilderness
*Merrily we
bring
microplastics into the wilderness
with our hiking shoes.*
25 February 2026 (
Starmer's plans for prohibiting protests
Starmer's plans for prohibiting protests would have
prohibited
the creation of the Labour Party
, if they had been in effect at that
time.
25 February 2026 (
Incomplete embryos cloned from adult humans
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.
25 February 2026 (
Antibiotic resistance in disease bacteria
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.
25 February 2026 (
Australian tropical rainforest trees
Australian
tropical rainforest trees
[have changed] from carbon sink
to emissions source.*
25 February 2026 (
Banning of Palestine Action is illegal
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.
25 February 2026 (
Roses coated in a fine chemical cocktail
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.
25 February 2026 (
Accusations of domestic violence against Australian thug
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.
25 February 2026 (
inJustice Department persecuting because of political opinions
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.
25 February 2026 (
New York City patients' data given to Palantir
New York City must
stop
giving patients' medical data to Palantir
since Palantir can't be trusted not to use it against them.
25 February 2026 (
Bully returned to bullying Ukraine
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.
25 February 2026 (
Palestine Action ruling
*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.
25 February 2026 (
Retired British couple of activists for Palestine
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.
25 February 2026 (
T-Mobile to pass calls through powerful computer system
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.
24 February 2026 (
TSA precheck suspended
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.
24 February 2026 (
Sunday Thought
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.
24 February 2026 (
Trump warns consequences
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.
24 February 2026 (
Targeted for deportation
*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.
24 February 2026 (
US tariff policy ruling
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
23 February 2026 (
Urgent: Drop charges against Georgia Fort and Don Lemon
US citizens: call on Attorney General Bondi to
drop
the charges
against Georgia Fort and Don Lemon now.
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23 February 2026 (
Urgent: End Big Tech tax breaks
US citizens: call on Congress to
end
Big Tech tax breaks
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23 February 2026 (
Urgent No deportation thugs at our polls
US citizens: call on your state's Secretary of State:
No
deportation thugs at our polls
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23 February 2026 (
Urgent: Investigate why IRS gave personal data to DHS
US citizens: call on Congress to
investigate
why
the IRS gave
taxpayers' personal data to the Department of Hatred and Sadism.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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23 February 2026 (
Urgent: Bully's false picture denying cruelty of deportation thugs
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.
23 February 2026 (
Urgent: Stop cooperating with deportation thugs
US citizens: call on local and state officials to
stop
cooperating with the deportation thugs
23 February 2026 (
Urgent: Don't let deportation thugs weaponize Social Security
US citizens: call on the Social Security Administration
not
to let the deportation thugs weaponize Social Security
23 February 2026 (
Urgent: Stop corrupter getting money for bogus board of peace
US citizens: call on Congress to
block
the corrupter from getting government money
for his bogus board of peace.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
23 February 2026 (
Bully's henchmen demanding voter information from states
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
23 February 2026 (
Federal thugs raided race track
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.
23 February 2026 (
Google handing over surveillance camera footage
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.
23 February 2026 (
Bully defends racist video
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.
23 February 2026 (
Banned protests in New South Wales
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.
23 February 2026 (
Amazon and Walmart subsidized by SNAP
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.
23 February 2026 (
Funding for Deportation thugs blocked by filibuster
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.
23 February 2026 (
Secret list of "domestic terrorist organizations"
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.
23 February 2026 (
Relentless assault upon Palestinians
*The Guardian view on Israel and the West Bank:
the
other relentless assault upon Palestinians
.*
23 February 2026 (
FBI investigating Extinction Rebellion NYC
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"
23 February 2026 (
China banned fishing in Yangtze river in 2021
In 2021, China
banned
fishing entirely in the Yangtze River
Since then, the quantity of fish in the river has doubled.
23 February 2026 (
More political freedom with Maduro gone
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.
23 February 2026 (
(satire) Premium Video Generator for White House Advisors
(satire) OpenAI Introduces
Premium
Video Generator For White House Advisors
Manipulating [the maximum leader].
23 February 2026 (
Tragic end of CBS News
The
tragic end of CBS News.
It has been converted into a puppet show in which puppets pull each
others' strings.
23 February 2026 (
Debunking bullshitter's lies about people in deportation prisons
Debunking
the bullshitter's lies
about the people in his deportation
prisons: the vast majority have never been accused of a violent crime.
23 February 2026 (
Master alarm flashing for our democracy
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."*
23 February 2026 (
Zelenskyy demands 20-year "security guarantee" for peace deal
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.
23 February 2026 (
(satire) Tampering with Earth's gravitational field
(satire) *Finnish Ski Jumping Team
Caught
Tampering With Earth's Gravitational Field
.*
23 February 2026 (
Senators demanding justification to deregulate greenhouse gas emissions
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.
23 February 2026 (
Protesters who damaged weapons in Elbit factory acquitted of most serious charges
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.
23 February 2026 (
Urgent: Support Rashida Tlaib's resolution
US citizens: Support Rashida Tlaib's Defund the Oligarchs,
Fund Our
Communities
resolution.
23 February 2026 (
Urgent: Close the loophole
US citizens: call on the Florida Senate to end state funding for
Alligator Alcatraz.
23 February 2026 (
Urgent: Congress must investigate
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.
23 February 2026 (
Urgent: Tell congress to investigate
US citizens: call on Tell Congress: Investigate
DOGE's
Misuse of voters'
private
Social Security records.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
23 February 2026 (
ICE detention power
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.
23 February 2026 (
GOP plot to jack up credit scores
Republicans corrupted by big banks are pushing a law to undermine states'
limits on interest
charged
on bank loans.
23 February 2026 (
Emerging Berlin-Rome axis
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.
23 February 2026 (
Trump's End of Laws
Ralph Nader: *Tyrant Trump Declares End of
Laws
Saving American Lives.
(And occasionally also laws saving millions of lives in other countries.)
23 February 2026 (
California bill ban
*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.
20 February 2026 (
Urgent: Investigate corrupter in chief's profit from presidency
US citizens: call on Congress to
investigate
the corrupter in chief's $1.4 billion profit
from the presidency.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
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.
20 February 2026 (
Urgent: Protect the Arctic from oil exploration
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.
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.
20 February 2026 (
Urgent: Hidden insurance industry report data
US citizens: Demand insurance commissioners
stop
hiding insurance industry report data
from the public.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
20 February 2026 (
Urgent: Defend recognition of dangers of global heating
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.
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.
20 February 2026 (
Urgent: Stop deportation thugs terrorizing children
US citizens: call on
Congress to
stop
the deportation thugs from from terrorizing children
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
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.
17 February 2026 (
Urgent: Protect clean water from corporate greed
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.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
17 February 2026 (
Urgent: No tax breaks for Big Tech data centers
US citizens: Tell your governor,
no
tax breaks for Big Tech data centers
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Here's the text of the letter I sent.
17 February 2026 (
Urgent: Reporting on refusals by grand juries to indict bogus political "crimes"
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".
17 February 2026 (
Urgent: Protect from spread of measles
US citizens: call on state officials to
protect
your state from the spread of measles
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
17 February 2026 (
Japanese fossil fuel companies invest in Australian fossil fuel
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
17 February 2026 (
Methane from rapidly heating Arctic permafrost
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.
17 February 2026 (
Australian thugs attacked protesters
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
17 February 2026 (
Britons' right to protest under threat
*Britons' right to protest is
under
threat like never before
. If you value it,
speak up now.*
17 February 2026 (
Iranian regime becoming ever more fanatic
The Iranian regime is
becoming
ever more fanatic
, arresting important
politicians close to the "reformist" official prime minister.
17 February 2026 (
Gallup polling to cease tracking approval ratings of president
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.
17 February 2026 (
Arguments that immigration enforcement would be distorted
*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
17 February 2026 (
House Republicans rebuke of bully over Canada tariffs
*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.
17 February 2026 (
Deportation thug that fired at citizen hailed by Gregory Bovino
* 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.
17 February 2026 (
Statistical survey about death of young children in England
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?
17 February 2026 (
Bill to block substantial fraction of adult US citizens from voting
The House of Representatives
passed
a bill to block a substantial fraction of adult US citizens from voting
17 February 2026 (
Mexico gangs reportedly obtained newer more powerful arms than Mexican government
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.
17 February 2026 (
Bogus indictments meant for political persecution
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.
17 February 2026 (
AMA to partner with Vaccine Integrity Project
* 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.
17 February 2026 (
Half of Americans disagree with repression of immigration
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.
17 February 2026 (
Deportation cases in court which is a mockery of a court
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.
17 February 2026 (
Sabotage of NLRB
The wrecker's
sabotage
of the NLRB has been substantially effective
— the number of union votes dropped by 30% in 2025.
17 February 2026 (
Almost unstoppable wildfires in Patagonia
Almost unstoppable wildfires in Patagonia, mostly caused by global
heating, have
killed
many of the trees that have lived thousands of years
17 February 2026 (
Plan to repeal EPA ruling regulating greenhouse gases
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.
17 February 2026 (
World closer than thought to "point of no return"
* The world is
closer
than thought to a "point of no return"
after which
runaway
global heating
cannot be stopped, scientists have said.*
12 February 2026 (
Big Oil cartel
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.
12 February 2026 (
Chinese and British censorship
Ai Wei Wei talks about facing
Chinese
censorship and British censorship
12 February 2026 (
How bloody stupid are LLMs
*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.
12 February 2026 (
RFK Jr mislead Senate
*RFK
Jr
misled
Senate
during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor
say.*
12 February 2026 (
Observers arrested
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.
12 February 2026 (
Robert Reich: Mamdani campaign lessons
New York City's public funding
system
was
crucial
for giving Zohran Mamdani the possibility of overcoming
rich people's money.
12 February 2026 (
DHS and Google
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
12 February 2026 (
Substack's owner doesn't believe in censorship
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.
12 February 2026 (
Australia hate speech laws
Australia is trying
to
establish
control of protest as the standard response to murder
12 February 2026 (
ICE arrests continue
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
strategy
of state terrorism
And I speculate that they have dropped those tactics partly because
the public's reaction was effective pressure on them.
12 February 2026 (
Trump's Penn station rename reversed
A court quashed
the bully's
demand
to
have
Penn Station renamed with his name
12 February 2026 (
Trump administration aim to deport five-year-old
*[
The persecutor's
] lawyers aim
to
deport
five-year-old [Liam Conejo Ramos]
after judge ordered his
release.*
12 February 2026 (
Australia shielding Israel's president
*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.
12 February 2026 (
State terror
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.
12 February 2026 (
Trump family crypto deal
*[
The corrupter
]'s family
is
embroiled
in a $500m UAE scandal
. We've hardly noticed.*
11 February 2026 (
Easier to fire US government employees
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.
11 February 2026 (
Facebook ads for deportation thugs
Facebook is
running
ads for the deportation thugs
, ads that *included
imagery and music intended to appeal to white nationalists and
neo-Nazis.*
11 February 2026 (
Israel accused of spraying cancer-linked herbicide
*Israel
accused
of spraying cancer-linked herbicide
on farms in
southern Lebanon.*
11 February 2026 (
We can reverse America's decline
Bernie Sanders:
*We
can reverse America's decline.*
11 February 2026 (
Facial recognition used to accuse person of shoplifting
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.
11 February 2026 (
Peter Mandelson asked Epstein for help in 2010
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.
11 February 2026 (
(satire) AI Chatbot that only responds with "huh"
(satire) *AI Chatbot That Only Responds "Huh"
Valued
At $200 Billion
.*
11 February 2026 (
Long Island hotter in winter
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.
11 February 2026 (
Measles in US deportation prison for children
The US has deportation prisons for children, and thanks to RFK jr,
one
of them is spreading measles
11 February 2026 (
Corrupter is making China great
The corrupter
is
making
China great
11 February 2026 (
Families of Americans killed by Israel
*Families of Americans killed by Israel
face
uphill climb to justice
.*
11 February 2026 (
History of failure to tackle UK police racism
*The
long
history of failure to tackle UK police racism
.*
More
about this
11 February 2026 (
Wood burned in Drax electric generator
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
11 February 2026 (
Boos for Vance at Olympic Games
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.
11 February 2026 (
(satire) Citizenship pill
(satire)
*TrumpRx
Unveils $1 Million Citizenship Pill.*
11 February 2026 (
Intelligence files of journalists investigating thinktank
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.
10 February 2026 (
Laws to allow fossil fuel company lawsuits
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.
10 February 2026 (
Election sabotage warning
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.
10 February 2026 (
Urgent: address housing crisis
US citizens: call on Demand
Congress
Address
the Housing Crisis
: Pass the Make Housing Affordable Act!
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instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
10 February 2026 (
Foreign aid budget
Congress
has
restored
much
of the foreign aid budget that
the persecutor
unilaterally
erased early last year.
10 February 2026 (
Israel killed over 50,000 civilians
*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.
10 February 2026 (
Washing Post layoffs
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.
10 February 2026 (
Melania ticket sales
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.
10 February 2026 (
Urgent: Cryptocurrency oversight
US citizens: call on your senators to
block
corruptive bills about cryptocurrency
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
10 February 2026 (
Urgent: Call Verizon not to support DHS and deportation thugs
US citizens: call on Verizon to
stop
supporting the Department of Hatred and Suffering and the deportation thugs
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
10 February 2026 (
Urgent: End Apple and Google contracts with deportation thugs
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.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
10 February 2026 (
Urgent: End Amazon contracts with deportation thugs
US citizens: Tell Amazon to
end
contracts with deportation thugs
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
10 February 2026 (
Urgent: Call on Target to help protect Minnesota from deportation thugs
US citizens: call on Target's New CEO to
help
protect Minnesota from deportation thugs
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
10 February 2026 (
Human made sediments on British beaches
* 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.
10 February 2026 (
(satire) ICE agent deports own family
(satire) *ICE Agent
Scores
Easy Win
By Deporting Own Family.*
10 February 2026 (
"Hate speech" rules could stifle classroom discussions
*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.
10 February 2026 (
Crushingly disappointing PFAS action plan for UK
*Environmentalists
decry
"crushingly disappointing" PFAS action plan
for UK.*
This weakness was predictable, because Starmer Labour's first priority
is
catering
to business
10 February 2026 (
Cars in Chine to have mechanical release on all doors
*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.
10 February 2026 (
Contacts with Epstein pulled plug on career of Peter Mandelson
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
10 February 2026 (
Defiance through music and dance at funerals
*Music and dancing
signify
defiance at celebratory funerals
of Iran's
protesters.*
10 February 2026 (
Sanders secures vote on Amendment to cut $75 Billion to deportation thugs
*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
10 February 2026 (
FLOCK license plate readers accessed by federal agents
FLOCK "security" license plate readers installed by California towns
were being
accessed
secretly by federal agents
who were surely up to
no good.
10 February 2026 (
Amazon as an example of enshittification
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.
10 February 2026 (
Robert Reich on funding for deportation thugs
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.
10 February 2026 (
Israeli army bulldozed graves in war cemetery
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.
10 February 2026 (
Illinois established connection with WHO
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.
10 February 2026 (
Repression of protesters in the US
brief
review of repression of protesters in the US
10 February 2026 (
Trump suggests Republicans should "take over" elections
*Trump suggests Republicans should
"take
over" elections
to protect
the [Republican] party* from losing elections.
10 February 2026 (
Artificial species of life
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".
10 February 2026 (
Big Oil conspiracy to block electric vehicles
Michigan and other states are suing Big Oil for
conspiracy
to block the success of electric vehicles and clean electric generation
10 February 2026 (
Discord cracked, government IDs stolen
*[The unjust digital communication site] Discord says users'
government IDs [which it demanded for government-mandated] age
checks [were]
stolen
by [crackers]
.*
10 February 2026 (
Cop infiltrated anti-fascist group in UK
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?
10 February 2026 (
Democrats' 10 demands to "rein in" deportation thugs
*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.
10 February 2026 (
Urgent: Google apps censored
US citizens: call on Apple and Google to
stop
censoring apps
— and
let users freely release and install free/libre apps.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
10 February 2026 (
Urgent: Protest as crime
US citizens: call on Congress to
defeat
Ted Cruz's bill
to criminalize protests.
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.
9 February 2026 (
Urgent: Block US military intervention against Iran
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.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the
main switchboard is
+1-202-224-3121
Please spread the word.
9 February 2026 (
Urgent: CEOs end collaboration with deportation thugs
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.
9 February 2026 (
Urgent: Restrict deportation thugs jailing children
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.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the
main switchboard is
+1-202-224-3121
Please spread the word.
9 February 2026 (
Urgent: Pass Billionaires' Income Tax
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to
pass
the Billionaires' Income Tax
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.
9 February 2026 (
Urgent: Take back money granted to deportation thugs
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.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
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.
9 February 2026 (
Urgent: Investigate attempt to undermine elections
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.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the
main switchboard is
+1-202-224-3121
Please spread the word.
9 February 2026 (
Urgent: Plain and accurate reporting on Republican plans and promises
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".
9 February 2026 (
Urgent: Adobe Acrobat Pretend Intelligence
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?
9 February 2026 (
Urgent: Support Illinois Human Rights Advocacy Protection Act
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.
9 February 2026 (
Urgent: Investigate corruptor's own corruption
US citizens: call on Congress to
investigate
the corruptor's own corruption
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.
9 February 2026 (
Urgent: Crack down on white-collar financial crime
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.
9 February 2026 (
Naive to think Mr. Grabby's retreats are real
*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.
9 February 2026 (
London thugs arrested campaigner for carrying sign at protest
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.
9 February 2026 (
The film Melania
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.
9 February 2026 (
New York State team to monitor actions of deportation thugs
New York State will
form
an official team
to monitor the actions of
deportation
thugs
checking for violations of applicable laws.
5 February 2026 (
Urgent: newspaper editor support
US citizens: support the newspaper editors that
are
recognizing
the perversion and corruption
of
the wrecker
5 February 2026 (
Urgent: Tell media to report on what is really happening in Gaza and the West Bank
US citizens: Tell the
Media:
Report
on what is really happening in Gaza (bombardment and siege) and the West Bank (violent expulsions)
See
the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree
JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
5 February 2026 (
Home demolitions to protect from flooding
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.
5 February 2026 (
Mayor Mamdani
As soon as Mayor Mamdani was sworn in, he
dove
straight into the work
of making NYC run better.
5 February 2026 (
Offshore wind generator projects restarted
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.
5 February 2026 (
Defund the oligarchy
*It's time
to
defund
the oligarchy and invest in the American people
.*
5 February 2026 (
Mississippi voting rights act
Mississippi legislators are working on
state-level
voting rights act
to fill the gap that the Supreme Court threatens
to create in federal law.
5 February 2026 (
ICE detained caregiver
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.
5 February 2026 (
Halted offshore wind projects to proceed
In December,
the bully
ordered work stopped on five offshore wind
farms under construction,
but
construction
has now resumed in all five
5 February 2026 (
Haitian temporary protected status
A federal judge has
blocked
the attempt
to cancel temporary protected status
for Haitians.
5 February 2026 (
Antifa doxing ICE agents
Praising anti-fascist activists' collective skill
in
identifying
the masked
thugs
who committed vicious crimes.
3 February 2026 (
Urgent: Stop showing recruitment ads for deportation thugs
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.
3 February 2026 (
Urgent: Temporary immigration permission for Haitian refugees
US citizens: call on your congresscritter to
sign
the discharge petition
for preserving temporary immigration permission for Haitian refugees.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
3 February 2026 (
Urgent: Call for firing the gnome
US citizens:
call
for firing the gnome (Kristi Noem)
3 February 2026 (
Section 702 of PAT RIOT Act
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.
3 February 2026 (
Separatists in Alberta accused of treason
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".
3 February 2026 (
EU called upon to phase out fossil fuels from US
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.
3 February 2026 (
Tax breaks for landlords in Australia
*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.
3 February 2026 (
Australia outsources deportation prisons.
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.
3 February 2026 (
Alex Pretti 11 days before deportation thugs killed him
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.
3 February 2026 (
Doctors being arrested in Iran
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.*
3 February 2026 (
Pretend Intelligence to write transportation regulations
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.
3 February 2026 (
Australia's law to protect environment
* Australia's law that is supposed to protect the environment and
cultural heritage
doesn’t work
.*
Analysis of one major recent case demonstrates this.
3 February 2026 (
Chicago to investigate deportation thugs
Chicago is
preparing
to investigate deportation thugs
for crimes they
commit.
3 February 2026 (
If University of Pennsylvania hands over list of Jews
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.
3 February 2026 (
Venezuelans must choose their own path
We
Venezuelans must choose our own path
We need fair elections, not bombs or contracts with the US oil
industry.*
3 February 2026 (
WhatsApp can access purportedly 'private' communications
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.
3 February 2026 (
Aspects of fascism in wrecker's misrule
Identifying
many
diagnostic aspects of fascism in the wrecker's misrule
3 February 2026 (
Farcical case against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort
*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.
3 February 2026 (
Israel's army accepted figures of casualties
Israel's army has
accepted
HAMAS's figures for casualties in Gaza
This is after two years of claiming they were lies.
31 January 2026 (
Border patrol commander
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.
31 January 2026 (
Police resource allocation concern
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.
31 January 2026 (
Trump sues IRS and US treasury
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.
31 January 2026 (
DHS Is Expanding Domestic Surveillance
The deportation
thugs
are expanding pervasive surveillance in a way
that threatens the
rights
of everyone in the US.
31 January 2026 (
Ian McEwan call for extending rights
*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.
31 January 2026 (
Third No Kings protests
The next No Kings protest will be held on March 28th against the
deportation
thugs'
"reign
of terror".
31 January 2026 (
Urgent: stop funding inhumane tactics
US citizens: call on your rep and senators to have Congress stop
funding DHS’ and ICE’s
inhumane
and lethal tactics.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code—not trivial, but not hard.
31 January 2026 (
Urgent: stop ICE home invasion
In the US: call on your state attorney general to stop deportation
thugs
from invading people's
homes
without a warrant.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code—not trivial, but not hard.
31 January 2026 (
Urgent: call on Verizon
In the US: call on Verizon to terminate its contracts with the
Department of Hatred and Sadism and
with
I Can't Empathize.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code—not trivial, but not hard.
31 January 2026 (
Urgent: choose peace
US citizens: urge your representative and senators to support continuing the
New START nuclear arms limitation treaty and the moratorium on
testing
nuclear weapons.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code—not trivial, but not hard.
31 January 2026 (
Amazon fresh closures
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.
31 January 2026 (
Bushfires
*Bushfires in
Victoria
push
threatened species
to the brink.*
One kind of human-caused disaster thus tends to cause other kinds.
31 January 2026 (
Urgent: stop Chevron's responsibility evading
Everyone: call on Tell Chevron’s
CEO:
Stop
evading Chevron’s responsibility for your destruction of Louisiana's coast
See
the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree
JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
31 January 2026 (
Swift bricks
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.
31 January 2026 (
Pretend intelligence office chaos
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.
31 January 2026 (
Urgent: block big tech data centers
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.
31 January 2026 (
LA wildfires and insurance industry
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.
31 January 2026 (
UK ecosystem collapse
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.)
31 January 2026 (
Doomsday clock
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.*
31 January 2026 (
Drug search danger
How drug searches at events
increase
the danger
to participants from drugs.
31 January 2026 (
Last remaining hostage's corpse found
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.
31 January 2026 (
Extreme heat
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.
31 January 2026 (
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
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.
31 January 2026 (
Andy Burnham
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.
31 January 2026 (
Alex Pretti
*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.
31 January 2026 (
Second amendment
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.
31 January 2026 (
Israel's corpse search
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.
31 January 2026 (
New pun
The sunglasses
30 January 2026 (
FBI to investigate Minneapolis activists after claim about anti-ICE chats
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.
30 January 2026 (
Families of Boat Strike Victims Sue US
Families of two men killed by a US attack on a small boat are
suing
the US government
30 January 2026 (
Minnesota judge summons acting ICE director
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.
30 January 2026 (
Responding to a surge of unlawful ICE activity in Somerville
Responding
to the unlawful activities
of [deportation
thugs
in our community*, not far from where I live.
30 January 2026 (
Urgent: Get Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center
US citizens:
call for removing
the name "Trump" from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
If you sign, please spread the word!
30 January 2026 (
Urgent: Stop Trump From Gutting Fraud Enforcement
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!
29 January 2026 (
Urgent: Notes on when a person dies in jail or prison
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.
29 January 2026 (
EPA mostly abandoned enforcement of limits on pollution
The
EPA
has
mostly
abandoned enforcement of limits on pollution
29 January 2026 (
Occupation of deportation thugs could lead to occupation by US army
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.
29 January 2026 (
Australia's new hate speech laws
*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.
29 January 2026 (
"Loot box" inside of Pentagon
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.
29 January 2026 (
Palestinian describes rape by Israeli prison guards
Palestinian Sami al-Saei
describes
being raped by Israeli prison guards
29 January 2026 (
US president siding with forces of tyranny
*European leaders who know their continent's history must now see that
the
US
president is siding with the forces of tyranny
.*
29 January 2026 (
Deportation thugs claim power to question anyone
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.
29 January 2026 (
Alex Pretti shot dead by deportation thugs
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.
29 January 2026 (
Google [PI] overviews cite YouTube for health queries
*Google [PI] Overviews
cite
YouTube more than any medical site
for health
queries, study suggests.*
29 January 2026 (
Protesters rebuke Target stores
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.
29 January 2026 (
Terror by deportation thugs traumatizing schoolchildren
The terror spread by deportation
thugs
in Minneapolis is
traumatizing
schoolchildren
Many don't dare go to school.
29 January 2026 (
ChatGPT store of text is from Grok
ChatGPT is worse than lacking in intelligence — its store of text
comes from Grok
which
spouts
Nazi propaganda
29 January 2026 (
Sweden kicking out asylum seekers
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.
29 January 2026 (
Syrian government and Northeast Syria one-month cease fire
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.
29 January 2026 (
God Informs Humanity Choking People Meant To Die
(satire) *God
Informs Humanity
[that] Choking People [are] Meant To Die.*
29 January 2026 (
What To Know About the bully’s Board Of Peace
(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.
29 January 2026 (
Chris Madel ends bid for Minnesota governor
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.
29 January 2026 (
The government must act now on biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse
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.
29 January 2026 (
Deport Musk and Melania
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.
29 January 2026 (
Gavin Newsom opposes billionaire wealth tax
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.
29 January 2026 (
Bully's "board of peace" is convocation of authoritarian leaders
The bully's
"board of peace" is
shaping
up to be a convocation of authoritarian leaders
structured to give
the bully
himself complete
dominance over the other members.
The name "board of peace" is no more sincere than most of what the
bully says. It
seems
to be a perverse mockery of the UN
, even in its
emblem.
29 January 2026 (
US attack on another civilian boat
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.
29 January 2026 (
Texas Black man exonerated 70 years after execution
*Texas Black man
exonerated
70 years after execution
in case marked by racial
bias.*
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.)
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.
29 January 2026 (
Geraldo Lunas Campos killed by thugs while in deportation prison
The autopsy on Geraldo Lunas Campos ruled that he was
killed
by the thugs while a prisoner in a deportation prison
29 January 2026 (
Public claims Mahmoud Khalil supported terrorism
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
28 January 2026 (
Urgent: Pass the VISIBLE Act
US citizens: call on Congress to
pass
the VISIBLE Act
, which would prohibit
deportation
thugs
from concealing their identities.
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.
28 January 2026 (
Urgent: Keep deportation thugs out of public schools
US citizens: call on your state's attorney
general to
keep
deportation thugs out of public schools
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
28 January 2026 (
Urgent: Stop censoring apps
28 January 2026 (
How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
*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.*
28 January 2026 (
(satire) ICE agents do not have faces
(satire) *ICE Confirms Agents
Do
Not Have Faces
Beneath Masks.*
28 January 2026 (
Snitch City investigation
The Massachusetts legislature is
working
to put an end
to dishonest tactics cops use to falsify witness testimony.
28 January 2026 (
White House backtracks initial claims about Alex Pretti
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."
28 January 2026 (
(satire) Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders
(satire) *Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To
Stop
Obstructing Murders
.*
28 January 2026 (
Urgent: Oppose funding for deportation thugs
US citizens: call on your elected officials to
oppose
all funding for the deportation thugs
in the absence of systemic
reforms.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code—not trivial, but not hard.
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.
28 January 2026 (
Fans of Israeli team banned from football match
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.
28 January 2026 (
Investigation of Governor of Minnesota and mayor of Minneapolis
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,
28 January 2026 (
US cities compelled to police abuses by deportation thugs
*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.
28 January 2026 (
Military newspaper, Stars and Stripes
Magats
in the Pentagon plan to make the military newspaper, Stars and
Stripes,
follow
the strict party line
28 January 2026 (
Bully demands HAMAS hand over heavy weapons
The bully
demands
that HAMAS hand over its heavy weapons
, while saying
nothing about Israel's heavy weapons.
28 January 2026 (
US mixed messaging on flu shots
US
mixed messaging on flu shots alarms experts
: "Children should not
be dying."*
28 January 2026 (
Australia found responsible for torture in immigration prison
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.
28 January 2026 (
Philosophy professor ordered to drop readings from Plato's Symposium
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.
28 January 2026 (
Violence towards prisoners in many US states
Prison
thugs
in many or all US states
often
carry out illegal violence towards prisoners
causing suffering, damage and occasionally death.
28 January 2026 (
DHS used Neo-Nazi Anthem for recruitment
*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
28 January 2026 (
Protesters shot in the face by "less-lethal" munitions
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.
28 January 2026 (
Division of Iran's opposition
On the
division
of Iran's opposition
between supporters of the son of
the Shah and those who oppose him.
28 January 2026 (
Measurements of microplastics in human bodies
Scientists
disagree
about measurements of microplastics in human bodies
By studying the conflicting results, they will find methods to work
out the correct facts.
28 January 2026 (
Depending on US companies for digital services
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.
28 January 2026 (
New diet guidelines pose risks for health and environment
*RFK Jr's new diet guidelines
pose
risks for health and the environment
experts say.*
28 January 2026 (
Rushed laws after tragedy never good
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.
28 January 2026 (
European countries uniting against the bully
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.
28 January 2026 (
Liberation after deactivating ex-Twitter account
The writer describes the
sense
of liberation
of deactivating his
ex-Twitter
account.
Or perhaps nowadays should we call it "shitter"?
28 January 2026 (
Uncertainty about concentration of microplastics in human tissues
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.
28 January 2026 (
Killings by deportation thugs are part of how agency operates
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.
27 January 2026 (
FBI supervisor resigns after trying to investigate Renee Good shooter
*FBI supervisor
resigns
after trying
to investigate agent who shot Renee Good* and being pressured to stop.
26 January 2026 (
Urgent: CBS: Don't Censor Debate
US citizens: call on CBS:
Don't
Let Bari Weiss Censor Debate
26 January 2026 (
Urgent: Stop funding DHS and ICE
Us citizens: call on Congress to
stop
funding DHS and ICE inhumane and lethal tactics
amidst ongoing investigations into those practices.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
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.
26 January 2026 (
Urgent: Block voter-ID bill
US citizens: call on the Senate to
block
the voter-ID bill
and protect
poor citizens' right to vote against arbitrary interference.
Many poor people need to move often. Many can't afford to take a
couple of hours off work to officially update ID cards. And these
requirements are not satisfied by proof that you're a US citizen --
the demand is always for "up to date, currently valid" proof.
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.
26 January 2026 (
Dr Ahmed Muhanna seized in Gaza
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.
26 January 2026 (
Labour plans to restrict right to protest even more
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.
26 January 2026 (
Children with high screen use
*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.
26 January 2026 (
Google search stopped pseudo-intelligence overviews for some questions
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".
26 January 2026 (
Federal judge rejected executive order that states demand ID from voters
A federal judge
rejected
the saboteur in chief's executive order
that
purported to make states demand ID from voters, and other restrictions.
26 January 2026 (
Why Minnesota can prosecute Iceman Ross
A lawyer explains why Minnesota can prosecute Iceman Ross, though
keeping the evidence away from the state
might
make it difficult in practice
26 January 2026 (
Bully ordered criminal investigation of Jerome Powell
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.
26 January 2026 (
The gnome making excuses to forbid inspections of deportation prisons
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.
26 January 2026 (
US judge allows offshore wind project to continue
*US judge lets Danish firm
resume
Rhode Island offshore wind project
halted by [the
saboteur in chief
].*
26 January 2026 (
US government demanded list of Jews in University of Pennsylvania
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.
26 January 2026 (
US carbon pollution rose in 2025
*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.
26 January 2026 (
Eye injuries from gunshots in Tehran
*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.
26 January 2026 (
Grok to be integrated into "Pentagon networks"
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.
26 January 2026 (
The gnome declared Somalia a safe country to send Somalis back to
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.
26 January 2026 (
US attacked a supposed "drug boat" with plane disguised as civilian
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?
26 January 2026 (
Developing countries poorer than in 2019
*[One] quarter of developing countries
poorer
than in 2019
, World Bank finds.*
26 January 2026 (
DoJ attorneys resign over decision not to investigate shooting of Renee Good
*[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.
26 January 2026 (
Experimental detection of microplastics in tissues
Some experimental detection of microplastics in tissues
may
be errors due to contamination
26 January 2026 (
Pro-Israel group Betar U.S.
*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.
26 January 2026 (
House Progressive Caucus will "oppose all funding" for immigration enforcement
*Ilhan Omar said [the House Progressive Caucus] will
"oppose
all funding" for immigration enforcement
unless militarized policing
ends.*
25 January 2026 (
Nazi influence
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.
25 January 2026 (
Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels
*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.
25 January 2026 (
Judge-only trials
Estimates show that eliminating juries from some trials would make
hardly any difference to the backlog of
trials
in Britain.
25 January 2026 (
ICE detains Minnesota boy
Deportation
thugs
in Minnesota are jailing people who are in the US lawfully,
including
young children
, and using them as bait.
25 January 2026 (
‘Endangered lawyer’ day
* 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.
25 January 2026 (
Trump Greenland future deal reactions
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.
25 January 2026 (
Screen time affecting toddlers
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.
25 January 2026 (
Secret assurance
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.
25 January 2026 (
US court lifted injunction
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.
25 January 2026 (
Self-imposed drought
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.
25 January 2026 (
Trump’s board of peace
*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.
25 January 2026 (
Rollout of AI caution
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.
25 January 2026 (
Washington Post reporter
*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.
25 January 2026 (
North-east Syria security
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.
25 January 2026 (
Dangers of microplastics
Scientists discuss what is known and what isn't know yet
in regard to the biological effects of
microplastics.
25 January 2026 (
DOGE personnel
Court documents show that the personnel of the
DOPE
who took control
of the Social Security Administration's personal data last year
provided it to a partisan organization (name redacted) which intended
to use it to
challenge
election results
(not specifying how).
25 January 2026 (
Trump’s Davos claims
Refuting
the bullshitter's
latest lies and
wild
exaggerations.
25 January 2026 (
Altered photo
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.
25 January 2026 (
Trump retribution campaign
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.
25 January 2026 (
America’s immigration system
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.
25 January 2026 (
National Park Service
[Magats]
"Deliberately"
Tanking Morale to Get [National] Parks Staff to Quit,
Official
Says
in Leaked Tape.*
24 January 2026 (
Interpreting Trump
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.
24 January 2026 (
‘Stop Andy Burnham’ campaign
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.
24 January 2026 (
(satire) ICE Deems
(satire) *ICE Deems Being In Privacy Of Own Home
Obstruction
Of Justice.
24 January 2026 (
(satire) Democrats condemn ICE
(satire) *Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without
Proper Warrants
.*
24 January 2026 (
Ceasefire peace deal
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.
24 January 2026 (
Repeated threats
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.
24 January 2026 (
US justice department subpoenas
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.
24 January 2026 (
US liquefied natural gas reliance
Europe is now dependent on importing liquefied fossil gas from the US.
This is dangerous, since the
bully
can weaponize it.
24 January 2026 (
BP accused of influence on UK education
Britain's Science Museum runs science courses for teachers. Alas, it has given
Billionaire
Polluters control
over what the courses can say.
24 January 2026 (
Global water bankruptcy
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.
24 January 2026 (
Macron’s private message
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.
24 January 2026 (
Trump’s demand for Greenland
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.
24 January 2026 (
ICE detention facility living conditions
* 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.
24 January 2026 (
Trump profit from presidency
The corrupter's
corruption is
estimated
at 1.4 billion
dollars in the
first year alone.
24 January 2026 (
ChongLy Thao's house
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.
23 January 2026 (
Iran protesters labeled by ayatollah
Borrowing a tactic from
the persecutor
, the supreme ayatollah of Iran
is facing massive protests by
labeling
the protesters
as followers of
the persecutor
23 January 2026 (
Loophole for large US-based multinational corporations in global business tax
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.
23 January 2026 (
Bully's proposed restrictions on visas for foreign journalists
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
23 January 2026 (
Magats censoring US museums
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.
23 January 2026 (
Deportation thugs blocked medics from Renee Good
Deportation
thugs
blocked
medics
twice
from reaching Renee Good to
see whether she was dead or alive.
23 January 2026 (
Israel pushes ahead with illegal settlement
*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.
23 January 2026 (
Medical problems reported after being tear gassed
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.
23 January 2026 (
When mainstream parties show hostility towards immigration
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.
23 January 2026 (
Protests organized condemning murder of Renee Good
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.
23 January 2026 (
Two mining companies want to merge
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.
23 January 2026 (
Bully threats over Iranian government killing of protesters
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.
23 January 2026 (
Officials want to vaccinate fewer babies against RSV virus
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
23 January 2026 (
US businesses are dangerously concentrated
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.
23 January 2026 (
House members blocked from visiting deportation prison
*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?
23 January 2026 (
Practice of paying web sites is risky
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.
23 January 2026 (
China trying to forbid visits by Taiwanese officials to European countries
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.
23 January 2026 (
Senator Kelly suing Hegseth and War Department
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.
23 January 2026 (
Senator Warren returning to progressive roots
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
23 January 2026 (
(satire) More clothes on Elon Musk pictures
(satire) *
Users
[of ex-Twitter] Ask Grok To Put More Clothes On Elon Musk Pictures.
23 January 2026 (
Threats to seize voting machines
The cheater threatened to send the national guard to
seize
voting machines
in the next election.
Only in places where he loses, one supposes.
23 January 2026 (
Urgent: Block Funds for deportation thugs
US citizens: call on Democratic leaders in Congress to
block
funds
for the
deportation
thugs
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.
23 January 2026 (
Urgent: Oppose military action against Greenland
US citizens: call on Congress to
oppose
military action
against
Greenland.
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.
23 January 2026 (
Urgent: Cancel medical debt and student debt
US citizens: call on Congress to
cancel
medical debt and student
debt, and make medical treatment and public colleges gratis for all.
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.
23 January 2026 (
Urgent: Protect officials of Federal Reserve from harassment
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.
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.
22 January 2026 (
[The gnome] backtracks on ICE pepper spray denial
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.
22 January 2026 (
(Satire) The mistake of assuming the bully is sentient
(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.
22 January 2026 (
Gates Foundation Trust holdings in fossil fuels rise
*Bill Gates charity trust's
holdings
in fossil fuel firms rise
despite divestment claims.*
22 January 2026 (
(satire) Donald J. Trump Commemorative Garbage Disposal
(satire) *White House Plumber
Reminds
Staff That Only Donald J. Trump
Commemorative Food Waste May Be Placed Down Donald J. Trump
Commemorative Garbage Disposal.*
22 January 2026 (
Florida Passes Law Granting Viruses Personhood
(satire)
*Florida
Passes Law Granting Viruses Personhood
.*
21 January 2026 (
Urgent: Protect kids from RFK vaccine rollback
US citizens: call on your state's governor to
protect
kids
from RFK
jr's vaccine rollback.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
21 January 2026 (
Urgent: Arrest Renee Good's killer without waiting
US citizens: call on Minnesota to
arrest
Renee Good's killer
without
waiting — there are enough grounds already.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
21 January 2026 (
Urgent: Conditions on voting for DHS spending bill
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.
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.
21 January 2026 (
Urgent: GoFundMe rules of raising money
US citizens: call on GoFundMe to
follow
its own rules
against raising
money for people who committed violent acts.
I refuse to use GoFundMe for any purpose because it requires running
nonfree JavaScript code. Nearly all web sites require nonfree JS
to make a payment, the exception I know of being fsf.org.
21 January 2026 (
Urgent: Investigate deportation thugs' use of deadly force
US citizens: call on Congress to
investigate
the deportation thugs' use of deadly force
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.
21 January 2026 (
Urgent: Restore PBS and NPR funding
US citizens: call on Congress to
restore
PBS and NPR funding
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.
21 January 2026 (
Venezuela regime intact
The US antidemocrat has replaced Maduro with another Venezuelan
antidemocrat, while
continuing
the unjust regime
21 January 2026 (
Trump's ‘authoritarian’ effort to intimidate critics
Senator Slotkin says that the American fascist *is
borrowing a strategy
from authoritarian regimes to intimidate potential critics
and discourage them from speaking out.*
21 January 2026 (
Syrian army surges into Kurdish-held towns
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.
21 January 2026 (
How Monty Python would satirize the bully
Robert Reich
proposes
how Monty Python would satirize
the bully
21 January 2026 (
Urgent: Dismiss Bari Weiss as head of CBS news dept.
US citizens: call on CBS to
dismiss
Bari Weiss
as head of the news
department.
21 January 2026 (
Urgent: Stop calling it a ceasefire
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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instructions
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21 January 2026 (
US capacity to prepare for natural disasters
*Emergency managers say the [wrecker] has presided over a
dangerous erosion
in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural
disasters.*
21 January 2026 (
Wave of repression as response to seizure of Maduro and his wife
Nicaragua's tyrant couple have
started
a wave of repression
as a response
to
the bully's
seizure of Maduro and his wife.
19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Stop march to war
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.
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.
19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Resist attempts to freeze child care funds
US citizens: call on Congress to
resist
the bully's attempts
to freeze
child care funds.
See the
instructions
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without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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19 January 2026 (
Deportation thugs mess up
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.
19 January 2026 (
Portland Communications accused of commissioning favorable Wikipedia edits
Portland Communications, a PR company whose founder works far Starmer,
has been
accused
of changing Wikipedia
to favor its clients.
19 January 2026 (
The fate of coastlines
*The fate of the planet's coastlines
depends
on how fast Antarctica's ice
sheets melt. We don't know what' coming.*
19 January 2026 (
US House candidate buys nazis.us to redirect to Homeland Security
A Florida Democrat
bought
the domain nazis.us and made it redirect
to
the persecutor's
Department of Homeland Subjugation (dhs.gov).
19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Subpoena Big Oil
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to
subpoena Big Oil
for its role in
the bully's
illegal war.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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main switchboard is
+1-202-224-3121
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Protect Medicine for Veterans
US citizens: call on Congress to
Protect
Medicine for Veterans
— Strengthen the VA, Don't Cut It.
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.
19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Voter personal information
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.
19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Condemn threats against Greenland
US citizens: call on Congress to
condemn
threats against Greenland
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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main switchboard is
+1-202-224-3121
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Stop funding deportation thugs
US citizens: write to your senators and rep to
stop
funding
the
deportation
thugs
until they cease their unjustified violence.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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main switchboard is
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Investigate killings by deportation thugs
US citizens: call on Congress to
investigate
all killings
by the
deportation
thugs
See the
instructions
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Billionaires Income Tax
US citizens: call on your representative and senators to
pass
the Billionaires Income Tax
See the
instructions
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without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Push to impeach RFK Jr
US citizens:
Push
to impeach RFK Jr
to defend public health.
See the
instructions
for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Skyrocketing medical costs
US citizens: call on Congress to
hold
down skyrocketing medical costs
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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main switchboard is
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Stop Warner mega-merger
US citizens: call on the DOJ to
stop
the Warner Mega-Merger
We should not allow large companies to get larger through mergers.
19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Challenge RFK jr's attacks on vaccination
US citizens: call on news media to
challenge
RFK jr's attacks on vaccination
19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Cover bully's intimidation honestly
US citizens: call on the mass media to
cover
the bully's intimidation honestly
instead of pretending it is legitimate conduct for a president.
19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Impeach the gnome
US citizens: call on Congress to
impeach the gnome
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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main switchboard is
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Institutional investors
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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instructions
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Refuse funds for deportation thugs
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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instructions
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US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Apple and Google contracts with deportation thugs
US citizens: Call on Apple & Google CEOs to
end
their contracts with the deportation thugs
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instructions
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: EPA authority of energy efficiency of manufactured houses
US citizens: call on Tell Your Senators:
Protect
the EPA's authority
over
energy efficiency of manufactured houses.
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instructions
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Raytheon stock buybacks
US citizens: call on Raytheon's board to
invest
in improvements rather than buying back the company's stock
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instructions
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Magats' attacks on education, housing and other programs
US citizens: call on Congress to
block
the magats' attacks
on
congressionally approved education, housing, and other human needs
programs.
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Bring TJ Sabula back to work
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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instructions
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Stop special business tax breaks
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
in my letter.
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19 January 2026 (
Urgent: Data leakage at Social Security Administration
US citizens: call Senate Crapo to
investigate
the coverup
of data
leakage at the Social Security Administration.
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instructions
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18 January 2026 (
The persecutor’s cannabis order will still leave users at risk of prosecution
*[
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.
18 January 2026 (
Adelaide writers’ week cancelled after Randa Abdel-Fattah's disinvitation
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.
18 January 2026 (
Windows 11 Pretend Intelligence agent
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.
18 January 2026 (
Keith Porter shot by deportation thug for celebratory shot
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
18 January 2026 (
US fits the pattern of a declining empire
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.
18 January 2026 (
The Great Healthcare Plan has no real benefits
*[
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.*
18 January 2026 (
Data centers in space are unfeasible
Data centers in space
would be unfeasible
to launch, unfeasible to
cool, and vulnerable to collisions with space junk.
18 January 2026 (
Pesticides may drastically shorten fish lifespans
*Even low levels of common agricultural pesticides can stunt the
lifespan of fish
.*
They do this by causing shortening of telomeres.
18 January 2026 (
California refused to extradite doctor over abortion pill
California
applied
its shield law
to refuse extradition to Louisiana
of a doctor who mailed abortion pills to a woman in Louisiana.
18 January 2026 (
(satire) Renée Good brainwashed
(satire) *Conservatives Say Renée Good
Was
Brainwashed
By Bible Into Loving Thy Neighbor.*
18 January 2026 (
Palestinian citizen of Israel wins UK asylum
*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?
18 January 2026 (
Acetaminophen does not cause autism
*Taking [acetaminophen] in pregnancy does not raise chances of autism, ADHD or
intellectual disability, "gold standard"
review finds
.*
17 January 2026 (
Smuggled tech in Iran
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.
17 January 2026 (
It could be you next
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.
17 January 2026 (
Bipartisan war powers resolution
*Subject: Trump Bullies Flip-Flopping Senators Into
Defeating Vote
to
Block Venezuela War.*
That was just barely enough to defeat the resolution.
17 January 2026 (
Global survey
[the bully]
is making China – not America – great again,
global
survey suggests.
17 January 2026 (
Urgent: Prevent Big Oil from Destroying Chaco Canyon
US citizens: Call on Interior Secretary Burgum not to let Big
Oil destroy
Chaco
Canyon.
17 January 2026 (
Urgent: Call on Big Tech to cancel contracts
US citizens: call on Big Tech to cancel contracts with
Israel's
government.
17 January 2026 (
Horses response to human sweat
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.
17 January 2026 (
ICE agents intimidation
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.
17 January 2026 (
ICE job offer
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.
17 January 2026 (
Mandated Danish Forces
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.
17 January 2026 (
EPA pollution rules
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.
17 January 2026 (
In defense of Greenland
How can Europe defend Greenland (and the rest of Europe)
from the bully?
17 January 2026 (
Imminent logging
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.
17 January 2026 (
Immigrant visa processing
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.
17 January 2026 (
Fossil fuel phaseout
*1.5°C target likely to
be
passed by
2030.*
17 January 2026 (
Iranian tensions
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.
16 January 2026 (
Labour MPs against restricting animal testing protests
*[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.
16 January 2026 (
Few politicians will go against datacenter companies
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.
16 January 2026 (
Pentagon terminating civilian casualties prevention and tracking
The Pentagon is
saving
money by terminating activities
for avoiding and tracking civilian casualties.
14 January 2026 (
(satire) The Capitol building may have once been used for legislating
(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.*
14 January 2026 (
(satire) Bidding against BlackRock
(satire)
*You're
Bidding Against BlackRock
(for that house).
14 January 2026 (
Farage was a racist at school
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.
14 January 2026 (
Venezuelan oil may backfire
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.
14 January 2026 (
Corrupt presidencies comparison
The
Most Corrupt Presidency Ever
-- compared with others high on the
list.
14 January 2026 (
Bully repeating mistakes from Iraq in Venezuela
The
bully
is repeating
in Venezuela some of the mistakes that the US made
in its conquest of Iraq.
14 January 2026 (
Sadiq Khan reduced violent crime in London
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."
13 January 2026 (
Non-terrorist Palestinian speaker cancelled
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.
13 January 2026 (
Chilling effect on lawful protest
*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.*
13 January 2026 (
Bully wants to impose old imperialist international chaos
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:
13 January 2026 (
Laws that attribute personhood to things which are not people
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.
13 January 2026 (
Republican politicians in Minnesota
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.
13 January 2026 (
Big investors buying single-family homes
*[
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.
13 January 2026 (
Indian government arrested climate defense activists
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
13 January 2026 (
Proposing granting legal rights to all sorts of things
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.
13 January 2026 (
Pervasive monitoring of children
Medical professionals
campaign
against pervasive monitoring of children
13 January 2026 (
RFK diet advice
RFK jr has started
repeating
some diet advice
that is mostly
uncontroversial.
13 January 2026 (
Magat officials blocking funds for needy families with children
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.
13 January 2026 (
Magat officials have taken 1/3 of childhood vaccinations off recommended list
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.
13 January 2026 (
Nations' plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil
*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.
13 January 2026 (
NASA closing of research libraries
NASA, driven by
magats
who don't really like science or historical
investigation, is
closing
more and more of its research libraries
13 January 2026 (
Federal judge blocks White House freeze of childcare subsidies
*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.
13 January 2026 (
US deportation thugs resisted scrutiny for abuse of force
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.
13 January 2026 (
Body cam footage of ICE agent in Minneapolis
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.
13 January 2026 (
FBI "investigation" of killing of Renee Good
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.
13 January 2026 (
Everyone in Iran cut off from the internet
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
13 January 2026 (
Senate passed war powers resolution
The Senate
passed
a war powers resolution
to stop
the bully's
use
of the US army for bullying.
12 January 2026 (
UK cops that infiltrated protests reported to MI5
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.
12 January 2026 (
(satire) Felony Oil Possession
(satire) *Nicolás Maduro
Charged
With Felony Oil Possession
.*
12 January 2026 (
US repression of protesters reaches new level
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.
12 January 2026 (
US has made every other country less safe
*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
.*
12 January 2026 (
Worst Free-Range kids stories of 2025
*It's Safe to Look Back! The
Worst
Free-Range Kids Stories of 2025
.*
12 January 2026 (
Saboteur's purges of US military
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
12 January 2026 (
Failure to condemn US for attacking Venezuela
International failure to condemn the US for attacking Venezuela is likely
to
encourage
Russia and China to aggression
12 January 2026 (
Two conflicting strands of American history
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.
12 January 2026 (
Preparing to help resist threatened US invasion of Greenland
European NATO members are
preparing
to help resist
a threatened US invasion of
Greenland.
12 January 2026 (
One third in US live in areas that could suffer next fire disaster
*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.
12 January 2026 (
America's "leaders" sucking up to saboteur in chief
Most of America's "leaders" are
sucking
up to the saboteur in chief
and worst of all are the billionaire "captains of industry".
12 January 2026 (
Saboteur's reckless drilling plan
"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.
12 January 2026 (
Supercharged oil extraction
"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.
12 January 2026 (
Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Greenland in President's sights
*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.
12 January 2026 (
Massacred Muslims in Delhi
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.
12 January 2026 (
Senate investigating UnitedHellth
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.
12 January 2026 (
Britain following path of fascism
Step by step, Britain is
following
the path of fascism
that Orbán
imposed on Hungary.
12 January 2026 (
Masked deportation thug murdered Renee Nicole Good
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.
12 January 2026 (
Outsourcing state services to companies
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.
12 January 2026 (
Poor people in poor countries burn plastic for heating
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.
11 January 2026 (
Join an ICE-protest today
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.
10 January 2026 (
Urgent: Defeat bill to criminalize protests
11 January 2026 (
Ralph Nader calls on ex-presidents
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.
11 January 2026 (
DHS claims not to have documents
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.
10 January 2026 (
Urgent: Defeat bill to criminalize protests
11 January 2026 (
Dulce Díaz
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.
10 January 2026 (
Urgent: Call on CBS not to slant debate to right wing
US citizens: call on CBS
not
to let its magat news director
slant
debate to the right wing.
10 January 2026 (
US restored part of canceled foreign aid budget
The US has
restored
part of the foreign aid budget
that had canceled
early in 2025.
10 January 2026 (
Toxic dirt in Detroit home demolition sites
*Hundreds of Detroit home demolition sites may have been
filled
with toxic dirt
.*
10 January 2026 (
Waymo robotaxis blocked emergency vehicles
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.
10 January 2026 (
Dry "sertão" region of Brazil became dryer
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.
10 January 2026 (
Ex-marine leading the Vet Voice Foundation
An ex-marine is
leading
the Vet Voice Foundation
, which organizes the
opposition to criminality and authoritarianism in the US military.
10 January 2026 (
Walgreens bought by "private equity" company
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.
10 January 2026 (
Bully punishes hatred that is not on his side
The bully
punishes people for displaying hatred,
when
they are not on his side
and promotes them when they are on his side.
10 January 2026 (
(satire) Species requirements to join deportation thugs
(satire)
[The
government relaxes] species requirements to join [the deportation thugs]
10 January 2026 (
Hepatitis B vaccination delayed from birth to two months later
The antivaxers in control at the CDC voted to
delay
the Hepatitis B vaccination
from birth to two months later.
10 January 2026 (
Prisoners given rotten food and bad water at deportation prison
In the largest deportation prison in the US, the prisoners are
given
rotten food and bad water
10 January 2026 (
Google LLM overviews put people at risk
*Google [LLM] Overviews
put
people at risk
of harm with misleading
health advice.*
The article gives examples and explains them.
10 January 2026 (
FCC proposes to nullify local and state regulations on cellular towers
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.
10 January 2026 (
Persecutor threatening to attack Iran for persecuting protesters
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.
10 January 2026 (
Ralph Nader's criticism of public radio
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.
10 January 2026 (
Mamdani overturns many executive orders
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".
10 January 2026 (
Native plant species blooming in UK winter
* 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.
10 January 2026 (
Unusual heat in Jordan killed most of olive harvest
Unusual heat in Jordan has
killed
most of the olive harvest
and is killing the olive trees too.
10 January 2026 (
Funny cartoon satire of Disney cartoons
A funny cartoon (use yt-dlp HMGD1KCYFOw) satire of Disney cartoons
, targeting
the bully
10 January 2026 (
Bully kidnapped President Maduro and his wife
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.
10 January 2026 (
Government sued over Cape wind offshore generators
The Danish contractor being paid to finish the Cape Wind offshore generators
is
suing
to make the US government resume paying for that
6 January 2026 (
US health institutions no longer dependable
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.
6 January 2026 (
Venezuelan oil focus
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.
6 January 2026 (
US intervention in Venezuela
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.
6 January 2026 (
Self defense
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.
6 January 2026 (
Urgent: Require environmental impact statements on data centers
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.
6 January 2026 (
Urgent: Fully staff Federal Election Commission
US citizens: call on
the corruptor
to
fully
staff the Federal Election Commission
6 January 2026 (
Urgent: Stop news media presenting oversimplified statements about inflation
US citizens: call on news media to
stop
presenting oversimplified statements about inflation
and its effects.
6 January 2026 (
Arbitrary denial of US visas to five Europeans
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.
6 January 2026 (
Robert Reich on American Bar Association and American Medical Association and saboteur in chief
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
6 January 2026 (
Working Americans and Medicaid
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.
6 January 2026 (
Israel doesn't bother to lie about killing journalists
*Israel used to lie about killing journalists; now it
barely
bothers to do so
What happened?*
6 January 2026 (
Banksy image on side of court building
*Court staff
cover
up Banksy image of judge beating a protester
.*
Banksy painted in on the side of a court building.
6 January 2026 (
(satire) Condoms cause autism
(satire) *RFK Jr.
Warns
Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism
.*
6 January 2026 (
Right-wing extremists trying to eliminate equal rights
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.
6 January 2026 (
Waymo driverless taxis during power outage
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.
6 January 2026 (
Crisis Intervention Training for cops
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
6 January 2026 (
Cyrillic letters as "funny" stand-ins for other letters
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.
6 January 2026 (
Plain text transfer of confidential documents
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.
6 January 2026 (
Threats of military trial of Senator Kelly
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.
6 January 2026 (
White House refuses to rule out summary executions
*White House
Refuses
to Rule Out Summary Executions
of People on Its Secret
Domestic Terrorist List.*
6 January 2026 (
Maximum temperature reduction managed by carbon capture
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.
6 January 2026 (
Warnings that machine learning is ripe for abuse
*[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.
5 January 2026 (
Upcoming talk: Atlanta, Georgia
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.
3 January 2026 (
EU: New Rules on Asylum
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.
3 January 2026 (
Investigation of political interference
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.
3 January 2026 (
Trump threatens to move olympics and world cup
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.
3 January 2026 (
SNAP food work requirements
*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.
3 January 2026 (
Trump plan to vet visitors’ social media
The persecutor
plans to impose fear and self-censorship on visitors
from many countries (the ones whose citizens don't need visas to visit
the US) by demanding almost full cooperation with
monitoring of their
past and future communications.
The one thing not demanded is your GPG keys.
There will surely be no stated criterion for what things it is
forbidden to say, so no one could be sure that anything is safe. This
pressure people to hush up any and all forms of opposition to the
persecutor, other
magats
and their cruel laws and policies.
3 January 2026 (
Perennial grains
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.
3 January 2026 (
Vouchers fuel private school tuition hikes
"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.
3 January 2026 (
Returning to the west bank after 20 years
*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.
3 January 2026 (
Safe drinking water bill veto
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.
3 January 2026 (
60 Minutes planned segment pulled
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.
3 January 2026 (
Record wealth in 2025
The world economy is rapidly centralizing ownership of the world
by
enriching
billionaires.
3 January 2026 (
Trump admin childcare funding freeze
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.
3 January 2026 (
Kennedy Center bylaws
How the perverter's new appointees in the Kennedy Center board
arranged to block the other
board
members from voting.
3 January 2026 (
Disturbing reality of US prison food
* In Eating Behind Bars, author Leslie Soble details how food is used to
further punish
incarcerated
people
in the US.*
3 January 2026 (
Dire climate change outcomes
*[Australian] officials warned in 2005 of major economic, environmental and
social disruption to Australia
[in
the future]
due to its dependence on coal.*
3 January 2026 (
Climate Crisis year in review
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.
3 January 2026 (
EU legislation on deforestation
*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.
3 January 2026 (
Protesters against ICE
Several of the
magats'
retaliatory prosecutions have failed for
lack of any basis for
convicting
the accused.
3 January 2026 (
Bad cops and cultural silence
*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.
3 January 2026 (
Israel to ban aid organisations
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.
3 January 2026 (
Bragg soldiers
The wrecker
is trying to corrupt the nonpartisan stance of
the US
military.
3 January 2026 (
Consumer watchdog funding
A judge rejected the
magats'
artificial excuse for cutting off
funding
to the CFPB.
3 January 2026 (
Extreme floods and droughts
*Only a third of world's river basins
experienced
normal conditions
in 2024.*
3 January 2026 (
Honey bee study
Feral honeybees establish themselves in wild areas and are so
successful that they leave insufficient food for all the
other bee
species.
2 January 2026 (
Urgent: Impeach RFK Jr.
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.
2 January 2026 (
Urgent: Reject renaming the Kennedy Center
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.
2 January 2026 (
Urgent: Reject digital state ID systems
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.
2 January 2026 (
Urgent: Condemn official White House enemies list
US citizens:
Condemn
the official White House enemies list
as
an attack on the press and on democracy.
2 January 2026 (
Urgent: Investigate corporate donors for ballroom
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.
2 January 2026 (
Conjecture of purpose of deportation thugs in major cities
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.
The article's text is not visible with LibreJS enabled, but it does
work with Javascript disabled outright.
2 January 2026 (
Stop and search in metropolitan London
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.
2 January 2026 (
Challenge to New South Wale's anti-protest laws
*Activist groups to
challenge
New South Wales's [anti-]protest laws
on right to free speech
grounds.*
2 January 2026 (
Excuse to cancel offshore wind generator projects
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.
2 January 2026 (
Mayor of Manchester apologized to queer people
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.
2 January 2026 (
Plans to store prisoners for deportation in warehouses
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.
2 January 2026 (
ChatGPT leads user into world of delusions
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.
2 January 2026 (
Canada adopting artificial restrictions on applying for asylum
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.
2 January 2026 (
Persecution of Cop City protesters continues
The
persecution
of Cop City protesters continues
as the US Department
of Injustice retains seized property (letters, phones, etc) of many
protesters for years.
2 January 2026 (
Economic danger of "AI" bubble
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.
2 January 2026 (
Magat plan to eliminate National Center for Atmospheric Research
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.
2 January 2026 (
Delivering cutting-edge therapies
* 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.
2 January 2026 (
UK group that accepts donations for Palestine has bank account frozen
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
2 January 2026 (
Coping with future of climate disaster
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.
2 January 2026 (
Protecting rainforest of Darien Gap
Protecting
the rainforest
of the Darien Gap.
2 January 2026 (
Don't write of protest movements
In general,
protest
movements are often very effective
— don't write
them off.
2 January 2026 (
Versions of Christianity that takes care of people
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.
2 January 2026 (
UK government's new "national security" law
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.
2 January 2026 (
Billboards near military bases
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.
2 January 2026 (
China's support helping Burmese military rulers
China's support is
helping
the Burmese military rulers
recover from a
very weak situation.
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