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2025-02-20 03:36:30

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[2/2] Washington's.* I think Tr-usk are too focused on breaking and subjugating the American people, especially nonwhites and women, to be concerned about anything as remote as a future contest with China.

2025-02-19 15:59:52

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[3/3] that, for as long as the haters remain in power. It will be a way of saying, "Yes, I know you could fire me in a vindictive way, but I'm prepared for that and you don't scare me!"

2025-02-19 14:21:34

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[2/2] and the muskrat are aiming to do with the US is something like this.

2025-02-19 14:21:33

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/uk-based-lawyers-for-hong-kong-activist-jimmy-lai-targeted-by-chinese-state
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#musk
The British lawyers working in Britain to defend Hong Kong democracy activist Jimmy Lai have been hit by a campaign of threats of violence and cracking attacks on their bank accounts as well as other forms of cracking and physical harassment. We have to presume that what the wrecker

2025-02-19 14:05:58

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#musk
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/13/us-department-of-state-plans-to-spend-400m-on-tesla-armoured-vehicles-elon-musk
The muskrat is determined to cut government spending, except when it is buying from his own company.

2025-02-19 13:49:45

https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/stop-trump-deportation-funding-guantanamo/
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://stallman.orgtel:+12022243121
US citizens: call on Congress to block funding for the wrecker's deportation machine. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

2025-02-18 02:02:04

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/elon-musk-owning-openai-trump-ai-sam-altman
*Elon Musk owning OpenAI would be a terrible idea. That doesn't mean it won't happen.*

2025-02-18 01:08:51

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/10/right-to-die-dignified-death-assisted-dying-bill-safeguarding
The UK assisted suicide bill will employ a panel of a judge, a psychiatrist and a social worker to make sure that the person requesting this is doing so voluntarily. I think that is reasonable. However, the part of the bill I still criticize is that it is limited to people who are going to die anyway in a few months. What about the people whose lives have become useless

2025-02-18 00:01:48

https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2024/Research-News/Unprecedented-ocean-heating-shows-risks-of-a-world-3C-warmer
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
Climate models predict that the *record-high ocean temperatures observed in 2023 could become the norm* with 3°C of global heating.

2025-02-17 21:29:51

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/new-york-protest-trump-immigration-policies
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
New Yorkers resisting the deportation thugs.

2025-02-17 20:37:09

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[3/3] link, to avoid normalizing the article's own bigotry. I concluded that the first goal could not be neglected, and made the link. But the second goal also should not be neglected -- hence this note to criticize the article's own bigotry.

2025-02-17 20:37:07

[1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/11/dei-trump-republicans-racism
Republicans use "DEI" as a racist dogwhistle - to presume, based on nothing at all, that every black is unqualified for per job. I linked above to that article because it tells us something important about racism. Racism is an intense form of bigotry; it is a collective injustice that I condemn, and support the campaign against. I think making a link to that article will help that campaign. Ironically,

2025-02-17 08:56:24

[1/2] https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/save-act/
https://stallman.orgtel:+12022243121
US citizens: call on Congress to defeat the SAVE Act. "This baseless voter suppression bill would create unnecessary barriers to voting for [nonwhites], young people, disabled people, transgender people, people with low incomes, tribal voters, rural voters, survivors of natural and climate disasters, and military families, not to mention the tens of millions of married women who have changed their

2025-02-15 08:44:57

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[2/2] fashion.

2025-02-15 03:40:03

[1/2] https://popular.info/p/the-nsas-big-delete
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#magat
The NSA is now blinding itself to concerns of justice and/or rational thought, by ordering the deletion of web pages that use the terms "injustice" or "confirmation bias" - as well as many others. This policy threatens to wipe discussions of whether policies are just or unjust, and discussions of whether certain arguments are valid or not. The deletion campaign is intended to wipe anything that

2025-02-14 12:10:38

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#musk
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/30/donald-trump-elon-musk-genetics-science-right
The wrecker and the muskrat use two different naive misunderstandings of genetics to advocate eugenics.

2025-02-14 11:21:00

https://share.transistor.fm/s/082c8fce/transcript.txt
How the Iron Man film of 2008 was designed as propaganda for the US military.

2025-02-14 09:06:13

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[2/2] art that is presented as, or appears to be, fiction or art.

2025-02-14 08:47:08

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[2/2] clearly active, because The only way he could have got this power is because the muskrat gave the command. Elez resigned from the muskrat's employ after he was linked to flaming racist posting, but the muskrat now says he will rehire Elez. After all, why would a Nazi sympathizer like the muskrat object to racism?

2025-02-14 08:26:40

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[3/3] running nonfree software, and I never urge the public to do so.

2025-02-14 07:23:23

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[2/2] I don't think he will care whether this cease fire continues as long as he can make the situation be about him.

2025-02-14 07:07:23

[1/4] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/08/trump-plastic-straws
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Recycling_plastics_can_release_microplastics)
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-nov-feb.html#20_February_2024_(Feasibility_of_plastic_recycling)
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Plastic_recycling)
The trasher thinks of the environment as an enemy and yearn to trash it at every opportunity, even in small ways, to demonstrate his

2025-02-14 06:05:55

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/02/people-are-really-angry-fury-over-musk-and-doge-triggers-spike-in-calls-to-congress/
*Fury Over Musk and DOGE Triggers Spike in Calls to Congress.* *Members of Congress say they are being flooded with calls from angry constituents about President Donald Trump's Director of the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk, and what he is doing inside the federal government.*

2025-02-14 05:41:17

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/brandon-russell-neo-nazi-bomb-plot-trial
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
A US neo-Nazi leader has been convicted of planning to attack power grid facilities with a bomb. It's a shame that the FBI won't be willing to investigate possible ties to the wrecker's followers.

2025-02-14 05:21:24

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/super-bowl-sudan-gaza-protest
*Performer in Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl show [questioned by "security"] on field after holding up Sudan-and-Gaza combined flag.

2025-02-12 02:47:26

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/07/the-guardian-view-on-trump-and-the-international-criminal-court-following-the-law-of-the-jungle
The Guardian suggests that the wrecker's attack on the International Criminal Court bespeaks his preference for the law of the jungle.

2025-02-11 07:00:24

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/04/climate-change-target-of-2c-is-dead-says-renowned-climate-scientist
James Hanson says that <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating is going faster than predicted, showing that human-caused greenhouse gases have a bigger effect than was assumed in modeling. (Other climate scientists disagree.) He concludes that it is impossible now to avoid 2°C of

2025-02-11 03:20:46

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/politics/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-system/index.html
*[Musk rats] sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending, emails show.

2025-02-11 02:52:52

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[2/2] wrecking crew make a monkey out of him, by rejecting the claim that although a payment shutdown order had been "rescinded", the shutdown was still in effect. This will eventually come to the Supreme Court, dominated by right-wing extremists. Will they choose between loyalty to their country and its freedom? Or obedience to their master?

2025-02-09 07:42:20

[1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/06/ukraine-war-briefing-bomber-dies-in-attack-on-army-recruitment-centre
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-sep-dec.html#6_December_2023_(Israel_using_computer_systems_to_choose_where_to_bomb)
Ukraine's military intends to make armed robotic vehicles to deploy at the front. *"Our goal is to create a military where innovative technologies help perform the most dangerous tasks, saving the lives of our defenders," he said.* That goal is fine,

2025-02-09 06:23:27

https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/doge-musk-cuts-social-security/?t=1003
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#musk
https://stallman.orgtel:+12022243121
*Call on Congress to protect Social Security and Medicare from the muskrat.* If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

2025-02-09 03:07:20

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[2/2] very hard to negotiate with. If they do, I will say that is good. However, let's keep a sense of proportion. This success, if it happens, would not come near to compensating for the harm he has done to the US in the past 3 weeks, or the wrong of the rigged election of 2024.

2025-02-08 14:19:56

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/trump-national-monuments
The wrecker proposes to let allow fossil fuel extraction in national monuments. That could poison the wildlife in the short term, but in the long term the world's fossil fuel policy is to let the billionaires make civilization collapse.

2025-02-08 13:30:41

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/06/google-edits-super-bowl-ad-for-ai-that-featured-false-information
Google used its bullshit generator to make an ad for its bullshit generator, and the ad had a glaring factual error, which Google had to use human editing to fix.

2025-02-08 13:13:36

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/climate/trump-california-water-dams-reservoirs/index.html
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
The wrecker sabotaged California farmers by opening dams and releasing water that was being saved to give to them in the summer, when they will need it. He pretended that this was a way to help fight fires in Los Angeles, but (1) LA does not have a shortage of water overall, and (2) the water will not

2025-02-08 12:34:40

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/project-2025-federal-worker-blacklist
A right-wing extremist organization is compiling lists of government employees that it labels as "woke". That organization has no real power to hurt them, but it surely believes it is providing guidance for right-wing extremist political appointees who would be glad to punish or fire those employees without bothering to offer justification.

2025-02-07 14:22:34

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/medical-debt-reform-trump
The persecutor "paused" the CFPB's regulatory work, including the regulation not to include medical debt in people's credit reports. This was a weak response to the problem that medical costs were ruining Americans, but it had the advantage that the executive branch could do it without support from Congress. The stronger measures were blocked by Republicans.

2025-02-07 11:53:03

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[2/2] that their country won't be the United States of constitutional rights that they used to be loyal to. Disobeying your country's rulers is not betrayal if they have betrayed your country already.

2025-02-07 10:46:23

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/fbi-jan-6-trump-doj
*FBI agents sue the ... DoJ over effort to target January 6 investigation workers.*

2025-01-24 16:25:52

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/21/trump-birthright-citizenship-lawsuit
*Eighteen Democratic-led states sue over Trump birthright citizenship order.*

2025-01-24 15:47:15

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/20/my-arrest-was-illogical-released-palestinians-decry-their-imprisonment
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(Global_reporting,_journalism_statistics)
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_April_2024_(Professors_support_for_violated_rights_of_arrested_students)
The stories of Palestinian prisoners released by Israel display a pattern of arbitrary and exaggerated grounds that resemble those of supporters

2025-01-24 15:23:40

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[2/2] stimulate growth so as to collect more taxes. That effectively requires letting businesses get away with various sorts of unfairness: they threaten that they won't grow unless they are given privileges, such as unfair competition.

2025-01-24 15:23:39

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/21/chair-of-competition-watchdog-steps-down-after-labour-intervention
The UK Labour government is going soft on monopolies, or at least proclaims that it will. This is an example of the sort of harmful consequences that follow from deciding not to tax the rich. The UK need money to fix all the things that the Tory government broke and the only way to get enough is to tax the rich. Since it won't do that, it has to claim that it will

2025-01-24 14:55:49

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/21/south-korea-democracy-president-scandal
*South Korean democracy was nearly toppled by its president. It was saved by its people.* Imagine Koreans, years from now, celebrating Impeachment Day as the day that Koreans saved democracy. Since we are imagining, we can imagine a future in which they celebrate all across Korea.

2025-01-24 14:34:32

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/20/palestinians-search-gaza-missing-return-ruined-homes
*Palestinians begin search for Gaza's missing as they return to ruined homes.* Many people know that relatives were inside a certain building when it was bombed and then collapsed. Those relatives are listed as missing but they are almost surely dead. The city of Beit Lahia has been turned entirely into rubble. I think that is true of a lot more.

2025-01-24 14:12:11

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[2/2] Jeremy Corbyn. The thugs are treating protests in support of Gaza as antisemitism, which they are not.

2025-01-24 14:12:10

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/19/jeremy-corbyn-john-mcdonnell-police-pro-palestine-march-london
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Jeremy_Corbyn's_seat_of_Islington_North)
British thugs arrested two members of parliament, along with other people, for breaching rigid customized restrictions on where they could go while protesting Israel's attacks on Gaza. One was

2025-01-21 06:00:05

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@nprofile…zw4s @nprofile…4jyj Contrary to certain misconceptions, what actually happens is this: the political notes are posted, and the person who has set this up operates a bridge between Mastodon and email on my behalf. This means that I (RMS) do indeed get all replies through the bridge and send email responses to the bridging software to post on Mastodon. but I do so only on occasions where I believe it is warranted.

2025-01-21 04:57:29

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[2/2] efforts at voter suppression. Will we get our democracy back?

2025-01-21 04:57:28

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/14/first-thing-special-counsel-jack-smith-trump-convicted-2020-election
https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#13_October_2020_(Voter_suppression)
Special counsel Jack Smith believes that the corrupter would have been convicted of various crimes related to trying to steal the 2020 election, if his grabbing the presidency had not got him off the hook. Greg assert claims that the corrupter would have lost in 2024 if not for new

2025-01-21 04:32:58

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[2/2] their boyfriends, "If you want to go to bed with me, first give me a set of abortion pills just in case." But there is no obvious way for a man to obtain these prescription medicines and be sure they are not fake.

2025-01-21 04:32:57

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/14/texas-anti-abortion-bills-filed
Religious fanatics in Texas are proposing many schemes to attack or block those who send, prescribe or help fund abortion pills for pregnant Texans. I fear that the new saboteur in chief will encourage federal laws to support the fanatics. The poor and meek do not escape If they conspire the law to break. This must be so, but they endure, Those who conspire to make the law. Women might consider saying to

2025-01-21 04:07:14

https://theconversation.com/im-a-neuroscientist-who-taught-rats-to-drive-their-joy-suggests-how-anticipating-fun-can-enrich-human-life-239029
Rats display many signs of joy when given the chance to drive a rat-sized car. Rats that have grown up with toys show mental flexibility: when given the chance to drive rat-sized cars, the rats with interesting environments learn faster.

2025-01-21 03:51:33

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/13/meta-moderators-texas-zuckerberg-trump
* Ex-workers say [Zuckerburg's] declaring relocation of moderation and safety teams from California just a play for [the bullshitter's] approval.* Bullshitting in support of him is another expression of support. It announces that henceforth Zuckerberg will say what pleases the bullshitter, regardless of the facts.

2025-01-21 03:27:33

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/15/uk-should-seek-new-customs-union-with-eu-lib-dems-to-say
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-jan-apr.html#23_March_2024_(Penury_and_child_poverty,_UK)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/16/donald-trump-uk-state-visit-ukraine-summit-lib-dems-ed-davey
The Liberal Democrats, a UK political party, will advocate making a new customs union with the EU. This is what Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party said he was in favor of. The

2025-01-21 03:07:02

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/18/keon-west-science-of-racism-book-extract
Scientific experiments show that most people in Britain underestimate the amount of racism that is actually present in society and underestimate how racist each one individually is.

2025-01-21 02:12:09

US citizens: phone your representatives and senators and call on them to protect funding for NPR and PBS. They are far from perfect. They feel obliged to take a "balanced" view even in an unbalanced situation. But they will help resist fascism.

2025-01-21 01:55:28

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/14/big-tech-picking-apart-europe-democracy-switch-off-algorithms
Someone else is now saying that we must put an end to big tech's use of recommendation algorithms to get users addicted (and, along the way, to push right-wing disinformation on them).

2025-01-21 01:40:22

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[3/3] help convince Americans not to trust his "positions".

2025-01-21 01:40:21

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[2/3] bullshitter] Decried [sneaky FISA law surveillance on Americans] as a Deep State Spy Weapon. His Nominees Sure Seem to Love It.* For more information about this, see a recent law three degrees of separation a comparison with the UK about secret FISA court It is useless to point out the inconsistencies between the bullshitter's proclaimed "views" or "positions" and his specific actions to put pressure on him. He doesn't really believe those "positions". But showing these examples may

2025-01-21 01:40:20

[1/3] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bullshitter
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/15/trump-nominees-fbi-cia-surveillance-fisa-702/
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_December_2024_(Powers_of_US_government_to_snoop)
https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_(Three_degrees_of_separation_from_a_terrorist_suspect)
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#21_June_2015_(ISP_data_retention)
https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_(Retired_FISA_Judge_speaks_out_against_secret_courts)
*[The

2025-01-21 00:00:39

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/tulip-siddiq-resignation-corruption-allegations-bangladesh
*Bangladeshi and British politics collided to bring down Tulip Siddiq.*

2025-01-20 23:31:39

https://theonion.com/lapd-arrests-everyone-who-lost-home-in-fire/
(satire) *LAPD Arrests Everyone Who Lost Home In Fire.*

2025-01-20 23:14:29

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/16/uk-accused-of-undermining-democratic-rights-with-climate-protest-crackdown
* Britain’s crackdown on climate protest is setting "a dangerous precedent" around the world and undermining democratic rights, the UK director of Human Rights Watch has said.*

2025-01-20 22:53:12

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/15/supreme-court-porn-age-verification/
One of the Project 2025 fanatics told people that the "age verification" requirements are a sneaky way of moving to ban porn.

2025-01-20 22:32:56

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[2/2] "pro-Israel" or "pro-Palestine". We should be anti-atrocity, condemning the heinous atrocities of Israel and Palestine but not hating either people. I agree with Bretherton's conclusions, condemning the British government for its repressive imprisonment of nonviolent protesters.

2025-01-20 22:32:55

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/18/pro-palestine-activist-time-inside-prison
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Israeli-Palestinian_peace_process)
The UK sentenced activist Stuart Bretherton to a few months in prison for a forbidden protest that was entirely nonviolence and did no damage to anything. It is clear that his "crime" was nothing other than the act of criticizing the government. I continue to believe that it is an error to be

2025-01-20 22:10:32

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/15/climate-whiplash-events-increasing-exponentially-around-world
* Global heating means atmosphere can drive both extreme droughts and floods with rapid switches. ...The research found that almost everywhere on the planet has experienced between 31% and 66% more whiplash events since the mid-20th century, as emissions from fossil fuel burning heated the atmosphere.*

2025-01-20 21:53:05

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/15/a-stern-message-how-return-of-trump-loomed-over-gaza-ceasefire-negotiations
Reportedly the thought of disobeying the fascist leader made Netanyahu realize he had to accept Biden's ceasefire plan. The plan involves a temporary truce and exchanging 33 female hostages for Palestinian prisoners.

2025-01-20 21:34:47

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[2/2] to make a purchase, don't make a tracked digital payment. Instead, get cash out of an ATM and pay with that. The surveillance system will get less data about you from the ATM! Don't just take out the amount needed for that one purchase. Withdraw enough money to last you for a few days. That way, for your next few payments you will have enough cash.

2025-01-20 21:34:46

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jan/14/atm-withdrawals-on-the-rise-cash-uk-nationwide-shotton
Older Britons are moving back to cash payment, but most young people can't summon up the will to escape from tracked digital payments. the first step is to make sure you carry a reasonable amount of cash. You can decide to have cash on hand, then each time you leave the house take a reasonable amount with you. After a week or two it will become a habit. When you don't have enough cash

2025-01-20 21:17:40

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[2/2] proper governance, we cannot expert per to stand up to the Republican base who are fanatically loyal to the wrecker. As the article explains at the end, in the past Republicans could do so.

2025-01-20 21:17:39

[1/2] https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-shame-of-hegseth
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
Hegseth, the middle-finger nominee for Secretary of Defense, wants to bring back the base names that honor traitors who fought for the Confederacy. In addition he is accused of various sorts of personal misconduct. It seems he objects to allowing honesty and patriotism to infiltrate the US military. What Senator Ernst did shows that any time a Republican shows a sign of concern for

2025-01-20 20:57:39

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/18/julie-su-labor-secretary-biden-trump
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Labor_praise)
* Julie Su, acting labor secretary, fears many of Biden’s pro-worker policies will be undone by the new administration.* These policies are among those that led me to describe Biden as 1/3 progressive. Which is a lot better than not progressive at all.

2025-01-19 16:52:43

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[2/2] him to delay the deal to give the wrecker a chance to claim the credit. But it could also be a matter of appeasing his extreme right-wing supporters who demand "total victory" and object to anything less.

2025-01-19 16:52:42

[1/2] https://theintercept.com/2025/01/15/israel-hamas-ceasefire-biden-netanyahu-deaths/
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/16/netanyahu-theatrics-loyalties-pressure-ceasefire-deal
*Israel Agrees to the Ceasefire [deal that] It Rejected Months Ago, [since which time] Thousands More Died.* However, there are reports Netanyahu is reneging on the deal already. (Sorry, I don't have a link for this.) I have a suspicion that the wrecker asked

2025-01-19 16:25:53

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/16/islamist-groups-middle-east-gaza-war-weakened-ceasefire-hamas-hezbollah
The possible end of the war in Gaza sees Iran's Islamist allies greatly weakened, and the legitimacy of Israel's cause cast into deep doubt.

2025-01-19 16:10:05

Richard Stallman will give a talk in Montpellier, France Jan 20 at 18:30 Location: Salle du Conseil de l'Hotel de la Métropole, à Montpellier. Language: En français Streaming: if this is arranged, a URL will be posted here. If you arrange a libre streaming URL for the talk by Monday, please email it to stallman-org@gnu.org. They can post it.

2025-01-19 15:49:49

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/15/joe-biden-farewell-address-trump-oligarchy-america
*Joe Biden warns ‘oligarchy is taking shape in America’ in farewell address.* I wish he had campaigned about this.

2025-01-19 03:39:13

https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/we-deserve-the-full-truth-about-trumps-alleged-crimes?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=011125-garland-trump-report
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#corrupter
US citizens: call on Attorney General Garland to release the report of the investigation into alleged crimes by the corrupter.

2025-01-19 03:21:09

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[2/2] visible, and I pointed it out years ago.

2025-01-19 03:21:08

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/climate-crisis-la-california-wildfires
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-jan-apr.html#15_April_2021_(Climate_emergency_is_here)
https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#7_July_2012_(US_Corporate_Media)
*With few exceptions, the news has shied away from showing how the unfolding climate crisis plays a large role in the [LA fire] disaster.* The US media have taken this approach ever since the effects of global heating became

2025-01-18 14:16:12

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/11/i-felt-less-human-not-human-at-all-australia-faces-moral-crossroads-over-nauru
The recent UN human rights ruling affirms the principle that Australia bears full responsibility for the offshore immigration prison it established with the help of Nauru, and for the harm that it does to the prisoners.

2025-01-18 13:54:43

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/15/stand-up-and-be-counted-six-ways-to-protest-that-will-make-your-voice-heard
What science concludes about making protests more or less effective.

2025-01-18 13:36:11

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/11/trump-musk-zuckerberg-war-on-facts-truth-pushback-now
Zuckerberg once apologized for feeding Americans Russian disinformation. Now, keeling to the corrupter, he calls that part of Facebook's mission.

2025-01-18 13:06:16

https://www.commondreams.org/news/united-healthcare-surgery-coverage
United Hellth pursues denial of coverage so assiduously that its agent phoned a surgeon to argue an operation was not necessary, just as she was in the process of performing it.

2025-01-18 12:39:48

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#s-i-c
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-team-takes-aim-at-crown-jewel-of-us-climate-research/
The saboteur-in-chief's supporters are trying to give the right-wing global heating denialists power over the National Climate Assessment, hitherto directed and made by climate scientists.

2025-01-18 12:23:43

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/11/trump-silicon-valley
The major tech CEOs are eager to become vassals of the man who would be king of the United States. Like Russian oligarchs, they may make billions with his approval, but they will be required to uphold his dominion over us.

2025-01-18 12:07:39

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/10/climate-crisis-billionaire-class
*To resist the climate crisis, we must resist the billionaire class.*

2025-01-18 11:22:50

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/05/trump-voting-rights-justice-department
Experts warn that the fascist leader could direct DoJ officials to scale back enforcement of Voting Rights Act.

2025-01-18 10:53:35

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[2/2] for them.

2025-01-18 10:53:33

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/12/italy-releases-iranian-man-wanted-by-us-over-drone-attack-in-jordan
Iran's arrest of visiting Italian journalist Cecilia Sala seems to have been a response to Italy's arrest of an Iranian accused of making a drone attack on a US base in Jordan. It seems that Italy made a deal with Iran to release both of them in order to rescue Ms Sala. Iran seems to be using China's method for getting its agents out of jail: arrest hostages to exchange

2025-01-18 10:09:53

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[2/2] would feel like not linking to that article.

2025-01-18 10:09:52

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/12/note-to-no-10-one-speed-doesnt-fit-all-when-it-comes-to-online-safety
The UK's "internet safety" law makes operating a specialized noncontroversial nonsexual conversation forum dangerously unsafe. One site that supports hundreds of them is closing them all. The way the word "content" is used in that article, as if it were a kind of substance or commodity, fills me with disgust every time I see it. If the issue were not pressing, I

2025-01-18 09:44:57

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#magat
https://newrepublic.com/article/190034/transcript-trumps-ugly-eruptions-wildfires-hint-darker-story
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/trump-musk-california-democrats-wildfires-00197080
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#musk
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/12/elon-musk-and-the-new-world-order-the-hijacking-of-the-global-conversation
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#trump
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/10/musk-farage-trump-crave-attention-populist-trolling
The

2025-01-17 03:03:32

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/14/who-is-tulip-siddiq-niece-of-deposed-bangladeshi-pm-who-quit-treasury-role
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_January_2023_(Leadership_protests,_Bangladesh)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/14/videos-reveal-new-incidents-of-deadly-brutality-by-bangladesh-police
Tulip Siddiq, the UK treasury minister, has resigned because of criticism that her aunt was until recently the president/dictator of Bangladesh, Sheikh

2025-01-17 02:46:35

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[5/5] of supporting the campaign without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious) software.

2025-01-17 02:46:34

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[4/5] that URL. This should give you a version of the page that works without JavaScript. Edit the subject and body of your letter. Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done. This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender. Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is a small effort for the result

2025-01-17 02:46:33

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[3/5] side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter. Then click the "START WRITING" button. That will take you to a page that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it doesn't function perversely _by running_ that nonfree code, you can enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript.) You can finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's address bar, as follows: First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'. Then tell the browser to visit

2025-01-17 02:46:31

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[2/5] JavaScript in your browser or are using the LibreJS plug-in. I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work without javascript!" They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one. To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the right