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Urgent: reject Bill Pulte for Director
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#9_June_2026_(Urgent:_senate_reject_bill_pulte)
Published: June 10, 2026 08:38
US citizens: call on your senators to reject Bill Pulte for Director of National Intelligence. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code — not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: USPS vote by mail rule
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#9_June_2026_(Urgent:_usps_vote_by_mail_rule)
Published: June 10, 2026 08:38
US citizens: call on USPS to withdraw its proposed limits on who can vote by mail. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code — not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Boycott Home Depot
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#9_June_2026_(Urgent:_home_depot_boycott)
Published: June 10, 2026 08:38
US citizens: call on Home Depot and Lowe's to stop spying on customers.
Urgent: tell congress no child should be separated
Published: June 10, 2026 08:38
US citizens: call on Congress to require that deportation thugs not separate a child from per family.
Sea level rise
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#9_June_2026_(un_world_ocean_assessment)
Published: June 10, 2026 08:38
Summarizing the state of protecting the oceans, both surface and bottom, from damage by human society.
Home Office-sponsored report
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#9_June_2026_(home_office_china_report)
Published: June 10, 2026 08:38
The author of a UK government report on drug trade in the UK run by China reports on repeated attempts to corrupt him.
Losing track of a prisoner
Published: June 10, 2026 08:38
Prisons in the US sometimes lose track of a prisoner, making it impossible for relatives and lawyers to contact per. The result is terrible. This article focuses on Malik Muhammad; Oregon sent per into a South Carolina prison and per family could not …
Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#9_June_2026_(israeli_prisons_palestinian_datainees)
Published: June 10, 2026 08:38
Palestinians testify about being beaten and raped in Israeli prisons. No matter what the reason for putting someone in prison, even if it was a sentence resulting from a fair trial, torturing per is never justified.
Todd Blanche’s nomination
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#9_June_2026_(todd_blanche_trump_attorney)
Published: June 10, 2026 08:38
The bully's nominee for attorney general has been one of his henchmen since 2023. He has already attempted many injustices for his master.
Urgent: Save the World Cup Act
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#8_June_2026_(Urgent:_Save_the_World_Cup_Act)
Published: June 8, 2026 20:38
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the Save the World Cup Act, which would protect World Cup soccer games from the deportation thugs. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree…
Urgent: Keep public fund away from private schools
Published: June 8, 2026 20:38
US citizens: call on your congresscritter to keep public funds from being diverted to private schools. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard. US citizens: Join…
Urgent: Preserve LIHEAP funds
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#8_June_2026_(Urgent:_Preserve_LIHEAP_funds)
Published: June 8, 2026 20:38
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to preserve LIHEAP funds to help poor people pay for heating and cooling. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not…
Urgent: Plan to increase maritime speed limits
Published: June 8, 2026 20:38
US citizens: Stop the wrecker's plan to increase the maritime speed limits that protect Atlantic right whales from extinction. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not…
Urgent: Workers at Amazon calling 911 in an emergency
Published: June 8, 2026 20:38
US citizens: call on Amazon's VP of Workplace Safety to tell workers directly that they are allowed to call 911 in an emergency. The recommended letter text encouraged telling workers that specifically using some cr...app, which is surely nonfree, so I…
Urgent: Investigate Supreme Court ethics
Published: June 8, 2026 20:38
US citizens: call on Congress to investigate Supreme Court ethics. 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.
Urgent: Billionaires are shaping primaries
Published: June 8, 2026 20:38
US citizens: Billionaires are shaping primaries — call on your congresscritter and senators to reform the funding system. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard. …
Urgent: Taxing Buybacks from Big Oil Windfalls Act
Published: June 8, 2026 20:38
US citizens: call on your senators to pass the Taxing Buybacks from Big Oil Windfalls 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…
Urgent: Support universal medical system
Published: June 8, 2026 20:38
US citizens: call on Congress to support a universal medical system ("Medicare 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…
Urgent: Block NSA from warrantless spying
Published: June 8, 2026 20:38
US citizens: call on Congress to block the NSA from warrantless spying on Americans. 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…
Urgent: Reject massive government surveillance
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
US citizens: make phone calls to your officials in Congress to reject massive government surveillance. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. …
Urgent: Renew section 702 of PAT RIOT Act
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
US citizens: call on Congress to renew section 702 of the PAT RIOT Act without the loophole that permits snooping on Americans. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard…
Urgent: Gambling workers' retirement savings
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
US citizens: call on the Department of Labor to Stop Private Equity and Crypto Scammers from Gambling with Workers' Retirement Savings. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial,…
Important witness in George Zimmerman trial
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
George Zimmerman may have escaped conviction for shooting Trayvon Martin because an important witness for the prosecution spoke with a strong accent of her ethnic group. I wonder whether courts ought to offer accent interpreters for witnesses whose…
Corrupter's slush fund
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#3_June_2026_(Corrupter's_slush_fund)
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
*The corrupter has created a slush fund of taxpayer money to give to his friends.*
The US has indicted Raúl Castro
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#3_June_2026_(The_US_has_indicted_Raúl_Castro)
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
The US has indicted Raúl Castro, ex-president of Cuba, accusing him of ordering an attack on two small planes in 1996. According to Wikipedia, the planes were dropping leaflets "to fall on Cuba". There is some slack in the…
Cops who defended the Capitol are suing
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
Cops who defended the Capitol against the anti-American's Jan 6 attack are suing, claiming that the anti-American's slush fund is corrupt support for crime.
Redirecting Ukrainian drones
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#3_June_2026_(Redirecting_Ukrainian_drones)
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
NATO and the EU accuse the Putin forces of redirecting Ukrainian drones and sending them over Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. I don't see any sense in the resignation of Latvia's prime minister over this. The right thing to do is to develop a…
Erdoğan's government removed main opposition party
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
Erdoğan's government has just removed the head of the main opposition party, Özgür Özel, by invalidating the party's leadership contest held over two years ago. Its previous leader, who now becomes leader again, lost an election to Erdoğan in 2023. …
Muslims debanked on vague suspicions
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#3_June_2026_(Muslims_debanked_on_vague_suspicions)
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
Muslims (and Muslim charities) are often debanked based on vague suspicions — because banks have been told to deny banking service to terrorists, but they have no valid way to identify the few who really are terrorists.
Repression on indigenous rights activists in Russia
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
Indigenous rights activists in Russia face harsh repression. As in Canada and the US, indigenous groups find mining and extraction put their health in danger, and they try to resist.
Violent attacks on activists on Gaza aid flotilla
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
Many of the activists seized on the latest Gaza aid flotilla suffered violent attacks after the Israeli troops captured them. They began the violence on the aid boats, after seizing them, and continued it afterward against the captives in prison. They…
Ecuador suffering from "war on drugs"
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#3_June_2026_(Ecuador_suffering_from_war_on_drugs)
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
Ecuador has suffered from a repressive "war on drugs" since 2024, with soldiers kidnapping, torturing, and killing people, and showing no reasons for any of it.
Judge dismisses criminal indictment against Kilmar Ábrego García
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
*US judge dismisses criminal indictment against Kilmar Ábrego García,* saying that the prosecution was politically based.
Torture inflicted on Gaza aid flotilla activists
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
Australians on the Gaza aid flotilla describe many kinds of torture that were inflicted on them by the anonymous, masked Israeli soldiers and prison guards.
Global heating marches steadily on
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#3_June_2026_(Global_heating_marches_steadily_on)
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
Global heating marches steadily on, with a possible record marine heat-wave on the US Pacific coast, along with a record low amount of snow in the Rocky Mountains. This occurring with water already in shortage could result in a painful scarcity of water…
Spread of abuse of Palestinians in Israel's prison system
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
Minister of "security" Ben-Gvir spread abuse of Palestinians in Israel's prison system. This has been covered occasionally. Now he has trained similar abuse on foreign activists, and some countries are rebuking Israel for this. But the foreign…
Exiled dissidents from Salafi Arabia
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#3_June_2026_(Exiled_dissidents_from_Salafi_Arabia)
Published: June 4, 2026 08:37
Major anti-social media platforms have blocked access to the accounts of some exiled dissidents from Salafi Arabia so that they can't be seen inside Salafi Arabia.