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Contaminated flowers can ruin bees
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#13_July_2025_(Contaminated_flowers_can_ruin_bees)
Published: July 14, 2025 08:38
Wildflowers growing on contaminated soil can absorb arsenic, cadmium, chromium and lead from it, and pass them on to bees. It damages he bees' memory, which can wipe out the hive.
Iran deporting Afghan refugees
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#13_July_2025_(Iran_deporting_Afghan_refugees)
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
Iran is deporting 4 million Afghan refugees in a hurry. Many are single women, who under Afghanistan's repressive laws can't even leave the border post. With their prospects, death is an escape. Why, I wonder, do they obligingly walk to the border…
Urgent: Protect funding for public media
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
US citizens: phone your senators and urge each one to protect the funding for public media. Here's a suggested script that I am passing along with changes. Of course, you can say what you wish to say. Hello! My name is [First Name]. I'm a constituent…
Palantir's use of personal data from US government
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
Everyone: write to Palantir's board of directors and call on them to explain what they are doing with personal data from the US government. In my letter I called on Palentir never to process that data together with any personal data obtained in any other…
Charges against Mario Guevara dropped
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#13_July_2025_(Charges_against_Mario_Guevara_dropped)
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
Charges against Mario Guevara have been dropped. When brought to court, they proved to be garbage.
Tesla stays afloat as a seller of greenhouse gas offsets
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
Greg Palast: Tesla stays afloat as a seller of greenhouse gas offsets. *So, my dear green friends, when you buy a Tesla, you're not reducing your carbon footprint by a quarter inch, because Musk is selling your good intentions to General Motors so they…
Australia's oldest rock art
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#13_July_2025_(Australia's_oldest_rock_art)
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
Australia wants some of its oldest rock art to be listed as a World Heritage site. Advisors say Australia should first end industrial development and damaging air pollution, and then it could be listed. I agree Australia should end those, but I wonder if…
Money for inaugural fund from fossil fuel industry
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
*The corrupter's inaugural fund got $19m from fossil fuel industry, analysis shows.* The corrupter used the electoral fund as an opportunity to pressure the rich for bribes. If we ever win back democracy, we should make it illegal for any elected or…
National climate assessment web site deleted
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
The US saboteur in chief deleted the web site that published national climate assessments, including the most recent one which is from 2023. A copy of that is available here. Much worse, he has shut down the preparation of the next edition, due in 2027. …
Bangladesh's ousted leader charged with crimes against humanity
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
*Bangladesh's ousted leader Sheikh Hasina has been formally charged [in Bangladesh] with crimes against humanity after being accused of ordering a deadly crackdown against anti-government protests last year that left more than 1,400 people dead.*
Scotland in drought
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#13_July_2025_(Scotland_in_drought)
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
Scotland is in drought, due to global heating, and the government has asked people to limit water usage. That is the right first step, but to avoid making things worse they must use less fossil fuel.
Floods in Texas
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#13_July_2025_(Floods_in_Texas)
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
People in part of Texas have suffered a disaster that they partly brought on themselves. That includes the flood itself — many years of voting for climate denialists have permitted more global heating and that enabled the flood. And it includes the…
Soaring profits in private prison industry
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
*The Private Prison Industry Looks Forward to Soaring Profits Thanks to [the persecutor]'s Budget.
Democrats and climate groups "too polite"
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
Senator Whitehouse accused *Democrats and climate groups [of being] "too polite" in fight against "malevolent" fossil fuel giants.* I agree. The planet-roasters have grounds to know that they are risking destroying civilization and most living humans…
Asian friends of US will increase trade with China
Published: July 14, 2025 02:38
Asian friends of the US are aiming to increase their trade with China as a replacement for the US. This is a natural consequence of the bully's tariff threats.
Cory Doctorow: How Canada should respond to tariffs
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
Cory Doctorow: Instead of retaliating towards US tariffs with its own Tariffs, it should retaliate by repealing the Canadian equivalent of the DMCA. And it should follow up by publishing jailbreaks for various US companies that are jails. Doctorow…
Executions in Salafi Arabia
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#12_July_2025_(Executions_in_Salafi_Arabia)
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
Salafi Arabia executed over 100 people in 2024, and over 100 people in the first half of this year, for nonviolent drug offenses According to Amnesty International, the trials are inadequate as proof that the accused even committed those crimes (though…
Iranian student stranded in US
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#12_July_2025_(Iranian_student_stranded_in_US)
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
Amazingly, US immigration persecutors were able to see the case for mercy for Mandonna Kashanian, an Iranian student who was stranded in the US when the Islamic revolution took power. Her family mobilized people in her community to convince their…
Open letter by EPA employees
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#12_July_2025_(Open_letter_by_EPA_employees)
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
140 EPA employees who signed an open letter criticizing the management *dismantling the EPA office of research and development, canceling environmental justice programs and grants, making employees fearful, undermining the trust of the public, and…
American academic researchers' chance to move to French university
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
Some of America's best academic researchers are being chosen for the chance to move to a French university. 300 researchers have applied, but there are only 38 finalists. I don't know how many will actually be chosen, but I would estimate not more than…
Journalist ordered released but still being held
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
Journalist Mario Guevara was arrested covering a protest, and handed to the deportation thugs. A judge ruled to release him on bail, but the thugs are playing silly games to keep him in jail. Project 2025 seems to have planned a general campaign to…
Toxic sewage sludge as fertilizer
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#12_July_2025_(Toxic_sewage_sludge_as_fertilizer)
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
The use of toxic sewage sludge as fertilizer produces crops that contain small amounts of many different chemicals, some of which are toxic. What is not known is whether the amounts of various chemicals present in actual food is a significant danger to…
Big Bad Bill will kill renewable energy projects
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
The Big Bad Bill will kill many renewable energy projects, which will make electricity substantially more expensive a few years from now. To compensate for this, the saboteur in chief plans to subsidize existing fossil-fuel generating plants.
Court case on deportation thug violence
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
Lawyers are trying to prove in court that the deportation thugs are using wanton violence against whoever they encounter, citizens or not.
Bill introduced to prohibit deportation thugs wearing masks
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
*Democratic senators introduce bill to prohibit [deportation thugs] from wearing masks.* I don't think many Republicans will vote for this, but their Opposition could show people how slavish and cruel they are.
Forecasted increase in poverty in UK
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#12_July_2025_(Forecasted_increase_in_poverty_in_UK)
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
Economic forecasting predicts that the changes that the Labour Left forced on Starmer will convert a predicted increase in poverty into an predicted decrease. That's good, but will it last? Some other change that hurts the non-rich could convert the…
Deportations to South Sudan
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#12_July_2025_(Deportations_to_South_Sudan)
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
The US travel warning for South Sudan says "Do not travel" and warns people to make a will first if they do go there. But the persecutor had 8 people deported there, a country they did not know, after lying to them about where they were being taken. The…
US measles epidemic
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#12_July_2025_(US_measles_epidemic)
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
The US measles epidemic is petering out, after around 1270 known cases. There may have been hundreds of thousands more cases not reported. This is what used to happen every year when I was a child. Every year, 400-500 people died from measles in the…
Governments not powerless with deep sea miners
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
*Governments are not powerless in the face of deep sea miners colluding with [the wrecker].*
Canada bullied over "digital taxes"
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#12_July_2025_(Canada_bullied_over_digital_taxes)
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
Joseph Stiglitz: *[The bully] bullied Canada over "digital taxes" — and Ottawa submitted.* It's too bad, because these would have meant more taxing of companies that are dangerously powerful.
Land under Alaskan village eroding
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#12_July_2025_(Land_under_Alaskan_village_eroding)
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
The land under the Alaskan village of Kipnuk is slowly eroding and buildings are falling into the ocean. The sadist's men have just canceled the climate adaptation grant that was going to pay for a retaining wall to protect it. Many such grants have…
"Palestinians fear razing of villages
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#12_July_2025_(Palestinians_fear_razing_of_villages)
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
*Palestinians fear razing of villages in West Bank, as [colonizers] circle their homes.*
(satire) Eating in front of surveillance state
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
(satire) *Insecure Woman Doesn't Like Eating In Front Of Surveillance State.*
Why the wrecker is trying to crush universities
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
Robert Reich explains why the wrecker is trying to crush universities and make them submissive agents of his control over thinking.
All parties believe people don't care about climate defense
Published: July 12, 2025 20:38
All the parties in Britain believe that the people don't care about climate defense, so they can abandon the effort. This article argues that they are mistaken. If you recognize that the survival of civilization depends on curbing global heating, so…
Genocide as a profit machine, UN report
Published: July 12, 2025 09:13
The US put sanctions on Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories. The report inculpates Alphabet/Google, Facebook/Meta, and Microsoft, plus others in various countries.
Attacking the poor is profitable, UK
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#11_July_2025_(Attacking_the_poor_is_profitable)
Published: July 12, 2025 09:13
George Monbiot: Attacking the poor creates a power base for right-wing fanatics when "centrist" plutocratists are in power, they do this; when the fanatics get into power, they can continue doing it.
Seemingly profiteering in Israel, US
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#11_July_2025_(US_seemingly_profiteering_in_Israel)
Published: July 12, 2025 09:13
*UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese says US sanctions against her a sign of "guilt".* I don't think what the persecutor feels is guilt, as such. He seems to be impervious to the moral self-criticism that is essential for avoiding wrongdoing. I…
Housing as corporate profit, US, Europe
Published: July 12, 2025 09:13
In Europe, as in the US, governments have encouraged and fed the corporate takeover of housing. This is the root cause of unlivable prices.
Societal improvements and wealth tax, UK
Published: July 12, 2025 09:13
A billionaire who switched from supporting the Tories to supporting Labour evidently thought he was joining Tory Lite. Now he is worried that Starmer might get the idea he is head of the Labour party.
Urgent: Tainted campaign money
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#11_July_2025_(Urgent:_Tainted_campaign_money_)
Published: July 12, 2025 09:13
US citizens: call on all Democratic candidates to pledge not to accept oligarch money.
Tax cuts for the rich, Europe
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#11_July_2025_(Tax_cuts_for_the_rich,_Europe)
Published: July 12, 2025 09:13
Europe spent the "peace dividend" from the end of the Cold War mostly on tax cuts and mostly for the rich. It can rearm and protect the non-rich now by returning tax levels to previous levels. I suggest putting a withholding tax on business's payments to…
Call for jury-free criminal trials, UK
Published: July 12, 2025 09:13
The UK is considering abolishing jury trial for some subset of criminal charges. If the system is "collapsing" it is probably traceable one way or another to budget cuts, made "necessary" by tax cuts for the rich.
Labour forces to decrease poverty
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#11_July_2025_(Labour_forced_to_decrease_poverty)
Published: July 12, 2025 09:13
Economic forecasting predicts that the changes that the Labour Left forced on Starmer will convert a predicted increase in poverty into an predicted decrease. That's good, but will it last? Some other change that hurts the non-rich could convert the…
National Hwy traffic safety Admin.
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#11_July_2025_(National_Hwy_traffic_safety_Admin.)
Published: July 12, 2025 09:13
*Tesla asks NHTSA to hide its response to Robotaxi questions.* Businesses employ people but they are not people. They are not entitled to keep secrets from the public in matters that rightly concern the public's well being.
Even more abusive non-disclosure agreements
Published: July 12, 2025 09:13
*UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work.* This is a step forward, but it should go further. Businesses should not be allowed to compel employees to cover up harm to the public either.
US weapons for Ukraine
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(US_weapons_for_Ukraine)
Published: July 11, 2025 14:37
The US suspended weapons shipments to Ukraine, claiming that its stockpiles of weapons were running low. However, there is no evidence that such a thing is happening — that justification seems to be just bullshit.
United Nations itself, in peril
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(United_Nations_itself,_in_peril)
Published: July 11, 2025 14:37
*The UN is our best defense against a third world war. As [the wrecker] wields the axe, who will fight to save it?*
Deportation boondoggle
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(Deportation_boondoggle)
Published: July 11, 2025 14:37
A Canadian woman has been living in the US since childhood, with her husband and their children, without official authorization. Her husband voted for the persecutor, and now that his wife has been targeted for persecution, he says he regrets his vote.
New pun: fly tipping
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(New_pun:_fly_tipping)
Published: July 11, 2025 14:37
Why are the British so concerned about fly-tipping? Does an upside-down fly have difficulty getting back on its feet? Are flies now delivering food to diners' tables?
Adapting to heatwaves, UK
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(Adapting_to_heatwaves,_UK)
Published: July 11, 2025 14:37
Adapting to dangerously hotter summers can fit in with reducing greenhouse emissions, funded by taxes. The author speaks of taxing the worst polluters, but drivers in aggregate are among the worst and the less wealthy of them can't afford to pay more tax.…
Switching sides in war on poverty, UK, US
Published: July 11, 2025 14:37
20 years ago, the economic powers started working together to "make poverty history" around the world. Since then, governments have abandoned that goal. Now they are adopting policies to increase poverty in their own countries.
National Weather Service, TX floods
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(National_Weather_Service,_TX_floods)
Published: July 11, 2025 14:37
Rebecca Solnit: *Did National Weather Service cuts lead to the Texas flood disaster? We don’t know.* It is clear that the wrecker's cuts to science, and in particular NOAA including the NWS, will do harm again and again. But we can't take it as certain…
Heat wave, Central Europe
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(Heat_wave,_Central_Europe)
Published: July 11, 2025 14:37
A heat wave in central Europe is hindering shipping on the Rhine and Danube. This has happened before. Sometimes shipping nearly came to a halt. The problem is a consequence of global heating and it is getting generally worse.
Ethnic-cleansing plan, Gaza
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(Ethnic-cleansing_plan,_Gaza)
Published: July 11, 2025 14:37
Israel's Orwellian language for many aspects of the bombardment and siege of Gaza.
Israeli-run concentration camp, Gaza
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(Israeli_concentration_camp_plan,_Gaza)
Published: July 11, 2025 14:37
Israel has openly announced a plan to force all Palestinians out of Gaza, confirming the intention that many have suspected. The first step in the plan is to concentrate the population of Gaza in one camp on the ruins of the border city of Rafah. Even…
NYT scandal attacking Zohran Mamdani
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(NYT_Scandal_attacking_Zohran_Mamdani)
Published: July 11, 2025 14:37
Zohran Mamdani attacked with a dishonest political hatchet job. Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda. Hie parents are of Indian ancestry, and his father was a Ugandan of Indian ancestry. So when he applied to Columbia University, he checked the boxes for…
Siddhartha Gautama's burial gems
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(Siddhartha_Gautama's_burial_gems)
Published: July 11, 2025 14:37
The government if India demands the handover of ancient jewels excavated from a stupa along with (reportedly) some of the ashes from the cremation of the Buddha. We know what the Buddha would say about this, if he were alive today. Such attachment to…
Volcanic eruptions from melting glaciers
Published: July 10, 2025 20:37
Melting ice encourages volcanoes underneath to erupt. Oops!
New pun
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(New_pun)
Published: July 10, 2025 20:37
How an intern can do multiple tasks
Varroa mites killing honeybees
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(Varroa_mites_killing_honeybees)
Published: July 10, 2025 20:37
60% of Honeybees in the US died last winter, killed by he varroa mites which spread various diseases among the bees.
Trump's antisemitic slurs
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(Trump's_antisemitic_slurs)
Published: July 10, 2025 20:37
Just as the bully's followers are attacking anyone that they can describe as antisemitic, the bully himself uttered an indisputably antisemitic slur. Can he be deported for that?
Swedish PM tracked by surveillance app
Published: July 10, 2025 20:37
The security detail for the prime minister of Sweden ran and rode their bikes to and from work shifts, and allowed a personal surveillance app to track them. This allowed the public to track the prime minister's movements. I gather that publishing where…
ICC warrant for Taliban leader
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(ICC_warrant_for_Taliban_leader)
Published: July 10, 2025 20:37
*ICC issues warrant for Taliban's supreme leader for persecution of women.* Hooray! Even though it isn't likely that he will be arrested and brought to the court for trial, this will still have good effects on the world.
Ranked choice voting
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(Ranked_choice_voting)
Published: July 10, 2025 20:37
NYC's Democratic primary demonstrated the superiority of ranked choice voting.
Google's EU antitrust complaint over "AI" overviews
Published: July 10, 2025 20:37
The EU is investigating whether Google Search's "AI" Overviews are anticompetitive.
Palestine Action activists arrested
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(Palestine_Action_activists_arrested)
Published: July 10, 2025 20:37
Britain's repression of protest becomes more vicious, as we might expect. 20 protesters face prosecution and perhaps 14 years in prison for carrying signs stating support for the banned "terrorist" organization, Palestine Action. The declaration that…
Eran Zelnik
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(Eran_Zelnik)
Published: July 10, 2025 20:37
US citizen and Israeli citizen Eran Zelnik: *I’m a Jewish Israeli in the US standing up for Palestine. By [the fascist leader's] logic, I’m a terror supporter.* He compares the current US regime in detail to the Nazi regime that his grandparents fled, and…
Overcoming magat attacks
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#10_July_2025_(Overcoming_magat_attacks)
Published: July 10, 2025 20:37
Advice to protesters on how to overcome the magats' usual attacks and build a movement that goes beyond protest. Although I am not an expert, it seems rational to me.
Weaponization working group
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#9_July_2025_(Weaponization_working_group)
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
* A former FBI agent who allegedly shouted "kill ’em!" at law enforcement during the [109]January 6 insurrection is now advising a "weaponization working group" in the "justice department".
Expelling of ancestrally Napali minority group
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
Bhutan expelled 100,000 members of an ancestrally Nepali minority group into India, They went to refugee camps in Nepal. Many were later allowed to move to other countries including the US. Some have been deported from the US for various alleged crimes,…
EU abandoning leadership in curbing greenhouse gas emissions
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
The EU seems to be abandoning its leadership in curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
Genetic evidence air pollution provokes lung cancer
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
Genetic evidence that air pollution provokes development of lung cancer — and faster aging of telomeres.
Canada considering dangerous immigration and surveillance bill
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
Canada is considering a cruel and dangerous immigration and surveillance bill. The immigration part would permit officials to cancel visas arbitrarily and ban arbitrarily any pathway for people to reach Canada to ask for admission. No appeal is allowed.…
Climate change reports removed from US government sites
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
*Key climate change reports removed from US government websites.* The wrecker is not merely uncooperative with efforts to curb fossil fuel; he seems to be doing everything possible to ensure global gigadeaths.
BBC on facts on Israel's war crimes
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#9_July_2025_(BBC_on_facts_on_Israel's_war_crimes)
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
Many BBC journalists rebuke the BBC for refusing to present the facts that would shed a critical light on Israel's war crimes. For instance, its refusal to show the documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, which it had commissioned, apparently because…
Daily Kos notified as being under investigation by US government
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
Daily Kos, the organization, has been notified that the US government is investigating it for un-magat activities, but with no specifics about why. Here it explores what the alleged grounds might be.
Droughts worldwide pushing people towards starvation
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
*Droughts worldwide pushing [around 100 million people] towards starvation, says report.* This looks like the beginning of what we know global heating will produce: a permanent inability for some regions to sustain their current populations. To…
Mamdani connects climate policy to his affordability agenda
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
*How Mamdani connects climate policy to his affordability agenda as he runs for New York mayor.*
Court ordered Ward Sakeik not be deported
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
A court ordered that Ward Sakeik not be deported, and deportation thugs tried to deport her anyway.
Greenpeace suing pipeline company
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#9_July_2025_(Greenpeace_suing_pipeline_company)
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
Greenpeace is suing the pipeline company Energy Transfer under the EU's anti-SLAPP directive The lawsuit against Greenpeace clearly is a SLAPP. It was meant to distract attention from the danger of river-polluting pipeline leaks, the broader danger of…
Mackerel in Northeast Atlantic are overfished
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
Mackerel in the Northeast Atlantic are overfished, and numbers are shrinking.
UK universities trying to get year-long protest bans
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
UK universities are getting advice from a specialist law firm on how to obtain year-long protest bans. Cardiff University obtained a ban his way. Other universities that registered for the webinar include Reading, Exeter, Northumbria, Hertfordshire,…
Bill to stop charities funding Israeli settlers
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
*New York lawmakers [including Zohran Mamdani] relaunch bill to stop charities funding Israeli settlers.* The bill would also prohibit donations to Israeli military units operating in Gaza. About the "donations" in question. Mamdani is currently a…
Datacentres to take water from driest areas
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
*Big tech's new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas.* A government that considers people important will prohibit the operation of a data center if there is a shortage of water in the region when it is operating.
UK pressuring tax havens
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#9_July_2025_(UK_pressuring_tax_havens)
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
The UK has been pressuring various mostly autonomous colonies which are tax havens for decades to keep track of corporate profits that flow through them to anonymous owners, but it isn't pressing hard enough to make them change anything.
US deportation thugs' rules and procedures
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
The US deportation thugs have rules and procedures that systematically result, occasionally, in jailing US citizens and even deporting US citizens. Part of the cause is racial profiling, but fixing the operational rules would prevent most of these.
Ralph Nader presents the wrecker's three overall goals
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
Ralph Nader presents the wrecker's three overall goals — riches, vengeance, and permanent plutocracy — and relates them to his specific acts of destruction. I think that the word "vengeance" is not adequate for the second of these goals. Its targets are…
Social Security Administration propaganda letter
Published: July 10, 2025 14:37
The Social Security Administration sent (some) recipients a letter whose only purpose was propaganda to praise the Big Bad Bill. Part of the claimed benefits were false, of course. Never suppose that magats are telling the truth.
Applicants for student visa must set antisocial media to "public"
Published: July 9, 2025 02:37
The US now demands that applicants for a student visa set their antisocial media profiles' visibility to "public". This means that *those who wanted to study in the U.S. to flee authoritarian governments abroad will have to make their social media public…
Urgent: Protect journalists covering LA protests
Published: July 9, 2025 02:37
US citizens: call on California Attorney General Rob Bonta to protect journalists covering the LA protests.
Urgent: Reject calls for Article V convention
Published: July 9, 2025 02:37
US citizens: call on state legislators to reject any calls for an Article V convention. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Crops unharvested at California farms
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#8_July_2025_(Crops_unharvested_at_California_farms)
Published: July 9, 2025 02:37
*[Deportation thug] raids leave crops unharvested at California farms: "We need the labor."* Beyond the obvious irony of this, I note that the wrecker hates California and seems to look for any way to cause harm there. This may part of the purpose of…
Israel confiscating supplies from doctors visiting Gaza
Published: July 9, 2025 02:37
Israel confiscates supplies from doctors visiting Gaza When volunteer doctors try to visit Gaza, Israel confiscates items such as baby food and surgical equipment. It is also very fussy about whether a doctor is allowed in. In particular, doctors who…
Mamdani's margin of victory over Cuomo
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#8_July_2025_(Mamdani's_margin_of_victory_over_Cuomo)
Published: July 9, 2025 02:37
Mamdani's margin of victory over Cuomo was 12% — Cuomo was not even close.
Campaign to cancel citizenship of naturalized citizens
Published: July 9, 2025 02:37
The persecutor has ordered a sweeping campaign to try to cancel the citizenship of naturalized citizens. One of the possible grounds, lack of "good moral character", could be stretched out of all recognition by partisan judges. Even when the victim has a…
Estimated deaths from abolition of USAID
Published: July 9, 2025 02:37
The abolition of USAID is estimated to be likely to kill 14 million people by 2030.
Enemy of trust and enemy of empathy
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#8_July_2025_(Enemy_of_trust_and_enemy_of_empathy)
Published: July 9, 2025 02:37
While the bullshitter is the enemy of trust, the muskrat is the enemy of empathy.
Action needed on Orbán's suppression of human rights
Published: July 9, 2025 02:37
The EU needs to act to thwart Orbán's suppression of human rights in Hungary. He targeted the queer minority first, to prove that no one's rights are safe in Hungary; soon he will extend that suppression to all dissent.
Tracking sea ice for global heating
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#8_July_2025_(Tracking_sea_ice_for_global_heating)
Published: July 9, 2025 02:37
*Tracking sea ice is "early warning system" for global heating — but US halt to data sharing will make it harder, scientists warn.*
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