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Talk in Bern Switzerland
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#3_March_2026_(Talk_in_Bern_Switzerland)
Published: March 3, 2026 16:37
Richard Stallman will speak on March 11 in Bern, Switzerland, for the Guild42 group, at
Berner Fachhochschule, BrĂĽckenstrasse 73, 3005 Bern
Title: Free/Libre Software and Freedom,
touching on how they relate to machine learning
An explanation of the…
Urgent: Protect Vote by Mail
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#2_March_2026_(Urgent:_Protect_Vote_by_Mail)
Published: March 3, 2026 16:37
US citizens: call on Protect Vote by Mail. Tell Congress to act now! Demand
the USPS Restore Real-Time Postmarks.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US…
Urgent: Block construction of deportation prison-warehouses
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#2_March_2026_(Urgent:_Block_construction_of_deportation_prison-warehouses)
Published: March 3, 2026 16:37
US citizens: call on your state legislators to block construction of
deportation prison-warehouses in your state.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Tel IEA Ignore Chris Wright's threats
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#2_March_2026_(Urgent:_Tel_IEA_Ignore_Chris_Wright's_threats)
Published: March 3, 2026 16:37
Everyone: Tell the IEA: Ignore Chris Wright’s Threats, Follow the
Science on Climate Change.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: block Nextstar-TEGNA merger
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#2_March_2026_(Urgent:_block_Nextstar-TEGNA_merger)
Published: March 3, 2026 16:37
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.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the
main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
…
Urgent: Campaign funds from Palantir
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#2_March_2026_(Urgent:_Campaign_funds_from_Palantir)
Published: March 3, 2026 16:37
US citizens: call on your congressional officials not to accept campaign funds from Palantir.
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: Stop CBS yielding to magat bullying
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#2_March_2026_(Urgent:_Stop_CBS_yielding_to_magat_bullying)
Published: March 3, 2026 16:37
US citizens: call on CBS to stop yielding to magat bullying.
Urgent: Stop deportation thug use of Palantir's surveillance
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#2_March_2026_(Urgent:_Stop_deportation_thug_use_of_Palantir's_surveillance)
Published: March 3, 2026 16:37
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.
To phone your congresscritter about…
Urgent: CBS political censorship
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#2_March_2026_(Urgent:_CBS_political_censorship)
Published: March 3, 2026 16:37
US citizens: call on CBS to stop engaging in political censorship to fawn
at magat officials.
More information:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/21/cbs-trump-anderson-cooper-stephen-colbert-paramount
Urgent: Fight to impeach Bondi
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#2_March_2026_(Urgent:_Fight_to_impeach_Bondi)
Published: March 3, 2026 16:37
US citizens: call on your congressional representatives to fight to impeach Bondi.
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…
Urgent: Stop next great recession
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#2_March_2026_(Urgent:_Stop_next_great_recession)
Published: March 3, 2026 16:37
US citizens: call on your representatives and senators to take action
to stop the next great recession!
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Here is what I…
Talk in Rapperswil, Switzerland
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#28_February_2026_(Talk_in_Rapperswil,_Switzerland)
Published: March 1, 2026 10:46
Richard Stallman will give
a talk in Rapperswil, Switzerland,
March 9th, 2026 at 17:00.
Talk in Rotkreuz, Switzerland
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#28_February_2026_(Talk_in_Rotkreuz,_Switzerland)
Published: March 1, 2026 10:46
Richard Stallman will give
a talk in Rotkreuz, Switzerland,
March 6th, 2026 at 17:00.
Veterans facing arrests over protests
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Veterans_facing_arrests_over_protests)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
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…
Urgent: Repeal qualified immunity for federal officers
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Urgent:_Repeal_qualified_immunity_for_federal_officers)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
US citizens: call on Congress to repeal qualified immunity for federal
officers.
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: News coverage of bully's action on Department of Justice
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Urgent:_News_coverage_of_bully's_action_on_Department_of_Justice)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
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.
Urgent: Qualified Immunity Abolition Act
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Urgent:_Qualified_Immunity_Abolition_Act)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
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.
…
Urgent: Tennessee Valley Authority coal plants
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Urgent:_Tennessee_Valley_Authority_coal_plants)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
US citizens: call on the Tennessee Valley Authority to keep its promise to retire coal plants.
Starmer's plans for prohibiting protests
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Starmer's_plans_for_prohibiting_protests)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
Starmer's plans for prohibiting protests would have prohibited the creation of the Labour Party, if they had been in effect at that
time.
Incomplete embryos cloned from adult humans
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Incomplete_embryos_cloned_from_adult_humans)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
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.
Microplastics in the wilderness
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Microplastics_in_the_wilderness)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
*Merrily we bring microplastics into the wilderness with our hiking shoes.*
Australian tropical rainforest trees
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Australian_tropical_rainforest_trees)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
*Australian tropical rainforest trees [have changed] from carbon sink
to emissions source.*
Antibiotic resistance in disease bacteria
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Antibiotic_resistance_in_disease_bacteria)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
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.
inJustice Department persecuting because of political opinions
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(inJustice_Department_persecuting_because_of_political_opinions)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
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.
Banning of Palestine Action is illegal
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Banning_of_Palestine_Action_is_illegal)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
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.
Accusations of domestic violence against Australian thug
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Accusations_of_domestic_violence_against_Australian_thug)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
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.
Roses coated in a fine chemical cocktail
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Roses_coated_in_a_fine_chemical_cocktail)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
*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.
New York City patients' data given to Palantir
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(New_York_City_patients'_data_given_to_Palantir)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
New York City must stop giving patients' medical data to Palantir,
since Palantir can't be trusted not to use it against them.
Palestine Action ruling
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Palestine_Action_ruling)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
*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…
Bully returned to bullying Ukraine
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Bully_returned_to_bullying_Ukraine)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
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.
T-Mobile to pass calls through powerful computer system
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(T-Mobile_to_pass_calls_through_powerful_computer_system)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
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.
…
Retired British couple of activists for Palestine
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#25_February_2026_(Retired_British_couple_of_activists_for_Palestine)
Published: February 26, 2026 11:50
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.
TSA precheck suspended
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#24_February_2026_(homeland_security_suspends_tsa_precheck)
Published: February 25, 2026 10:39
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…
Sunday Thought
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#24_February_2026_(sunday_thought_saving)
Published: February 25, 2026 10:39
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.
Trump warns consequences
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#24_February_2026_(trump_netflix_consequences)
Published: February 25, 2026 10:39
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…
US tariff policy ruling
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#24_February_2026_(trump_tariff_policy_ruling)
Published: February 25, 2026 10:39
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
Targeted for deportation
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#24_February_2026_(us_immigration_trump_admin)
Published: February 25, 2026 10:39
*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…
Urgent No deportation thugs at our polls
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Urgent_No_deportation_thugs_at_our_polls)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:09
US citizens: call on your state's Secretary of State: No deportation thugs at our polls.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: End Big Tech tax breaks
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Urgent:_End_Big_Tech_tax_breaks)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:09
US citizens: call on Congress to end Big Tech tax breaks.
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…
Urgent: Drop charges against Georgia For and Don Lemon
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Urgent:_Drop_charges_against_Georgia_For_and_Don_Lemon)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:09
US citizens: call on Attorney General Bondi to drop the charges
against Georgia Fort and Don Lemon now.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign
without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Investigate why IRS gave personal data to DHS
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Urgent:_Investigate_why_IRS_gave_personal_data_to_DHS)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:09
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.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the
main switchboard is…
Urgent: Bully's false picture denying cruelty of deportation thugs
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Urgent:_Bully's_false_picture_denying_cruelty_of_deportation_thugs)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:09
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.
Urgent: Stop cooperating with deportation thugs
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Urgent:_Stop_cooperating_with_deportation_thugs)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:09
US citizens: call on local and state officials to stop cooperating with the deportation thugs.
Urgent: Stop corrupter getting money for bogus board of peace
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Urgent:_Stop_corrupter_getting_money_for_bogus_board_of_peace)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:09
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.
Urgent: Don't let deportation thugs weaponize Social Security
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Urgent:_Don't_let_deportation_thugs_weaponize_Social_Security)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:09
US citizens: call on the Social Security Administration not to let the deportation thugs weaponize Social Security.
Bully's henchmen demanding voter information from states
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Bully's_henchmen_demanding_voter_information_from_states)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
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.
Federal thugs raided race track
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Federal_thugs_raided_race_track)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
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…
Google handing over surveillance camera footage
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Google_handing_over_surveillance_camera_footage)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
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…
Bully defends racist video
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Bully_defends_racist_video)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
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.
Funding for Deportation thugs blocked by filibuster
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Funding_for_Deportation_thugs_blocked_by_filibuster)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
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…
Amazon and Walmart subsidized by SNAP
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Amazon_and_Walmart_subsidized_by_SNAP)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
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.
…
FBI investigating Extinction Rebellion NYC
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(FBI_investigating_Extinction_Rebellion_NYC)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
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…
Banned protests in New South Wales
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Banned_protests_in_New_South_Wales)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
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…
Relentless assault upon Palestinians
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Relentless_assault_upon_Palestinians)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
*The Guardian view on Israel and the West Bank: the other relentless assault upon Palestinians.*
Secret list of "domestic terrorist organizations"
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Secret_list_of_domestic_terrorist_organizations)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
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.
Tragic end of CBS News
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Tragic_end_of_CBS_News)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
*The tragic end of CBS News.*
It has been converted into a puppet show in which puppets pull each
others' strings.
China banned fishing in Yangtze river in 2021
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(China_banned_fishing_in_Yangtze_river_in_2021)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
In 2021, China banned fishing entirely in the Yangtze River.
Since then, the quantity of fish in the river has doubled.
More political freedom with Maduro gone
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(More_political_freedom_with_Maduro_gone)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
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…
(satire) Premium Video Generator for White House Advisors
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_((satire)_Premium_Video_Generator_for_White_House_Advisors)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
(satire) OpenAI Introduces Premium Video Generator For White House Advisors
Manipulating [the maximum leader].
Zelenskyy demands 20-year "security guarantee" for peace deal
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Zelenskyy_demands_20-year_security_guarantee_for_peace_deal)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
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…
Debunking bullshitter's lies about people in deportation prisons
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Debunking_bullshitter's_lies_about_people_in_deportation_prisons)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
Debunking the bullshitter's lies about the people in his deportation
prisons: the vast majority have never been accused of a violent crime.
(satire) Tampering with Earth's gravitational field
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_((satire)_Tampering_with_Earth's_gravitational_field)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
(satire) *Finnish Ski Jumping Team Caught Tampering With Earth's Gravitational Field.*
Master alarm flashing for our democracy
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Master_alarm_flashing_for_our_democracy)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
* 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…
Senators demanding justification to deregulate greenhouse gas emissions
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Senators_demanding_justification_to_deregulate_greenhouse_gas_emissions)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
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.
Protesters who damaged weapons in Elbit factory acquitted of most serious charges
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Protesters_who_damaged_weapons_in_Elbit_factory_acquitted_of_most_serious_charges)
Published: February 24, 2026 11:08
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.
Urgent: Support Rashida Tlaib's resolution
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Urgent:_sign_to_support_rashida_tlaibs)
Published: February 24, 2026 10:39
US citizens: Support Rashida Tlaib's Defund the Oligarchs,
Fund Our
Communities resolution.
Urgent: Close the loophole
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Urgent:_tell_florida_senate_to_close_loophole)
Published: February 24, 2026 10:39
US citizens: call on the Florida Senate to end state funding for
Alligator Alcatraz.
Urgent: Congress must investigate
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Urgent:_congress_must_investigate_400_illegal_detentions)
Published: February 24, 2026 10:39
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.
ICE detention power
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(trump_administration_memo)
Published: February 24, 2026 10:39
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…
Urgent: Tell congress to investigate
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(Urgent:_tell_congress_to_investigate_doge)
Published: February 24, 2026 10:39
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.
GOP plot to jack up credit scores
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(bank_backed_republicans_interest_rate_caps)
Published: February 24, 2026 10:39
Republicans corrupted by big banks are pushing a law to undermine states'
limits on interest
charged on bank loans.
Emerging Berlin-Rome axis
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(emerging_rome_axis)
Published: February 24, 2026 10:39
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…
California bill ban
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(california_bill_ban_ice_agents)
Published: February 24, 2026 10:39
*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…
Trump's End of Laws
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_February_2026_(tyrant_trump_end_of_laws)
Published: February 24, 2026 10:39
Ralph Nader: *Tyrant Trump Declares End of
Laws Saving American Lives.*
(And occasionally also laws saving millions of lives in other countries.)
Urgent: Investigate corrupter in chief's profit from presidency
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#20_February_2026_(Urgent:_Investigate_corrupter_in_chief's_profit_from_presidency)
Published: February 21, 2026 05:57
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…
Urgent: Protect the Arctic from oil exploration
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#20_February_2026_(Urgent:_Protect_the_Arctic_from_oil_exploration)
Published: February 21, 2026 05:57
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…
Urgent: Hidden insurance industry report data
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#20_February_2026_(Urgent:_Hidden_insurance_industry_report_data)
Published: February 21, 2026 05:57
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.
Urgent: Defend recognition of dangers of global heating
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#20_February_2026_(Urgent:_Defend_recognition_of_dangers_of_global_heating)
Published: February 21, 2026 05:57
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…
Urgent: Stop deportation thugs terrorizing children
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#20_February_2026_(Urgent:_Stop_deportation_thugs_terrorizing_children)
Published: February 21, 2026 05:57
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…
Urgent: Protect clean water from corporate greed
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Urgent:_Protect_clean_water_from_corporate_greed)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
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…
Japanese fossil fuel companies invest in Australian fossil fuel
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Japanese_fossil_fuel_companies_invest_in_Australian_fossil_fuel)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
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…
Australian thugs attacked protesters
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Australian_thugs_attacked_protesters)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
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.
Urgent: Reporting on refusals by grand juries to indict bogus political "crimes"
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Urgent:_Reporting_on_refusals_by_grand_juries_to_indict_bogus_political_crimes)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
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".
Urgent: Protect from spread of measles
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Urgent:_Protect_from_spread_of_measles)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
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.
Urgent: No tax breaks for Big Tech data centers
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Urgent:_No_tax_breaks_for_Big_Tech_data_centers)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
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.
I’m…
Methane from rapidly heating Arctic permafrost
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Methane_from_rapidly_heating_Arctic_permafrost)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
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.
Arguments that immigration enforcement would be distorted
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Arguments_that_immigration_enforcement_would_be_distorted)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
*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,…
House Republicans rebuke of bully over Canada tariffs
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(House_Republicans_rebuke_of_bully_over_Canada_tariffs)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
*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.
Iranian regime becoming ever more fanatic
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Iranian_regime_becoming_ever_more_fanatic)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
The Iranian regime is becoming ever more fanatic, arresting important
politicians close to the "reformist" official prime minister.
Britons' right to protest under threat
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Britons'_right_to_protest_under_threat)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
*Britons' right to protest is under threat like never before. If you value it,
speak up now.*
Gallup polling to cease tracking approval ratings of president
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Gallup_polling_to_cease_tracking_approval_ratings_of_president)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
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…
Statistical survey about death of young children in England
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Statistical_survey_about_death_of_young_children_in_England)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
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…
Bogus indictments meant for political persecution
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Bogus_indictments_meant_for_political_persecution)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
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.
Mexico gangs reportedly obtained newer more powerful arms than Mexican government
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Mexico_gangs_reportedly_obtained_newer_more_powerful_arms_than_Mexican_government)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
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…
Deportation thug that fired at citizen hailed by Gregory Bovino
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Deportation_thug_that_fired_at_citizen_hailed_by_Gregory_Bovino)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
* 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.
Bill to block substantial fraction of adult US citizens from voting
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Bill_to_block_substantial_fraction_of_adult_US_citizens_from_voting)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
The House of Representatives passed a bill to block a substantial fraction of adult US citizens from voting.
Sabotage of NLRB
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Sabotage_of_NLRB)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
The wrecker's sabotage of the NLRB has been substantially effective — the number of union votes dropped by 30% in 2025.
AMA to partner with Vaccine Integrity Project
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(AMA_to_partner_with_Vaccine_Integrity_Project)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
* 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…
Almost unstoppable wildfires in Patagonia
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Almost_unstoppable_wildfires_in_Patagonia)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
Almost unstoppable wildfires in Patagonia, mostly caused by global
heating, have killed many of the trees that have lived thousands of years.
Deportation cases in court which is a mockery of a court
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#17_February_2026_(Deportation_cases_in_court_which_is_a_mockery_of_a_court)
Published: February 18, 2026 06:18
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…
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