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Urgent: Block weapons sale to Israel
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Urgent:_Block_weapons_sale_to_Israel)
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
US citizens: call on Congress to block the wrecker's weapons sale to Israel. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Urgent: Break up Big Medicine
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Urgent:_Break_up_Big_Medicine)
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
US citizens: call for legislation to break up Big Medicine, including UnitedHellth. (The article explains all the different medicine businesses that conglomerate combines.) I think horizontal monopolies like that used to be limited generally by US…
Urgent: Defend freedom of the press
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Urgent:_Defend_freedom_of_the_press)
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
US citizens: call on media companies to defend freedom of the press, rather than let the bully intimidate them.
Urgent: Overturn attack on clean energy policies
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
US citizens: call on Congress to overturn the wrecker's attack on clean energy policies. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Students in Malta charged with breaking "security"
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
Three students in Malta and their instructor have been charged with the crime of breaking "security". They found vulnerabilities in an app (surely nonfree) and reported them to its developer after verifying they were real vulnerabilities. I don't know…
"Policy of quiet" towards HAMAS
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Policy_of_quiet_towards_HAMAS)
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
*Report by [Israeli intelligence] says "policy of quiet" towards HAMAS allowed it to build up resources for 2023 attack.*
Half of worlds CO2 from 36 fossil fuel firms
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
*Half of world's CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows.*
Why charges of hypocrisy don't land
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Why_charges_of_hypocrisy_don't_land)
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
*Charges of hypocrisy do not land if the supposed hypocrite is not committed to any kind of consistency in the first place.* (Think "bullshitter".)
Congress hearing on Antisemitism
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Congress_hearing_on_Antisemitism)
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
*Congress Hearing on Antisemitism Does Nothing for Jewish Safety, Advances Authoritarianism.* *[The wrecker] threatens to pull federal funds for US schools allowing "illegal protests".* By which he means, "any protests" that he doesn't like. …
RFK Jr casting doubt on measles vaccination
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
RFK Jr continues to cast doubt on measles vaccination.
LA Times bullshit-generated counteropinion
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
The LA Times bullshit-generated counteropinion defended the KKK.
Bully threatens to deport non-citizens for "antisemitic" statements
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
The bully has threatened to deport non-citizens who make statements about Gaza and Israel that the bully chooses to call "antisemitic". As the ACLU reports, deportation on those grounds would be unconstitutional, but the bully feels entitled to disregard…
London low-emissions zone
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(London_low-emissions_zone)
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
The London low-emissions zone is very effective in reducing toxic air pollution, and also substantially reduces greenhouse gas emissions from driving. The one really bad thing about it that it is enforced using surveillance — and that is not inherently…
Doge blocked from shutting down Africa development agency
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
*Federal workers block Musk's "Doge" from shutting down Africa development agency.*
Bully's men considering deporting Ukrainian refugees
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
The bully's men are considering deporting all Ukrainian refugees. Sending people back to a country where they would be in danger is directly prohibited by the treaties that established the asylum system.
Population of butterflies in US fell
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Population_of_butterflies_in_US_fell)
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
The total population of butterflies in the US fell 20% from 2000 to 2020. (I do not say "22%" because that is surely more precision than these measurements can support.) This decline is surely continuing.
US judges alarmed over rise in violent threats
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
*US judges alarmed over rise in violent threats as Trump and Musk lambaste them.* I expect they perceive see judges as the last remaining obstacle to establishing outright dictatorship in the US, and they surely know that their hate machine provokes real…
Immigration judges in the US
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Immigration_judges_in_the_US)
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
Immigration judges in the US are not chosen for knowing immigration law, or for thinking clearly about it, and a fraction are so strongly biased that they always deny asylum, even to people who were tortured as political prisoners. I am sure this is at…
"Echoes of Munich in Ukrainian Reversal
Published: March 11, 2025 02:37
Alan Singer sees *Echoes of Munich in [the wrecker's] Ukrainian Reversal.* I have been thinking the same. There is no reason to believe the Putin's appetite for expansion stops with Ukraine. With the corrupter's support, Putin might aim to capture…
Ralph Nader warns, explains, reminds US
Published: March 10, 2025 17:02
Ralph Nader calls for people to organize large rallies against the right-wing wrecking crew.
Joseph Stiglitz: ISDS trade treaties
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Joseph_Stiglitz:_ISDS_trade_treaties)
Published: March 10, 2025 17:02
Joseph Stiglitz calls for the elimination of ISDS trade treaties, that make states pay for he privilege of changing their laws to protect public health or the environment. One question is how to eliminate those treaties. Most of them say that even if a…
National Labor Relations Board
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(National_Labor_Relations_Board)
Published: March 10, 2025 17:02
A court ordered reinstatement of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox, who the bully fired for affirming that the president of the US is not a king. This means that the NLRB can now function normally — unless he fires her again. I wonder what absurd excuse he will…
US Tariff war fallout, CAN
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(US_Tariff_war_fallout,_CAN)
Published: March 10, 2025 17:02
*Canadians protest imports of US toxic waste amid Trump tariff war.* Canada could address this issue very simply by putting a tariff on toxic waste imports from the US.
Urgent: Social Security Expansion Act
Published: March 10, 2025 17:02
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Social Security Expansion Act of 2025) The page explains what that bill would do. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Gaza ceasefire new ultimatum
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Gaza_ceasefire_new_ultimatum)
Published: March 10, 2025 17:02
*Hamas has accused [the wrecker] of seeking to undermine the shaky pause in hostilities in Gaza with his latest intervention in the region: a new and fierce ultimatum telling the group to release all hostages.* This directly undermines the completion of…
Christian nationalism as federal policy
Published: March 10, 2025 17:02
The madmap told Congress that he is on a divine mission to impose fanatical right-wing Christianity on the US.
US National Weather Service
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(US_National_Weather_Service)
Published: March 10, 2025 17:02
Staffing cuts at the US National Weather Service have made it struggle to carry out its mission. Some local weather bureaus face severe shortages.
Stopping HIV processes, ZAF
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Stopping_HIV_processes,_ZAF)
Published: March 10, 2025 08:37
The wrecker stopped the function for preventing spread of HIV in South Africa as punishment for prosecuting Israel at the International Criminal Court.
Urgent: Support workers' unions
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Urgent:_Support_workers'_unions)
Published: March 10, 2025 08:37
Call your congresscritter to oppose the bills to weaken unions including the National "Right to Work" Act. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Stress kills, sleep saves, go figures
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Stress_kills,_sleep_saves,_go_figures)
Published: March 10, 2025 08:37
Wealthy Americans have 7 years more life expectancy than working-class Americans. It's an indirect consequence of the effects of poverty on whoever is poor. Instead of letting billionaires set working class whites against other Americans, we can unite…
Carcinogen factories of Louisianna
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Carcinogen_factories_of_Louisianna)
Published: March 10, 2025 08:37
Biden had the DoJ sue a factory in Louisiana that was emitting carcinogen. The wrecker has canceled the lawsuit, so that the company can promote cancer unimpeded. This is a consequence of the wrecker's priorities: rich business owners over poor people…
Ralph Nader suggests
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Ralph_Nader_suggests)
Published: March 10, 2025 08:37
Ralph Nader suggests Democrats in Congress *hold unofficial public hearings on Capitol Hill, highlighting an all-time winning agenda supported by the citizenry and opposed by the Trumpsters.*
Republican donors
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Republican_donors)
Published: March 10, 2025 08:37
*Republicans [running for state offices] are relying on "nameless" donors who want to push a rightwing agenda and gain long-term hegemony.* They can do this because they put judges on the Supreme Court that tore up most of the Voting Rights Act and…
Pensions en-crypto
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Pensions_en-crypto)
Published: March 10, 2025 08:37
US residents: phone your state governor and say to veto any bill that would permit "investing" (gambling) state pension funds in cryptocurrencies. As with other forms of gambling, the house generally to win, and in this case the pension fund would not be…
State of Union address to Congress
Published: March 9, 2025 05:14
The bully gave a speech in Congress, showing that Republicans revel in being the crazed mob following a bully. Democrats' response was sometimes visible but his mob disregarded even his visible falsehoods. (The speech was full of those.) …
Mining Greenland
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(Mining_Greenland)
Published: March 9, 2025 05:14
A trade treaty with an ISDS clause may compel Greenland to permit uranium mining, even though it can poison the land near the mine.
Legal abortion, 24 weeks, AZ
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(Legal_abortion,_24_weeks,_AZ)
Published: March 9, 2025 05:14
Arizona's referendum to abortion has taken full effect.
Supreme Court ruling for USAID
Published: March 9, 2025 05:14
The Supreme Court ordered the wrecker to resume payment of foreign aid by the USAid agency. I am not sure whether this applies to all the aid that Congress had approved, or only paid-for work already done.
Viciously applying vengeful nihilism, US
Published: March 9, 2025 05:14
Conjecture: The muskrat's fantasy is to wear out the Earth as a habitat for civilization, so as to create cities on Mars which are his personal property. Whether or not this results in sustainable Martian cities, it could wipe out civilization on Earth,…
Pesticide-mixing even more dangerous
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(Pesticide_mixing,_more_dangerous)
Published: March 9, 2025 05:14
*Study on cancer data in US agricultural heartland finds children more at risk [if exposed to a pair of pesticides] than if exposed to just one [of those two].* "Pesticide" here includes herbicides such as dicamba and glyphosate.
US intelligence on Russia
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(US_intelligence_on_Russia)
Published: March 9, 2025 05:14
*US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine.* This is meant to make Zelenskyy surrender to the demand that Ukraine "repay" the US aid, which wasn't a loan, at extortionate interest rates for decades.
Expense vs rational climate adaptation
Published: March 8, 2025 16:37
The extent of commitment given by governments that ought to know better to far-fetched energy schemes — carbon capture and storage, and new kinds of nuclear fission — suggests to me that governments' reason for supporting them is influence by the…
Glyphosate labeling regulations cut
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Glysophate_labeling_regulations_cut)
Published: March 8, 2025 16:37
Danger: food grown in America could hazardous due to magats and their chemicals.
Wiping out wild side
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Wiping_out_wild_side)
Published: March 8, 2025 16:37
Right-wing politicians in Spain push to wipe out the rewilded lynx, just as right-wing politicians in the US push to wipe out wolves. Both of them spread an exaggerated fear of danger from the animals they want to kill, while ignoring the ways those…
Union of Concerned Scientists vs firings
Published: March 8, 2025 16:37
*[The wrecker's] purge raises extinction threat for endangered species, fired workers warn.*
Forest logging increase
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Forest_logging_increase)
Published: March 8, 2025 16:37
The wrecker ordered logging in half a million square miles of US forests. This doesn't mean those forests will be razed, but does mean more logging, and in some places increased fire danger. The worst part is that he wants to disregard protection of…
Urgent: Stop the EPA coup
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_the_EPA_coup)
Published: March 8, 2025 16:37
US citizens: call on Congress to stand up to the coup at the Environmental Protection Agency, and to fire the muskrat. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Land use study, UK grasslands
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Land_use_study,_UK_grasslands)
Published: March 8, 2025 16:37
*High fertilizer use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds.*
Steps to make Europe more secure
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Steps_to_make_Europe_more_secure)
Published: March 8, 2025 10:35
*How do we make Europe more secure? Here are five steps we need to take now.* * Some might agonize about whether Zelenskyy could have played things differently. It's the wrong question. The point is that we can't carry on being so dependent on…
JP Morgan's "sustainable" funds
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(JP_Morgan's_sustainable_funds)
Published: March 8, 2025 10:35
*JP Morgan's "sustainable" funds invested ÂŁ200m in mining giant Glencore.*
Investigation into Britain's spy cops
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Investigation_into_Britain's_spy_cops)
Published: March 8, 2025 10:35
Reporting on a years-long investigation into Britain's spy cops, who pretended to be progressive activists so as to couple with activist women and report on their activities.
The US we thought we knew is gone
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(The_US_we_thought_we_knew_is_gone)
Published: March 8, 2025 10:35
*The US we thought we knew is gone – and Australians know it.* Australia should consider whether it can rely on US-made weapons systems to function as expected. Will there be a surprise demand for an expensive subscription — perhaps to sell half of…
US put German tourist in prison
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(US_put_German_tourist_in_prison)
Published: March 8, 2025 10:35
The deportation thugs put a German tourist in deportation prison because she was carrying tattoo needles. They suspected her of planning to do work (making tattoos) instead of being a tourist. The basic point may be valid — I don't know. However, if…
Wrecker preparing to lift sanctions on Russia
Published: March 8, 2025 10:35
The wrecker is preparing to lift sanctions on Russia. That would make sense as preparation for a Moscow-Washington axis.
Russia-linked Telegram channels
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Russia-linked_Telegram_channels)
Published: March 8, 2025 10:35
*Russia-linked Telegram channels "offering to pay for attacks on [British] mosques." Campaigners say cryptocurrency payments were offered to UK residents if they daubed anti-Muslim graffiti.*
US natalist conference
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(US_natalist_conference)
Published: March 8, 2025 10:35
*US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists.* It's harmful to urge people to "have more babies," but they are making it nasty as well: "have more white babies."
Stop wrecker's information takeover
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Stop_wrecker's_information_takeover)
Published: March 8, 2025 10:35
*Urge Congress to stop the wrecker's information takeover and attacks on the press!.*
Provinces in Canada cease sale of alcohol from US
Published: March 8, 2025 10:35
Several provinces in Canada have ceased sale of alcohol from the US, as retaliation for the wrecker's tariffs.
Energy-systems extract and burn
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#6_March_2025_(Energy-systems_extract_and_burn)
Published: March 7, 2025 16:36
*BP dropping its green ambitions is a travesty.* (And shows that its publicity for those supposed commitments was mere manipulation.) *But that's exactly how capitalism works. Companies will never solve the climate emergency alone. The impetus for change…
Urgent: Preserve Medicaid payments
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(Urgent:_Preserve_Medicaid_payments)
Published: March 6, 2025 16:36
US citizens: call on Congress not to cut Medicaid. The proposed cuts would bring about the death of non-rich Americans that get sick. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
No civil rights for trans people, IA
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(No_civil_rights_for_trans_peope,_IA)
Published: March 6, 2025 16:36
*Iowa Becomes the First State to Repeal Civil Rights Protections for Trans People.* Persecution of people for adopting a different lifestyle is a traditional part of the religion that most supporters of the wrecker believe in, and imposing their…
RFK orders vaccines
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(RFK_orders_vaccines)
Published: March 6, 2025 16:36
RFK jr. went against his anti-vax ideology and ordered US agencies to provide measles vaccines to limit the measles outbreak. That's a good outcome for this specific problem but we can't count on him to have become sane overall. The HHS Assistant…
Gaza aid cut, ISR
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(Gaza_aid_cut,_ISR)
Published: March 6, 2025 16:36
*Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza as it seeks to change ceasefire deal.*
Zelenskyy's dealings with US
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(Zelenskyy's_dealings_with_US)
Published: March 6, 2025 16:36
The bully's White House officials criticized Zelenskyy for insisting on agreeing to both sides of the deal together. They say he should have taken for granted that, once the bully had received the part that he wanted, he would have given Ukraine something…
When Zelenskyy went to the Whitehouse
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(When_Zelenskyy_went_to_the_Whitehouse)
Published: March 6, 2025 16:36
*Trump and Vance, I think, never really intended to have a conversation with Zelenskyy. Instead, they wanted to look tough on TV.* That agrees with the conclusion I reached — that they planned to gang up on Zelenskyy two-on-one for a quarrel that…
Texas measles outbreak
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Texas_measles_outbreak)
Published: March 5, 2025 10:37
Some of the people living near the Texas measles outbreak are recognizing that it was foolish not to vaccinate their children. The people now in the hospital with measles show that we should not have left an opening for antivax disinformation to spread.…
Reducing countering of Putin's cracking army
Published: March 5, 2025 10:37
The Putin-loving president has ordered US intelligence agencies to reduce the priority of countering Putin's cracking and disinformation army.
(satire) Zoo hiding animals ahead of Landlord visit
Published: March 5, 2025 10:37
(satire) *City Zoo Scrambles To Hide Animals Ahead Of Landlord Visit.*
Scapegoating and persecuting workers
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Scapegoating_and_persecuting_workers)
Published: March 5, 2025 10:37
*Trump can’t fulfill his promise [to working-class Americans] to [end inflation], so he's [scapegoating and persecuting] workers instead.*
China can capitalise on damage caused by Trump
Published: March 5, 2025 10:37
*"America is going down": China can capitalise on damage caused by Trump, former PLA colonel says.*
City LNG restrictions sabotaged
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(City_LNG_restrictions_sabotaged)
Published: March 5, 2025 04:36
How the fossil gas industry uses lobbying and lawsuits to quash city laws that stop new buildings from being hooked up to gas pipelines.
Tesla, SpaceX vulnerable to Democrats
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Tesla,_SpaceX_vulnerable_to_Democrats)
Published: March 5, 2025 04:36
*Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.*
CO2 pipeline safety regulations
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(CO2_pipeline_safety_regulations)
Published: March 5, 2025 04:36
The wrecker's latest gift to the fossil fuel companies is to cancel the proposed safety regulations on pipelines that transport CO2 under high pressure. A little CO2 in the air is normal and not medically harmful, but high-pressure leaks have put people…
Depending on US LNG as risky
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Depending_on_US_LNG_as_risky)
Published: March 5, 2025 04:36
*Planned EU investments in LNG risk increased dependency on US at worst possible time.*
No US Net-Zero Banking Alliance, COP26
Published: March 5, 2025 04:36
From mid-January: *Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for "woke capital".* Many is clear that the companies that halfheartedly agreed to help reduce CO2 emissions had no real appreciation of the danger they were agreeing…
Plant CO2 absorption slowing
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Plant_CO2_absorption_slowing)
Published: March 5, 2025 04:36
Earth's plants and soil have been decreasing their absorption of CO2 ever since 2008.
Pro-Ukranian backlash, protests
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Pro-Ukranian_protestor_backlash_)
Published: March 4, 2025 16:36
Americans rallied to support Ukraine (and condemn the bully). Europeans in various counties also rallied to support Ukraine.
Ruling against the executive rulers
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Ruling_against_the_executive_rulers)
Published: March 4, 2025 16:36
*A US judge on Saturday declared president Donald Trump’s firing of the head of [the Office of Special Counsel] illegal.* Enough decisions like this might lead to restoring rule of law.
Continue world aid, AND rearm, UK
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Continue_world_aid,_AND_rearm,_UK)
Published: March 4, 2025 16:36
Britain must continue foreign aid as well as rearm. It must also raise the standard of living of Britons, which has fallen since Thatcher redirected Britain's wealth to the rich. Britain can do all of these things if it starts taxing the rich as they…
ACLU stands up for deportees
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(ACLU_stands_up_for_immigrants)
Published: March 4, 2025 16:36
*ACLU sues to block White House from sending [certain] immigrants to Guantánamo.*
Urgent: Investigate Musk
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Urgent:_Investigate_Musk)
Published: March 4, 2025 16:36
US citizens: call on Congress to investigate Musk and his depredations. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Gazan medics' prison torture
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Gazan_medics'_prison_torture)
Published: March 4, 2025 04:36
*More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture.* *Gaza's doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli [prison].*
First official language, US
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(First_official_language,_US)
Published: March 4, 2025 04:36
The wrecker plans to screw everyone in the US who does not speak English well enough to deal with government bureaucracy, by eliminating support for interpreters to help.
Zelenskyy acrimony, ambush, US/UKR
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Zelenskyy_acrimony,_ambush,_US%2FUKR)
Published: March 3, 2025 22:36
A meeting between Zelenskyy and Tr-ance in the White House broke up in acrimony. They tried to bully him into selling Ukraine's mineral resources without getting military support in return, by attacking him and Ukraine. He responded civilly to the points…
Urgent: Prevent US plans for war, MEX
Published: March 3, 2025 22:36
US citizens: call on Congress not to support the bully's idea for a war with Mexico. The "war on drugs" is stupid as a metaphor, and even stupider as a shooting war. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard:…
(Satire) Criticism Of Grapes
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_((Satire)_jeff_bezos_whole_foods)
Published: March 3, 2025 16:36
(satire) *Jeff Bezos Sends Note To Whole Foods Staff Forbidding Criticism Of Grapes.*
Zelenskyy ambushed by Tr-ance on TV
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Zelenskyy_ambushed_by_Tr-ance_on_TV)
Published: March 3, 2025 16:36
*Ukraine "gambling with world war three", Trump tells Zelenskyy in fiery meeting.* The bully is echoing Putin's repeated propaganda line: "Give in to my demands or I might use nuclear weapons." I have called this his "I'm a madman with a nuke" routine. …
3M chemicals disinformation early on
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(3M_chemicals_disinformation_early_on)
Published: March 3, 2025 16:36
*3M told customers its firefighting foams were harmless and biodegradable, when it knew they contained toxic substances so persistent they are now known as "forever chemicals" and banned in many countries.*
DoorDash tips
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(door_dash_tips_delivery_workers)
Published: March 3, 2025 16:36
*[DoorDash] claimed that 100% of tips went to [the delivery people] but instead used them to subsidize workers' base salary.* As far as I know, only that one food delivery company has cheated in that particular way. But others cheat various parties in…
Urgent: Sustain Medicaid
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Urgent:_Sustaine_Medicaid)
Published: March 3, 2025 16:36
US citizens: call on Congress not to cut Medicaid. The proposed cuts would bring about the death of non-rich Americans that get sick.
Dealership vandalism
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(colorado_tesla_dealership_vandalism)
Published: March 3, 2025 16:36
*Colorado woman charged with vandalizing Tesla dealership.* If cars are made by a Nazi sympathizer, does that justify calling the cars "Nazi cars"? We don't know that the cars share the views of the owner of the company. Perhaps the cars were…
Deporting Uyghurs, THA
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Deporting_Uyghurs,_THA)
Published: March 3, 2025 04:38
*Thailand deports dozens of Uyghurs to China despite torture fears.   Rights experts say group who have been detained for more than 10 years face high risk of torture and imprisonment.* Not deporting people to countries likely to persecute them is a…
When Clinton cut gov't jobs
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(When_Clinton_cut_gov't_jobs)
Published: March 3, 2025 04:38
Musk claimed that his abrupt firing of thousands of federal workers is just like Clinton's job cuts in the 1990s. Robert Reich, who carried out part of those cuts, lays out the fundamental differences. *When you hear Musk say his effort is similar to…
US power in EU
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(US_power_in_EU)
Published: March 3, 2025 04:38
George Monbiot: *So much of [UK] intelligence and military systems are shared [with] or reliant on the US — if it becomes the enemy, it is already inside the gates.* The idea of NATO, like that of "five-eyes" intelligence sharing, was predicated on the…
US military gender ideation
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Gender_as_contamination,_US_military)
Published: March 3, 2025 04:38
The wrecker ordered the US military to find and discharge all transgender servicemembers. The supposed justification for this is a bald assertion that being trans is incompatible with military service. Saying so does not make it true.
State pensions in cryptocurrency
Published: March 3, 2025 04:38
Some Democrats running for state governor receive campaign support from cryptocurrency schemes. They earn that money by saying they will put pension fund money into those schemes. Pension funds should choose investments that are pretty low in risk. The…
Judge blocks mass gov't-firings
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Judge_blocks_mass_firings,_US_govt)
Published: March 3, 2025 04:38
*Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s mass firings at federal agencies. US Office of Personnel Management lacks power to order firings, including those of probationary employees.*
Chief of decision control
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Chief_of_decision_control)
Published: March 2, 2025 16:38
Robert Reich asserts that the saboteur-in-chief is aiming to establish personal control over all parts of the US government that can employ force. He is doing this by *putting into power people who are more loyal to him than they are to the United…
Undersea cable damage suspect, Taiwan
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Undersea_cable_damage_suspect,_Taiwan)
Published: March 2, 2025 16:38
*Taiwan detains Chinese-crewed cargo ship after undersea cable damaged.* Since the polite words of states attacked this way were treated as a sign of weakness, it's necessary that they show their strength.
Neo-Nazi party deception, DEU
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Neo-Nazi_party_deception,_DEU)
Published: March 2, 2025 16:38
Germany's neo-Nazi party temporarily tried to give the impression, for the election, that it was a little less Nazi. Turns out that was just a sham.
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