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Supposed Intelligence safety
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#16_September_2026_(Supposed_Intelligence_safety)
Published: September 17, 2026 08:36
The companies that develop Supposed Intelligence (specifically, LLMs) want us to put them in charge of making the systems "safe", by giving them absolute control over what the systems will do (and what they won't do). The systems are really dangerous,…
Israeli company accused of interfering in Colombia election
Published: September 17, 2026 08:36
President Petro of Colombia accused the Israeli company Blackcore of interfering in Colombia's presidential election. I am pretty sure that the US made some sort of vicious secret intervention, because the newly elected? president is a magat.
Intended Texas border wall
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#16_September_2026_(Intended_Texas_border_wall)
Published: September 17, 2026 08:36
The intended Texas border wall, purely for completeness' sake, will extend over an area of cliffs and come damagingly close to ancient rock art. I think it is an exaggeration to compare rock art to "books". To suppose that this rock art image has a…
Finland progress towards eliminating homelessness
Published: September 17, 2026 08:36
Finland made great progress towards eliminating homelessness by giving people houses which they could feel was home. Alas, right-wing government has cut some of the spending and is driving homelessness back up.
President of Ecuador turning country into dictatorship
Published: September 17, 2026 08:36
The president of Ecuador is turning the country into a dictatorship by banning parties that don't support him.
Urgent: Raise the Wage Act
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#15_September_2026_(Urgent:_Raise_the_Wage_Act)
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the Raise the Wage Act, to raise the national minimum wage. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.…
Urgent: Ban insider trading
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#15_September_2026_(Urgent:_Ban_insider_trading)
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on your state legislators to ban insider trading (including prediction bets) by elected and appointed officials, and government employees. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript…
Urgent: Limit gouging by businesses
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on the CFPB to limit gouging by businesses by continuing to publish consumers' complaints.
Urgent: News coverage for companies hiding wealth
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: The corrupter's henchmen have facilitated the hiding of wealth by US companies, by nullifying the rule requiring to tell the government who owns them. Call on news media to cover this.
Urgent: Stop kicking sick people off Medicaid
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on Dr. Oz to stop kicking sick people off Medicaid.
Urgent: Protect birthright citizenship
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: Protect birthright citizenship.
Urgent: Pass Green New Deal for Health
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Green New Deal for Health. 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: Drilling near Grand Canyon
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on Congress not to allow drilling near the Grand Canyon. 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: Investigate Department of Hiding and Skulking's secret surveillance
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the Department of Hiding and Skulking's secret surveillance. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. …
Urgent: Lawyer's for migrant children
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on Congress to stop the persecutor from denying migrant children a lawyer's representation in proceedings to deport them. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main…
Urgent: Pass Bank Failure Accountability Act
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Bank Failure Accountability Act. 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: Stop weakening Global Plastics Treaty
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on Rubio to stop weakening the Global Plastics Treaty.
Urgent: magat's misleading analysis of census and voting
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on Congress not to fall for the magats' misleading analysis of the census and voting. 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: Stop destructive scanning of books
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on the FTC to stop Supposed Intelligence companies from scanning books to destruction and hoarding the scans. The law should require that if the book is in the public domain, its scanned text be published by the Library of Congress. If…
Urgent: Coverage of bully's attacks on journalists
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on the media to stop covering the bully's attacks on journalists as outbursts and start covering them as deliberate, escalating attempts to use government power to silence the press.
Urgent: Flock surveillance cameras at Lowe's
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on Lowe's to remove its Flock surveillance cameras.
Urgent: Pro-Israel hawk in Middle East policy leadership role
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on Speaker Jeffries to reverse his decision to appoint a pro-Israel hawk to a Middle East policy leadership role.
Urgent: Reverse NOAA rollback of marine protections
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on NOAA to reverse its rollback of marine protections.
Urgent: Green New Deal for Health
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: support the proposed Green New Deal for Health.
Urgent: Keep deportation thugs away from polling places
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on the Department of Hostile Savagery to keep the deportation thugs away from our polling places. A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Maine said he would invite deportation thugs to come to Maine's polling places to intimidate and…
Urgent: Call on Cornell University to stand by commitments to students
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on Cornell University to stand by commitments it made to its students who were being persecuted by hateful officials.
Urgent: Data center pollution decisions
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on the EPA not to exclude the public from data center pollution decisions.
Urgent: Ban NDAs on plans about data centers
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call to ban NDAs about plans to build data centers. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Pass People Over Poison Act
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop the corporate cancer loophole: Pass the People Over Poison Act. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not…
Urgent: Block private equity buying hospitals
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on your state legislators to block private equity grabs from buying hospitals. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Report on Israel's violence
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on your senators to vote to report on Israel's violence and human rights abuses in the West Bank! See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard. US…
Urgent: Corrupter arbitrarily meddling with federal grants
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to block the corrupter from arbitrarily meddling with federal grants. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.…
Urgent: Stop wrecker demolishing the Kennedy Center
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop the wrecker from demolishing the Kennedy Center. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard. Here's the…
Urgent: Paid time off to vote
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#15_September_2026_(Urgent:_Paid_time_off_to_vote)
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on Fortune 500 CEOs to Give Workers Paid Time Off to Vote. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Privatization of Yosemite
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on the Interior Department and the National Park Service not to privatize part of Yosemite for the sake of a business. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial,…
Urgent: Don't take tax credits from immigrant families
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: Tell the Treasury and the IRS: Don’t take tax credits away from immigrant families who lawfully work. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Bill for moratorium on data centers
Published: September 16, 2026 14:36
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to support a bill to for a moratorium on construction of data centers I suggest you eliminate the term "AI" from your letter. You might say "pretend intelligence" instead. See the instructions for…
Global heating
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Global_heating)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
Global heating is an intentional outrage, not a natural calamity. It is being done to us knowingly.
Law of war
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Law_of_war)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
The US has participated since the Revolutionary War in efforts to curb the worst excesses of war. The sadist has declared his total opposition to that goal. The US has not always lived up to that stated intention. The distribution of disease-laden…
Election deniers running for office
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
* Republicans who deny Joe Biden won the 2020 election are running for governor and secretary of state across the US.* Each state's secretary of state is in charge of that state's elections. A secretary of state who endorses lies about recent past…
Pentagon journalists blacklist
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Pentagon_journalists_blacklist)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
*U.S. Central Command maintains a secret directory of journalists who have been blacklisted by the press office.*
Voting Rights Act
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Voting_Rights_Act)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
*Top US firms that backed Voting Rights Act [(in 2021) now] donate to groups working to undermine it.*
Fire near Reno
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Fire_near_Reno)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
A wind-driven fire near Reno, Nevada is spreading so fast that it is hard for people to evacuate fast enough to get away. It is even spreading across fire trucks, carried I suppose by blowing embers. This is part of the consequences of global heating,…
Climate studies shut down
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Climate_studies_shut_down)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
*[The saboteur's henchmen have] shut down more than 100 climate studies.* The long-term plan may be to prevent the education of future climate scientists in the US. Since the saboteur in chief, and his billionaire oligarchs, reject the results of climate…
When law becomes the weapon
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(When_law_becomes_the_weapon)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
Many countries have imposed, or tolerated, practices of lawfare that make it possible to crush journalists that question the official line.
Stars and Stripes editor fired
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Stars_and_Stripes_editor_fired)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
The bully's henchmen have fired the publisher and editor of the military newspaper Stars and Stripes for defending its traditional editorial independence. The bully wants to convert every news medium in the US into his own house organ.
Millions in India stripped of vote
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
*Millions in India stripped of vote before critical state election, as government seeks to "purify" electoral roll.* The BJP passed two laws, a decade ago, with the combined effect of denying citizenship to Indian Muslims who lacked certain documentation…
"Darth Vader" in favor of Flock
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Darth_Vader_in_favor_of_Flock)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
*"Darth Vader" comes out in favor of Flock cameras at San Diego city council meeting. The dark lord – or someone dressed like him – said the technology would aid the empire in tracking "rebel scum".*
"Divisive" progressives
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Divisive_progressives)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
Ever since most Democratic officials abandoned New Deal-style support for the non-rich, environmental protection, climate defense, and equal rights, the candidates who seek to return the party to those causes have been tarred as "divisive". We can't…
Chow Hang-tung jailed
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Chow_Hang-tung_jailed)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
Hong Kong freedom activist Chow Hang-tung as been jailed for five years for trying to talk publicly about the Tien An Men square massacre in Beijing.She keeps her spirits up by writing about being in prison. Her motive: A stubborn freak like me can only…
Hind Rajab killing
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Hind_Rajab_killing)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
Israeli army has admitted that its soldiers fired at the car carrying Hind Rajab and her family, which is what killed them all. Also that it fired at the ambulance which was trying to reach them, killing some medics. Previously the army lied about the…
Republican's strategy
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Republican's_strategy)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
Republicans' long-term strategy, since Reagan, is to spend a lot of money (mainly on things that won't benefit non-rich Americans), refuse to raise taxes, and therefore greatly increase the national debt. Subsequently, when Democrats were in power, they…
Heidi Overton
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Heidi_Overton)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
*Trump nominates abortion opponent Heidi Overton to be head of FDA.* Those bastards live to make the people they hate suffer or die.
Racism today
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Racism_today)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
Racism today: when a white person faces accusations of wrongdoing, the accusation is against per alone. When a black person faces accusations, racists use that to cast aspersions against blacks in general.
Climate crisis
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Climate_crisis)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
*[UK] Ministers are in denial about the scale of the [local climate] crises we face.* *Having just 20 Defra staff working on climate adaptations show the government is not taking the challenges of heatwaves, wildfires and droughts seriously.*
Wildfires in Europe
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Wildfires_in_Europe)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
* Wildfires are projected to burn 39% more of Europe by the end of the century even in the best-case scenario for stopping the planet from heating, a study has found, unless action is taken to manage them better.*
Todd Blanche
https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#13_September_2026_(Todd_Blanche)
Published: September 14, 2026 02:36
(satire) *Todd Blanche Vows To Remain Fully Independent Of The Law.* He was recently confirmed by magat senators as the Attorney General, but he remains effectively the corrupter's personal lawyer. He is also an election denier.
Urgent: Investigate Paramount's takeover
Published: September 10, 2026 08:36
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to investigate Paramount's takeover meant to control most news media. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.…
Urgent: Pass Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act
Published: September 10, 2026 08:36
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard. US citizens: Join with this…
Urgent: Preserve Forest Service Roadless Rule
Published: September 10, 2026 08:36
US citizens: file a comment calling on the Forest Service to preserve the Roadless Rule that protects much of our national forests from being cut down.
Urgent: Refuse wrecker's voter-data grab
Published: September 10, 2026 08:36
US citizens: call on your state's Secretary of State to Refuse the wrecker's Voter-Data Grab. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Stop surveilling of unions, churches and activists
Published: September 10, 2026 08:36
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop the Department of Hostility and Suspicion from surveilling unions, churches, activists, and other peaceful political activism. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign…
Urgent: Faster Labor Contracts Act
Published: September 10, 2026 08:36
US citizens: call on your senators to vote for the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would stop companies from stalling contract negotiations forever. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript…
Urgent: Stop integration of American military tech with Israel
Published: September 10, 2026 08:36
US citizens: call on the Senate to stop the permanent integration of American military tech with Israel. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard. US citizens: Join…