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British insect population decline
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(British_insect_population_decline)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
The population of flying insects in Britain fell by half from 2021 to 2023. In 2024 it did not bounce back. The cause is not known, but it can cause disaster for many kinds of plants, as well as birds, frogs, and other things that eat insects.
Trump cancels HIV elimination funding
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Trump_cancels_HIV_elimination_funding)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
Just as the world came to have a chance to eliminate HIV through medicines that prevent its spread, the wrecker showed up and cancelled US plans to pay for doing that. If civilization falls due to global heating, we are likely to lose the technology to…
El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
El Salvador's CECOT prison is more cruel than Guantanamo. The prisoners are kept incommunicado and have no legal rights. Anyone there can be sent to that prison on the "president"s whim. Other, older prisons there are (reportedly) even more cruel.
Trump environment onslaught
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Trump_environment_onslaught)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
*Charting 100 days of [the saboteur in chief]’s onslaught on the environment.*
Trump vs clean air
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Trump_vs_clean_air)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
*[The wrecker] has launched more attacks on the environment in 100 days than his entire first term.*
Israel and Red Cross
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Israel_and_Red_Cross)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
*Israel must give Red Cross access to jailed Palestinians, Britain tells ICJ.* The crimes of HAMAS are grave, an many, but the crimes of Israel are comparably grave and far more numerous. Citing one side's crimes does not justify the other's.
US-Ukraine minerals deal
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(US-Ukraine_minerals_deal)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
*US and Ukraine sign minerals deal* that sets up a way for Ukraine to pay the price of the military aid that the US has already donated. This agreement is not really a deal; rather, it is a general roadmap to reach a deal. This will give the cheater at…
Paramount and CBS
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Paramount_and_CBS)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
Paramount wants to do a merger, and Paramount owns CBS. That relationship enabled the represser to impose censorship on CBS. Last year, the FTC might have blocked the merger to preserve competition, but it would not have demanded power over CBS…
US cruelty
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(US_cruelty)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
*I witnessed US cruelty as a Guantánamo lawyer. [The bully's] deportations are disturbingly familiar.*
Mohsed Mahdawi bailed
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Mohsed_Mahdawi_bailed)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
Mohsed Mahdawi has been freed on bail. There was never any reason to jail him except the Republican policy of intimidating all opposition into submission.
RFK Jr's false vaccine claims
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(RFK_Jr's_false_vaccine_claims)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
*RFK Jr and [department of HHS] falsely claim MMR vaccine includes "aborted fetus debris".
Mercenary spyware
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Mercenary_spyware)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
Italian journalists that have exposed fascist-leaning members of Melonu's right-wing governing Party have been attacked with spyware on their snooping devices. (They don't by default snoop for anybody and everybody.)
"Carbon bombs"
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Carbon_bombs)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
*[London Banks] have poured more than $100bn (£75bn) into companies developing “carbon bombs” -- huge oil, gas and coal projects that would drive the climate past internationally agreed temperature limits with catastrophic global consequences.*
Robert Reich: Trump's next 100 days
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Robert_Reich:_Trump's_next_100_days)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
Robert Reich: If leaders stay silent, the US won't survive [the corrupter's] next 100 days.
An American's democracy plea
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(An_American's_democracy_plea)
Published: May 6, 2025 02:37
An American pleads for other countries to adopt policies that can lead/press the US back to democracy. *I firmly believe that the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada and Japan have a historic obligation to the American people to do what they can to…
Urgent: Pass the Social Security Expansion Act
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Social Security Expansion Act. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Groundwork for privatizing some space and satellite operations
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
The muskrat *appears to be laying the groundwork to privatize some space and satellite operations now under the authority of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), or steer lucrative contracts toward his SpaceX and Starlink companies,…
Israel abuse of UNRWA staff
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Israel_abuse_of_UNRWA_staff)
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
*UNRWA says Israel has abused [jailed UNRWA] staff and used some as human shields.* UNRWA says that Israeli prison guards subjected some of them to brainwashing techniques and obtained some forced confessions. This is what Israeli prisons generally do to…
Time for US to guarantee healthcare to all
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
Bernie Sanders: *It's time for the US to guarantee healthcare to all.*
Switch to no-till farming
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Switch_to_no-till_farming)
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
US farms switched to no-till farming to reduce loss of topsoil, which prevents harmful environmental degradation. Friends of the Earth warns that this has led to much more use of dangerous herbicides. So what should we do? The loss of topsoil is…
Muskrat wants to end subsidies
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Muskrat_wants_to_end_subsidies)
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
The muskrat's companies benefited greatly from government subsidies. Now he wants to end such subsidies for the future. But I don't think we should continue being ripped off to subsidize businesses. [Below, for each area, link to an example of foolish…
Putin forces held a Ukrainian civilian journalist prisoner
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
The Putin forces kept a Ukrainian civilian journalist prisoner almost totally incommunicado, Eventually they handed over her dead body, which showed signs of torture. I am puzzle by the people on the left who are included to excuse this. They would not…
Warning of extremism in Israeli government
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
Former Israeli military chiefs warn Israelis that their government is threatened by extremism. This is one of the things that are gravely wrong in the Israeli government. The other is repression and persecution of Palestinians. I think the two are…
Deportation thugs seek out immigrant minors
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
*Deportation thugs seeking out unaccompanied immigrant [minors] to deport or prosecute them.* The article's title says "children", but I think that is an example of the misleading practice of calling adolescents "children". If I am right about that,…
Deported women separated from US citizen children
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
*Two women who were deported to ]Honduras alongside their US citizen children were held in “complete isolation” and denied any opportunity to coordinate the care and custody of their children before being put on a flight, according to one of the lawyers…
(satire) Gavel and black gowns ties to MS-13 gang
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
(satire) *FBI Claims Gavel, Black Gowns Prove Ties To MS-13 Gang.*
Instances of cruelty by deportation thugs
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
A survey of noteworthy recent instances of cruelty by the US deportation thugs.
Value of Musk's DOPE conflicts of interest
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
*Elon Musk's DOPE conflicts of interest worth $2.37bn, Senate report says.* DOPE = Depredation's of Perverse Evisceration.
Record level Australian coal exports
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Record_level_Australian_coal_exports)
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
Australia's coal exports have reached a record level, as the coal companies fund ads to promote the right-wing planet roaster parties. The money trail was visible in that instance, but I am sure they are doing far more of this than people can trace. …
Using psychedelics to treat mental distress
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
Arguing that the recent idea of using psychedelics to treat people in mental distress comes from shamans who told tourists what tourists wanted to hear, in the last century.
Reducing Tariffs from Canada in a selective way
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
The wrecker ordered reducing tariffs on cars from Canada, in a selective way that helps Tesla most of all.
New York Times article on targeting of Muslims
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
A New York Times article took evidence that Muslims are the religion most targeted by prejudice in universities, but spun it to give the impression that Jews are most targeted. Here is a careful account of the report they are talking about. Note: I…
Israeli government meddling on protesters in Britain
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
There is information that suggests that the British government helped the Israeli government meddle to bring about prosecution of protesters in Britain.
Conflicts of interest in undersecretary of the army
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
The corrupter's choice for undersecretary of the army says he will end all his conflicts of interest except one: all the stock he owns in one arms company. This is enough to conclude he is not serious about doing the job honestly; enough reason to reject…
Judge's rule on Alien Enemies Act
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Judge's_rule_on_Alien_Enemies_Act)
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
A judge has ruled that the *Alien Enemies Act does not allow White House to deport alleged gang members* in the southern district of Texas. Eventually appeals courts will rule on this.
Reasons to use cash
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Reasons_to_use_cash)
Published: May 5, 2025 02:39
How many different reasons to use cash will it take to convince your friends that they have good reason to use cash too?
Urgent: Condemn the arrest of Judge Dugan
Published: May 3, 2025 08:36
US citizens: tell the saboteur in chief that you condemn the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan.
A talk in Czech Republic
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(A_talk_in_Czech_Republic)
Published: May 3, 2025 08:36
RMS will give a talk in Liberec, Czech Republic, Wednesday, May 7, 16:30 – 18:30. For programs that you could run, and for network services that could do your own computing, under what circumstances is it reasonable to trust them?
Bird populations down, N. America
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Bird_populations_down,_N._Amer.)
Published: May 3, 2025 08:36
A study of populations of 500 species of birds found that 3/4 are declining, especially where they were formerly numerous.
A talk in Alicante, Spain
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(A_talk_in_Alicante,_Spain)
Published: May 3, 2025 08:36
RMS will give a talk in Alicanta, Spain, Monday, May 5, and it is already full.
Study of satellites' aluminum oxides
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Study_of_satellites'_aluminum_oxides)
Published: May 3, 2025 08:36
Disposing of thousands of satellites by letting them burn up in reentry will release thousands of tons of aluminum oxides into the upper atmosphere, which can significantly increase global heating.
US Dept of Justice: ten red flags
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(US_Dept_of_Justice:_ten_red_flags)
Published: May 3, 2025 02:36
Attorney General Bondi's actions, since appointed, have amounted to a campaign of sabotage against due process of law and equal rights, opening opportunities for sabotage by America's enemies (foreign and domestic).
US foreign relations
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(US_foreign_relations)
Published: May 3, 2025 02:36
Former US ambassadors compare the situation in the countries where they served with the situation in the US now.
State of world, Amnesty International
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(State_of_world,_Amnesty_International)
Published: May 3, 2025 02:36
The wrecker has done harm around the world to humanity's freedom and future.
US-mandated climate assessment dismissed
Published: May 3, 2025 02:36
The US engages experts to recommend policies for coping with global heating effects; the next report is due in 2028. The wrecker has just dismissed all of them. Judging from his other actions, he will choose new bogus "experts" to make a bogus report…
US journalism's peril, Democrats fault
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(US_journalism's_peril,_Democrats_fault)
Published: May 3, 2025 02:36
The bully plans to eliminate rules that protected journalists from subpoenas for investigations into leaks.
Urgent: fake abortion-clinics
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Urgent:_fake_abortion-clinics)
Published: May 3, 2025 02:36
US citizens: call on Congress to stop fake abortion clinics' deceptive and predatory practices. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Harvard's battle with US gov
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Harvard's_battle_with_US_gov)
Published: May 3, 2025 02:36
The hypocrite's henchmen have ordered an investigation of Harvard because a student-run organization complied with federal DEI policies while they were in effect.
(Satire) US President approval-ratings
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_((Satire)_US_President_approval-ratings_)
Published: May 3, 2025 02:36
(satire) *[The wrecker's] Support Surges After He Points Gun At Nation.*
Urgent: Food inspections
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(Urgent:_Food_inspections)
Published: May 2, 2025 08:37
US citizens: call on The FDA not to end routine food safety inspections — change would lead to sickness and death.
Electric power outage lessons, Spain
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(Electric_power_outage_lessons,_Spain)
Published: May 2, 2025 08:37
The big power failure has taught many in Spain how dangerous it is to rely on digital payment. This may help us campaign to resume use of cash. When the systems are working normally, we still have reasons to pay cash for most payments: to maintain our…
First 100 days of wrecking, US
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(First_100_days_of_wrecking)
Published: May 2, 2025 08:36
What the wrecker has ruined in just 100 days.
Elections stay Liberals course, CAN
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(Elections_stay_Liberals_course,_CAN)
Published: May 2, 2025 08:36
The Canadian Liberal party just won a national election because its new leader stood firm against the bully's threats and harassment.
Urgent: Section 230 and online dissent
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(Urgent:_Section_230_and_online_dissent)
Published: May 2, 2025 08:36
US citizens: call on Congress not to attack Section 230 — that is dangerous for people's freedom of speech. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
US no longer gold standard for press freedom
Published: May 1, 2025 02:39
*The US used to be the gold standard for press freedom. Not any more.* One other cause of this is that mainstream media are no longer independent. They have been bought, either by billionaires that are easily corrupted by the wreckers or by bigger…
Space superstorms
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Space_superstorms)
Published: May 1, 2025 02:39
Space superstorms of charged particles coming from the Sun can bring down power-grids. The loss of electric power could lead to disastrous superleaks of radiation from old nuclear fuel that depends on power to cool the cooling water. Such a disaster…
Right-wing extremists targeting Hong Kong's exiled dissidents
Published: May 1, 2025 02:39
Someone encouraged Britain's right-wing extremists to target Hong Kong's exiled dissidents. We must suppose that was done by China's agents.
Rapid increase in civilian casualties in Yemen
Published: May 1, 2025 02:39
*Trump promised peace but brings rapid increase in civilian casualties to Yemen.* (Don't ever expect the bullshitter to do what he said he would do.) US bombs hit an immigration prison in Yemen and killed 68 immigrants. None of them were combatants. …
Microsoft forcing Windows useds to identify themselves
Published: May 1, 2025 02:39
Microsoft is tightening the chains that force Windows useds to identify themselves. I suspect that it planned the strategy of leaving openings to avoid doing this, then gradually close them, as a way to avoid inspiring a lot of resistance all at once. …
Lawyer used Artificial Stupidity for submission to court
Published: May 1, 2025 02:39
A lawyer defending a right-wing activist gave the task of finishing a submission to the court to an Artificial Stupidity. Since it had not passed the bar exam, or studied law, the text it output was full of errors. Please do not call these systems…
Republican's "terrified" to cross Trump
Published: May 1, 2025 02:39
*Eric Swalwell, a Democratic representative from California, said his Republican colleagues were "terrified" of crossing Trump not only because of the negative impact on their political careers, but also from anxiety that it might provoke physical…
Responding to Amazon's wrongdoing
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Responding_to_Amazon's_wrongdoing)
Published: May 1, 2025 02:39
Suggestions for responding to Amazon's wrongdoing beyond simply refusing to do business with it. From AthenaForAll.org. States can enforce and update their antitrust laws to stop Amazon from hoarding wealth and power – for example, by…
Gaza has run through supplies of food and medicine
Published: May 1, 2025 02:39
Gaza has run through the supplies of food and medicine that it had when Israel imposed a total siege.
Over reliance on gps
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Over_reliance_on_gps)
Published: May 1, 2025 02:39
Letting tech companies and governments track you all the time is dangerous not only if they declare you an enemy. If you go into the wild after getting used to that way of life, you may find yourself hopelessly lost because your navigation skill was never…
US voting rights pillars fired
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(Voting_rights_pillars_fired)
Published: April 30, 2025 14:39
The saboteur's henchmen in the Justice Department have sabotaged the defense of Americans' voting rights. The attorney general has just fired the whole of the team that was supposed to defend Americans' voting rights. Or course they would do this — they…
To combat an oppressive regime
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(To_combat_an_oppressive_regime)
Published: April 30, 2025 14:39
Poles who resisted Communism and then right-wing extremism offer advice to Americans about what to do about our oppressive regime.
A bid to silence dissent, US
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(A_bid_to_silence_dissent,_US)
Published: April 30, 2025 14:39
*The FBI's arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan is a bid to silence dissent.* What's more, the FBI agents went there to break up a court hearing and it was the judge's responsibility to enable the hearing to finish. Her action was in service to the legal system;…
Urgent: McDonald's vs local laws
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(Urgent:_McDonald's_vs_local_laws)
Published: April 30, 2025 02:45
US citizens: Oppose McDonald's lobbying campaign against local laws to require reusable packaging.
Urgent: Protect nonviolent activists
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_nonviolent_activists)
Published: April 30, 2025 02:45
US citizens: Denounce any attempt to arrest and imprison nonviolent activists. Protesting Tesla is not "domestic terrorism".
Google's Local Services Ads
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
Reportedly Google will soon start listening to and recording the calls made to local businesses that it advertises, by people responding to the advertisements. I have never seen Google's advertisements because I have used few Google services for many,…
Controversial shield laws
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(abortion_clinic_pills_shield_laws)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
*Volunteers rush to send abortion pills to US women,* heading for a legal conflict over the state's shield law.
No-Bid ICE Contract
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
*No-Bid ICE Contract Went to Former ICE Agents Sued for Fabricating Criminal Evidence on the Job.* The wrecker's henchmen would consider dishonesty an irresistible job qualification.
Trump’s inept handling
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(ineptitude_incompetence_stupidity)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
The wrecker has picked up a club and is wandering around US government affairs and banging it into important institutions in an apparently chaotic fashion. However, it is not in fact chaotic. He has a plan, which is to wreck any institution which could…
Demand Garcia’s Release
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(judiciary_committee_kilmar_abrego)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
Call on Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to visit Kilmar Ábrego.
The Great Barrier Reef
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(anohni_great_barrier_reef)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
Starting to mourn the Great Barrier Reef.
Funding cuts to programs
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
*[The wrecker's] officials cut hundreds of millions to combat gun violence and opioids addiction.* For fascists, helping to protect the people is not part of the mission of government. The US government under Biden sued Alabama and made the state agree…
A slide into a dictatorship
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(us_egypt_authoritarian_dictatorship)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
Mona Eltahawy fled Egypt's dictatorship and moved to the US. She reports here on seeing the US reach the end of a slide into dictatorship.
Ben-Gvir
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(itamar_ben_gvir_yale_shabtai_israel)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
The Israel/Palestine double standard for free speech in the US: Violent Israeli fanatics are invited to speak, whereas those in power revile people who condemn the total siege of Gaza as "fanatics".
Media Giants Settling
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(media_trump_paramount_disney_meta)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
*Media Giants Settling With [the corrupter] Are Setting a "Dangerous" Precedent.* A catalog on his attacks on the press.
Defense policy
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
The magats of the Pentagon have a recipe for firing or gag anyone not loyal to the wrecker first and everything else last: suspect them of leaks, then use that as the justification.
DOGE Zone FAQ
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(policy_manifesto_doge)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
The Yes Men present the policy manifesto of the DOPE (Department of Personnel Elimination).
Irish woman detained
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(irish_woman_cliona_ward_detained)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
*Irish woman living in US [with green card] for decades [jailed] by immigration officials.* The deportation thugs seem to be aiming to be as sadistic as possible to each person they jail. This senseless harassment must be awfully expensive, and the…
Banned DDT in Canadian trout
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
70 years after Canada banned use of DDT, brook trout caught nowadays contain amounts of DDT that could be dangerous.
Immigrant children
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(ice_unaccompanied_immigrant_children)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
*[The deportation thugs] are seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children in operations nationwide with a view to deporting them or pursuing criminal cases against them or adult sponsors sheltering them legally in the US.*
Pun re-done
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Pun_re-done)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
This pun was re-done: ¿Cuál es la relación entre el cura, la cura, y lo cura?
Voter suppression tactic blocked
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Voter_suppression_tactic_blocked)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
*Federal judge blocks Trump order that could disenfranchise millions of voters.* This is the order to require voters to show federally approved identity documents.
Urgent: Medicare for All
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Urgent:_Medicare_for_All)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 202-224-3121 to support the Medicare for All act. It would provide [medical] coverage to all residents of the United States with no premiums, deductibles, co-pays, or surprise bills; expand and…
Trump's approval ratings way down
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Trumps_approval_ratings_tanked)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
Most American voters disapprove of the bully's actions as president. But is that still true if we limit the question to those whom Republicans will fail to block from voting?
Wisconson judge arrested
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Judge_arrested_by_FBI,_WI)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
The FBI, acting under right-wing fanatic Kash Patel, and the wrecker, has arrested a Wisconsin judge. I don't know whether what the judge is accused of doing was illegal, but we have already seen that the goal of those fanatics is to abolish rule of law.
Urgent: Disaster relief
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Urgent:_Disaster_relief)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
US citizens: call on Congress to protect federal disaster relief from the wrecker's attacks. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Urgent: Kilmar Abrego Garcia case
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Urgent:_Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia_case)
Published: April 29, 2025 08:39
Call on Congress to make sure Kilmar Ábrego can return to the US from El Salvador. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Climate action
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Climate_action)
Published: April 28, 2025 20:45
*Most of the world's population wants stronger climate action. They just don't realize that they are a majority.*
(Satire) Eucharistic overdose
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_((Satire)_Eucharistic_overdose)
Published: April 28, 2025 20:45
(satire) *Vatican Coroner Confirms Eucharistic Overdose.* Did the coroner check for Vance poisoning? If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then right-click and select…
Fossil fuel mining permits
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Fossil_fuel_mining_permits)
Published: April 28, 2025 20:45
Clearance -- the whole environment must go! At least in US national parks.
Storms damage, FEMA refuses to emerge
Published: April 28, 2025 14:51
*[The wrecker] denies aid for Arkansas after storms that killed more than 40 people.*
US Universities united against wrecker
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#27_April_2025_(Universities_united_against_wrecker)
Published: April 28, 2025 14:51
*Over 100 US university presidents sign letter decrying Trump administration.*
Museum loses US grants
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#27_April_2025_(Meuseum_loses_US_grants)
Published: April 28, 2025 14:51
*[The persecuter] cuts federal grants to a plantation museum focused on reality of slavery.* Removing the moral stigma that racism has and deserves to have is one of his goals.
Covid-19 study canceled
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#27_April_2025_(Covid-19_study_canceled)
Published: April 28, 2025 14:51
*The largest ever global study into the safety of Covid-19 vaccines has been terminated just 13 months shy of completion, after becoming caught up in [the wrecker's] sweeping funding cuts. Anti-vaxxers such as RFK will find this very helpful.
Coral reef bleaching
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(coral_reef_bleaching)
Published: April 27, 2025 02:39
*Coral reefs have a high concentration of biodiversity that supports about a third of all marine species and 109 billion people.* They are having the worst bleaching event ever before recorded, because they are hotter now than was ever before recorded.
Bomb threat, Columbia U.
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(barnard_college_gaza_protests)
Published: April 27, 2025 02:39
A bomb threat was announced against protesters at Columbia University protesting on behalf of Palestinians. Columbia's public response presented the protesters as possible culprits rather than as the targets. (Barnard College is part of Columbia…
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