Hegseth pressuring military toward Christianity
10 November 2026
Hegseth is trying to pressure the US military to pressure everyone in it towards Christianity. This is totally against the US Constitution.
AIPAC spending millions
10 November 2026
AIPAC is spending millions to promote candidates that will support Israel even in its atrocities — but since its name has become a liability, it now hides where the money comes from. The new method is to start new organizations that have no political stance and no history. Their names misleadingly suggest other goals.
Magats effective carriers of measles
10 November 2026
Magats are very effective carriers of measles. The outbreak they caused in the US in 2025 is still growing.
Thug that shot one-year-old
10 November 2026
The thug that gratuitously shot one-year-old Kohen Wiley was not in any danger. There was no reason to shoot anyone.
China accused of running "campus cultural centers"
10 November 2026
The US accuses China of running "campus cultural centers" which inculcate support for China and its government in US universities.
China does this in other countries, for political purposes, and I'm ready to believe that it does so in the US, too. But is it as dangerous as the College Republicans?
Right-wingers in UK are vandalizing houses and apartments
10 November 2026
Violent right-wingers in the UK are vandalizing houses and apartments shared by unrelated people, on the assumption that the occupants must be immigrants or refugees.
Police think that the extremists are manipulating young people to commit this vandalism. The article calls them "children", but I suspect that is distortion of language, because teenagers are more likely than children to go in for violence.
Mislabeling teenagers (adolescents) as "children" leads to treating them as helpless. That is damaging and wrong.
Self-organized support gave Lula victory
10 November 2026
Grass-roots self-organized support rallies gave Lula the victory in Brazil's presidential election. It is a relief to see the Brazilian followers of the American fascist leader defeated. (The defeated right-wing candidate is the son of the convicted coup leader, and both are Christian nationalists.) However, Brazil is still in a precarious position with so many people there who want to abolish human rights.
The antifascist Student List won Serbia's election
10 November 2026
The antifascist Student List won Serbia's election, kicking out President Vučić, the Trumplet who had taken power.
Inhabitants of Jilib squeezed against rising river
10 November 2026
US bombing in Somalia is squeezing the inhabitants of Jilib against a rising river, leaving no way they can survive.
RFK jr undermined US system for new vaccines
10 November 2026
RFK jr has undermined the US system for recommending new vaccines, so that there can't be any new vaccine recommendations until we remove him.
I wonder if Congress could revise the law so that state medical associations choose the members of the committee that is authorized to make these recommendations. If that is possible, it could bypass RFK Jr's roadblock.
Photojournalist attacked by Israeli army
10 November 2026
Photojournalist Zeinab Faraj describes how the Israeli army attacked her and her colleague, Amal Khalil, repeatedly with missiles and drones. Drones hovered near them and and their operators could not have failed to see that her team was doing journalism. But the army had publicly accused them of being terrorists.
Faraj survived, with some lasting injuries, but Khalil was killed by the attack.
Agents who shot Alex Pretti
10 November 2026
Alex Pretti’s parents accuse the Injustice Department of persistently shielding the agents who shot Alex Pretti dead.
Pretti was witnessing an attack on protesters, but not doing anything, when thugs attacked him.
FDA planning new loophole
10 November 2026
The FDA is planning to add a new loophole to its safety regulations for food additives.
OSHA is planning to weaken requirements to protect workers from inhaled toxic dust.
Netanyahu supporting HAMAS for decades
10 November 2026
Adam Raz: Netanyahu has been supporting HAMAS for decades so as to weaken the PLO and prevent support for a peace agreement. He argues that Netanyahu and HAMAS both aim to make Israelis and Palestinians too angry to agree on any sort of peace.
Former Israeli officials confirm that Israel gave money to help HAMAS start.
Stopping bully from supporting Putin against Ukraine
10 November 2026
If Democrats win control of Congress, they may be able to stop the bully from supporting Putin against Ukraine.
Guarding of abusive scam compounds
10 November 2026
*Cambodian police and soldiers helped guard abusive scam compounds, Amnesty alleges.*
Inflammation measured in blood samples
10 November 2026
Exposure to toxic gases from the 2023 train wreck in Ohio caused inflammation that was measured in blood samples taken 6 months later.
It would be interesting to get new measurements from the same people and measure whether the effect continues.
Proposals for thorough reform of UK water companies
10 November 2026
Proposals for thorough reform of UK water companies, beyond just making them owned by the government.
Crime to remain at protest where violence breaks out
10 November 2026
Albania has made it a crime to remain at a protest where violence breaks out. The penalty is a fine that almost no Albanians can pay.
If I understand these words, and if they are a careful description, it would also be a crime to protest wearing a mask.
Secondary whether 60 Minutes loses its audience
10 November 2026
Bari Weiss, put in place to reduce CBS News to billionaires' lapdog, considers it secondary whether 60 Minutes loses its audience.
Netanyahu's supporters have apparently lost the election
10 November 2026
Netanyahu's supporters have apparently lost the election, but that defeat won't really occur unless the Jewish-led parties opposed to him are willing to form a coalition with the Palestinian-led parties.
I like this:
"If you stop being racist two amazing things will happen to you," musician Yali Sobol wrote … "First, you will stop being racist. Second, you will discover you have won."
Egypt shutting down independent news media
10 November 2026
Egypt's repressive government is shutting down the remaining independent news media.
Flávio Bolsonaro escaped to the US
10 November 2026
Flávio Bolsonaro, wanted for election fraud in Brazil's presidential election, escaped to the US with the help of Argentina and Ecuador.
The Bolsonaros belong to the extreme right wing and are allied with the monster in the White House. So are the presidents of Argentina and Ecuador.
"Evacuation" of Ukrainian civilians
10 November 2026
Putin is allowing the "evacuation" of Ukrainian civilians from town of Oleshky (across the river from Kherson), where the Putin forces have been denying them food.
But it is a strange sort of "evacuation", since they are being taken to areas deeper in Putin's control, and those who don't present as Putin supporters may never be seen again.
Exxon's attempt to suppress climate evidence
10 November 2026
*New Documents Expose Exxon’s Attempt to Suppress Damning Climate Evidence* since at least 1992.
Melting Ron DeSantis statue
9 November 2026
*Melting Ron DeSantis statue unveiled to call out his inaction on climate crisis.*
It's a cute hack.
FBI agents fired by corrupter
9 November 2026
FBI agents fired by the corrupter for clinging to enforcing laws, rather than political revenge, are organizing to warn the public.
Very profitable US companies that paid no income tax
9 November 2026
88 very profitable US companies paid no US income tax in 2025. Their combined lobbying and election spending in 2020, 2022 and 2024 added up to 850 million dollars.
That was because of 26 billion dollars in tax breaks, which presumably relate to the lobbying they did.
No Kings Coalition accounts censored
9 November 2026
The No Kings Coalition accused Zuckerberg and Instagram of censoring them by blocking their account during the resent protests.
US deportation prisons deny medical treatment
9 November 2026
US deportation prisons deny their prisoners medical treatment and medicines, making them gravely ill. The US then rushes to deport them to garbage dump countries, which will accept any deportees in exchange for money from the US, then does them the worst harm it can come up with.
The US is effectively murdering these deportees, but setting it up so that they are hidden away in the garbage dump when they actually die.
Israeli soldiers arrested Brad Lander and other volunteers
9 November 2026
Candidate for Congress Brad Lander joined a group of 80 volunteers who went to the West Bank to help farmers harvest the olives on their olive trees. Israeli soldiers arrested them, saying they had declare that farm a "closed military zone". That seems to be Hebrew for "Justifications are not required here."
El Salvador arrests people to fill a quota for prisoners
9 November 2026
El Salvador arrests people to fill a quota for prisoners, and holds them incommunicado for years if judges order them freed.
Naturally, Tyrant Bukele has won the admiration of right-wing extremists around the world.
Risks of geoengineering megaprojects
9 November 2026
One risk of geoengineering megaprojects that is often overlooked is that it has to be continuously operated and continually maintained, and its infrastructure is vulnerable to catastrophes such as war.
If it is damaged, the suppressed global heating will come back.
Over-reliance on chatbots
9 November 2026
*Over-reliance on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, study finds.*
US system of sales and support
9 November 2026
Many Americans think the US system of sales and support has become a nightmare.
I am in one such nightmare now. I need some felt heel lifts to put in various pairs of shoes because of Achilles tendinitis, and I can't find any place I can get them, except for Amazon which is out of the question. At least I can reach a human for customer service for my prescriptions by walking to the pharmacy.
If you reject, as I do, all devices that demand to communicate with you across the network using a server that isn't yours, you will be safe from the "demand for an app". These "apps" are freedom-trampling, and so are the operating systems they run on, so I reject them all in a blanket fashion.
Global heating danger to shallow-water coral reefs
9 November 2026
Global heating is predicted to endanger 96% of shallow-water coral reefs by 2075. This is could cause extinction of 1/4 of the species in the sea and eliminate the food for hundreds of millions of people.
Scientists have been telling us for decades to expect this eventually, but now we are close enough to make a more reliable prediction.
It is not too late to prevent this disaster, but we need to overcome the political power of the fossil fuel companies to do it.
Treaty to govern autonomous weapons
9 November 2026
U.S. and Russia worked together to modify a proposed global treaty to govern autonomous weapons, eliminating the requirement that attacks be approved by human overseers.
Such a requirement would not have been a guarantee against atrocities; humans have committed and ordered plenty of those and continue to do so. Russia commits them regularly in Ukraine, while America's ally Israel commits them regularly in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
However, there are also soldiers, and armies, that take the rules of war seriously and prosecute soldiers who break them. The erased requirement would have had a real effect, there.
The persecutor and Putin are drifting into an alliance, and I expect they will both use every available weapon to reduce people to helpless obedience.
US workers facing deadly heat
9 November 2026
*US workers facing deadly heat borrow from tomato pickers to win key protections.*
Internet worm that infects "smart" devices
9 November 2026
The latest feat of Alleged Intelligence is an internet worm that infects "smart" devices.
"Smart" is marketing speak for products designed to be remote controlled, primarily by the manufacturer but secondarily by the purchaser and the purchaser's friends and associates, all of whom will be snooped on. They are the ideal prey for conversion into a botnet. Then someone other than the manufacturer can exercise the power over those people that the manufacturer was supposed to exercise.
I refuse to have any such devices in my apartment, because I consider snooping by their manufacturer just as bad as snooping by anyone else.
Passenger tied to seat reportedly hit people
9 November 2026
Arthur Lundeen was tied to a seat on an flight, reportedly simply for his nasty words. But here is a report that he did more than insult people; he also hit them. That would have justified tying him up.
Here is the previous report.
Christian nationalist's challenge to Abdulrahman El-Sayed
9 November 2026
A Christian nationalist provocateur tried to trap Michigan Senate candidate Abdulrahman El-Sayed by challenging him to "disavow" the Muslim Brotherhood, which is unfair in the same way as asking a man to "disavow" beating his wife.
El-Sayed responded by rejecting the Muslim Brotherhood, then championing the US Constitution and freedom of religion, and challenging the provocateur to do likewise. And praising President Kennedy's example of doing that.
Bravo!
Face recognition cameras on London lamp-posts
9 November 2026
The London thug department is setting up face recognition cameras on lamp-posts. It says the cameras will compare people's faces with a list of people wanted for arrest, and keep no records of anyone else.
Supposing it carries out that stated intention, should it be reassuring? Not entirely, because the UK has already criminalized political positions, such as stating support for Palestine Action. In other words, the line between stating a political stance and being a "wanted suspect" to be caught by face recognition in the street has been smudged in advance.
It was years ago that UK thugs began using license plate tracking to find protesters driving to a protest, and stop them from reaching it.
[pol note about protesters stopped while driving to a protest and held for hours so they could not go. ISTR the horrible act they planned was a banner drop. It pointed to a Guardian article. I think this note was more than 13 years ago]
Spending half a billion dollars on surveillance
9 November 2026
The Department of Harshness and Surveillance is spending half a billion dollars this year on surveillance, including surveillance technology (both buying things and developing things).
Repression of political opposition is explicitly one of the goals.
Thug charged for tracking wife with Flock cameras
9 November 2026
A thug has been arrested and charged for using Flock cameras to track his wife and her "previous acquaintance". It was clear he did this dishonestly, but his lawyer says that is not a crime.
Surveillance cameras such as Flock (and other companies) make are dangerous to society. They can be misused by individuals, such as that thug, but the worst danger is misuse by government agencies for repression.
I agree that we should make it a crime for individuals to make unauthorized use of these systems to track or menace individuals. But above all we need to make it hard for government agencies to authorize use of these systems without proper grounds. Any use of them should require a warrant signed by a judge.
Even that is too easy. Access to these cameras needs to be somewhat inconvenient, or else they will be used too often. That is why I suggest that they must not have remote digital access. It should be necessary to visit each camera, having received a warrant to do so, to see whether certain specified suspects have been seen by it in a certain period of time.
Flooding in US Southwest
9 November 2026
Months of heavy rains in the generally arid four corners area of the US Southwest have led to flooding, with some people taking refuge on the tops of their houses.
Netanyahu has ordered reprisals against Palestinians
9 November 2026
Netanyahu has ordered reprisals against Palestinians who live near the place where two Palestinians attacked Israel soldiers, including demolishing homes.
The practice of violent reprisals against people who live near where an act of violent resistance occurred was often used by Nazis in occupied countries such as France and Czechoslovakia.
Humiliating arrests of non-citizens in California
9 November 2026
The corrupter's men are dramatically staging humiliating arrests of non-citizens in California, accusing them of voting or at least registering to vote. It is not clear that the accusations against these people are true, but we can see they are mainly theater, designed to give the public the false idea that non-citizens often vote.
Some of them may have "registered to vote" without knowing it, because California registers people automatically if they don't explicitly say "don't".
Putin forces attacking ships transporting grain
9 November 2026
The Putin forces are attacking ships transporting grain from Ukraine through the Black Sea.
The job of space traffic control
9 November 2026
The magats seem to be trying to hand the job of space traffic control, which obviously should be a public function, to the megacorporation of the muskrat.
Staff of all the ethnic and racial groups in police department
9 November 2026
The head of the London police department insists that it needs to have staff of all the ethnic and racial groups in London, simply to be effective in its mission.
It is an interesting position and could be valid.
I will never grant that "XYZ of color" has any place in the grammar of English — "color" is not something one can be "of". But this purely linguistic matter is only a tangent to the political issue here.