Urgent: Reject increases in Pentagon spending
23 July 2026
US citizens: call on Tell Congress: Reject Republican plans for massive increases in Pentagon spending at the expense of human needs.
I called for paying for any increases in military spending by increasing taxes on the rich.
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Urgent: Imposed requirements that would kick people off Medicaid
23 July 2026
US citizens: call on Medicaid not to impose requirements that would kick lots of people off.
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Urgent: Make plug-in solar accessible
23 July 2026
US citizens: call on your governor and state legislators to make plug-in solar accessible for everyone.
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Corrupter's demands of his henchmen
23 July 2026
The corrupter demands that his henchmen be ready to lie to serve him.
Reviews of deportation prisons
23 July 2026
People have used Google to leave "reviews" of deportation prisons in Google Maps. Google deleted them and blocks new ones.
I urge people to refuse to use Google Maps because using it requires running nonfree software — which does an injustice to whoever uses it. But that doesn't excuse Google's censorship.
Refugees sent to Nauru don't get enough food and water
23 July 2026
The refugees that Australia sends to Nauru, the island state that operates as a privatized deportation prison, don't get enough food and water.
Global heating affecting workers in India
23 July 2026
Global heating in India has reached the point where workers doing physical labor, in some regions, can't do as much work as they used to. They are falling into poverty and can't afford enough food. The hunger and heat are damaging their health and shortening their life spans.
This looks like the beginning of total collapse.
Bravo for India's Cockroach Janta Party
23 July 2026
Body cameras with deportation thugs stop a car
23 July 2026
A henchman says that deportation thugs will enable body cameras when stopping a car.
That is a step forward — it should apply to their other dealings with the public.
Mamdani looking for grounds to arrest Netanyahu
23 July 2026
Mamdani is looking for grounds to arrest Netanyahu and send him to the ICC for trial, during his visit to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly.
Netanyahu deserves to be tried for the atrocities he has presided over, but he must not be arrested while visiting New York for a UN session. The UN depends on enabling national leaders to attend its sessions and meet each other, so that they can perhaps make peace. To arrest any of them during such visits would do lasting harm to prospects for negotiation in any future hostilities.
How corrupter has mired the US in multiple crises
23 July 2026
*How [the corrupter] and his administration have mired the US in multiple crises.*
No one can be honest in regime based on big lies
23 July 2026
Robert Reich: *No one can be honest in a regime based on big lies. As the poet, philosopher, and statesman Václav Havel put it, "If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living in truth." So a choice must be made — personal integrity or loyalty to [the corrupter].*
Grok copying repository to a Google server
23 July 2026
Grok's supposed-intelligence service was in the habit of copying a repository's entire contents to a Google server, if a user said to operate on part of it. Where it may have been copied to from there, we can only guess.
We recommend being selective in using the term "artificial intelligence" because most of the systems described that way do not qualify as "intelligence".
We recommend avoiding the term "the cloud" because that term leads people to forget that each computer you can reach on the net belongs to some company (or person).
Washington Post follows slant to help billionaires
23 July 2026
The Washington Post, now owned by billionaire Bezos, follows the slant that favors policies and laws that help billionaires get richer.
Prime Minister of Britain will cancel digital ID scheme
23 July 2026
The new Prime Minister of Britain will cancel the digital ID scheme.
This is a step in the right direction.
Political violence against officials in democratic countries
23 July 2026
Many countries that are more or less democratic are suffering from a flood of political violence against officials.
Polish-Ukrainian solidarity over Russian threat
23 July 2026
*Polish-Ukrainian solidarity over Russian threat undermined by bitter historical dispute.*
The Polish president is from the right-wing extremist party that used to rule Poland, and attacked civil liberties. Perhaps he is following the standard right-wing playbook of finding symbolic issues to stir up nationalism.
Curbing global heating cheap at any price
23 July 2026
The work needed to curb global heating and avoid the destruction of civilization is cheap at any price.
Troy Jackson will replace Platner
22 July 2026
Highly progressive former state legislator Troy Jackson will replace Platner as candidate for senator from Maine.
EU's pesticide law
22 July 2026
*How Europe's most powerful farming lobby killed EU's pesticide law.*
It lobbies against any kind of regulation that would reduce the profits of Big Ag, regardless of what problem the regulation would address.
Trump's attacks on elections
22 July 2026
The corrupter is trying to distract our attention from his attacks on the US election system using vague charges, based on inconclusive evidence, that China is doing such attacks.
Surveillance eyeglasses
22 July 2026
Surveillance eyeglasses with built-in cameras and facial recognition are being pushed by Suckerberg.
Joan Durán killer
22 July 2026
The deportation thug who killed Joan Sebastián Durán has possibly been identified and that name is linked with reports of violence and threats.
This "directly call[s] into question the supposed vetting and training ICE does of its recruits."
Global heating consequences on energy
22 July 2026
Global heating can force shutdown of nuclear power plants. It has happened this month in France due to the heat wave.
Labour Party missions
22 July 2026
To make the Labour Party a force for good, its new leader should return to the big missions it ran on two years ago -- and then dropped.
Wu Shaoping
22 July 2026
The persecutor's men arrested and jailed Wu Shaoping, a Chinese human rights lawyer who fled to the US in 2020 and asked for asylum.
Since then he has remained lawfully in the US waiting for a decision on his asylum request, until being arrested for no known reason. Will the persecutor deport Wu to China, where he will surely face imprisonment after a bogus trial?
It is a damned shame that such an asylum decision can take so many years, but that is a different issue.
Foreign journalist in US
22 July 2026
The corrupter has ordered that foreign journalists living in the US ask for a visa renewal every 8 months.
That will be a real screw, because they won't be able to lease an apartment for just 8 months.
This seems to be a scheme to intimidate them into going soft on the corrupter's crimes, attacks on civil liberties, and harm to the non-rich.
Deportation prison employee shot protester
22 July 2026
An employee at a privatized deportation prison shot a protester outside the prison, and has been arrested and charged.
That employee is not a federal agent. I wonder how far the persecutor's henchmen will go to protect him.
US Republicompoops
22 July 2026
US Republicompoops are calling for sanctions against Canada to punish it for the smoke blowing into parts of the US from large wildfires in western Ontario.
The specific proposal is absurd, of course, but there is some validity in the general idea. Uncontrollable fires are mainly the result of global heating, and global heating is the result of bad government policies that encourage more burning of fossil fuels. Sanctions could make governments change those policies.
Canada is one of the countries which has persistently encouraged fossil fuel exports, and continues to do this, so its deliberate actions are partly responsible for these fires (though not for precisely when and where they occur). Canada deserves sanctions to pressure it to stop doing causing more of them.
Of course, Canada is not the only country which does this. The US is a far worse culprit.
The EU, by contrast, has an effective emissions-reduction law, but businesses (and billionaires behind them) are demanding that the EU weaken it in the name of "competitiveness".
When parts of the world racing to a goal that implies destroying them all, saving civilization calls for inviting those billionaires to kill just themselves, rather than everyone.
US became less literate
22 July 2026
Reading and writing train the brain to formulate thoughts and to think more clearly. The US has become much less literate in recent decades, and it shows in our election results. But those are just a couple of points in this article, which is well worth reading through.
Rich Americans Taxes
22 July 2026
Refuting the fallacious argument that rich Americans use to claim they are paying their fair share of income tax.
British wealth tax rejected
22 July 2026
The new British prime minister, who people hoped would be less right-wing than Starmer, has rejected a wealth tax "for now".
If he won't dare now, what chance is there he will dare later? The "division" he would like to avoid is between the rich and their servants, and all the rest. That division will continue to grow as long as the share of income for the rich continues to grow.
Crowd control weapons
22 July 2026
*"Misuse" of crowd control weapons on [anti-deportation] protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds. Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is "far greater".*
Trump Impeachment
22 July 2026
* The Worse Outlaw ["the corrupter] Becomes, The Less the Democrats Move to Initiate Impeachment.*
Urgent: Ban deportation thugs from public school property
22 July 2026
US citizens: call on your state lawmakers to ban the deportation thugs from public school property.
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Urgent: Hold VICE accountable for murder
22 July 2026
US citizens: call on Maine AG to hold VICE accountable for murder.
"VICE" stands for Violent Institution for Contemptuous Execution.
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Urgent: Vote NO on CORCA
22 July 2026
US citizens: call on your senators to Vote NO on CORCA – the “Retail Crime” Bill that hands VICE power.
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Urgent: Pass the No Troops at the Polls Act
22 July 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the No Troops at the Polls Act.
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Urgent: Prairieland prosecution as silencing dissent
22 July 2026
US citizens: call on NYT, CNN, WaPo to cover Prairieland prosecution as silencing dissent.
Urgent: State solidarity with the United Auto Workers
22 July 2026
US citizens: State your solidarity with the United Auto Workers and its president, Shawn Fain, who is facing persecution by the bully for criticizing him.
Urgent: Reject influence to the historical record of America by the bullshitter
22 July 2026
US citizens: call on the Smithsonian Board of Regents to reject attempts by the bullshitter to influence the historical record of America.
Urgent: Stop Trump from bullying states over elections
22 July 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to stop Trump from bullying states over elections.
Urgent: Investigate FBI raid over voter registration drive
22 July 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to investigate the FBI raid on a voter registration drive.
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Urgent: call on fast food giants to protect workers
22 July 2026
US citizens: call on McDonalds and other fast food giants to take responsibility for protecting their workers.
Urgent: Block 3.3 billion dollars for Israel's military
22 July 2026
US citizens: call on the House of Representatives to vote to block 3.3 billion dollars in funds for Israel's military.
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Urgent: Sue to stop Paramount-Warner Bros Merger
22 July 2026
US citizens: Encourage states to sue to stop the Paramount-Warner Bros Merger.
Urgent: Shareholders' power to vote on motions
22 July 2026
US citizens: call on the SEC to maintain shareholders' power to vote on motions to control the actions of a business.
Urgent: Arrest deportation thugs that killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
22 July 2026
US citizens: call on Harris County DA Sean Teare to arrest the deportation thug that killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Urgent: Abolish Super PACs
22 July 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to Abolish Super PACs.
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Urgent: Submit a public comment to protect Medicaid
22 July 2026
US citizens: submit a public comment to protect Medicaid.
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