Solidarity with victims of hate
1 April 2026
Solidarity with the victims of hate Let Benevolence Shine.">extends to both Arabs and Jews.
Earth being pushed beyond its limits
1 April 2026
*Earth being "pushed beyond its limits" as energy imbalance reaches record high.*
Hong Kong thugs demand people hand over their passwords
1 April 2026
Hong Kong has given thugs the power to demand people hand over their passwords.
The UK has a similar repressive law, which it used on David Miranda when he carried a copy of the Snowden leaks to Glenn Greenwald. It was a terrible mistake for him to carry with him the password to decrypt that data, and likewise a terrible mistake to pass through the UK on his way to Brazil. Someone involved with the Snowden leaks should have told him to avoid those risky choices.
Pentagon response to courts on restrictions on journalists
1 April 2026
The henchman in charge of the Pentagon responded to the court ruling that its biased restrictions on journalists are unconstitutional by promulgating a modified set of restrictions.
Canadian woman married to US citizen and her daughter jailed
1 April 2026
Deportation thugs have jailed a Canadian woman married to a US citizen, and their daughter. She has papers authorizing her to be in the US, but not currently in her possession because she submitted them to another US agency for some sort of bureaucratic step. She warns all Canadians in the US that they are in danger, especially while their papers are in "processing".
Toxic smoke from bombed oil processing plants
1 April 2026
Israel bombed oil processing plants near Tehran. They released toxic smoke which is causing respiratory damage to people in Tehran.
*The Guardian spoke to residents who described having headaches, eye and skin irritation and difficulty breathing. Experts have warned those symptoms could be just the beginning, with long-term risks of cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, DNA damage and cancer.*
This makes two reasons why that bombing is particularly culpable: for grave harm to a substantial fraction of Tehran's population of ten million, and for escalating the war to include attacks on energy infrastructure. Iran threatened to retaliate against the energy infrastructure of the Gulf oil states if Israel (or the US) continues attacking Iran's oil infrastructure.
Argentina politically divided
1 April 2026
Argentina is politically divided between those who wish to remember and punish the crimes of the murderous military dictatorship in the 70s and twisted right-wingers who celebrate them.
The main political position of the twisted right-wingers is to promote the usual right-wing positions, allowing the privileged groups to exploit and castigate the disprivileged groups. Just as in the US, the right-wing in Argentina have found that celebrating the dictatorship is a way to appear powerful and win the support of people who want to feel powerful.
US sanctions placed on UN official Francesca Albanese
1 April 2026
The US sanctions arbitrarily placed on UN official Francesca Albanese threaten anyone with US connections who does any sort of business or cooperation with her with punishment, even without a trial.
This includes US academics who investigate the patterns of Israel's war crimes in Palestine, as well as other students and faculty. Some of them support the lawsuit that aims to declare such sanctions unconstitutional.
Responding to Hegseth's Christian hatred
1 April 2026
Democratic candidate Talarico. who is Christian, responds to Hegseth's Christian hatred with Christian love.
I am impressed favorably with Talarico's tolerance, and I am sure he is a better person and better citizen than any Republican candidate. However, while this reflects well on him, it is not evidence that any gods exist.
iMonsters in UK demanding proof of age
1 April 2026
iMonsters in the UK are now demanding users "prove their age" by identifying themselves.
Age verification has become a universal excuse to demand that all users identify themselves, an injustice to every user of whatever age.
Rocky Mountain meadow transformed to dry patch of sagebrush
1 April 2026
2°C of heating transformed a Rocky Mountain meadow with grass and wildflowers into a dry patch of sagebrush. Global heating isn't just that most places are somewhat hotter. They can become very different.
US left with no one authorized to authorize vaccines
1 April 2026
The court's rejection of RFK jr's vaccine-wrecker panel leaves the US with no one authorized to authorize vaccines.
Activists delivering food to immigrant families
1 April 2026
Activists in Memphis are delivering food and other necessities to immigrant families who don't dare leave the house.
Old weapons dumped on sea bottom
1 April 2026
Old weapons dumped on the sea bottom become a home for large amounts of wildlife.
Four weeks in to "four day" war
1 April 2026
*Four weeks into a war that was going to take four days … Washington is further away from a diplomatic agreement with Iran than it was in May 2025.
Not only has the war failed to persuade Iran to agree to dismantle its nuclear program in the comprehensive and irreversible way the US demanded, Washington is now having to negotiate to reopen the strait of Hormuz.*
The idiotic attack on Iran could doom Ukraine.
Urgent: Insider trading
1 April 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to investigate insider trading on prediction markets.
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Urgent: Impeach Brendan Carr
1 April 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to impeach FCC Chair Brendan Carr now
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Urgent: Protect whistleblowers
1 April 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to protect whistleblowers from the persecutor's attacks.
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Urgent: Protect nonprofits
1 April 2026
US citizens: call on Congress and the Department of Justice to halt the persecution of nonprofit organizations that criticize injustice.
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Urgent: Childrens' rights
1 April 2026
US citizens: call on your officials in Congress to protect immigrant children's right to education in public schools.
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US-Embassies as Musk/military diplomats
1 April 2026
*US directs American embassies to wage campaign against foreign "hostility" – with Musk's help.*
If you know anything about his online dis-service, ex-Twitter, and its chatbot, Crock, you understand that this is a campaign to crush the idea of truth. The bullshitter wants a battle between his bullshit and Putin's bullshit and fanatical Muslim bullshit — and whichever one wins, truth loses.
Endangered Species Act revoked, Gulf MEX
1 April 2026
The magats are planning to cancel endangered species protection for various endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico, as a gesture to show that they will let nothing stop them from drilling more fossil fuel wells there.
The current crisis will be long over by the time those new wells are finished, but they are concerned with fooling the public, not with real needs.
Spain denies US war-machine accomodation
1 April 2026
Spain has denied its territory and airspace to the US for purposes of war with Iran.
US soldiers positioning to invade Iran
1 April 2026
The US would find it hard to make the Strait of Hormuz safe for oil tankers by force. It could perhaps capture Kharg Island, but that would not protect oil tankers, and occupying the island would not make it easy to capture much oil.
Basically, these threats seem to be bluster.
The bully's pattern of bluster followed by pulling back has backfired completely against Iran.
While it gives me a wry pleasure to see him thwarted, seeing Iran's murderous religious fanatics defeat America's murderous religious fanatics in foreign relations is no pleasure. That will lead to great suffering for Iranians, and no alleviation for Americans.
EU nations: political-legal spectrum)
*Five EU governments found to "consistently"
dismantle
rule of law.*
They are Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia.
1 April 2026
New pun: "Ifs, ands or buts"
After my cataract operations, they gave me a strict rule, "no ifs, ands or buts." But I used those words anyway, and I got conjunctivitis.
Electric power status, Europe
31 March 2026
*Europe has made "staggering progress" in producing clean power but neglected efforts to phase out fuel-burning machines, the head of an electrification industry group said.*
(Satire) Sandwiched
30 March 2026
(satire) *Chick-Fil-A Announces Two Halves Of Buns Must Be Married Before Becoming Sandwich.*
Windfarmer persecuter hits again
30 March 2026
The bully has paid a billion dollars of US funds to persuade TotalEnergies to drop two offshore wind power projects near the US East Coast.
He will go to any length to keep the US and the world dangerously dependent on the fossil fuel that threatens to destroy civilization.
I once speculated, facetiously, that this is a secret plan by hidden conquerors from another planet who are trying to make Earth hot enough for them to live on.
Polluting with mine tailings
30 March 2026
Mines usually put toxic wastes, known as "tailings", behind a dam. Global heating's torrential rains are breaking these dams and allowing the toxic wastes to reach rivers, lakes and farm fields, where they kill almost everything.
Social networking defrauding seniors
30 March 2026
Banning minors from using antisocial networks isn't enough. We seniors need to be banned too, for our own protection, lest we fall prey to romance fraud or companionship fraud.
Funding only the TSA part of the DHS
30 March 2026
The whole US Senate wants to resume funding for the TSA. Republicans demand to restore funding for the whole Department of Hatred and Sadism in order to fund the TSA. Democrats won't fund the deportation thugs without explicitly requiring them to respect the human rights they have been trampling. They plan to propose a bill to fund the TSA alone.
If Republicans reject that, it will demonstrate that they are making air passengers suffer inconvenience as a ploy to continue making immigrants, and some US citizens among them, suffer terribly.
War on Iran's oil-exporting
30 March 2026
The wrecker threatened to attack Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export terminal.
Iran has already threatened to respond by attacking Persian Gulf countries' oil export terminals. This could lead to an oil crisis that would last for years.
I wonder whether the wrecker aims to bully them with the threat of such a crisis. That is a typical pattern of his. However, I can't envision what concession he might hope to get from them in this instance. I wonder whether anyone else has an idea.
If the goal is to reduce Iran's oil exports, the rational way to do that is by seizing tankers once they exit the Persian Gulf (or stopping empty tankers from entering it and heading for Kharg Island). They would have no way to resist, so it could be done without actual violence. The US could seize and sell the oil, too. With a wiser leader than the wrecker, it could offer to return the ships, and pay Iran for the oil, when peace is agreed.
But I don't think the wrecker would see such an outcome as a sufficient triumph.
Southern Lebanon hospitals targeted, ISR
30 March 2026
*Israel deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workers.
Medics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes in campaign to make the south uninhabitable.*
Vietnam war escalation as Nixonian
30 March 2026
Nixon sabotaged Johnson's peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War, so as to deny Johnson a success that could have enabled Hubert Humphry to win the 1968 presidential election.
Gov- and industry-tracking ongoing
30 March 2026
The FBI can track most Americans using the personal data data bases that it regularly buys.
"OpenAI", which we could call "OpenSPY", buys it too. Its contract with the US government supposedly impedes snooping on Americans, but the wording is weak and may not do any good.
The collection of these data bases is a threat to the freedom of Americans generally, not merely to a few of them.
ICE to TSA positions
28 March 2026
The bully is talking about stationing deportation thugs in airports to substitute for TSA agents watching exits from the secure area (to ensure no one enters through them).
If that's all they do, I suppose it is safer to have them there doing that, than to have them walking around your town, jailing unauthorized immigrants, authorized visitors, authorized permanent residents, and sometimes US citizens too. And shooting protesters.
But I have to wonder: if they are willing to stretch the law, can't they find excuses to harass people and jail people while nominally watching an airport security exit? I'd expect the bully has been looking for ways they can harass people while working there.
How freshwater fish migrations are doing
27 March 2026
*Freshwater fish populations worldwide have crashed by about 81% since 1970.*
Satire: Airstrikes on US gas stations
27 March 2026
(satire) *[The bully] Threatens Airstrikes On U.S. Gas Stations.*
New coal seam exploitation, AUS
27 March 2026
*Australia approves new coal seam gas expansion.* Is that really "Like lighting a cigarette while trying to quit"?
In my view, that comparison is not quite valid. Rather, extending the gas mines is like taping extender segments onto the mouth end of the cigarette, so that it never burns out.
Renaming AI to SALAMI
27 March 2026
*Let's forget the term AI. Let's call them Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI).*
Putinesque Iran to target water, elec.
27 March 2026
*Iran says it will "irreversibly destroy" Middle East infrastructure if US attacks energy sites.*
It is a war crime for either side to destroy civilian energy infrastructure, and this would be a disastrous one. But the bigger evil would be that of whichever country starts doing this. The wrecker says he plans to do so.
Israel still hitting West Bank territory
27 March 2026
*Israeli settlers have carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank, setting homes and vehicles on fire and wounding several Palestinians in what witnesses described as coordinated raids on communities.*
The fanatical and violent "settlers" have been carrying out terrorist attacks on Palestinians for more than a decade, with police and border patrol watching passively, escalating step by step as they shift the government's stance.
US courts generally rejecting equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism
26 March 2026
US courts are generally rejecting attempts to equate criticism of Israel or support for Palestinians' rights with antisemitism.
Ignorance, misunderstanding and obfuscation ended US-Iran nuclear talks
26 March 2026
*How ignorance, misunderstanding and obfuscation ended [US-] Iran nuclear talks.*
They had made substantial progress before they were abruptly ended when the US and Israel started to attack instead.
*Oman claims Israel pushed US into Iran war when deal [with Iran] was possible.*
WATCA bill
26 March 2026
The WATCA bill, which is one way of taxing the rich more, will provide only a small benefit for non-rich Americans. That's because its main method of helping them is by reducing their income tax, and poor people's income tax is already low.
In and of itself, WATCA is better than nothing, but we should focus on supporting other bills that would tax the rich more than that in order to help the non-rich more than that.
The imperialist says Israel attacked Iran gas wells without telling him
26 March 2026
The imperialist says Israel attacked Iran's gas wells without telling him, and he has ordered Israel not to attack them again.
Whether or not he is telling the truth about what happened, it is at least somewhat of a relief that he seems to realize how much any further such attacks would backfire.
Heavy-handed actions accelerating US's decline
26 March 2026
Owen Jones: *[the Bully] thinks brute force will arrest the US's decline. His heavy-handed actions in Iran are only accelerating it.*
Gulf of Hormuz closure sending enormus profits to rich people
26 March 2026
The closure of the Gulf of Hormuz is sending enormous windfall profits to a few rich people. There should be a windfall profits tax in place all the time for the sake of future fossil fuel price spikes, so that governments won't need to act fast.
Parents deported to Honduras had no chance to arrange childcare for their children
26 March 2026
* In interviews with dozens of parents deported to Honduras, as well as physicians and psychologists, government officials and staff at reception centers for deportees, researchers found that many parents were deported quickly after they were [jailed], without a chance to arrange for the care of their children.*
We understand the cause of this: deportation thugs are acting out hatred towards immigrants in general, and are eager for the chance to be cruel.
Christian Zionists want to help Israel conquer Middle East
26 March 2026
Christian Zionists want to help Israel conquer much of the Middle East, believing that then sacrifices will trigger biblical prophecies which will result in forcing Jews to convert to Christianity or else be damned.
It is not easy to get along with fanatics like that. It is unlikely that the prophecies would actually come true, but there is no telling what might they do if the situation arises and the prophecies do not come true.