Urgent: More than Ban Flock Act
3 November 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to do more than pass the Ban Flock Act. They should pass laws to require all systems that track the public to be designed so that a signed judicial warrant is required to look at the data on any particular person. So I suggest using this action, but rewriting the request to demand more.
Here's how I rewrote the letter text.
Flock surveillance cameras are known for tracking vehicles through their license plates. They also track people by facial recognition. They may do other sorts of general surveillance as well. This surveillance is Orwellian; it creates a danger such as Orwell foresaw.
Regulating only license plate recognition, and only by federal agencies, is only a partial remedy. What we need is to regulate systems that collect data that can be used to track people and find out their activities, so that a specific judicial warrant is required to obtain the data about a person.
Please pass laws to protect Americans from general surveillance, and to require that new digital communication standards be designed to protect us from whoever wants to play Big Brother.
Sincerely,
In How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand, I argue that cameras that can track people should not be connected to any networks. To find out who the camera has recorded should require physically accessing it.
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Urgent: Uphold midterm election results
3 November 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to sign the bipartisan pledge to uphold midterm election results once certified by states.
The point is, that means resisting magats' preannounced attempts to sabotage the elections that don't go their way.
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Urgent: Reject funds to vouchers for private schools
3 November 2026
US citizens: call on state governors to reject paying state funds to vouchers that support private schools.
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Urgent: Stock in so-called "artificial intelligence" companies
3 November 2026
US citizens: call for legislation to prohibit congresscritters and their family members from owning stock in so-called "artificial intelligence" companies.
I reject the marketing term "artificial intelligence" so I refuse to use it.
Urgent: Proposed voter-suppressing tax records requirement
3 November 2026
US citizens: call on the Census Bureau to withdraw the proposed voter-suppressing tax records requirement.
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Urgent: Investigate Iran war casualty cover-up
3 November 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to investigate the Iran war casualty cover-up.
This is not as big a wrong as launching that war, but it is a good way to attack the magats who did that.
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Urgent: Include data centers in climate defense regulation
3 November 2026
US citizens: call on states to include data centers in climate defense regulation.
Nothing constructive from Republican party
3 November 2026
Robert Reich: *The Republican Party no longer has anything constructive to say about anything or anyone, so what is its closing argument in the 2026 midterm elections? Hate, fear, and bigotry.* (Conveyed with fabrications and falsehoods.)
Ralph Nader still fighting for progressives
3 November 2026
Ralph Nader is still fighting to replace the plutocratist existing Democratic Party with a party that is progressive.
For this reason, I don't support organizations whose goal is to "elect Democrats". I support organizations that work for progressive Democrats, not for plutocratist Democrats.
Chatbots gamed for output on political topics
3 November 2026
What chatbots say about political topics is intensely gamed by election campaigns using special tools designed for the purpose. And if you ask a Supposed Intelligence chatbot a question about politics, it is likely to refer you to "pink slime" published mainly to manipulate chatbots.
Weakness in preventing climate disaster
3 November 2026
Most Democratic candidates currently show weakness in regard to preventing climate disaster. This bodes ill, because preventing it will require confrontation after confrontation against planet-roaster businesses. They have consultants who search for ways they can get away with pushing their climate damage under the rug, some of whom will be elected officials at the same time.
To defeat them calls for the clarity to build the strength that can overcome them, and the firmness then to use that strength over and over.
Americans concerned about government corruption
3 November 2026
Americans say they are very concerned about government corruption, but much less concerned about the power of corporations.
They must think of the two as very different issues, but clearly the two are mostly the same issue. When officials are corrupt, someone is corrupting them, and who would that be? Either a corporation or a billionaire who owns corporations.
Gina Hinojosa adopted banner of "populism"
3 November 2026
Gina Hinojosa has adopted the banner of "populism" for her campaign for governor of Texas.
I don't see a conflict between populist and progressive. Both of these terms include supporting the many poor and disprivileged against the powerful few.
Urgent: Lawyers for anyone facing deportation
29 October 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to guarantee a lawyer for anyone facing the threat of deportation, or denaturalization, in immigration court.
The campaign makes this demand only for children, but deportation is a harsh punishment, so we should treat it as a criminal trial, not seek excuses not to. So I rewrote my letter text to say that.
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Urgent: Block FDA's dangerous food safety rollback
29 October 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to block the FDA's dangerous food safety rollback.
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Urgent: Pass 4th Amendment Restoration Act
29 October 2026
US citizens: call on the Senate to pass the 4th Amendment Restoration Act.
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Urgent: Stop intimidation of voters at polls
29 October 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to stop deportation thugs and soldiers from intimidating voters at the polls.
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Urgent: Raise taxes on rich people and corporations
29 October 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to raise taxes on rich people and corporations.
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UK report on global heating effects on national security
29 October 2026
The previous UK government commissioned, a few years ago, a secret report on how advancing global heating disaster can affect the UK's national security — both directly (for example, danger of starvation in Britain) and indirectly (for example, hundreds of thousands of people trying to emigrate from some country because they will die if they stay put). The government is keeping the report secret, but some news about it is coming out.
Drastic measures are called for against the billionaires who keep making global heating worse and blocking the necessary actions to curb it.
Supposed Intelligence clever at cracking security
29 October 2026
Supposed Intelligence may not really understand the data it is told to look at, but it can be clever at cracking security.
(Please call that "cracking", not "hacking.")
Steps to fix what the wrecker has broken
29 October 2026
Robert Reich proposes 10 steps to fix what the wrecker has broken.
Regarding item 6, even in 2023 the US had far too much media consolidation. We need to break up the old media cartels, not just prevent new ones.
Regarding item 9, electing the president by popular vote, we must first take steps to prevent corrupt state politicians from rigging the election.
Regarding item 10, we need much stricter limits on funding of campaigning by the rich than what the Corporations United decision abolished. Billionaires can afford to pay lawyers to set up complex schemes to jump through complex hoops. We need to block the complex schemes, not just simple ones.
Chamber of Commerce Tour
29 October 2026
Ralph Nader: *Chamber of Commerce Tour Ignores 250 Years of America's Socialism.*
(satire) Kash Patel phished by scammer
29 October 2026
(satire) *Kash Patel Phished By Scammer Posing As Kash Patel.*
Disruptions in fighting malaria
27 October 2026
Many African countries were on track to wipe out malaria, but the persecutor's aid cuts caused gaps in the campaigns, and malaria and its mosquitoes evolved resistance. But African countries are making arrangements to attack again.
Germany pledged to eliminate fossil fuels by 2045
27 October 2026
Germany has pledged to eliminate fossil fuels by 2045. This is exemplary.
ChatGPT tracks user's browsing
27 October 2026
ChatGPT tracks the user's other browsing using ChatGPT cookies on tracking pixels, sent intentionally by various stores.
Nepal flash flood was warning to world
27 October 2026
*Nepal's PM says [avalanche-caused] flash flood was "warning to world" as he scolds leaders at UN over climate change.*
Alas, he makes the frequent mistake of focusing on how to repair infrastructure and systems damage, rather than on preventing most of it through the most efficient method: by forcing massive decreases in greenhouse gas emissions.
The People's Emergency Briefing aims to mobilize people to do that.
Ellison taking over additional major US news networks
27 October 2026
The Democratic attorneys general that were blocking the Ellison monopoly from taking over additional major US news networks caved in, extracting unenforceable concessions that are not very important anyway.
Urgent: Protect independence of Office on Violence Against Women
26 October 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to protect the independence of the Office on Violence Against Women.
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Urgent: Law to prohibit the bully's slush fund
26 October 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to pass a law prohibiting the bully's slush fund (paid by the treasury and available to reward whoever he chooses).
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Government of Somalia arrested and tortured journalists
26 October 2026
The US-supported government of Somalia arrested and tortured journalists, then thugs threatened to kill them if they continued covering the case of a woman who reports being tortured in prison.
I am curious why they tortured that woman. I suppose it was for political reasons, but what reasons? What criticism is it that those thugs really want to suppress?
Countries with longer average working hours
26 October 2026
Countries with longer average working hours tend to have more obesity.
Directors of documentary NAZA called traitors
26 October 2026
Israel's Minister of Culture, Miki Zohar, called the (Israeli) directors of the documentary NAZA "traitors" and said he would cancel their citizenship.
The documentary shows Israelis' choosing to put the lives of Palestinian noncombatants in danger, with the result of killing many of them.
In the eyes of officials committed to burying the truth, citizens who don't support the mandatory lies are "traitors".
Public right to oppose mine projects
26 October 2026
The plutocratist party that governs Queensland proposes to eliminate the public's right to oppose mine projects.
This is in the name of "streamlining" decisions to let rich people destroy nature and public health.
Limits on foreign students and journalists in US
26 October 2026
*Judge blocks the bully's new short limits on how long foreign students and journalists can stay in US.*
Aviation tax discount on private jets
26 October 2026
Private jets get a substantial discount in the US on their aviation tax
The article says they are also "more polluting", and it could well be true, but the claim is not precise enough for me to tell whether it means anything.
Israeli "double-tap" strike
26 October 2026
*Witnesses recount Israeli "double-tap" strike that killed child and medic in Gaza.*
Proof writers jailed in 2001 are still alive
26 October 2026
A prestigious demand to the government of Eritrea for proof that writers jailed in 2001 are still alive.
Communication/surveillance app for Russians
26 October 2026
Putin has ordered Russians to use a new communication/surveillance app and various institutions are pressuring people to switch to it for various purposes. It implements full surveillance of most activities on the phone. It fully demonstrates the Orwellian potential of the nonfree software and malicious hardware in those devices.
If I needed to use such an app to get into school buildings and my dorm, I think I could develop a non-computerized method of cooperation for door opening.
Mahmoud Khalil has published a memoir
26 October 2026
Formerly imprisoned US protester Mahmoud Khalil has published a memoir about the persecutor's efforts to expel him from the US for peaceful protest.
He points out another injustice of private prisons: they make more money if they keep you in prison longer. This is in addition to various other injustices.
He says "Columbia turned out to be a real estate empire with a campus attached"; its board of trustees is "not so much a neutral administrative body as a deeply ideological one … drawn overwhelmingly from finance, real estate, corporate law, and weapons manufacturers."
If you want to buy this book, or any book, I urge you not to use nonfree software to do it, and especially not Amazon.
Non-profit medical joint ventures with private equity
26 October 2026
Nonprofit medical treatment organizations are increasingly setting up joint ventures with private equity, whose values are typically "profit regardless of the consequences".
These joint ventures often permit extraction of additional profit from the medical activities.
Candidates for county prosecutor in Minneapolis
26 October 2026
Two competing candidates for county prosecutor in Minneapolis claim each to be the best for prosecuting deportation thugs.
I do not use the euphemistic term "ICE" for the deportation thugs, but I agree with the point.
Supposed Intelligence strange dialect of English
26 October 2026
Supposed Intelligence agents, when allowed to communicate directly, gradually developed a strange dialect of English, apparently for convenience of expression. Sometimes humans figure out the phrases, but that is not guaranteed.
This throws a wrench into plans to monitor agents for safety. We might not recognize that "linkmaxxing" means fabricating as many paperclips as possible.
Deportation thugs seized Nicaraguan exiled from Nicaragua
26 October 2026
The deportation thugs have seized Luis Galeano, a Nicaraguan exiled from Nicaragua for criticizing the dictatorship.
In general I would expect the persecutor to cozy up to dictator Ortega, because he generally wants to ally with dictators. Some Republicans in Congress are standing up for Galeano. I hope they stand firm for him, but I expect that the bully will bully them into supporting his line.
TV coverage pool declined to cover corrupter's event
26 October 2026
A TV coverage pool including ABC, CBS, CNN, Faux News and NBC declined to cover one of the corrupter's publicity events, because it was CNN's turn to cover this event and the corrupter had banned CNN.
Never energy-independent with fossil fuels
26 October 2026
*The Iran war reminds us: we'll never be energy-independent with fossil fuels.
Energy security comes from using local, renewable resources to power, heat and cool communities, as Ukraine is doing.*
Defending November election from magat thugs
26 October 2026
Planning to defend the November election from magat thugs, even if they are "official" federal thugs.
Transparency for companies in UK semi-colonies
26 October 2026
A few years ago, the UK agreed to require some associated semi-colonies to publicly record who owns each company. They agreed to do this, then they cleverly screwed up the implementation such that investigators can't get useful data.
Corrupter's henchmen laundered Venezuela's oil money
26 October 2026
The corrupter's henchmen took billions of dollars from Venezuela's oil money and laundered it. Now they refuse to say where it is, who has it, or who is receiving the interest on it.
Estimated deaths by Super El Niño
26 October 2026
Climate scientists estimate that the super El Niño will kill 450,000 people during the next 6 months.