Urgent: Coffee-giant corporate picket
14 November 2025
US citizens: Tell the Starbucks CEO that you won’t cross the picket line.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code—not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Spy agency accountability, US
14 November 2025
US citizens: call on Congress to continue to require confirmation hearings for the heads of US spy agencies, so it can impose at least minimal accountability in how they spy on Americans.
Urgent: Block this corporate Rail merger
14 November 2025
US citizens: call on the US Surface Transportation Board to block the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern Mega-Merger.
Tyrant told CBS what to cut from interview
13 November 2025
*[The tyrant] Told CBS What to Cut From 60 Minutes Interview — And They Listened.*
Merging state drivers' license databases with database of citizens
13 November 2025
The persecutor's henchmen seek to merge state drivers' license databases into its database of citizens, which it intends to use to interfere with voting.
Non-citizens are not allowed to vote in the US, and it is very rare that they try to. But this data could include opportunity for confusion and error which could call the citizenship of citizens into question.
Climate defense plans inadequate but not too late
13 November 2025
The Climate Analytics report asserts that governments' climate defense plans are inadequate, but that it isn't too late to avoid global disaster if we increase them.
The biggest challenges will be to convince the governments of China and the US, and the banks and billionaires that dominate the latter.
Toxins and bacteria from salt lakes
13 November 2025
Salt lakes, when they dry up, give off blowing dust that contains toxins and bacteria that damage the biomes in people's lungs.
NSW police accused of double standard
13 November 2025
*NSW police accused of ‘sickening’ double standard over neo-Nazi rally [vs defense of Palestinians.]*
Both Jews and Palestinians are condemning this.
Devastated hospitals, mass graves
13 November 2025
* Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed [by Israel].*
— Jonathan Whittall heads the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)'s mission in occupied Palestine.
China's CO2 emissions flat or falling
13 November 2025
*China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds.*
Senate Democrats dropped demand to preserve medical insurance
13 November 2025
"Moderate" (plutocratist) Senate Democrats dropped their demand to preserve medical insurance for poor Americans, in exchange for a purely symbolic concession by Senate Republicans to hold a separate vote on that insurance funding later this year.
With no leverage to pressure Republicans to vote for it, we must expect they will defeat it. And since the House of Representatives won't vote on it at all, it is a dead end that can't lead to any real restoration of the funding that was cut.
Money sent by US to Equatorial Guinea to accept noncitizens deportees
13 November 2025
*US has sent $7.5m to Equatorial Guinea to accept noncitizens deportees.
Country is one of world’s most repressive and corrupt, raising concerns over rights abuses of those deported.*
Martin Decker's appeal against deportation
13 November 2025
Martin Decker's appeal against deportation from the UK was successful. This does not erase the injustice of imprisoning him for a nonviolent protest. The UK must abolish the laws that punish protests for mere inconvenience.
Fannie Mae officers investigating FHFA
13 November 2025
*Fannie Mae officers were investigating whether [the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)] inappropriately accessed mortgage details of Letitia James, Adam Schiff and others.*
Child invites kids for outdoor play
13 November 2025
An enterprising child distributed a flier in his neighborhood urging other kids to join him at a specific place and time for outdoor play. It was a success, and started regular meetings for play.
Israelis attacks on Palestinian water sources
13 November 2025
*Israelis attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals.*
Hot to Decrease allergy to peanuts
13 November 2025
Introducing young children to peanuts at a younger age has greatly decreased the frequency of allergy to peanuts.
Urgent: Ceasefire in Sudan
12 November 2025
Everyone: call for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan.
If you sign please spread the word!
Emulating Mamdani's social media strategy
12 November 2025
*A note to politicians hoping to emulate Mamdani's social media strategy: without the right policies, it's pointless.*
Food stamp fight in America
12 November 2025
*The food stamp fight signals an era of unprecedented cruelty in America.*
The right-wing ideology ways that state help for poor people — either to survive, or to be more productive — is their idea of the greatest evil. (They also oppose regulations that protect people from other private citizens, such as gun control or even gun safety.) It is the ideology of the sadistic state, which when implemented tends to make life nasty, brutish and short (except for rich people).
However, in the past they were just a fringe group and could hardly ever get elected to office.
Now we see what happens when their sadism is unleashed.
Power to arrest people outside of federal government facilities
12 November 2025
A new regulation gave the Federal Protective Service the power to arrest people outside of federal government facilities.
I have a feeling it was established to protect against attacks launched by enemies of the US, such as the riot that the bully had launched on 6 Jan 2021. Of course, he now claims that that violent attack was not violent at all, and has pardoned all the people convicted of crimes in it, as a way of adding fake verisimilitude to that claim.
Now it seems he plans to use the opposite lie, accusing nonviolent protesters of rioting as an excuse to attack them.
Orwell referred to bidirectional lies like this as "blackwhiting".
He also plans to use distorted accusations to prosecute protesters for wearing masks.
Judge orders funding for Snap benefits in November
12 November 2025
*US judge orders Trump administration to fully fund Snap benefits in November.*
The persecutor will surely appeal this decision, and eventually it will go to the Supreme Court. If it follows recent practice, it will allow the persecutor to starve 40 million Americans until it makes a final decision, months later.
Sandwich thrown at federal agent
12 November 2025
A protester prosecuted for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent was found not guilty.
Clearly the jury considered the charge absurd.
Projects that were keeping forests alive
12 November 2025
When the bogus "carbon offsets" were unmasked and businesses stopped buying them, a few projects that were keeping some substantial forests alive were also defunded.
Retro regurgitation of culture
12 November 2025
On today's leaning toward retro regurgitation of old retro culture.
Sharks will be wiped out by ocean acidification
12 November 2025
Add sharks to the long list of marine organisms that will be wiped out by ocean acidification. It also damages their skin.
This effect is not limited to the few species that sometimes attack humans.
Investigations of China's repression and crimes
12 November 2025
China is systematically pressuring UK universities to block academic studies that investigate China's repression and crimes, and universities comply more than they stand firm.
China is playing British universities against each other so that they complete to stay in China's good graces. It's like what the bully is doing to US universities.
The British government should change the system by which Chinese students enroll in British universities so that the universities don't compete with each other for Chinese students.
Turkey issues arrest warrant against Netanyahu
12 November 2025
*Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu as well as some other officials.*
For once, Erdoğan has done something good. That should not make his tyranny and repression in Turkey acceptable.
Corrupter pardons state legislator
12 November 2025
*The corrupter has pardoned a Republican state legislator who had been convicted of corruption.*
He admires corruption as long as his side gets the proceeds.
Mass shooters following "cultural script"
12 November 2025
A psychiatrist who has talked with many mass shooters says that they are following a "cultural script", a sort of social trail that was made by the publicity about so many past mass shooters.
He responds to this by denying them the sort of publicity that they expect to get if they commit a massacre.
It is in the same spirit that I refuse to respond to the mass killer in the White House with the sort of publicity he expects to receive.
Zohran Mamdani's bold agenda for New York
12 November 2025
*How could Zohran Mamdani pay for his bold agenda for New York? And whose support he needs.*
UK wants to deport imprisoned protester
12 November 2025
The UK government imprisoned protester Marcus Decker for over a year for dropping a banner from a bridge. Now it plans to deport him "automatically" because of that prison sentence.
It is a curious contradiction that the government prohibits him from leaving the UK even as it arranges to deport him. Is there any logic in this?
If the government had sane priorities, it would give priority to protecting the country and its people, and the rest of the world, from the developing climate disaster, and wouldn't need protesters like Decker to push it to do so.
Senate Dems seem to surrender
12 November 2025
*Angry Democrats call on Schumer to resign after eight vote to [yield to magats that oppose funds for poor people's medical insurance].*
The term "compromise", used in the article, is misleading since "surrender" fits better.
Climate displacement
11 November 2025
*Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds.*
That is around 3% of the Earth's human population.
PFAS
11 November 2025
The EPA is proposing to approve a PFAS for use in pesticides. Critics say this could make food and water supplies dangerous.
Deforestation reduction reward
11 November 2025
Brazil proposes investing a lot of money in rewarding governments that reduce deforestation.
Great Barrier Reef bleaching
11 November 2025
*"Grim future" for Great Barrier Reef unless global heating kept to 2C, study finds.*
If we want to stop it before 2°C, we had best stop it before 1.5°C. Otherwise, we are likely to fall into positive feedback and tipping points.
Human rights study ceased
11 November 2025
*Sheffield Hallam University ordered professor to cease human rights study into Uyghurs forced labour in China.*
The UK government is investigating that order as an alleged crime by the university.
Urgent: A place to live
11 November 2025
US citizens: call on Congress to end homelessness, by investing in housing, not internment.
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121 If you phone or sign, please spread the word!
Urgent: Mail-in voting in peril
11 November 2025
US citizens: call on Congress to defend Mail-in voting before the 2026 mid-term elections.
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121 If you phone or sign, please spread the word!
Loyalty to the measles virus
10 November 2025
A sick man in Utah has transferred his loyalty from humanity to the measles virus. Despite what has done to him, he doggedly protects its opportunities to spread to other people by refusing to tell where (that is, in which human bodies) it may be hiding.
Man who posted about Charles Kirk's death
10 November 2025
A man who posted to suggest that Charles Kirk's death was not a great loss to society was jailed for a month on a false charge of "making threats against a school". The judge demanded $2 million for bail, which kept him in jail until the charges were dropped.
Big Tech companies bowing to the persecutor
10 November 2025
Big Tech companies are bowing to the persecutor by shutting off public communication about where deportation thugs are attacking.
Comments about rise of Hitler fit present US situation well
10 November 2025
Many of Hannah Arendt's comments about the rise of Hitler fit the present US situation well.
Bully hopes to pressure Supreme Court
10 November 2025
The bully hopes to pressure the Supreme Court to support his autocratic tariff policies by sitting in the court room when it hears the case.
Mutilated bodies of Palestinians
10 November 2025
*At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail [and torture center called Sde Teiman], say Gaza officials.*
Helicopter parenting became burden to US parents
10 November 2025
How helicopter parenting became a burden imposed on parents in the US.
Israeli prison guards caught on video raping and beating Palestinian prisoner
10 November 2025
Israeli prison guards were caught on video raping (and beating) a Palestinian prisoner. They were prosecuted but only for a lesser crime.
The head army lawyer has resigned in protest.
(satire) More children than flash-bangs
10 November 2025
(satire) *ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs.*