Urgent: Reject massive government surveillance
3 June 2026
US citizens: make phone calls to your officials in Congress to reject massive government surveillance.
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Urgent: Renew section 702 of PAT RIOT Act
3 June 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to renew section 702 of the PAT RIOT Act without the loophole that permits snooping on Americans.
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Urgent: Gambling workers' retirement savings
3 June 2026
US citizens: call on the Department of Labor to Stop Private Equity and Crypto Scammers from Gambling with Workers' Retirement Savings.
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Erdoğan's government removed main opposition party
3 June 2026
Erdoğan's government has just removed the head of the main opposition party, Özgür Özel, by invalidating the party's leadership contest held over two years ago.
Its previous leader, who now becomes leader again, lost an election to Erdoğan in 2023. People hoped Özel would defeat Erdoğan next year.
Corrupter's slush fund
3 June 2026
*The corrupter has created a slush fund of taxpayer money to give to his friends.*
Important witness in George Zimmerman trial
3 June 2026
George Zimmerman may have escaped conviction for shooting Trayvon Martin because an important witness for the prosecution spoke with a strong accent of her ethnic group. I wonder whether courts ought to offer accent interpreters for witnesses whose accents might lead jurors to misunderstand or devalue their testimony, or simply make it a struggle to know what the witness said.
The US has indicted Raúl Castro
3 June 2026
The US has indicted Raúl Castro, ex-president of Cuba, accusing him of ordering an attack on two small planes in 1996.
According to Wikipedia, the planes were dropping leaflets "to fall on Cuba". There is some slack in the precise meaning of that, but maybe Cuba had legitimate grounds to order them to land and then force them to do so.
However, Cuba had no legitimate grounds to shoot and destroy these unarmed planes without first ordering them to land. By doing that, it committed a crime similar to the boat attacks that the bully continually orders elsewhere in the Gulf of Mexico.
The US ought to indict the people responsible for the continuing series of boat attacks, who are Americans, if it is to indict the people responsible for Cuba's airplane attack 30 years ago.
Cops who defended the Capitol are suing
3 June 2026
Cops who defended the Capitol against the anti-American's Jan 6 attack are suing, claiming that the anti-American's slush fund is corrupt support for crime.
Redirecting Ukrainian drones
3 June 2026
NATO and the EU accuse the Putin forces of redirecting Ukrainian drones and sending them over Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
I don't see any sense in the resignation of Latvia's prime minister over this. The right thing to do is to develop a net deployer which can get a drone tangled and bring it down. (Ukraine's army has had success defending against Putin forces drones with used fishnets.)
This might make it possible to study what the Putin forces had done to take control of the drone. Suitable encryption, with redundancy and error detection, could make that impossible. It is much more difficult than mere jamming.
Ecuador suffering from "war on drugs"
3 June 2026
Ecuador has suffered from a repressive "war on drugs" since 2024, with soldiers kidnapping, torturing, and killing people, and showing no reasons for any of it.
Muslims debanked on vague suspicions
3 June 2026
Muslims (and Muslim charities) are often debanked based on vague suspicions — because banks have been told to deny banking service to terrorists, but they have no valid way to identify the few who really are terrorists.
Judge dismisses criminal indictment against Kilmar Ábrego García
3 June 2026
*US judge dismisses criminal indictment against Kilmar Ábrego García,* saying that the prosecution was politically based.
Violent attacks on activists on Gaza aid flotilla
3 June 2026
Many of the activists seized on the latest Gaza aid flotilla suffered violent attacks after the Israeli troops captured them. They began the violence on the aid boats, after seizing them, and continued it afterward against the captives in prison.
They shot some captives with less-lethal bullets (these are usually rubber-coated steel) from a short distance. Sometimes this broke their bones.
Cops raped some of the protesters.
These attacks caused injuries that have been confirmed by doctors from the victims' home countries; nonetheless, the Israeli government denies them, thus arrogantly legitimizing these attacks while expressing brazen contempt for the truth.
Prosecutors in some countries are investigating criminal charges over these attacks.
Repression on indigenous rights activists in Russia
3 June 2026
Indigenous rights activists in Russia face harsh repression.
As in Canada and the US, indigenous groups find mining and extraction put their health in danger, and they try to resist.
Spread of abuse of Palestinians in Israel's prison system
3 June 2026
Minister of "security" Ben-Gvir spread abuse of Palestinians in Israel's prison system. This has been covered occasionally.
Now he has trained similar abuse on foreign activists, and some countries are rebuking Israel for this. But the foreign activists are, in themselves, a secondary issue: they are campaigning to end Israel's deprivation and violence against Palestinians under occupation.
Ben-Gvir is trying to create a buffer zone around the cruelty to Palestinians, a buffer zone of cruelty to foreigners who defend the human rights of Palestinians. But it may backfire and make more of the world see the cruelty towards Palestinians more clearly.
Global heating marches steadily on
3 June 2026
Global heating marches steadily on, with a possible record marine heat-wave on the US Pacific coast, along with a record low amount of snow in the Rocky Mountains. This occurring with water already in shortage could result in a painful scarcity of water in a large part of the US west.
If it doesn't happen this year, it will happen in another year. There are random fluctuations in the details, but the big picture is that the heat is producing global disaster.
Exiled dissidents from Salafi Arabia
3 June 2026
Major anti-social media platforms have blocked access to the accounts of some exiled dissidents from Salafi Arabia so that they can't be seen inside Salafi Arabia.
Torture inflicted on Gaza aid flotilla activists
3 June 2026
Australians on the Gaza aid flotilla describe many kinds of torture that were inflicted on them by the anonymous, masked Israeli soldiers and prison guards.
Urgent: Investigate Kash Patel's misuse of taxpayer funds
2 June 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to investigate Kash Patel's flagrant misuse of taxpayer funds.
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Urgent: Restore funding for Social Security Offices
2 June 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to restore funding for Social Security offices.
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Urgent: Reject magat recommendations to undermine FEMA
2 June 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to reject magat recommendations to undermine FEMA.
Global heating is increasing the amount of damage done by disasters, so FEMA needs to be strengthened and better funded. This in addition to strong efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions to make global heating taper off.
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Instagram eliminated end-to-end encryption
2 June 2026
Instagram has eliminated end-to-end encryption, leaving many user communities in danger of persecution.
I suspect that the zucker did this because the persecutor asked him to.
Young US citizens who have had a parent taken away
2 June 2026
Estimating that around 145,000 young US citizens have had a parent taken away and jailed by the deportation thugs.
UK student loan system less destructive than US system
2 June 2026
A detailed explanation of student loan repayment in the UK shows clearly why it is a far less destructive system than that of the US.
In the UK, even well-paid graduates can't advance very far in paying down their student debt. But does that matter? After 30 years, the debt that remains will be cancelled anyway. To explicitly "rebrand" the UK student debt as a tax on graduates sounds manipulative, but it is valid to argue that the UK's student loan system already is in fact a tax on graduates.
By contrast, in the US system you must pay even if unemployed, and the debt will be canceled only by your death (or perhaps if you are permanently disabled).
Claims of peace deals, then threats of attack
2 June 2026
The bullshitter alternates between claiming that he is about to launch a massive attack on Iran and claiming that a peace deal is about to be agreed. I don't believe there is any truth in either kind of claim — they are mainly psychological manipulation. I suppose they are aimed at the non-Iranian public, because of Iran's general internet blockage.
One goal of the psychological manipulation is to make the bullshitter impossible to predict. What he says about that is bogus. We need to learn not to start trusting him in any way.
Victory for domestic workers in Indonesia
2 June 2026
The long, slow fight to give rights to domestic workers has had a victory in Indonesia.
Devastating cuts to climate modeling
2 June 2026
Australia is planning devastating cuts to climate modeling.
Australia's part of global climate modeling is essential because it is the only major contributor that focuses on the southern hemisphere. Since the climate disaster is accelerating, and threatens to kill millions or even billions, the rational thing to do is increase funding for it.
It would be useful to investigate how this decision was made — and how pressure or corruption from planet roasters influenced it.
Rare strain of Ebola virus
2 June 2026
A rare strain of Ebola virus, for which the usual tests and vaccine do not work, requires global action now.
US government cuts in medical research and aid could kill millions of people.
Orangutans latest victims of human colonization
2 June 2026
The latest victims of human colonization include orangutans whose native forest has been systematically colonized with support of the Indonesian government.
For decades, the government has had a policy of settling large numbers of Javanese in islands with less human population density. This has aroused accusations of colonization from the peoples who live in those islands.
Secretive campaign organizations
2 June 2026
A tangled web of secretive campaign organizations is spending billionaires' money to defeat progressive candidates in Democratic primaries.
They have to do it secretively because they are on the edge of campaign finance laws against coordinating PAC-funded activity with candidates' campaigns.
Whether or not it is against the law, it is clearly against democracy. If elections can easily be bought by the rich, they can't be decided by issues.
Decreased productivity and deskilling with LLMs
2 June 2026
How the expected increased "productivity" of LLMs for specific tasks can result in decreased productivity, and deskilling, for an organization overall.
Independence for Kurds of southeastern Turkey
2 June 2026
The PKK, which fought for independence for the Kurds of southeastern Turkey, has disbanded and peace talks are going on. This provides an opportunity for environmental restoration, if people can grasp it.
For peace to last, Turkey needs to restore democracy enough to permit victory for opponents of Erdoğan, rather than starting a civil war as an excuse to do the election over.
Corrupter's slush fund
2 June 2026
The corrupter dismissed his lawsuit against the US government, and ordered his agent in charge of the Justice Department to make an agreement between him and the US government to set up a slush fund (with government money) which will secretly give some of that money to whoever the corrupter orders. Up to 1.8 billion dollars, total. For instance, it could be used to reward some of the people who at his suggestion attacked the US Capitol on Jan 6, 2021. It could be used for bribes.
In legal terms, that agreement is not a settlement of that lawsuit, but he wants us to think of it as a settlement of that lawsuit, hoping that will give it an odor of legitimacy.
Recruiting ads for the deportation thugs
2 June 2026
Recruiting ads for the deportation thugs ooze with messages of racist hatred, and an anti-terrorist agency in Colorado warned that they could incite right-wing terrorism.
UK talking about prosecuting those responsible for Grenfell fire
2 June 2026
After nine years, the UK government is finally thinking about prosecuting the many individuals, organizations and companies involved in causing the fatal Grenfell fire.
Spoof site to report suspected immigrants
2 June 2026
The Department of Howlingly Serious issued an alert to warn cops all around the US to beware of a spoof site that invited the public to report suspected immigrants — and posts the funny reports.
I'd like to watch a few, but according to the article, they are posted on sites which require nonfree software to access.
Talk in Bern, Switzerland on June 12
29 May 2026
Richard will give a talk in Bern, Switzerland on June 12 titled Freie/Libre/Libero/Liber Software, for Sovereignty and Freedom.
Urgent: Refuse plan to label Americans as "domestic terrorists"
29 May 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to refuse to fund implementation of the bully's plan that could label millions of Americans as "domestic terrorists".
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Urgent: Reject attacks on housing assistance programs
29 May 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to reject the wrecker's attacks on housing and homeless assistance programs.
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Urgent: Cover wrecker's foreign aid cuts
29 May 2026
US citizens: call on on major news organizations to cover the wrecker's foreign aid cuts with urgency and moral clarity.
Urgent: Support cops who fought coup-leader's Jan 6 riot
29 May 2026
US citizens: support the cops who fought the coup-leader's Jan 6 riot at the Capitol, as they sue him to block his self-settlement meant to give him lots of money to give the rioters as "compensation" for the punishment of their crimes.
Urgent: Coverage of persecutor's attacks on media
29 May 2026
US citizens: call on news organizations to cover the persecutor's attacks on the media as threats to press freedom.
Urgent: block Paramount - Warner Bros merger
29 May 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to block the Paramount - Warner Bros merger.
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Urgent: Vote NO on blank check for deportation thugs
26 May 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to vote NO on the $70B blank check for the deportation thugs.
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Urgent: Reject section 702 of U SAP AT RIOT Act
26 May 2026
US citizens: call on reject section 702 of the U SAP AT RIOT Act, which has a loophole that the NSA uses to snoop on US citizens without a warrant.
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Urgent: Windfall profits tax on fossil fuels
26 May 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to put a windfall profits tax on fossil fuels, and spend the money building renewable generation.
To do this, you can use this campaign and modify the text to add that suggestion for spending.
I did this because my congresscritter and senators are notably progressive. If yours are Republicans, it might be better strategy to in your case to support campaign's own suggestion -- to use the tax money as a rebate to ease Americans' immediate suffering.
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Urgent: Stop climate-hushing
26 May 2026
US citizens: call on major media to stop climate-hushing.
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Urgent: Limit fishing before sharks and tuna are wiped out
26 May 2026
US citizens: call on the WTO to limit fishing before sharks and tuna are wiped out.
Urgent: Support comprehensive gun violence reform
26 May 2026
US citizens: call on your representative and senators to support real, comprehensive gun violence policy reform.
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Urgent: Stop persecutor's $1.8 billion insurrection slush fund
26 May 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop the persecutor's $1.8 billion insurrection slush fund.
In my letter I called it a step in a coup.
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