Urgent: Notes on when a person dies in jail or prison
29 January 2026
US citizens: call on governments to start taking notes about when a person dies while in jail or prison, or otherwise in the power of cops.
EPA mostly abandoned enforcement of limits on pollution
29 January 2026
The EPA has mostly abandoned enforcement of limits on pollution.
Occupation of deportation thugs could lead to occupation by US army
29 January 2026
The occupation of Minnesota by deportation thugs may give way to an occupation by the US army. This could start a civil war.
I don't have high hopes that the occupation forces would lose.
Australia's new hate speech laws
29 January 2026
*Criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu may be an offense under Australia’s new hate speech laws, Greens warn.*
An expert said, *It seems that the implication is criticism of Israel, and the Israeli government, and suggesting it is engaged in genocide or something of that kind, would be enough to at least trigger the start of the process, by satisfying the provisions about inciting racial hatred.* But whether a court would see that as permitted
I oppose the prohibition of so-called "hate speech" because it tends to result in censorship of legitimate political condemnation of politicians that practice of advocate cruel and violent policies — in effect, defending that cruelty and violence, as in the case of Netanyahu.
"Loot box" inside of Pentagon
29 January 2026
A friend pointed out that the "loot box" gambling machine in the Pentagon could introduce things that shouldn't be inside the Pentagon — including surveillance devices and poison traps.
Palestinian describes rape by Israeli prison guards
29 January 2026
Palestinian Sami al-Saei describes being raped by Israeli prison guards.
US president siding with forces of tyranny
29 January 2026
*European leaders who know their continent's history must now see that the US president is siding with the forces of tyranny.*
Deportation thugs claim power to question anyone
29 January 2026
A spokesman for the deportation thugs claimed that, while doing their work, they have the power ask questions of anyone. What they seem to think that means is the power to seize anyone and take per to jail to question per there.
Alex Pretti shot dead by deportation thugs
29 January 2026
Nurse Alex Pretti was shot dead by deportation thugs at a protest as he tried to aid a person they had attacked. They killed him after knocking him down to the ground.
He had been observing the protest, not participating.
The thugs stated that Pretti had a gun, and indeed he did (with a license), but videos show he did not hold it — he was in fact carrying a phone/camera. They must have found it after he was dead, and decided to make it an excuse to falsify justification for the killing.
Mayor Frey exhorts the bully to pull back his thugs and allow peace and tranquility to resume in Minneapolis.
Good on Mayor Frey, but I don't think the bully will change his tune. He creates violence so his henchmen can take advantage of it.
Google [PI] overviews cite YouTube for health queries
29 January 2026
*Google [PI] Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests.*
Protesters rebuke Target stores
29 January 2026
Protesters rebuke Target stores for allowing deportation thugs to enter for hunting people. That is a choice — the company could decide that they cannot enter without a specific warrant.
Terror by deportation thugs traumatizing schoolchildren
29 January 2026
The terror spread by deportation thugs in Minneapolis is traumatizing schoolchildren. Many don't dare go to school.
ChatGPT store of text is from Grok
29 January 2026
ChatGPT is worse than lacking in intelligence — its store of text comes from Grok, which spouts Nazi propaganda.
Sweden kicking out asylum seekers
29 January 2026
Sweden, pressured by a right-wing extremist party, is kicking out asylum seekers who have been in Sweden for over a decade and have fully integrated into Swedish society.
I wonder how serious a crime must be to serve as grounds for expulsion.
Syrian government and Northeast Syria one-month cease fire
29 January 2026
Syrian government and mostly-Kurdish Northeast Syria have agreed on a one-month cease fire for sending PISSI prisoners to Iraqi prisons.
This is good as far as it goes, but the Syrian government should allow people in Northeast Syria should not be stripped of the rights and social advances that they have fought for.
Gavin Newsom opposes billionaire wealth tax
29 January 2026
One of Gavin Newsom's flaws is that he opposes the billionaire wealth tax.
While the design of California's one-time wealth tax proposal is clever in that a billionaire can't save any money by moving out of the state now, I don't think a once-time wealth tax will do what is needed to make the US start working again. Billionaires' under-taxation has made many aspects of the US work badly.
Bully's "board of peace" is convocation of authoritarian leaders
29 January 2026
The bully's "board of peace" is shaping up to be a convocation of authoritarian leaders, structured to give the bully himself complete dominance over the other members.
The name "board of peace" is no more sincere than most of what the bully says. It seems to be a perverse mockery of the UN, even in its emblem.
US attack on another civilian boat
29 January 2026
The US made a deadly attack on yet another civilian boat, once again choosing to kill on mere suspicion of crime, rather than arrest those accused and put them on trial to determined whether they had really committed that crime.
This is murder, committed by a conspiracy that included all participants from the pilot that fired the weapon through the officers that ordered the mission and up to Hegseth and the persecutor. They all deserve to stand trial.
Texas Black man exonerated 70 years after execution
29 January 2026
*Texas Black man exonerated 70 years after execution in case marked by racial bias.*
A thug fabricated the claim that the murder victim had identified her killer to him, though other witnesses said she was beyond speaking by then. Then other thugs beat a false confession out of him.
The article linked to above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that practice it. But I make exceptions for some articles because I consider them important — and I present this comment about them.
Geraldo Lunas Campos killed by thugs while in deportation prison
29 January 2026
The autopsy on Geraldo Lunas Campos ruled that he was killed by the thugs while a prisoner in a deportation prison.
Public claims Mahmoud Khalil supported terrorism
29 January 2026
The Department of Hatred and Suffering publicly claimed that Mahmoud Khalil and other foreign students were "supporting terrorism", but internally admitted that they were only advocating Palestinians' human rights.
Urgent: Pass the VISIBLE Act
28 January 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the VISIBLE Act, which would prohibit deportation thugs from concealing their identities.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
Urgent: Keep deportation thugs out of public schools
28 January 2026
US citizens: call on your state's attorney general to keep deportation thugs out of public schools.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Stop censoring apps
28 January 2026
US citizens: call on Apple and Google to stop censoring apps — and let users freely release and install free/libre apps.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Oppose funding for deportation thugs
28 January 2026
US citizens: call on your elected officials to oppose all funding for the deportation thugs in the absence of systemic reforms.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code—not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
Fans of Israeli team banned from football match
28 January 2026
A UK official banned the fans of an Israeli team from a football match, believing that they had got involved in fights with fans of another team in a previous match.
It turns out that previous match had never taken place — the report was bullshit, output by a bullshit generator.
Please don't call these errors "hallucinations" — that term is designed to maintain the claim that those systems really perceive (whether correctly or incorrectly) events that they then understand.
Investigation of Governor of Minnesota and may of Minneapolis
28 January 2026
The Injustice Department (formerly called the Justice Department) is now investigating the governor of Minnesota and the mayor of Minneapolis for "obstructing" the federal terror campaign in Minneapolis.
Governor Walz said,
Two days ago it was [Senator] Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, [Senator] Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
That is not precisely valid. Neither Slotkin nor Kelly is being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good, though that was a real crime and its real perpetrator really should be investigated. Kelly and Slotkin are being investigated for correctly citing US law, which is not a crime at all.
The Chicago Teachers Union is being investigated too, but nothing to do with Renee Good.
US cities compelled to police abuses by deportation thugs
28 January 2026
*US cities [are] increasingly compelled to police abuses by [deportation thugs]* because the officials in charge of the deportation thugs encourage them to commit crimes against the public.
Military newspaper, Stars and Stripes
28 January 2026
Magats in the Pentagon plan to make the military newspaper, Stars and Stripes, follow the strict party line.
Bully demands HAMAS hand over heavy weapons
28 January 2026
The bully demands that HAMAS hand over its heavy weapons, while saying nothing about Israel's heavy weapons.
US mixed messaging on flu shots
28 January 2026
*US mixed messaging on flu shots alarms experts: "Children should not be dying."*
Australia found responsible for torture in immigration prison
28 January 2026
The UN committee against torture has found Australia responsible for torture carried out in an immigration prison in Papua New Guinea on an immigrant that Australia paid Papua New Guinea to jail.
Australia pioneered the idea of denying asylum to refugees who arrive by small boat, no matter how repressive the country they escaped.
Philosophy professor ordered to drop readings from Plato's Symposium
28 January 2026
Texas A&M ordered a philosophy professor to drop readings from Plato's Symposium, and a discussion of the issues they raise, from his class on the grounds that they "advocate" about "race theory" and "gender theory".
This article explains what those readings from Plato talk about and show why magats want to quash such discussion — even though the professor had no intention of "advocating" anything, only holding rational discussion about the issues raised.
I am disappointed that he ultimately obeyed rather than suing. But since he did that after consulting his lawyer, I suppose that suing was not likely to fix the problem.
That makes the tragedy even worse, and shows that the saboteur in chief is the enemy of the thinking and knowledge, not only human rights and the well-being of the poor.
The president of the university defended the university's order by misrepresenting and evading the issue. This page shows what he wrote and precisely explains the dishonesty.
Philosophy professors' resistance is not enough to save freedom in the US, but they can clearly explain why we need to save it, and that helps.
Violence towards prisoners in many US states
28 January 2026
Prison thugs in many or all US states often carry out illegal violence towards prisoners, causing suffering, damage and occasionally death.
DHS used Neo-Nazi Anthem for recruitment
28 January 2026
*DHS Used Neo-Nazi Anthem for Recruitment After [killing of Renee Good].* We know that they are looking for the personality profile of violent right-wing loonies.
Protesters shot in the face by "less-lethal" munitions
28 January 2026
Deportation thugs blinded or half-blinded two protesters by shooting them in the face with "less-lethal" munitions. They barely survived the attack.
One of them, Rummler, still has one working eye, it seems. For the other, Rodriguez, I can't tell from the article.
Naturally, the thugs' PR person misrepresented the situation, pretending they were under heavy attack.
It makes sense that they do the opposite of standard techniques for de-escalation. The persecutor's strategy is to spread terror among the public, so teaching thugs tactics that create opportunities for terror serves the purpose.
Division of Iran's opposition
28 January 2026
On the division of Iran's opposition between supporters of the son of the Shah and those who oppose him.
Measurements of microplastics in human bodies
28 January 2026
Scientists disagree about measurements of microplastics in human bodies. By studying the conflicting results, they will find methods to work out the correct facts.
Depending on US companies for digital services
28 January 2026
European countries, and the UN, have discovered that depending on US companies for digital services puts them at risk of harassment or attack.
The marketing term "the cloud" is used to lull people into disregarding the question of where their data is really kept, and who controls it. We have been saying for ten years that "There is no cloud — only computers belonging to others." When the "other" is a US company, including Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft, you're making a mistake by using it.
But the US is not the only country that might attack you. When the "other" is a non-US company, that too may be a mistake.
So do your computing on your own computers, running only free software (since that's the software that users can control), and keep your data on your own computers too.
It is safe to encrypt an archive on your own computer with the GNU Privacy Guard then save the encrypted file on someone else's computer. But don't let the only copies be saved like that.
New diet guidelines pose risks for health and environment
28 January 2026
*RFK Jr's new diet guidelines pose risks for health and the environment, experts say.*
Rushed laws after tragedy never good
28 January 2026
*Rushed laws after a tragedy are "never good", warns father [and mother] of youngest [Bondi Beach mass shooting] victim.* They show wisdom by resisting the temptation to go overboard into their own loss and preferring that society choose the best response.
In the same way, a law named (even unofficially) after a person who suffered injustice tends to be insufficiently thought out.
European countries uniting against the bully
28 January 2026
The bully is trying to bully Europe with tariffs into acquiescing to his demand to sell Greenland to him. Now European countries are moving towards uniting for confrontation with him.
I don't think that the bully cares very much about Greenland. I think his real goal is to make Europe submit to him, using a demand chosen to be outrageous and threats chosen to be daunting.
Past experience suggests that if he sees that he won't gain the submission he seeks, he will back off — for a while.
Liberation after deactivating ex-Twitter account
28 January 2026
The writer describes the sense of liberation of deactivating his ex-Twitter account.
Or perhaps nowadays should we call it "shitter"?
Uncertainty about concentration of microplastics in human tissues
28 January 2026
The plastic industry is likely to weaponize the present real uncertainty about the concentration of microplastics in human tissues.
Meanwhile, measuring the level of harm that microplastics do to the human bodies they are found in is another difficult medical challenge. A few decades from now, it may be easy to determine which medical problems correlate with higher concentrations. But we would like to know this before being exposed for decades.
I wonder if microscopic structures could be made which would attach to microplastics and drag them out of the body.
Killings by deportation thugs are part of how agency operates
28 January 2026
Unjustified killings by the deportation thugs are not anomalies, and not the result of agents with insufficient training. They are part of how the agency was meant to operate.
I agree with the demand that everyone facing deportation have the right to a lawyer to defend per. Deportation is usually exile for life, yet because it is not legally considered a punishment, it can be imposed with less protection than a month in jail.
Urgent: CBS: Don't Censor Debate
26 January 2026
US citizens: call on CBS: Don't Let Bari Weiss Censor Debate.
Urgent: Stop funding DHS and ICE
26 January 2026
Us citizens: call on Congress to stop funding DHS and ICE inhumane and lethal tactics amidst ongoing investigations into those practices.
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US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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Urgent: Block voter-ID bill
26 January 2026
US citizens: call on the Senate to block the voter-ID bill and protect poor citizens' right to vote against arbitrary interference.
Many poor people need to move often. Many can't afford to take a couple of hours off work to officially update ID cards. And these requirements are not satisfied by proof that you're a US citizen -- the demand is always for "up to date, currently valid" proof.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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Please spread the word.
Dr Ahmed Muhanna seized in Gaza
26 January 2026
Dr Ahmed Muhanna was seized in Gaza where he was working in a hospital and jailed in Israel for almost two years without any charges. While jailed, he was tortured sadistically, even including beatings which broke a rib, and then denied medicine for that.
He saw other prisoners die of medical problems which could have been cured if they had received treatment, as prisoners are entitled to.
Now he has been released and is back in Gaza, but the shortages of medical supplies and destroyed equipment, what doctors can do is limited.
Labour plans to restrict right to protest even more
26 January 2026
Labour plans to restrict the right to protest even more, by banning frequent protests in the same "area".
To allow protest only as long as it never inconveniences anyone is to make protest so weak that it hardly counts for anything. The policies that large crowds protest repeatedly do much worse than inconvenience people. They usually amount to cruelty and injustice, usually toward the disprivileged.