Trump chemical safety board
17 July 2026
*The [corrupter and his henchmen have] stacked a top chemical safety board with industry-aligned scientists who have a range of financial conflicts of interest and stand to profit from deregulation, public health advocates say.*
Good and Pretti killing evidence
17 July 2026
The US government has handed over evidence to Minnesota about the killing of Renée Good and Alex Pretti.
This will enable the state of Minnesota to consider prosecuting the killers.
Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton
17 July 2026
A particularly well preserved skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex is to be auctioned, but no museum can afford it. It may never be available for scientists to study.
Britain's heat wave
17 July 2026
Of 2500 articles about Britain's June heat wave, 3/4 of them did not mention global heating at all. And under 5% of them mentioned "net zero" policies to avoid making the heat get worse and worse.
Tax rich people
17 July 2026
An effective way to tax rich people's wealth is to remove the tax breaks that enable most rich people in the US to move most of their income out of taxation.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
16 July 2026
Witnesses say that the deportation thugs are making false statements to protect the one of them who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo dead.
This is a repeated pattern, and presents a reason to suspect that their refusal to use body cameras and other cameras is specifically intended to help them protect each other from valid criminal accusations.
"Intelligent design" idea
16 July 2026
Among the reasons for rejecting the idea of "intelligent design" of the human body are the shockingly stupid instances of bad design in it.
Occasionally someone has hands with six fingers. Could the human body have been designed by an LLM?
Endangered Species Act
16 July 2026
The wrecker's henchmen just adopted a narrow standard of "harm" for the Endangered Species Act, in order to enable business activities that risk wiping out endangered species.
Global heating denialist in charge
16 July 2026
The saboteur in chief wants to put a global heating denialist in charge of official US government reports on the advance of global heating.
Myths behind global heating denial
16 July 2026
Refuting the myths that people use to deny the danger of global heating.
US government prosecuting reporters
16 July 2026
The New York Times reported on apparent flaws in the plane that Qatar gave the corrupter. Now the government is demanding they identify their sources, saying it wants to prosecute them.
"Intelligent design"
16 July 2026
The notion of "intelligent design" of humans and other living species is false -- our structure came about by step-by-step improvement with no way to eliminate kludges.
Magat rules
16 July 2026
* New [magat] rules would undermine longstanding research practices. It's death by a thousand cuts.*
Free elections plan
16 July 2026
*How to plan for an [free] election [even though] leaders are trying to subvert [it].*
Stop political donations
16 July 2026
*UK must cap political donations to stop the rich buying influence.*
The US must do this too, but the question of how it can be done is different in each country because of the difference in constitutions./p>
Hunt for people to deport
16 July 2026
The persecutor has increased, not decreased, the hunt for people to deport (even illegally).
It attracts less public attention now, because his henchmen have pulled back from the practice of operating with blatant cruelty in Democratic cities to overawe and terrify. That backfired against them in several cities, including Minneapolis and Los Angeles, with the effect of galvanizing Americans against him. So now their plan is to collect ever-more surveillance data so they can find lots of unauthorized immigrants, as well as many authorized immigrants that they can falsely accuse of being unauthorized, or target for fabricated accusations of political crime.
Israeli border officer shooting at Palestinians
16 July 2026
An Israeli border police officer threw a flashbang into a car then shut its door from the outside. When the passengers (Palestinians) ran out the other side doors, he shot at them.
This sort of thing happens every day. (I heard from Israeli leftists decades ago that the border police were generally cruel to Palestinians, more so than soldiers.) What is unusual is that that policeman is being investigated for these acts. But past patterns suggest this will not lead to significant disciplinary action.
Killing injured Palestinians by keeping them apart from ambulances is also frequent practice.
Hussam Abu Safiya's injuries
16 July 2026
Hussam Abu Safiya, *one of Gaza's most prominent doctors is almost unrecognizable because of severe injuries inflicted in Israeli [prison], his lawyer has said, and faces "tangible danger to his life" after being held for 18 months without charge or trial.*
Extreme heat affecting one in three people
16 July 2026
*Extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds. Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions.*
Possible UK debt-inflation spiral
16 July 2026
If the UK borrows enough to carry out needed spending, it will fall into a debt-inflation spiral, according to a government economic monitor.
This is one of the many bad aspects of the decision to borrow needed funds rather than get them by taxing the rich. The world will become more and more unjust unless we increase the share of production that goes to the non-rich. We need to pick the least bad way of increasing taxes only on people who are more-or-less rich, and push it through.
Graham Platner dropped out of election
16 July 2026
Graham Platner has dropped out of the election for senator from Maine, after an accusation of rape. Now there is the question of how to choose another candidate.
The word "rape" clearly states the gravity of the crime he is accused of. Why, I wonder, do so many journalists seek to substitute the vague term "sexual assault", which could mean anything from stealing a kiss to rape. Such vagueness is bad for justice.
I hope that "moderate" (plutocratist) Democrats won't succeed in imposing one of themselves, since that replacement would fail to fight for the non-rich.
(satire) National Opera Lays Off 200 Phantoms
16 July 2026
Two Muslim governments seized "gay cruise"
16 July 2026
Two Muslim governments (Turkey and Egypt) have seized on a self-designated "gay cruise" as an opportunity to demonstrate their religious bigotry, by refusing the ship entry.
Turkey is ostensibly a secular democracy, but nowadays the tyrant Erdoğan is undermining both of those allegiances.
US chemical accidents rising
16 July 2026
*US chemical accidents rising as [persecutor] rolls back protections, report finds.*
Bernie Sanders endorsed Troy Jackson to replace Platner
16 July 2026
Bernie Sanders has endorsed Troy Jackson as a senate candidate to replace Platner.
The article links to more information about Jackson.
UK bill proposes maximum workplace temperature
16 July 2026
A bill in the UK proposes to set a maximum temperature for workplaces, as a safety standard.
This is needed, in the age of global heating disaster, to protect the lives of workers.
Nigel Barage
16 July 2026
Candidate Nigel Barage, of the right-wing extremist Deform UK Party, who would be comic if he were not so dangerous, has discovered that his main opponent will a candidate who is intentionally comic: Count Binface.
EU against Meta
16 July 2026
* EU regulators have accused Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, of failing to tackle the risks of its "addictive design" on the physical and mental health of users.*
This is a very important problem, and one of the reasons to refuse to use those systems. But if the EU is serious about protecting users from them, it should take firm action -- take a big bite out of the problem, not a little nibble. Use of a recommendation engine should not be enabled by default.
I think that a platform should not be allowed to use or suggest any particular recommedation engine.
Ebola outbreak in DR Congo
16 July 2026
The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo is continuing to spread. Several factors are causing this, one being the monster's cancellation of US public health aid.
US artificially keeping coal alive
16 July 2026
*[The wrecker] spends billions to kill clean energy and keep coal alive.*
I don't think increasing Americans' electric bills is his goal, nor increasing sickness from air pollution. Those are side effects that do not matter to him. The goal that seems plausible to me is paying billionaires to support his power.
Global heating deadliness
16 July 2026
Due to global heating, Texas prison cells meant to make prisoners suffer now can kill them.
The deadliness of global heat is not limited to prisons, but overhot places outside prison where people live and work are generally overhot because no one wants to spend money to do anything about that. Prisons can be overhot by intention.
Marijuana effectiveness
16 July 2026
A study has found that marijuana is not an effective treatment for widespread mental-related medical problems such as anxiety and anorexia.
Likewise for *psychotic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder or opioid use disorder.*
Record wildfires in Europe
16 July 2026
*Record wildfires in Europe show failure to [curb global heating] carries a mounting cost.*
UK political donations
15 July 2026
Calling on the UK to clean up its political donation system by limiting the donations from any individual to a political party to a fixed maximum per year.
This new rule would be a step forward, but does the UK have anything comparable to PACs? If so, I expect the billionaires to use them to work around the rule, so they will need to extending the rule to cover them.
Bullshitter power
15 July 2026
The bullshitter gets his power from demonstrating that he will violate all rules, norms, and standards of decency in the course of bullying.
This gives him he power to sabotage any functioning system that depends on mutual trust and trustworthiness -- by blatantly abusing that trust, thus compelling other countries to develop new systems based on suspicion and distrust.
You can see a similar attitude in other right-wing leaders such as Pauline Hanson in Australia and Barage of the Deform UK Party.
Ecological grief
15 July 2026
*We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?
In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals.*
Iranian people hate regime
15 July 2026
People in Tehran talk about their relatives killed by the regime's bullies during the protests in January. They hate the regime with a passion.
NYC banning hidden junk fees
15 July 2026
Mamdani is working on a New York City rule aimed at banning hidden junk fees and at requiring that cancelling subscriptions be easy.
Right-wing publicity
15 July 2026
The leader of an Australian right-wing party is seeking publicity through an interview with a British right-wing nationalist.
*Dr Imogen Richards, a criminology researcher at Deakin University, said announcing or appearing on podcasts with contentious counterparts was akin to a "pseudo event" that's as much about the publicity as it is about the [substance].
"The aim of these types of manoeuvres by more fringe, or formerly more fringe, political actors is to shift the Overton window and move the parameters of public political debate rightward."*
The Flamingo Revolution protest in Albania
14 July 2026
The Guardian view on the flamingo revolution: Albanians are standing up for their rights, as well as for nature.
And also against the prime minister's evident surrender to the corrupter — a bad sign about any politician.
Urgent: US citizens call Big Banks not harass
14 July 2026
US citizens: call on big banks not to harass non-citizens for the bully.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Block new Medicaid Work Requirements
13 July 2026
US citizens: call on your state attorney general to sue to block the persecutor's new Medicaid Work Requirements.
If they go into effect, the complex paperwork would be an insuperable burden for many of the handicapped veterans, who would need to satisfy and convince bureaucrats whose mission is to resist.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Professor takes action on bullshit generator
13 July 2026
A Brown U professor suspected that many of the students that were taking his class had chosen it as an opportunity to use bullshit generators to cheat. So he announced that the final exam would be presential, and almost 1/3 of them gave up.
You can view on this article.
He is sad for them because the decision to use bullshit generators implied a decision not to try to learn the subject.
Snoop phones surveiling and tracking
10 July 2026
Snoop phones have lured people into surveiling and tracking their relatives, friends, even coworkers — with their consent, which it does not occur to them to refuse.
Businesses and governments started the tracking, but the relatives and friends impose bonds that feel more personal, so some people won't dare to say no. Which is why it is good practice to start saying no and make a principle of it.
Keeping the snoop phone in a Faraday bag most of the time can also be a step towards ceasing to carry one.
Urgent: Call on Schumer and Jeffries to lead climate defense
10 July 2026
US citizens: call on Senator Schumer and Rep. Jeffries to be leaders for climate defense.
Urgent: Block "SAVE America" act
10 July 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to block the perverse "SAVE America" that would require voters to show up-to-date federal ID cards with their current addresses.
Poor US citizens can't afford the fees to update them when they change address (which they are compelled to do often), so this would have an effect resembling that of the "poll tax" that southern states used to disenfranchise blacks. Those states achieved racial discrimination indirectly by using a "grandfather clause" to exempt whites from the tax. Its proposed new replacement would, I expect, disenfranchise poor people regardless of race.
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: Nationwide high-interest loan businesses
10 July 2026
US citizens: call on the Federal Reserve to block obscure local banks from setting up nationwide high-interest loan businesses.