Empowering App-Based Workers Act
19 July 2026
Call on Congress to pass the Empowering App-Based Workers Act.
What is missing in that bill, in my view, is
ICE killing practices
19 July 2026
The deportation thugs decided to cease the practice of ordering drivers to pull over, since that has shown a tendency to lead to killings of drivers.
However, the persecutor ordered them to resume. Apparently he thinks that killing people for no reason is a good thing.
Why would he think so? I theorize that he hopes to intimidate Americans into despair by showing contempt for the harm he does. And train his followers into similar Nazi-style contempt.
US sanctions against UN official
19 July 2026
US sanctions against UN official [Francesca Albanese] and [Palestinian human] rights groups violate first amendment, lawsuit claims.
The US has demanded Spain extradite James ‘Fergie’ Chambers, accused of "supporting HAMAS", but people suspect that what he really did was support humanitarian projects in Gaza, which the US government has invented an excuse to mislabel as "supporting HAMAS".
Flotilla activist raped
19 July 2026
*Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape in Israeli detention. Anna Liedtke files criminal complaint in Israel over alleged attack by female guards and says abuse was intended to silence campaigners.*
Gen Z Telepaths
19 July 2026
(satire) *Study Finds Gen Z Telepaths Lack Attention Span To Read Even Single Mind.*
Urgent: stop funding Israel's military
19 July 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to block $3.3 billion in taxpayer funding for Israel's military.
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: call media to cover cuts
19 July 2026
US citizens: call on news media to recognize that the persecutor's henchmen are drumming up false accusations of tolerating fraud as an excuse to deny Medicaid funds to Democratic states.
Urgent: stop sabotaging Lyme prevention
19 July 2026
US citizens: call on RFK Jr. to stop sabotaging Lyme disease prevention.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Palestinian prisoner tortured
19 July 2026
A photo of a Palestinian prisoner being tortured in an Israeli prison confirms that the frequent accusations of torture reflect reality.
The victim's mother says she recognizes him from the photo, but it seems she has had no word about him since he was grabbed in 2023.
UK pretext on usage of fossil fuel generators
19 July 2026
The Tory government of the UK was convinced to decide to spend over 250 billion pounds on new fossil fuel generators, justifying this based on the claim that they will emit somewhat less greenhouse gas pollution than already existing fossil fuel generators.
That is a very stupid justification, given that it would be cheaper to build renewable generators as replacements, and eliminate all of their greenhouse gas emissions.
Global heating will lead to health issues
19 July 2026
Reduced physical activity due to global heating will lead to rise in health issues, study says.
Researchers project that reduced activity could contribute to half a million additional premature deaths annually by 2050.
Ro Khanna detained Israel settlers
19 July 2026
Rep. Ro Khanna visited the West Bank recently. He and group were held at gunpoint by a group of violent extremist "settlers" and soldiers.
[The cheater] will Try to Steal the Midterms
19 July 2026
Robert Reich: [The cheater] will Try to Steal the Midterms. Here's How And How We Prevent Him from Doing So.
ICC destruction tentatives
19 July 2026
The bully has Marco Rubio trying to destroy the International Criminal Court because it might someday perhaps prosecute the who carry out war crimes for him. Or maybe even the bully himself.
Civil society
19 July 2026
Civil society organizations can be authoritarian -- in political leanings, in structure, and both at once.
Title X funding
19 July 2026
The persecutor is trying to redirect Title X funding away from birth control and into pressuring women to have babies.
The persecutor's policies also include cutting all sorts of assistance to the poor for raising healthy children. It seems to be a plan for raising a new generation of miserable, twisted and hateful people.
Put this together with his evident efforts to accelerate global heating and keep civilization as vulnerable as possible, they add up to a plan to crush civilization from two sides at once.
FCC to end burner phones
19 July 2026
The FCC is considering putting an end to "burner phones", requiring everyone with a portable phone to be identified.
The motive is to crack down on robocalls, something I consider desirable. However, the article explains that it is possible to do that without eliminating the possibility of anonymity.
If you want the burner phone not to be identified, you need to keep it powered off and shielded from radio waves, aside from special occasions. Otherwise, your identity might be deduced by patterns in location data or calling.
Every phone uses nonfree software to operate the radio communication, so I will still refuse to use them.
Urgent: Stop tax giveaways
19 July 2026
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Stop the purge of history
19 July 2026
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Stop the "Guard Act"
19 July 2026
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.
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.