Urgent: Limit monitoring systems
25 August 2026
US citizens: call on your state officials to limit Orwellian monitoring systems in order to protect everyone's freedom.
Here is what I wrote:
I urge you to pass legislation prohibiting governments and agencies in our state from setting up cameras that identify and record individual people or vehicles, except based on a warrant limited this surveillance to specified places and time intervals.
It is not enough to ban contracts with Flock. The issue is not limited to that one company. The issue is the danger of Orwellian surveillance and tracking, and the repression they make possible. As shown by recent deportation practices, we must not allow systems to operate which track the movements of people in general.
When and where recognition cameras are authorized, they should not allow remote access to their records. Rather, someone should have to go to the camera itself to retrieve its list of identifications and date/times. For investigating a serious crime, we can afford that. For our safety, it should not be feasible to get each cameras records for every day, or every month.
Please see https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html.
Sincerely,
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Urgent: Sign up to be a poll worker
25 August 2026
US citizens: sign up to be a poll worker for your city's election.
Urgent: Oppose SEC deregulation
25 August 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to oppose SEC deregulation.
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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: Direct tariff refunds to consumers
25 August 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to direct tariff refunds to consumers who paid them.
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.
Hot summer caused crop failure in Europe
25 August 2026
The record hot summer has caused a disastrous crop failure in Europe. Both vegetables and grains are affected; in some crops, the loss is over 50%.
Global heating is accelerating, and I've covered the threat of food shortages for many years. Sooner than you expect, every year will be at least this bad — unless we give the planet roasters a knock-out blow, so they can't stop us from preventing that disastrous future.
Suggestion for negotiating with the Taliban
25 August 2026
A suggestion for countries that wish to negotiate with the Taliban: insist on sending a delegation composed of women, and insist that the Taliban do likewise.
Finland halts deportation of Russian family
25 August 2026
*Finland halts deportation of Russian family who "risked everything" to oppose Ukraine invasion.*
What shocks me is that Finnish intelligence acted unaware of the reasons why the Belovs deserved protection. If it was truly ignorant, it was incompetent. If it disregarded the reasons, it was vicious. Which one was it?
Increase in traffic fatalities on music release dates
25 August 2026
* Harvard study finds traffic fatalities increase by 15% on release dates [of major music albums] compared with similar days either side.*
3M firefighting products
25 August 2026
*3M knew for more than 50 years that its [firefighting] products could harm humans, Australian government alleges in court documents.*
These products are made with PFAS.
Wrecker distancing US from South Korea
25 August 2026
The wrecker has decided to distance the US from South Korea and cozy up to Dictator Kim in North Korea.
This is disappointing, of course, but not surprising. He often prefers dictators to democracies. He has tried to cozy up to Putin, Chairman Xi, Orbán, Crown Prince Bone Saw, and Modi.
Deform UK
23 August 2026
The Deform UK party's latest deformation plan would throw hundreds of thousands of children into destitution, and many disabled people too.
USS Abraham Lincoln shortage
23 August 2026
Sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln say there is a grave shortage of food; some have lost 30 pounds. The water is not fit to drink.
Relatives excoriate the bullshitter for denying these facts, but that's simply being himself.
Carlitos Ricardo Parias
23 August 2026
The case of journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias: *A journalist was injured while documenting government power, shot during an attempt to arrest him, prosecuted, repeatedly denied medical care — and then left in immigration detention, where he has continued documenting the conditions around him.*
Trump's tax cuts
23 August 2026
The wrecker's tax big cuts were not just for billionaires. They also gave a handout to multimillionaires. As usual, at the expense of everyone else in the US.
Sunrise Movement
23 August 2026
Government secret agents have been persistently investigating the Sunrise Movement. They keep getting more and more evidence that it is committed to nonviolence (including nonviolent civil disobedience), but continue searching desperately for some violence in it somewhere.
Trump's attack againts Iran
23 August 2026
The bully's attack against Iran was a moral error and a grand-strategic mistake. In addition, it was a strategic military mistake which has caused the US to lose much of its power in the world.
Is that a bad thing? No, and yes. The bully has been using US power for evil purposes; now he has less capacity to do that. However, the countries that have gained power though that mistake have been even more vicious, for decades.
Eissa Hashemi and Maryam Tahmasebi
23 August 2026
Eissa Hashemi and Maryam Tahmasebi, a married couple of professors who were permanent residents in the US, are in deportation prison because Hashemi's mother, Masoumeh Ebtekar, is a supporter of the regime and participated in the occupation of the US embassy.
It is not impossible that they are somehow working with Ebtekar on a nefarious plot, but the persecutor's henchmen have not made such charges -- they have simply cancelled the family's residence permits arbitrarily and (according to Tahmasebi) aim to keep them in deportation prison for life.
Mississippi ICE facility gas leaks
23 August 2026
Prisoners in an overcrowded deportation prison (privately run by CoreCivic) in Mississippi (far south in the US) were forced sometimes to spend hours outdoors in bright sun, and at other times, to swelter in crowded cells, because of a power outage.
The prison kommandant held the prisoners incommunicado during that period.
Privatized prisons are a motor for inaccountability, and therefore for cruelty and gratuitious suffering; this makes them inherently unjust. We should abolish them all.
Dictator Kim gratitude
23 August 2026
Dictator Kim expressed his appreciation of the bully's gesture of friendship by firing 10 ballistic missiles.
Comparing would-be Dictator Donald with Dictator Kim.
Cointelpro
23 August 2026
*[The persecutor]'s spying on leftwing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro.
Afghan women deportation
23 August 2026
Other countries have deported millions of Afghans to Afghanistan. For Afghan women, that means deportation to slavery.
To deport someone to a place where she will be tortured violates the treaties which establish the right to asylum. Yet the EU is now trying to negotiate a deal with the Taliban for returning refugees there.
Tories to shut down soup kitchens
23 August 2026
A Tory-run local council in London wants to shut down soup kitchens because the area around "is not safe".
Ex Myanmar ambassador in Britain
23 August 2026
The ambassador to Britain appointed by President Aung San Suu Kyi defied the military government's order to vacate the ambassadorial house in London. The UK is denying the moral doubts about the situation by prosecuting him for "trespassing" in a diplomatic residence.
Israeli besieged Palestinian families
23 August 2026
* Israeli militants have besieged two Palestinian families in their homes since the weekend, aiming to take over their properties in the West Bank village of Qusra through a campaign of terror.*
Datacenter near the Everglades
23 August 2026
A planned datacenter near the Everglades threatens to damage it with waste heat.
There is a bright side: as data centers boost the combustion of fossil fuels, they will speed the inundation of the data center along with the Everglades and South Florida. And the White House.
But I don't think that will make up for all the things that the world would lose as civilization falls.
Melania Trump Russian Listening Device
23 August 2026
(satire) *Melania Trump Discovered To Be Russian Listening Device.*
UK's permanent face recognition
23 August 2026
The UK is taking the terrible step of setting up permanent face recognition which will make streets unsafe for people that the state does not like.
Potatoes "boil" in the ground
23 August 2026
*Potatoes "boil" in the ground as record heatwave sweeps across swathes of Asia.*
Early Access to Truth Social Announcements
23 August 2026
*The Intercept Sues [the corrupter] for Selling [early] Access to Truth Social Announcements.*
This seems to be a plan to profit privately by selling the opportunity to cheat on bets to "predict" what the corrupter has already decided to do.
"Prediction" betting invites corruption; I think we ought to prohibit it.
California banned pesticide paraquat
23 August 2026
California has banned the pesticide paraquat, deciding no longer to treat ex-agricultural workers as pests.
Higher CO2' levels
23 August 2026
Slow, natural global heating, about 56 million years ago, devastated the Earth's forests once it passed a certain level of CO2 in the air.
Higher CO2 levels damaged plants, both physiologically and by encouraging massive plant-killing fires, and by causing plant-killing droughts.
Since 2000, the CO2 we have added has been bad for forests.
Ebay's CEO's salary
23 August 2026
Journalists David and Ina Steiner published about Ebay's CEO's salary and the company retaliated with a gross harassment campaign.
If you want to watch the documentary about this, I urge you to refuse to watch it via Digital Restrictions Management. Above all, don't get it from Amazon.
Worse on purpose
23 August 2026
This site report on brands, well-known in the past for quality, that sold their name to a company that didn't maintain the quality.
Medical students judgement with AI
23 August 2026
Supposed Intelligence tools for looking up possible diseases from a list of symptoms are undermining the process by which MDs in training learn judgment -- they instead tend to become helplessly dependent on the tools.
Gadi Eisenkot
23 August 2026
Netanyahu's political opponent, Gadi Eisenkot, is almost as much in favor of committing war crimes as Netanyahu is.
Ilhan Omar
23 August 2026
The bully's flunkies sent an agent to monitor who came to Ilhan Omar's open house for her constituents.
The agent claimed to be on an undercover drug operation. That could be a cover story for an undercover antipolitical operation.
Never rely on Google to preserve data
23 August 2026
Never rely on Google to preserve data that you have entrusted to it. Whatever sort of data it is, if you would be sad if it were lost, do not depend on Google! Google has been known to delete all of a person's accounts and all of per data, permanently and irremediably.
(I am curious whether other companies are any better in handling such situations, but I have no information about that as of now.)
My refusal to run nonfree software (including JavaScript) has in practice put Google and many other digital services off limits to me, and thus had the byproduct of protecting me from this sort of problem. However, in principle, if one company does not require customers to run nonfree JavaScript code, that doesn't guarantee it won't delete all of a customer's data in a paroxism of panic. What you need to do is store your data in several independent ways.
New Amazon data center
23 August 2026
A new Amazon data center's power plant could be the biggest emitter of CO2 in the US.
Join me in boycotting Amazon and maybe it will cancel this project to save money.
Uber drivers turned into mobile snitches
21 August 2026
Flock Reportedly Tried to Turn Uber Drivers Into Mobile Snitches. And Nexar, a manufacturer of dashcams, is already doing that to unwitting drivers whose cars carry those cameras.
Drivers should be allowed to install dashcams that record, as security cameras, but security cameras must not be allowed to transmit these images anywhere without specific time-limited requests.
Don't do business with Uber!
Ceuta crysis
21 August 2026
A social media hoax told lots of Moroccans that if they swam into Ceuta (a Spanish colony adjacent to Morocco) right away, they would be allowed to go to Spain and stay there.
Some 70,000 went into Ceuta, found out story was a hoax, and mostly went back to Morocco. But European right-wing extremists are using it to pretend that a real problem had happened and requires a real increase in repression of immigrants.
US deporting trafficked children
21 August 2026
The bully's henchmen are rushing the deportation of people who have been trafficked, and minors who fled abuse by their parents, depriving them full and proper judgment of their cases.
Sometimes they get deported before the hearing that will decide whether they are entitled to stay in the US. That is Kafkaesque.
The persecutors are mainly focusing on minors, but "minors" does not imply "children". A 17-year old is not a child and we must not call per one. Can't you be concerned for someone's rights without calling per a "kid"? I am.
But the reason I am concerned about that manipulative exaggeration is not just that it is soppy. It can be dangerous too, to those very people. Calling a teenager a "child" can lead to disrespect for per rights.
US sanctions against "settlers"
21 August 2026
The bully's henchmen have terminated US sanctions against violent Israeli "settlers". Democrats in Congress have called for reinstating the sanctions.
Biden put them in place to rebuke the "settlers'" wanton violence against Palestinians. The bully seems to want to present the US as a supporter of violent cruelty.
Rwe deal wind leases
21 August 2026
The wrecker's henchmen are paying billions to get companies to cancel their contracts to build offshore wind power.
This is driving expensive nails into humanity's coffin.
ICE arresting people at airports
21 August 2026
Deportation thugs are arresting people at US airports, often choosing targets who already have grounds to be in the US.
UK burning summer
21 August 2026
Sadiq Khan, Mayor of Greater London: *This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren't just delusional, they're deadly.*
They treat truth with total contempt.
Tech fascism in Silicon Valley
21 August 2026
Now that Silicon Valley has mostly joined the side of fascism, only a few journalists are ready to criticize.
Second runway for London airport
21 August 2026
Watch out, England! Two London airports are going to build addtional runways. That is expensive, and each airport will use its new runway to handle 100,000 or so additional flights per year.
Just think of how much hotter they will make Britain (and the rest of the world).
Urgent: reject nominees for USPS board
21 August 2026
US citizens: call on your senators to reject the corrupter's nominees for the USPS board.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: cancel Flock contracts
21 August 2026
US citizens: call on local governments to cancel their Flock contracts.
Urgent: stop big tech's Data Center Land Grab
21 August 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to stop big tech's Data Center Land Grab
It is unfortunate that the petition grants these data centers the usually unmerited accolade of "artificial intelligence". I myself never do that.
However, I signed the petition anyway.