Urgent: US Postal Service delivery
26 June 2026
US citizens: call on the US Postal Service to continue delivering to anyone.
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Urgent: Make billionaires and trillionaires pay their fair share
26 June 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to make billionaires and trillionaires pay their fair share.
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Urgent: Reject Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence
26 June 2026
US citizens: call on the Senate to reject Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence. He is loyal to the corrupter rather than to the country he ought to serve, and that makes him unfit.
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Block demand for voting list
26 June 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to block the bully's threat-backed demand for the complete voting list of each state.
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Rebuked for wanting to raise taxes on wealthy
25 June 2026
A conversation between a Labour minister and Ambassador Mandelson rebuked Labour MPs for wanting to raise taxes on some people who could afford to pay more. Another minister said this was embarrassing.
It should be extremely embarrassing for Labour to be exposed as ridiculing the idea of raising taxes on the rich. That is exactly what it must do to reduce the poverty than has been increased by directing an ever-increasing fraction of society's wealth to the rich.
Activists moved to solitary confinement
25 June 2026
Alabama moved three activists, who lead protests against prison conditions, into solitary confinement.
Laura Wittmann resigned from Uline
25 June 2026
*Laura Wittmann resigned from Uline in condemnation of the company owners' active support for fascism in the US.*
Appeasing bond markets
25 June 2026
"Appeasing bond markets" — prioritizing keeping interest rates for government bonds low — is supposed to bring "stability", but in the UK it means a steady decline in the productive economy.
A government has a practical need for low interest rates if it regularly borrows money to spend. Clearly governments need to get less funds by borrowing and more by taxing the rich.
Sweden urges parents to put limits on snoop phones
25 June 2026
Sweden urges parents to put limits on when and where they use snoop phones, especially when around children, because it seems that seeing adults use them is a bad influence.
Permanent ban on datacenters in Monterey Park, California
25 June 2026
The residents of Monterey Park, California, have voted for a permanent ban on datacenters.
Three Lebanese hospitals hit by Israeli forces
25 June 2026
*Three Lebanese hospitals hit by Israeli forces in under a week.*
It reminds me of Gaza.
Clean water to fight antimicrobial resistance
25 June 2026
*The world needs clean water to help fight antimicrobial resistance.*
Rich people resist paying for everyone to have clean water, but the result may be the death of some of them as well as many others.
*Antibiotics use in livestock could rise by a third in next 15 years, UN report warns.*
If that happens it will drive antibiotic resistance up. Efforts to reduce the mass use of antibiotics in cattle have met with opposition from Big Ag, which profits from the practice although it results in the death of humans.
The article bizarrely speaks of "human resistance", but the resistance in question is resistance of bacteria to medicines meant to kill them.
(satire) White House doctor assessment of corrupter
25 June 2026
(satire) *White House Doctor Claims [the corrupter] A Perfectly Healthy 9-Foot-Tall 35-Year Old.*
(satire) Black neighborhood demolished
25 June 2026
(satire) *Black Neighborhood Demolished To Make Room For Nothing In Particular.*
Scott Pelley fired for condemning CBS management
25 June 2026
Scott Pelley condemned the magat management of CBS for "murdering 60 Minutes", and they fired him for that, as he must have expected. Since then, he has reported that they had tried to command him to insert lies into the show.
Australia's national disability insurance proposed overhaul
25 June 2026
*[Australia's] national disability insurance scheme’s proposed overhaul will cause "material harm" to Australians with disabilities, undermine its original intentions and hand unprecedented power to the health minister, the federal government's own reform advisory committee warns.*
In a country where business has political power, they lobby to modify every system and every new law is that the rich and the businesses get the benefit. It seems that they did that to this reform, which was apparently intended to help disabled people. The lobbyists tend to argue that "this is the best outcome that is politically possible."
Wrecker fired independent board for NSF
25 June 2026
The wrecker fired the independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation and replaced them with obedient saboteurs. Their first act of sabotage is to terminate the Ocean Observatories Initiative and reserve its monitoring equipment.
Nothing can help the businesses that want to cause mayhem in the ocean like eliminating the equipment that can monitor their activities and the changes they cause.
Iranian regime starting to allow internet use again
25 June 2026
The Iranian regime is starting to allow people to use the internet again, but people are worried that the shutdown was used to introduce new systems of surveillance and censorship that are not directly visible.
Oil pipeline across Bosnia
25 June 2026
A company lacking in experience has been contracted to build an oil pipeline across Bosnia. It may have been chosen because participants in the corrupter's Jan 6 coup attempt are involved in it.
An inexperienced company is likely to screw up. With an oil pipeline, that could mean oil leaks and ineradicable pollution. But the corrupter and his friends well suppose they will never be held accountable for whatever damage may follow from the choice to be careless.
Urgent: Support AI Data Center Moratorium Act
25 June 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to support Bernie and AOC's AI Data Center Moratorium Act.
In my letter I stated my support for the bill, then denounced the term "AI" as a marketing hype campaign, naming the URL https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligance.
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Urgent: Reject Todd Blanche for Attorney General
25 June 2026
US citizens: call on your senators to reject Todd Blanche for Attorney General.
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Urgent: Save democracy in the US
25 June 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to plan to save democracy in the US.
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Urgent: Stop blocking of donations to Southern Poverty Law Center
25 June 2026
US citizens: call on Fidelity, Schwab, and Vanguard to stop blocking customers' donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Urgent: Make rich pay more into Social Security
25 June 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to make the rich pay more into Social Security, and not cap or reduce what retirees receive.
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UK promise to abolish "zero-hours contracts"
24 June 2026
The UK government has promised to abolish the system of "zero-hours contracts", in which a worker must be ready to work on short notice and cannot plan per life in advance based on the work schedule. Naturally, businesses claim that reducing their "flexibility" will make everyone suffer.
Of course, business lobbyists want the government to neglect all the harm that this imposed "flexibility" tends to do to the worker. Of course, they presume that business's profits outweigh all other factors, and they argue for this based on the absurd "trickle down" model of economics — often veiled so that it might seem more plausible.
The "trickle down" model trains citizens and politicians to truckle to business. We can call the result a "truckle down" economy.
Businesses that want to benefit from "flexibility" about a worker's hours should be required to pay the worker for that flexibility, each time.
Here's an example of how that might work. Canceling all or part of an agreed shift, less than a week before, would legally require paying the worker 1/4 of the normal pay rate for the cancelled hours, as well as arranging additional working hours for per as a replacement so that per total hours are not decreased.
I do not claim that those specific details are optimal. The details can be adjusted — the point is to illustrate the general idea.
UK thugs acting as if Palestine Action were terrorist organization
24 June 2026
Thugs in the UK acted as if they believed Palestine Action were really a terrorist organization: harassing one supporter and then trying to pressure him into being a spy in the group.
Palestine Action is a political campaigning group, not a terrorist group; but once a government endorses a false accusation, the normal operation of its laws and procedures will turn into harassment and worse.
CBS News veterans urge upholding editorial independence
24 June 2026
*CBS News veterans urge Paramount CEO to "uphold editorial independence" at 60 Minutes.*
This approach is worth trying — there is little else we can try to protect the main US news media from becoming even more subjugated by big business.
The Paramount billionaire owners of CBS are firing reporters who won't be subservient. Some decided to go down fighting.
Minnesota Republican Convention honored Derek Chauvin
24 June 2026
The Minnesota Republican Convention publicly honored the ex-cop Derek Chauvin who is in prison for the murder of George Floyd.
That murder touched off Black Lives Matter protests across the US.
Senator Ellison condemned this, but based seems to have based that on its hurtfulness to specific persons. That is true, but it is a side issue. Indeed, the Republicans' gesture was hurtful, but it was far worse than that!
Their act of Chauvinism can only be understood as glorification of murder and promotion of racism. They deserve to be excoriated -- and every politician who participated ought to be confronted with this during the election campaign. "Representative So-and-So, do you endorse the murder of George Floyd? If so, was it because he was black, or because he was helpless, or because the murderer was a uniformed thug?"
The article linked to at the beginning 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, such as that one, because they are morally important and I don't want to let the racists they rebuke off the hook.
I will not give the gross bigotry of racism a pass on account of smaller bigotries of anti-racism. Instead I reproach them both.
China suborning treachery in Britain
24 June 2026
China is suborning treachery in Britain among Chinese-English interpreters that handle calls to government agencies from visitors from China, especially if they are talking about Chinese repression.
China puts a lot of effort into repression of Chinese visiting other countries or finding refuge in them.
Some US cities imposing curfews
24 June 2026
Some US cities are imposing curfews on minors. Baltimore is avoiding heavy-handed policing when they are teenagers, but in the case of actual children, it looks like this might lead to punishing parents who don't control the children all the time (or have to work at night).
Laws passed to protect freed slaves
24 June 2026
After the US civil war, Congress passed laws to protect the rights of freed slaves. The Supreme Court, mainly right-wing, erased them.
That is similar to what is happening now.
Forced marriage, rape and murder not unusual in Iraq
24 June 2026
To experience forced marriage, rape, and murder is not unusual for girls in Iraq.
I wonder whether these things happened when Saddam Hussein was in charge.
States suing against stopping offshore wind farms
24 June 2026
The wrecker's henchmen made a deal to pay a billion dollars of taxpayers' money to Total Energies to avoid finishing two mostly completed offshore wind farms. Six states are suing to cancel this deal.
The deal illustrates the perversity of the wrecker's support for fossil fuel, because it provides no possible benefit to anyone except fossil fuel companies. (Total is primarily a fossil fuel company itself.)
California Democratic primary
24 June 2026
The California Democratic primary for governor pits Tom Steyer, a progressive billionaire, against Xavier Becerra, a corporate Democrat supported by non-progressive billionaires.
Urgent: Cancel increase in funding of coal mining
24 June 2026
US citizens: call the Dept of Energy to cancel its plan to fund an increase in coal mining.
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Urgent: oppose and filibuster CLARITY Act
24 June 2026
US citizens: call on your senators to oppose and filibuster the CLARITY Act.
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Urgent: Block corrupter's exploitative deal with IRS
24 June 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to block the corrupter's exploitative deal with the IRS.
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Urgent: Block cheater's medical debt trap
24 June 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to block the cheater's medical debt trap.
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Garbage incinerators spread PFAs
24 June 2026
Garbage incinerators don't burn PFAs, they spread them into the environment.
Superstitious ideological rejection of medicine
24 June 2026
US Republicans tend to shorten their life spans, and their spans of healthy life, through superstitious ideological rejection of medicine.
Democrats experience the same flawed medical system but they accept the good it can do for them, while demanding rational improvement.
Cops in Texas schools
24 June 2026
People in Texas believe that safety in schools depends on having lots of cops around, but what actual cops actually do in schools is brutalize students.
Putting cops in schools was observed many years ago to result in suffering for students.
Demands for list of people watching protest videos
24 June 2026
Employees of the Injustice Department asked for search warrants to demand the lists of people who watched political protest videos. When the judge refused, they argued he should conceal the fact that they had asked for the warrants. The judge denied that too.
Deporting people to places too dangerous to visit
24 June 2026
The US since January 2025 has *deported 21,000 [people] to places US calls too dangerous to visit.*
Food shortage caused by extreme weather
24 June 2026
Britain is headed for a food shortage caused by extreme weather, which itself is caused by global heating. That implies such shortages are likely to get worse and worse.
Global heating threatens national security
24 June 2026
Global heating effects now threaten national security.
State voters establishing abortion rights
24 June 2026
When state voters vote to establish abortion rights, right-wing extremists in the state legislature go to extreme lengths to set that decision at naught.
Underestimated carbon emissions of data centers
24 June 2026
*Officials hugely underestimated impact of [supposed intelligence] datacentres on UK carbon emissions.*
The new estimate, over the next ten years, is around 80 times as much, and equivalent to around 3 million people.
Age of "Cerne Giant" chalk drawing
24 June 2026
Discussion of the age of the "Cerne Giant" chalk drawing in England need to recognize that the figure gets redrawn every 10 years or so. Thus, the object people actually see is not old.
Lawsuit by corrupter against federal government re-opened
24 June 2026
A judge reopened the lawsuit by the corrupter against the federal government, which he had ordered federal employees to settle in his favor, to have the possibility to reject the settlement.
Demands for Iran to stop killing protesters
23 June 2026
In January, the bully demanded that Iran stop killing protesters.
That demand would have been laudable if he had really meant it. But this was shortly after deportation thugs callously killed protest observers Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and the bully's agents protected the killers.
Subsequent events demonstrate that he cares no more about the lives of Iranian protesters than about American protesters. His orders to attack Iran included nothing to protect protesters, but plenty of just plain war, as well as killing the civilian leaders.
I suspect that aggressor countries will henceforth follow the bully's example, targeting the civilian leaders at the start. (The killing of Iran's leaders ironically backfired, but as yet there is no dissuasive evidence that such a result will naturally tend to occur.)