Urgent: Fund and rebuild the FDA
4 September 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to fund and rebuild the FDA.
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Urgent: Impeach budget director Russell Vought
4 September 2026
US citizens: call your congresscritter to vote to impeach budget director Russell Vought.
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Urgent: Vote against Heidi Overton for head of FDA
4 September 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter to vote against appointing Heidi Overton to head the FDA.
Let's toss her out of the Overton window!
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Urgent: If Superman lived among us now
4 September 2026
If Superman lived among us now, and decided it was his duty to defend Truth, Justice and the American Way from America's worst enemy, what sort of actions might be effective and inspirational to use? How about posting your ideas, or stories based on them.
Please don't write about mere violence against magats; that is too crude and obvious, it is too much like them to set an example of good, and would not demonstrate morally that their actions are illegitimate.
Here are a few ideas that occur to me for what he could do.
If you post a fictional story about such an action, either something from the list above or something you have thought up, or even just an outline, I hope you will email me its URL.
Urgent: Stand up to big tech on data centers
4 September 2026
US citizens: call on state officials to stand up to Big Tech: pass a data center moratorium.
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Urgent: Reject perverse deal for veterans' medical treatment
4 September 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to reject Republicans' perverse deal for veterans' medical treatment.
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Urgent: Refuse to hand over voter data
4 September 2026
US citizens: call on your state's Secretary of State to refuse to hand over the voter data that magats demand.
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Urgent: Rescind plan to block election ballots
4 September 2026
US citizens: call on the postal governors to rescind the plan to block election ballots.
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Urgent: Impeach and remove RFK jr.
4 September 2026
US citizens: call your congresscritter and senators to impeach and remove RFK jr.
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Urgent: Investigate local use of Flock cameras
4 September 2026
US citizens: call on Tell your attorney general to investigate your local law enforcement agency’s abuse of Flock surveillance cameras, and prevent tracking anyone without a specific warrant.
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Urgent: Reject corrupter's handouts to billionaire barons
4 September 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to reject the corrupter's pet projects and handouts to his billionaire barons, and put struggling American families before them.
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Polish general imprisoned with German SS general
4 September 2026
The Russian conquerors of Poland thought it amusing to imprison Polish general Kazimierz Moczarski of the Home Army in the same cell with the German SS general that commanded the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Moczarski treated this as an opportunity for an interview, a chance to elucidate the mentality of a Nazi mass murderer. However, the Russians censored the contents of his book. When the English translation is published, I plan to buy a copy — paying cash, anonymously. Evidently, not from Amazon.
The purpose of the Polish Home Army was to rise up to help liberate Poland from German occupation. In late 1944, with the Red Army across the river from Warsaw, the Home Army rose up, and asked Russia to join in the battle. Instead, the Red Army held back so the Germans and Poles would kill each other. Stalin considered both of them his enemies.
UK Prime Minister Burnham disregarding gravity of climate disaster
4 September 2026
UK Prime Minister Burnham seems to disregard the gravity of climate disaster. That is not much better than the Tories, who have come to deny it.
Cyclosporidia outbreak should have been caught
4 September 2026
The cyclosporidia outbreak should have been caught and stopped by a new scheme for tracking wholesale shipping of food, to stop diseases carried by food. But the scheme has never been implemented.
The legal requirement for the scheme was adopted in 2011, but lobbying from agribusiness has repeatedly postponed its implementation. The last postponement put it off until 2028.
Losing data stored in a cloudy place
4 September 2026
Watch out! Storing data you care about in a cloudy place could lead to losing it.
This is a two-level example. Nine PBS, a US TV station, stored its archives in space it rented from a cloudy company which subcontracted the actual storage to a cloudy data center. The first cloudy company shut down and disappeared, but the station did not find out until later. Now the second cloudy company denies that the station is its customer, and the station has had to sue.
My lesson from this is not "the cloud is bad" but rather that it is foolish to use the term "cloud" in your words or your thoughts. That term was coined for leading customers into careless thinking. Don't let it lead you anywhere!
Pernicious error of measuring wealth
4 September 2026
The US media frequently fall into the pernicious error of measuring the wealth of "Americans in general" by the arithmetic mean of individual wealth.
I expect that pro-billionaire campaign and pressure groups lobby for that.
Better lung capacity after reducing air pollution
4 September 2026
Children in London have developed better lung capacity after the ultra-low emission zone reduced the amount of air pollution in most of London.
I support limiting cars' emissions more strictly, but it is Orwellian and unjust to implement this by tracking the movements and locations of individual cars. It would be better to impose this limit throughout the UK.
Sanctions on president of International Criminal Court
4 September 2026
The persecutor's regime has placed sanctions on the president of the International Criminal Court, as an attempt to establish unilaterally an unheard-of supposed moral principle: absolute immunity for the officials of governments that reject the ICC.
We can see why US officials might want this — to protect US soldiers that commit war crimes. In theory, the US will prosecute them itself; if the US really does that, the ICC will not get involved in their cases, because its mission is to prosecute war criminals whose own country prosecutes them. In fact, the US often protects them and refuses to prosecute them.
Machines that kill without distinction
4 September 2026
*Machines that kill without distinction, answerable to no one, leave no one safe.*
Italian thugs killed Abderrahim Fakir
4 September 2026
Italian thugs killed authorized immigrant Abderrahim Fakir by holding him down while he was handcuffed.
The details of what killed him are not clear in this article.
Fascist politicians are delighted by the killing, presuming that Fakir deserved death (without waiting to see if there was any objective justification for killing him). That is a standard Fascist approach: use the fact of a crime against a hate-target as "proof" that the target somehow deserved it.
Scientific research on racism and dementia
4 September 2026
The forces of ignorance have canceled scientific research into how racism affects whether people develop dementia.
This must be one of the things that magats believe that "Man was not meant to know." Or, at least, they don't mean for this to be known.
Rejecting corporate Democrats
4 September 2026
Robert Reich: most Americans are rejecting the corporate Democrats, and the rich people that they mainly serve.
Corporate Democrats are far from the worst politicians in office in the US. The fascists (today's Republicans) are far worse; they are sabotaging democracy and rule of law. But the corporate Democrats will not try to give most people a decent life with something to strive for — a goal whose prerequisites include preventing climate disaster.
Heatwaves and wildfires adding to tipping point
4 September 2026
*Heatwaves and wildfires are not just scorching forests, they are adding to the tipping point risks in the world's vast permafrost regions, which contain three times more carbon than all the living vegetation on Earth.*
This could negate human efforts to reduce emissions. If so, it would mean that we left the task of reducing them till too late.
Policies most Americans sensibly demand
4 September 2026
Bernie Sanders: "Why are progressives winning across the United States?" He list the policies that most Americans sensibly demand, but corporate politicians label as "extremist".
Alas, he refers LLMs as "artificial intelligence". It is a mistake to call them that, because it is the marketing term of those who are pushing them on us.
Politics of bully's military snub to South Korea
4 September 2026
More on the politics of the bully's military snub to South Korea.
Cities cancelled Flock and went with other surveillance
4 September 2026
Some cities terminated their contracts with Flock Surveillance, under public pressure, but turned around and brought in another surveillance company.
If you aim to limit access to the surveillance data enough to protect the public from possible Orwellian consequences, that's harder than one might assume. "Stricter" conditions of access may be too loose to achieve that protective goal. And don't forget that federal deportation thugs could override local rules of access.
My recommendation is to store the data in or near each camera, with no access from a distance. When there is a serous crime to investigate, it will be worth the cost to send someone to collect the pertinent data from each pertinent camera. But if someone just wants to fish for someone to persecute, this will be too much trouble.
For more explanation, look for "surveillance camera" in https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html.
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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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.
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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.*