Urgent: Ban Insider Gambling
4 April 2026
US citizens: call your members of Congress to Ban Insider Gambling by Government Officials. In my letter I asked for this ban to include all government officials that are sometimes privy to policy decisions not yet publicly announced.
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Urgent: Fund public schools
4 April 2026
US citizens: call on state officials to fund public schools, rather than private or church schools.
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Please spread the word. US citizens: Ask your congresscritter and senators to block the war-lover from sending over 20,000 bombs to Israel.
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US destroyed a bridge, Iran
4 April 2026
The US bombed and destroyed Iran's biggest bridge.
Of course, the Iranian military will find this somewhat inconvenient, but the bridge was civilian infrastructure and used mainly by civilians. There was no military reason to attack it, and the ruining of the bridge will do nothing to loosen the repression. All it will do is cause general damage and suffering.
Iran has already threatened to retaliate against the Gulf states' civilian infrastructure when it is attacked in this way.
War-phosphorous removes forests, LBN
4 April 2026
*Israel using white phosphorus to scorch earth in south Lebanon, researcher says.*
ISR soldiers attack cameraman, West Bank
4 April 2026
Israeli soldiers attacked a CNN team that was reporting on Palestinians being attacked in their homes by fanatical right-wing Israelis. The soldiers did nothing to protect the Palestinians, but they treated the CNN team as if it were an enemy unit.
One soldier violently attacked a cameraman.
The army announced that this was totally against its rules and spirit to attack and threaten non-Palestinian journalists, but there was another attack on CNN journalists a week or two ago.
Meanwhile, in Lebanon, Israel killed a journalist team working for a Hezbollah-owned TV station by firing a missile at them.
Israel said this was justified because one of them had previously reported the location of some Israeli soldiers. However, attacking journalists doing journalism is a war crime regardless.
Instant death penalty, ISR
4 April 2026
Israel will use military courts to try Palestinian terrorists who kill Israelis, sentence them to death, make it especially easy to convict them, and rush to execute them.
The law has been contrived to discriminate between Palestinian terrorists and Israeli terrorists. However, some of these distortions of justice should never be allowed, regardless of the crime or the circumstances.
*The Guardian view on Israel’s death penalty: capital punishment is always wrong. This new law is doubly so.*
Coffee tree casualties, BRA
4 April 2026
Unprecedented floods in Minas Gerais, caused by global heating, are damaging coffee production and driving the price up. (Not to mention killing human beings.)
Krill nets in Southern Ocean
4 April 2026
Humans are fishing more and more for krill, the food most whales eat. This threatens to drive whale populations down, just after the decrease in whale hunting enabled them to recover.
I wonder what people do with krill caught by these large boats. I also wonder whether ocean acidification, expected to wipe out crustaceans along with coral, would indirectly wipe out whales too.
SAU conundrum with Iran war policy
4 April 2026
Crown Prince Bone Saw, effective ruler of Salafi Arabia, reportedly urged the wrecker to bomb Iran to smithereens.
The name refers to how his henchmen chopped up the body of exiled dissident reporter Jamal Khashoggi after killing him in the Salafi Arabian embassy to Turkey. The prince is a murderous Islamist fanatic, like the rulers of Iran, and there is nothing to choose between them -- or between them and the wrecker.
Pam Bondi, fired!
4 April 2026
The bully fired Bondi as attorney general. Good riddance, but will her replacement be even worse?
Robert Reich says he fired her for not succeeding in all the harm he asked her to do.
Volunteer-surveillance initiative, CA
4 April 2026
Milpitas, California, will distribute video cameras to residents to enable them to upload videos to the cops when they choose. They will be gratis, but not free in the sense of respecting freedom.
It proper that uploading will nominally be a decision for the camera owner, rather than for the cops. But unless the software installed in the camera is free/libre, the owners and the public can't be sure that the camera's manufacturer isn't snooping for other reasons of its own, such as tracking everyone by facial recognition.
Uprooting the US Forest Service
4 April 2026
The wrecker is planning to uproot the US Forest Service by moving it to a different city and closing its regional offices.
This move, given the basic favoritism towards big business, could enable logging companies to get away with just about anything. I suppose that is its motive.
If the agency were already centralized, moving its center to the Rockies could indeed bring that center closer to the majority of the forests. But closing the regional offices will have the opposite effect, just about all over the country.
Urgent: Voting by mail
3 April 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to protect the USPS for November's election.
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The loser's Iran "excursion" as fiasco
2 April 2026
*[The bully]'s Iran war is holding him hostage.*
Iran rockets vs US interceptors
2 April 2026
The best estimate is that Iran still has roughly 1/3 of its missile stocks and 1/3 of its drone stocks. So much for the bullshitter's bombastic claim to have destroyed nearly all of them.
I think serious people already knew that such claims coming from him were not to be taken seriously.
EU nations: political-legal spectrum
1 April 2026
*Five EU governments found to "consistently" dismantle rule of law.*
They are Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia.
New pun
1 April 2026
New pun: "Ifs, ands or buts"
After my cataract operations, they gave me a strict rule, "no ifs, ands or buts." But I used those words anyway, and I got conjunctivitis.
Solidarity with victims of hate
1 April 2026
Solidarity with the victims of hate extends to both Arabs and Jews.
Earth being pushed beyond its limits
1 April 2026
*Earth being "pushed beyond its limits" as energy imbalance reaches record high.*
Hong Kong thugs demand people hand over their passwords
1 April 2026
Hong Kong has given thugs the power to demand people hand over their passwords.
The UK has a similar repressive law, which it used on David Miranda when he carried a copy of the Snowden leaks to Glenn Greenwald. It was a terrible mistake for him to carry with him the password to decrypt that data, and likewise a terrible mistake to pass through the UK on his way to Brazil. Someone involved with the Snowden leaks should have told him to avoid those risky choices.
Pentagon response to courts on restrictions on journalists
1 April 2026
The henchman in charge of the Pentagon responded to the court ruling that its biased restrictions on journalists are unconstitutional by promulgating a modified set of restrictions.
Canadian woman married to US citizen and her daughter jailed
1 April 2026
Deportation thugs have jailed a Canadian woman married to a US citizen, and their daughter. She has papers authorizing her to be in the US, but not currently in her possession because she submitted them to another US agency for some sort of bureaucratic step. She warns all Canadians in the US that they are in danger, especially while their papers are in "processing".
Toxic smoke from bombed oil processing plants
1 April 2026
Israel bombed oil processing plants near Tehran. They released toxic smoke which is causing respiratory damage to people in Tehran.
*The Guardian spoke to residents who described having headaches, eye and skin irritation and difficulty breathing. Experts have warned those symptoms could be just the beginning, with long-term risks of cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, DNA damage and cancer.*
This makes two reasons why that bombing is particularly culpable: for grave harm to a substantial fraction of Tehran's population of ten million, and for escalating the war to include attacks on energy infrastructure. Iran threatened to retaliate against the energy infrastructure of the Gulf oil states if Israel (or the US) continues attacking Iran's oil infrastructure.
Argentina politically divided
1 April 2026
Argentina is politically divided between those who wish to remember and punish the crimes of the murderous military dictatorship in the 70s and twisted right-wingers who celebrate them.
The main political position of the twisted right-wingers is to promote the usual right-wing positions, allowing the privileged groups to exploit and castigate the disprivileged groups. Just as in the US, the right-wing in Argentina have found that celebrating the dictatorship is a way to appear powerful and win the support of people who want to feel powerful.
US sanctions placed on UN official Francesca Albanese
1 April 2026
The US sanctions arbitrarily placed on UN official Francesca Albanese threaten anyone with US connections who does any sort of business or cooperation with her with punishment, even without a trial.
This includes US academics who investigate the patterns of Israel's war crimes in Palestine, as well as other students and faculty. Some of them support the lawsuit that aims to declare such sanctions unconstitutional.
Responding to Hegseth's Christian hatred
1 April 2026
Democratic candidate Talarico. who is Christian, responds to Hegseth's Christian hatred with Christian love.
I am impressed favorably with Talarico's tolerance, and I am sure he is a better person and better citizen than any Republican candidate. However, while this reflects well on him, it is not evidence that any gods exist.
iMonsters in UK demanding proof of age
1 April 2026
iMonsters in the UK are now demanding users "prove their age" by identifying themselves.
Age verification has become a universal excuse to demand that all users identify themselves, an injustice to every user of whatever age.
Rocky Mountain meadow transformed to dry patch of sagebrush
1 April 2026
2°C of heating transformed a Rocky Mountain meadow with grass and wildflowers into a dry patch of sagebrush. Global heating isn't just that most places are somewhat hotter. They can become very different.
US left with no one authorized to authorize vaccines
1 April 2026
The court's rejection of RFK jr's vaccine-wrecker panel leaves the US with no one authorized to authorize vaccines.
Activists delivering food to immigrant families
1 April 2026
Activists in Memphis are delivering food and other necessities to immigrant families who don't dare leave the house.
Old weapons dumped on sea bottom
1 April 2026
Old weapons dumped on the sea bottom become a home for large amounts of wildlife.
Four weeks in to "four day" war
1 April 2026
*Four weeks into a war that was going to take four days … Washington is further away from a diplomatic agreement with Iran than it was in May 2025.
Not only has the war failed to persuade Iran to agree to dismantle its nuclear program in the comprehensive and irreversible way the US demanded, Washington is now having to negotiate to reopen the strait of Hormuz.*
The idiotic attack on Iran could doom Ukraine.
Urgent: Insider trading
1 April 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to investigate insider trading on prediction markets.
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Urgent: Impeach Brendan Carr
1 April 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to impeach FCC Chair Brendan Carr now
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Urgent: Protect whistleblowers
1 April 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to protect whistleblowers from the persecutor's attacks.
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Urgent: Protect nonprofits
1 April 2026
US citizens: call on Congress and the Department of Justice to halt the persecution of nonprofit organizations that criticize injustice.
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Urgent: Childrens' rights
1 April 2026
US citizens: call on your officials in Congress to protect immigrant children's right to education in public schools.
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US-Embassies as Musk/military diplomats
1 April 2026
*US directs American embassies to wage campaign against foreign "hostility" – with Musk's help.*
If you know anything about his online dis-service, ex-Twitter, and its chatbot, Crock, you understand that this is a campaign to crush the idea of truth. The bullshitter wants a battle between his bullshit and Putin's bullshit and fanatical Muslim bullshit — and whichever one wins, truth loses.
Endangered Species Act revoked, Gulf MEX
1 April 2026
The magats are planning to cancel endangered species protection for various endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico, as a gesture to show that they will let nothing stop them from drilling more fossil fuel wells there.
The current crisis will be long over by the time those new wells are finished, but they are concerned with fooling the public, not with real needs.
Spain denies US war-machine accomodation
1 April 2026
Spain has denied its territory and airspace to the US for purposes of war with Iran.
US soldiers positioning to invade Iran
1 April 2026
The US would find it hard to make the Strait of Hormuz safe for oil tankers by force. It could perhaps capture Kharg Island, but that would not protect oil tankers, and occupying the island would not make it easy to capture much oil.
Basically, these threats seem to be bluster.
The bully's pattern of bluster followed by pulling back has backfired completely against Iran.
While it gives me a wry pleasure to see him thwarted, seeing Iran's murderous religious fanatics defeat America's murderous religious fanatics in foreign relations is no pleasure. That will lead to great suffering for Iranians, and no alleviation for Americans.
Electric power status, Europe
31 March 2026
*Europe has made "staggering progress" in producing clean power but neglected efforts to phase out fuel-burning machines, the head of an electrification industry group said.*
(Satire) Sandwiched
30 March 2026
(satire) *Chick-Fil-A Announces Two Halves Of Buns Must Be Married Before Becoming Sandwich.*
Windfarmer persecuter hits again
30 March 2026
The bully has paid a billion dollars of US funds to persuade TotalEnergies to drop two offshore wind power projects near the US East Coast.
He will go to any length to keep the US and the world dangerously dependent on the fossil fuel that threatens to destroy civilization.
I once speculated, facetiously, that this is a secret plan by hidden conquerors from another planet who are trying to make Earth hot enough for them to live on.
Polluting with mine tailings
30 March 2026
Mines usually put toxic wastes, known as "tailings", behind a dam. Global heating's torrential rains are breaking these dams and allowing the toxic wastes to reach rivers, lakes and farm fields, where they kill almost everything.
Social networking defrauding seniors
30 March 2026
Banning minors from using antisocial networks isn't enough. We seniors need to be banned too, for our own protection, lest we fall prey to romance fraud or companionship fraud.
Funding only the TSA part of the DHS
30 March 2026
The whole US Senate wants to resume funding for the TSA. Republicans demand to restore funding for the whole Department of Hatred and Sadism in order to fund the TSA. Democrats won't fund the deportation thugs without explicitly requiring them to respect the human rights they have been trampling. They plan to propose a bill to fund the TSA alone.
If Republicans reject that, it will demonstrate that they are making air passengers suffer inconvenience as a ploy to continue making immigrants, and some US citizens among them, suffer terribly.
War on Iran's oil-exporting
30 March 2026
The wrecker threatened to attack Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export terminal.
Iran has already threatened to respond by attacking Persian Gulf countries' oil export terminals. This could lead to an oil crisis that would last for years.
I wonder whether the wrecker aims to bully them with the threat of such a crisis. That is a typical pattern of his. However, I can't envision what concession he might hope to get from them in this instance. I wonder whether anyone else has an idea.
If the goal is to reduce Iran's oil exports, the rational way to do that is by seizing tankers once they exit the Persian Gulf (or stopping empty tankers from entering it and heading for Kharg Island). They would have no way to resist, so it could be done without actual violence. The US could seize and sell the oil, too. With a wiser leader than the wrecker, it could offer to return the ships, and pay Iran for the oil, when peace is agreed.
But I don't think the wrecker would see such an outcome as a sufficient triumph.
Southern Lebanon hospitals targeted, ISR
30 March 2026
*Israel deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workers.
Medics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes in campaign to make the south uninhabitable.*