Prairieland protesters
3 October 2026
In the trial of the Prairieland protesters, the prosecutor withheld crucial physical evidence from the defense lawyers until the trial. This stopped the defense lawyers from presenting expert witnesses to to support the factual point that Benjamin Song's shot was not aimed at anyone, and hit a thug after a ricochet off the floor.
The corrupter encourages his followers to lie and cheat, not just once but persistently.
Effect of elevated screen exposure
3 October 2026
A metastudy confirms that more use of screens by children increases the likelihood of various academic and emotional problems.
Hormone-disrupting herbicide
3 October 2026
The hormone-disrupting herbicide atrazine is contaminating nearly 25% … of all continental US rivers at levels that can harm wildlife and may threaten human health, a new review of federal records has found.
Those waterways cover over 20% of surface drinking water intakes across the country, and over 675,000 private and commercial wells.
Satellite imagery shows devastation
3 October 2026
Satellite photos show the extent of devastation in Gaza, both before and (continuing) after the "cease fire".
Virginia Woolf play
3 October 2026
Facebook and Instagram reject advertisements with text that hints at political issues such as civil rights and women's rights.
I have a hunch that their filters are more forgiving for right-wing political issues. Is there any factual information about this?
Planetary boundaries
3 October 2026
*New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are "outside the safe operating space" as climate disaster looms* (and starts).
Meanwhile, suppression of the discussion of global heating and its dangers is heavier than ever. This must be due to the wrecker's intense support for fossil fuel companies.
Zohran Mamdani's sweeping plan
3 October 2026
Mayor Mamdani proposes to discourage antisemitism by means of increased security funding for synagogues, an increased focus on folding Jewish history into public school education, and a pledge to highlight important Jewish cultural and religious sites.
It is wrong for public education to promote any religion, or religion in general. But education about religions is legitimate and admirable.
Christian identity politics
3 October 2026
*Ken Paxton's "Christian identity" politics obscure a history of scandal.*
Conservation efforts
3 October 2026
Many kinds of insects are used by or beneficial for various species of vertebrates.
Europe’s anti-corruption monitoring body
3 October 2026
Magats have withdrawn the US from the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption monitoring body, saying it *no longer serves US interests.*
Why would the corrupter want to support a group whose aim is to reduce corruption?
Hunter Valley Operations
3 October 2026
The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission is supposed to judge (among other things) whether the income of a coal mine outweighs the climate and environmental damage it will cause. It has just decided to let an enormous coal mine continue operating by placing short-term gains above long-term survival.
*Australia is facing a crisis of confidence in its democratic institutions. It is a crisis brought on by the betrayal of the people by those institutions – and there is no greater betrayal than this failure to face up to the climate emergency and protect the community from its worst consequences.*
In effect, governments of various parties have allowed planet roaster interests to shape the institutions that are supposed to insist on decarbonization so that they will surrender whenever the task requires disappointing the rich.
Little change in drug prices
2 October 2026
The corrupter is negotiating with drug companies, supposedly to reduce the price of some medicines in the US, but after a year of this they have amounted to little change.
Ralph Nader rebukes Rep. Jeffries
2 October 2026
Ralph Nader rebukes Rep. Jeffries, leader of Democrats in the House of Representatives, for refusing to oppose plutocratist politics very much.
Plotting to stash drugs on rival politician
2 October 2026
Republican Missouri state legislative candidate Thomas Ross, who lost the Republican primary, has been charged with plotting to stash drugs on rival Louise Secker.
Persecution as "domestic terrorist"
2 October 2026
*Imagine living in a country that can arrest and imprison you whenever it wants, without any judge or jury deciding you did anything wrong. It can call you a “domestic terrorist” and put you in prison for life. It can even execute you on the basis of nothing more than its own decision that you’re dangerous.*
That is what the persecutor is doing to the United States, Robert Reich says.
Deform UK party's main media presenter
2 October 2026
The Deform UK party's main media presenter worked on propaganda for the Chinese government a year ago, presenting its policies in Xinjiang in a favorable light and not mentioning the repression against the Uyghurs.
Dangerous errors in records by Supposed Intelligence "scribes"
2 October 2026
Patients notice dangerous errors in the visit records generated by Supposed Intelligence "scribes".
The practitioner whose words were thus summarized was supposed to review them, and I suppose perse did so, but must have failed to notice these errors.
That is natural: if you review 30 such textual recordings a day, your eyes will glaze over when you check them for errors.
Israeli army explanation on World Central Kitchen's takeover
2 October 2026
The Israeli army has given an explanation of how its complex rules led it to the (erroneous) suspicion that Hamas had taken over the World Central Kitchen's food delivery on 1 April 2024, and it responded to that suspicion by killing them all.
There was no care to verify positively that anything bad had happened, and no effort to protect the food delivery volunteers in the event that something bad had happened.
This was based on a policy of "guilt by association".
In effect, their rules reflect an overall policy of, "When in doubt, wipe them all out!"
Wrecker seems to be inviting defeat for Republicans
2 October 2026
The wrecker seems to be inviting, even aiming for a big defeat for Republicans in this year's elections. What might his motivation be?
This article presents a conjecture about why.
Another reason he does not fear impeachment is that he knows Vance might be a more effective enemy of our freedom.
Leftist impression of Labour's policy
2 October 2026
Prime Minister Burnham is giving a more leftist impression of Labour's policy, without much concrete change in the policies it proposes.
Putin forces remotely organizing sabotage attacks
2 October 2026
European governments find that the Putin forces are remotely organizing sabotage attacks, and investigating how to punish him for them.
Evidence MDMA can help treat PTSD
2 October 2026
Evidence is increasing that MDMA can help treat PTSD.
Kids of videos and audio Flock cameras can record
2 October 2026
A description of the kinds of video and audio data Flock surveillance cameras can record — much more than merely license plate numbers — and how their system uses data mining to follow individual people and cars to some extent.
How city governments were surprised that the data collected in any one city could be search from anywhere.
These cameras track everyone that passes by, and even the most sadistic government agencies can use them to track people.
With the US government hell-bent on using any available system to track and repress critics and protest groups, we cannot tolerate surveillance systems such as Flock unless we can make them safe for dissenters.
USPS unable to implement ballot-blocking order accurately
2 October 2026
A whistleblower in the USPS says that the agency is unable to implement its ballot-blocking order accurately — that it will inevitably block other ballots too.
Plan for expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza
2 October 2026
Fanatic antiarabite minister Ben-Gvir proposes a plan for expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza.
Proposed bill for ban on certain machine-learning models
2 October 2026
Bernie Sanders has proposed a bill to ban development of machine-learning models that scientists don't understand enough to control them.
These systems can be dangerous, and can go "out of control", and their developers do not entirely understand what can happen. And perhaps their development should be restricted.
However, it is a mistake to describe them as "artificial intelligence". Indeed, one of the things that leads them to ignore rules is that they do not semantically understand the words and phrases that they play with. They understand rules in a superficial syntactic way that makes it easy for them to violate the spirit of their rules, without noticing the contradiction.
This is why I >denounce the practice of labeling them as "AI" as a motor for misunderstanding them.
People shot by US thugs
2 October 2026
Around 10 US thugs a year shoot and kill people who are doing nothing wrong. Almost half get convicted for this.
US deported people to Equatorial GuineaThe US deported people to Liberia who had no connection with Liberia.
2 October 2026
Some refused to get off the plane there, so the US took them to totally tyrannical Equatorial Guinea. They had no connection with Equatorial Guinea either, but thugs there imprisoned them and they are still stuck.
I suppose that the persecutor is paying the dictator of Equatorial Guinea to use his country as a privatized prison.
Magats propose to limit US Clean Water Act protections
2 October 2026
Magats propose to limit US Clean Water Act protections to a small fraction of streams and wetlands. Any stream or wetland that is occasionally dry would be excluded.
Employment in US falling while wages are not rising
2 October 2026
Robert Reich reports the level of employment in the US is falling while wages are not rising. He speculates that this is due to what I call "Supposed Intelligence".
He might be right about that, but let's not boost those companies by calling their product "Artificial Intelligence".
Conviction of Jeffrey Prible for murder
2 October 2026
An expert witness gave testimony in 2002 that convicted Jeffrey Prible of murder; he was sentenced to death.
The witness, William Watson, says that based on better knowledge about DNA matching, his 2002 testimony was incorrect -- and it was erroneously summarized during the trial itself.
It's a good thing for justice that the execution was not swiftly carried out.
The most noteworthy thing in the article is how Prible's other evidence was already found sufficient to vacate his conviction, but a higher court found an excuse to disregard that evidence.
Fossil fuel industry climate research
1 October 2026
* Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue.*
There has been active opposition to political influence on university research through the medium of funding.
Cascade of human rights violations
1 October 2026
*[The persecutor]'s deportations to third countries violate human rights,* according to advisers to the UN Human Rights Council.
Often the US does this in situations where the refugee came from a country which would persecute per. It is illegal in the US to send per back there. So the US sends per to some other country which takes pay to accept per. That country may then persecute per. Or it may redeport per to the country where it was illegal to send per directly.
12 common-sense protections
1 October 2026
A proposed collection of rights for "shoppers", or more generally, people buying things and services.
I support all of these proposals, but some of them don't get to the root of the problem. For instance, the fact that Guber (which pays its drivers peanuts) can tell whether a customer's phone battery is low is a consequence of nonfree software in that phone, which has been designed to violate the user's security.
Many of these proposed laws address symptoms of the systems which inform the seller of the identity of the purchaser. Treating those symptoms is better than nothing, but what we really need is to prevent sellers from knowing the identity of the purchaser.
Fuel-Economy Standards Axed
1 October 2026
Magat officials have given Big Oil a big handout by setting future fuel efficiency standards for cars to a low target.
Love of referendums
1 October 2026
Right-wing extremists falsely proclaim supposed majority support, then campaign based on that presupposition. Switzerland's constitution keeps the extremists at bay by allowing people to vote on their proposals, and the extremists generally lose. Evidently they don't really have majority support.
Abortion bans
1 October 2026
Republicans' attacks on anything related to womens' rights have weakened national efforts to call attention to the continued death toll from prohibition of abortions.
I am sure that right-wing control of major news outlets is helping many US voters to forget that legalizing abortion again is within our grasp, within a few years, if we keep organizing to defeat the magats.
The MAGA Factor
1 October 2026
It appears that what determines whether someone who voted for the deluder still considers perself MAGA is whether deluder can still make per believe things that are visibly not true.
US government wiped out A/I Collective
1 October 2026
The US government arbitrarily wiped out the Italian anonymous hosting and email organization A/I Collective, which offered email addresses at autistici.org, using arbitrary sanctions based on an unsubstantiated accusation of "terrorism".
Courage to face global heating
1 October 2026
Only a few European political leaders have the courage to face the real challenge of future global heating: curb it or die!
Adapting to manage cattle
1 October 2026
Modern cowboys (along with cowgirls) are adapting to manage cattle so that wolves won't often attack them.
Comments in favor of cryptocurrencies for retirement funds
1 October 2026
12,000 of the comments filed with the Department of Labor, in favor of allowing funds managers to put retirement funds into risky cryptocurrencies, were fake. Either they were attributed to dead people, or to people who say they didn't file those comments.
Disease caused by an amoeba, Naegleria fowleri
1 October 2026
The rare but generally fatal disease caused by an amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, is becoming a little more frequent and spreading geographically as a result of global heating.
This is still a small danger as dangers go, but lots of more frequent diseases are likewise spreading due to global heating.
No plans to send troops to polling sites
1 October 2026
*US military has no plans to send troops to midterm polling sites,* according Dan Caine, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
I trust him to be honest if he makes that statement, but it doesn't prove we are safe from the danger. The wrecker could give the order on Oct 30 to send troops to politically-selected polling places on Nov 3, and perhaps no one in the army would know that today.
The chiefs of staff are not in the chains of command, so it is possible that some soldiers are even now secretly planning that act of rebellion and Caine does not know.
Brad Lander at New York protest
1 October 2026
The most important news here for me is that people in the US are organizing against the RSS, an extremist Indian anti-non-Hindu campaign.
Four Maga defectors
1 October 2026
Four Maga defectors unpack their role in bolstering that cult and share what brought them to the Leaving Maga non-profit support network.
Put limits on Labour party donations
1 October 2026
Calling on the Labour Party to put a limit on donations from individuals and businesses to political parties in the UK.
Head of Forest Service
1 October 2026
The corrupter's head of the Forest Service used to lobby for logging companies. No wonder he is working to help them cut protected forests.
Nepal and Tibet flood is a warning
1 October 2026
*The Nepal and Tibet flood is a warning: melting snow and ice will bring more disasters around the world.*
That is a big danger, but spreading tropical diseases and crop failures are much bigger dangers. We need to press hard on fossil fuel use.
EPA approved new weed killer
1 October 2026
The EPA approved a new weed killer that is a forever chemical. It is a suspected carcinogen too.