Bolsonaro verdict: 27 years prison, BRA
13 September 2025
Bolsonaro and seven of his highest officials have been convicted of trying to launch a coup.
The plan included assassinating the just-reelected former president Lula, and others too. It failed because the army and air force commanders refused to join it.
Bolsonaro's followers are pleasing for the government to pardon him in the name of "peace", but the right-wing supporters of racist nationalism and absolutism never make peace — they never stop scheming and lying to take power.
US greenhouse gas pollution increase
13 September 2025
Since the wrecker became president, he has made a big increase in US greenhouse gas emissions.
This will cost all of civilization dearly.
Worker in Hyundai raid had visa
13 September 2025
The deportation thugs raided a Hyundai factory, arrested a Korean worker with a valid work visa, and jailed him. Without ever claiming any violation of its conditions, they ordered him to accept "voluntary" deportation. He accepted it, terrorized into despair.
Based on the corrupter's ways, I speculate that this raid occurred because Hyundai had rejected some demand for a large bribe.
UN Iran nuclear inspection resumed
13 September 2025
*UN inspectors can resume work at Iran nuclear sites after breakthrough deal.*
Hooray! The persecutor did all he could to destroy the non-nuclear deal with Iran, but he has failed.
(Satire) Imprisonment Section
13 September 2025
(satire) *U.S. Citizenship Test To Include 4-Year Imprisonment Section.*
Choi Mal-ja acquitted
13 September 2025
*South Korean woman who bit off attacker's tongue acquitted after 61 years.*
The intensity of sexism today can be shocking. The intensity of sexism in the past can seem incredible. But it is clear that some right-wing fanatics want to establish comparable sexism now.
RUS, BLR, provocations of NATO, POL, EST
12 September 2025
Putin attacked Poland with drones launched from Belarus.
*Russia is brazenly provoking the west. Putin must be left in no doubt of the consequences.*
I can't see what Putin hopes to achieve by that. The natural result would be that Polish and NATO forces prepare for war, and that will not be convenient for whatever Putin wants to do. NATO troops might go to Poland to help.
Nothing requires them to be limited to air defense forces. Since Belarus has attacked Poland, it would be legitimate to respond by counterattacking Belarus. Is that a good idea? Do Belarusian troops feel like fighting to maintain the tyrant Lukashenko's rule, or would they eagerly surrender to get rid of him? I don't know.
Urgent: Mail-in voting in peril
12 September 2025
US citizens: Stop the saboteur in chief from eliminating mail-in voting.
If you phone, please spread the word! White House: +1-202-456-1111 and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213
Urgent: Stop VA privatization
12 September 2025
US citizens: call on congress to save Veterans' medical treatment — Stop VA Privatization.
If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Urgent: Lawless US-military attacks boat
12 September 2025
US citizens: demand answers about the terrorist's unauthorized military attack in the Caribbean.
Urgent: Close a particular coal plant
12 September 2025
US citizens: call on the DOE to make a coal plant close as scheduled.
Urgent: EPA trying to limit itself
11 September 2025
US citizens: Submit an official comment Against the EPA's plan to rescind its ability to limit greenhouse gas emissions from any industry and gut vehicle standards needed to fight global heating.
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code. (See https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for why that issue matters.)
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or are using the LibreJS plug-in.
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work without JavaScript!"
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the right side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter.
Then click the "START WRITING" button. That will take you to a page that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it doesn't function perversely by running that nonfree code, you can enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.) You can finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's address bar, as follows:
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'. Then tell the browser to visit that URL. This should give you a version of the page that works without JavaScript. Edit the subject and body of your letter. Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.
This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender. Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is a small effort for the result of supporting the campaign without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious) software.
Urgent: RFK should resign
11 September 2025
US citizens: call on Congress to tell RFK jr to resign.
If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Urgent: Costco pharmacies
10 September 2025
US citizens: Tell Costco’s Board of Directors and CEO Ron Vachris: Don’t cave to extremists. Allow your pharmacies to carry mifepristone nationwide now.
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code. (See https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for why that issue matters.)
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or are using the LibreJS plug-in.
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work without JavaScript!"
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the right side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter.
Then click the "START WRITING" button. That will take you to a page that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it doesn't function perversely by running that nonfree code, you can enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.) You can finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's address bar, as follows:
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'. Then tell the browser to visit that URL. This should give you a version of the page that works without JavaScript. Edit the subject and body of your letter. Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.
This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender. Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is a small effort for the result of supporting the campaign without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious) software.
Unicef malnutrition treatment
9 September 2025
Unicef is running malnutrition treatment in Gaza. In the past 2 weeks, 7,000 additional young children have started treatment.
It is a good surprise that Unicef is able to do this.
Loss of koala habitat
9 September 2025
Endangered species law in Australia has failed to slow the accelerating destruction of koala habitat.
A new national park may help.
UK's failure to act
9 September 2025
A non-state British inquiry into Britain's conduct towards Israel and its atrocities in Gaza revealed a series of accusations of failing to try to end them, and sometimes assisting them.
Wildlife is thriving in the Korean DMZ
9 September 2025
*"Landmines have become the greatest protectors": how wildlife is thriving in the Korean DMZ.*
Regulatory barriers for new Covid-19 vaccines
9 September 2025
The antivaxxer has "approved" the new versions of Covid-19 vaccines, but most Americans will face regulatory barriers that are likely to be prohibitive.
Military spending less effective in creating jobs
9 September 2025
Military spending (in general) is far less effective at creating jobs than civilian spending (in general).
Up to 600 military lawyers to serve as immigration judges
9 September 2025
*Pentagon sending up to 600 military lawyers to serve as immigration judges.*
Hiring more immigration judges is a sensible way to reduce (over time) the number of asylum-seekers waiting for a decision. But I fear that these will be untrained in non-military law, and chosen for right-wing bias.
Bottom-trawling putting deep-sea sharks in danger of extinction
9 September 2025
Bottom-trawling is putting deep-sea sharks in danger of extinction, and sea-bottom mining could finish the job.
Many of these species have never been observed live in their habitat.
Brazen lies of saboteur in chief
9 September 2025
* Most alarming are the brazen lies of the likes of [the saboteur in chief], who has called climate science "a giant hoax", "a scam" and "bullshit" [he] and many of his influential supporters in business and politics are well aware of the global heating risks and are responding in a way that suggests they think their best hope for survival is to build up their wealth, consider invading cooler neighboring countries, such as Canada and Greenland, and prepare their doomsday bunkers.*
Cost of meeting Australia's greenhouse gas goal
9 September 2025
Fossil fuel lobbyists claim that achieving Australia's greenhouse gas goal would cost half a trillion dollars. I expect that the cost to Australia of global climate disaster would be far more.
No one country can protect itself from global climate disaster by itself. They need to do it together. Australia can't make other countries choose survival. What it needs to do is convince them.
I think that taking the issue seriously in its own actions has a chance of succeeding.
RFK jr may try to cut off availability of mifepristone
9 September 2025
RFK jr may try to cut off availability of mifepristone in the US, using as an excuse an unsubstantiated claim that it is dangerous.
Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain
9 September 2025
*Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates.*
Saboteur in chief putting payment finality in danger
9 September 2025
The saboteur in chief or his henchmen are putting payment finality in danger. With that done, they could threaten to delete funds from organizations' and people's bank accounts arbitrarily.
Temptation to deal with social situations by lying
9 September 2025
Writing about the temptation to deal with social situations by lying, and on learning to refuse to fall into it.
One of the most painful kinds of situations for me is when a parent pressures me to support a lie to per child — for instance, the lie that Santa Claus exists. When I have yielded to such pressure I have felt ashamed for a long time after.
And don't assume that "social lies" avoid hurting feelings. If your friend is aware of the tendency for people to make false excuses such as "I'm busy" rather than state a truth that might hurt, perse will tend to wonder whether the excuse is a disguise for a saddening truth that perse suspects. Even when the truth isn't that, perse will worry that it is.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza
8 September 2025
*Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top [genocide scholars] say.*
Saboteur in chief making National Labor Relations Board a no-op
8 September 2025
The saboteur in chief is making the National Labor Relations Board a no-op by putting magats in charge of it.
Israeli drones dropped grenades near peacekeepers
8 September 2025
*Israeli drones dropped grenades near peacekeepers in south Lebanon, UN says.*
Bully deporting Russian refugees back to Russia
8 September 2025
The bully is deporting Russian refugees back to Russia, where Putin is sure to torture them.
No one with a basic awareness of the world political situation could fail to realize that no Russian dissident can be sent to Russia. The people in charge of this must be either ignorant to the point of incompetence, or something much more vicious.
The article that this began under Biden, although the bully made it worse. It surprises me that Biden did that, and I wonder why.
Court rules Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans
8 September 2025
*Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans he claims are gang members, [appeals] court rules.*
That law was meant for use in time of war with a foreign country.
Low hiring standards for deportation thugs
8 September 2025
The persecutor's henchman *lowers hiring standards and floods social media with [nationalistic], often xenophobic, recruitment posts* for the deportation thugs.
This supports the conclusion the that the pattern of extreme cruelty, from abruptly canceling visas to rushed deportation to a foreign torture prison without a hearing to horrible conditions in US deportation prisons, is no accident. It is the magats' intention — a system for instilling hate in their supporters.
Schools dangerously hot for students
8 September 2025
Due to global heating, many US schools are sometimes dangerously hot for students, even in periods before and after the summer. Meanwhile, their homes may be even more hot and dangerous.
Fight against forces that threaten to suffocate parts of anthropology
8 September 2025
Professor Elizabeth Weiss fights to prevent a vague escalatory demand to "respect" constantly "sacredness" that threatens to engulf and suffocate parts of anthropology.
Individual religious freedom includes the freedom not to bow to other people's ideas that certain things are "sacred".
In my view, other people's lives are something like sacred, in that we should go to efforts to save their lives. When we die, doctors should use our organs to save other people's lives.
Blue states that sued kept most of CDC grants
8 September 2025
*Blue States That Sued Kept Most CDC Grants, While Red States Feel Brunt of [the inflictor's] Clawbacks.*
This is more evidence for the maxim, "never comply in advance." And never without a fight.
It also shows that magat politicians care nothing for the magats they are taking advantage of. They act like officers in an occupying army. Whether they admit this openly to themselves, I do not know.
Paying a price for a pardon
8 September 2025
The bully's idea of "law and order": if you're in trouble with the law, step right up and order your pardon — and pay him the price.
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Missing footage from Epstein's cell
8 September 2025
The FBI lied when it claimed that one minute of camera footage from just outside of Epstein's cell was mysteriously missing. That video has been released. It is not clear that it reveals anything crucial.
Gaza "Humanitarian Foundation" may be cover for intelligence operation
8 September 2025
*US Democrats warn that controversial Gaza ["humanitarian" Foundation] may be cover for intelligence operations.*
Court papers written by a bullshit generator
8 September 2025
Australia has punished a lawyer for submitting court papers written by a bullshit generator.
This is wise. The lesson would be taught more effectively if they didn't contradict their point by using the term "artificial intelligence".
Mohsen Mahdawi returns to Columbia University
8 September 2025
*Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi returns to Columbia University: "They have failed to silence me."*
He is a great example of leadership for peace and justice/
Five men deported by US to Eswatini
8 September 2025
* Lawyers for five men deported by the US to Eswatini, formerly [called] Swaziland, said they are being denied proper access to their clients, who they said are being imprisoned illegally.*
Wildfires
8 September 2025
*Climate crisis will increase frequency of lightning-sparked wildfires, study finds. These wildfires tend to burn in more remote areas and grow larger faster, posing a higher risk to public safety and health.*
Palestine Action arrests
8 September 2025
Britons are overloading the jails with protesters for the cops to arrest for "supporting Palestine Action."
Bullshit generator history quotes
8 September 2025
The bullshitter is, reportedly, responsible for a false history lesson which shows founding fathers saying things they are not recorded to have said.
Resisting Trumpism
8 September 2025
Ralph Nader challenges various parts of US society to pick up methods of resistance that they are neglecting to use.
Boat strike
8 September 2025
*Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians.*
US and Israel call for Hezbollah to disarm
8 September 2025
The US and Israel demand to disarm Hezbollah, which might actually happen, but might include peaceful integration of Hezbollah into the Lebanese government.
This is both danger and opportunity. Perhaps Lebanon's civil war could be ended.
Venezuelan drug boat
8 September 2025
The bully's deadly missile attack on a Venezuelan boat accused of carrying drugs violated US law and international law.
The US could legitimately have seized the boat and arrested the crew after searching it for drugs.
I don't know what drugs the boat was carrying, if it was indeed carrying some. Some illegal drugs ought to be legalized, but not addictive opioids.