Urgent: Stop big news merger
4 March 2026
US citizens: call on Congress and the FCC to protect local news, by blocking the Nexstar-TEGNA merger.
Urgent: CBS capitulating to US gov
4 March 2026
US citizens: call on CBS to stop yielding to magat bullying.
Urgent: Planantir immigrant surveillance
4 March 2026
US citizens: Call on Congress to stop the deportation thug department from using Palantir's massive surveillance system to track and target immigrants.
Urgent: Palantir's congressional funding
4 March 2026
US citizens: call on your congressional officials not to accept campaign funds from Palantir.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Climate science
4 March 2026
Everyone: Tell the IEA: Ignore Chris Wright’s Threats, Follow the Science on Climate Change.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Yanis Varoufakis
3 March 2026
The Greek right-wing government is prosecuting Yanis Varoufakis on the absurd charge that his description of using MDMA once constituted "promotion" of the drug.
Prosecution of political enemies on obviously absurd charges is a common tactic of fascist-minded governments, and it is no joke.
Prep Software Naviance
3 March 2026
Many US colleges demand applicants run a nonfree program, Naviance, whose purpose is to collect data about them.
To that injustice, the program adds the annoyance of ads.
Some public school systems demand that students run this surveillance package for many years. But running it even once is an injustice.
Of course, many of those school systems demand that students run other nonfree programs. Each one is an injustice; each one deserves fighting back. One injustice doesn't become less evil merely because there are others.
Nuclear negotiations
3 March 2026
*Yet another mid-talks attack jeopardizes chances of Iran taking Trump seriously.*
In 1941, Japan launched a mid-talks attack against the US — but it was mid-talks because of a screw-up. (The Japanese embassy was slow in translating the note that declared war, and when Washington learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the translation was still not finished.)
Trump’s global tariff war
3 March 2026
*The real winners of [the wrecker's] global tariff war: law firms, hedge funds and [bubble-blowing machine learning].
Businesses are vying for a refund, with nearly $175bn on the line, but customers are unlikely to benefit from reversal.*
Cuban sovereignty
3 March 2026
*[Some] Caribbean countries pledge humanitarian support for Cuba amid rising tensions with US.*
Israel’s Iran war
3 March 2026
Israel is using its attack on Iran as an excuse to starve Gaza completely.
Iran's supreme leader
3 March 2026
A gambling site permits people to bet on questions such as "Will Ayatollah Khamanei be out of power tomorrow".
People who have secret information, such as "we attack at dawn", are allowed to bet. That makes the bet a cheat.
Hegseth on Iran
3 March 2026
While the bullshitter gives an array of bombastic excuses for attacking Iran, Henchman Hegseth treats the question of "why" as irrelevant.
When the US entered World War II, it published a series of short films collectively entitled, "Why We Fight." That responded to understanding that something as violent as war requires a moral justification, not merely an order. However, according to magats, "The ruler says so" is supposed to suffice.
The one reason that in my mind could have justified the attack is if the Iranian people had implored the US to defeat their cruel government. The bullshitter addresses Iranians, calling on them to rise up, so as to make people imagine they are doing so.
Many Iranians hate their government and for good reason, but it doesn't follow that they want a foreign enemy to attack their country.
Meanwhile, Hegseth and Vance says that they don't care whether Iranians overthrow their government or not, and that is not the aim of the attack. I hope Iranians do eliminate that religious repression, but if they do, the US won't deserve any credit for it.
Talk in Bern Switzerland
3 March 2026
Richard Stallman will speak on March 11 in Bern, Switzerland, for the Guild42 group, at Berner Fachhochschule, Brückenstrasse 73, 3005 Bern
Title: Free/Libre Software and Freedom, touching on how they relate to machine learning
An explanation of the issues of justice and injustice in distribution and running of software, and in use of computing services and dis-services, with discussion of how this relates to machine learning, including both Artificial Intelligence and Pretend Intelligence.
Location: Brückenstrasse 73, CH-3012 Bern, Room: Aula
Time: 17:30
As usual, the event will have around an hour of presentation and around an hour of Q&A.
Urgent: Block construction of deportation prison-warehouses
2 March 2026
US citizens: call on your state legislators to block construction of deportation prison-warehouses in your state.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Protect Vote by Mail
2 March 2026
US citizens: call on Protect Vote by Mail. Tell Congress to act now! Demand the USPS Restore Real-Time Postmarks.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
Urgent: CBS political censorship
2 March 2026
US citizens: call on CBS to stop engaging in political censorship to fawn at magat officials.
More information: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/21/cbs-trump-anderson-cooper-stephen-colbert-paramount
Urgent: Tel IEA Ignore Chris Wright's threats
2 March 2026
Everyone: Tell the IEA: Ignore Chris Wright’s Threats, Follow the Science on Climate Change.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Campaign funds from Palantir
2 March 2026
US citizens: call on your congressional officials not to accept campaign funds from Palantir.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
Urgent: Stop deportation thug use of Palantir's surveillance
2 March 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to stop the deportation thug department from using Palantir's massive surveillance system to track and target immigrants.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
Urgent: Stop CBS yielding to magat bullying
2 March 2026
US citizens: call on CBS to stop yielding to magat bullying.
Urgent: block Nextstar-TEGNA merger
2 March 2026
US citizens: call on Congress and the FCC to protect local news, by blocking the Nexstar-TEGNA merger.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
Urgent: Fight to impeach Bondi
2 March 2026
US citizens: call on your congressional representatives to fight to impeach Bondi.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
Urgent: Stop next great recession
2 March 2026
US citizens: call on your representatives and senators to take action to stop the next great recession!
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Here is what I used as my letter text. I hope it inspires you.
The wrecker's henchmen at the Securities and Exchange Commission are laying the groundwork to bring back one of the core financial products that led to millions of foreclosures during the 2008 crash — even as economic and climate conditions make its return all the more destabilizing. The SEC is intended to act as Wall Street’s top regulator, but they want to do the opposite of their job. Then the megabanks will "need" another big bailout, and Republicans will eagerly give them one. Please fight hard to prevent this big theft.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
Talk in Rotkreuz, Switzerland
28 February 2026
Richard Stallman will give a talk in Rotkreuz, Switzerland, March 6th, 2026 at 17:00.
Talk in Rapperswil, Switzerland
28 February 2026
Richard Stallman will give a talk in Rapperswil, Switzerland, March 9th, 2026 at 17:00.
Urgent: Repeal qualified immunity for federal officers
25 February 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to repeal qualified immunity for federal officers.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
Urgent: Tennessee Valley Authority coal plants
25 February 2026
US citizens: call on the Tennessee Valley Authority to keep its promise to retire coal plants.
Urgent: News coverage of bully's action on Department of Justice
25 February 2026
US citizens: call on major news organizations to cover the bully's action on the Department of Justice as a system of lobbying, revolving-door influence, and regulatory capture — examining financial ties, past clients, and enforcement outcomes.
Urgent: Qualified Immunity Abolition Act
25 February 2026
US citizens: Call on Congress to pass the Qualified Immunity Abolition Act, to end qualified immunity for federal officers, including deportation thugs. This will give the victims of their violence a real chance of winning lawsuits about said violence.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
Veterans facing arrests over protests
25 February 2026
From October: *Growing number of US veterans face arrest over protests [against deportation thugs].*
An ordinary perjurer lies about facts and expects there will be no proof that perse lied. These federal prosecutors did blatant blackwhiting about basic notions of right and wrong.
The epitome of an arrogant, dishonest bully punches you, then accuses you of "Hitting my fist with your face." Prosecutors did essentially that when they knocked over Briggs and then charged him with having "made physical contact with an agent's arm."
Teaching prosecutors to blackwhite on command is moral damage that many will not recover from. If we ever regain control, we will need to disbar them and replace them. Justice requires prosecutors who will prosecute thugs for documented attacks on protesters and other innocent people, not the thugs' victims.
With luck there will be former a pool of prosecutors who resigned rather than do such things, whom we could reappoint.
Microplastics in the wilderness
25 February 2026
*Merrily we bring microplastics into the wilderness with our hiking shoes.*
Starmer's plans for prohibiting protests
25 February 2026
Starmer's plans for prohibiting protests would have prohibited the creation of the Labour Party, if they had been in effect at that time.
Incomplete embryos cloned from adult humans
25 February 2026
Scientists can create incomplete embryos cloned from an adult human. They lack the beginnings of a brain, but develop plenty of important parts that could, if they can develop far enough, be transplanted into that human to save per life.
Antibiotic resistance in disease bacteria
25 February 2026
Antibiotic resistance in disease bacteria is reaching a tipping point leading to danger for everyone, but governments are still not addressing the danger strongly or systematically.
Australian tropical rainforest trees
25 February 2026
*Australian tropical rainforest trees [have changed] from carbon sink to emissions source.*
Banning of Palestine Action is illegal
25 February 2026
A court found the UK's banning of Palestine Action to be illegal because it was a major interference with the right to protest.
But this has not yet translated into the lifting of the ban.
Roses coated in a fine chemical cocktail
25 February 2026
*Nothing says love like roses coated in a fine chemical cocktail.* Especially when many of the pesticides on it are banned in your country for reasons of toxicity.
Accusations of domestic violence against Australian thug
25 February 2026
An Australian police force decided to disregard accusations of domestic violence against one of its thugs because he had already been fired. This left his wife still in danger from him.
inJustice Department persecuting because of political opinions
25 February 2026
The inJustice Department keeps on persecuting people chosen solely because of their political opinions. Leakers keep on proving this by revealing the raw data that the department has.
New York City patients' data given to Palantir
25 February 2026
New York City must stop giving patients' medical data to Palantir, since Palantir can't be trusted not to use it against them.
Bully returned to bullying Ukraine
25 February 2026
The bully has returned to bullying Ukraine to offer Putin quasi-surrender.
This demonstrates once again that if he seems to have accepted some sort of reasonable compromise deal with you, he will break it later and demand servitude.
Palestine Action ruling
25 February 2026
*The Palestine Action ruling vindicates the courageous – and shames the complicit.*
The ruling, if sustained by the appeals court, will put an end to the ban on the organization.
The article compares Palestine Action to the suffragettes and finds that their tactics were similar.
Retired British couple of activists for Palestine
25 February 2026
A British bank closed the personal savings account of a retired British couple of activists for Palestine, and refuses to give them any justification for this. They believe it must be political repression.
T-Mobile to pass calls through powerful computer system
25 February 2026
T-Mobile will implement the feature of passing everything said in a phone call to a powerful computer system.
The advertised feature is to translate between languages using "Artificial Intelligence", though it might really be mere Pretend Intelligence.
But if it can do that, with millions of conversations at once, what else can it do to everyone at once?
It can try to recognize you from your voice. It can convert your conversation into text, with a scattering of errors, and save that for Big Brother.
TSA precheck suspended
24 February 2026
The bully is trying to focus self-important Americans' hostility on Democrats by shutting down two faster manners of going through airport security checkpoints, supposedly because of Democrats' refusal to fund the Department of Hatred and Sadism.
These two programs give preference to passengers who sign up and give their fingerprints. However, in the 2000s, the TSA would sometimes route some frequent fliers through the TSA Pre line even though we had not signed up. Apparently they didn't really need passengers' fingerprints to send them through the faster scan. So why demand fingerprints?
I suspect that was meant to teach Americans to be happy to be fingerprinted in exchange for saving some time.
The Democrats who criticize the government for halting these programs are being foolish and shallow. The bully is doing so many cruel, damaging and vindictive things; it is lacking a sense of proportion to complain about something that only causes a little more delay.
Sunday Thought
24 February 2026
Robert Reich: the wrecker responds to setbacks with redoubled cruelty and stupid tantrums.
I paid no attention to what he said about pulling some thugs out of Minneapolis, because when he talks about making a concession, it is never a real concession.
Trump warns consequences
24 February 2026
The obedience-trainer demands that Netflix remove someone from its board if it wants to be allowed to take over another large TV and movies company.
I recommend refusing to do business with Netflix, because of unjust aspects of its business.
Warner Bros Discovery does many of the same injustices. So I expect never to be a customer for either one, whether merged or not.
However, the merger of two such large companies will be harmful to the US and its people. Two such large companies should never be allowed to merge.
Targeted for deportation
24 February 2026
*A Guardian analysis of government records has found that the vast majority – 77% – of people who entered deportation proceedings for the first time in 2025 had no criminal conviction.
This demonstrates solidly that what the bullshitter says about this is in fact bullshit.