Easier to fire US government employees
11 February 2026
The corruptor has changed the rules to make it easier to fire some US government employees and to weaken protection for whistleblowers who report corruption.
He wouldn't want them to dare reporting corruption, in case it is his corruption.
Facebook ads for deportation thugs
11 February 2026
Facebook is running ads for the deportation thugs, ads that *included imagery and music intended to appeal to white nationalists and neo-Nazis.*
Israel accused of spraying cancer-linked herbicide
11 February 2026
*Israel accused of spraying cancer-linked herbicide on farms in southern Lebanon.*
We can reverse America's decline
11 February 2026
Bernie Sanders: *We can reverse America's decline.*
Facial recognition used to accuse person of shoplifting
11 February 2026
A British supermarket accused a customer of shoplifting based on a reported face recognition match — in fact, it had accused the wrong person — and then demanded he run nonfree software to clear his name.
That was successful, since the database had no record of _his_ face. But if that error had happened to me, since I would not run that nonfree software, I think would have not been able to clear my name.
Peter Mandelson asked Epstein for help in 2010
11 February 2026
Peter Mandelson, a clear example of the sort of sell-out to business that had come to fill the Labour Party leadership, asked Epstein for help in 2010 in angling for contracting work for both Billionaire Polluters and Glencore. BP is, of course, a fossil fuel company. Glencore mines and trades various commodities, including oil.
The enablers of these companies are contributing to harm—possibly deadly harm—to over a hundred million female teenagers, a like number of male teenagers, as well as around eight billion children and adults. No one on Earth is safe.
(satire) AI Chatbot that only responds with "huh"
11 February 2026
(satire) *AI Chatbot That Only Responds "Huh" Valued At $200 Billion.*
Long Island hotter in winter
11 February 2026
Long Island has got 5°F hotter in the winter (on the average) since 55 years ago. This leads to various dangers to human health, wildlife, homes, and farms, including the spread of insect pests as well as weather itself.
Measles in US deportation prison for children
11 February 2026
The US has deportation prisons for children, and thanks to RFK jr, one of them is spreading measles.
Corrupter is making China great
11 February 2026
Families of Americans killed by Israel
11 February 2026
*Families of Americans killed by Israel face uphill climb to justice.*
History of failure to tackle UK police racism
11 February 2026
*The long history of failure to tackle UK police racism.*
More about this.
Wood burned in Drax electric generator
11 February 2026
The executives of the Drax electric generator insisted that the wood it burns came only from young, renewable trees, but in private many of them recognized that was false.
Boos for Vance at Olympic Games
11 February 2026
Vance was presented at the Olympic Games, and received more boos than applause. But NBC News hid the boos, in its broadcast stream. And the White House promoted that falsified broadcast.
This sort of lie is not as directly harmful as some other lies, but engaging in it proves NBC News is corrupt.
(satire) Citizenship pill
11 February 2026
Intelligence files of journalists investigating thinktank
11 February 2026
A thinktank that helped Starmer win leadership of the Labour Party was headed by a minister of state, who received secret intelligence files about journalists investigating the actions of that thinktank.
This looks like corruption of the state's mission for partisan purposes, and Starmer ought to resign for that.
Urgent: Call Verizon not to support DHS and deportation thugs
10 February 2026
US citizens: call on Verizon to stop supporting the Department of Hatred and Suffering and the deportation thugs.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: End Apple and Google contracts with deportation thugs
10 February 2026
US citizens: Tell Apple & Google CEOs: End your contracts with the deportation thugs. Also call on them to allow people to freely share and install libre apps.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: End Amazon contracts with deportation thugs
10 February 2026
US citizens: Tell Amazon to end contracts with deportation thugs.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Call on Target to help protect Minnesota from deportation thugs
10 February 2026
US citizens: call on Target's New CEO to help protect Minnesota from deportation thugs.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Human made sediments on British beaches
10 February 2026
* As much as half of some British beaches' coarse sediments consist of human-made materials such as brick, concrete, glass and industrial waste, a study has found. Climate breakdown, which has caused more frequent and destructive coastal storms, has led to an increase in these substances on beaches.*
This doesn't imply that those substance do specific harm when present in a beach, but they demonstrate the magnitude of change that humans are already causing in this early stage of climate breakdown.
(satire) ICE agent deports own family
10 February 2026
(satire) *ICE Agent Scores Easy Win By Deporting Own Family.*
"Hate speech" rules could stifle classroom discussions
10 February 2026
*New "hate speech" rules for NSW schools could stifle classroom discussions about Gaza, teachers warn.*
Punishing "hate speech" as a crime generally tends to lead to repression.
Crushingly disappointing PFAS action plan for UK
10 February 2026
*Environmentalists decry "crushingly disappointing" PFAS action plan for UK.*
This weakness was predictable, because Starmer Labour's first priority is catering to business.
Cars in Chine to have mechanical release on all doors
10 February 2026
*Cars sold in China will now be required to have a mechanical release on both the inside and outside of every door except the [trunk].*
That exception is disturbing. I had heard, years ago, that cars were designed so that a person inside the trunk could open the door of the trunk. It seems a shame to retreat from that safety measure.
Contacts with Epstein pulled plug on career of Peter Mandelson
10 February 2026
Contacts with Epstein pulled the plug on the career of Peter Mandelson, a Labour MP and minister who worked unceasingly to strengthen the power of business — and not only in Britain.
Defiance through music and dance at funerals
10 February 2026
*Music and dancing signify defiance at celebratory funerals of Iran's protesters.*
Sanders secures vote on Amendment to cut $75 Billion to deportation thugs
10 February 2026
*Sanders Secures Vote on His Amendment to Cut $75 Billion in [deportation thug] Funding and Redirect Those Funds to Medicaid.*
This would undo one of the disastrous things in the Big Bad Bill.
FLOCK license plate readers accessed by federal agents
10 February 2026
FLOCK "security" license plate readers installed by California towns were being accessed secretly by federal agents who were surely up to no good.
Amazon as an example of enshittification
10 February 2026
Amazon as an example of enshittification: mistreating customers and manufacturers in many different ways, explained in this article.
Do you feel disgusted with Amazon, but yield because "boycotting Amazon is impossible"? I find it possible! I have never ordered anything from Amazon, and I don't find it hard to continue refusing. If a product I want is sold only by Amazon, I look for a substitute.
As a separate matter, I never order any product remotely, not directly. Instead I ask a friend to order it — not from Amazon! — and reimburse my friend before or after. That way, no data is collected about me.
Indeed, when someone wants to buy a present for me, I ask per to "Please not get anything for me from Amazon. Not anything, ever!"
Amazon is not the only company to engage in the injustice of DRM — Digital Restrictions Management.
The practice of DRM is vicious no matter who does it. I boycott all media that have DRM. What I say about Netflix and Spotify goes for Amazon too.
I detest DRM so much that I refuse to listen or watch someone else's DRM's copy using per own DRM-supporting media player, because that would be surrendering to DRM. The only morally legitimate copy of such a work is an unauthorized copy.
Robert Reich on funding for deportation thugs
10 February 2026
Robert Reich: Congress should write into the law to fund the deportation thug agency an explicit requirement that failure to obey any court order will immediately terminate all funding for it.
Israeli army bulldozed graves in war cemetery
10 February 2026
Last fall the Israeli army bulldozed graves in a war cemetery in which were buried Allied soldiers who died in World War I and II. Some people are shocked.
You'd think that some people are more concerned about symbolic insult to deceased Australians than about the killing of living Palestinians.
Illinois established connection with WHO
10 February 2026
Illinois has established a connection with WHO, to coordinate with global response to diseases.
This is necessary because the saboteur in chief has blocked the US government from doing this job.
Repression of protesters in the US
10 February 2026
Trump suggests Republicans should "take over" elections
10 February 2026
*Trump suggests Republicans should "take over" elections to protect the [Republican] party* from losing elections.
Artificial species of life
10 February 2026
Discussing the possibility and danger of artificial species of life, being created and released.
It should be noted that AlphaFold2 is not perfect. It can predict the three-dimesional shape of of most amino-acid chains, but there is a substantial fraction that it gets wrong.
Nonetheless, it does a better job of this than any other known system, including a human being, so I think it qualifies as "intelligence".
Big Oil conspiracy to block electric vehicles
10 February 2026
Michigan and other states are suing Big Oil for conspiracy to block the success of electric vehicles and clean electric generation.
Discord cracked, government IDs stolen
10 February 2026
*[The unjust digital communication site] Discord says users' government IDs [which it demanded for government-mandated] age checks [were] stolen by [crackers].*
Cop infiltrated anti-fascist group in UK
10 February 2026
Three anti-fascist activists in the UK accuse an undercover cop who infiltrated their group of trying to recruit them into a plan to firebomb a store. He told them that the store was a front for some right-wing activity.
They were not inclined towards violence, so they rejected the suggestion immediately. Will he be prosecuted for this attempt to organize crime?
Democrats' 10 demands to "rein in" deportation thugs
10 February 2026
*Democrats' 10 demands to "rein in" [the deportation thugs] – the full list of proposed reforms.*
I support all these. I also support taking away the extra funds the deportation thugs received in the Big Bad Bill and giving them to medical treatment for nonwealthy Americans, and we ought to demand both. But if we must choose one or the other, I would choose the former. Fascist government is a worse problem than poverty.
The film Melania
9 February 2026
The film, Melania, paid for by Amazon, was an opportunity for Bezos to pay a bribe to the extortionist and his wife. However, he doesn't mind spending millions on a bribe, if it gets him billions of dollars of our money.
Urgent: Block US military intervention against Iran
9 February 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to block US military intervention against Iran.
I can imagine a specific manner of military intervention against Iran's murderous repression. This intervention would target the bases of repression forces, such as Basij, and the court buildings used to try protesters (but not when protesters or their families and lawyers would be present).
But I don't think the bully would choose to do that. He doesn't care about Iranian protesters, or any Iranians except perhaps oil billionaires seeking to give him fealty. Practically speaking, if he orders an attack it will be designed to achieve his selfish and imperialistic aims.
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: CEOs end collaboration with deportation thugs
9 February 2026
US citizens: call on certain CEOs to end their collaboration with the US deportation thugs.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Urgent: Restrict deportation thugs jailing children
9 February 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to restrict deportation thugs from jailing children or doing anything in or near public schools.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
In my letter I said this should apply to private schools too.
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: Pass Billionaires' Income Tax
9 February 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the Billionaires' Income Tax.
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: Take back money granted to deportation thugs
9 February 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to insist on taking back the extra money granted to deportation thugs by the Big Bad Bill, and explicitly prohibit various unjust and cruel practices.
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: Investigate attempt to undermine elections
9 February 2026
US citizens: ask your congresscritter and senators to investigate the attempt to undermine our elections by giving private Social Security data to election deniers.
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: Plain and accurate reporting on Republican plans and promises
9 February 2026
US citizens: call on mainstream press outlets to report accurately and plainly on Republican plans and promises — quoting them directly, explaining their real-world impacts, and not softening extremist agendas in the name of "balance".
Urgent: Adobe Acrobat Pretend Intelligence
9 February 2026
I have seen a report that Adobe Acrobat is pressuring users to upload their own documents to Adobe's Pretend Intelligence summarization tool. But I don't have a source to cite. Can anyone send a report I can refer to?
Urgent: Support Illinois Human Rights Advocacy Protection Act
9 February 2026
US citizens: support passage of the Illinois Human Rights Advocacy Protection Act, which would repeal the specific prohibition on boycotting business with Israel.
Americans should be free to boycott any country.