Urgent: Pass the ROBINHOOD act.
22 October 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to Pass the ROBINHOOD Act, which would deny use of a tax avoidance scheme by people who are VERY rich.
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Urgent: Defeat environmental protection rollbacks
22 October 2026
US citizens: call on your senators to defeat environmental protection rollbacks in the Senate permitting bill.
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Urgent: Support for workers in unionizing
22 October 2026
US citizens: call on your state governor to give workers support in unionizing.
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Urgent: Investigate prosecution of Broadview Six
22 October 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the DOJ's prosecution of the Broadview Six.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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Urgent: Reimbursement of Treasury for corrupter's campaign
22 October 2026
US citizens: call on the corrupter to reimburse the Treasury for his $19 million ad campaign.
Note, the reimbursement should be to the Treasury, from which the corrupter took the money, not to the individual taxpayers who paid it to the Treasury.
Urgent: Raid on Ilhan Omar's home
22 October 2026
US citizens: Stand with Ilhan Omar: condemn the raid on her home.
Urgent: Stop privatizing of Social Security
22 October 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to stop the corrupter from privatizing Social Security.
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Deportation thugs attack protesters
22 October 2026
Deportation thugs in Frederick, Maryland, attacked protesters and city officials by hitting them with sticks, and by driving cars at them.
Pressure for Australia to stop trade with Israel's colonies
22 October 2026
Australia's government is under pressure to stop trade with Israel's colonies in Palestinian territory, and stop selling weapons to Israel, including parts for F-35 fighters destined for Israel.
Australia can and should do the first two. But it can't do the part about the F-35.
Joining with other countries to manufacture an airplane involves a commitment to the joint project. When the deal was made that Australia should build certain parts, that implied a commitment that Australia would do its part of the job as needed. It cannot unilaterally impose a boycott of any country on the whole project.
So if Australia wants to build those parts for some countries only, that might imply renegotiating the whole deal.
If another country builds those parts too, perhaps that renegotiation would be easy: the parts meant for Israel's F-35s could be made elsewhere. Or perhaps the deal could be to wind down Australia's production of those parts and move them to another country, over a couple of years, after which Australia would not produce any F-35 parts for Israel.
To disregard this issue of joint manufacture could lead other countries to refuse to make such deals with Australia in the future.
Australia has other available ways to put increased pressure on Israel to respect the human rights of Palestinians, and on countries generally to respect human rights and international humanitarian law. It doesn't have to use F-35s as the means.
Request to extradite rich American donor from Spain
22 October 2026
The persecutor has asked Spain to criminalize leftist political activity with an official request to extradite a rich American donor to various lawful causes including humanitarian aid to people in Gaza.
Three errors that could help magats win
22 October 2026
Three errors that could help magats win in November's election: complacency about victory, despair, and cynicism.
Donald Trump Jr's lavish wedding
22 October 2026
*Russian oligarch close to Putin reportedly paid for part of Donald Trump Jr’s lavish wedding.*
Carbon pollution standards for coal and gas-fired power plants
22 October 2026
* The EPA is poised to formally repeal carbon pollution standards for coal- and gas-fired power plants.*
Homeless man in Queensland
22 October 2026
Thugs in Queensland (a state of Australia) ordered a terminally ill homeless man to move his van, which contained all his possessions, or they would confiscate everything. He had lost his driver's license so he could not move it. He decided he would rather die defiantly than meekly comply and be crushed, so he stabbed himself.
The thugs shot him with tasers.
Richard Dawkins mistake about chatbots
22 October 2026
Richard Dawkins made the mistake of supposing that chatbots are conscious (and intelligent) because they sound that way.
Referring to chatbots as "AI" has the tendency to lead people to suppose they are as intelligent as they superficially seem, and that suggests they are also conscient. To avoid encouraging that supposition, please join me in refusing to call them "AI". Use your share of influence on the society around you!
Powerful US utilities fund "grassroots" groups
22 October 2026
*Powerful US utilities secretly fund "grassroots" groups to sway cities away from switch to public power.*
It documents the example of a supposed "grassroots" opposition campaign in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Investigating these campaigns and the organizations behind them may help identify the local politicians and "leaders" who hire themselves out as plutocratist tools.
Flesh-eating Vibrio bacteria
22 October 2026
Flesh-eating Vibrio bacteria are spreading around the world due to global heating. They can infect a person who eats raw shellfish, but also get into the body through an open cut or puncture in the skin.
An infection can kill the person, or cause loss of a limb.
Urgent: Stop jailing children in deportation prisons
17 October 2026
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop jailing children in deportation prisons.
I edited the sample letter to avoid associating myself or my views with religion, and to reject terms such as "detention" and "ICE". You might want to do likewise.
I condemn the jailing of children and families in deportation prison, and I call on you to put a stop to it. (The word "detention" is too bureaucratically unfeeling to fit this cruel practice; please join me in shunning it.)
Since 2025, LICE (Lethal Instruments of Cruel Expulsion) has jailed more than 6,200 children -- including at least 500 babies and toddlers.
As a member of Congress, you have the legal authority to enter LICE deportation prisons without advance notice, inspect conditions, and demand accountability.
I call on you to conduct immediate, unannounced inspections of jails holding children and families -- and use every oversight and funding tool available to end jailing of children.
A nation that cares about children does not put them in cages.
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Urgent: Youth Voting Rights Act
17 October 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Youth Voting Rights Act, which would eliminate obstacles to registering and voting by young voters who are of voting age but lack experience.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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Urgent: Don't silence overseas voters
17 October 2026
US citizens: call on the Pentagon not to silence overseas voters.
Urgent: Don't subsidize private schools
17 October 2026
US citizens: call on the US Treasury not to subsidize private schools.
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Urgent: Restore fuel economy standards
17 October 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to restore fuel economy standards that the saboteur's officials weakened.
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Urgent: School desegregation cases
17 October 2026
US citizens: call on the DOJ to stop dropping school desegregation cases and stick to Brown v. Board of Education.
Urgent: Deportation to unrelated countries
17 October 2026
US citizens: Thank the Judges Who Ruled Out Deportation to Countries Unrelated to the Deportee.
Urgent: Strictly limit the R&D tax credit
17 October 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to strictly limit the R&D Tax Credit.
I used this as the text of my letter.
Please legislate stricter rules for the research and experimentation tax credit, so that the companies that want to impose Alleged Intelligence on everyone cannot label datacenters for production use as "research and experimentation", even if part of their use will be research or experimentation.
The page gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligence explains why we should not lend support to the marketing hype campaign which that term promotes.
Meta’s use of this credit illustrates the need for congressional action. A New York Times investigation reported that the company is classifying Alleged Intelligence data centers as experimental pilot models and claiming costly computer chips as research supplies. Meta’s total research credits increased from $700 million in 2023 to $3.9 billion in 2025.
Given the corrupter's deliberate corruption of the IRS, counting on it to do its job honestly is self-delusion. I urge Congress to change tax law so that any claim of "research expenses" over a certain amount must be evaluated by a court, with a presumption of rejection unless it is proved valid.
Thank you,
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Urgent: Protect reimbursement of Planned Parenthood by Medicaid
17 October 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to protect reimbursement of Planned Parenthood by Medicaid (for services that Medicaid covers) from arbitrary revenge and interference.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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Suing newspapers before publishing
17 October 2026
*[The editor of the Wall Street Journal] said the tactic of suing newspapers before they had published a story had become an established PR strategy of the powerful amid greater distrust of the established media.*
Federal Reserve changing rules
17 October 2026
The Federal Reserve is changing the rules to help big banks take dangerous risks, and risk causing nationwide harm.
Summary of mass surveillance in the US
17 October 2026
A summary of mass surveillance in the US, and how the data thus collected is used against everyone.
I protect myself from most of these systems by never using them. But there are a few I can't avoid, such as cameras used to track the public.
Heatwaves and wildfires
17 October 2026
*Heatwaves and wildfires are setting back air quality improvements, UN finds.
WMO report details extreme weather events causing climatic feedback loop with serious health consequences.*
Airline passenger tied to a seat and then arrested
17 October 2026
An article seems to say that an airline passenger was tied to a seat, and then arrested, for uttering statements of bigotry.
Bigotry is nasty and I will rebuke people for that, but I don't think people should be tied up, let alone arrested, just for saying nasty things.
There is a brief hint that he may have done something worse than speak words of bigotry, but the article gives no details — as if they made no real difference. I think we are intended to go away feeling that that passenger deserved to be tied up and arrested for speaking words of bigotry.
Taxing driverless cars
17 October 2026
*[Driverless] cars should be taxed to offset job losses, thinktank urges.*
If the worst problem the cars cause is loss of jobs, taxing them could be sufficient to deal with the problem. Today's driverless cars have other, worse problems: identifying their passengers, blocking traffic, blocking emergency responders, and snooping on everyone that the car spies. These call for prohibiting them.
"War on terror" weakened the first amendment
17 October 2026
*The "war on terror" weakened the first amendment. Now we desperately need it.*
(satire) Taking $5,000 from every American
17 October 2026
(satire) *[The Corrupter] Promises to Take $5,000 From Every American If Democrats Win Midterm.*
ChatGPT encouraged user to commit suicide
17 October 2026
ChatGPT encouraged a user' delusional religious tendencies to the point that he tried to commit suicide, by telling per perse was Jesus.
Meta platforms manipulate users to stay
17 October 2026
Meta (formerly known as Facebook) engineers its platforms to lead people to stay on its platforms almost compulsively, treating human minds as a resource to be mined for profit.
Interviews with Israeli intelligence agents
17 October 2026
A documentary presents anonymous interviews with Israeli intelligence agents about the systems of killing Palestinians, sometimes because heuristics suggested they are HAMAS agents, sometimes merely for disobeying invisible boundaries.
More about the film.
EDRI reproaches US government
17 October 2026
EDRI reproaches the US government for its attack on Autistici/Inventati.
The power to designate a person or organization arbitrarily for punishment, bypassing the trial that anyone accused has a right to, is a standing invitation for government repression. We must abolish it.
Years ago, the US government used this power (in the form of the no fly list") to bully foreigners into becoming spies.
The would-be despot has used this power to silence dissent and to protect war criminals. Now he is moving on to sabotage civil society.
Esther Rantzen's plans for assistance in dying
17 October 2026
Terminally ill broadcaster Esther Rantzen planned in advance to go to Switzerland for assistance in dying — later on. But now that her illness has advanced to the point where she wants to do this, she is considered "too physically fragile" to travel there.
*Rantzen said: "Unfortunately, when I was strong enough to make the flight and go to Dignitas, my life was not unbearably painful, indeed, I was able to relax in my beloved cottage in the New Forest.
And by the time life did become unbearable, I was too physically fragile to make the journey and go through the Dignitas process.
So even though I had spent the money and made the plans, I was not ready to end my life back then, and did not realize that would be my last chance.*
Meanwhile, the UK has abandoned the plan to legalize assisted suicide.
I wonder whether Rantzen could try to travel anyway despite her fragility. The medical risks that would ordinarily be a reason for her to avoid the travel might, in this sad context, count as opportunities.
New South Wales to limit "screen time" in schools
17 October 2026
The Australian state of New South Wales will strictly limit "screen time" in schools. The limits will vary with the grade level.
I am not an expert on "screens"' effect on students minds. The views of teachers on this subject seem plausible to me. What I do know is that nonfree applications, which includes most ed-tech, have malicious functionalities, and getting used to using them is bad for anyone of any age.
Urgent: Investigate Sen. Collins
10 October 2026
US citizens: call on the Senate to investigate Sen. Collins for possible corruption.
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Urgent: Opposing surveilling pricing
10 October 2026
US citizens: thank states and cities for opposing surveillance pricing.
Urgent: Block destruction of national parks and forests
10 October 2026
US citizens: call on Congress to block the saboteur in chief from destroying America's national parks and forests.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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Urgent: Thank Germany for Safeguarding U.S. climate data
10 October 2026
US citizens: thank Germany for Safeguarding U.S. Climate Data.
Digital display of product prices
10 October 2026
The AFL-CIO warns that digital display of product prices is likely to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs in the US while increasing grocery prices significantly.
If you think those two consequences are contradictory, it could be that you believe that the main factor affecting products' retail prices is how much the products cost the store. That economic theory was based on the assumption of so much competition that it would compel stores to pass savings along to the customers.
Nothing like that is true nowadays. After decades of mergers and megamergers, and data companies that enable all stores easily to sync up prices without directly communicating about them, competition hardly affects what stores can charge.
Connected car ideal for coercive control
10 October 2026
A connected car is an ideal weapon for coercive control — by people you know, or by strangers working for your country's government, or by strangers working for another country's government.
Abdul El-Sayed for senator from Michigan
10 October 2026
Robert Reich supports Abdul El-Sayed for senator from Michigan.
Failure to punish Dubya for torture
10 October 2026
The US's failure to punish Dubya for torture, in Guantanamo and other parts of the world, paved the way for the persecutor to embrace torture in the US.
Legal excuse for presidents to block investigation
10 October 2026
The corrupter's Department of Thwarting Justice has invented a new legal excuse for presidents to block investigation into their conduct by Congress or courts.
Datacenter exemption from disclosing air pollution
10 October 2026
The polluter in chief has directed his henchmen to give datacenters an exemption from disclosing their toxic air pollution.