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2026-04-16 17:45:36 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/08/lebanon-gaza-healthcare-targeting-israeli-attacks
*Israel got away with targeting [medical facilities] in Gaza. It's no surprise it is doing it in Lebanon too.*

2026-03-28 10:05:33 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/19/indian-film-board-blocks-release-of-oscar-nominated-gaza-drama-the-voice-of-hind-rajab
India banned The Voice of Hind Rajab to placate Israel.

2026-03-24 15:58:13 UTC

https://theintercept.com/2026/03/12/antifa-ice-protest-texas-trial-terrorism/
*Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury.* More precisely, they claimed that wearing all black is a sign of support for the nonexistent US organization, "Antifa".

2026-03-19 06:29:36 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/03/trump-using-ai-to-fight-wars-dangerous-us-military
The lunatic is using Pretend Intelligence to plan wars. This is a risky thing to do. Please don't refer to PI as "Artificial Intelligence". If you train yourself to take for granted that it really is intelligence, you'll come to learn to expect it to be far more intelligent than it really is. It is clear that computing companies' rules can't effectively bind a powerful

2026-02-25 14:12:37 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/22/trump-warns-netflix-of-consequences-unless-it-pulls-top-democrat-susan-rice-from-board
https://www.stallman.org/netflix.html
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

2026-01-21 03:35:26 UTC

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/impeach-rfk-jr-and-defend-health-care?nowrapper=true
https://stallman.org/actionnetwork-letter-instructions.html
US citizens: Push to impeach RFK Jr to defend public health. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.

2025-12-18 03:50:41 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/07/montgomery-bus-boycott
Long-time activist Rosa Parks started the Montgomery bus boycott with a shot in the dark, no advance plan. The blacks of Montgomery had an organized and motivated community which seized the opportunity. We need to continue trying to launch resistance against today's unjust systems, including proprietary operating systems.

2025-12-12 14:28:19 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/05/uyghur-thursun-brothers-fled-china-jailed-india-xinjiang-genocide
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#3_September_2023_(Sponsors_that_systemically_brainwash_the_Uyghurs)
Three Uyghur brothers have been jailed in India for 12 years, without a trial, for crossing the China-India border unknowingly since there was nothing to say it was a border. The greatest danger to them is that India may expel them to China, which

2025-12-06 10:41:09 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/17/south-korean-decision-to-close-all-coal-fired-power-plants-by-2040-sounds-alarm-for-australian-exports
South Korea has decided to close all coal-fired power plants by 2040! Hooray, and the whole world must go at least this fast to end fossil fuel power generation.

2025-10-12 06:02:30 UTC

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#corrupter
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/07/universities-trump-compact
*Sticks are bad, but sometimes corruption through carrots is worse.* The "compact" that the corrupter in chief is offering to universities would surrender their academic freedom and leave little chance for a court case to restore it.

2025-10-12 05:35:54 UTC

https://theintercept.com/2025/10/02/gaza-remittance-wire-transfer-hamas-ice/
*She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.*

2025-10-05 11:45:37 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/01/keir-starmer-labour-collapse-public-support-digital-id-cards
As Britons considered Starmer's plan for mandatory digital ID cards, they have mostly turned against it. Hooray! Now they only need to make sure he can't impose that law against public opposition.

2025-10-02 00:39:15 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/ty-cobb-trump-james-comey-indictment
*[A former lawyer for the president] says president using Comey indictment to conceal being ‘criminal’.*

2025-10-01 14:27:14 UTC

https://web.archive.org/web/20250916164241/https://www.404media.co/michigan-porn-ban-bill-4938-anticorruption-of-public-morals-act/
Michigan Republicans have proposed to criminalize pornography and the internet publication of pornography. They claim the state has the power to prosecute sites outside of Michigan if people in Michigan use them. This would imply eliminating the First Amendment freedom of the press, but Republicans are starting to declare war on the First Amendment.

2025-10-01 13:41:47 UTC

https://theconversation.com/new-age-gating-laws-aimed-at-making-the-internet-safer-actually-threaten-free-speech-263401
*New age-gating laws aimed at making the internet safer actually threaten free speech.* The article is a little timid about stating the danger of making non-minors identify themselves. It is not only that age verification sites might fail to keep users' identification data secure; it is that they may be compelled to help a repressive state identify dissidents.

2025-10-01 12:13:16 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/israel-archaeology-jerusalem-history-us
Israel is using tunnel archeology to shape the world's picture of the history of Jerusalem. I worry that the people who run these excavations are intentionally destroying history by discarding evidence that doesn't fit the intended conclusions.

2025-10-01 02:17:55 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/21/women-children-men-housing-mental-health
Studying the sociological factors that discourage people in England from having children. Some are complex long-term interactions and chains of repercussions. I am convinced it is a good thing that people have fewer children now, because a smaller population in 20 or 40 years will make the climate crisis at that time less acute. (It is bizarre to see society worry about a shortage of births

2025-09-07 17:04:14 UTC

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/29/2324795/-ICE-attorneys-find-horrific-new-way-to-fast-track-deportations?detail=emailaction1
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully
Deportation thugs are quietly getting asylum cases dismissed before a scheduled hearing so they can use the canceled hearing as bait to arrest the asylum seeker. This is a method of establishing gratuitous cruelty as normal behavior for the US government, and eliminating

2025-09-07 13:19:45 UTC

https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/end_illegal_foreign_deportations
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(US_has_disappeared_people)
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Judge_ordered_not_to_deport_anyone_to_South_Sudan)
US citizens: call for ending the persecutor's illegal deportations, including those to El Salvador' torture prison and those to South Sudan.

2025-09-07 07:56:45 UTC

[1/2] https://actionnetwork.org/letters/rfk-jr-must-go?nowrapper=true
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call on per to vote to impeach antivaxxer RFK Jr to remove him as head of the department of Health and Human Services. In firing Susan Monarez as head of the CDC, the death-spreader fully endorsed JFK Jr's perverse attack on scientific medicine, and specifically on one of its most effective methods of preventing disease. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard:

2025-08-24 07:20:44 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/a-climate-of-unparalleled-malevolence-are-we-on-our-way-to-the-sixth-major-mass-extinction
The end-Permian great extinction wiped out nearly all life on Earth, after 300,000 years of super volcanoes had caused great but lesser disaster, when hot magma set huge underground fossil fuel deposits on fire. The resulting CO2 is what caused almost total extinction. We are emitting CO2 much faster than the Earth can recycle it. By

2025-08-22 14:40:40 UTC

https://act.freepress.net/go/97227
US citizens: call on the FCC to preserve the limits on how many broadcast channels one owner can own.

2025-08-20 02:44:54 UTC

https://www.levernews.com/this-is-how-wall-street-could-buy-your-power-company/
Black Rock is starting to buy electric utilities in the US. If this happens in your city, it is bad news for you.

2025-05-26 14:11:31 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/rfk-maha-health-report-children
RFK Jr's distorted report on the health of US children by disregarding the main causes of children's death: guns and car crashes.

2025-03-23 16:06:28 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/19/ben-jerrys-unilever-ceo-ince-cream-david-stever
*Ben & Jerry’s claims Unilever ousted its CEO for his progressive stance.* When I read this, I checked to see if it were fro The Onion. No such luck - it is a factual article.

2025-03-20 12:32:19 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/keir-starmer-tory-radical-prime-minister-poor-people
Labour is stretching crush-the-poor austerity beyond what the Tories did. It is not "Tory lite" any more, it is "Tory extra-strong".

2025-03-16 22:08:03 UTC

https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/trump-usps-takeover-25/?t=1003&akid=33228%2E96703%2EOPvTPd
US citizens: Don't let the wrecker wreck and privatize the USPS.

2025-03-16 20:18:59 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/i-feel-utter-anger-from-canada-to-europe-a-movement-to-boycott-us-goods-is-spreading
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#musk
*From Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods is spreading.* I understand the feeling, but I think out would be more effective, as well as more just, to target their rage and disgust more specifically. They could boycott the muskrat's companies, and Amazon, and Face-gram, and perhaps others that might be

2025-03-16 15:14:55 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/10/child-deaths-surge-amid-gazafication-of-west-bank-report-says
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-may-aug.html#7_August_2024_(Torture-camp_jails)
https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#17_November_2021_(Settler_violence)
B'tselem reports that *Israel has brought the military tactics of its war in Gaza to the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians face mass forced displacements, a surge in airstrikes and a sharp rise in attacks on

2025-03-08 03:24:07 UTC

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/01/iowa-trans-civil-rights/
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
*Iowa Becomes the First State to Repeal Civil Rights Protections for Trans People.* Persecution of people for adopting a different lifestyle is a traditional part of the religion that most supporters of the wrecker believe in, and imposing their religion's rules on everyone is part of what they stand for.

2025-03-04 02:39:58 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-meeting-transcript
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-shouting-match-oval-office
A meeting between Zelenskyy and Tr-ance in the White House broke up in acrimony. They tried to bully him into selling Ukraine's mineral resources without getting military support in return, by attacking him and Ukraine. He responded civilly to the points they made, while sticking to his negotiating position. They

2025-02-25 00:37:06 UTC

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-gov-whitmer-uphold-the-constitution-and-save-the-raise/?nowrapper=true
https://www.usa.gov/state-governments
In Michigan: call on Governor Whitmer of Michigan to veto bill SB 8 that would continue the low minimum age for tipped workers. You can find your state governor phone number at USA.gov If you phone, please spread the word!

2025-02-24 08:34:12 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/20/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-criminal-trial-insurrection-charges
The president of South Korea that tried to declare martial law, now in jail, will be tried for insurrection.

2025-02-24 02:53:13 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/guantanamo-migrant-jail-akima-revealed
The US private prison company Akima, which now runs Guantanamo deportation prison, has been accused of violating prisoners' human rights in other prisons it runs.

2025-02-19 14:46:35 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-court-rulings-lawsuits
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#trump
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/15/guantanamo-trump-expansion
The duumvirs are defying some of the court orders that told them to restart some of the government activities and agencies they have shut or wrecked. They are pushing for absolute power. They openly say that laws and judges are supposed to serve them, never limit them. This fully

2025-02-17 08:38:42 UTC

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/prohibit-members-of-congress-from-owning-stocks-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-democracy-for-america-advocacy-fund&source=group-democracy-for-america-advocacy-fund
https://stallman.orgtel:+12022243121
US citizens: call on Congress to prohibit members of Congress from owning stocks. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

2025-02-07 13:34:25 UTC

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[2/2] massively cruel and evil that it threatens to demoralize Americans who want their country to be good rather than cruel.

2025-02-07 13:34:24 UTC

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/trump-guantanamo-migrants-deportation
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
The wrecker's press secretary claims that he has already sent prisoners to Guantanamo, unauthorized immigrants who were in the US. The wrecker, or someone working for him, has a cunning awareness of the US's sores, and picks at them to exacerbate the soreness. This spreads the feeling that the US will be so

2025-01-21 06:00:05 UTC

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@nprofile…zw4s @nprofile…4jyj Contrary to certain misconceptions, what actually happens is this: the political notes are posted, and the person who has set this up operates a bridge between Mastodon and email on my behalf. This means that I (RMS) do indeed get all replies through the bridge and send email responses to the bridging software to post on Mastodon. but I do so only on occasions where I believe it is warranted.

2025-01-21 02:12:09 UTC

US citizens: phone your representatives and senators and call on them to protect funding for NPR and PBS. They are far from perfect. They feel obliged to take a "balanced" view even in an unbalanced situation. But they will help resist fascism.

2024-12-22 18:35:21 UTC

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[2/2] are liable to try to conscript other people into supporting the lie. This has happened to me, and it puts me in a moral conflict. I don't want to overturn their family arrangements, but joining in the hoax would be doing wrong to the children. I resent the attempt to rope me into doing wrong.

2024-12-22 18:35:20 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/dec/14/primary-school-children-left-in-tears-after-vicar-tells-them-santa-isnt-real
In parts of Britain, children of age 10-11 are likely to still believe in Santa Claus. And parents demand that other adults maintain the falsehood. I'm amused by the irony of a cleric's puncturing one myth while upholding another. But I find it shocking and disturbing that anyone as old as 10 would still believe in Santa Clause. Parents who hoax that children

2024-12-07 13:12:04 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/04/us-china-microchips-export-bans-gallium-germanium
The US and China have launched into economic warfare over chip manufacturing. The chips that are at issue are mostly backdoored (Intel and AMD) or chained by a secret instruction set (Nvidia).

2024-11-30 19:45:52 UTC

[1/3] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/windows-365-link%E2%80%94the-first-cloud-pc-device-for-windows-365/4302687
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html
https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligance
If Microsoft gets its way, your next computer will be nothing but a terminal for a cloudy Microsoft server. As we know, there is no cloud - only other entities' computers. In this case, it would be Microsoft's computers,

2024-10-19 06:49:35 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/11/super-rich-flee-britain-labour-tax-grab-exit
Rich UK citizens threaten to fully move away from the UK if the UK requires them to pay taxes. Experience shows that few actually follow through on such threats. I have an idea for how make it even less likely they will resist taxation: require them to renounce their UK citizenship in order to avoid being liable for UK taxes. Then make it a crime for a non-citizen to fund or support …

2024-10-13 21:14:44 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/10/un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon-say-israel-has-fired-on-their-bases-deliberately
*UN peacekeepers in Lebanon say Israel has fired on their bases deliberately.* It did this in two different places at around the same time. In one, a drone reconnaissance seems to have been preparation for the attack. Meanwhile, a number of Israeli tanks drove up to a UN peacekeepers' position, apparently to threaten the peacekeepers into pulling out.

2024-10-10 04:10:04 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/26/tiktok-misinformation-migrants-new-york-city
Fake testimonials on TikTok, purporting to be from unauthorized immigrants and made in their own languages, are designed to fool people back home to think they would be welcomed if they were smuggled into the US. So it's not just minors that TikTok is likely to harm, and it isn't mainly a mater of being owned by a Chinese company.

2024-09-29 07:53:28 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/23/earth-breach-planetary-boundaries-health-check-oceans
*Ocean acidification close to critical threshold, say scientists, posing threat to marine ecosystems and global livability. This means Earth may have breached seven of nine boundaries.*

2024-09-12 13:29:50 UTC

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/reducing-night-light-exposure-simple-way-cut-diabetes-risk
*Reducing night light exposure may be a simple way to cut [type 2] diabetes risk.* I wish the article gave some idea of how much light it takes to have a big effect.

2024-09-07 05:05:23 UTC

[3/3] … nationalization ensures that any additional funds put in will not be frittered away on private investors' profits, the government can put in what is needed and really get publish benefit for it.

2024-09-07 04:45:32 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/02/uk-suspends-30-arms-export-licences-to-israel-after-review
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/03/which-countries-banned-or-restricted-arms-sales-to-israel-gaza-war
*UK suspends 30 arms export licenses to Israel after review. Foreign Office says review found "clear risk" that UK arms may be used in violation of humanitarian law.* This will increase pressure on the US to do likewise, as it ought to. *Which …

2024-09-05 12:29:31 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/28/louisiana-bayou-levee-gulf
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
A local man saved Lafourche Parish from Hurricane Ida by building a 18-foot levee instead of the wider 13-foot levee that the US government was going to build. Each choice of design would have represented a bet about what future storms would be like. Hurricane Ida's waves were 17 feet tall. I expect that a broader 18-foot levee could have been …

2024-09-05 11:52:29 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/31/hurricane-dorian-survivors-impact-bahamas
The shantytown of Mudd, in the Bahamas, was flattened or washed away by the most powerful hurricane ever seen there. Five years later, the survivors can't even find land to build a permanent shantytown on. They are like homeless people in the US, building encampments that get washed away by the cruelty of the state.

2024-09-05 08:59:57 UTC

[5/5] … without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious) software.

2024-09-05 08:59:55 UTC

[4/5] … 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 compared with the benefit of supporting the campaign …

2024-09-05 08:40:39 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/31/donald-trump-recreational-marijuana-florida
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bullshitter
The bullshitter said he is in favor of legalizing marijuana. What should we think of that? I have advocated legalization of marijuana for many years, so in general I am glad when others advocate it too. I hope the referendum to legalize marijuana in Florida wins. If the bullshitter influences some people to vote for it, that will be a …

2024-09-05 07:28:17 UTC

[1/5] https://actionnetwork.org/letters/expose-trumps-connection-to-project-2025-at-the-next-debate/?nowrapper=true
Everyone: call on ABC to expose the right-wing extremist's connection to Project 2025 in the coming presidential debate. Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above function without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code. First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript's or are using the LibreJS plug-in. I have done the first step for you: I …

2024-09-05 03:53:07 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/22/peter-lynch-61-jailed-for-nearly-three-years-for-role-in-rotherham-riot
The UK has sentenced a bigot to almost three years in prison for shouting insults -- and nothing else. He received the same sentence as another rioter who kicked and threw bottles. There ie evidently injustice here. Worse than that, to convict people for insults -- even insults that are foolish and false right-wing nonsense -- tramples freedom of speech.

2024-09-04 12:55:39 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/23/harris-convention-speech-trump
Harris's speech at the end of the Democratic national convention was a statement for the prosecution of the chicken that tried to lead a coup.

2024-09-04 11:48:15 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/29/like-doomsday-why-have-salmon-deserted-norway-rivers-and-will-they-ever-return
Salmon escaping from fish farms in Norway are overwhelming the wild salmon population and could wipe it out.

2024-09-04 11:20:27 UTC

https://act.freepress.net/sign/media-letter-petition/
Everyone: call on media executives to follow standards of good journalism that will avoid spreading hate.

2024-09-04 08:20:48 UTC

https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2024/08/new-york-history-of-sugar-industry/
*A Horrid History of Sugar.* For instance, Indian sugar farm workers today are effectively slaves, as they are permanently in debt.

2024-09-01 02:54:38 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/28/presidential-election-ranked-choice-voting
By adopting ranked-choice voting in the US, we could ensure that voting for a minor-party candidate does not risk handing victory to the worse major party candidate.

2024-08-31 11:16:42 UTC

https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/ban-bullet-vending
US citizens: call on Congress to ban vending machines for ammunition. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

2024-08-29 13:02:13 UTC

https://theonion.com/earth-towed-impounded-after-illegally-parking-in-milky-way/
(satire) *Earth Towed, Impounded After Illegally Parking In Milky Way.* <!--Waiting

2024-08-29 11:51:32 UTC

https://www.levernews.com/heres-what-the-senate-must-do-to-deliver-harris-dnc-promises/
If Harris becomes president, she will have to decide whether to push slightly on some Senate rules in order to benefit non-wealthy Americans.

2024-08-29 09:35:42 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/21/republican-ag-climate-dark-money
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Attorneys_General_Association
Funded by oil firms and dark money, the corrupted Republican Attorneys General Association is fighting climate-related federal regulations and the ongoing lawsuits which would hold oil firms accountable for weather-related disasters in their states. Their counterpart is DAGA. Waiting-->

2024-08-26 12:29:27 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/21/conservative-judge-harris-endorsement
A Conservative US judge has endorsed Harris, saying, "I am indifferent in this election on any issues other than America’s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law, as I believe all Americans should be."

2024-08-19 06:08:28 UTC

[3/3] … sympathy to that scheme to eliminate abortion rights. In Iran, the fanatics shoot women in their cars for "crimes" of disobedience to religion.

2024-08-19 06:08:27 UTC

[2/3] … a violent or dangerous act, so the suspicion of shoplifting was no grounds for shooting Ms Young. I do wonder how fast her car was moving and whether he could get out of the way. If it was no real danger to him, that too was not grounds for shooting her; he should have got out of the way and followed her. I wonder why there are four charges of murder when only one person was killed. I hope it does not reflect the fanatical claim that a fetus is a person. Please do not give any …

2024-08-17 15:31:22 UTC

https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/add-your-name-pass-bold-legislation-to-protect-and-expand-voting-rights?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-stand-up-for-voting-rights-todayp
https://stallman.orgtel:+12022243121
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

2024-08-16 14:50:21 UTC

[1/2] https://invidio.us/watch?v=9j3PCm1izjI
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/debunking-myth-1-economics-is-an?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#plutocratist
Robert Reich debunks economic myth #1. Economics, when Adam Smith founded it, was about questions such as the meaning of a good society. What sort of society do we want? How do we understand a “good” society? What do we owe one another as members of such a society? He called himself a moral …

2024-08-13 02:11:31 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/09/two-men-jailed-for-social-media-posts-that-stirred-up-far-right-violence
Two right-wing extremists in the UK have been sent to prison for postings that urged violent attacks against asylum seekers. The border between freedom of speech and inciting violence is subject to abuse by governments. But I think the facts this time merited the decision.

2024-08-11 03:02:57 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/07/big-tech-disorder-riots-surveillance-live-facial-recognition
https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html.
*Big tech firms profit from disorder. Don't let them use these riots to push for more surveillance.* The riots in question have been organized by right-wing hate campaigners among people radicalized over antisocial media. That should not be an excuse to impose China-style surveillance on everyone in …

2024-08-02 14:40:18 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/30/methane-emissions-study
*Global methane emissions rising at fastest rate in decades, scientists warn. Researchers call for immediate action to reduce methane emissions and avert dangerous escalation in climate crisis.*

2024-07-29 12:25:45 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/project-2025-adoption-fostering
Part of Project 2025 is to allow (or maybe require) adoption agencies to practice religious discrimination. In Tennessee, a couple have already been barred for not being Christians. The would be adopters are suing, but we can't count on the Extreme Court to defend basic civil liberties any more. They might decide that the constitution allows the state to outsource any activity to entities that …

2024-07-25 12:05:39 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/20/cash-global-it-outage-cashless-society-dangers-payment-choice-alliance
An additional reason to insist on support for cash payment is to reduce the damage done by internet server failures. I wish there were an organization in the US to campaign for the option of paying cash. Can anyone point me at one?

2024-07-07 05:26:15 UTC

[2/2] … Britons supported the Labour Party precisely because its goal was to do something about that. It rejected Communism, but advocated an increased level of Socialism. Now Starmer thinks to drag them along for lack of a better alternative. However, the Liberal Democrats have now pledged to raise taxes on the wealthy to fix the NHS.

2024-07-06 12:50:10 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/05/jeremy-corbyn-re-elected-in-islington-north-for-first-time-as-independent-mp
Jeremy Corbyn won reelection to Parliament, defeating the Starmer Labour candidate running against him.

2024-07-04 05:30:21 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/28/uber-lyft-massachusetts-pay-benefits-deal
Several US states require Uber and Lyft to pay drivers a determined minimum wage, and to provide benefits including paid sick leave. This step forward is a step forward, in those states; it eliminates, there, one of the many reasons to refuse to do business with those companies. However, the injustices to customers - making users identify themselves to book a ride and to pay, making …

2024-06-26 13:36:17 UTC

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/mozilla_firefox_russia/
Mozilla has deactivated the blockage that it had placed on downloading certain anti-censorship add-ons from computers in Russia.

2024-06-18 03:14:31 UTC

[1/3] https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/09/new-york-moves-to-limit-kids-access-to-addictive-feeds/
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#8_September_2023_(Taking_control_away_from_social_media_sites)
New York State is about to prohibit communication platforms from offering user's-history-dependent feeds to users under age 18. I think this policy is very wise, but limiting it to only some users, based on their age, is misguided. Millions of adults have been sucked into conspiracy …

2024-06-16 06:29:55 UTC

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/alitos-admission
Alito admitted at an organization dinner that his vote to overturn Roe v Wade was part of an overall campaign to impose his religion on the US.

2024-06-16 05:50:08 UTC

https://theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-are-intruding-into-online-communities-where-people-are-trying-to-connect-with-other-humans-229473
Bullshit generators have been hooked up to Facebook and Instagram. In some cases they post bullshit in discussion groups, pretending to be humans.

2024-06-16 04:13:36 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/violent-crime-rate-data-decline
Violent crime in the US dropped by 15% in the first three months of the year, new figures have shown, the latest evidence in a broader decline of crime across the country that has occurred over the past year. Murders, and reported rapes, decreased by 25%. Robberies decreased by 17%. I expect this is due to improvement in the economy for most Americans.

2024-06-10 04:09:56 UTC

https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/rafah-gaza-biden-weapons/?t=1001&akid=32297%2E96703%2EuS7420
US citizens: call on Biden to end support for the Israeli military's atrocities.

2024-05-27 04:54:49 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/24/us-and-uk-to-back-israel-against-icj-while-blurring-their-rafah-red-lines
After vowing to oppose any Israeli offensive in Rafah, Washington and London now see nothing fitting their definition of "Israeli offensive in Rafah".

2024-05-27 03:02:44 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/24/daniel-perry-pardon-texas
Texas Governor Abbott pardoned the man convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester, for motives of racism. In effect, Abbott has endorsed political murder. Does he endorse political murder of anyone by anyone? Or only political murder of progressives by right-wing lunatics?

2024-05-24 15:28:18 UTC

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/uk-rail-faces-fight-to-stay-on-track-as-climate-crisis-erodes-routes
Global heating effects are damaging rail lines in Britain. The rate of damage is increasing rapidly, and some lines may eventually have to be abandoned, long before sea-level rise inundated them permanently.

2024-05-24 15:06:10 UTC

[2/2] … themselves (willingly or unwillingly) in sexual situations before that age. They would be better off knowing some crucial points about birth control and preventing disease, and how to say no firmly but without rejecting the person, before they need to know it. Here is criticism of that rule.

2024-05-24 15:06:08 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/14/sex-education-in-english-schools-set-to-be-banned-before-children-are-nine
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/17/sex-education-political-football-childrens-sake-adults-grow-up
Sex education in English schools set to be banned before children are nine. These guidelines cover education of teenagers as well as that of children, and some topics won't be allowed until age 15. A fraction of teenagers find …

2024-05-24 14:42:43 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/free-fridges-make-dishwashers-great-again-us-conservatives-odd-priorities
Republicans are campaigning to keep appliances inefficient and more expensive to run.

2024-05-24 14:15:47 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/21/amazon-surveillance-lawsuit-union
Amazon warehouse workers claim Amazon has programmed the computers that give them orders so as to disrupt union organizing.

2024-05-24 13:56:42 UTC

Green activists push Biden to <a href="Green activists push Biden to freeze ‘disastrous’ deepwater oil export facilities.">freeze ‘disastrous’ deepwater oil export facilities.

2024-05-24 13:29:27 UTC

[2/2] … ever was. It deserves our support. Diversity is a different issue. Efforts for diversity are desirable when they operate at the long term -- aiding the members of disprivileged groups to overcome the unfair obstacles that bigotry puts in their way. But we should not be carried away in pursuit of diversity.

2024-05-24 13:29:26 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/black-lives-matter-diversity-racial-equality
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#disprivileged
The Black Lives Matter era is over. It taught us the limits of diversity for diversity’s sake. I hope the Black Lives Matter campaign is not truly over. It is a campaign to put a stop to the hairtrigger racist violence of uniformed thugs. That campaign is as justified and necessary now as it …

2024-05-24 13:08:31 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/israeli-abuse-of-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-amounts-to-torture
Israel competes with HAMAS in regard to cruelty and violence towards prisoners. In effect, Israel is now using its political prisoners as hostages for revenge.

2024-05-24 11:55:54 UTC

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/16/north-carolina-mask-ban-bill-passes-state-senate/73716924007/
North Carolina's senate has attacked the right to protest by prohibiting wearing a mask for anonymity. Immunocompromised people like me are also endangered.

2024-05-24 05:19:04 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/16/antisemitism-policies-free-speech
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_May_2024_(IHRA_antisemitism_criterion)
The US faces a wave of McCarthyism, this time using "antisemitism" rather than "communism" as the target for repression. Congress is working on a bill to "combat antisemitism" which is based on the IHRA criterion for antisemitism, which is a way of arbitrarily declaring some views on political questions to be …

2024-05-24 04:42:05 UTC

[1/2] https://www.yahoo.com/news/security-experts-alarmed-incredibly-dangerous-160129058.html
Google has announced a new Android "feature" of analyzing the audio of phone calls and informing when it hears something resembling a deepfake scam. That feature could potentially be useful, if it were implemented in a trustworth way (with free software, for instance). But given that it is implemented using nonfree software, there is the danger it could be extended to scan for other things, …