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2026-04-04 13:56:05 UTC

New pun: Show us warrants.

2026-04-04 13:38:51 UTC

https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/save-the-us-postal-service-4
US citizens: call on Congress to protect the USPS for November's election. 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.

2026-04-04 01:14:13 UTC

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/30/trump-iran-war
*[The bully]'s Iran war is holding him hostage.*

2026-04-04 00:53:27 UTC

New pun:' ' ' "Ifs, ands or buts" After my cataract operations, they gave me a strict rule, "no ifs, ands or buts." But I used those words anyway, and I got conjunctivitis.

2026-04-04 00:36:25 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/28/us-destroyed-third-iran-missiles-intelligence-suggests-trump
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bullshitter
The best estimate is that Iran still has roughly 1/3 of its missile stocks and 1/3 of its drone stocks. So much for the bullshitter's bombastic claim to have destroyed nearly all of them. I think serious people already knew that such claims coming from him were not to be taken seriously.

2026-04-04 00:07:55 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar/30/five-eu-governments-consistently-dismantle-rule-of-law-finds-civil-liberties-union-for-europe
*Five EU governments found to "consistently" dismantle rule of law.* They are Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia.

2026-04-02 20:11:39 UTC

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[2/2] program in the comprehensive and irreversible way the US demanded, Washington is now having to negotiate to reopen the strait of Hormuz.* The idiotic attack on Iran could doom Ukraine.

2026-04-02 20:11:38 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/27/how-trump-bombed-us-into-worse-position-iran-strategic-failure
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/27/ukraine-war-briefing-pentagon-reportedly-considering-whether-to-divert-aid-from-ukraine-to-middle-east
*Four weeks into a war that was going to take four days ... Washington is further away from a diplomatic agreement with Iran than it was in May 2025. Not only has the war failed to persuade Iran to agree to dismantle its nuclear

2026-04-02 19:44:46 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/24/pentagon-correspondents-press-restrictions
The henchman in charge of the Pentagon responded to the court ruling that its biased restrictions on journalists are unconstitutional by promulgating a modified set of restrictions.

2026-04-02 19:26:16 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/25/vaccines-kennedy-covid-rsv-flu
The court's rejection of RFK jr's vaccine-wrecker panel leaves the US with no one authorized to authorize vaccines.

2026-04-02 19:05:46 UTC

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[2/2] your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. Please spread the word.

2026-04-02 19:05:45 UTC

[1/2] https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-to-protect-immigrant-children-in-public-schools?nowrapper=true
https://stallman.org/actionnetwork-letter-instructions.html
US citizens: call on your officials in Congress to protect immigrant children's right to education in public schools. 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

2026-04-02 18:40:50 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/25/apple-iphone-users-face-over-18-age-check-to-use-services-after-update
iMonsters in the UK are now demanding users "prove their age" by identifying themselves. Age verification has become a universal excuse to demand that all users identify themselves, an injustice to every user of whatever age.

2026-04-02 18:15:56 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/23/earth-being-pushed-beyond-its-limits-as-energy-imbalance-reaches-record-high
*Earth being "pushed beyond its limits" as energy imbalance reaches record high.*

2026-04-02 17:47:00 UTC

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/add-your-name-protect-whistleblowers-from-trumps-attacks
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#trump
US citizens: call on Congress to protect whistleblowers from the persecutor's attacks. 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.

2026-04-02 17:31:00 UTC

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[2/2] exploit and castigate the disprivileged groups. Just as in the US, the right-wing in Argentina have found that celebrating the dictatorship is a way to appear powerful and win the support of people who want to feel powerful.

2026-04-02 17:30:59 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/24/argentina-50th-anniversary-coup-dictatorship-javier-milei
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#disprivileged
Argentina is politically divided between those who wish to remember and punish the crimes of the murderous military dictatorship in the 70s and twisted right-wingers who celebrate them. The main political position of the twisted right-wingers is to promote the usual right-wing positions, allowing the privileged groups to

2026-04-02 17:04:42 UTC

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[2/2] the word.

2026-04-02 17:04:41 UTC

[1/2] https://actionnetwork.org/letters/impeach-brendan-carr-3?nowrapper=true
https://stallman.org/actionnetwork-letter-instructions.html
US citizens: call on Congress to impeach FCC Chair Brendan Carr now 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

2026-04-02 16:43:47 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/ice-memphis-food-pantry-immigration
Activists in Memphis are delivering food and other necessities to immigrant families who don't dare leave the house.

2026-04-02 16:28:10 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/23/jewish-ambulances-ablaze-flames-of-hate-golders-green-west-bank
Solidarity with the victims of hate Let Benevolence Shine.">extends to both Arabs and Jews.

2026-04-02 16:08:08 UTC

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[2/2] "processing".

2026-04-02 16:08:07 UTC

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/24/canadian-mother-detention-warns-immigrants
Deportation thugs have jailed a Canadian woman married to a US citizen, and their daughter. She has papers authorizing her to be in the US, but not currently in her possession because she submitted them to another US agency for some sort of bureaucratic step. She warns all Canadians in the US that they are in danger, especially while their papers are in

2026-04-02 15:46:51 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/30/spain-closes-airspace-to-us-military-over-iran-war-widening-rift-with-us
Spain has denied its territory and airspace to the US for purposes of war with Iran.

2026-04-02 15:26:07 UTC

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[2/2] Musk's help.* If you know anything about his online dis-service, ex-Twitter, and its chatbot, Crock, you understand that this is a campaign to crush the idea of truth. The bullshitter wants a battle between his bullshit and Putin's bullshit and fanatical Muslim bullshit - and whichever one wins, truth loses.

2026-04-02 15:26:06 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/embassies-campaign-marco-rubio-elon-musk
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-sep-dec.html#11_September_2023_(Civil_rights_groups_campaign_against_Musk)
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#extwitter
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-sep-dec.html#26_January_2026_(Grok_to_be_integrated_into_Pentagon_networks)
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bullshitter
*US directs American embassies to wage campaign against foreign "hostility" – with

2026-04-02 15:03:54 UTC

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[2/2] +1-202-224-3121. Please spread the word.

2026-04-02 15:03:53 UTC

[1/2] https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ploymarket-insider-trading?nowrapper=true
https://stallman.org/actionnetwork-letter-instructions.html
US citizens: call on Congress to investigate insider trading on prediction markets. 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

2026-04-02 14:43:20 UTC

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[2/2] not with real needs.

2026-04-02 14:43:19 UTC

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#magat
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/trump-protections-endangered-species-gulf-of-mexico
The magats are planning to cancel endangered species protection for various endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico, as a gesture to show that they will let nothing stop them from drilling more fossil fuel wells there. The current crisis will be long over by the time those new wells are finished, but they are concerned with fooling the public,

2026-04-02 14:15:37 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/flowers-heated-2c-meadow-climate-crisis-experiment-rocky-mountains-aoe
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
2°C of heating transformed a Rocky Mountain meadow with grass and wildflowers into a dry patch of sagebrush. Global heating isn't just that most places are somewhat hotter. They can become very different.

2026-04-02 13:51:08 UTC

https://civicshout.com/p/stop-the-fbi-s-war-on-nonprofits
US citizens: call on Congress and the Department of Justice to halt the persecution of nonprofit organizations that criticize injustice. 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.

2026-04-02 13:34:18 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/20/oceans-germany-baltic-sealife-reefs-toxic-second-world-war-munitions-aoe
Old weapons dumped on the sea bottom become a home for large amounts of wildlife.

2026-04-02 13:16:48 UTC

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[2/2] cancer.* This makes two reasons why that bombing is particularly culpable: for grave harm to a substantial fraction of Tehran's population of ten million, and for escalating the war to include attacks on energy infrastructure. Iran threatened to retaliate against the energy infrastructure of the Gulf oil states if Israel (or the US) continues attacking Iran's oil infrastructure.

2026-04-02 13:16:47 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/23/tehran-toxic-cloud-satellite-image-oil-fires
Israel bombed oil processing plants near Tehran. They released toxic smoke which is causing respiratory damage to people in Tehran. *The Guardian spoke to residents who described having headaches, eye and skin irritation and difficulty breathing. Experts have warned those symptoms could be just the beginning, with long-term risks of cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, DNA damage and

2026-04-02 12:57:36 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/james-talarico-pete-hegseth-pastor
Democratic candidate Talarico. who is Christian, responds to Hegseth's Christian hatred with Christian love. I am impressed favorably with Talarico's tolerance, and I am sure he is a better person and better citizen than any Republican candidate. However, while this reflects well on him, it is not evidence that any gods exist.

2026-04-02 12:41:46 UTC

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[2/2] threats seem to be bluster. The bully's pattern of bluster followed by pulling back has backfired completely against Iran. While it gives me a wry pleasure to see him thwarted, seeing Iran's murderous religious fanatics defeat America's murderous religious fanatics in foreign relations is no pleasure. That will lead to great suffering for Iranians, and no alleviation for Americans.

2026-04-02 12:41:45 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/30/how-could-us-forcibly-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-iran-what-are-the-risks
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/27/trump-iran-strategy-taco
The US would find it hard to make the Strait of Hormuz safe for oil tankers by force. It could perhaps capture Kharg Island, but that would not protect oil tankers, and occupying the island would not make it easy to capture much oil. Basically, these

2026-04-02 12:20:46 UTC

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[2/2] declare such sanctions unconstitutional.

2026-04-02 12:20:45 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/24/trump-sanctions-un-human-rights-expert-free-speech
The US sanctions arbitrarily placed on UN official Francesca Albanese threaten anyone with US connections who does any sort of business or cooperation with her with punishment, even without a trial. This includes US academics who investigate the patterns of Israel's war crimes in Palestine, as well as other students and faculty. Some of them support the lawsuit that aims to

2026-04-02 12:05:19 UTC

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[2/2] data, and likewise a terrible mistake to pass through the UK on his way to Brazil. Someone involved with the Snowden leaks should have told him to avoid those risky choices.

2026-04-02 12:05:17 UTC

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/24/hong-kong-phone-passwords-national-security-law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Miranda_(politician)
Hong Kong has given thugs the power to demand people hand over their passwords. The UK has a similar repressive law, which it used on David Miranda when he carried a copy of the Snowden leaks to Glenn Greenwald. It was a terrible mistake for him to carry with him the password to decrypt that

2026-04-02 11:46:47 UTC

New pun:' ' ' "Ifs, ands or buts" After my cataract operations, they gave me a strict rule, "no ifs, ands or buts." But I used those words anyway, and I got conjunctivitis.

2026-04-01 11:44:57 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/23/europe-clean-energy-gains-failure-phase-out-fuel-burning
*Europe has made "staggering progress" in producing clean power but neglected efforts to phase out fuel-burning machines, the head of an electrification industry group said.*

2026-03-31 02:14:22 UTC

https://theonion.com/chick-fil-a-announces-two-halves-of-buns-must-be-married-before-becoming-sandwich/
(satire) *Chick-Fil-A Announces Two Halves Of Buns Must Be Married Before Becoming Sandwich.*

2026-03-31 01:57:36 UTC

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[3/3] resist, so it could be done without actual violence. The US could seize and sell the oil, too. With a wiser leader than the wrecker, it could offer to return the ships, and pay Iran for the oil, when peace is agreed. But I don't think the wrecker would see such an outcome as a sufficient triumph.

2026-03-31 01:57:35 UTC

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[2/3] years. I wonder whether the wrecker aims to bully them with the threat of such a crisis. That is a typical pattern of his. However, I can't envision what concession he might hope to get from them in this instance. I wonder whether anyone else has an idea. If the goal is to reduce Iran's oil exports, the rational way to do that is by seizing tankers once they exit the Persian Gulf (or stopping empty tankers from entering it and heading for Kharg Island). They would have no way to

2026-03-31 01:57:34 UTC

[1/3] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/trump-news-latest-updates-today
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
The wrecker threatened to attack Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export terminal. Iran has already threatened to respond by attacking Persian Gulf countries' oil export terminals. This could lead to an oil crisis that would last for

2026-03-31 01:29:10 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/13/minings-toxic-timebomb-dams-full-of-poisonous-waste-are-dotted-around-the-world-what-happens-when-they-burst-aoe
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
Mines usually put toxic wastes, known as "tailings", behind a dam. Global heating's torrential rains are breaking these dams and allowing the toxic wastes to reach rivers, lakes and farm fields, where they kill almost everything.

2026-03-31 01:00:12 UTC

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vietnam-war-for-political-gainand-johnson-knew-about-it-newly-unclassified-tapes-suggest-3595441/
Nixon sabotaged Johnson's peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War, so as to deny Johnson a success that could have enabled Hubert Humphry to win the 1968 presidential election.

2026-03-31 00:38:16 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/mar/22/friendship-fraud-warnings-of-rise-in-scam-targeting-older-people
Banning minors from using antisocial networks isn't enough. We seniors need to be banned too, for our own protection, lest we fall prey to romance fraud or companionship fraud.

2026-03-31 00:14:21 UTC

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[2/2] them.

2026-03-31 00:14:19 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/21/fbi-mass-surveillance-data-artificial-intelligence
The FBI can track most Americans using the personal data data bases that it regularly buys. "OpenAI", which we could call "OpenSPY", buys it too. Its contract with the US government supposedly impedes snooping on Americans, but the wording is weak and may not do any good. The collection of these data bases is a threat to the freedom of Americans generally, not merely to a few of

2026-03-30 23:52:30 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/israel-targeting-medical-facilities-south-lebanon-health-workers
*Israel deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workers. Medics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes in campaign to make the south uninhabitable.*

2026-03-30 23:25:44 UTC

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[2/2] destroy civilization. I once speculated, facetiously, that this is a secret plan by hidden conquerors from another planet who are trying to make Earth hot enough for them to live on.

2026-03-30 23:25:43 UTC

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/23/trump-administration-wind-project-plan
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#21_December_2024_(Fear_for_attacks_on_climate_research)
The bully has paid a billion dollars of US funds to persuade TotalEnergies to drop two offshore wind power projects near the US East Coast. He will go to any length to keep the US and the world dangerously dependent on the fossil fuel that threatens to

2026-03-30 23:01:44 UTC

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[2/2] trampling. They plan to propose a bill to fund the TSA alone. If Republicans reject that, it will demonstrate that they are making air passengers suffer inconvenience as a ploy to continue making immigrants, and some US citizens among them, suffer terribly.

2026-03-30 23:01:43 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/homeland-security-bill-senate
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#tsa
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#tsa
The whole US Senate wants to resume funding for the TSA. Republicans demand to restore funding for the whole Department of Hatred and Sadism in order to fund the TSA. Democrats won't fund the deportation thugs without explicitly requiring them to respect the human rights they have been

2026-03-30 11:38:04 UTC

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[2/2] shooting protesters. But I have to wonder: if they are willing to stretch the law, can they find excuses to harass people and jail people while nominally watching an airport security exit? I'm expect the bully has looking for ways they can harass people while working there.

2026-03-30 11:38:03 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/ice-agents-us-airports
The bully is talking about stationing deportation thugs in airports to substitute for TSA agents watching exits from the secure area (to ensure no one enters through them). If that's all they do, I suppose it is safer to have them there doing that, than to have them walking around your town, jailing unauthorized immigrants, authorized visitors, authorized permanent residents, and sometimes US citizens too. And

2026-03-28 10:47:42 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/19/amazon-uk-ai-upgrade-alexa-voice-assistant-devices
A new upgrade of Amazon Alexa will be better able to understand speech uttered in a relaxed, usual manner. The better to snoop on you with, my dear.

2026-03-28 10:32:30 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/georgia-murder-charges-abortion
A woman in Georgia has been arrested for "murder" for taking abortion pills.

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.

2026-03-28 09:36:23 UTC

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/canadian-mother-daughter-ice-detention
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
The deportation thugs are once again working unpredictable cruelty. A Canadian who married an American, and her daughter, are in a deportation prison, being pressured to "self-deport". The thugs have given no explanation for jailing them despite their valid visas.

2026-03-28 09:07:45 UTC

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[2/2] are acting out hatred towards immigrants in general, and are eager for the chance to be cruel.

2026-03-28 09:07:44 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/trump-deportation-children-trauma
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
* In interviews with dozens of parents deported to Honduras, as well as physicians and psychologists, government officials and staff at reception centers for deportees, researchers found that many parents were deported quickly after they were [jailed], without a chance to arrange for the care of their children.* We understand the cause of this: deportation thugs

2026-03-28 08:38:16 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/snowball-fight-mamdani-nypd
New York City cops have pressed charges against some of the participants in a snowball fight which they entered, apparantly as an excuse to find fault with Mayor Mamdani.

2026-03-28 08:15:03 UTC

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/19/donald-trump-brute-force-us-decline-iran-war
Owen Jones: *[the Bully] thinks brute force will arrest the US's decline. His heavy-handed actions in Iran are only accelerating it.*

2026-03-28 07:46:26 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/pam-bondi-epstein-briefing-democrats
Bondi treated Congress with contempt by refusing to take an oath for her testimony. At least she showed a minuscule level of respect for the oath to tell the truth - by refusing to take the oath and then lie anyway. That is a start, at least. Perhaps in the future she can be convinced to show truthfulness a little more respect, and then a little more, and so on.

2026-03-28 07:22:56 UTC

https://apnews.com/article/russia-internet-outage-cellphone-app-disruptions-1792cfb177c26682efdb8046e0f9b063
In the name of "security", Russia is shutting off mobile phone networks, but in an unpredictable way which causes trouble for many activities, some of which Putin has no evident motive to shut down. Ironically, it means people have to live the way I choose to live. It is a little inconvenient and much less vulnerable to surveillance.

2026-03-28 07:02:00 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/22/iran-says-destroy-middle-east-infrastructure-us-energy-sites
*Iran says it will "irreversibly destroy" Middle East infrastructure if US attacks energy sites.* It is a war crime for either side to destroy civilian energy infrastructure, and this would be a disastrous one. But the bigger evil would be that of whichever country starts doing this. The wrecker says he plans to do so.

2026-03-28 06:42:19 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-boat-strike-southern-command
Finally, there is a survivor from one of the boats that the US military attacked and sunk. Maybe the survivor will testify about what the people on the boat were doing.

2026-03-28 06:23:23 UTC

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[3/3] again. And naturally the wrecker gave it to them.

2026-03-28 06:23:22 UTC

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[2/3] how much and how readily they lend. That's what caused the 2008 financial crisis. In Europe, the result was disaster for countries that needed deficit spending to get out of the recession but were banned by the Euro zone rules from doing that: Spain, Italy and especially Greece. But the crisis was profitable for the biggest banks, since governments were compelled to bail them out rather than allow them to actually fail. Naturally, the biggest banks wanted to be allowed to do this

2026-03-28 06:23:20 UTC

[1/3] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/19/federal-reserve-bank-capital-requirements
https://stallman.org2008-sep-dec.html#23%20September%202008%20(Unregulated%20lending)
https://stallman.org2011-may-aug.html#19_August_2011_(Euro-Zone_Economic_Controls)
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
The wrecker has granted the biggest US banks a step towards weaker regulation. Banks can cause a disastrous crash if they are not careful in

2026-03-28 06:07:18 UTC

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully
https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-airstrikes-on-u-s-gas-stations/
(satire) *[The bully] Threatens Airstrikes On U.S. Gas Stations.*

2026-03-28 05:42:18 UTC

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[2/2] possible.*

2026-03-28 05:42:17 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/ignorance-misunderstanding-obfuscation-iran-nuclear-talks-trump
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/us-lost-control-of-its-own-foreign-policy-oman-foreign-minister
*How ignorance, misunderstanding and obfuscation ended [US-] Iran nuclear talks.* They had made substantial progress before they were abruptly ended when the US and Israel started to attack instead. *Oman claims Israel pushed US into Iran war when deal [with Iran] was

2026-03-28 05:22:44 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/israeli-strike-iranian-gas-field-trump
The imperialist says Israel attacked Iran's gas wells without telling him, and he has ordered Israel not to attack them again. Whether or not he is telling the truth about what happened, it is at least somewhat of a relief that he seems to realize how much any further such attacks would backfire.

2026-03-28 04:54:59 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/20/smokeless-fuels-ultrafine-particles-embedded-lungs-study
Burning "smokeless" fuels at home produces produce less particulate pollution of the usual size, but instead produces lots of ultrafine particles. The usual particulate pollution damages people's health. Does the small particulate pollution do likewise?

2026-03-28 04:29:50 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-judge-blocks-pentagon-policy
*A judge ordered the Pentagon to cease its new political censorship policy for press coverage.*

2026-03-28 04:01:09 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/19/oil-crisis-research-rich-costs-wealth-redistribute
The closure of the Gulf of Hormuz is sending enormous windfall profits to a few rich people. There should be a windfall profits tax in place all the time for the sake of future fossil fuel price spikes, so that governments won't need to act fast.

2026-03-28 03:44:57 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/20/like-lighting-a-cigarette-while-trying-to-quit-australia-approves-new-coal-seam-gas-expansion
*Australia approves new coal seam gas expansion.* Is that really "Like lighting a cigarette while trying to quit"? In my view, that comparison is not quite valid. Rather, extending the gas mines is like taping extender segments onto the mouth end of the cigarette, so that it never burns out.

2026-03-28 03:27:59 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/19/instagram-worse-mental-health-whatsapp-global-study-finds
* World Happiness Report finds platforms focused on connection less harmful than algorithm-driven apps.* For example, Instagram was more damaging to mental health than WhatsApp. Both of the client programs are nonfree software, thus damaging to users' freedom.

2026-03-28 03:02:42 UTC

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[2/2] already low. In and of itself, WATCA is better than nothing, but we should focus on supporting other bills that would tax the rich more than that in order to help the non-rich more than that.

2026-03-28 03:02:41 UTC

[1/2] https://itep.org/senator-van-hollen-working-americans-tax-cut-act-analysis/
https://stallman.org2026-jan-apr.html#22_March_2026_(Urgent:_Support_Equal_Tax_Act)
https://stallman.org2026-jan-apr.html#18_March_2026_(Proposed_bill_to_tax_billionaires'_wealth)
The WATCA bill, which is one way of taxing the rich more, will provide only a small benefit for non-rich Americans. That's because its main method of helping them is by reducing their income tax, and poor people's income tax is

2026-03-28 02:36:48 UTC

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[2/2] prophecies do not come true.

2026-03-28 02:36:47 UTC

[1/2] https://www.levernews.com/the-christian-zionists-fueling-trumps-iran-war/
Christian Zionists want to help Israel conquer much of the Middle East, believing that then sacrifices will trigger biblical prophecies which will result in forcing Jews to convert to Christianity or else be damned. It is not easy to get along with fanatics like that. It is unlikely that the prophecies would actually come true, but there is no telling what might they do if the situation arises and the

2026-03-28 02:12:24 UTC

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[2/2] have been carrying out terrorist attacks on Palestinians for more than a decade, with police and border patrol watching passively, escalating step by step as they shift the government's stance.

2026-03-28 02:12:23 UTC

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/22/israeli-settlers-carry-out-series-of-west-bank-attacks-as-security-forces-stand-by
https://stallman.org/archives/2004-sep-dec.html#20%20October%202004%20(Arrested%20peace%20activists)
*Israeli settlers have carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank, setting homes and vehicles on fire and wounding several Palestinians in what witnesses described as coordinated raids on communities.* The fanatical and violent "settlers"

2026-03-28 01:46:03 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/24/epic-river-migrations-of-fish-rapidly-collapsing-un-report-finds
*Freshwater fish populations worldwide have crashed by about 81% since 1970.*

2026-03-28 01:30:20 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/pro-palestinian-speech-antisemitism-lawsuits
US courts are generally rejecting attempts to equate criticism of Israel or support for Palestinians' rights with antisemitism.

2026-03-28 01:08:26 UTC

https://blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets-forget-the-term-ai-lets-call-them-systematic-approaches-to-learning-algorithms-and-machine-inferences-salami/
*Let's forget the term AI. Let's call them Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI).*

2026-03-27 00:07:23 UTC

https://theintercept.com/2026/03/17/ice-protester-terrorism-convictions-trump-prairieland/
*Why We Have to Fight Back Against [deportation] Protesters' Terror Convictions.*

2026-03-26 23:43:36 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog
According to the V-Dem Institute, democracy is in rapid decline globally, and the US is leading the decline. World-wide, only 18 countries are observed to be democratizing. The article does not give a comparable count of countries that are autocratizing, but they are 40% of the world's population.

2026-03-26 23:17:36 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/march-heatwave-weather-us
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
Temperatures in California, Nevada and Arizona are 22-25 °F above normal. Temperatures are about to reach as much as 108°F. The heat will put some people's health in danger, and it's only the very beginning of spring. If part of July is 22-25 °F above normal, that will kill thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands. This is global heating.

2026-03-26 17:54:41 UTC

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[2/2] soldiers, after all. I expect that anyone nominated by the wrecker would regard it as per mission to be cruel and sadistic, and thus should not be confirmed, but that is a separate issue.

2026-03-26 17:54:40 UTC

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/trump-dhs-markwayne-mullin-military
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
The wrecker's new nominee to head the Department of Hatred and Sadism has a pattern of speaking so as to give the false impression that he has military experience. This deception marks him as untrustworthy, but if he were honest about his lack of military experience, that might not be crucial. The DHS does not manage

2026-03-26 17:24:46 UTC

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[2/2] is clear is that having one more oil pipeline operating is not overall a benefit for the world.

2026-03-26 17:24:44 UTC

[1/2] https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/pipeline-that-caused-massive-2015-santa-barbara-oil-spill-restarts-illegally
California law shut down a leaky, polluting pipeline under the Pacific Ocean from Santa Barbara, after it spilled a lot of oil on a beach. so the oil spiller in chief gave the pipeline's owner, as a favor, an "emergency order" to restart it immediately. California and the federal government continue legal action over whether the pipeline will be allowed to operate. What