Everyone: call on the American Geophysical Union to reject sponsorship by Exxon.

On the correct pronunciation of "Exxon".

I am looking for people to help edit the pages on the site for me. If you'd like to help me in this way, please write to rms at gnu period org.

Some Texas prisoners get half as much water as people normally need, even though the extreme heat conditions inside the prison mean they need more than normal. The heat can be deadly.

Women imprisoned for a long time, awaiting a decision about whether they can stay in the US, have temporarily stopped their hunger strike because the prison thugs threatened to take their children away.

The prison is operating in violation of a court order not to hold them for more than 20 days. Some have been jailed for a whole year.

This prison is not officially called a "prison". but that's what it is.

The US has backed Turkey in demanding that the Kurds yield Manbij.

It makes me sad to see the US take the side of Islamist tyrant Erdoğan against the secular libertarian Kurds.