US citizens: call on Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to stop distributing single-use plastics in US national parks.

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April 13, 2022, 2:00pm EDT

The State of the Free Software Movement

Richard Stallman will be speaking about the free software movement and your freedom. His speech will be nontechnical, admission is gratis, and the public is encouraged to attend online.

Online at fsf.org/live

People systematically underestimate the danger of catching Covid-19 from friends.

A group of many strangers is more dangerous than a group of a few friends, simply because the latter group is fewer. It is safer to eat at home with a few friends than in a restaurant with those friends plus many strangers. But even at home you should take precautions: set up a current of fresh air (strong enough you can feel it a little) through the dining room, sit far apart, and keep distance from each other whenever you don't have your N95 mask on.

Republicans that control state governments are extending anti-abortion repression to forbid going to another state to get an abortion. They even want to prosecute doctors and pharmacists in other states for serving people who reside in a repressive state.

The idea that state A could prosecute someone in state B for treating a patient who has travelled from state A, or for shipping a drug by US mail to someone in state A, seems absurd. But the right-wing Supreme Court extremists can't be relied on to uphold basic constitutional principles.

Rising sea levels (caused by global heating) are already forcing Americans to move to higher ground. Over the next few decades, millions will need to move. The US is not doing a good job of helping them.

If we were wise, we would get ahead of the problem by curbing greenhouse gas emissions so as to reduce the number that will have to move.