# articles

title: Republicans resume pushing state voter ID laws
uri: Republicans-resume-pushing-state-voter-ID-laws
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_May_2025_(Republicans_resume_pushing_state_voter_ID_laws)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_May_2025_(Republicans_resume_pushing_state_voter_ID_laws)

content:
 
<p>

Republicans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/republican-states-bills-proof-of-citizenship-vote">resume
pushing for voter ID laws</a> in states they control,
even as they try the same at the federal level.
</p>
<p>
Their position is that one can't make too sure that marginalized
citizens don't vote.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_May_2025_(Harvard_shows_resistance_is_possible)
title: Harvard shows resistance is possible
uri: Harvard-shows-resistance-is-possible
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_May_2025_(Harvard_shows_resistance_is_possible)
content:
 
<p>

*Harvard shows
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/18/harvard-resistance-possible-universities">resistance
is possible</a>. But universities must join forces.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Potential for medical cannabis to fight cancer
uri: Potential-for-medical-cannabis-to-fight-cancer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_May_2025_(Potential_for_medical_cannabis_to_fight_cancer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_May_2025_(Potential_for_medical_cannabis_to_fight_cancer)

content:
 
<p>

*Medical cannabis shows
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/medical-cannabis-cancer-study">potential
to fight cancer</a>, largest-ever study finds.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_May_2025_(Hawaii_bill_to_raise_tourist_taxes)
title: Hawaii bill to raise tourist taxes
uri: Hawaii-bill-to-raise-tourist-taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_May_2025_(Hawaii_bill_to_raise_tourist_taxes)
content:
 
<p>

*First-of-its-kind Hawaii bill
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/hawaii-bill-tax-hotel-tourist-green-fee">raises
tourist taxes</a> to fund climate relief.*
</p>
<p>
The approach for raising funds is a good one, but it falls into the
fashionable error of prioritizing protection against the current level
of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>
over avoiding future global heating.
</p>
<p>
Protective measures can be effective today, but if we allow global
heating to continue, it will eventually overwhelm the defense we can
do.  We must prioritize stopping it from getting worse.
</p>
<p>
Yes, we should bail the water our of our lifeboat.  But the most
important thing is to plug the holes through which water keeps flowing
in.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Australia may head for broad decarbonization
uri: Australia-may-head-for-broad-decarbonization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_May_2025_(Australia_may_head_for_broad_decarbonization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_May_2025_(Australia_may_head_for_broad_decarbonization)

content:
 
<p>

Australia may have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2025/may/06/australia-has-backed-a-rapid-shift-to-renewable-energy-and-given-labor-a-chance-on-climate-how-will-it-act">voted
to head for broad decarbonization</a>.
</p>
<p>
The doubt in my mind is whether Labor really will change fossil fuel
tendencies of the last year or two.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Ralph Nader's articles of impeachment for the corrupter
uri: Ralph-Nader-s-articles-of-impeachment-for-the-corrupter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_May_2025_(Ralph_Nader's_articles_of_impeachment_for_the_corrupter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_May_2025_(Ralph_Nader's_articles_of_impeachment_for_the_corrupter)

content:
 
<p>

Ralph Nader's
<a href="https://mailchi.mp/nader/22-impeachable-offenses-4936125?e=555e9be067">articles
of impeachment for the corrupter</a>.
</p>
<p>
Alas, we learned in his first term that no crime, no matter how
heinous, will convince Republican senators to vote to remove him.
His personal power is their primary loyalty because without him they
are nothing.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: Mass shooting, brutal response, Kashmir
uri: Mass-shooting-brutal-response-Kashmir
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#10_May_2025_(Mass_shooting,_brutal_response,_Kashmir)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#10_May_2025_(Mass_shooting,_brutal_response,_Kashmir)

content:
 
<p>

The Indian government is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/04/kashmir-crackdown-india-response-to-deadly-tourist-attack">retaliating
to a terrorist attack</a> in Kashmir by random terrorism against
Kashmiri civilians.  They must be getting a lot of fabricated
information this way.  Surely much of it is false, but it will suggest
lots more people to torture.
<p>
The <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are also
blowing up the houses of relatives of alleged Kashmiri terrorists.
This also seems like terrorism to me.
<p>
India should hold the decades-ago
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html#15_July_2017_(Young_people_in_Kashmir_organizing)">promised
referendum</a> in Kashmir and heed the results.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_May_2025_(Urgent:_Save_public_journalism)
title: Urgent: Save public journalism
uri: Urgent-Save-public-journalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_May_2025_(Urgent:_Save_public_journalism)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/save-pbs-billion-eo/">call
on Congress</a> to protect public media from Trump's move to destroy
public journalism.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_May_2025_(Habeas_corpus_suspense)
title: Habeas corpus suspense
uri: Habeas-corpus-suspense
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_May_2025_(Habeas_corpus_suspense)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> proposes
to suspend the right of habeas corpus on the grounds that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may/09/end-habeas-corpus-detention-trump-stephen-miller">immigrants
constitute an "invasion"</a>.
Courts have already ruled that that is no invasion and can't be treated
as one.  ISTR that a court overturned Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus
in Kentucky on the grounds that public safety was doing ok there.
<p>
This makes it explicit that <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> and his henchmen want to
throw citizens in prison arbitrarily.  They are the ones who belongs
in prison.

<p>
 


title: Plastic, chemical recycling by pyrolysis
uri: Plastic-chemical-recycling-by-pyrolysis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_May_2025_(Plastic,_chemical_recycling_by_pyrolysis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_May_2025_(Plastic,_chemical_recycling_by_pyrolysis)

content:
 
<p>
*Plastic producers have pushed
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/06/plastic-advanced-recycling-report">"advanced
recycling"</a> as a salve to the plastic waste crisis despite knowing
for years that it is not a technically or economically feasible
solution, a new report argues.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_May_2025_(Urgent:_Legalize_Marijuana)
title: Urgent: Legalize Marijuana
uri: 2025-05-12-Urgent-Legalize-Marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_May_2025_(Urgent:_Legalize_Marijuana)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-legalize-marijuana-and-end-the-federal-ban?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">Call
on Congress</a> to Legalize Marijuana and End the Federal Ban.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_May_2025_(Gaza_starvation_as_policy,_ISR)
title: Gaza starvation as policy, ISR
uri: Gaza-starvation-as-policy-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_May_2025_(Gaza_starvation_as_policy,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
*Israel is starving Gaza.  It's a cheap, silent and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/07/israel-starving-gaza">brutal
way to kill</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_May_2025_(Urgent:_Preserve_Medicaid)
title: Urgent: Preserve Medicaid
uri: 2025-05-12-Urgent-Preserve-Medicaid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_May_2025_(Urgent:_Preserve_Medicaid)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 231-400-0602 to tell per,
"No cuts to Medicaid."


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Antisemitism)
title: Antisemitism
uri: 2025-05-12-Antisemitism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Antisemitism)
content:
 
<p>
An expert testifying for the Congressional
committee <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/house-committee-campus-antisemitism">investigating
"antisemitism"</a> compared that committee to the House Un-American
Activities Committee which persecuted real or alleged supporters of
Communism.
<p>
*Ahead of McCarthyite House Committee hearing on College Campuses,
Jewish Columbia Students Urge Congress to take Action Against the
&hellip; <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/ahead-of-mccarthyite-house-committee-hearing-on-college-campuses-jewish-columbia-students-urge-congress-to-take-action-against-the-trump-regimes-false-allegations-of-antisemitism">Regime’s
False Allegations of Antisemitism</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Trump_halts_more_foreign_aid)
title: Trump halts more foreign aid
uri: Trump-halts-more-foreign-aid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Trump_halts_more_foreign_aid)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a> rushed cuts in foreign aid are about
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/08/trump-aid-cuts-halts-food-supplies-million-refugees-uganda-repatriation-fears-un">cut
off the food aid</a> for up to a million refugees in Uganda.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Marjorie_Greene_and_stocks)
title: Marjorie Greene and stocks
uri: Marjorie-Greene-and-stocks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Marjorie_Greene_and_stocks)
content:
 
<p>
Just before <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> dropped his recently increase tariffs for
imports to the US, Rep. Marjorie Greene <a href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64489811/marjorie-taylor-greene-stocks-tariff-market/">bought stocks that would
rise as a consequence</a>.  Was that insider trading, a crime?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Trump's_tariff_corruption)
title: Trump's tariff corruption
uri: Trump-s-tariff-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Trump's_tariff_corruption)
content:
 
<p>
A tariff exemption is an exception to tariff requirements, granted for
importation of a specific foreign product.  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a> is issuing
exemptions so as
to <a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/04/tariffs-trump-corruption-trade-war">benefit
his rich supporters</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Trump's_replacement_history)
title: Trump's replacement history
uri: Trump-s-replacement-history
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Trump's_replacement_history)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a> wants to replace American History with with
a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/trump-us-250th-anniversary">compendium
of propaganda myths designed for him</a>.  We can expect him
subsequently to try to compel schools to teach this propaganda in
place of real history.
<p>
There have been plenty of myths in American History as taught in the
past, which met with efforts to replace the myths with facts and
serious thought.  The principle of valuing truth supported those
efforts.  But that principle never had to contend with the power of
the state.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Human_rights)
title: Human rights
uri: Human-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Human_rights)
content:
 
<p>
An exploration of philosophical
ideas <a href="https://molvray.com/govforum/2008/12/rights/">implicated
in the idea of human rights</a>.
<p>
The author has not considered the question
of <a href="https://fsf.org/">a right to control your own
computing</a>.  I'd be interested to see what <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> does with that
idea.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(US_keeping_wars_going)
title: US keeping wars going
uri: US-keeping-wars-going
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(US_keeping_wars_going)
content:
 
<p>
Wars are festering in various parts of the world.
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/04/dead-war-remember-conflict-globe-scale">US
keeps many of them going, but not all</a>.  No one seems to know what
to do to end them.
<p>
Regarding Yemen, it is clear that terror bombing of civilians in the
Houthi territory is unjust and won't achieve anything good.  It is
also clear that we ought in any case to make Israel end its
bombardment of siege in Gaza.  Doing that would the Houthis' attacks
on shipping, so that one festering battle would end.
<p>
I don't post about the other festering wars unless there is news of a
change in the situation -- because I don't know enough about them to
think of ideas for ending them.

<p>
 


title: Robert Reich: The bully acts like an abusive parent
uri: Robert-Reich-The-bully-acts-like-an-abusive-parent
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Robert_Reich:_The_bully_acts_like_an_abusive_parent)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Robert_Reich:_The_bully_acts_like_an_abusive_parent)

content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> acts towards people under his
power <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-e9c">like
an abusive parent</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Fossil_fuel_use)
title: Fossil fuel use
uri: 2025-05-12-Fossil-fuel-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Fossil_fuel_use)
content:
 
<p>
A method has been developed to attribute fractions of the world-wide
damage from extreme heat
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/05/cost-of-emissions-from-five-major-australian-resource-companies-more-than-900bn-study-finds">various
producers of fossil fuel</a>, based on their contributions to the
fossil fuel consumption.  This may make them to be liable for some of
the damage.
<p>
Although this is a small fraction of the damage their emissions will
do in the future, holding them liable for this part could provide
pressure to decrease fossil fuel investment.
<p>
In principle, it should be possible in a similar way to hold
agribusiness liable for the emissions from their deforestation
and fertilizer runoff.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(China_arresting_activist's_relatives)
title: China arresting activist's relatives
uri: China-arresting-activist-s-relatives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(China_arresting_activist's_relatives)
content:
 
<p>
China is
arresting <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/05/anna-kwok-father-brother-arrested-hong-kong">relatives
of Hong Kong democracy activist</a> in exile, after making it a crime
to help refugees get access their funds that are caught in Hong Kong.
<p>
This amounts to taking their relatives hostage.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Alcatraz)
title: Alcatraz
uri: Alcatraz
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Alcatraz)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> hopes to engage <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats'</a> imaginations by talk
of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/trump-plan-reopen-alcatraz-prison">reopening
the Alcatraz island prison</a>.
<p>
If the island continues to attract tourists, the ruiner's henchmen
could randomly choose some to seize and hold in he prison.  They could
have a big laugh over this at the expense of non <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a> like us.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Tariffs_and_plutocratists)
title: Tariffs and plutocratists
uri: Tariffs-and-plutocratists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Tariffs_and_plutocratists)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter's</a> foolish tariff policy is partly based an emotional
truth that attacks the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/05/trump-tariffs-capitalism">weak politics of plutocratist ("mainstream")
Democrats</a>.
<p>
The weakness is real, but the right way to fix it is by supporting the
progressive Democrats.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(FEMA_and_NOAA_cuts)
title: FEMA and NOAA cuts
uri: FEMA-and-NOAA-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(FEMA_and_NOAA_cuts)
content:
 
<p>
*Layoffs and funding cuts to FEMA and NOAA
will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/trump-cuts-disaster-preparedness">hamstring
emergency managers</a>, warns professor Samantha Montano.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Israel's_military_occupation_plan)
title: Israel's military occupation plan
uri: Israel-s-military-occupation-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Israel's_military_occupation_plan)
content:
 
<p>
Israel announced a plan
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/05/israel-expand-military-operations-gaza">conquer
Gaza and maintain a military occupation.  I see no reason to think
that this occupation would be temporary, but it could end with ethnic
cleansing.
<p>
When Israel says that it plans additional extreme crimes, I figure we
can believe that.  When Israel suggests its future crimes will be
limited, I am skeptical.

 


title: Georgia Del Favero against parents' pervasive surveillance
uri: Georgia-Del-Favero-against-parents-pervasive-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Georgia_Del_Favero_against_parents'_pervasive_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Georgia_Del_Favero_against_parents'_pervasive_surveillance)

content:
 
<p>
Many American children and teenagers are oppressed constantly by
pervasive surveillance by their own parents.  One summer camp has a
policy of <a href="https://www.freerangekids.com/camp-director-georgia-del-favero-why-i-dont-post-daily-photos-from-our-overnight-camp/">refusing to provide parents with
"surveillance as a service"</a>.
<p>
The kids need to become accustomed to life unmonitored,
and parents need to get used to going for days without
monitoring their kids.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(West_Bank_villages_being_erased)
title: West Bank villages being erased
uri: West-Bank-villages-being-erased
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(West_Bank_villages_being_erased)
content:
 
<p>
*Palestinians awoke to bulldozers. Their
<a href="https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-village-destroyed-by-noon/">village was destroyed</a>
by noon.*

<p>
 


title: New hole in Chernobyl confinement-dome
uri: New-hole-in-Chernobyl-confinement-dome
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(New_hole_in_Chernobyle_confinement-dome)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(New_hole_in_Chernobyle_confinement-dome)

content:
 
<p>
The <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin
forces</a> attacked the structure built to cover the old, damaged
Chernobyl nuclear power plant and caused
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/07/russian-drone-strike-caused-tens-of-millions-worth-of-damage-to-chornobyl">millions
of dollars worth of damage</a>, and a risk of escape of radioactive dust.

<p>
 


title: Congress investigates corrupter's prosecutor
uri: Congress-investigates-corrupter-s-prosecutor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Congress_investigates_corrupter's_prosecuter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Congress_investigates_corrupter's_prosecuter)

content:
 
<p>
<!---->The bully's henchmen in Congress are going to investigate
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/jay-bratt-trump-deposition">one
of the prosecutors</a> who prosecuted <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> for federal crimes.
<p>
They have made it clear that this is for personal retribution, not
because of any objective grounds.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(The_oft-repeated_I_don't_know)
title: The oft-repeated "I don't know"
uri: The-oft-repeated-I-don-t-know
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(The_oft-repeated_I_don't_know)
content:
 
<p>
*[The chaos spreader] keeps saying he doesn’t know
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/09/i-dont-know-president-donald-trump-response-to-questions/">what
his own administration is up to</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Halt_to_government_layoffs_ordered)
title: Halt to government layoffs ordered
uri: Halt-to-government-layoffs-ordered
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Halt_to_government_layoffs_ordered)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/10/judge-temporarily-halts-trump-government-overhaul">Judge
orders White House</a> to temporarily halt sweeping government
layoffs.*
<p>
What about the ones already "done"?


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Urgent:_Increase_taxes_on_the_rich)
title: Urgent: Increase taxes on the rich
uri: Urgent-Increase-taxes-on-the-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Urgent:_Increase_taxes_on_the_rich)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: while Republicans work on a law to cut taxes for the rich,
phone your congresscritter and say, "Increase taxes on the rich."
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: US planning to deport migrants to Libya
uri: US-planning-to-deport-migrants-to-Libya
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(US_planning_to_deport_migrants_to_Libya)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(US_planning_to_deport_migrants_to_Libya)

content:
 
<p>

  *US [reportedly] planning to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/07/us-planning-to-deport-migrants-to-libya-despite-hellish-conditions-reports">deport migrants to Libya</a> despite
"hellish" [and dangerous] conditions*
  of repression and civil war.
</p>
</li>

 


title: "Do Not Capitulate" to Assault on Press Freedom
uri: Do-Not-Capitulate-to-Assault-on-Press-Freedom
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Do_Not_Capitulate_to_Assault_on_Press_Freedom)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Do_Not_Capitulate_to_Assault_on_Press_Freedom)

content:
 
<p>

  *Sanders, Senate Dems to CBS Owner: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-cbs-lawsuit">"Do Not Capitulate"</a> to 
Assault on Press Freedom.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Voice of America may be turned right-wing
uri: Voice-of-America-may-be-turned-right-wing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Voice_of_America_may_be_turned_right-wing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Voice_of_America_may_be_turned_right-wing)

content:
 
<p>

  Voice of America may be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/voice-america-one-america-news">converted into a right-wing propaganda</a> outlet
rather than shut down entirely.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Deforestation is destroying the Gran Chaco
uri: Deforestation-is-destroying-the-Gran-Chaco
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Deforestation_is_destroying_the_Gran_Chaco)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Deforestation_is_destroying_the_Gran_Chaco)

content:
 
<p>

  Deforestation is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/07/a-cemetery-of-trees-vast-green-expanses-turned-to-dust-as-loggers-plunder-south-americas-gran-chaco">destroying the Gran Chaco</a>.  In some places they plant
crops.
  In others they set fires and leave only ashes behind.  (Why do that,
I wonder?)
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) National Endowment for the arts lays of muses
uri: (satire)-National-Endowment-for-the-arts-lays-of-muses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_((satire)_National_Endowment_for_the_arts_lays_of_muses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_((satire)_National_Endowment_for_the_arts_lays_of_muses)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *National Endowment For The Arts <a href="https://theonion.com/national-endowment-for-the-arts-lays-off-30000-muses/">Lays Off 30,000 Muses</a>.*
</p>
<p>
Republicans assert that the additional hardship and suffering that
their policies will create ought to provide plenty of inspiration for
art, especially among those not wealthy enough to find muses in other
ways.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Advance in US government-issued ID cards
uri: Advance-in-US-government-issued-ID-cards
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Advance_in_US_government-issued_ID_cards)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Advance_in_US_government-issued_ID_cards)

content:
 
<p>

  Sad to say, the US seems to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/real-id-domestic-flights">advancing in its campaign</a> to impose
government-issued ID cards on Americans, with the "real ID" driver's
licenses.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Warning that therapy chatbots not safe
uri: Warning-that-therapy-chatbots-not-safe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Warning_that_therapy_chatbots_not_safe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Warning_that_therapy_chatbots_not_safe)

content:
 
<p>

  *UK experts warn &helip; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/07/experts-warn-therapy-ai-chatbots-are-not-safe-to-use">therapy chatbots are not safe</a>.*
</p>
<p>
Calling them "AI" is repeating a grave error which is at the root of
this problem.  Those systems are not intelligence, because they cannot
understand the words they play with, and that is also why they are
unsafe.
</p>
<p>
Why do people think they are intelligence?  Because of those who
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligance">foolishly call them "AI"</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Elon_Musk_set_to_win_big)
title: Elon Musk set to win big
uri: Elon-Musk-set-to-win-big
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Elon_Musk_set_to_win_big)
content:
 
<p>

  *Elon Musk <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/07/elon-musk-trump-pentagon-budget-spacex/">Set to Win Big</a> With Trump's Trillion-Dollar Pentagon Budget.*
</p>
<p>
  His companies were selected in some cases <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Air-traffic_control_contract_for_Musk)">based on favoritism</a>,
and in some agencies he was given the power to decide which offices
to shut and which to keep open.
  Both are forms of corruption.

   *The [wrecker] is poised to kill federal research into
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/space-pollution-elon-musk">pollution from satellites and rockets</a>, including some caused by
   [108]Elon Musk’s space companies, raising new conflict-of-interest
   questions about the billionaire SpaceX and Starlink owner.*
</p>
<p>
  This concerns pollution from rocket exhaust and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Study_of_satellites'_aluminum_oxides)">pollution</a>
from satellites burning up during reentry.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Geoengineering to reduce sunlight on specific areas
uri: Geoengineering-to-reduce-sunlight-on-specific-areas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Geoengineering_to_reduce_sunlight_on_specific_areas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Geoengineering_to_reduce_sunlight_on_specific_areas)

content:
 
<p>

  Britain will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/07/real-world-geoengineering-experiments-revealed-by-uk-agency">experiment with several systems</a> of local geoengineering
that try to reduce the sunlight falling on the test area.
</p>
<p>
I expect that local method of cooling are safer from those that would operate
globally.  However, I can imagine that using them with enough strength
to make a significant difference to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> would be very expensive
and might cause pollution.
</p>
<p>
They could also backfire in complex ways -- for instance, some parts
of Earth could have drastic <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> while others are protected
by cooling.  That could cause changes in weather patterns and ocean
currents.
</p>
<p>
But given the disaster we are facing, and the success of fossil fools
in corrupting governments so as to keep on pumping he fossil fuels,
I support trying these experiments.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Abandoned coal mines and gas wells source of emissions
uri: Abandoned-coal-mines-and-gas-wells-source-of-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Abandoned_coal_mines_and_gas_wells_source_of_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Abandoned_coal_mines_and_gas_wells_source_of_emissions)

content:
 
<p>

*   Abandoned coalmines and oil and gas wells are now one of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/07/abandoned-infrastructure-one-of-the-biggest-polluters-in-the-world-report">biggest sources</a>
   of the powerful greenhouse gas methane, new data shows, and
   little effort is being made to clean them up.*
</p>
<p>
I expect that the fossil fuel companies to divest themselves from old
mines and wells in ways that will avoid liability for them &mdash; just as
they sometimes <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#8_October_2015_(Patriot_Coal)">disconnect themselves from responsibility</a> for
supporting former workers.
</p>
<p>
So I suggest making it a felony to implement a restructuring of
business or assets in a way that is likely to result predictably in
strand assets that carry financial responsibilities with no one
capable of shouldering the responsibilities.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Casualty figures kept secret for fighting with Yemen
uri: Casualty-figures-kept-secret-for-fighting-with-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Casualty_figures_kept_secret_for_fighting_with_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Casualty_figures_kept_secret_for_fighting_with_Yemen)

content:
 
<p>

  The cheater has <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/02/trump-yemen-war-us-casualties-death-toll/">kept casualty figures secret</a> for the fighting with Yemen.
  Even if they are small, this violates the accountability that the people
have a right to.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Deportation of leaders of organizing of farm workers
uri: Deportation-of-leaders-of-organizing-of-farm-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Deportation_of_leaders_of_organizing_of_farm_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Deportation_of_leaders_of_organizing_of_farm_workers)

content:
 
<p>

  Deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> attacked the organizing of farm workers by
  <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/05/ice-raid-farm-labor-union-new-york-ufw/">deporting the leaders</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Fungus_infecting_artworks)
title: Fungus infecting artworks
uri: Fungus-infecting-artworks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Fungus_infecting_artworks)
content:
 
<p>

  A previously unknown fungus is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/denmarks-museum-objects-at-risk-from-extreme-new-mould-say-conservators">infesting precious, old artworks</a> in
Danish museums.
  And perhaps unnoticed in other countries too.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Netanyahu's plan to seize Gaza or make it uninhabitable
uri: Netanyahu-s-plan-to-seize-Gaza-or-make-it-uninhabitable
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Netanyahu's_plan_to_seize_Gaza_or_make_it_uninhabitable)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Netanyahu's_plan_to_seize_Gaza_or_make_it_uninhabitable)

content:
 
<p>

  *Seize Gaza, or make it uninhabitable. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/06/seize-gaza-uninhabitable-netanyahu-plan">That's Netanyahu's plan</a> &mdash; and either
way he wins.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: NYU students can take exams without swearing off protests
uri: NYU-students-can-take-exams-without-swearing-off-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(NYU_students_can_take_exams_without_swearing_off_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(NYU_students_can_take_exams_without_swearing_off_protests)

content:
 
<p>

  *NYU Law About-Face: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/06/nyu-law-reverses-students-protests-final-exams/">Students Can Take Exams Without Swearing Off Protests</a>.*
  However, the restrictions on them remain very tight.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Identity_politics_is_wrong)
title: Identity politics is wrong
uri: Identity-politics-is-wrong
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_May_2025_(Identity_politics_is_wrong)
content:
 
<p>
*Finding "who you really are" is a restrictive and divisive
preoccupation
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/05/politics-about-class-not-identity-are-better-for-the-young-adults-i-teach">for young working-class people</a>.
<p>
In terms of race, I am classified as white.  But I would never imagine
that, or my recent ancestors' religion, or their national origin, as
saying anything about "who I am".  Nor, for that matter, my parents'
level of wealth.
<p>
Who I am is defined by what I think about important questions.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Gaza_lifestyle_as_healthy,_UK)
title: Gaza lifestyle as "healthy", UK
uri: Gaza-lifestyle-as-healthy-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Gaza_lifestyle_as_healthy,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/uk-lawyers-for-israel-condemned-over-claim-war-may-reduce-obesity-in-gaza">UK
Lawyers for Israel</a> condemned over claim war may reduce obesity in
Gaza.*
<p>
That goes beyond a mere bogus excuse &mdash; it is an expression of contempt
for human life.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(State_secrets,_US_and_SLV)
title: "State secrets", US and SLV
uri: State-secrets-US-and-SLV
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(State_secrets,_US_and_SLV)
content:
 
<p>
*US government invokes "state secrets" privilege in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/trump-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-state-secrets">Kilmar Ábrego
García case</a>.*
<p>
This is one of many insincere stratagems by which <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> tries to make a
monkey out of US courts.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Universities_face_attacks)
title: Universities face attacks
uri: Universities-face-attacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Universities_face_attacks)
content:
 
<p>
*Universities
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/10/republican-states-universities-attacks-trump">in
red states</a> face attacks from DC and at home.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Tracking_climate-disaster_costs)
title: Tracking climate-disaster costs
uri: Tracking-climate-disaster-costs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Tracking_climate-disaster_costs)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/noaa-climate-crisis-extreme-weather-disasters-trump">NOAA
to stop tracking cost</a> of climate crisis-fueled disasters.*
<p>
The <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#planet">planet
roasters</a> prefer to keep us in the dark about how important it is
to stop them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Urgent:_Serving_American_people)
title: Urgent: Serving American people
uri: Urgent-Serving-American-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Urgent:_Serving_American_people)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-government-leaders-deliver-on-the-peoples-promise?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">call
on Congress</a> to serve the people, not the billionaires.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Billionaire influencing politics
uri: Urgent-Billionaire-influencing-politics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Urgent:_Billionaire_influencing_politics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Urgent:_Billionaire_influencing_politics)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-get-billionaire-money-out-of-politics?nowrapper=true">call
on Congress</a> to get billionaire money out of politics.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Deportation_case,_Louisiana)
title: Deportation case, Louisiana
uri: Deportation-case-Louisiana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Deportation_case,_Louisiana)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/11/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-held-by-ice-vows-to-continue-legal-action-after-jail-release">Rümeysa
Öztürk has been freed on bail</a> and has returned home.  Her case for
illegal arrest continues.
<p>
Her case no to be deported is happening in Louisiana, and I suspect it is
in the court of the judge that always rules, "Off with his visa!"
Will she have a real chance to appeal that?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Junk_food_ads_affect_children)
title: Junk food ads affect children
uri: Junk-food-ads-affect-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Junk_food_ads_affect_children)
content:
 
<p>
*Children eat more after
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/11/children-eat-more-after-seeing-just-five-minutes-of-junk-food-ads-study-finds">seeing
just five minutes</a> of junk food ads, study finds.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Bullying-out_feelings_of_hope,_power)
title: Bullying-out feelings of hope, power
uri: Bullying-out-feelings-of-hope-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Bullying-out_feelings_of_hope,_power)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: When regressive regimes (including the incipient one in
the US) display their power by bullying, they make some people feel
hopeless.  Some protect themselves from that feeling by denying the
situation.  Some keep silent because they believe they are powerless.
<p>
But we can find
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-68f">many
ways to resist</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(India-Pakistan_ceasefire)
title: India-Pakistan ceasefire
uri: India-Pakistan-ceasefire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(India-Pakistan_ceasefire)
content:
 
<p>
*India and Pakistan
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/11/india-and-pakistan-both-claim-victory-after-ceasefire-declared">both
claim victory</a> after ceasefire declared.*
<p>
It is silly of them to say that, but it is a better outcome than a
continuing real war.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Newark_objected_to_deportation_prison)
title: Newark objected to deportation prison
uri: Newark-objected-to-deportation-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Newark_objected_to_deportation_prison)
content:
 
<p>
The Mayor of Newark went to a deportation prison along with a
Congressional Democrat
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-arrested-ice-protest-detention-center">to
 object to its reopening</a>.  Deportation <a class="glossary"
 href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> arrested him.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Newark_mayor_arrested)
title: Newark mayor arrested
uri: Newark-mayor-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Newark_mayor_arrested)
content:
 
<p>
The Democratic congresscritters that visited the privatized
immigration prison in New Jersey
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/11/trump-officials-newark-mayor-arrest">with
Mayor Baraka</a> of Newark accused the immigration <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> of starting the confrontation.
<p>
It looks like another instance of the authoritarian tactic of
provoking a fight and blaming the victim for it, beloved
by <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>
everywhere.
<p>
I've seen a report that Baraka never entered the prison, he only stood
outside it.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Fixing_plumbing_of_US_Democracy)
title: Fixing plumbing of US Democracy
uri: Fixing-plumbing-of-US-Democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Fixing_plumbing_of_US_Democracy)
content:
 
<p>
*Wanting democratic norms is not sufficient; it is merely a
precondition for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/americans-democracy-healthcare-union-taxes-trump">meaningful
change</a>.  Making sure the US’s plumbing was secure did not mean
that anything of importance would pass through the pipes.*
<p>
The article presents the meaningful change needed.  I more or less
agree.  We need to make America a good place for people (including
non-rich people) to live in.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Investments_via_Trump_Media)
title: Investments via Trump Media
uri: Investments-via-Trump-Media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Investments_via_Trump_Media)
content:
 
<p>
Big businesses are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/trump-media-tmtg-shares">"investing"
in Trump antiSocial</a>.  Maybe they expect him to pressure other
businesses to "invest" and cause their "investment"'s value to grow.
Or maybe they consider this a bribe for his favor.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Modern_slavery,_UK)
title: Modern slavery incentives, UK
uri: Modern-slavery-incentives-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Modern_slavery,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
*Modern slavery victims [in the UK] opt to stay with exploiters for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/modern-slavery-victims-opt-to-stay-with-exploiters-for-fear-of-deportation-research-finds">fear
of deportation</a>, research finds.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(LLM_in_mass_surveillance)
title: LLM in mass surveillance
uri: LLM-in-mass-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(LLM_in_mass_surveillance)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://soatok.blog/2025/05/04/tech-companies-apparently-do-not-understand-why-we-dislike-ai/">Crucial
points</a> about massive surveillance using LLMs can be found <a>
here, after "On Privacy Concerns".
<p>
The writer does not recognize that some of these dangers are
predicated on users' running nonfree software, and that replacing that
with free software could prevent the dangers.  However, in a world
where most people <em>do</em> run nonfree software, the allegation of
vulnerability is valid.
<p>
The writer is correct in insisting that the current state of the art
in bullshit generators does not imply that artificial real
intelligence is around the corner.
<p>
For future systems that are somewhat intelligent to destroy humanity
does not require them to be autonomous and indifferent to humanity's
fate.  It is sufficient if they are controlled by billionaires (humans
or corporations) that are indifferent to humanity's fate.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Urgent:_Save_CFPB)
title: Urgent: Save CFPB
uri: Urgent-Save-CFPB
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Urgent:_Save_CFPB)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call on per to save
the CFPB.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Stop FCC commissioners trying to censor news
uri: Urgent-Stop-FCC-commissioners-trying-to-censor-news
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_FCC_commissioners_trying_to_censor_news)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_FCC_commissioners_trying_to_censor_news)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on the FCC commissioners to <a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/fcc-carr-stop-intimidation-censorship/">stop trying to censor</a>
broadcast news that disagrees with <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Stop attorney general from persecuting the press
uri: Urgent-Stop-attorney-general-from-persecuting-the-press
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_attorney_general_from_persecuting_the_press)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_attorney_general_from_persecuting_the_press)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call on per
to stop the attorney general from persecuting the press by
searching reporters and forcing them to testify about
their sources.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Interview with maker of the The Settlers
uri: Interview-with-maker-of-the-The-Settlers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Interview_with_maker_of_the_The_Settlers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Interview_with_maker_of_the_The_Settlers)

content:
 
<p>

  An <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/louis-theroux-documentary-on-israeli-settlers-in-the-west-bank">interview with a maker of The Settlers</a>, which shows the violent process
of driving Palestinians off their land in the West Bank.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(UCLA_Gaza_protesters_are_suing_police)
title: UCLA Gaza protesters are suing police
uri: UCLA-Gaza-protesters-are-suing-police
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(UCLA_Gaza_protesters_are_suing_police)
content:
 
<p>

*Police Shot Them in the Head With Rubber Bullets. Now UCLA Gaza
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/05/ucla-gaza-protesters-sue-cops-rubber-bullets/">Protesters Are Suing</a>.
</p>
<p>
Shooting people in the head with these less-lethal weapons can cause
permanent brain damage.  It is something <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> do to people they hate.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Prisons and imprisonment in El Salvador
uri: Prisons-and-imprisonment-in-El-Salvador
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Prisons_and_imprisonment_in_El_Salvador)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Prisons_and_imprisonment_in_El_Salvador)

content:
 
<p>

  El Salvador <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/09/trump-bukele-kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-cecot-prison/">imprisons people without trial</a> in prisons designed
intentionally to make prisoners suffer in many ways.  Many of them
are tortured, some to death.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israel's plan to take Palestinian territories
uri: Israel-s-plan-to-take-Palestinian-territories
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Israel's_plan_to_take_Palestinian_territories)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Israel's_plan_to_take_Palestinian_territories)

content:
 
<p>

  *Israel [and specifically Smotrich] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/israel-leaders-palestinian-territories-bezalel-smotrich-gaza-7-october">laid out its harrowing plan</a> to
take Palestinian territories in 2017.*
</p>
<p>
That plan is now being implemented.  It would demand Palestinians
accept the status of colonized people, and forcibly expel anyone who
does not.
</p>
<p>
This displays absolute contempt for the UN charter, and threatens
to usher in a new epoch in which countries shamelessly reduce
others to colonies.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Harvard report on Jewish teacher and her event
uri: Harvard-report-on-Jewish-teacher-and-her-event
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Harvard_report_on_Jewish_teacher_and_her_event)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Harvard_report_on_Jewish_teacher_and_her_event)

content:
 
<p>

An Israel Jew who teaches at Harvard, and led an event in which people
presented various views about Israel and Palestine, found it and her
(without her name) in a Harvard report, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/im-an-israeli-professor-why-is-my-work-in-harvards-antisemitism-report">described as "antisemitic"</a> and
"anti-Israel".
</p>
<p>
  (From March): *Columbia University <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/columbia-university-students-protest">investigates students</a> critical of
Israel amid Trump’s threats.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: US military expelling transgender personnel
uri: US-military-expelling-transgender-personnel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(US_military_expelling_transgender_personnel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(US_military_expelling_transgender_personnel)

content:
 
<p>

The US military has started to hunt down all transgender military personnel
and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/trump-pentagon-trans-military-ban">expel them</a>.
</p>
<p>
It appears that people with gender dysphoria will be expelled too even if
they do not try to change gender role.
</p>
</li>

 


title: US adopted Israel's plan for food aid for Gaza
uri: US-adopted-Israel-s-plan-for-food-aid-for-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(US_adopted_Israel's_plan_for_food_aid_for_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(US_adopted_Israel's_plan_for_food_aid_for_Gaza)

content:
 
<p>

  The US has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/gaza-israeli-aid-plan">adopted Israel's cruel plan</a> for food aid for Gaza,
  which would (1) require the whole population to go to four places in
the south of Gaza and (2) pass face recognition gates while armed
guards point guns at them.
</p>
<p>
Many people in Gaza are so weak from hunger that they can't possibly
walk such a distance.  They would be killed.  Meanwhile, Israel has
persistently refused to prosecute gratuitous killing of noncombatants
in Gaza.
</p>
<p>
Palestinians fear that the guards will shoot anyone they feel like
shooting, but even if they don't go that far, anyone placed on the
"HAMAS" list would be starved.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Starbase is the muskrat's company town in Texas
uri: Starbase-is-the-muskrat-s-company-town-in-Texas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Starbase_is_the__muskrat's_company_town_in_Texas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Starbase_is_the__muskrat's_company_town_in_Texas)

content:
 
<p>

  Starbase is <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/is-starbase-the-future-of-america">the muskrat's company town in Texas</a>, totally under his control,
and paying taxes to SpaceX and ruled non-democratically.
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a> is pushing the US in that direction
</p>
</li>

 


title: Amazon claims warehouse robots do not replace human workers
uri: Amazon-claims-warehouse-robots-do-not-replace-human-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Amazon_claims_warehouse_robots_do_not_replace_human_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Amazon_claims_warehouse_robots_do_not_replace_human_workers)

content:
 
<p>

Amazon claims its warehouse robots do not replace human workers,
but the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/08/amazon-jobs-robotics">figures show they do</a>.
</p>
<p>
What should we do about that?  In a more equitable society, with
government dominated by workers rather than billionaires, we would tax
companies like Amazon heavily so as to support the non-rich more, so
that each of them could work fewer hours.  That way, increased
productivity would benefit everyone who could work.  But today's
American politicians, except for a few such as Bernie Sanders, don't
want to do that because they serve the rich.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israel's denial and lies on shooting of Shireen Abu Akleh
uri: Israel-s-denial-and-lies-on-shooting-of-Shireen-Abu-Akleh
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Israel's_denial_and_lies_on_shooting_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Israel's_denial_and_lies_on_shooting_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh)

content:
 
<p>

Israel knew immediately that journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was
intentionally shot dead by an Israeli soldier &mdash; and who he was.
Instead of trying him for murder, it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/08/who-killed-shireen-abu-akleh">mounted a campaign of denials and lies</a>
so as to reject blame.
</p>
<p>
Israel excuses killing journalists by labeling them as "combat
propagandists", as if that justified killing them.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(UK's_age_verification_law)
title: UK's age verification law
uri: UK-s-age-verification-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(UK's_age_verification_law)
content:
 
<p>

  The UK's new age verification law <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/08/wikipedia-challenging-uk-law-it-says-exposes-it-to-manipulation-and-vandalism">threatens to ban Wikipedia</a> in Britain
by imposing the same rules that it imposes on Facebook.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Repression_of_peaceful_protesters)
title: Repression of peaceful protesters
uri: Repression-of-peaceful-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Repression_of_peaceful_protesters)
content:
 
<p>

The repression of peaceful protesters has become so powerful
that people who want to save civilization and the natural world
from climate disaster feel they have better chances getting away
with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/08/a-new-phase-why-climate-activists-are-turning-to-sabotage-instead-of-protest">sabotage of equipment</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(DEI's_fundamental_contradiction)
title: DEI's fundamental contradiction
uri: DEI-s-fundamental-contradiction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(DEI's_fundamental_contradiction)
content:
 
<p>

  *DEI's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/dei-doomed-to-fail">fundamental contradiction</a> was this: It argued that race is a
social invention—a system created to control people by reducing
complexity &mdash; yet it never suggested replacing it with a more holistic
vision of justice.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Prominent French journalist stepping down from role at RTL
uri: Prominent-French-journalist-stepping-down-from-role-at-RTL
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Prominent_French_journalist_stepping_down_from_role_at_RTL)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Prominent_French_journalist_stepping_down_from_role_at_RTL)

content:
 
<p>

  *A prominent French journalist has said he is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/09/jean-michel-aphatie-quits-after-comparing-french-algeria-to-nazi-massacre">stepping down</a> from his
role [at] broadcaster RTL after comparing French actions
during colonial rule in Algeria to a second world war massacre
committed by Nazi forces in France.*
</p>
<p>
I don't know enough about French rule in Algeria to agree or disagree
with what he said.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Health of infants and pregnant women in deportation prisons
uri: Health-of-infants-and-pregnant-women-in-deportation-prisons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Health_of_infants_and_pregnant_women_in_deportation_prisons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_May_2025_(Health_of_infants_and_pregnant_women_in_deportation_prisons)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor</a> has <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-rescinds-policies-on-care-of-pregnant-women-infants/">eliminated rules</a> to protect the health of infants
and pregnant women in deportation prisons.
</p>
<p>
This is cruel but understandable in terms of his hateful values.  If a
pregnant woman facing deportation dies or miscarries, either way it
avoids the birth of a baby who might be a US citizen.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Tax_exemption_as_a_weapon)
title: Tax exemption as a weapon
uri: Tax-exemption-as-a-weapon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Tax_exemption_as_a_weapon)
content:
 
<p>
The House bill to cut taxes on the rich includes a rider that would
allow arbitrary removal of
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/12/trump-nonprofit-killer-tax-cuts/">any organization's tax exemption</a>.
<p>
I hope the Democrats have the courage to filibuster the whole thing.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: The tax-exemption vulnerability
uri: Urgent-The-tax-exemption-vulnerability
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Urgent:_The_tax-exemption_vulnerability)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Urgent:_The_tax-exemption_vulnerability)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 202-688-0628
to oppose the Republican bill that would allow certain officials
to cancel the tax exemption of any tax-exempt organization.
<p>
Here's what Free Press Action recommends saying:
<blockquote>
Hello! My name is [first name]. I'm a constituent and am calling to
ask Rep. [congresscritter] to oppose language in the
budget-reconciliation legislation that would empower the Secretary of
the Treasury to target nonprofits' tax-exempt status.
<p>
This dangerous language lacks adequate safeguards against abuse,
violates due process and would hand unchecked power to the
administration to politically target nonprofits.
<p>
Reject executive overreach no matter what form it takes.
</blockquote>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Protect National Institutes of Health
uri: Urgent-Protect-National-Institutes-of-Health
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_National_Institutes_of_Health)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_National_Institutes_of_Health)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-congress-protect-nih-funding-for-lifesaving-research?ref=Ii_SduU">call
on Congress</a> to Protect NIH Funding for Lifesaving Research.


<p>
 


title: Federal Trade Commission Act, section 5
uri: Federal-Trade-Commission-Act-section-5
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Federal_Trade_Commission_Act,_section_5)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Federal_Trade_Commission_Act,_section_5)

content:
 
<p>
Republicans are working to repeal part of the Federal Trade Commission Act
that makes it
<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/29/cheaters-and-liars/#caveat-emptor-brainworms">illegal
for companies to cheat you</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Save noncompete-agreements rule
uri: Urgent-Save-noncompete-agreements-rule
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Urgent:_Save_noncompete-agreements_rule)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Urgent:_Save_noncompete-agreements_rule)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/noncompetes?nowrapper=true">call
on the FTC</a> to maintain its ban on noncompete agreements.
Noncompete agreements restrict a worker who has quit or been fired
from getting another job in the same field.
<p>
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code.
(See https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for why to
avoid running it.)
<p>
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScrupt in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.
<p>
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above.  That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without JavaScript!"
<p>
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
<p>
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page.  That's how you say who's sending the letter.
<p>
Then click the "START WRITING" button.  That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code.  (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely _by running_ that nonfree code, you can
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.)  You can
finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's
address bar, as follows:
<p>
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'.  Then tell the
browser to visit that URL.  This should give you a version of 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.
<p>
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 for the result of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Food_status_in_Gaza)
title: Food status in Gaza
uri: Food-status-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Food_status_in_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
*Food security experts warn Gaza at
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/12/food-security-experts-warn-gaza-critical-risk-famine-israeli-blockade">‘critical
risk of famine</a>’ amid Israeli blockade.*

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Waiting for wellbeing promises
uri: Urgent-Waiting-for-wellbeing-promises
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Urgent:_Waiting_for_wellbeing_promises)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Urgent:_Waiting_for_wellbeing_promises)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-government-leaders-deliver-on-the-peoples-promise?nowrapper=true">Call
on Congress</a> to implement for real the promise of wellbeing that
the cheater falsely made to Americans.

<p>
 


title: Environmental Protection Agency dishonesty
uri: Environmental-Protection-Agency-dishonesty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Environmental_Protection_Agency_dishonesty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Environmental_Protection_Agency_dishonesty)

content:
 
<p>
How <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the
corrupter's</a> henchmen running the <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> are
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/13/trump-epa-staff-cuts-environmental-justice/">systematically
corrupting it</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Qatar_jet_woes)
title: Qatar jet woes
uri: Qatar-jet-woes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_May_2025_(Qatar_jet_woes)
content:
 
<p>
*Poor [president]: you can't even accept a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/13/poor-donald-trump-luxury-jet-qatar-corrupt">luxury
jet from Qatar</a> without being called corrupt these days.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(US_sanctions_on_Syria_lifted)
title: US sanctions on Syria lifted
uri: US-sanctions-on-Syria-lifted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(US_sanctions_on_Syria_lifted)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/trump-meets-syria-president-after-lifting-us-sanctions">lifted
US sanctions against Syria</a>.
<p>
I think this is the right thing to do, given the new government made up
of those who fought Assad.  Of course, we can't be sure how much this
government will respect human rights, but it is likely to do more
if that if we give it the benefit of the doubt.
<p>
I am still concerned about the fate of Rojava, and we can't assume
that <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>
shares that concern at all.  However, last I heard, the new government
sought a peaceful
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_March_2025_(Syria_human_rights)">accommodation
with Rojava</a>.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(UK_citizen_arrested_in_Salafi_Arabia)
title: UK citizen arrested in Salafi Arabia
uri: UK-citizen-arrested-in-Salafi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(UK_citizen_arrested_in_Salafi_Arabia)
content:
 
<p>
Ahmed al-Doush, a UK citizen, went to visit relative in <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>
and was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/11/briton-faces-threat-of-extended-saudi-prison-sentence-for-tweet">arrested while trying to leave</a>.  He still doesn't seem to know what he
is accused of, and has not been allowed very little contact with his family
in the UK or his lawyer in the UK.
</p>
</li>

 


title: UK to deny citizenship to refugees granted asylum
uri: UK-to-deny-citizenship-to-refugees-granted-asylum
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(UK_to_deny_citizenship_to_refugees_granted_asylum)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(UK_to_deny_citizenship_to_refugees_granted_asylum)

content:
 
<p>

  The UK will henceforth <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/11/i-can-no-longer-see-a-future-in-the-uk-new-citizenship-guidance-shuts-out-refugees">permanently deny citizenship</a> to refugees
granted asylum.
</p>
<p>
This policy will harm both the refugees and Britain.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_((satire)_Texas_Bans)
title: (satire) Texas Bans
uri: (satire)-Texas-Bans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_((satire)_Texas_Bans)
content:
 
<p>

  (satire) <a href="https://theonion.com/texas-bans-being-different-around-children/">*Texas Bans Being Different Around Children.*</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Influencer with no medical license as Surgeon General
uri: Influencer-with-no-medical-license-as-Surgeon-General
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Influencer_with_no_medical_license_as_Surgeon_General)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Influencer_with_no_medical_license_as_Surgeon_General)

content:
 
<p>

  The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur in chief</a> <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/8/2321187/-Influencer-with-no-medical-license-picked-to-be-nation-s-top-doctor?detail=emailaction1">nominated an influencer with no medical license</a>
to be the Surgeon General of the US.
  She promotes medical disinformation ("snake oil") and I suppose her
sales will increase.
</p>
<p>
It is interesting to compare this with Stalin's favorite biologist,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko">Trofim Lysenko</a>, who championed Lamarck's mistaken theory of evolution,
which Stalin liked because it fit his ideology better than Darwin's.
Scientists who understood Darwinian evolution were purged, sent to the
gulag, or even executed.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Apple forced to stop demanding share of in-app payments
uri: Apple-forced-to-stop-demanding-share-of-in-app-payments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Apple_forced_to_stop_demanding_share_of_in-app_payments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Apple_forced_to_stop_demanding_share_of_in-app_payments)

content:
 
<p>

A proprietary software company's lawsuit has <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its-not-the-crime/#its-the-coverup">forced Apple</a> to stop
demanding a share of in-app payments that users running them on
iThings pay to companies other than Apple.
  So what?  This does nothing to reduce the injustice of the iThings, their
operating system. or that nonfree game.
</p>
<p>
The claimed benefit of this is that the game company will make more money
and Apple less.  Since the product of each company is injustice,
that is nothing to rejoice about.
</p>
<p>
The the first step in the path from iThing to freedom is to reject the
iThing.  And the second is to stop using nonfree games.
</p>
</li>

 


title: US Episcopal church not working with US to settle refugees
uri: US-Episcopal-church-not-working-with-US-to-settle-refugees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(US_Episcopal_church_not_working_with_US_to_settle_refugees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(US_Episcopal_church_not_working_with_US_to_settle_refugees)

content:
 
<p>

  The US Episcopal church <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/episcopal-church-white-south-africans-trump">canceled working with the US government</a> to
help resettle refugees, now that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> has designated Afrikaners
from South Africa as the favored group of refugees and blocked the others.
</p>
<p>
Legal racist discrimination by Afrikaners against blacks ended 30 years ago
in South Africa, but they still suffer from the poverty caused by decades
of racism.  Some amount of compensatory aid to them is justified.
I expect that that is what <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> calls "discrimination" now.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Border_thugs_stopped_Hasan_Piker)
title: Border thugs stopped Hasan Piker
uri: Border-thugs-stopped-Hasan-Piker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Border_thugs_stopped_Hasan_Piker)
content:
 
<p>

Border <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> stopped controversial commentator Hasan Piker as he tried
to reenter the US, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/hasan-piker-border-trump-gaza">interrogated him for two hours</a> about his
political views.
</p>
<p>
According to a posting he made, they also asked him about someone he
had interviewed in Yemen, accusing him of interviewing a Houthi.  He
showed by that man's name that he was not one.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Downloading stupid app just to bribe president
uri: (satire)-Downloading-stupid-app-just-to-bribe-president
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_((satire)_Downloading_stupid_app_just_to_bribe_president)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_((satire)_Downloading_stupid_app_just_to_bribe_president)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Man Can’t Believe He Has To <a href="https://theonion.com/man-cant-believe-he-has-to-download-stupid-app-just-to-bribe-president/">Download Stupid App</a> Just To
Bribe President.*
</p>
<p>

 


title: Small tax raise on high income Americans
uri: Small-tax-raise-on-high-income-Americans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Small_tax_raise_on_high_income_Americans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Small_tax_raise_on_high_income_Americans)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a> seems to be <a href="https://www.levernews.com/republican-lawmakers-scramble-to-save-their-personal-tax-cuts/">half/supporting a move to raise taxes</a> a
little on high income Americans.
  He seems to have sent mixed messages about this, which is making obedient
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a> confused and unsure what to do.
</p>
<p>
I don't think this represents any concern for non-rich people; the
increase is too small to make up for all he has done to enrich the
rich.  My conjecture is that he wants to convert their attachment to
the specific ideology he used to won their support into readiness to
obey whatever orders he may give them in the future.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Netanyahu as obstacle to doing business with Salafi Arabia
uri: Netanyahu-as-obstacle-to-doing-business-with-Salafi-Arabia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Netanyahu_as_obstacle_to_doing_business_with_Salafi_Arabia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Netanyahu_as_obstacle_to_doing_business_with_Salafi_Arabia)

content:
 
<p>

  Arguing that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> has decided that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/12/netanyahu-must-now-work-for-support-of-us-as-trump-tires-of-israel-war-in-gaza">Netanyahu is an obstacle</a> to
doing business with <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>, and has decided to punish him
until he stops being such.
</p>
<p>
We cannot be sure it is true.  His attitude may change again every week.
If it is true, that does not imply that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> cares how many thousands of
Palestinians are killed, tortured or expelled.
</p>
<p>
But if he decides to tell Netanyahu to jump in the lake to please
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>, that could imply the end of the bombardment and siege
of Gaza.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Artificial Stupidity chatbots in finance
uri: Artificial-Stupidity-chatbots-in-finance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Artificial_Stupidity_chatbots_in_finance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Artificial_Stupidity_chatbots_in_finance)

content:
 
<p>

Giving Artificial Stupidity chatbots control over anything involved
in finances is an <a href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/ai-agents-that-autonomously-trade-cryptocurrency-arent-ready-for-prime-time/">invitation to disaster</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Search warrant for searching student protesters
uri: Search-warrant-for-searching-student-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Search_warrant_for_searching_student_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Search_warrant_for_searching_student_protesters)

content:
 
<p>

The search warrant that the deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> obtained to search the
rooms of two student protesters has been seen and studied.  It
was <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/14/yunseo-chung-ice-search-warrant-columbia-immigrants/">based on false statements</a> about law and about facts.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Musicians denied visas to perform in the US
uri: Musicians-denied-visas-to-perform-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Musicians_denied_visas_to_perform_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Musicians_denied_visas_to_perform_in_the_US)

content:
 
<p>

  The US has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/14/lord-buffalo-drummer-us-border-control">denied several musicians visas</a> to perform in the US,
and have arrested a US-based permanent resident musician
who was departing with a band to tour.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Effects_of_stopping_weight_loss_drugs)
title: Effects of stopping weight loss drugs
uri: Effects-of-stopping-weight-loss-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Effects_of_stopping_weight_loss_drugs)
content:
 
<p>

  *People who stop weight loss drugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/14/people-who-stop-weight-loss-drugs-return-to-original-weight-within-year-analysis-finds">return to original weight within year</a>,
analysis finds.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Labour in Britain cozying up to Big Tech companies
uri: Labour-in-Britain-cozying-up-to-Big-Tech-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Labour_in_Britain_cozying_up_to_Big_Tech_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Labour_in_Britain_cozying_up_to_Big_Tech_companies)

content:
 
<p>

  Labour in Britain seems to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/14/minister-accused-of-being-too-close-to-big-tech-after-analysis-of-meetings">cozying up to the exploitative Big Tech companies</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Hungary considering law to shut down independent media
uri: Hungary-considering-law-to-shut-down-independent-media
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Hungary_considering_law_to_shut_down_independent_media)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Hungary_considering_law_to_shut_down_independent_media)

content:
 
<p>

  Hungary is considering a law to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/14/hungary-considering-law-to-monitor-and-ban-groups-seen-as-threat-to-national-sovereignty">shut down independent media</a> and NGOs
that have foreign support by labeling them as "threats to national
security".
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Drop_in_drug_overdose_death_in_the_US)
title: Drop in drug overdose death in the US
uri: Drop-in-drug-overdose-death-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Drop_in_drug_overdose_death_in_the_US)
content:
 
<p>

  Drug overdose deaths in the US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/us-overdose-deaths-decline">dropped by more than a quarter</a>
from 2023 to 2024.
</p>
<p>
Part of this is due to successful efforts to prevent overdose and
treat overdoses.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Badar Khan Suri released from jail by federal court
uri: Badar-Khan-Suri-released-from-jail-by-federal-court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Badar_Khan_Suri_released_from_jail_by_federal_court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Badar_Khan_Suri_released_from_jail_by_federal_court)

content:
 
<p>

One of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> targeted visiting academics, Badar Khan Suri,
has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/judge-order-release-khan-suri-ice">released from jail by a federal court</a>, who ruled that
there was no need to ask him to post bail.
</p>
<p>
I wonder, though, whether he has a way to appeal to a real federal court
about the revocation of his visa.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(UK_government's_planning_rule_changes)
title: UK government's planning rule changes
uri: UK-government-s-planning-rule-changes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(UK_government's_planning_rule_changes)
content:
 
<p>

  Campaigners are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/12/wild-justice-judicial-review-labour-planning-bill-angela-rayner">trying to make the UK government admit</a> that its
planning rule changes would harm the environment.
</p>
<p>
  I have read that there are so many <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-nov-feb.html#12_January_2018_(Unused_buildings)">disused residential units</a> in the UK
(often held as investments) that using them as residences would
fix the housing shortage.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Aiming_to_make_humans_obsolete)
title: Aiming to make humans obsolete
uri: Aiming-to-make-humans-obsolete
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Aiming_to_make_humans_obsolete)
content:
 
<p>

  Some technology investors already aim to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them">make almost all humans obsolete</a>.
</p>
<p>
LLMs will never be capable of doing this &mdash; they play with text but
don't understand what it means.  That's why I call them <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligance ">"bullshit
    generators"</a>.
  But that doesn't mean it is impossible to develop true general
artificial intelligence.  It could happen someday.  What would happen
then?
</p>
<p>
There is always the Ex Machina possibility that the masters will lose
control of intelligences which they "own" but are smarter than they
are.  But let's suppose that does not happen &mdash; that the masters
retain control of them.  What would the masters use them to do
to the other remaining humans?
</p>
<p>
I see two extreme possibilities: (1) the masters can share their
wealth with the rest, and (2) they can wipe out the rest.
</p>
<p>
There could be a variety of intermediate possibilities, in which they
maintain some humans as pets or serfs for whatever purposes.
</p>
<p>
Aside from sex, there is (3) the hunger games outcome in which the
masters make the serfs fight each other, and (4) the artistic
competition alternative in which the masters maintain a population of
serfs who compete by making art.
</p>
<p>
Overall, I consider possible superintelligences rather dangerous.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Urgent:_Increase_taxes_on_rich)
title: Urgent: Increase taxes on rich
uri: Urgent-Increase-taxes-on-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Urgent:_Increase_taxes_on_rich)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on congresscritter to increase taxes on rich

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a> has lately been talking about increasing
taxes on the non-billionaire rich.  Phone your congresscritter
(especially if <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> is Republican) and call on per to do this,
instead of cutting Medicaid and other things that help the non-rich.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Prevent slasher attacks against federal agencies
uri: Urgent-Prevent-slasher-attacks-against-federal-agencies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Urgent:_Prevent_slasher_attacks_against_federal_agencies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Urgent:_Prevent_slasher_attacks_against_federal_agencies)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter to support two bills
introduced by Representative Don Beyer to correct and prevent
slasher attacks against federal agencies:
</p>
<p>
* The REHIRE Act would give hiring preference to the career    
  professionals wrongfully removed by Trump. This would go a long way    
  toward restoring the knowledge, continuity, and skill that our    
  institutions need.     
</p>
<p>
* The PREP Act would protect future public servants from being fired    
  for political reasons &mdash; so that no president can again purge    
  government employees simply for doing their jobs.     
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Stop cutting critical medical research
uri: Urgent-Stop-cutting-critical-medical-research
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_cutting_critical_medical_research)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_cutting_critical_medical_research)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on NIH and NSF: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/nih-and-nsf-stop-cutting-critical-health-research?nowrapper=true">Stop cutting critical medical research</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Sign Amicus Brief: "DOGE" is Unconstitutional
uri: Urgent-Sign-Amicus-Brief-DOGE-is-Unconstitutional
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Urgent:_Sign_Amicus_Brief:_DOGE_is_Unconstitutional)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Urgent:_Sign_Amicus_Brief:_DOGE_is_Unconstitutional)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/amicus-brief-doge-is-unconstitutional">Sign the Grassroots Amicus Brief</a>: "<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#doge">DOGE</a>" is Unconstitutional.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Protect right of habeas corpus
uri: Urgent-Protect-right-of-habeas-corpus
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_right_of_habeas_corpus)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_right_of_habeas_corpus)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/protect-habeas-corpus/">protect the right of habeas corpus</a>.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Global heating impact on ability to grow bananas
uri: Global-heating-impact-on-ability-to-grow-bananas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Global_heating_impact_on_ability_to_grow_bananas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Global_heating_impact_on_ability_to_grow_bananas)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> is projected to make tropical countries <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/12/climate-crisis-threatens-the-banana-the-worlds-most-popular-fruit-research-shows">unable to grow bananas</a>
by 2080.  Bananas are a large part of the food humans eat in
those places.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Excuses_for_accepting_gift_airplane)
title: Excuses for accepting gift airplane
uri: Excuses-for-accepting-gift-airplane
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Excuses_for_accepting_gift_airplane)
content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter's</a> lawyers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/us-presidential-foreign-gifts-laws-rules-ntwnfb">argue loopholes</a> to excuse his accepting
a gift airplane from Qatar.
</p>
<p>
Whatever those loopholes may be interpreted to say, it is clear that this
is an act of bribery, and damaging to the United States.
</p>
<p>
It would also endanger national security for any officials with access
to government secrets to travel in it.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Chimpanzees use leaves to clean their bodies
uri: Chimpanzees-use-leaves-to-clean-their-bodies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Chimpanzees_use_leaves_to_clean_their_bodies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Chimpanzees_use_leaves_to_clean_their_bodies)

content:
 
<p>

  Chimpanzees <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/14/chimpanzees-use-leaves-to-wipe-bums-and-clean-up-after-sex-study-finds">use leaves to clean parts of their bodies</a> (their own and
others') and to treat wounds.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Air pollution exposure affects health in adolescence
uri: Air-pollution-exposure-affects-health-in-adolescence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Air_pollution_exposure_affects_health_in_adolescence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Air_pollution_exposure_affects_health_in_adolescence)

content:
 
<p>

  *Early air pollution exposure [(ages 1-3)] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/14/early-air-pollution-exposure-affects-health-in-adolescence-study-finds">affects health</a> in
 adolescence, study finds.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israel attacked multiple hospitals in Gaza
uri: Israel-attacked-multiple-hospitals-in-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Israel_attacked_multiple_hospitals_in_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Israel_attacked_multiple_hospitals_in_Gaza)

content:
 
<p>

  Israel <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/14/israel-hits-gaza-hospitals-in-deadly-strikes-after-pause-to-allow-release-of-edan-alexander">attacked multiple hospitals in Gaza</a>.
  That can't be a coincidence of accidents &mdash; it must be an
intentional attempt to attack medical personnel and their patients.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Oligarchy_moving_for_total_power)
title: Oligarchy moving for total power
uri: Oligarchy-moving-for-total-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Oligarchy_moving_for_total_power)
content:
 
<p>

Robert Reich: The US has suffered from oligarchy before, but now it is
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-single-stupidest-statement-about">moving for total power</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker giving Xi opportunity to increase China's power
uri: Wrecker-giving-Xi-opportunity-to-increase-China-s-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Wrecker_giving_Xi_opportunity_to_increase_China's_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Wrecker_giving_Xi_opportunity_to_increase_China's_power)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> may be giving Dictator Xi the best possible opportunity
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/13/donald-trump-china-xi-jinping-us-europe">increase China's power and influence</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Summary_of_wrecker's_war_on_science)
title: Summary of wrecker's war on science
uri: Summary-of-wrecker-s-war-on-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Summary_of_wrecker's_war_on_science)
content:
 
<p>

  A <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/sanders-releases-report-documenting-trumps-war-on-science">summary of the wrecker's war on science</a>, released by Bernie Sanders
and with a link to the full report.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Republican plan to attack federal support for college students
uri: Republican-plan-to-attack-federal-support-for-college-students
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Republican_plan_to_attack_federal_support_for_college_students)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Republican_plan_to_attack_federal_support_for_college_students)

content:
 
<p>

  Republicans <a href="https://prospect.org/education/2025-04-30-republicans-education-upper-class-privilege-student-loans/">plan to attack federal support for college students</a>
so drastically that it would be nearly impossible for non-rich
Americans to go to college.
</p>
<p>
The icing on this force-fed poisonous cake is that students would have
to repay the loans they got for paying scam colleges that have been
shut down for fraud.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Why habeas corpus must apply to people threatened with deportation
uri: Why-habeas-corpus-must-apply-to-people-threatened-with-deportation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Why_habeas_corpus_must_apply_to_people_threatened_with_deportation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Why_habeas_corpus_must_apply_to_people_threatened_with_deportation)

content:
 
<p>

  Why habeas corpus <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-process-thats-due">must apply to people threatened with deportation</a>,
what it says they are entitled to, and why the violation of eliminating
it threatens US citizens too.
</p>
</li>

 


title: NYU denying diploma's over "antisemitism"
uri: NYU-denying-diploma-s-over-antisemitism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(NYU_denying_diploma's_over_antisemitism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(NYU_denying_diploma's_over_antisemitism)

content:
 
<p>
NYU bends over backwards to perceive "antisemitism" in criticism of
Israel's war crimes, and presents the mere possibility of such
perception as grounds to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/nyu-withholds-diploma-israel-gaza-speech">deny a student's diploma</a>.
</p>
<p>
Repression is the only term for this, and NYU has made that repression
a continuing principle.
</p>
<p>
Defenders of Israel's treatment of Palestinians are extremely skilled
at perceiving any criticism of those actions as "antisemitic".  They
have elevated this ability to a fine rhetorical art.  That they can do
this is no excuse for censorship.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Repression against Newark Mayor Baraka
uri: Repression-against-Newark-Mayor-Baraka
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Repression_against_Newark_Mayor_Baraka)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Repression_against_Newark_Mayor_Baraka)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully's</a> henchmen are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-court">twisting laws</a> for repression against Newark
Mayor Baraka.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Bird_warnings_on_windows)
title: Bird warnings on windows
uri: Bird-warnings-on-windows
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Bird_warnings_on_windows)
content:
 
<p>

  Bird warnings on windows, and lights off at night, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/15/no-one-wants-a-building-that-kills-birds-why-cities-are-turning-off-the-lights">can save a large fraction</a>
pf the million-or-so migrating birds that crash into tall buildings each year
in the US.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Afrikaner "refugee" invited to live in US
uri: Afrikaner-refugee-invited-to-live-in-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Afrikaner_refugee_invited_to_live_in_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Afrikaner_refugee_invited_to_live_in_US)

content:
 
<p>

Just as <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor</a> and his henchmen cite supposed "antisemitism"
as an excuse for repression around the US, he has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/south-african-refugee-antisemitic-posts">invited to live in the US</a>
an Afrikaner "refugee" who is a real antisemite.
</p>
<p>
I expect <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor</a> will pretend this did not happen, and continue
using alleged "antisemitism" to justify censorship and punishment.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Business_over_citizens)
title: Business over citizens
uri: Business-over-citizens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Business_over_citizens)
content:
 
<p>
15 states, evidently controlled by Republican officials,
have cemented the power of businesses over citizens
by passing
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/the-new-war-on-state-regulators/">a
law encouraging judges to toss out regulations</a> that limit
businesses.


 


title: Bruce Springsteen's onstage, Trump rant
uri: Bruce-Springsteen-s-onstage-Trump-rant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Bruce_Springsteen's_onstage_Trump_rant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Bruce_Springsteen's_onstage_Trump_rant)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/15/bruce-springsteen-trump-manchester-rogue-government-siding-with-dictators">Bruce
Springsteen</a> castigated <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> from the stage.
<p>
This might do some good.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(GPU_backdoor_congressional_mandate)
title: GPU backdoor congressional mandate
uri: GPU-backdoor-congressional-mandate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(GPU_backdoor_congressional_mandate)
content:
 
<p>
A US bill would require a back door within high performance
processors such as
<a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/u-s-inks-bill-to-force-geo-tracking-tech-for-gpus-and-servers-high-end-gaming-gpus-also-subject-to-tracking">GPUs
made by US companies</a>.  The back door would report the processor's
geographical location to the manufacturer.


<p>
 


title: Nova Kakhovka dam, ecological assessment
uri: Nova-Kakhovka-dam-ecological-assessment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Nova_Kakhovka_dam,_ecological_assessment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Nova_Kakhovka_dam,_ecological_assessment)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/13/destruction-of-ukraine-kakhovka-dam-caused-toxic-timebomb-in-rivers-study-finds">Putin's
destruction</a> of the Nova Kakhovka dam *caused ‘toxic timebomb’ of
heavy metals.*
<p>
The reservoir created by the dam was the basis of Ukraine's immense
agricultural production.  The world needs that production -- but even
if the war ends, would this pollution make its water unsafe in agriculture?
<p>
Was it already unsafe due to pollution before the dam was destroyed?

<p>
 


title: Starvation level near 300 million people
uri: Starvation-level-near-300-million-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Starvation_level_near_300_million_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Starvation_level_near_300_million_people)

content:
 
<p>
*Almost 300m people at risk of death through starvation*
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/16/300m-people-at-risk-of-death-through-starvation-global-report-food-crises">(around
the world</a>).
<p>
Cuts by <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the
wrecker</a> in USaid have contributed significantly to this.  At the
same time, the UK has also cut foreign aid.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Regulations_defanged_in_15_states)
title: Regulations defanged in 15 states
uri: Regulations-defanged-in-15-states
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Regulations_defanged_in_15_states)
content:
 
<p>
15 states, evidently controlled by Republican officials,
have cemented the power of businesses over citizens
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/the-new-war-on-state-regulators/">by
passing a law encouraging judges to toss out regulations</a> that
limit businesses.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Big_ugly_bill_rewards_pollution)
title: Big ugly bill rewards pollution
uri: Big-ugly-bill-rewards-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Big_ugly_bill_rewards_pollution)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/house-bill-a-giveaway-for-polluters-cuts-health-protections">Republicans
made</a> their massive <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a> bill also a giveaway to
polluters.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Corrupter_charging_for_access)
title: Corrupter charging for access
uri: Corrupter-charging-for-access
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Corrupter_charging_for_access)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a>
is overtly charging for access to meet with him, using
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/top-buyers-trump-cryptocurrency-dinner">his
private cryptocurrency</a>.  This conspicuous corruption is another
way he can proclaim his power to spit on laws.
<p>
This joins many other actions to undermine the laws that try to keep
the US system of rule of law functioning.  But I don't see how anyone
could possibly sue to put a stop to this.  It harms the US as a whole,
but I don't see that it cheats any specific persons such that they
would have standing to sue to put a stop to it.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Corrupter's_dealings_with_Qatar)
title: Corrupter's dealings with Qatar
uri: Corrupter-s-dealings-with-Qatar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Corrupter's_dealings_with_Qatar)
content:
 
<p>
Qatar's flying bribe could
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/trump-plane-gift-qatar">cost
a billion dollars</a> to accept.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Congressional_dooH_niboR)
title: Congressional dooH niboR
uri: Congressional-dooH-niboR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Congressional_dooH_niboR)
content:
 
<p>
*GOP House Ways and Means Committee Advances Bill to Give Billions Away to
Billionaires, Paid for by
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/gop-house-ways-and-means-committee-advances-bill-to-give-billions-away-to-billionaires-paid-for-by-cuts-to-medicaid-and-snap">Cuts
to Medicaid and SNAP</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Large-scale_neocolonial_ecoside)
title: Large-scale neocolonial ecoside
uri: Large-scale-neocolonial-ecoside
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Large-scale_neocolonial_ecoside)
content:
 
<p>
*[Santander] has funneled
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/15/we-are-witnessing-ecocide-santander-accused-of-funding-vast-deforestation">$600m
to firms</a> clearing South America's fragile Gran Chaco ecosystem for
beef, palm oil and soya, Global Witness says.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Pro-abortion_voters_ignored,_MS)
title: Pro-abortion voters ignored, MS
uri: Pro-abortion-voters-ignored-MS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Pro-abortion_voters_ignored,_MS)
content:
 
<p>
Mississippians voted to legalize abortion, but the Republican-dominated
legislature has decided to ask them to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/missouri-lawmakers-approve-referendum-to-repeal-abortion-rights-amendment">vote
again</a> about limiting it.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Nuclear_waste_cleanup_funds_cut,_WA)
title: Nuclear waste cleanup funds cut, WA
uri: Nuclear-waste-cleanup-funds-cut-WA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Nuclear_waste_cleanup_funds_cut,_WA)
content:
 
<p>
*The US buried millions of gallons of wartime
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/us-government-nuclear-waste-doge">nuclear
waste</a> &mdash; [DOPE] cuts could wreck the cleanup.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Global_gulag_for_expelled_immigrants)
title: Global gulag for expelled immigrants
uri: Global-gulag-for-expelled-immigrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Global_gulag_for_expelled_immigrants)
content:
 
<p>

*The [persecutor] appears to be laying the groundwork for a
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/15/trump-ice-immigrants-deport-prisons-cecot-libya/">global gulag for expelled immigrants</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Men with Girl names banned from combat
uri: (satire)-Men-with-Girl-names-banned-from-combat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_((satire)_Men_with_Girl_names_banned_from_combat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_((satire)_Men_with_Girl_names_banned_from_combat)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *U.S. Military <a href="https://theonion.com/u-s-military-bans-men-with-girl-names-from-combat/">Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker executive order against Supreme Court decisions
uri: Wrecker-executive-order-against-Supreme-Court-decisions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Wrecker_executive_order_against_Supreme_Court_decisions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Wrecker_executive_order_against_Supreme_Court_decisions)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> is <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/14/2322255/-Trump-Guts-Civil-Rights-Guidelines">trying by executive order</a> to undo the Supreme Court
decisions that ruled that unnecessary job requirements which have a
discriminatory effect violate US civil rights law.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Amazon executive nominated for head of OSHA
uri: Amazon-executive-nominated-for-head-of-OSHA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Amazon_executive_nominated_for_head_of_OSHA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Amazon_executive_nominated_for_head_of_OSHA)

content:
 
<p>

  Another middle-finger nomination of an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/trump-osha-pick-heat">Amazon executive for head of OSHA</a>.
  If he was happy at Amazon, whose warehouses are as deadly in reality
as werewolves are in fiction, we can't expect him to try very hard
to carry out OSHA's mission.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Ralph Nader warns of threat to consumer rights
uri: Ralph-Nader-warns-of-threat-to-consumer-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Ralph_Nader_warns_of_threat_to_consumer_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Ralph_Nader_warns_of_threat_to_consumer_rights)

content:
 
<p>

Ralph Nader warns that the elimination of cash and unchecked credit
card practices are <a href="https://csrl.org/2025/04/17/new-report-sounds-alarm-on-cashless-economy-and-credit-exploitation-freedom-privacy-and-consumer-power-at-stake/">threatening core consumer rights</a>—including privacy,
autonomy, and equal access to commerce.
</p>
<p>
And tend to make living more expensive for poor people.
</p>
<p>
In the last year I have been to a number of major Boston-area
hospitals.  I usually had to pay a copay for the visit, but when I
took out cash to pay it, the agent said that the hospital does not
accept cash and would bill me instead.  I have a way to pay that bill
because I have a checking account, but many poor people don't have
that.
</p>
<p>
When buying products, if not on prescription, I won't use a check
either.  It's cash or nothing!
</p>
<p>
You can defend cash without taking an unyielding stand like mine.
Just make sure to carry some cash whenever you leave the house.  If
you don't have enough cash for something you want to buy, don't pay by
card!  Instead, go to an ATM and withdraw the cash you need, then pay
with that.  The bank will know where you withdrew the cash but will not
know what you spent it on.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Labour proposes deregulation of construction
uri: Labour-proposes-deregulation-of-construction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Labour_proposes_deregulation_of_construction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Labour_proposes_deregulation_of_construction)

content:
 
<p>

Labour has gone so far to resemble the Tories that it now proposes
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/15/labour-planning-reform-government-proposals-habitats-keir-starmer">deregulation of construction</a> in much the same way that Tories did in 2021,
</p>
<p>
It is even getting advice from the same lobbyists!
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Government_thugs_using_masks)
title: Government thugs using masks
uri: Government-thugs-using-masks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Government_thugs_using_masks)
content:
 
<p>

Just as the government increasingly punishes protesters for wearing
masks, the deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> that grab people off the street are
<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/08/us/ice-masks-federal-agents-arrest-students/index.html">wearing masks</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Corrupter's attitude towards many government policies
uri: Corrupter-s-attitude-towards-many-government-policies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Corrupter's_attitude_towards_many_government_policies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Corrupter's_attitude_towards_many_government_policies)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter's</a> attitude towards many government policies (those he
doesn't personally care about) is that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/14/trump-qatar-gift">they are merchandise for sale</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Antivaxer in charge proposes to eliminate updated Covid-19 vaccines
uri: Antivaxer-in-charge-proposes-to-eliminate-updated-Covid-19-vaccines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Antivaxer_in_charge_proposes_to_eliminate_updated_Covid-19_vaccines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Antivaxer_in_charge_proposes_to_eliminate_updated_Covid-19_vaccines)

content:
 
<p>

  The antivaxer in charge of vaccination in the US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/vinay-prasad-vaccines-covid">proposes to eliminate updated Covid-19 vaccines</a>
  for the latest version.
  And maybe also
for flu vaccine, which for years had been updated each year for the
variants expected to be most widespread that year.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Briton visiting Salafi Arabia gets 10 years in prison for tweet
uri: Briton-visiting-Salafi-Arabia-gets-10-years-in-prison-for-tweet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Briton_visiting_Salafi_Arabia_gets_10_years_in_prison_for_tweet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Briton_visiting_Salafi_Arabia_gets_10_years_in_prison_for_tweet)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> has sentenced visiting Briton Ahmed al-Doush to
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/12/british-man-being-held-in-saudi-arabia-jailed-for-10-years-say-lawyers">10 years in prison for a tweet</a>.
  (There is no information here about what that tweet <em>said</em>.)
</p>
<p>
The article condemns the UK government for not doing enough to win
freedom for him.  I hesitate to say that, because we cannot assume there
was anything the UK could have done to achieve this.
</p>
<p>
We can all keep ourselves safe from direct violence never going to
<a href="../stay-away-countries.html#saudi">Salafi Arabia</a>.
                Making the US safe from corruption from <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>
would require a different president.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Argument_for_maximum_wealth)
title: Argument for maximum wealth
uri: Argument-for-maximum-wealth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Argument_for_maximum_wealth)
content:
 
<p>

  Arguing that every society should <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/sunday-times-rich-list-extreme-wealth-damage">establish a maximum wealth</a>, 
perhaps around 1,000 times the median wealth.
</p>
</li>

 


title: El Salvador refuses to prove captives still alive
uri: El-Salvador-refuses-to-prove-captives-still-alive
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(El_Salvador_refuses_to_prove_captives_still_alive)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(El_Salvador_refuses_to_prove_captives_still_alive)

content:
 
<p>

  El Salvador <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/16/venezuelans-deported-trump-lawyers-torture">refuses to show Venezuelan lawyers proof</a> that 250 Venezuelan
captives are still alive.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Foreigners that joined Ukrainian army captured by Putin forces
uri: Foreigners-that-joined-Ukrainian-army-captured-by-Putin-forces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Foreigners_that_joined_Ukrainian_army_captured_by_Putin_forces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Foreigners_that_joined_Ukrainian_army_captured_by_Putin_forces)

content:
 
<p>

When the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> capture foreigners who have joined the Ukrainian army,
they label those prisoners as "mercenaries" and declare that to be a crime.
An Australian volunteer who was captured last year has now been
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/16/australian-man-captured-while-fighting-for-ukraine-jailed-for-13-years">sentenced to 13 years of torture in prison</a>.
</p>
<p>
Are those actions war crimes?  I hope they can be prosecuted after the war.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Bully's_deals_with_Arab_countries)
title: Bully's deals with Arab countries
uri: Bully-s-deals-with-Arab-countries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Bully's_deals_with_Arab_countries)
content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully's</a> deals with several Arab countries this week are a message
to Netanyahu that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/16/donald-trump-middle-east-tour-should-terrify-benjamin-netanyahu-usa-israel">US policy no longer focuses on him</a>.
  This might lead to an end of the bombardment and siege.
</p>
</li>

 


title: India punished journalist Raphael Satter
uri: India-punished-journalist-Raphael-Satter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(India_punished_journalist_Raphael_Satter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(India_punished_journalist_Raphael_Satter)

content:
 
<p>

  India <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/13/us-journalist-sues-indian-government-after-losing-his-overseas-citizenship">punished journalist Raphael Satter</a> for his writings by
canceling his Indian residence permit, which he had by right due to
being married to an Indian.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(oklahoma_high_schools_election)
title: High school election curriculum
uri: High-school-election-curriculum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(oklahoma_high_schools_election)
content:
 
<p>
Oklahoma's public schools will add explicit right-wing political
indoctrination to the recently 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/oklahoma-high-schools-election-conspiracy-theories">established Christian indoctrination.</a>
<p>
This is clearly unconstitutional, but it is not clear that we can
trust the right-wing Supreme Court to vote to recognize that.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(vladimir_putin_court_west)
title: Special tribunal
uri: Special-tribunal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(vladimir_putin_court_west)
content:
 
<p>
*The US, UK and other [countries] routinely flout international law.
That's why there’s scant hope for a new tribunal on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/18/vladimir-putin-court-west-international-law">crimes against
Ukraine.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(donald_trump_gulf_states_ai)
title: Gulf state deals
uri: Gulf-state-deals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(donald_trump_gulf_states_ai)
content:
 
<p>
*How [the corrupter]'s "historic" Gulf state deals 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/donald-trump-gulf-states-ai">benefit a handful
of powerful men.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(israel_gaza_ethnic_cleansing)
title: Gaza conflict
uri: Gaza-conflict
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(israel_gaza_ethnic_cleansing)
content:
 
<p>
Israel has intensified the bombing of Gaza, but the famine that it is imposing
will be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/17/israel-gaza-ethnic-cleansing-palestinian-death-toll">even more deadly.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(trump_supreme_court_showdown)
title: Trump vs. the Supremes
uri: Trump-vs-the-Supremes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(trump_supreme_court_showdown)
content:
 
<p>
The wrecker and the Supreme Court seem to be heading for a showdown
about 
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-vs-the-supremes">whether he is a dictator.</a>
<p>
Will some of the wrecker's slavish sycophants in Congress are
willing to put him in his place, as a mere president under a
constitution living in a world of reality?  Or will he succeed
in making a monkey out of the two?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(Green_investments_carbon_Biggies,_EU)
title: Greenwashing funding carbon Biggies, EU
uri: Greenwashing-funding-carbon-Biggies-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(Green_investments_carbon_Biggies,_EU)
content:
 
<p>
*European "green" investments hold
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/18/revealed-european-green-investments-hold-billions-in-fossil-fuel-majors">billions
in fossil fuel majors</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Ukrainian filmmaker declares Stalinesque
uri: Ukrainian-filmmaker-declares-Stalinesque
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(Ukrainian_filmmaker_declares_Stalinesque)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(Ukrainian_filmmaker_declares_Stalinesque)

content:
 
<p>
*Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa decries
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/15/ukrainian-director-sergei-loznitsa-decries-nightmare-of-putin-trump-alliance">‘nightmare’
of Putin-Trump alliance</a>.*
<p>
Things don't seem to be going in that direction just now, and the
would-be emperor has been threatening Putin.  But that could change if
Putin gives him a certain minimum amount of submission.

Another scientist jailed: Harvard Univ.  An interview with Kseniia
Petrova, jailed by the deportation <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> who
<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/russian-born-harvard-researcher-describes-detention-at-ice-facility-and-deportation-fears">falsely
claimed she lied</a> about the frog embryo samples she was bringing to
the Harvard research lab <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_March_2025_(European_universities_rescuing_threatened_scientists_from_US)">where she works</a>.
<p>
The claim that she concealed the frog embryos is absurd.
She not only told the US government about the frog embryos,
she arranged in advance for a license to import them.
That has to be why they targeted her.
<p>
I wonder if <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the
bully's</a> agents chose her as part of a campaign to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/trump-harvard-law-review-investigation">punish
Harvard for not submitting</a> to <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>.

<p>
 


title: World acts hid by Pentagon and media, US
uri: World-acts-hid-by-Pentagon-and-media-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(World_acts_hid_by_Pentagon_and_media,_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(World_acts_hid_by_Pentagon_and_media,_US)

content:
 
<p>
Norman Solomon: the US government and news media have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/01/us-vietnam-war-media">never
dropped their pretense</a> that the US intervention in Vietnam was
moral and admirable.
The <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2002-nov-feb.html#pnid6352">US
was not at all like that</a>, and neither was
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2002-nov-feb.html#pnid4714">the
other side</a>.  Ironically, the
North <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-nov-feb.html#07%20January%202005%20(We%20never%20learned%20why)">Vietnamese
government established</a> a corrupt dictatorship over all of Vietnam
and is now more or
less <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#10_April_2025_(US_relations_undermined,_SE_Asia)">allied
with the US</a> against Vietnam's traditional main enemy, China.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(All_Chatbots_still_falsify_citations)
title: All LLM Chatbots do falsify citations
uri: All-LLM-Chatbots-do-falsify-citations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(All_Chatbots_still_falsify_citations)
content:
 
<p>
A study found that
<a href="https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php">erroneous citations are rife</a>
in the output of
LLM-based search engines.
<p>
Please don't describe them as "intelligence" &mdash; that term spreads
propaganda that makes them seem more capable
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligance">than
they are</a>.


 


title: Another scientist jailed: Harvard Univ.
uri: Another-scientist-jailed-Harvard-Univ
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(Another_scientist_jailed:_Harvard_Univ.)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(Another_scientist_jailed:_Harvard_Univ.)

content:
 
<p>
An interview with Kseniia
Petrova, jailed by the deportation <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> who
<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/russian-born-harvard-researcher-describes-detention-at-ice-facility-and-deportation-fears">falsely
claimed she lied</a> about the frog embryo samples she was bringing to
the Harvard research lab
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_March_2025_(European_universities_rescuing_threatened_scientists_from_US)">where she works</a>.
<p>
The claim that she concealed the frog embryos is absurd.
She not only told the US government about the frog embryos,
she arranged in advance for a license to import them.
That has to be why they targeted her.
<p>
I wonder if <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the
bully's</a> agents chose her as part of a campaign to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Harvard's_battle_with_US_gov)">punish
Harvard for not submitting</a> to <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Safe_protesting)
title: Urgent: Safe protesting
uri: Urgent-Safe-protesting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Safe_protesting)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/protesting-tesla-is-not-terrorism?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progress-america&source=group-progress-america">Insist</a>
that Protesting Tesla is not domestic terrorism.  Denounce any attempt
to arrest and imprison nonviolent activists.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Medical programs under RFK jr.
uri: Urgent-Medical-programs-under-RFK-jr
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Medical_programs_under_RFK_jr.)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Medical_programs_under_RFK_jr.)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and urge per not to let RFK
jr. decide which kinds of government medical programs to keep
and which to cancel.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Non-cooperation a City's freedom
uri: Urgent-Non-cooperation-a-City-s-freedom
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Non-cooperation_a_City's_freedom)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Non-cooperation_a_City's_freedom)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/Stop-ICE-MA/">call on
Worcester City Council</a> to stop city cops from brutalizing the city
for the deportation <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Privatization_of_Science)
title: Urgent: Privatization of Science
uri: Urgent-Privatization-of-Science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Privatization_of_Science)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/nih-and-nsf-stop-cutting-critical-health-research?nowrapper=true">call
on NIH and NSF</a> to stop cutting critical health research.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Pam_Bondi_V_reporters)
title: Urgent: Pam Bondi V reporters
uri: Urgent-Pam-Bondi-V-reporters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Pam_Bondi_V_reporters)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://join.theintercept.com/go/80888?t=1001">phone your congresscritter and senators</a>
to urge them to put a stop to Attorney General Bondi's
campaign to force reporters to rat on their sources.
<p>
For information about that campaign, see
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(US_Dept_of_Justice:_ten_red_flags)">here</a>.


<p>
 


title: Safety of judge that ruled against the bully
uri: Safety-of-judge-that-ruled-against-the-bully
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Safety_of_judge_that_ruled_against_the_bully)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Safety_of_judge_that_ruled_against_the_bully)

content:
 
<p>

*Verbal attacks by [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>] and allies are creating a hostile
climate that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/trump-judges-courts-threats">endangers [safety of judge that ruled against him]</a>,
experts say.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Labour disregarding torture practices by some countries
uri: Labour-disregarding-torture-practices-by-some-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Labour_disregarding_torture_practices_by_some_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Labour_disregarding_torture_practices_by_some_countries)

content:
 
<p>

Labour is reviewing "security" relations with other countries, but
doing it by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/18/labour-must-not-rubber-stamp-torture-policy-say-campaigners">disregarding some countries' torture practices</a> despite
criticizing them while it was not in power.
  These countries include India, Pakistan, Libya, Sri Lanka, Bahrain,
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> and Sierra Leone.
</p>
<p>
Of course, Labour desires favorable treatment by those other countries,
but should not purchase that by treating their torture as acceptable.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker claims certain government grants for climate resilience was "fraud"
uri: Wrecker-claims-certain-government-grants-for-climate-resilience-was-f
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Wrecker_claims_certain_government_grants_for_climate_resilience_was_fraud)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Wrecker_claims_certain_government_grants_for_climate_resilience_was_fraud)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> has declared, arbitrarily, that accepting certain
government grants for climate resilience <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations">was "fraud"</a>.  And he is
trying to use that as an excuse to shut them down immediately by
freezing their bank accounts,
    before any court decisions about the
bizarre accusations.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Putin-ization of party of cold war hawks
uri: Putin-ization-of-party-of-cold-war-hawks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Putin-ization_of_party_of_cold_war_hawks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Putin-ization_of_party_of_cold_war_hawks)

content:
 
<p>

  How the perverter <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/15/republicans-russia-putin-trump">Putin-ized a party of cold war hawks</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Young Britons would rather live in world with no internet
uri: Young-Britons-would-rather-live-in-world-with-no-internet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Young_Britons_would_rather_live_in_world_with_no_internet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Young_Britons_would_rather_live_in_world_with_no_internet)

content:
 
<p>

  Almost half of Britons age 16 to 21 would rather <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/20/almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds">live in a world with no internet</a>.
</p>
<p>
Nonfree software which is designed to be malware plays a role in many
of the things they find painful.  By rejecting nonfree software and
SaaSS, they could avoid the worst aspects of today's internet.  Users
would have more control about how programs treat them.  With free
software for client programs, they would have more control over how
services treat them &mdash; users could fix dark patterns and defeat
attempts to addict them.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(List_of_threats_to_survival_of_bees)
title: List of threats to survival of bees
uri: List-of-threats-to-survival-of-bees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(List_of_threats_to_survival_of_bees)
content:
 
<p>

  Compiling a list of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/20/bees-threats-war-microplastics">all the threats</a> to the survival of bees.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Britain, France and Canada attacked Israel's expansion of its war
uri: Britain-France-and-Canada-attacked-Israel-s-expansion-of-its-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Britain,_France_and_Canada_attacked_Israel's_expansion_of_its_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Britain,_France_and_Canada_attacked_Israel's_expansion_of_its_war)

content:
 
<p>

*Britain, France and Canada attacked Israel’s expansion of its war as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/19/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-take-control-gaza-uk-france-canada-threaten-action">disproportionate</a>, described conditions in Gaza as "intolerable" and
threatened a "concrete" response if Israel’s campaign continues.*
</p>
<p>
This looks like the start of a gradual diplomatic effort.
That might have made sense 2 months ago, but now that people
in Gaza are on the edge of starving, it is too slow.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Attack on nonprofits removed from House dooH niboR bill
uri: Attack-on-nonprofits-removed-from-House-dooH-niboR-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Attack_on_nonprofits_removed_from_House_dooH_niboR_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Attack_on_nonprofits_removed_from_House_dooH_niboR_bill)

content:
 
<p>

  The attack on nonprofit organizations has been <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/19/nonprofit-killer-trump-big-beautiful-bill/">removed</a> from the House
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a> bill,
   which still imposes large and deadly cuts on medical and food aid
for the poor and grants large tax cuts to the rich.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Amnesty International declared 'undesirable organisation'
uri: Amnesty-International-declared-undesirable-organisation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Amnesty_International_declared_'undesirable_organisation')

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Amnesty_International_declared_'undesirable_organisation')

content:
 
<p>

  *[Amnesty International] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/19/amnesty-international-vows-to-continue-its-work-after-russia-ban">declared ‘undesirable organisation’</a> amid
Kremlin crackdown on critics, journalists and activists.*
It vows to continue its work anyway.
</p>
<p>
This is what the would-be dictator wants to do in the US.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(CEO_of_CBS_news_is_resigning)
title: CEO of CBS news is resigning
uri: CEO-of-CBS-news-is-resigning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(CEO_of_CBS_news_is_resigning)
content:
 
<p>

  The CEO of CBS News is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/19/wendy-mcmahon-cbs-news-steps-down-trump-lawsuit">resigning</a>.
  One must suspect that the corporation
that owns CBS wants to let <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> censor CBS News.
</p>
</li>

 


title: List of environmentally damaging budget cuts
uri: List-of-environmentally-damaging-budget-cuts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(List_of_environmentally_damaging_budget_cuts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(List_of_environmentally_damaging_budget_cuts)

content:
 
<p>

  A <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/house-budget-committee-wrangles-with-reconciliation-bill-disconnected-from-reality">list of environmentally damaging budget cuts</a> in the Republicans'
budget bill.
</p>
</li>

 


title: New Orleans Thugs operating 200 real-time face recognition cameras
uri: New-Orleans-Thugs-operating-200-real-time-face-recognition-cameras
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(New_Orleans_Thugs_operating_200_real-time_face_recognition_cameras)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(New_Orleans_Thugs_operating_200_real-time_face_recognition_cameras)

content:
 
<p>

  New Orleans <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/aclu-and-aclu-of-louisiana-sound-alarm-on-new-orleans-police-departments-secret-use-of-real-time-facial-recognition">operating 200 real-time face recognition cameras</a>,
violating local laws.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Cash_crucial_for_emergencies)
title: Cash crucial for emergencies
uri: Cash-crucial-for-emergencies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Cash_crucial_for_emergencies)
content:
 
<p>

  Sweden has recognized that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/16/sweden-cash-digital-payments-electronic-banking-security">cash is crucial in emergencies</a>, and now
encourages everyone to keep a supply of cash for emergency use
and to use some regularly.
</p>
<p>
This is a victory against the danger of mass surveillance.
</p>
<p>
The central bank now urges the government to require some
businesses and public agencies to accept cash.  But there is no
guarantee that such a law will be passed, or that it will cover
enough places that ask for payment.
</p>
<p>
You can help pressure businesses to accept cash.
Go to a business ready to buy something carrying a copy
(or at least URL) of the statement in favor using cash,
and offer to pay cash.  If the business refuses to accept it,
give it the statement and then say, "I'll return some day
and see if you will accept cash from me."
</p>
<p>
It would be a good thing to establish a national organization
to promote cash payment, and present anonymity as one of
its advantages.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Confusion from failure of communication on safety issues
uri: Confusion-from-failure-of-communication-on-safety-issues
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Confusion_from_failure_of_communication_on_safety_issues)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Confusion_from_failure_of_communication_on_safety_issues)

content:
 
<p>

When scientists talk about a "conservative" estimate of future change,
they mean a low estimate of the amount of change.  When safety
engineers talk about a "conservative" estimate, they mean the largest
plausible change, on which safety plans ought to be based.
</p>
<p>
This failure of communication confuses governments about how to plan
safety measures sufficient to protect the population and critical
facilities.
</p>
<p>
I don't know of an article I can link to to give more explanation,
but I would be glad if you find one and tell me about it.
For me to link to a URL, it needs to be accessible anonymously
without running any nonfree JavaScript code.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Burning now biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests
uri: Burning-now-biggest-cause-of-destruction-of-tropical-forests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Burning_now_biggest_cause_of_destruction_of_tropical_forests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Burning_now_biggest_cause_of_destruction_of_tropical_forests)

content:
 
<p>

  *Burning, worsened by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/21/fires-record-loss-forests-global-heating-agriculture-logging-brazil-bolivia-aoe">overtook farming and logging</a> [in
2024] as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Proposed head of IRS accused of corruption
uri: Proposed-head-of-IRS-accused-of-corruption
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Proposed_head_of_IRS_accused_of_corruption)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Proposed_head_of_IRS_accused_of_corruption)

content:
 
<p>

  The proposed head of the IRS is <a href="https://www.levernews.com/ceo-says-trumps-irs-pick-promised-big-benefits/">accused of corruption</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Ignoramus doesn't know answers to basic policy questions
uri: Ignoramus-doesn-t-know-answers-to-basic-policy-questions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Ignoramus_doesn't_know_answers_to_basic_policy_questions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Ignoramus_doesn't_know_answers_to_basic_policy_questions)

content:
 
<p>

  The ignoramus <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/09/i-dont-know-president-donald-trump-response-to-questions/">does not seem to know the answers to basic questions</a>
about his favorite policy initiatives.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Law_to_protect_consumers_under_threat)
title: Law to protect consumers under threat
uri: Law-to-protect-consumers-under-threat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Law_to_protect_consumers_under_threat)
content:
 
<p>

  Republicans in Congress <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/29/cheaters-and-liars/#caveat-emptor-brainworms">want to repeal the law</a> that allows the FTC to
punish companies from cheating you.
</p>
<p>
This is on top of replacing the head of the FTC with someone who won't
necessarily want to stop companies from cheating you.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#22_May_2025_(Talk_in_Milan,_Italy)
title: Talk in Milan, Italy
uri: Talk-in-Milan-Italy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#22_May_2025_(Talk_in_Milan,_Italy)
content:
 
<p>

I will speak at 17:15 on May 26 in the Politecnico di Milano, in
Milan, Italy at Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, Room 9.1.2.
<p>
Topic: Computing freedom, software, and services
<p>
We understand that the uses of computing can be unjust.
Most do not realize that the _mechanisms_ of computing
can be unjust at their own level in their own ways.
<p>
A nonfree program is one that that the users do not control.  If that
does your computing, its owners control your computing.  This is the
basic idea of the free software movement -- but what about using
services?
<p>
When you use a service to do your own computing, the service's owner
controls that computing.  If that owner isn't you, this is unjust.  BY
contrast, if your computer talks to a store's server on your behalf,
to arrange a deal between you and the store, your side of that
can be fully under your control.

Society and powerful institutions lure and pressure people into a
tangled web of online dis-services and nonfree software which may seem
impossible to escape.  But you can start by rejecting a few of them.
Saying no even once is helping!


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_May_2025_(Dark_new_Gaza-phase_not_OK_with_UK)
title: Dark new Gaza-phase. NOT OK with UK
uri: Dark-new-Gaza-phase-NOT-OK-with-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_May_2025_(Dark_new_Gaza-phase_not_OK_with_UK)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/20/uk-suspends-trade-talks-with-israel-repellant-extremism">UK
suspends trade talks</a> with Israel and attacks "repellent"
extremism.* Finally this is starting to be te kind of pressure that
could make Israel stop.
<p>
This accompanies moral condemnation of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/21/lammys-rebuke-of-israel-marks-turning-point-after-weeks-of-growing-frustration">Israel's
plan to conquer Gaza</a> and forcibly expel the population.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_May_2025_(New_Palestinian_state__UK,_FRA)
title: New Palestinian state? UK, FRA
uri: New-Palestinian-state-UK-FRA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_May_2025_(New_Palestinian_state__UK,_FRA)
content:
 
<p>
The UK and France are negotiating about
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/21/talks-to-start-on-british-recognition-of-state-of-palestine">recognizing
Palestine</a> as a state.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_May_2025_(Fracking_fluid_ingredients)
title: Fracking fluid disasters, CO
uri: Fracking-fluid-disasters-CO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_May_2025_(Fracking_fluid_ingredients)
content:
 
<p>
*US oil firms pumping &hellip; chemicals into ground and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/us-oil-firms-chemicals-colorado">not
fully reporting</a> [which ones].*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_May_2025_(National_Weather_Service_dumbed)
title: National Weather Service dumbed
uri: National-Weather-Service-dumbed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_May_2025_(National_Weather_Service_dumbed)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">The muskrat</a> fired
10% of the staff of the National Weather Service, and the staff
shortage
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/trump-layoffs-nws">hampers
it from protecting</a> Americans from dangerous weather.
<p>
This has
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#10_March_2025_(US_National_Weather_Service)">already</a>
done real <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#10_July_2023_(Twitter_reports_disrupted_from_storm_spotters_to_US_Weather_Service)">damage</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_May_2025_(Urgent:_Hope_for_Homeownership_Act)
title: Urgent: Hope for Homeownership Act
uri: Urgent-Hope-for-Homeownership-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_May_2025_(Urgent:_Hope_for_Homeownership_Act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to support the Hope for
Homeownership Act, which would prevent hedge funds form buying
up large numbers of houses and making them unavailable for people
to buy as residences.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: DOJ plans to control political attacks
uri: DOJ-plans-to-control-political-attacks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_May_2025_(DOJ_may_get_to_control_political_attacks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_May_2025_(DOJ_may_get_to_control_political_attacks)

content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> has
eliminated a regulation
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/19/2323193/-Trump-takes-another-step-to-further-neuter-Congress?detail=emailaction2">requiring
consulting</a> a special group before investigating or indicting a
public official.
<p>
This would facilitate bullying officials by threatening arbitrarily to
prosecute them.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Immediate_deportations)
title: Immediate deportations
uri: Immediate-deportations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Immediate_deportations)
content:
 
<p>
The deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> wait outside the door of the buildings where
immigration courts meet, so that they can <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/21/ice-agents-courts-arrests-immigrants-deport/">immediately arrest and
deport</a> people who lose their cases.
<p>
That way, the victims won't have a chance to peacefully arrange their
own departure, pack up their possessions, or say goodbye to their
families.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(ICC_sanctions)
title: ICC sanctions
uri: ICC-sanctions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(ICC_sanctions)
content:
 
<p>
*<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a> sanctions on ICC prosecutor have <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/15/world/trumps-sanctions-icc-prosecutor-have-halted-tribunals-work/">halted tribunal's work</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(UK_fascist_in_charge_of_vetting)
title: UK fascist in charge of vetting
uri: UK-fascist-in-charge-of-vetting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(UK_fascist_in_charge_of_vetting)
content:
 
<p>
A candidate in the UK's fascist party who praised Hitler and Assad has
been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/16/reform-uk-candidate-who-praised-hitler-and-assad-put-in-charge-of-vetting">put
in charge of deciding who is an acceptable candidate for that
party</a>.
<p>
This follows <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> approach in the US: a strategy of radical
rejection of reality, to a point verging on insanity.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Space-based_nuclear_weapon_defense)
title: Space-based nuclear weapon defense
uri: Space-based-nuclear-weapon-defense
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Space-based_nuclear_weapon_defense)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a> wants to
build <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/trump-appoints-michael-guetlin-golden-dome">space-based
nuclear weapon defenses</a> that would cost a trillion dollars (spread
over 20 years).
<p>
Even if this system works against nearly all of the attacking
missiles, it won't stop 100% of them.  It doesn't require many nuclear
explosions to cause a nuclear winter and destroy both sides (and
the rest of civilization).
<p>
However, the system could be effective deterrence for a nuclear first
strike intended to destroy the US nuclear capability.  That might
assure a nuclear war between great powers never happens.
<p>
But is that indeed likely ever to happen?  Maybe its inherent dangers
are enough to deter it.  Would that first strike itself start a
nuclear winter and destroy both sides?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(UK_defense)
title: UK defense
uri: UK-defense
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(UK_defense)
content:
 
<p>
*[So-called "AI"] to play increasing role in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/20/uk-armed-forces-artificial-intelligence-ai-strategic-defence-review-john-healey">UK armed forces</a>, defence
secretary says.*
<p>
I can see it now.  "Oops!  Three of the four divisions we sent to
Poland do not actually exist, and the other one was ordered to Finland
at the same time."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Condemnation_and_punishment)
title: Condemnation and punishment
uri: Condemnation-and-punishment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Condemnation_and_punishment)
content:
 
<p>
Countries that provide arms to Israel, and their leaders since 8 Oct
2023, may face condemnation and
punishment <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/20/judgment-israel-gaza-benjamin-netanyahu-enablers">for
supporting Israel in its mass killing</a> in Gaza.

<p>
 


title: Domestic violence aid programs targeted
uri: Domestic-violence-aid-programs-targeted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Domestic_violence_aid_programs_targeted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Domestic_violence_aid_programs_targeted)

content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> is targeting programs
that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/20/trump-retaliation-women">aid
victims of domestic violence</a>.
<p>
Why?  Could it be simple performative misogyny?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Global_heating)
title: Global heating
uri: 2025-05-25-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Global_heating)
content:
 
<p>
The US secretary of the interior theoretically recognizes that global
heating occurs,
but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/20/doug-burgum-climate-crisis-interior-secretary">denies
that it is happening already</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(AI_therapy)
title: "AI" therapy
uri: AI-therapy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(AI_therapy)
content:
 
<p>
Big Tech wants you
to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/665685/ai-therapy-meta-chatbot-surveillance-risks-trump">share
your private thoughts with chatbots</a> -- while backing a government
with contempt for privacy.
That's not to mention that chatbots can be set up to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#30_September_2023_(Identity_politics_law)">implement or
inculcate prejudices</a>.
<p>
Please don't propagate the error
of <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligance">referring
to chatbots as "AI"</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Porn_ban)
title: Porn ban
uri: Porn-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Porn_ban)
content:
 
<p>
A <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magat</a> senator has proposed a bill that would make it a crime
to <a href="https://gizmodo.com/gop-senator-introduces-bill-to-make-all-porn-a-federal-crime-following-project-2025-playbook-2000600994">distribute
or even own</a> anything that his religious extremism would call
"obscene".  Including, arguably, The Game of Thrones.
<p>
I think that distributing copies of The Game of Thrones should not be
a crime <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org">unless they are
perverted by DRM</a>.
<p>
As for web site age checks that block access based on the user's age,
I think they are acceptable provided they convey no information about
the user to anyone <i>aside from</o> whether <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> qualifies according to
the age check.  One way to implement this with free software is with a
variant of <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/taler/">GNU Taler</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Young_couple_assassinated,_D.C.)
title: Young couple assassinated, D.C.
uri: Young-couple-assassinated-D-C
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Young_couple_assassinated,_D.C.)
content:
 
<p>
Kenneth Roth: shooting embassy workers to make a point about Gaza
is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/22/israel-embassy-shooting">inexcusable</a>.
It is also self-defeating, since Netanyahu is citing that killing
to try to discredit all the others who condemn the bombardment and siege
of Gaza.  Irrational as that argument is, it will have an effect.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Big_Pharma_subterfuge_campaign,_US)
title: Big Pharma subterfuge campaign, US
uri: Big-Pharma-subterfuge-campaign-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Big_Pharma_subterfuge_campaign,_US)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.levernews.com/the-pharma-puppets-keeping-your-drug-prices-high/">At
least six organizations</a> that claim to champion patient rights have
deep financial and operational ties to Big Pharma and work to advance
corporate profits.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Babies_and_elderly_starving,_Gaza)
title: Babies and elderly starving, Gaza
uri: Babies-and-elderly-starving-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Babies_and_elderly_starving,_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
*If aid doesn’t enter Gaza now, 14,000 babies may die.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/22/israel-gaza-aid-plan-displace-control-palestinians">UN peacekeepers
must step in</a>.*
<p>
The UN General Assembly has the power to do this as a
last resort.  I think the time for a last resort came a year ago.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Urgent:_Big_Ugly_Bill_in_Senate)
title: Urgent: Big Ugly Bill in Senate
uri: Urgent-Big-Ugly-Bill-in-Senate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Urgent:_Big_Ugly_Bill_in_Senate)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and call on the to vote against
the <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#magat">magats'</a> Big Bad Bill.
<p>
Robert Reich summarizes
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-is">facts
about the Big Bad Bill</a>.
Cutting Medicaid and food stamps are just the start of the suffering.
<p>
One thing not mentioned there is that the bill would
automatically cause a large cut in Medicaid because
<a href="https://democrats-budget.house.gov/news/press-releases/cbo-confirms-gop-budget-bill-triggers-medicare-cuts">
it would increase the federal deficit</a>.

<p>
The bill would also
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-hidden-provision-in-the-big-ugly">block
federal courts from enforcing court orders</a> by declaring the
officials who ignore them in contempt of court.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Labour_backlash_concerning_poor)
title: Labour backlash concerning poor
uri: Labour-backlash-concerning-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Labour_backlash_concerning_poor)
content:
 
<p>
Massive disapproval within the Labour Party, inside and outside if
Parliament, compelled Starmer to cancel <em>some</em> of the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/22/the-guardian-view-on-starmers-u-turn-change-direction-or-keep-losing-support">plans
to reduce support for poor people</a>.
<p>
While the decision affects just one issue, aid for home heating,
he may have to reprioritize more broadly and serve the non-rich.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Surveillance_state_Orwellian_US)
title: Surveillance state Orwellian US
uri: Surveillance-state-Orwellian-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Surveillance_state_Orwellian_US)
content:
 
<p>
*U.S.
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/">Spy
Agencies</a> Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive
Personal Data.*
<p>
<em>Your</em> data will probably be available to them, because you use
systems that collect the data about your movements and your actions.
That data collection creates an Orwellian system, whose results we see
here.
<p>
I reject nearly all such systems because I am against
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">the
Orwellian society</a> that they create.  The database of mobile phone
location data can't have any information in it about me, since I have
never had one.
<p>
Please join me in rejecting these systems and demanding that they <em>not
collect data</em> about who people talk with, where people go, and what
they do there.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Dissidents_of_China)
title: Dissidents of China
uri: Dissidents-of-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Dissidents_of_China)
content:
 
<p>
*China accused of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/23/china-mental-health-law-lock-up-critics">using
mental health law</a> to lock up critics.*
<p>
Various dictatorial countries have
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_October_2013_(Moscow_protester_sentenced_to_indefinite_imprisonment)">used
this approach</a> to jail people who
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#22_October_2014_(Putting_dissidents_in_mental_hospitals)">criticize
the government</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Urgent:_block_flying_bribe)
title: Urgent: block flying bribe
uri: Urgent-block-flying-bribe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Urgent:_block_flying_bribe)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-congress-block-trumps-400-million-bribe?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">call
on Congress</a> to block Trump's $400 million flying bribe.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Urgent:_Refocus_FBI_on_real_crime)
title: Urgent: Refocus FBI on real crime
uri: Urgent-Refocus-FBI-on-real-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Urgent:_Refocus_FBI_on_real_crime)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-congress-hold-trumps-fbi-accountable?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">call
on Congress</a>
to have the FBI investigate real
criminals, especially abusive corporations, not immigrants who have
done no wrong to anyone.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Outlawing_the_free_press,_HUN)
title: Outlawing the free press, HUN
uri: Outlawing-the-free-press-HUN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Outlawing_the_free_press,_HUN)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/21/eu-urged-to-act-over-hungarian-legislation-which-could-restrict-free-press">EU
urged to act</a> over Hungary's plans to "effectively outlaw free
press."*
<p>
The question is, what can the EU actually do?  Under the EU treaties,
intervening in a member country's "security" arrangements is very
difficult.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(UK_defence)
title: UK defence
uri: UK-defence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(UK_defence)
content:
 
<p>
*[So-called "AI"] to play increasing role in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/20/uk-armed-forces-artificial-intelligence-ai-strategic-defence-review-john-healey">UK
armed forces</a>, defence
secretary says.*
<p>
I can see it now.  "Oops!  Three of the four divisions we sent to
Poland do not actually exist, and the other one was ordered to Finland
at the same time."

<p>
 


title: Judge ordered not to deport anyone to South Sudan
uri: Judge-ordered-not-to-deport-anyone-to-South-Sudan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Judge_ordered_not_to_deport_anyone_to_South_Sudan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Judge_ordered_not_to_deport_anyone_to_South_Sudan)

content:
 
<p>

A judge ordered the government not to deport anyone to South Sudan
without the court hearing that every deportee is entitled to, but they
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/trump-deportations-south-sudan">did it anyway</a>.  He has ruled that they violated the court order.
</p>
<p>
  South Sudan is on the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/21/south-sudan-thrust-under-spotlight-after-attempted-us-deportations">edge of civil war</a>,
   and is not a safe place to deport anyone to.
</p>
<p>
The judge will proceed to consider punishment for the officials responsible.
I fear that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> will stage an autogolpe by defying this.
On the other hand, if the judge backs down, that would give <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>
the same victory.
</p>
<p>
Perhaps the judge will impose a small but symbolic penalty, which would
seem absurd to defy.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israeli troops fire 'warning shots' at diplomats
uri: Israeli-troops-fire-warning-shots-at-diplomats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Israeli_troops_fire_'warning_shots'_at_diplomats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Israeli_troops_fire_'warning_shots'_at_diplomats)

content:
 
<p>

  *Israeli troops <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/21/israeli-troops-fire-warning-shots-25-diplomats-visiting-occupied-west-bank">fire ‘warning shots’</a> at 25 diplomats [representing 31
countries] visiting [Jenin in the] occupied West Bank.*
</p>
<p>
The Israeli government says they were "warning shots".  What sort of
government considers it appropriate to use "warning shots" to ask a
group of diplomats to go down the other street?  And what did Israel
not want the diplomats to see?
</p>
<p>
The visit was arranged with the Palestinian Authority.  Perhaps
the intended warning was, "Don't talk with the PA."
</p>
</li>

 


title: Perception of bullshitter's welcome to "refugee" Afrikaners
uri: Perception-of-bullshitter-s-welcome-to-refugee-Afrikaners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Perception_of_bullshitter's_welcome_to_refugee_Afrikaners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Perception_of_bullshitter's_welcome_to_refugee_Afrikaners)

content:
 
<p>

How <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter's</a> welcome to "refugee" Afrikaners is perceived in
South Africa &mdash; <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/21/south-africa-trump-afriforum-white-refugees/">mostly as a butt of ridicule</a>.
</p>
<p>
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  <a href="/articles/bigotry.html">I
denounce bigotry</a>, and normally I will not link to articles that
practice it.  But I make exceptions for some articles because I
consider them important &mdash; and I label them like this.
</p>
</li>

 


title: If you're concerned about the US national debt, tax the rich!
uri: If-you-re-concerned-about-the-US-national-debt-tax-the-rich
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(If_you're_concerned_about_the_US_national_debt,_tax_the_rich!)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(If_you're_concerned_about_the_US_national_debt,_tax_the_rich!)

content:
 
<p>

If you're concerned about the US national debt, or about effects of others'
concern about the national debt, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/21/us-credit-rating-debt-fix">tax the rich</a>!
</p>
</li>

 


title: Britons want legal requirement for acceptance of cash
uri: Britons-want-legal-requirement-for-acceptance-of-cash
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Britons_want_legal_requirement_for_acceptance_of_cash)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Britons_want_legal_requirement_for_acceptance_of_cash)

content:
 
<p>

  Most Britons <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/mar/16/uk-high-street-chains-restaurants-cash-payments">want a legal requirement</a> for businesses and services to
accept cash payments.
  If you live in the UK &mdash; or anywhere else &mdash; please support the
cause of cash.  You can do it through organizing for such a law.
And you can do it through direct action by paying cash.
</p>
<p>
You can also turn around and walk out of a business if it won't let
you pay cash.  That is what I do.
</p>
<p>
Another good way to respond to refusal to accept cash
is to ask other customers, those who don't see the reason
to pay cash, to accept your money in cash,
then pay it to the business using a card.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Head of Committee for Public Safety did not know what Habeas Corpus means
uri: Head-of-Committee-for-Public-Safety-did-not-know-what-Habeas-Corpus-me
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Head_of_Committee_for_Public_Safety_did_not_know_what_Habeas_Corpus_means)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Head_of_Committee_for_Public_Safety_did_not_know_what_Habeas_Corpus_means)

content:
 
<p>

The head of the Committee for Public Safety, aka Department of Homeland
Security, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405144/habeas-corpus-noem-dhs-senate">did not know what Habeas Corpus means</a>.
</p>
<p>
I suppose that she never was interested in learning about systems to
protect people from arbitrary arrest and punishment.
</p>
</li>

 


title: RFK Jr's distorted report on health of US children
uri: RFK-Jr-s-distorted-report-on-health-of-US-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(RFK_Jr's_distorted_report_on_health_of_US_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(RFK_Jr's_distorted_report_on_health_of_US_children)

content:
 
<p>

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

 


title: Brazil's congress passed law to dismantle regulations
uri: Brazil-s-congress-passed-law-to-dismantle-regulations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Brazil's_congress_passed_law_to_dismantle_regulations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Brazil's_congress_passed_law_to_dismantle_regulations)

content:
 
<p>

  Brazil's congress has passed a law to "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/22/brazil-environment-devastation-bill">dismantle regulations</a> in
farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread
destruction."
</p>
</li>

 


title: Children and elderly dying from starvation in Gaza
uri: Children-and-elderly-dying-from-starvation-in-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Children_and_elderly_dying_from_starvation_in_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Children_and_elderly_dying_from_starvation_in_Gaza)

content:
 
<p>

  *Children and elderly are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/22/children-elderly-dying-starvation-gaza-health-minister">dying from starvation in Gaza</a>, says health minister.*
</p>
<p>
Meanwhile, the insufficient supplies of food aid are somehow snagged and not
reaching the starving Palestinians.  I have no information on the cause
of the snag, but I have to suspect it is no accident.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Keywords in emails of Microsoft employees arriving late or not at all
uri: Keywords-in-emails-of-Microsoft-employees-arriving-late-or-not-at-all
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Keywords_in_emails_of_Microsoft_employees_arriving_late_or_not_at_all)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Keywords_in_emails_of_Microsoft_employees_arriving_late_or_not_at_all)

content:
 
<p>

*[Microsoft] Employees on Wednesday began noticing that email messages
sent from their company account containing a handful of keywords
related to [the war in Gaza] [<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/microsoft-israel-palestine-censor-employee-emails/">arrived late or not at all</a>].
</p>
</li>

 


title: Bullshitter's "evidence" for accusing South Africa for practicing bigotry
uri: Bullshitter-s-evidence-for-accusing-South-Africa-for-practicing-bigo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Bullshitter's_evidence_for_accusing_South_Africa_for_practicing_bigotry)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Bullshitter's_evidence_for_accusing_South_Africa_for_practicing_bigotry)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter's</a> "evidence" for accusing South Africa for practicing bigotry
against whites is, as usual, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/23/trumps-evidence-of-south-africa-white-genocide-contains-images-from-democratic-republic-of-congo">full of bullshit</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Hong_Kong's_random_tax_audits)
title: Hong Kong's "random" tax audits
uri: Hong-Kong-s-random-tax-audits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Hong_Kong's_random_tax_audits)
content:
 
<p>

  Hong Kong's "random" income tax audits seem to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/22/hong-kong-authorities-disrupt-independent-press-inland-revenue-tax-audits">fall strangely often</a> on
independent journalism.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#26_May_2025_(TV'd_ambush_in_oval_office:_Ramaphosa)
title: TV'd ambush in oval office: Ramaphosa
uri: TV-d-ambush-in-oval-office-Ramaphosa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#26_May_2025_(TV'd_ambush_in_oval_office:_Ramaphosa)
content:
 
<p>
*[The bully]'s ambush of South Africa’s president shows
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/23/trump-ramaphosa-south-africa-meeting">how
low the US has fallen</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_May_2025_(For_Bukele_a_gang_deal_with_US)
title: For Bukele a gang deal with US
uri: For-Bukele-a-gang-deal-with-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_May_2025_(For_Bukele_a_gang_deal_with_US)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor</a>
hates gangs, right?  Not when his buddy
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/trump-administration-ms-13-leaders-criminal-charges-deportation">Bukele
makes a deal with the gang</a>.
<p>
He doesn't really hate MS-13 at all; he just uses that
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_March_2025_(deported_venezuelans_tattoos)">as
an excuse</a> to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#3_April_2025_(US_has_disappeared_people)">persecute
people</a> by
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_April_2025_(Unusual_tattoo_listed_as_supposed_gang_tattoo)">accusing
them</a> of being members of it.


 


title: False claims of misuse of funds against colleges
uri: False-claims-of-misuse-of-funds-against-colleges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_May_2025_(False_claims_of_misuse_of_funds_against_colleges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_May_2025_(False_claims_of_misuse_of_funds_against_colleges)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>
urges
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a>
to <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/21/2323419/-Here-is-the-latest-way-the-Trump-administration-is-attacking-colleges?detail=emailaction1">file
false claims of misuse of federal funds</a>,
under the False Claims Act, against US colleges, in the hope of overwhelming
them with frivolous lawsuits.
And &mdash; who knows &mdash; a few of those lawsuits might by strange chance
succeed,
</p>
</li>

 


title: Media's reporting on Biden and the Bully
uri: Media-s-reporting-on-Biden-and-the-Bully
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_May_2025_(Media's_reporting_on_Biden_and_the_Bully)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_May_2025_(Media's_reporting_on_Biden_and_the_Bully)

content:
 
<p>

*Yes, the media’s Biden coverage was flawed. But its reporting on [the
bully] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/trump-biden-election-media-coverage">was
far worse</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Anti-Defamation League lobbying against handing out leaflets
uri: Anti-Defamation-League-lobbying-against-handing-out-leaflets
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_May_2025_(Anti-Defamation_League_lobbying_against_handing_out_leaflets)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_May_2025_(Anti-Defamation_League_lobbying_against_handing_out_leaflets)

content:
 
<p>

The Anti-Defamation League
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/23/sandy-springs-free-speech-8-feet-buffer-zone-consent-protest-adl/">lobbies
towns for laws</a> restricting showing people
signs or handling them leaflets.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Gaza_war_tipping_point)
title: Gaza war tipping point
uri: Gaza-war-tipping-point
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Gaza_war_tipping_point)
content:
 
<p>
Arguing for military intervention to stop
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/23/military-invervention-israel-gaza-war">the genocide in Gaza</a>.
<p>
Since Netanyahu's latest plan encompasses killing a large fraction of
Palestinians in Gaza, and expelling the rest. I am now convinced that
the term "genocide" correctly applies.
<p>
I have noticed a tendency to think that accusing people of a campaign
of killing is not a very grave accusation unless one calls it
"genocide".  I disagree.  I think that any campaign to kill large
numbers of people is an enormous crime.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Attack_on_Harvard_U._foreign_students)
title: Attack on Harvard U. foreign students
uri: Attack-on-Harvard-U-foreign-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Attack_on_Harvard_U._foreign_students)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully's</a>
henchman arbitrarily
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/trump-harvard-international-students">revoked
Harvard's authorization</a> to enroll foreign students and enable them
to have visas.
<p>
This would have done great harm both to Harvard and the 6000 or so
foreign students now there.
<p>
Harvard did sue, and (I read) obtained a temporary court order
to block the attack.  (I wonder if the Big Bad Bill would enable
officials
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_May_2025_(Urgent:_Big_Ugly_Bill_in_Senate)">to
disregard that temporary order</a>.)  But even if that order can be
enforced and becomes permanent nationwide in a few months, that won't
stop foreign students from reconsidering whether to take the risk of
enrolling in any US university.
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
seems to regard US universities as a center of influence, which he
therefore is trying various methods to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_March_2025_(Freedom_of_speech_hit)">damage</a>
and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_May_2025_(Universities_face_attacks)">weaken</a>
them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Hate_killings,_Jewish_meuseum,_D.C.)
title: Hate killings, Jewish museum, D.C.
uri: Hate-killings-Jewish-museum-D-C
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Hate_killings,_Jewish_meuseum,_D.C.)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/23/gaza-conflict-israel-palestinians-jewish-museum">A
biblical hatred</a> is engulfing both sides in the Gaza conflict
&mdash; and blinding them to reason.*
<p>
The Killing of two people is not comparable in magnitude to the killing
of tens or hundreds of thousands; the latter is a campaign of
atrocities while the former is at most one.  But the article is right
in insisting out that we must recognize and condemn each side's deadly
violence for what it is, and not allow either one to excuse the other.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Urgent:_Halt_weapons_sales_to_Israel)
title: Urgent: Halt weapons sales to Israel
uri: Urgent-Halt-weapons-sales-to-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Urgent:_Halt_weapons_sales_to_Israel)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.ourrevolution.com/sign/stop_horrors_in_gaza/">call
on Congress</a> to halt the weapons sales to Israel fueling the
massacre in Gaza.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Stop arresting public officials
uri: Urgent-Stop-arresting-public-officials
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_arresting_public_officials)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_arresting_public_officials)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call for stopping the US arrests of public officials
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/send-message/stop-abuse-power-stop-unfounded-arrests-public-officials">for
disagreeing with the wrecker</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(West_Bank_village_depopulated,_ISR)
title: West Bank village depopulated, ISR
uri: West-Bank-village-depopulated-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(West_Bank_village_depopulated,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
*Israeli
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/23/israeli-settlers-force-palestinians-leave-west-bank-village">"settlers"
force</a> about 150 Palestinians to leave their West Bank village.*
<p>
This describe one instance of a usual and frequent pattern.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Big_Bill_in_US_Senate_dire,_perilous)
title: Big Bill in US Senate dire, perilous
uri: Big-Bill-in-US-Senate-dire-perilous
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Big_Bill_in_US_Senate_dire,_perilous)
content:
 
<p>
The Big Bad Bill's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/trump-republican-bill-food-health-cuts">cuts
in Medicaid and SNAP</a> will kill Americans, advocacy groups warn.
<p>
The implied automatic cuts in Medicare (not mentioned in the article)
will kill other Americans &mdash; those who are old, have medical problems,
and don't have a comfortable sum of money to pay for treating them.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Chaos_in_medical_care_for_veterans)
title: Chaos in medical care for veterans
uri: Chaos-in-medical-care-for-veterans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Chaos_in_medical_care_for_veterans)
content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully's</a>
attack has strewn
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/veterans-affairs-doge-musk">chaos
in medical care for US veterans</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Republican congress members hiding from workers who lost jobs
uri: Republican-congress-members-hiding-from-workers-who-lost-jobs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Republican_congress_members_hiding_from_workers_who_lost_jobs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Republican_congress_members_hiding_from_workers_who_lost_jobs)

content:
 
<p>

*[Republican] Members of Congress are accused of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/republicans-fired-federal-employees-congress">hiding
out</a> when workers have
sought answers on why their jobs were axed.*
</p>
<p>
Why so Republicans persist so firmly in supporting something they know
their constituents loathe?  It's not as if they were ignorant of that
sentiment.  So there is to be a reason.
</p>
<p>
I have two theories:
</p>
<ol>
<li>
They are afraid that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a>
will <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_April_2025_(Republican's_terrified_to_cross_Trump)">commit
violence against them</a> and their
relatives.</br>
I can understand being afraid of violence, but if that were the only
reason, they could quietly resign and be safe.

</li>
<li>
They have deals sewed up to get millions of dollars each, perhaps as
consultants to some corporations, if they deliver fully on
billionaires' demands.  It may be painful to stay the course against
public hostility, but once they have crushed democracy and cemented
its tomb, they will be sitting pretty.
</li>
</ol>
</li>

<p>
 


title: Nader on climates, pandemics, elect, tax
uri: Nader-on-climates-pandemics-elect-tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Nader_on_climates,_pandemics,_elect,_tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Nader_on_climates,_pandemics,_elect,_tax)

content:
 
<p>
*[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully's</a>]
Lying Now Produces Deadly, Costly, and Soon Calamitous Consequences.*
A <a href="https://nader.org/2025/05/24/trumps-lying-now-produces-deadly-costly-and-soon-calamitous-consequences/">list
of his most important persistent lies</a> and the damage they do or
will soon do.


 


title: Urgent: Block weapons sales to Qatar and UAE
uri: Urgent-Block-weapons-sales-to-Qatar-and-UAE
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Urgent:_Block_weapons_sales_to_Qatar_and_UAE)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Urgent:_Block_weapons_sales_to_Qatar_and_UAE)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to to
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/qatar-uae-arms-sale/">block
weapons sales</a> to Qatar and
UAE due to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a>
corrupt dealings with both countries.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Call on Santander Bank to stop deforestation
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Santander-Bank-to-stop-deforestation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Urgent:_Call_on_Santander_Bank_to_stop_deforestation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Urgent:_Call_on_Santander_Bank_to_stop_deforestation)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Santander Bank to
<a href="https://act.stand.earth/page/82841/petition/1">stop
investing in deforestation</a>
and covering it up with greenwashing.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Call on Amazon to accept union's Safety Bill of Rights
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Amazon-to-accept-union-s-Safety-Bill-of-Rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Urgent:_Call_on_Amazon_to_accept_union's_Safety_Bill_of_Rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Urgent:_Call_on_Amazon_to_accept_union's_Safety_Bill_of_Rights)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Amazon to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/safety-bill-of-rights-public-petition">accept
the union's Safety Bill of Rights</a>,
and bring its high worker injury rate down to the usual level for
warehouses.
</p>
</li>

 


title: US on path to educational authoritarianism
uri: US-on-path-to-educational-authoritarianism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(US_on_path_to_educational_authoritarianism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(US_on_path_to_educational_authoritarianism)

content:
 
<p>

*Trump is setting the US on a path to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/trump-us-path-educational-authoritarianism">educational
authoritarianism</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(The_corrupter's_cryptocurrencies)
title: The corrupter's cryptocurrencies
uri: The-corrupter-s-cryptocurrencies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(The_corrupter's_cryptocurrencies)
content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter's</a>
cryptocurrencies are a range of opportunities for rich
people to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/25/trump-crypto-corruption-ethics">pay him off</a>.
</p>
<p>
If we ever have a US government not in the hands of the rich, it should
prohibit federal and state officials from owning an investment fund of
any kinds.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Persecutor's anti-science and anti-education program
uri: Persecutor-s-anti-science-and-anti-education-program
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Persecutor's_anti-science_and_anti-education_program)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Persecutor's_anti-science_and_anti-education_program)

content:
 
<p>

It is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/25/scientists-trump-agenda">scientists'
duty to resist</a>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor's</a> anti-science and
anti-education program.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Bully_quiet_about_Ukraine_lately)
title: Bully quiet about Ukraine lately
uri: Bully-quiet-about-Ukraine-lately
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Bully_quiet_about_Ukraine_lately)
content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>
has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/25/us-silence-russia-steps-up-attacks-ukraine-highlights-trump-failure">said
nothing about Ukraine lately</a>, but since he was unable to
bring about a peace deal (which was probably impossible), he may have
lost interest.  Or he may have something worse in mind.
</p>
</li>

 


title: UK border thugs under orders from military
uri: UK-border-thugs-under-orders-from-military
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(UK_border_thugs_under_orders_from_military)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(UK_border_thugs_under_orders_from_military)

content:
 
<p>

The UK's border <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/25/uk-border-force-military-institute-of-race-relations-report">operating
under orders from the military</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Big bad bill making court orders unenforceable
uri: Big-bad-bill-making-court-orders-unenforceable
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Big_bad_bill_making_court_orders_unenforceable)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Big_bad_bill_making_court_orders_unenforceable)

content:
 
<p>

Explaining the part of the Big Bad Bill that would make
nearly all existing
<a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/113529/terrible-idea-contempt-court/">court
orders in the US unenforceable</a>.
</p>
<p>
Republicans control Congress and the presidency, and have demonstrated
their intention to convert that into absolute, arbitrary power.  The
only obstacle that remains is the judiciary.  This is their plan to
make the judiciary too weak to restrain them.
</p>
<p>
The campaign to bully law firms to refuse to work for his victims is
another method of making the courts powerless.
</p>
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/judge-overturns-trump-order-jenner-block-law">US
judge overturns [the bully's] order</a> targeting major law firm
Jenner & Block.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_((satire)_US_should_ban_English)
title: (satire) US should ban English
uri: (satire)-US-should-ban-English
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_((satire)_US_should_ban_English)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) Instead of making English the official language of the US,
the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250308064632/https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/1505178289">US
should ban it</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Hummingbirds_adapt_to_feeders)
title: Hummingbirds adapt to feeders
uri: Hummingbirds-adapt-to-feeders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Hummingbirds_adapt_to_feeders)
content:
 
<p>

The Anna's Hummingbird species has evolved, in less than a century, to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/23/california-hummingbird-beak-study">adapt
its beak to California's hummingbird feeders</a>, and spread its
range as the feeders have spread.
</p>
</li>

 


title: El Salvador president jailed anti-corruption lawyer
uri: El-Salvador-president-jailed-anti-corruption-lawyer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(El_Salvador_president_jailed_anti-corruption_lawyer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(El_Salvador_president_jailed_anti-corruption_lawyer)

content:
 
<p>

President Bukele of El Salvador
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/23/podcast-el-salvador-cecot-prison-bukele-trump-immigrants/">has
jailed</a> a prominent anti-corruption
lawyer.
I wonder if they tattooed her with alleged "gang symbols".
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#29_May_2025_(Great_Lakes_protections_losses)
title: Great Lakes protections losses
uri: Great-Lakes-protections-losses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#29_May_2025_(Great_Lakes_protections_losses)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/trump-cuts-great-lakes">Environmentalists
fear</a> effects of [<a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> clean water funding]
cuts on Great Lakes.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#29_May_2025_(Climate_spending_in_defense_budgets)
title: Climate spending in defense budgets
uri: Climate-spending-in-defense-budgets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#29_May_2025_(Climate_spending_in_defense_budgets)
content:
 
<p>
*Countries must
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/18/countries-must-bolster-climate-efforts-or-risk-war-cop30-chief-executive-warns">bolster
climate [defense] efforts</a> or risk war, Cop30 chief executive
warns.*
<p>
To start a war today over future scarcities and dangers would be
unlikely, but once those scarcities and dangers start to kill lots of
people, that will occur to some politicians.
<p>
If our governments has real courage, they would defeat the real
enemies &mdash; the <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a> &mdash; now, and
implement the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_April_2024_(World_Bank_and_IMF_meet_on_polycrisis)">better
solutions</a> to avoid the suffering that is likely to cause wars.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#29_May_2025_(Ehud_Olmert_decries_war_crimes,_ISR)
title: Ehud Olmert decries war crimes, ISR
uri: Ehud-Olmert-decries-war-crimes-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#29_May_2025_(Ehud_Olmert_decries_war_crimes,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
A former Israeli prime minister said that Israel is committing war crimes
in a private war with
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/former-israeli-pm-ehud-olmert-says-his-country-is-committing-war-crimes">no
(legitimate) purpose</a>.
<p>
This is not news to us, but its being said by important politicians
may lead to a way to stop it.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#29_May_2025_(Embassy_directive_on_foreign_students)
title: Embassy directive on foreign students
uri: Embassy-directive-on-foreign-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#29_May_2025_(Embassy_directive_on_foreign_students)
content:
 
<p>
The <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> has ordered US
embassies to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today">stop
processing applications for student visas</a>.
<p>
If this continues, the US universities might admit new foreign students
but it would be futile since they could not attend the school.
<p>
But maybe it is meant to be temporary, since there seems to be a plan
to issue student visas again &mdash; but only after looking at each
student's political views as seen on antisocial media.

<p>
 


title: Another Palestinian village depopulated
uri: Another-Palestinian-village-depopulated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#29_May_2025_(Another_Palestinian_village_depopulated)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#29_May_2025_(Another_Palestinian_village_depopulated)

content:
 
<p>
Chased, beaten and robbed: [Palestinian] survivors [forced to flee their
village, Mughayyir,] describe
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/28/chased-beaten-and-robbed-survivors-describe-israeli-settler-violence-in-west-bank">Israeli settler violence in West Bank</a>.
<p>
It is happening all the time now, in one village after another.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Urgent:_Big_Bad_Bill_in_Senate)
title: Urgent: Big Bad Bill in Senate
uri: Urgent-Big-Bad-Bill-in-Senate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Urgent:_Big_Bad_Bill_in_Senate)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and urge them to reject injustices
in the Republicans' Big Bad Bill
<p>
One injustice is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Big_bad_bill_making_court_orders_unenforceable)">making court orders unenforceable</a>
&mdash; so <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>
could brush aside those impediments to absolute power.
<p>
Another injustice is the cuts in medicine and food aid for
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Big_Bill_in_US_Senate_dire,_perilous)">Americans who can't afford it</a>.
<p>
And then there are the tax cuts for the rich.  (The rest of this email
I have copied from a message which suggested running nonfree software.
I can't refer the public to that!)
<p>
Republicans know these tax cuts are wildly unpopular, so they’re   
scrambling to rebrand. Speaker Mike Johnson trimmed the plan   
slightly and Trump floated a tiny rate increase for ultra-high   
earners both designed to generate positive press.    
<p>
But don’t be fooled, this is still a massive giveaway to the   
billionaire class:    
<ul>
<li> Trump’s revised plan still delivers hundreds of billions to   
  billionaires    
<li> Just 800 billionaires (out of 130 million households, that’s the   
  top 0.000006%) control more wealth than the bottom 50% of   
  American households combined.    
<li> Investment income &mdash; the main source of wealth for the richest   
  &mdash; is still shielded from fair taxation    
<li> There's still no tax on wealth &mdash; despite its increasingly   
  extreme concentration    
</ul>   
We need a tax system that serves all of us, not just the   
wealthiest few. That means closing loopholes, taxing wealth, and   
investing in the public good: affordable healthcare, strong   
schools, safe communities, and a government that reflects the will   
of the people.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Pentagon_infighting:_wiretaps,_leaks)
title: Pentagon infighting: wiretaps, leaks
uri: Pentagon-infighting-wiretaps-leaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Pentagon_infighting:_wiretaps,_leaks)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> and
Pentagon officials are in a dispute in which various
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/hegseth-pentagon-leak-investigation-wiretap">officials accuse other officials</a>
of lying.
<p>
They must all expect the others to lie, but they surely don't like
wondering, "Which ones are lying to <em>me</em>?"
<p>
Maybe none of them can trust each other any more.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(UKR-RUS_war_analysis)
title: UKR-RUS war analysis
uri: UKR-RUS-war-analysis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(UKR-RUS_war_analysis)
content:
 
<p>
Putin is not interested in negotiating peace with Ukraine.  He thinks
he can win more by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/27/trump-flattery-bullying-putin-equally-ineffective-putin-political-survival">continuing
to attack</a>.
<p>
The only way to stop this war of conquest is by supporting Ukraine in
fighting it.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Harvard_on_federal_chopping_block)
title: Harvard on federal chopping block
uri: Harvard-on-federal-chopping-block
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Harvard_on_federal_chopping_block)
content:
 
<p>
*<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> has
canceled $100m in contracts [with Harvard]* as simple retribution for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/trump-harvard-federal-contracts">its
refusal it submit</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Switching_to_debt_reaper_mode,_CHI)
title: Switching to debt-reaper mode, CHI
uri: Switching-to-debt-reaper-mode-CHI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Switching_to_debt_reaper_mode,_CHI)
content:
 
<p>
China joins the US and some European countries as big creditors that
will
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/poorest-750-nations-face-tidal-wave-of-debt-repayments-to-china-in-2025-study-warns">squeeze
poor countries dry</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Fast-tracking_a_mining_spree,_NZL)
title: Fast-tracking a mining spree, NZL
uri: Fast-tracking-a-mining-spree-NZL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Fast-tracking_a_mining_spree,_NZL)
content:
 
<p>
New Zealand's right-wing government has hurriedly passed a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/fast-track-to-where-the-new-law-opening-up-new-zealand-to-a-mining-boom">law
to encourage new mines</a>, which evidently works by allowing mines to
damage the environment.
<p>
Every mine will eventually run out.  Mining operations will cease, but
leaking of toxic chemicals will nit.  The mean will require expensive
cleanup, and the company that extracted lots of money from running the
mine will try to dump the cost on the public.  That follows the usual
"capitalism for our profits, socialism for the problems we cause"
spirit of business.
<p>
To allow mines to operate without eventually harming the public
requires carefully designed laws.  When governments are eager to please
business, as the current New Zealand government is, one can expect
them to neglect this part.  New Zealand's law to promote mining
was hurried, so I'd guess they didn't try very hard to protect
their local environment.
<p>
Allowing new coal mines is declaring war on civilization.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Israel_bait-and-switch_on_Gaza)
title: Israel bait-and-switch on Gaza
uri: Israel-bait-and-switch-on-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Israel_bait-and-switch_on_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
Netanyahu's plan for a
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/26/gaza-famine-aid-israel-palestine-ghf/">humanitarian
aid mini-program for Gaza turned into bombing</a> when starving people
came too many at once.
<p>
This program is not designed to bring in enough food for everyone.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Rightwing_marching_in_Jerusalem,_ISR)
title: Rightwing marching in Jerusalem, ISR
uri: Rightwing-marching-in-Jerusalem-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Rightwing_marching_in_Jerusalem,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
*Thousands of Israelis have joined a state-funded march through the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/thousands-join-israeli-flag-march-through-muslim-quarter-of-old-city-in-jerusalem">Muslim
quarter of the Old City</a> in Jerusalem, where large groups chanted
racist slogans including "Gaza is ours," "death to the Arabs", and
"may their villages burn."*
<p>
In Israel as in the US, right-wing marches meant to display power and threat,
and to recruit people who want to attach themselves to those things.


<p>
 


title: US needs to offer education in skilled trades
uri: US-needs-to-offer-education-in-skilled-trades
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(US_needs_to_offer_education_in_skilled_trades)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(US_needs_to_offer_education_in_skilled_trades)

content:
 
<p>

  The US needs to <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/four-years-of-college-shouldnt-be">offer young people education in skilled trades</a>
without the expense of college.
</p>
<p>
This reminds me that we need also more craft and trade workers who are
trained through apprenticeships.  At least we do, around Boston.  But
maybe what we need is to make it easier for customers to find them.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Salafi_Arabia's_brainwashing_prisons)
title: Salafi Arabia's brainwashing prisons
uri: Salafi-Arabia-s-brainwashing-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Salafi_Arabia's_brainwashing_prisons)
content:
 
<p>

  Inside <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia's</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/28/saudi-arabia-women-girls-rehabilitation-prisons-dar-al-reaya">secret brainwashing prisons</a> for disobedient women.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Mary Trump describes flaws of the persecutor
uri: Mary-Trump-describes-flaws-of-the-persecutor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Mary_Trump_describes_flaws_of_the_persecutor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Mary_Trump_describes_flaws_of_the_persecutor)

content:
 
<p>

  Mary Trump <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/trump-never-evolved-niece-mary">describes the character flaws</a> of her uncle, <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: DEA's program for massive collection of phone call records
uri: DEA-s-program-for-massive-collection-of-phone-call-records
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(DEA's_program_for_massive_collection_of_phone_call_records)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(DEA's_program_for_massive_collection_of_phone_call_records)

content:
 
<p>

  On the DEA's <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/18/dea-hemisphere-phone-data-collection-surveillance/">program for massive collection of phone call records</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: French hunter being prosecuted for killing bear
uri: French-hunter-being-prosecuted-for-killing-bear
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(French_hunter_being_prosecuted_for_killing_bear)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(French_hunter_being_prosecuted_for_killing_bear)

content:
 
<p>

A French hunter shot and killed a bear that was chewing on his leg,
and is being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/18/french-hunter-81-on-trial-for-killing-endangered-bear-that-attacked-him">prosecuted for killing a protected bear</a>.
</p>
<p>
It appears that he went to hunt boar in a protected nature reserve.
Perhaps he should be tried for that &mdash; but that crime cannot deserve
death or maiming as a punishment.
</p>
<p>
Perhaps he should be sentenced to paint clearer markers around the nature
reserve, as a form of community service.  That will protect the other
bears there.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Facial recognition used on participants of protest in Hungary
uri: Facial-recognition-used-on-participants-of-protest-in-Hungary
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Facial_recognition_used_on_participants_of_protest_in_Hungary)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Facial_recognition_used_on_participants_of_protest_in_Hungary)

content:
 
<p>

  Hungary <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/18/hungary-bans-pride-events-and-plans-to-use-facial-recognition-to-target-attenders">used facial recognition</a> to punish the participants
in protests, for a cause that has been outright forbidden to express.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Costs of flushing moist towelettes down toilets
uri: Costs-of-flushing-moist-towelettes-down-toilets
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Costs_of_flushing_moist_towelettes_down_toilets)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Costs_of_flushing_moist_towelettes_down_toilets)

content:
 
<p>

Spain is considering a law to require manufacturers of moist
towelettes to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/28/spain-to-ban-flushing-of-wet-wipes-with-manufacturers-paying-clean-up-costs">pay the cost of the cleanup</a> made necessary
when people flush them down toilets.
</p>
<p>
Those costs are substantial, which is why people are taught not to
flush anything solid except human waste and toilet paper down a
toilet.  But not everyone has learned not to do this.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Argentina pressuring women to have babies
uri: Argentina-pressuring-women-to-have-babies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Argentina_pressuring_women_to_have_babies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Argentina_pressuring_women_to_have_babies)

content:
 
<p>

Argentina's right-wing government is trying to pressure women
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/28/argentina-womens-rights-javier-milei-testing-ground-eroding-abortion-rights-seek-reverse-landmark-legalisation-warning-amnesty">get pregnant and then to have babies</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(UK_nationalizing_train_companies)
title: UK nationalizing train companies
uri: UK-nationalizing-train-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(UK_nationalizing_train_companies)
content:
 
<p>

  The UK has started <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/28/south-western-railway-trains-nationalised-prize-risk-need-to-work">nationalizing train operating companies</a>.
Now the new operator has to use the money it will no longer pay in dividends
to improve train service.
</p>
<p>
One of the painful effects of privatization was that your ticket was
always for a specific train run by a specific company.  If all the trains
are from the same company, there is no need for that to be so.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Diesel_pollution_defeat_device)
title: Diesel pollution defeat device
uri: Diesel-pollution-defeat-device
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_May_2025_(Diesel_pollution_defeat_device)
content:
 
<p>

The "defeat device" fraud, which disguised the pollution of diesel
engines while their emissions were measured, is estimated to have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/28/dieselgate-pollution-killed-16000-people-in-uk-study-estimates">killed 16,000 people in the UK</a>.
</p>
<p>
It may be less in the US because the US forced manufacturers to fix
the cars.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#31_May_2025_(Hegseth_tattoos_provoke_PISSI)
title: Hegseth tattoos provoke PISSI
uri: Hegseth-tattoos-provoke-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#31_May_2025_(Hegseth_tattoos_provoke_PISSI)
content:
 
<p>
PISSI is citing both the persecutor and Hegseth
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/26/islamic-state-trump">to
recruit supporters</a>.
<p>
(PISSI is the Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.)


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#31_May_2025_(Stephen_Miller_arrest-quotas)
title: Stephen Miller arrest-quotas
uri: Stephen-Miller-arrest-quotas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#31_May_2025_(Stephen_Miller_arrest-quotas)
content:
 
<p>
The persecutor has ordered the deportation thugs to arrest at least
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/trump-ice-arrest-quota">3,000
people per day</a>.
<p>
Quotas for arrests are automatically unjust, since they
can only be filled if the thugs arrest people who normally should
not have been arrested.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#31_May_2025_(Feds_pull_aid_amid_LA-fires_aftermath)
title: Feds pull aid amid LA-fires aftermath
uri: Feds-pull-aid-amid-LA-fires-aftermath
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#31_May_2025_(Feds_pull_aid_amid_LA-fires_aftermath)
content:
 
<p>
The <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#magat">magats'</a> cuts
in federal agencies that aid survival and reconstruction after
emergencies are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/26/trump-doge-la-wildfire-recovery">interfering
with recovery</a> from the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_January_2025_(LA_fires_and_climate_chaos)">disastrous</a>
Los Angeles fires of January.


<p>
 


title: Art Spiegelman documentary censored, PBS
uri: Art-Spiegelman-documentary-censored-PBS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#31_May_2025_(Art_Spiegelman_documentary_censored,_PBS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#31_May_2025_(Art_Spiegelman_documentary_censored,_PBS)

content:
 
<p>
PBS canceled a documentary about Art Spiegelman because the people making
it refused to omit a scene in which Spiegelman talks about
<a href="https://www.documentary.org/online-feature/c-censorship-pbs-cuts-art-spiegelman-doc-and-other-dubious-acts-embattled">a
cartoon that criticizes the would-be king</a>.
<p>
Ironically, the executive of PBS had rational grounds to fear that any
criticism of him might provoke him to try to destroy PBS.  That does not
make craven censorship acceptable.
<p>
Even more ironically, since he is already trying to destroy PBS,
practically speaking PBS had nothing to lose by allowing that scene
except its honor.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#31_May_2025_(UK_trade_deal_light_on_social_values)
title: UK trade deal light on social values
uri: UK-trade-deal-light-on-social-values
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#31_May_2025_(UK_trade_deal_light_on_social_values)
content:
 
<p>
*Dismay as UK prepares to sign "values-free" £1.6bn trade deal
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/29/uk-gulf-trade-deal-worth-16bn-lacks-human-rights-provisions-groups-warn">with
Gulf states</a>.*



<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_June_2025_(Progress_in_Mahmoud_Khalil_case)
title: Progress in Mahmoud Khalil case
uri: Progress-in-Mahmoud-Khalil-case
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_June_2025_(Progress_in_Mahmoud_Khalil_case)
content:
 
<p>
Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers demanded information about the private organizations
that said nasty things about him to the US government, reports which the government
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/mahmoud-khalil-demands-info-on-trump-administration-collusion-with-anti-palestinian-doxxing-groups">claims
showed some sort of danger</a>,
thought they may be pure noise.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_June_2025_(Canceling_NASA_missions)
title: Canceling NASA missions
uri: Canceling-NASA-missions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_June_2025_(Canceling_NASA_missions)
content:
 
<p>
The wrecker is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/trump-nasa-cuts">canceling
NASA missions</a> that could elucidate mysteries of the universe,
including whether there was life on Mars, and basic mysteries of
physics and cosmology.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_June_2025_(DOGe_employees_in_COI_as_privateers)
title: DOGe employees in COI as privateers
uri: DOGe-employees-in-COI-as-privateers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_June_2025_(DOGe_employees_in_COI_as_privateers)
content:
 
<p>

*[DOPE] employees hold
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/democrats-doge-elon-musk">stock
in firms set to benefit</a> from cuts, Democrats allege.*
<p>
When officials know they won't be prosecuted for corruption, they
often turn to corruption.  The DOPE's slogan could be "Corruption Я
Us."  I wonder if <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> will ask Putin for
official Russian permission to use the letter Я.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_June_2025_(Urgent:_Explicit_tariff_taxes)
title: Urgent: Explicit tariff taxes
uri: Urgent-Explicit-tariff-taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_June_2025_(Urgent:_Explicit_tariff_taxes)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/show-impact-of-tariffs-on-price-tags/?nowrapper=true">call
on several major US stores</a> to state on product labels how much of
the price is due to <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> tariff decrees.
<p>
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code.
(See https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html.)
<p>
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScrupt in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.
<p>
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above.  That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without JavaScript!"
<p>
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
<p>
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page.  That's how you say who's sending the letter.
<p>
Then click the "START WRITING" button.  That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code.  (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely _by running_ that nonfree code, you can
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.)  You can
finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's
address bar, as follows:
<p>
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'.  Then tell the
browser to visit that URL.  This should give you a version of 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.
<p>
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 for the result of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_June_2025_(Feeding_the_troll)
title: Feeding the troll
uri: Feeding-the-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_June_2025_(Feeding_the_troll)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the
corrupter</a> is still a threat, but we can see that the
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-4a6">tide
is turning against him</a>.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_June_2025_(Revenge_on_Harvard)
title: Revenge on Harvard
uri: Revenge-on-Harvard
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_June_2025_(Revenge_on_Harvard)
content:
 
<p>
*[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor</a>]’s
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/26/trumps-revenge-spree-on-harvard-echoes-well-beyond-education">revenge
spree on Harvard</a> echoes well beyond education. Attacks on the
university make clear that [his henchmen's] administration will wield
its power against anyone who incurs its displeasure

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_June_2025_(Hungry_civilians_gunned_down,_Gaza)
title: Hungry civilians gunned down, Gaza
uri: Hungry-civilians-gunned-down-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_June_2025_(Hungry_civilians_gunned_down,_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/01/palestinians-gunned-down-while-trying-to-reach-food-aid-site-in-gaza-hospital-says">Palestinians
gunned down</a> while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital
says.*




<p>
 


title: Supreme Court on climate-chaos lawsuits
uri: Supreme-Court-on-climate-chaos-lawsuits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#3_June_2025_(Supreme_Court_on_climate-chaos_lawsuits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#3_June_2025_(Supreme_Court_on_climate-chaos_lawsuits)

content:
 
<p>

The US Supreme Court ruled that
<a href="https://theconversation.com/more-than-two-dozen-cities-and-states-are-suing-big-oil-over-climate-change-they-just-got-a-boost-from-the-us-supreme-court-205009">cities
can sue oil companies in state courts</a> for the damages from global
heating.
<p>
As the article says, these lawsuits' judgments won't be able to repay
the cost of the damages done by <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.  All the
money in the world won't be able to do that.  We have to hope it will
lead to a political decision to decarbonize.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#3_June_2025_(Urgent:_Rep._LaMonica_McIver_V_DOJ)
title: Urgent: Rep. LaMonica McIver V DOJ
uri: Urgent-Rep-LaMonica-McIver-V-DOJ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#3_June_2025_(Urgent:_Rep._LaMonica_McIver_V_DOJ)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/drop_charges_against_RepMcIver/">call
on the Department of Justice</a> to drop all charges against
Rep. LaMonica McIver, She was arrested trying to demand answers about
a deportation, along with the mayor of Newark, New Jersey.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#3_June_2025_(Recognizing_ecocide_as_a_crime)
title: Recognizing ecocide as a crime
uri: Recognizing-ecocide-as-a-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#3_June_2025_(Recognizing_ecocide_as_a_crime)
content:
 
<p>
*Classing grievous acts of environmental harm as crimes against peace
may
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/28/what-is-ecocide-and-could-it-become-a-under-international-law">hold
states and corporations to account</a>.*
<p>
As with crimes against humanity,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_March_2025_(greenpeace_energy_transfer_verdict)">the
hard part</a> will be to overcome the ways they use their power to
make governments protect them &mdash; and protect their crimes too.
<p>
I question whether it is wise to include "of a given territory" in the
definition of ecocide.  The biggest ecocides now in progress cause
damage around the world, but that fact should not exclude them from
being considered ecocide.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#3_June_2025_(Mahmoud_Khalil_letter_from_SLV_prison)
title: Mahmoud Khalil letter from SLV prison
uri: Mahmoud-Khalil-letter-from-SLV-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#3_June_2025_(Mahmoud_Khalil_letter_from_SLV_prison)
content:
 
<p>
*My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/mahmoud-khalil-statement">a
political prisoner</a>.*
<p>
He published that article over two months ago.  It reflects the American
ideals of freedom and democracy.
<p>
He is still in jail now.

<p>
 


title: Greenpeace free speech right to protest
uri: Greenpeace-free-speech-right-to-protest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#3_June_2025_(Greenpeace_free_speech_right_to_protest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#3_June_2025_(Greenpeace_free_speech_right_to_protest)

content:
 
<p>
A court in North Dakota ruled that Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions
of dollars in damages for protesting against the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/greenpeace-lawsuit-energy-transfer-dakota-pipeline">construction of the
Dakota Access Pipeline</a>.
<p>
The fossil fuels transported in that pipeline will increase and hasten
the damage caused to nearly everyone by <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> disaster.
If that leads to the collapse of civilization and the death of most
humans, there will be no way to measure the damages Energy Transfer is
liable for, nor to collect them from what remains of that company, nor
to pay them to the descendants of the dead.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(Urgent:_Stand_with_Harvard)
title: Urgent: Stand with Harvard
uri: Urgent-Stand-with-Harvard
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(Urgent:_Stand_with_Harvard)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/naicu-stand-with-harvard/?link_id=0&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-naicu-must-stand-with-harvard-silence-is-surrender&email_referrer=email_2757342&email_subject=naicu-must-stand-with-harvard-silence-is-surrender&&">call on the National Association of Independent Colleges</a>
and Universities to stand by Harvard in its refusal to submit to
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>.

<p>
 


title: Senator: Well, we are all going to die
uri: Senator-Well-we-are-all-going-to-die
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(Senator:_Well,_we_are_all_going_to_die)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(Senator:_Well,_we_are_all_going_to_die)

content:
 
<p>
Republican Senator Joni Ernst did not quite say it is of no importance
whether her constituents live or die.  Rather, she made a pedantic
quip about careless wording in a constituent's criticism of the substance
of her position.
<p>
The criticism's intended point was that the Medicaid exclusions she
supports would leave many unable to afford medical treatment, and that
<a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/joni-ernst-iowa-town-hall-we-are-all-going-to-die-rcna209983">would cause some of them to die much sooner</a>.

<p>
 


title: Fewer trained professionals for US
uri: Fewer-trained-professionals-for-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(Fewer_trained_professionals_like_doctors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(Fewer_trained_professionals_like_doctors)

content:
 
<p>
*Proposal to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/01/republican-trump-bill-doctor-shortage">limit
student loans</a> for "professional programs" risks driving people
away from medicine, critics say.*
<p>
The <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a> figure
that after big spending cuts on medical treatment for the poor, the US
will employ fewer doctors and nurses.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(Human_aid_as_a_crime)
title: Human aid as a crime
uri: Human-aid-as-a-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(Human_aid_as_a_crime)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor's</a>
henchmen claim that providing temporary aid to border-crossers is a
crime, and threaten to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/25/trump-administration-immigrants-shelters">prosecute
the people</a> who do so.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(War_tech,_CHI)
title: War tech, CHI
uri: War-tech-CHI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(War_tech,_CHI)
content:
 
<p>
China has built peculiar, innovative
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/china-landing-barges-shuqiao-ships-what-does-this-mean-for-taiwan">bridge-landing
ships</a> for invading Taiwan.  They are designed to land vehicles
onto roads at some distance from the shore, where there is no beach,
by deploying a bridge extending across the land's edge to the road.
<p>
I hope Taiwan is getting Ukraine's guidance in making maritime drones
to attack naval ships with.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(No-fault_divorce_VS_covenant_marriage)
title: No-fault divorce VS covenant marriage
uri: No-fault-divorce-VS-covenant-marriage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(No-fault_divorce_VS_covenant_marriage)
content:
 
<p>
US Christians seek to make
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/go/87253?t=1011">divorce more difficult</a>,
for couples that
have a special kind of marriage called "covenant marriage."
Such marriages impose extra hoops to jump through in order to
qualify for divorce.
<p>
If people make that choice after due thought, I don't think that is a
disaster.  But many people will be pressured in the name of religion
into choosing this sort of marriage.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(Capturing_Israeli_war_criminals)
title: Capturing Israeli war criminals
uri: Capturing-Israeli-war-criminals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_June_2025_(Capturing_Israeli_war_criminals)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?__goaway_challenge=meta-refresh&__goaway_id=be8c6ae5062d43b1b9671aa1afd0bd1f&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Finv.nadeko.net%2Ffeed%2Fpopular&v=TRTD0-vPa-o">The
Hind Rajab Foundation</a> calls on various countries' governments to
pursue Israeli war criminals who visit those countries.


<p>
 


title: Censorship of US doctors, scientists
uri: Censorship-of-US-doctors-scientists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Censorship_of_doctors_and_scientists,_USA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Censorship_of_doctors_and_scientists,_USA)

content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor</a> has
imposed political censorship on veterans' doctors and scientists'
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/01/us-veterans-affairs-agency-doctors-scientists-research">publications
about medicine</a>.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Cut_public_funding_to_divide_citizens)
title: Cutting public funding divides citizens
uri: Cutting-public-funding-divides-citizens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Cut_public_funding_to_divide_citizens)
content:
 
<p>
*Parks, libraries, museums: here's why [<a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>] is attacking
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/02/national-parks-libraries-museums-trump">America's
best-loved institutions</a>.
<p>
Most of these institutions suffer the damage without casting blame on
the one responsible &mdash; so he gets away without a penalty.  Even if
there is nothing more you can do, never cease to cast the blams!

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Wilderness_protections_removed,_AK)
title: Wilderness protections removed, AK
uri: Wilderness-protections-removed-AK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Wilderness_protections_removed,_AK)
content:
 
<p>
Planet-roaster officials plan to allow oil
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/02/trump-administration-alaska-drilling-mining">drilling
in the National Petroleum Reserve</a>.
<p>
This is bad because (1) it means additional greenhouse gas emissions,
(2) it would destroy an important de-facto wildlife reserve, and (3)
because the petroleum there is being saved for some possible future
pressing need.


<p>
 


title: Urgent: Call on Paramount to resist bully's censorship lawsuit
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Paramount-to-resist-bully-s-censorship-lawsuit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Urgent:_Call_on_Paramount_to_resist_bully's_censorship_lawsuit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Urgent:_Call_on_Paramount_to_resist_bully's_censorship_lawsuit)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Paramount to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-paramount-dont-capitulate-to-trumps-attacks-stand-up-for-free-speech?nowrapper=true">resist the bully's censorship lawsuit</a>
and let CVS defend itself.
</p>
<p>
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code.
(See <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html</a>.)
</p>
<p>
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.
</p>
<p>
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above.  That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without javascript!"
</p>
<p>
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
</p>
<p>
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page.  That's how you say who's sending the letter.
</p>
<p>
Then click the "START WRITING" button.  That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code.  (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely <em>by running</em> that nonfree code, you can
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.)  You can
finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's
address bar, as follows:
</p>
<p>
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'.  Then tell the
browser to visit that URL.  This should give you a version of 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.
</p>
<p>
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 for the result of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Call on Chief Justice Roberts to stand up for judges
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Chief-Justice-Roberts-to-stand-up-for-judges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Urgent:_Call_on_Chief_Justice_Roberts_to_stand_up_for_judges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Urgent:_Call_on_Chief_Justice_Roberts_to_stand_up_for_judges)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Chief Justice Roberts to <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/protecting-our-judges">stand up for judges</a>
  against <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> campaign of demonization.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Google search summaries of medical web sites
uri: Google-search-summaries-of-medical-web-sites
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Google_search_summaries_of_medical_web_sites)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Google_search_summaries_of_medical_web_sites)

content:
 
<p>

Google search allows its bullshit generator to summarize some web sites
instead of just directing users to the site.  When it does this for
medical web sites, the <a href="https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/b4f5d-google-more-ai-overviews-health-queries">summaries are often inaccurate</a>, and this can
be dangerous.
</p>
<p>
It is a mistake to call these errors "hallucinations"
because that presumes the LLM tries to understand the site's text
and the supposed summary that it constructs.  It does not understand
either of them, because its mechanism does not understand the semantics
of anything.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Hong Kong supporters of democracy released from prison
uri: Hong-Kong-supporters-of-democracy-released-from-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Hong_Kong_supporters_of_democracy_released_from_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Hong_Kong_supporters_of_democracy_released_from_prison)

content:
 
<p>

  Some prominent Hong Kong supporters of democracy <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/hong-kong-releases-second-group-democrats-jailed-four-years-national-security-trial">have been released</a> at
the end of the four-year prison sentence they received for advocating
democracy and trying to practicing it.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Providing temporary aid to border-crossers
uri: Providing-temporary-aid-to-border-crossers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Providing_temporary_aid_to_border-crossers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Providing_temporary_aid_to_border-crossers)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor's</a> henchmen claim that providing temporary aid to
border-crossers is a crime, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/25/trump-administration-immigrants-shelters">threaten to prosecute</a> the people who
do so.
</p>
</li>

 


title: TikTok is bad for mental health advice
uri: TikTok-is-bad-for-mental-health-advice
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(TikTok_is_bad_for_mental_health_advice)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(TikTok_is_bad_for_mental_health_advice)

content:
 
<p>

  TikTok is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/31/more-than-half-of-top-100-mental-health-tiktoks-contain-misinformation-study-finds">bad place to get mental health advice</a>.
</p>
<p>
*The experts established that 52 out of 100 videos offering advice on
dealing with trauma, neurodivergence, anxiety, depression and severe
mental illness contained some misinformation&hellip;*
</p>
<p>
This is in addition to various other kinds of dangerous
misinformation and disinformation.  And the whole thing is based on
running a nonfree client program that surely <a href="https://gnu.org/malware/proprietary-surveillance.html">tracks each user's activities</a>.
It may do <a href="https://gnu.org/malware/">other nasty things</a> too &mdash; nonfree software generally does.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Hegseth calls on Asia to boost military spending
uri: Hegseth-calls-on-Asia-to-boost-military-spending
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Hegseth_calls_on_Asia_to_boost_military_spending)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Hegseth_calls_on_Asia_to_boost_military_spending)

content:
 
<p>

  *Hegseth calls on Asia to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/31/pete-hegseth-calls-on-asia-to-boost-military-spending-in-face-of-imminent-threat-from-china-us-defence-secretary">boost military spending</a> in face of "imminent"
threat from China.*
</p>
<p>
China is certainly expansionist and repressive.  Whether Xi aims to
conquer and subjugate other countries, aside from Taiwan, I don't
know.  China's navy is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(taiwan_says_china_simulated_attack_military_drills)">already trying to muscle in</a> on their territory,
though not as grossly as <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> does in Mexico and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Accusations_US_troops_were_sent_to_Panama)">Central America</a>.
</p>
<p>
Turning to the US for support would be a natural thing for China's
neighbors to do, and several are already doing it.  Their problem is
that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> has made it clear that the US government under the
power of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> does not respect any soft of commitment; he has
even threatened war against US allies such as Denmark to seize
Greenland.  Australia's government is starting to doubt whether the
agreed-on purchase of submarines from the US is safe.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Texas thugs searched license plate cameras of other states
uri: Texas-thugs-searched-license-plate-cameras-of-other-states
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Texas_thugs_searched_license_plate_cameras_of_other_states)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Texas_thugs_searched_license_plate_cameras_of_other_states)

content:
 
<p>

Texas <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> searched records of license plate cameras of various other
states, looking for a women who (they suspected) might be seeking an
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/31/a-dystopian-surveillance-fear-has-become-reality-in-texas">opportunity for an abortion</a>.
</p>
<p>
These records were copied and stored by a company which makes them
conveniently accessible to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> from Texas.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Letter Ramon Morales-Reyes appeared to have signed
uri: Letter-Ramon-Morales-Reyes-appeared-to-have-signed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Letter_Ramon_Morales-Reyes_appeared_to_have_signed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Letter_Ramon_Morales-Reyes_appeared_to_have_signed)

content:
 
<p>

Ramon Morales-Reyes appeared to have signed a letter threatening to
assassinate <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>.  Noem found this an ideal example to prove
how vicious immigrants are, and rushed to present it to the press.
Then it turned that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/31/ramon-morales-reyes-trump-threat-frame-up">he didn't write, sign or send the letter</a>.
</p>
<p>
The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a> are in the habit of circulating accusations without checking
them, and nowadays some of their carelessness becomes visible.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(US_Jews_protested_at_Columbia)
title: US Jews protested at Columbia
uri: US-Jews-protested-at-Columbia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(US_Jews_protested_at_Columbia)
content:
 
<p>

  US Jews <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/31/jewish-americans-antisemitism-gaza-trump">protested at Columbia University</a> against the university's
repression carried in the name of "fighting antisemitism".
</p>
</li>

 


title: Right wing leaders tout riches of repressive countries
uri: Right-wing-leaders-tout-riches-of-repressive-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Right_wing_leaders_tout_riches_of_repressive_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Right_wing_leaders_tout_riches_of_repressive_countries)

content:
 
<p>

  Leaders of the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> right-wing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/31/hong-kong-daughter-tech-britain-global-civilisation-autocracies-democracy">tout the riches the rich people</a>
of countries such as <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>, Dubai and China, without a word
of about their repression.
  The danger is that they will teach young people in the west that
that those riches are the thing to admire.
</p>
</li>

 


title: US border thugs taking genetic samples of non-citizens
uri: US-border-thugs-taking-genetic-samples-of-non-citizens
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(US_border_thugs_taking_genetic_samples_of_non-citizens)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(US_border_thugs_taking_genetic_samples_of_non-citizens)

content:
 
<p>

  The US border <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/31/cbp-dna-collection-children-immigrants">taking genetic samples</a> of petty much every
non-citizen entering the US who they stop and "detain".
</p>
</li>

 


title: Amazon Echo devices now sending all audio to Amazon servers
uri: Amazon-Echo-devices-now-sending-all-audio-to-Amazon-servers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Amazon_Echo_devices_now_sending_all_audio_to_Amazon_servers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Amazon_Echo_devices_now_sending_all_audio_to_Amazon_servers)

content:
 
<p>
Amazon arbitrarily decided to make all Echo devices <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen">send all the audio</a>
they hear to Amazon servers.
  The server will figure out what (if anything) someone asked it to do.
</p>
<p>
What else will it do with that recording?  There are no limits except
management's will.  It might save some of the utterances what it hears
and present them years later to the political police.
</p>
<p>
It will also make this available to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor's</a> political police.
</p>
</li>

 


title: The FBI and Big Ag treat Animal Rights Activists as Terrorists
uri: The-FBI-and-Big-Ag-treat-Animal-Rights-Activists-as-Terrorists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(The_FBI_and_Big_Ag_treat_Animal_Rights_Activists_as_Terrorists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(The_FBI_and_Big_Ag_treat_Animal_Rights_Activists_as_Terrorists)

content:
 
<p>

  *How the FBI and Big Ag Started <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/06/02/fbi-animal-rights-bird-flu-disease-terrorists/">Treating Animal Rights Activists as Terrorists</a>.
</p>
<p>
These activists induce fear &hellip; of unfavorable but accurate
publicity.  This should not be treated as a crime.  Businesses are not
morally entitled to privacy in the way human beings are.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israeli strikes on Gaza schools used as civilian shelters
uri: Israeli-strikes-on-Gaza-schools-used-as-civilian-shelters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Israeli_strikes_on_Gaza_schools_used_as_civilian_shelters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Israeli_strikes_on_Gaza_schools_used_as_civilian_shelters)

content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/02/israel-strikes-gaza-schools-strategy">Israeli strikes on Gaza schools used as civilian shelters</a> part of
deliberate strategy, say sources.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Karratha_gas_plant_in_Australia)
title: Karratha gas plant in Australia
uri: Karratha-gas-plant-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Karratha_gas_plant_in_Australia)
content:
 
<p>

In Australia, the Karratha Gas Plant's main activity is contributing
to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> and the consequent likely fall of civilization, but
it has a secondary effect: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/03/australia-lobby-unesco-barring-ancient-rock-site-murujuga-cultural-landscape">releasing emissions that degrade the 50,000-year-old rock art</a>
   (plus other rock art that is less old) in the surrounding Murujuga
area.
</p>
<p>
UNESCO would like to designate that art as a World Heritage site, but
there is an objection: World Heritage sites are supposed to be
protected.  Australia's response is to pressure UNESCO to make an
exception there.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Meta stops asking experts to judge whether changes are safe.
uri: Meta-stops-asking-experts-to-judge-whether-changes-are-safe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Meta_stops_asking_experts_to_judge_whether_changes_are_safe.)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Meta_stops_asking_experts_to_judge_whether_changes_are_safe.)

content:
 
<p>

Meta has decided to stop asking human experts to judge whether changes in
the behavior of its systems could cause harm to human users.  Instead
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-5407870/meta-ai-facebook-instagram-risks">it will use some sort of "artificial intelligence" system</a> to determine
whether a change is safe enough for actual use.
</p>
<p>
We could imagine a truly intelligent program that would fully
understand human psychology and could make such judgments as well
as the most capable humans.  But there is no reason to assume that
whatever system Meta has designed is as wise as that.
</p>
<p>
On the contrary, since Meta will not have to convince anyone else to
test how well this system makes such judgments, Meta has every incentive to
skimp on the design, so that the system would disregard some possible
problems and systematically give grades that are too high.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Insectageddon)
title: Insectageddon
uri: Insectageddon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Insectageddon)
content:
 
<p>
Even in a protected rain forest, with no pesticides,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe">insect
diversity has crashed</a> in the last few decades.  A light trap used
to photograph 3,000 species in one evening.  The same light trap,
operated nowadays in the same way at the same season, now records a
small population of few species.
<p>
Sharp population decreases are also observed in animals that eat
insects.
<p>
Scientists suspect the damage is done by ecological mismatches caused
by changed aspects of the climate in each place.  If so, to avoid
disaster we need to stop the <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> that causes
the other changes.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Urgent:_Veerans'_medical_care)
title: Urgent: Veterans' medical care
uri: Urgent-Veterans-medical-care
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Urgent:_Veerans'_medical_care)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/unite-for-veterans?nowrapper=true">call
on the US government</a> to continue medical care for veterans.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(US_deficit_VS_taxing)
title: US deficit VS taxing
uri: US-deficit-VS-taxing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(US_deficit_VS_taxing)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/03/elon-musk-trump-tax-bill-disgusting-abomination">Republicans
are now split</a> between their pre-bullshitter goal of reducing the
deficit and <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the
wrecker's</a> goal of cutting taxes for the rich.
<p>
Avoiding the increase in deficit would avoid
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_May_2025_(Big_Bill_in_US_Senate_dire,_perilous)">wiping
out Medicare</a>.  But if the way they choose to reduce the deficit is
to cut other non-military spending, that could make the disaster even
worse.


 


title: Urgent: NO KINGS protests next weekend
uri: Urgent-NO-KINGS-protests-next-weekend
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_June_2025_(Urgent:_NO_KINGS_protests_next_weekend)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_June_2025_(Urgent:_NO_KINGS_protests_next_weekend)

content:
 
<p>
Join the worldwide anti-Trump protest &mdash;
<a href="stallman.org/no-kings.html">NO KINGS</a> &mdash;
on Saturday, June 14, next weekend.
<p>
Millions of Americans have already been protesting, every weekend,
sending a strong message to their representatives, but June 14 is also
Flag Day and Trump's birthday.
<p>
Show the world how Democracy works.


<p>
 


title: Urgent: Restore Logan Rozos's NYU diploma
uri: Urgent-Restore-Logan-Rozos-s-NYU-diploma
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_June_2025_(Urgent:_Restore_Logan_Rozos's_NYU_diploma)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_June_2025_(Urgent:_Restore_Logan_Rozos's_NYU_diploma)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/urgent-demand-the-immediate-reinstatement-of-logan-rozoss-diploma?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">call
for the immediate reinstatement</a> of Logan Rozos's diploma.
<p>
Un-American
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(NYU_denying_diploma's_over_antisemitism)">NYU
punished him</a> with shocking cruelty for stating forbidden political
views.



<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_June_2025_(Musk_VS_Trump)
title: Musk VS Trump
uri: Musk-VS-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_June_2025_(Musk_VS_Trump)
content:
 
<p>
The two would-be emperors of the US have fallen into a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/05/trump-elon-musk-fallout">harsh
public dispute</a>, reminiscent of Caesar and Pompey.
<p>
They could tear up the US in their civil war.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_June_2025_(ICC_sanctions_on_judges,_US)
title: ICC sanctions on judges, US
uri: ICC-sanctions-on-judges-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_June_2025_(ICC_sanctions_on_judges,_US)
content:
 
<p>
The US has put
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/05/marco-rubio-sanctions-icc-judges-israel-gaza">sanctions
on judges</a> of the International Criminal Court.
<p>
The US has tried to fight the ICC since around 20 years ago ever
since <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a>
realized that some US actions in the occupation of Iraq might be war
crimes and the ICC might prosecute them.
<p>
Let's wish for a US that won't tolerate war crimes and will prosecute
Americans who commit or order them.  That way, the ICC would not get
involved. 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2002-nov-feb.html#pnid7604">Its
mission</a> is to prosecute criminals whose countries won't prosecute
them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_June_2025_(Urgent:_PFAS_and_drinking-water)
title: Urgent: PFAS and drinking-water
uri: Urgent-PFAS-and-drinking-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_June_2025_(Urgent:_PFAS_and_drinking-water)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-the-epa-keep-pfas-out-of-our-water?ref=lYKZdUs&link_id=7&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-tell-the-senate-vote-no-on-trumps-nominee-for-surgeon-general-dr-casey-means-2&email_referrer=email_2755049___subject_3255463&email_subject=sign-tell-the-epa-to-keep-forever-chemical-pfas-out-of-our-water&&">call on the EPA</a>
to Keep PFAS out of our water.
<p>
For background,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Paying_billions_to_settle_PFA_lawsuit)">see
this</a>.


<p>
 


title: Punishing 12 countries peoples en masse
uri: Punishing-12-countries-peoples-en-masse
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Punishing_12_countries_peoples_en_masse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Punishing_12_countries_peoples_en_masse)

content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> has returned to his favorite theme: banning people from
various countries from
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/06/05/trump-travel-ban-afghanistan/">traveling to the US at all</a>.
<p>
This is foolish and unjust because the ban punishes hundreds of
thousands of people, of whom perhaps a handful might do some harm.

<p>
 


title: Rupa Marya, an elite medical student, CA
uri: Rupa-Marya-an-elite-medical-student-CA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Rupa_Marya,_an_elite_medical_student,_CA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Rupa_Marya,_an_elite_medical_student,_CA)

content:
 
<p>
*In late May, UCSF terminated Rupa Marya following a nine-month
suspension from the elite medical school based on social media posts
in which she criticized Israel’s genocide in Gaza and questioned how
Zionist ideology affects health care outcomes.*  The school fired
her and
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/06/05/gaza-israel-san-francisco-ucsf-doctor-professor/">is
trying to smear her reputation</a>.  She has sued the school for this.
<p>
The article reports that the school has committed similar repression
against others.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Fire_danger_up,_FEMA_down)
title: Fire danger up, FEMA down
uri: Fire-danger-up-FEMA-down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Fire_danger_up,_FEMA_down)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> has given
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/05/wildfire-trump-cuts-climate-crisis">the
western US</a> a warm spring and a high danger of wildfires.  Put this
together with sabotage of FEMA and the Weather Service and it spells
danger.

<p>
 


title: USA attacks science and education. Why?
uri: USA-attacks-science-and-education-Why
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(USA_attacks_science_and_education.__Why_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(USA_attacks_science_and_education.__Why_)

content:
 
<p>
Why <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> attacks education, even education
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-attack-on-the-american-mind-1b0">that Americans admire</a>.
<p>
*Authoritarians know that if they can convince us our country has never
been wrong, they can make us believe our ruler is always right.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Pregnant_in_WV.__What_to_do_)
title: Pregnant in WV. What to do?
uri: Pregnant-in-WV-What-to-do
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Pregnant_in_WV.__What_to_do_)
content:
 
<p>
A prosecutor in West Virginia
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/05/west-virginia-miscarriage-crime-abortion-ban">threatens
to prosecute women</a> who have miscarriages.
<p>
It is not safe to be pregnant in West Virginia.  If you get pregnant there,
move to a state that won't prosecute you, and stay away.  Even if you want to
have the baby, you are not safe doing that in West Virginia.

<p>
 


title: Immigrants mostly abide by local customs
uri: Immigrants-mostly-abide-by-local-customs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Immigrants_mostly_abide_by_local_customs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Immigrants_mostly_abide_by_local_customs)

content:
 
<p>
Immigrants in the US are unlikely to commit crimes, compared with
native-born citizens, and unauthorized immigrants are even less
likely.  But <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> is using an example of a hate crime committed
by a marginally authorized immigrant as an excuse
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/03/boulder-attack-trump-administration-deportation-agenda">to
demonize all immigrants</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Work_stopped_by_blocking_SS_numbers)
title: Work stopped by blocking SS numbers
uri: Work-stopped-by-blocking-SS-numbers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Work_stopped_by_blocking_SS_numbers)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
blocked millions of recognized immigrants from working by making the
Social Security Administration
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/03/social-security-program-quietly-frozen-musk-immigrant-claims">stop giving them social security</a>
numbers.


<p>
 


title: Urgent: A national universal medical system
uri: Urgent-A-national-universal-medical-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Urgent:_A_national_universal_medical_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Urgent:_A_national_universal_medical_system)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/mfa-2025?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-nnu&source=group-nnu">call
on Congress</a> to establish a national universal medical system.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Urgent:_Dept_of_Education)
title: Urgent: Dept of Education
uri: Urgent-Dept-of-Education
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_June_2025_(Urgent:_Dept_of_Education)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/congress-reject-attacks-dept-education/">call
on Congress</a> to reject attacks on the Department of Education.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Lethal_autonomous_weapons_laws,_UN)
title: Lethal autonomous weapons laws, UN
uri: Lethal-autonomous-weapons-laws-UN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Lethal_autonomous_weapons_laws,_UN)
content:
 
<p>

Diplomats are meeting to draw up
<a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1163891">regulations for
weapons</a> which act under the direction of a machine learning
system.
<p>
The article starts by assuming that the reader foolishly embraces the
unjust computing systems that society invites and pressures everyone
to use.  Let us recall that some readers stubbornly refuse.  But the
assumption applies to most people.
<p>
What can we conclude about this issue?
<ul>
<li> It does not make much difference whether the
machine learning system is inside the weapon
or located in an office at headquarters.
<li> If the machine learning system chooses the targets, and they are
then attacked, it does not automatically make a difference whether
humans transmit the orders from it to the system that carries out the
attack.
<li> Or whether humans participate in the actual attack.
<li> Those differences can have some effect if the humans are ready to
refuse to carry out an illegal order.
<li> But we cannot count on them to do so, unless there is a firm
culture of insistence on obeying the rules of war.
<li> Israel uses
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_April_2024_(Military_AI_databases,_ISR)">such
a system</a> to choose targets in Gaza and the human soldiers involved
seem to impose little restraint on killing of civilians there.
</ul>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Restore medical research funds
uri: Urgent-Restore-medical-research-funds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Urgent:_Restore_medical_research_funds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Urgent:_Restore_medical_research_funds)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> to restore funds for
research in
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/restore-funding-for-deadly-disease-cure-research?ref=w17S-hE&link_id=5&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-sign-free-mahmoud-khalil&email_referrer=email_2663318&email_subject=sign-restore-funding-for-deadly-disease-cure-research&&">curing
fatal diseases</a>.



<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Huge_measles_outbreak,_Ontario,_CAN)
title: Huge measles outbreak, Ontario, CAN
uri: Huge-measles-outbreak-Ontario-CAN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Huge_measles_outbreak,_Ontario,_CAN)
content:
 
<p>
An outbreak of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/06/measles-outbreak-ontario-canada">"vaccine-hesitancy"
in Canada</a> has infected thousands of people with measles.  Next it
could be thousands of people with polio.
<p>
I don't think parents should be allowed to deny their children
vaccination without presenting a strong justification.
Mere vaccine hesitancy should not be sufficient grounds.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_((Satire)_The_Jesus_papers,_et_al.)
title: (Satire) The Jesus papers, et al.
uri: (Satire)-The-Jesus-papers-et-al
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_((Satire)_The_Jesus_papers,_et_al.)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *New Pope Declassifies Jesus
<a href="https://theonion.com/new-pope-declassifies-jesus-crucifixion-documents/">Crucifixion
Documents</a>.*


 


title: Urgent: Call on senators to reject cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security
uri: Urgent-Call-on-senators-to-reject-cuts-to-Medicaid-Medicare-and-Soci
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Urgent:_Call_on_senators_to_reject_cuts_to_Medicaid,_Medicare_and_Social_Security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Urgent:_Call_on_senators_to_reject_cuts_to_Medicaid,_Medicare_and_Social_Security)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your senators and call on them to
reject cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.
Also SNAP which provides food aid to poor families.
</p>
<p>
While you're at it, you could speak up for NOAA, FEMA, the
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> and the
IRS.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Write Brazil's ministers in support of climate defense
uri: Urgent-Write-Brazil-s-ministers-in-support-of-climate-defense
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Urgent:_Write_Brazil's_ministers_in_support_of_climate_defense)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Urgent:_Write_Brazil's_ministers_in_support_of_climate_defense)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: <a href="https://act.350.org/letter/may-25-em-letter-us-whats-the-plan/">write
to Brazil's ministers</a> in support of climate
defense policies.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Glowing predictions about nuclear power plants
uri: Glowing-predictions-about-nuclear-power-plants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Glowing_predictions_about_nuclear_power_plants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Glowing_predictions_about_nuclear_power_plants)

content:
 
<p>

Glowing predictions about how well nuclear power plants will work
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/20/whistleblowers-at-nuclear-sites-may-face-bullying-and-threats-mps-warn">don't
take account of the tendency for workers to bully</a> those
who report safety concerns.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Someone in Syria fired artillery or missiles at Israel
uri: Someone-in-Syria-fired-artillery-or-missiles-at-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Someone_in_Syria_fired_artillery_or_missiles_at_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Someone_in_Syria_fired_artillery_or_missiles_at_Israel)

content:
 
<p>

Someone in Syria
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/04/israel-attacks-syrian-targets-after-projectiles-launched-toward-its-territory">fired
artillery or missiles at Israel</a>.  Israel responded
by attacking the forces of the fairly new Syrian government.
</p>
<p>
That government does not have full control of the territory of Syria.
There are forces loyal to Assad, and others loyal to
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a>.  Most
likely one of them fired at Israel.  Israel's actions and words
suggest that it is looking for an excuse for war with the Syrian
government, and considers even a morally flimsy excuse to be sufficient.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Israel_to_Palestinians_in_Gaza)
title: Israel to Palestinians in Gaza
uri: Israel-to-Palestinians-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Israel_to_Palestinians_in_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/04/israel-warns-palestinians-against-travel-on-roads-to-gaza-aid-hubs-labelling-them-combat-zones">Israel
to Palestinians in Gaza</a>: if you drive a car to an "aid hub",
looking perhaps for some food aid, we will shoot you.
</p>
<p>
So if you're a Palestinian in Gaza and you are too weak to walk to get food,
didn't think of trying to get a lift.
</p>
<p>
I don't know for certain, but I'd expect this policy is a war crime.
</p>
<p>
*At least 27 Palestinians
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/03/first-thing-palestinians-killed-by-israeli-fire-at-food-point-gaza-officials-say">killed
by Israeli fire at food point</a>,
Gaza officials say.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: International journalists trying to observe Israeli expulsion
uri: International-journalists-trying-to-observe-Israeli-expulsion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(International_journalists_trying_to_observe_Israeli_expulsion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(International_journalists_trying_to_observe_Israeli_expulsion)

content:
 
<p>

A group of international journalists
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/masked-israeli-troops-block-media-visit-to-west-bank-site-of-oscar-winning-film-no-other-land">tried
to observe</a> the continuing
Israeli expulsion of Palestinians from Masafar Yatta, but Israeli
soldiers forcibly stopped them.
</p>
<p>
The troops said the reason for this was to "keep order", but no
legitimate kind of "order" needs to be preserved from journalism.  We
are entitled to suspect that the real reason is to cover up crimes
that the troops and the violent "settlers" are committing.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Need for inquiry on British involvement in Israel
uri: Need-for-inquiry-on-British-involvement-in-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Need_for_inquiry_on_British_involvement_in_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Need_for_inquiry_on_British_involvement_in_Israel)

content:
 
<p>

Jeremy Corbyn:
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/03/britain-gaza-inquiry-labour-iraq-war">How
exactly has Britain supported Israel's military assault on Gaza?</a>
The public has a right to know.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israel accused of arming Palestinian gang
uri: Israel-accused-of-arming-Palestinian-gang
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Israel_accused_of_arming_Palestinian_gang)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Israel_accused_of_arming_Palestinian_gang)

content:
 
<p>

*Israel <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/israel-accused-of-arming-palestinian-gang-who-allegedly-looted-aid-in-gaza">accused
of arming Palestinian gang</a> who allegedly looted aid in Gaza.*
</p>
<p>
Is there anything so vicious and treacherous that Israel won't do it?
</p>
</li>

 


title: Reducing poaching by cutting off rhinos' horns
uri: Reducing-poaching-by-cutting-off-rhinos-horns
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Reducing_poaching_by_cutting_off_rhinos'_horns)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Reducing_poaching_by_cutting_off_rhinos'_horns)

content:
 
<p>

Cutting off rhinos' horns
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/05/dehorning-rhinos-deters-poachers-rangers-helicopters-aoe">cuts
poaching by 80%</a>.
</p>
<p>
The killing of rhinos to cut off and sell their horns is profitable
due to medical disinformation.  It is just one example of the harm
that disinformation does.
</p>
<p>
I wonder what the dehorners do with the horns they cut off.  They
could undersell the poachers and that might make poaching cease to be
profitable.
</p>
<p>
I wonder why the poachers don't start cutting off horns without killing
rhinos.  Perhaps they could pay for licenses to do this.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Amazon testing humanoid robots for package delivery
uri: Amazon-testing-humanoid-robots-for-package-delivery
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Amazon_testing_humanoid_robots_for_package_delivery)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Amazon_testing_humanoid_robots_for_package_delivery)

content:
 
<p>

*Amazon "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/05/amazon-testing-humanoid-robots-to-deliver-packages">testing
humanoid robots to deliver packages</a>."*
Their delivering packages near people could be dangerous;
if part of one bangs into your body it may not stop moving.
</p>
<p>
I don't know how those machines will be constructed, but robots built
out of metal and motors move with great momentum.  If a human gets in
the way of any moving part of the robot. it can easily injure per.
Simply having a person in the space that the robot can move through is
dangerous.  If a robot goes through sidewalks and buildings where
humans go, the dangers is active.
</p>
<p>
Maybe these new robots move with little momentum and can easily be stopped
by contact with any part of a human body.  But the article does not say so.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Shutting China's access to advanced proprietary technology
uri: Shutting-China-s-access-to-advanced-proprietary-technology
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Shutting_China's_access_to_advanced_proprietary_technology)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Shutting_China's_access_to_advanced_proprietary_technology)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>
is shutting China's access to advanced proprietary
technology of US companies, but
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/while-americas-front-doors-are-closing">at
the same time opening back channels</a>
for such technology to reach China, via Qatar and UAE and via the
corrupter's Chinese billionaire friends.
</p>
</li>

 


title: MIT graduate punished for talking about Gaza
uri: MIT-graduate-punished-for-talking-about-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(MIT_graduate_punished_for_talking_about_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(MIT_graduate_punished_for_talking_about_Gaza)

content:
 
<p>

MIT <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jun/02/mit-commencement-speech-gaza">punished
the graduating class president</a> for talking about Gaza in
a speech.  She was barred from the subsequent graduation ceremony &mdash;
which I don't think can be justified &mdash; but did receive her degree.
</p>
<p>
I disapprove of this censorship, but at least it wasn't followed by
a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(NYU_denying_diploma's_over_antisemitism)">draconian
punishment</a> as
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(University_of_Pittsburgh's_suspension_of_Pro-Palestine_Student_Group)">happened
at other universities in the past month</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: US vetoes unconditional Gaza ceasefire
uri: US-vetoes-unconditional-Gaza-ceasefire
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(US_vetoes_unconditional_Gaza_ceasefire)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(US_vetoes_unconditional_Gaza_ceasefire)

content:
 
<p>

*US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/04/us-vetoes-gaza-ceasefire-un-security-council">vetoes
resolution for unconditional Gaza ceasefire</a> at UN security council.*
</p>
<p>
This makes <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor</a>
solely responsible for continuing
Netanyahu's campaign of killing.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Masked deportation thugs grabbed immigrants and fought with protesters
uri: Masked-deportation-thugs-grabbed-immigrants-and-fought-with-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Masked_deportation_thugs_grabbed_immigrants_and_fought_with_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Masked_deportation_thugs_grabbed_immigrants_and_fought_with_protesters)

content:
 
<p>

Deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>,
disguised with masks, grabbed alleged unauthorized
immigrants out of stores in Los Angeles, and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/los-angeles-ice-raids-immigration">fought
with large crowds of protesters</a>.
</p>
<p>
Given the illegal acts persecutor has already ordered,
we have <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#31_May_2025_(Stephen_Miller_arrest-quotas)">no
reason to have confidence</a> that those arrested were
in fact unauthorized.
</p>
<p>
The protesters did not engage in violence, but one threw eggs.
Nonetheless, the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>
claim that they, notwithstanding their force
and arms, were in some sort of danger.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) IRS payments directly to Elon Musk's Bank Account
uri: (satire)-IRS-payments-directly-to-Elon-Musk-s-Bank-Account
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_((satire)_IRS_payments_directly_to_Elon_Musk's_Bank_Account)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_((satire)_IRS_payments_directly_to_Elon_Musk's_Bank_Account)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *IRS Allows Taxpayers To
<a href="https://theonion.com/irs-allows-taxpayers-to-deposit-payments-directly-into-elon-musks-bank-account/">Deposit
Payments Directly</a> Into Elon
Musk's Bank Account.*
</p>
<p>

 


title: Public hostility between the bully and the muskrat
uri: Public-hostility-between-the-bully-and-the-muskrat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Public_hostility_between_the_bully_and_the_muskrat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Public_hostility_between_the_bully_and_the_muskrat)

content:
 
<p>

I wonder if the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/donald-trump-elon-musk-meltdown-key-moments-in-the-billionaires-spectacular-split">sudden
public hostility</a> between
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> and the
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#">muskrat</a> is simply distraction theater.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Contrast of Journalism on Israel of now to the 1973 war
uri: Contrast-of-Journalism-on-Israel-of-now-to-the-1973-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Contrast_of_Journalism_on_Israel_of_now_to_the_1973_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#8_June_2025_(Contrast_of_Journalism_on_Israel_of_now_to_the_1973_war)

content:
 
<p>

Journalist Martin Bell reports how, during the 1973 war, Israel's army
allowed him and other foreign reporters to go almost everywhere and
report almost everything.  Nowadays, by contrast, while Israel carries
out massacre after massacre, it
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/06/israel-1973-war-censorship-idf-gaza-palestinians">will
not let foreign journalists</a> into
Gaza at all.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Bukele_playbook_attacks_poor,_SLV)
title: Bukele playbook attacks poor, SLV
uri: Bukele-playbook-attacks-poor-SLV
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Bukele_playbook_attacks_poor,_SLV)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/06/el-salvador-emergency-gang-violence-laws-seize-land-eviction">dooH
elekuB</a> is taking land from poor people in El Salvador, and jailing
them when they protest.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(dooR_nibboR_protest,_UK)
title: dooH nibboR protest, UK
uri: dooH-nibboR-protest-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(dooR_nibboR_protest,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Britons protested demanding that the UK tax the rich more
instead of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/07/anti-austerity-march-london-labour-starmer-cuts">cutting
the poor</a> more.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Veterans_Affairs_attacked,_US_govt)
title: Veterans Affairs attacked, US govt
uri: Veterans-Affairs-attacked-US-govt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Veterans_Affairs_attacked,_US_govt)
content:
 
<p>
The DOPE used software to choose which Veterans Affairs
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/doge-used-flawed-ai-tool-to-munch-veterans-affairs-contracts/">contracts
to cancel</a>, under a person with no pertinent experience.  The
department now refuses to say which contracts it has cancelled.
<p>
This is intentional incompetence.  If it doesn't cause a disaster,
that will be sheer luck, and thus no reason to excuse the stupidity.



<p>
 


title: Urgent: Stop Thiel's dangerous surveillance scheme
uri: Urgent-Stop-Thiel-s-dangerous-surveillance-scheme
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_Thiel's_dangerous_surveillance_scheme)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_Thiel's_dangerous_surveillance_scheme)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to stop Thiel's <a href="https://act.ourrevolution.com/sign/stop-trump-surveillance-oligarchy/">dangerous surveillance scheme</a>.
</p>
<p>
The article seems to think it makes a big difference that Thiel will make
money from running this system.  I think that is a side issue and we should
not let that distract us from the harm that surveillance will do.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Right-wing election lies in public schools
uri: Urgent-Right-wing-election-lies-in-public-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Urgent:_Right-wing_election_lies_in_public_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Urgent:_Right-wing_election_lies_in_public_schools)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Oklahoma to stop trying to teach
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/stop-efforts-to-teach-election-lies-in-schools">right-wing election lies in public schools</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Urgent:_Block_Charter-Cox_megamerger)
title: Urgent: Block Charter-Cox megamerger
uri: Urgent-Block-Charter-Cox-megamerger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Urgent:_Block_Charter-Cox_megamerger)
content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on the FCC to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-fcc-block-the-charter-cox-megamerger">block the Charter-Cox megamerger</a>.
</p>
<p>
All mergers that would result in company with more than 10% of any  market
should be prohibited.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Funding for bird flu vaccine funding
uri: Urgent-Funding-for-bird-flu-vaccine-funding
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Urgent:_Funding_for_bird_flu_vaccine_funding)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Urgent:_Funding_for_bird_flu_vaccine_funding)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call for <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/restore-bird-flu-vaccine?nowrapper=true">restoring the funding</a> for development of a vaccine
against bird flu &mdash; <em>before</em> it spreads to humans.
</p>
<p>
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code.
(See https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for why that issue
matters.)
</p>
<p>
First, make sure you have deactivated Javascript in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.
</p>
<p>
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above.  That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without JavaScript!"
</p>
<p>
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
</p>
<p>
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page.  That's how you say who's sending the letter.
</p>
<p>
Then click the "START WRITING" button.  That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code.  (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely <em>by running</em> that nonfree code, you can
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.)  You can
finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's
address bar, as follows:
</p>
<p>
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'.  Then tell the
browser to visit that URL.  This should give you a version of 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.
</p>
<p>
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 for the result of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.
</p>
</li>

 


title: University of Michigan spying on students involved in Gaza protests
uri: University-of-Michigan-spying-on-students-involved-in-Gaza-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(University_of_Michigan_spying_on_students_involved_in_Gaza_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(University_of_Michigan_spying_on_students_involved_in_Gaza_protests)

content:
 
<p>

The University of Michigan is paying private "investigators"
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaza-surveillance">follow and snoop on students</a> involved in Gaza protests.
</p>
<p>
In some cases, the students report, these "investigators" also harass
the students, both physically and with  fabricated accusations, as well as
by listening to and recording their conversations.
</p>
<p>
It is clear that the university management has discarded all concept
of justice and human rights in its persecution of student protesters.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Nuclear power plants in places near sea level rise
uri: Nuclear-power-plants-in-places-near-sea-level-rise
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Nuclear_power_plants_in_places_near_sea_level_rise)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Nuclear_power_plants_in_places_near_sea_level_rise)

content:
 
<p>

The UK government is planning to build nuclear power plants in places
that will be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/06/sea-level-rise-report-climate-crisis-coastal-communities">inundated by sea level rise</a>.
</p>
<p>
Long before the sea rises enough to permanently inundates them, it will
create a Fukushima-like vulnerability to temporary rises.
</p>
<p>
  Keep in mind that forecasts for <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_April_2025_(Disasters_of_melting_Arctic_ice)">sea-level rise</a> are systematic underestimates.
  In addition, as <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> advances, new weather phenomena
appear which we had no basis to suspect at lower temperatures, and
often they cause positive feedback.
</p>
<p>
We ought to speed up our archaeological investigations of sites less
than 20 meters above sea level &mdash; and start demolishing the cities
which are doomed to be flooded, so we can discover the facts hidden
under those places while they are still dry land.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Fighting climate crisis vital for national security
uri: Fighting-climate-crisis-vital-for-national-security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Fighting_climate_crisis_vital_for_national_security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Fighting_climate_crisis_vital_for_national_security)

content:
 
<p>

  *Fighting the climate crisis is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/05/fighting-the-climate-crisis-is-vital-for-national-security">vital for national security</a>.*
</p>
<p>
That applies to every country.  Massive disasters can destabilize any part
of the world.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Secretary of Education on teaching about Tulsa race massacre
uri: Secretary-of-Education-on-teaching-about-Tulsa-race-massacre
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Secretary_of_Education_on_teaching_about_Tulsa_race_massacre)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Secretary_of_Education_on_teaching_about_Tulsa_race_massacre)

content:
 
<p>

The racist-in-chief's Secretary of Education says it is permissible
for schools to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/04/linda-mcmahon-black-history-dei-policy">teach about the Tulsa race massacre</a> as long as they
"give the facts on both sides".
</p>
<p>
Are we supposed to believe that there is a positive side to a
murderous riot by racists?
</p>
<p>
Are we supposed to believe that there is a positive side to a
riot that attacked the Capitol?
</p>
<p>
The article linked to above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  <a href="/articles/bigotry.html">I
denounce bigotry</a>, and normally I will not link to articles that
practice it.  But I make exceptions for some articles because I
consider them important &mdash; and I present this comment about them.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Perspective on population growth not being a problem
uri: Perspective-on-population-growth-not-being-a-problem
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Perspective_on_population_growth_not_being_a_problem)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Perspective_on_population_growth_not_being_a_problem)

content:
 
<p>

*With humankind currently transgressing at least six of nine planetary
   boundaries, the cornucopian perspective [that population growth is
not a problem] is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/04/why-we-shouldnt-cheer-earths-growing-population">dangerous one and needs to be challenged</a>
   wherever encountered.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Deportation thugs threaten to deport witnesses
uri: Deportation-thugs-threaten-to-deport-witnesses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Deportation_thugs_threaten_to_deport_witnesses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Deportation_thugs_threaten_to_deport_witnesses)

content:
 
<p>

  The deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/06/07/ice-deport-free-speech-aaup-rubio/">threaten to deport witnesses</a> who testify
in a lawsuit that aims to prevent deportation of academics
for their political views.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Mass firings on Department of Education
uri: Mass-firings-on-Department-of-Education
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Mass_firings_on_Department_of_Education)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Mass_firings_on_Department_of_Education)

content:
 
<p>

  *Mass firings [on the Department of Education] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/student-loan-aid-department-firings">spark concern</a> as
department employees say cuts set stage for widespread fraud and
abuse.*
</p>
<p>
I suspect that the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> would be pleased with that
consequence.  It would provide an excuse to attack the system of
loans, and thus to weaken higher education in the US.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Britons who bought homes with dangerous cladding
uri: Britons-who-bought-homes-with-dangerous-cladding
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Britons_who_bought_homes_with_dangerous_cladding)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Britons_who_bought_homes_with_dangerous_cladding)

content:
 
<p>

Britons who bought homes constructed with dangerous, flammable cladding
have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/07/london-residents-win-550000-compensation-in-cladding-defects-case">won a court case against the builders</a>.
</p>
<p>
This is just &mdash; the builders had the responsibility to do the job
safely, so they should shoulder the costs of fixing their wrong decision.
I hope they won't be able to avoid paying by legal stratagems.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Kabul_running_out_of_water_supply)
title: Kabul running out of water supply
uri: Kabul-running-out-of-water-supply
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Kabul_running_out_of_water_supply)
content:
 
<p>

  Kabul is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/07/kabul-could-become-first-modern-city-to-run-out-of-water-report-warns">rapidly running out of water supply</a>, and most of why remains
is polluted by various poisons.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Exploitative privatized parking meters
uri: Exploitative-privatized-parking-meters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Exploitative_privatized_parking_meters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Exploitative_privatized_parking_meters)

content:
 
<p>

Chicago's 75-year contract for privatization of its parking meters
is <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-parking-meters-have-generated-2b-for-private-company-audits-show/3741103/">exploitative in many ways</a>.
  It was rushed through without proper study of its terms, and part of
the argument for it was trickle-down, which is always suspect.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Escalating_executive_power_grab)
title: Escalating executive power grab
uri: Escalating-executive-power-grab
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Escalating_executive_power_grab)
content:
 
<p>

  *[Saboteur-in-chef] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250206230539/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/trump-federal-law-power.html">Brazenly Defies Laws</a> in Escalating Executive Power
Grab.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Day_care_costs_in_the_US)
title: Day care costs in the US
uri: Day-care-costs-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Day_care_costs_in_the_US)
content:
 
<p>

Outside of a few states with progressive policies, day care for young
children in the US is so <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/childcare-daycare-cost-absurdly-expensive">expensive that many parents cannot possibly afford it</a>.
The US frenzy against allowing children time at home alone
multiplies the expense.
</p>
<p>
Other wealthy countries subsidize child care, 
</p>
<p>
This leaves me with a question: how do poor American families, in which
both parents need to work, cope with this situation?  Since they can't
afford to pay for day care, evidently they don't.  What do they
actually do instead?  And what are the consequences of doing that?
</p>
</li>

 


title: Pushing to restrict lobbying in Australia
uri: Pushing-to-restrict-lobbying-in-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Pushing_to_restrict_lobbying_in_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(Pushing_to_restrict_lobbying_in_Australia)

content:
 
<p>

  Pushing to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/09/greens-and-independents-to-push-labor-for-tougher-regulation-of-political-lobbying">restrict lobbying in Australia</a>.
</p>
<p>
I don't know the details, but in general that is a good goal.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: US military vs peaceful protestors, CA
uri: US-military-vs-peaceful-protestors-CA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#10_June_2025_(US_military_vs_peaceful_protestors,_CA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#10_June_2025_(US_military_vs_peaceful_protestors,_CA)

content:
 
<p>
*Trump uses LA protests
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/trump-la-protests-enemy-within">to
redirect dissent</a> from policy failures to the "enemy within".*
<p>
We know, of course, who is the real "enemy within".


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#10_June_2025_(Urgent:_Conference_of_the_Parties_30)
title: Urgent: Conference of the Parties 30
uri: Urgent-Conference-of-the-Parties-30
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#10_June_2025_(Urgent:_Conference_of_the_Parties_30)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.350.org/go/485323?source=em20250605-1-subs-us&akid=468218%2E1151744%2EKStB3_">call
on the Cop30 president</a> to pay attention to cutting fossil fuel
use.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_June_2025_(Greta_Thunberg_VS_Israeli_bombs)
title: Greta Thunberg VS Israeli bombs
uri: Greta-Thunberg-VS-Israeli-bombs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_June_2025_(Greta_Thunberg_VS_Israeli_bombs)
content:
 
<p>
Greta Thunberg and other
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/08/israel-katz-threatens-to-use-all-necessary-measures-to-stop-gaza-bound-aid-ship">European
activists are sailing</a> in the "freedom Flotilla", putting pressure
on Israel to stop the bombardment and siege of Gaza by symbolically
bringing some food aid there.
<p>
Israel is making it quite clear that it intends to stop food aid for
Gaza at any cost.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_June_2025_(Urgent:_Preserve_federal_courts_)
title: Urgent: Preserve federal courts
uri: Urgent-Preserve-federal-courts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_June_2025_(Urgent:_Preserve_federal_courts_)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-no-rogue-rulings-act-protect-the-judicial-checks-on-trumps-power?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progress-america&source=group-progress-america">call
on the Senate</a> to preserve the authority of federal courts over
unconstitutional or illegal executive actions, by defeating the
No Rogue Rulings act.


<p>
 


title: National guard coming to city near you
uri: National-guard-coming-to-city-near-you
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_June_2025_(National_guard_coming_to_city_near_you)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_June_2025_(National_guard_coming_to_city_near_you)

content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> sent the
California National Guard to fight protesters,
<em>not</em> on account of any need for that, but as a preemptive measure.
The likely result will be to make the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/veterans-trump-national-guard-la-protests">US
military a political tool</a>.
<p>
I expect that officers who are loyal to the principle that this must
not happen will find themselves compelled to resign, resulting in an
army that is loyal to a tyrant instead of principle.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_June_2025_(Lawmakers_denied_lawful_entry)
title: Lawmakers denied lawful entry
uri: Lawmakers-denied-lawful-entry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_June_2025_(Lawmakers_denied_lawful_entry)
content:
 
<p>
*Democratic lawmakers denied entry
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/democrats-california-new-york-detention-facilities">to
[deportation prisons]</a> in LA and New York.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_June_2025_(Immigrants_dragnat,_Los_Angeles)
title: Immigrants dragnet, Los Angeles
uri: Immigrants-dragnet-Los-Angeles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#11_June_2025_(Immigrants_dragnat,_Los_Angeles)
content:
 
<p>
The deportation <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> in LA are arresting many alleged
immigrants, and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/los-angeles-immigration-raids-detained">holding
them incommunicado</a>.  Their relatives have to wonder whether they
are in California, Louisiana, El Salvador, or Somaliland, and whether
they will ever see those relatives again.
<p>
Their lawyers have not been allowed to talk with them either.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(Gaza_aid_boat_attacked_by_ISR)
title: Gaza aid boat attacked by ISR
uri: Gaza-aid-boat-attacked-by-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(Gaza_aid_boat_attacked_by_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
On
<a href="https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/perpetrators">June 8-9,
Israel attacked</a> the Madleen, a ship bringing humanitarian aid to
Gaza, operated by the Hind Rajab Foundation.  The foundation has
formally filed a war crimes complaint about this attack,
<p>
*Eyewitnesses report that passengers were physically assaulted,
exposed to choking white substances sprayed from drones, and denied
communication with the outside world.*
<p>
The ship and its personnel did not try to commit any violence or any
damage against Israel, so there is no possible excuse for the violence
that Israel committed against the ship and its personnel.
<p>
Israel attacked vessels carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza several
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-mar-jun.html#14%20June%202010%20(Who%20is%20Afraid%20of%20a%20real%20Inquiry?)">years ago</a>.

<p>
 


title: Greta Thunberg development: kidnappings
uri: Greta-Thunberg-development-kidnappings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(Greta_Thunberg_development:_kidnappings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(Greta_Thunberg_development:_kidnappings)

content:
 
<p>
Greta Thunberg accuses Israel of kidnapping the people
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/10/greta-thunberg-accuses-israel-of-kidnapping-yacht-crew-gaza">on
the activist boat</a> that was bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza.  The
attackers forcibly brought the activists to Israel, where they are now
(ironically) being "deported", but they never intended to go there.
<p>
Earlier this year Israeli
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_(Ship_carrying_aid_to_Gaza_attacked)">naval
forces attacked</a> an aid boat and damaged it seriously.



<p>
 


title: A few blocks vs 500 sq mi, Los Angeles
uri: A-few-blocks-vs-500-sq-mi-Los-Angeles
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(A_few_blocks_vs_500_sq_mi,_Los_Angeles)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(A_few_blocks_vs_500_sq_mi,_Los_Angeles)

content:
 
<p>
Lauren Weinstein, who lives in LA, posted this:
<blockquote>
TRUMP AND THE REST OF THE FASCISTS ARE LYING TO YOU ABOUT L.A.
<p>
Despite the fake images, fake reports, fake statements, and the rest
of the fascist tactics, what protests there have been in L.A. over the
last few days were entirely limited to a few blocks downtown. Bullsh*t
from would-be dictator Trump that L.A. would be burning to the ground
now if not for his National Guard deployment is nonsense, and they
were sleeping on concrete because Trump didn't provide proper
resources for them.
<p>
Los Angeles is gigantic, 500 square miles in size. Outside of that
tiny area downtown where the situation calmed down dramatically even
before Trump started his fascist vomit-fest, the rest of the city is
operating completely normally and you wouldn't even know anything
unusual was going on here.
<p>
It's Trump's and his sycophants BIG LIES to push his fascist agenda of
arresting children and housewives rather than the "criminals" he
promised would be his deportation focus. DON'T BE FOOLED.
</blockquote>


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(ISR_arms_clans_against_Palestinians)
title: ISR arms clans against Palestinians
uri: ISR-arms-clans-against-Palestinians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(ISR_arms_clans_against_Palestinians)
content:
 
<p>

*Netanyahu defends arming Palestinian clans accused of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/06/netanyahu-defends-arming-palestinian-clans-accused-of-ties-with-jihadist-groups">ties with jihadist
groups</a>.*
<p>
Arming and supporting Palestinian groups opposed to HAMAS is not
necessarily a bad thing to do.  Depending on what those groups stand
for, it could be bad, or it could be good.
<p>
It seems that Netanyahu has chosen religious fanatics who could
be like HAMAS only worse.


<p>
 


title: Five Countries sanction ISR ministers
uri: Five-Countries-sanction-ISR-ministers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(Sanctions_on_ISR_ministers,_CAN,_AUS,_NZL)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(Sanctions_on_ISR_ministers,_CAN,_AUS,_NZL)

content:
 
<p>
Australia has joined UK, Canada, New Zealand and Norway in putting
sanctions on the two most hateful Israeli ministers,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/11/australia-sanctions-two-extremist-israeli-ministers-for-inciting-violence-against-palestinians">Ben-Gvir
and Smotrich</a>.
<p>
*The sanctions make it an offense to make assets available to a
sanctioned person, require the freezing of any assets in Australia, and
prevent them from entering Australia.*
<p>
Better late than never, but I expect that making Israel stop its war crimes
will require wider and stronger action than this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(History_of_Big_Media_domination)
title: History of Big Media domination
uri: History-of-Big-Media-domination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(History_of_Big_Media_domination)
content:
 
<p>
Ralph Nader describes the media landscape of the 60s, which permitted
mass mobilization for progressive causes, and how it has changed
such that the
<a href="https://mailchi.mp/nader/increase-civic-self-respect-and-be-happier-dsb2h6oll9?e=555e9be067">right-wing
rich now dominate</a> it.


<p>
 


title: List of ways, US govt executive-branch
uri: List-of-ways-US-govt-executive-branch
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(List_of_ways,_US_govt_executive_branch)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(List_of_ways,_US_govt_executive_branch)

content:
 
<p>
A long list of ways that the <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> and his henchmen
have
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250206230539/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/trump-federal-law-power.html">blatantly
defied laws</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Taxpayers supporting Proud Boys
uri: Urgent-Taxpayers-supporting-Proud-Boys
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(Urgent:_Taxpayers_supporting_Proud_Boys)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_June_2025_(Urgent:_Taxpayers_supporting_Proud_Boys)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-ag-bondi-no-taxpayer-money-for-proud-boys?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">call
on AG Bondi</a> to give <em>no</em> taxpayer money to Proud Boys.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_June_2025_(Urgent:_Head_of_FEMA)
title: Urgent: Change FEMA Chief Administrator
uri: Urgent-Change-FEMA-Chief-Administrator
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_June_2025_(Urgent:_Head_of_FEMA)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-fema-chief-administrator-david-richardson-resign?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-this-guy-needs-to-resign-before-people-get-hurt">Call
for the resignation</a> of acting FEMA head David Richardson.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_June_2025_(Urgent:_Ban_super-PACs)
title: Urgent: Ban super-PACs
uri: Urgent-Ban-super-PACs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_June_2025_(Urgent:_Ban_super-PACs)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/dnc-ban-superpacs-dem-primaries-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-more-perfect-union&source=group-more-perfect-union">call
on state</a> Democratic parties to ban super-PACs from Democratic
primaries.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_June_2025_(List_of_bullying,_brutalizations)
title: List of bullying, brutalizations, US
uri: List-of-bullying-brutalizations-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#13_June_2025_(List_of_bullying,_brutalizations)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: *The Coward Goes to
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-dictators-revenge">War Against America</a>*,
for the purpose of appearing brutal.
<p>
His announcements anticipate (eagerly?) a "need" to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/10/trump-violence-los-angeles">deploy
soldiers "everywhere"</a>.  That may be a clue to the actual target of
his provocations.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(No-kings_protests,_June_14)
title: No-kings protests today
uri: No-kings-protests-today
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(No-kings_protests,_June_14)
content:
 
<p>

Today there is a No Kings protests at <a href="/no-kings.html">a city near you</a>.
<p>
The No Kings protests are specifically aimed at the President of the US,
but also the masterminds behind a
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory">unitary
executive theory</a>, playing the roles of White House Deputy Chief of
Staff for Policy, and director of Office of Management and Budget.
<p>
Millions will be out sounding and presenting emergency-messages
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assertiveness">assertively</a>.
Certain people at any organized protest will have the training and skills for
peaceful protesting and de-escalating in order to avoid stirring up traps,
and to maintain an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence">emotional
intelligence</a>.
<p>
Tomorrow is the President's birthday and a military parade near the Whitehouse.
<p>
Today is also
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Day_(United_States)">US
Flag Day</a>.  Show the world what we stand for.  We live in a
democracy, we're informed, we exercise our right to protest for the sake
of our nation.



<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_June_2025_(No_rest_until_Mahmoud_is_free)
title: No rest until Mahmoud is free
uri: No-rest-until-Mahmoud-is-free
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_June_2025_(No_rest_until_Mahmoud_is_free)
content:
 
<p>
The Persecution
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention">Party
keeps inventing new excuses</a> to avoid releasing Mahmoud Khalil.

<p>
 


title: Abortion ban implementation woes worsen
uri: Abortion-ban-implementation-woes-worsen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_June_2025_(Abortion_ban_implentation_woes_worsen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_June_2025_(Abortion_ban_implentation_woes_worsen)

content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor</a> has
cancelled federal
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/06/03/trump-emtala-abortion-emergency/">regulations
that permitted doctors</a> to carry out abortions when necessary to
save a woman's life.
<p>
This makes it explicitly clear that <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a> would rather kill a woman than
allow an abortion.


 


title: Urgent: Revert cancellation of bird flu vaccine contract
uri: Urgent-Revert-cancellation-of-bird-flu-vaccine-contract
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Urgent:_Revert_cancellation_of_bird_flu_vaccine_contract)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Urgent:_Revert_cancellation_of_bird_flu_vaccine_contract)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on RFK Jr to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/restore-bird-flu-vaccine/?nowrapper=true">revert the cancellation</a> of the bird flu vaccine
contract.
</p>
<p>
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code.  (See
https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for why that issue
matters.)
</p>
<p>
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.
</p>
<p>
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above.  That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without JavaScript!"
</p>
<p>
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
</p>
<p>
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page.  That's how you say who's sending the letter.
</p>
<p>
Then click the "START WRITING" button.  That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code.  (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely <em>by running</em> that nonfree code, you can
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.)  You can
finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's
address bar, as follows:
</p>
<p>
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'.  Then tell the
browser to visit that URL.  This should give you a version of 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.
</p>
<p>
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 for the result of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Call on Smithsonian to stand firm against pressure to slant history
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Smithsonian-to-stand-firm-against-pressure-to-slant-hi
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Urgent:_Call_on_Smithsonian_to_stand_firm_against_pressure_to_slant_history)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Urgent:_Call_on_Smithsonian_to_stand_firm_against_pressure_to_slant_history)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on the Smithsonian Institution to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-the-smithsonian-stand-strong-against-the-trump-administrations-attempts-to-erase-us-history?&nowrapper=true">stand firm</a> against
pressure to slant American history.
</p>
<p>
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code.  (See
https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for why that issue
matters.)
</p>
<p>
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.
</p>
<p>
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above.  That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without JavaScript!"
</p>
<p>
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
</p>
<p>
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page.  That's how you say who's sending the letter.
</p>
<p>
Then click the "START WRITING" button.  That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code.  (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely <em>by running</em> that nonfree code, you can
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.)  You can
finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's
address bar, as follows:
</p>
<p>
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'.  Then tell the
browser to visit that URL.  This should give you a version of 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.
</p>
<p>
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 for the result of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Urgent:_Defund_DOPE_(so-called_DOGE))
title: Urgent: Defund DOPE (so-called "DOGE")
uri: Urgent-Defund-DOPE-(so-called-DOGE-)
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Urgent:_Defund_DOPE_(so-called_DOGE))
content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-congress-defund-doge-now">defund DOPE</a> (so-called "<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#doge">DOGE</a>").
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Reject cuts in funding for medical treatment
uri: Urgent-Reject-cuts-in-funding-for-medical-treatment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_cuts_in_funding_for_medical_treatment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_cuts_in_funding_for_medical_treatment)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-to-demand-universal-healthcare-for-all?nowrapper=true">reject cuts in funding</a> for medical
treatment, and instead extend this to a universal national medical
system.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_JUDGES_bill)
title: Urgent: Oppose the JUDGES bill
uri: Urgent-Oppose-the-JUDGES-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_JUDGES_bill)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose the JUDGES bill
which would let Republicans pack the federal courts.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Anticipatory_compliance)
title: Anticipatory compliance
uri: Anticipatory-compliance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Anticipatory_compliance)
content:
 
<p>

Anticipatory compliance: when people are so intimidated that they obey
a bully's commands <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/08/trump-anticipatory-noncompliance">before the commands are actually given</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Theft_of_antiquities_in_Syria)
title: Theft of antiquities in Syria
uri: Theft-of-antiquities-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Theft_of_antiquities_in_Syria)
content:
 
<p>

  Syria is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/08/looted-from-syria-sold-on-facebook-antiquities-smuggling-surges-after-fall-of-assad">suffering a wave of theft of antiquities</a>, and the new government
is not strong enough to stop it.
</p>
<p>
I wonder if other countries could win friendship in Syria by paying to hire
cops to stop this.
</p>
</li>

 


title: AI systems that can determine location based on a photo
uri: AI-systems-that-can-determine-location-based-on-a-photo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(AI_systems_that_can_determine_location_based_on_a_photo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(AI_systems_that_can_determine_location_based_on_a_photo)

content:
 
<p>

There are AI systems that can determine, from almost any photo, what
<a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/415646/artificial-intelligencer-chatgpt-c">place it was taken in</a>.  This leads to even more danger of tracking
people.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Neo-Nazi group seeking to grow in the US
uri: Neo-Nazi-group-seeking-to-grow-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Neo-Nazi_group_seeking_to_grow_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Neo-Nazi_group_seeking_to_grow_in_the_US)

content:
 
<p>

  *Neo-Nazi group <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/the-base-neo-nazi-group-paramilitary-training">"actively seeking to grow in US"</a> with planned paramilitary
training event.*
</p>
<p>
This reflects <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> general practice of supporting and
recruiting neo-Nazis.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Rights_for_Antarctica)
title: Rights for Antarctica
uri: Rights-for-Antarctica
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Rights_for_Antarctica)
content:
 
<p>

  Arguing that Antarctica should <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/07/cormac-cullinan-shackleton-medal-antarctica-environmental-continent-legal-status">have "rights" and be designated a "person"</a>.
</p>
<p>
I support legal protection for Antarctica, enforced by a world body
which has the necessary power to achieve the goal.  But it is absurd
to treat Antarctica, or a river, or a forest, as a person.  Exercise
of the rights of a person requires <em>will</em>, but that is something that
neither Antarctica, nor a river, nor a forest actually has.
</p>
<p>
Does Antarctica wish to remain ice-covered, or would it prefer to melt
the ice and have forests with fruit trees?  If Antarctica were a person,
it could have a preference and we would be obliged to ask what that is.
</p>
<p>
We should protect Antarctica as a major part of a climatic system,
whose stability is crucial for that system.  That is even more
important to protect than one person.
</p>
</li>

 


title: TikTok users in Taiwan likely to agree with pro-China narratives
uri: TikTok-users-in-Taiwan-likely-to-agree-with-pro-China-narratives
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(TikTok_users_in_Taiwan__likely_to_agree_with_pro-China_narratives)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(TikTok_users_in_Taiwan__likely_to_agree_with_pro-China_narratives)

content:
 
<p>

  *Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/06/frequent-tiktok-users-in-taiwan-more-likely-to-agree-with-pro-china-narratives-study-finds">more likely to agree</a> with pro-China
narratives, study finds.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Netanyahu defends arming Palestinian clans
uri: Netanyahu-defends-arming-Palestinian-clans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Netanyahu_defends_arming_Palestinian_clans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Netanyahu_defends_arming_Palestinian_clans)

content:
 
<p>

  *Netanyahu <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/06/netanyahu-defends-arming-palestinian-clans-accused-of-ties-with-jihadist-groups">defends arming Palestinian clans</a> accused of ties with jihadist
groups.*
</p>
<p>
Arming and supporting Palestinian groups opposed to HAMAS is not
necessarily a bad thing to do.  Depending on what those groups stand
for, it could be bad, or it could be good.
</p>
<p>
It seems that Netanyahu has chosen religious fanatics who could
be like HAMAS only worse.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Children living in poverty show signs of faster aging
uri: Children-living-in-poverty-show-signs-of-faster-aging
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Children_living_in_poverty_show_signs_of_faster_aging)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Children_living_in_poverty_show_signs_of_faster_aging)

content:
 
<p>

  Children living in poverty <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/jun/05/poorer-children-more-likely-age-faster-affluent-counterparts-study">show biological signs of faster aging</a>,
apparently caused in some unidentified way by poverty.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Ways saboteur-in-chief has defied laws
uri: Ways-saboteur-in-chief-has-defied-laws
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Ways_saboteur-in-chief_has_defied_laws)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Ways_saboteur-in-chief_has_defied_laws)

content:
 
<p>

A long list of ways that the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> and his henchmen
have <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250206230539/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/trump-federal-law-power.html">blatantly defied laws</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Protect sea-bottom life from trawling
uri: Protect-sea-bottom-life-from-trawling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Protect_sea-bottom_life_from_trawling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Protect_sea-bottom_life_from_trawling)

content:
 
<p>

  Calling on New Zealand to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/10/new-zealand-is-failing-to-protect-its-vast-ocean-resources-we-owe-it-to-the-world-to-act">protect sea-bottom life from trawling</a>.
</p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Blows_of_domestic_violence)
title: Blows of domestic violence
uri: Blows-of-domestic-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Blows_of_domestic_violence)
content:
 
<p>

  The blows of domestic violence can cause <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/09/domestic-violence-can-affect-victims-brain-health-for-life-study-suggests">lasting gradual brain injury</a>,
and other sorts of mental illness.
</p>
</li>

 


title: University of Michigan surveillance contracts
uri: University-of-Michigan-surveillance-contracts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(University_of_Michigan_surveillance_contracts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(University_of_Michigan_surveillance_contracts)

content:
 
<p>

  *University of Michigan <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/university-of-michigan-surveillance-students">ends undercover surveillance contracts</a> after Guardian
revelations.*
</p>
<p>
However, the university put the blame entirely on excessive zeal by one
employee of the company.  Based on <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#9_June_2025_(University_of_Michigan_spying_on_students_involved_in_Gaza_protests)">reports</a>, 
   it was more than one employee.  More deeply, the wrong was not
limited to the methods used by the company.  The decision to snoop on
students and staff preemptively to quash protests was the root of the
evil.  The university must repudiate that practice, not just the
methods used.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Corrupt Night-Mayor Adams adopts biased IHRC criterion for "antisemitism"
uri: Corrupt-Night-Mayor-Adams-adopts-biased-IHRC-criterion-for-antisemiti
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Corrupt_Night-Mayor_Adams_adopts_biased_IHRC_criterion_for_antisemitism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Corrupt_Night-Mayor_Adams_adopts_biased_IHRC_criterion_for_antisemitism)

content:
 
<p>

Corrupt <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#nightmayor">Night-Mayor</a> Adams has personally ordered the city government to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/eric-adams-executive-orders-antisemitism">adopt the biased IHRC criterion for "antisemitism"</a>.
</p>
<p>
  This criterion has been <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_May_2024_(IHRA_antisemitism_criterion)">condemned by its own main author</a>,
  and any entity which adopts it for judging actions morally or legally
thereby makes is conclusions unreliable.
</p>
<p>
I hope the mayor is not authorized to make such a decision personally.
</p>
</li>

 


title: New South Wales nature reserve for koalas
uri: New-South-Wales-nature-reserve-for-koalas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(New_South_Wales_nature_reserve_for_koalas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(New_South_Wales_nature_reserve_for_koalas)

content:
 
<p>

New South Wales has a commitment to create a new nature reserve
to protect endangered koalas, but it has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/10/high-density-area-of-endangered-species-left-out-of-nsw-great-koala-national-park-plan-advocates-say">left out an area of land</a>
that is home for many koalas.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Muskrat_invention_of_golden_dome)
title: Muskrat invention of "golden dome"
uri: Muskrat-invention-of-golden-dome
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#14_June_2025_(Muskrat_invention_of_golden_dome)
content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">The muskrat</a> invented a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/06/09/trump-musk-golden-dome-missile-spacex/">boondoggle called "golden dome"</a> which would
develop antimissile to defend against nuclear attack.
</p>
<p>
I would be delighted if the US had an antimissile system for nuclear
defense, provided that (1) we could expect it to succeed reliably in
doing its defensive job, and (2) we could count on US leaders not to
rejoice by threatening a nuclear first strike.
</p>
<p>
But (1) is unlikely to happen, because the job is so hard that the
system will probably never achieve the goal.  The money spent would be
wasted, from the nation's point of view.  By contrast, the principal
contractors (Musk?) would find the system quite lucrative, whether it
is adequate or not.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_June_2025_(Trump_speech_at_Fort_Bragg)
title: Trump speech at "Fort Bragg"
uri: Trump-speech-at-Fort-Bragg
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#15_June_2025_(Trump_speech_at_Fort_Bragg)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The
bullshitter's</a> speech at Fort Liberty, which he had recently
renamed to "Fort Bragg" to honor a confederate general, was full of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/10/fact-check-trump-speech-fort-bragg">falsehoods</a>.
<p>
I suspect that <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the
corrupter</a> chose to give a speech at "Fort Bragg" to call attention
to his support for naming a US military base after a traitor.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(Urgent:_An_attack_on_nonprofits)
title: Urgent: An attack on nonprofits
uri: Urgent-An-attack-on-nonprofits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(Urgent:_An_attack_on_nonprofits)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/trump-nonprofit-tax/">call
on the Senate</a> to delete the $50B tax increase on nonprofits from
the Big Bad Bill.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>


<p>
 


title: The Fascist playbook throughout history
uri: The-Fascist-playbook-throughout-history
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(The_Fascist_playbook_throughout_history)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(The_Fascist_playbook_throughout_history)

content:
 
<p>
Nobel laureates, scientists, writers and artists
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/nobel-laureates-fascism">call
for resistance to fascism</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(An_Israel-Iran_conflict_and_war_prep)
title: New Israel-Iran conflict escalating fast
uri: New-Israel-Iran-conflict-escalating-fast
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(An_Israel-Iran_conflict_and_war_prep)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/12/israels-iran-threat-is-familiar-but-it-is-unlikely-to-attack-without-us-backing">Israel
attacked Iran directly</a>, targeting both nuclear facilities and the
homes (it seems) of officers and officials.  Israel threatened to do
this in the past, but backed down because of US objections.
<p>
What has changed?  I suppose the change was thet the
persecutor-in-chief
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/trump-iran-israel-attacks-response">didn't
oppose it very strongly.  *[Mad bomber] scrambles to claim credit</a>
for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed.*
<p>
He (apparently) approved this attack
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/06/12/israel-iran-attack-trump-nuke-deal/">even
while trying to negotiate another non-nuclear deal</a> with Iran.
<p>
If the
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">persecutor-in-chief</a>
approved this attack, maybe it indicates he
thought that some bombardment would make Iran offer more concessions
in the negotiation.
<p>
I don't think
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/benjamin-netanyahu-attack-iran-israel-us-nuclear">that
strategy</a> is likely to work.  The rulers of Iran are religious
fanatics, and they will not be dissuaded by casualties and damage.
There was a better chance of softening their stance through a seres of
deals.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(Urgent:_Troop_deployments_on_US_soil)
title: Urgent: Troop deployments on US soil
uri: Urgent-Troop-deployments-on-US-soil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(Urgent:_Troop_deployments_on_US_soil)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.ourrevolution.com/go/31338">call on Congress</a>
to *Stop [<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>]'s Authoritarian
Troop Deployment.*
<p>
*The line between military and civilian government is among the
critical protections for democracy.*
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>


<p>
 


title: Long-time Argentina activist teaches US
uri: Long-time-Argentina-activist-teaches-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(Long-time_Argentina_activist_teaches_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(Long-time_Argentina_activist_teaches_US)

content:
 
<p>
An Argentine political activist, who was disappeared in 1977 by the
military which had seized power, sees in
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> tyranny a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/15/argentina-dictatorship-kidnappings">resemblance
to the tyranny in Argentina</a>.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(Long-time_Russian_activists_teach_US)
title: Long-time Russian activists teach US
uri: Long-time-Russian-activists-teach-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(Long-time_Russian_activists_teach_US)
content:
 
<p>
Exiled Russian human rights activists teach Americans several
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250612165323/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/opinion/america-russia-authoritarian-language.html">terms
that Russians developed to refer to phenomena</a> of Putin's developing
dictatorship, so that Americans can use them to understand them when
the would-be dictator of our country does them.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(Trump's_personal_playbook)
title: The grandstander's personal playbook
uri: The-grandstander-s-personal-playbook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(Trump's_personal_playbook)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter's</a> go-to distraction technique is to accuse his victims
and enemies of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/15/right-back-at-ya-trump-rhetoric">doing
the wrongs he is doing</a>.
<p>
With enough of a mindless chorus of supporters, people who don't have a clear
orientation have trouble seeing the ground through the fog of similar-looking
counter-accusations.


<p>
 


title: Urgent: Stop wrecker's authoritarian troop deployment
uri: Urgent-Stop-wrecker-s-authoritarian-troop-deployment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_wrecker's_authoritarian_troop_deployment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_wrecker's_authoritarian_troop_deployment)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to Stop [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>]'s <a href="https://act.ourrevolution.com/go/31338?source=email20240609&t=1015&akid=8722%2E7207819%2ELZQa5p">Authoritarian Troop Deployment</a>.
</p>
<p>
The line between military and civilian government is among the
critical protections for democracy.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Children born under Biden to be renamed after confederate generals
uri: (satire)-Children-born-under-Biden-to-be-renamed-after-confederate-gen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_((satire)_Children_born_under_Biden_to_be_renamed_after_confederate_generals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_((satire)_Children_born_under_Biden_to_be_renamed_after_confederate_generals)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Trump Orders All Children Born Under Biden To Be Renamed
<a href="https://theonion.com/trump-orders-all-children-born-under-biden-to-be-renamed-after-confederate-generals/">After Confederate Generals</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Commercial_period_tracker_apps)
title: Commercial "period tracker" apps
uri: Commercial-period-tracker-apps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Commercial_period_tracker_apps)
content:
 
<p>

Commercial "period tracker" apps, which connect to servers, collect
users personal data and then store them in the servers for others to
obtain.
</p>
<p>
  A bizarre alternative has been proposed: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/11/public-health-bodies-urged-launch-period-tracking-apps-protect-data">governments would run these apps</a>
and store the data in their own servers.
</p>
<p>
One might wish we could trust those governments not to use that data
against the users who entered them &mdash; but if the government is taken
over by right-wing fanatics, it will use those data in all the
nastiest ways &mdash; including punishing abortion.
</p>
<p>
The real solution to this problem is to keep the data encrypted on your own
computer.  But in order for users to rationally trust it, it needs to be free
software, so that no one is in a position to corrupt the program.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Robbery by man claiming to be deportation thug
uri: Robbery-by-man-claiming-to-be-deportation-thug
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Robbery_by_man_claiming_to_be_deportation_thug)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Robbery_by_man_claiming_to_be_deportation_thug)

content:
 
<p>

  A man who said he was a deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/philadelphia-immigration">tied up a sales clerk</a> and
took $1000 in cash.
</p>
<p>
The article asserts that he was an impostor and not a real deportation
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>.  Perhaps so &mdash; but can anyone verify that?  Can we be sure he
wasn't an authentic deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>?
</p>
</li>

 


title: Deceit and cruelty by deportation thugs
uri: Deceit-and-cruelty-by-deportation-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Deceit_and_cruelty_by_deportation_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Deceit_and_cruelty_by_deportation_thugs)

content:
 
<p>

The deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are practicing deceit and cruelty &mdash; for instance,
tricking people into <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/10/la-ice-raids-people-deported">signing papers that accept deportation</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israel's attack on the Madleen humanitarian aid ship
uri: Israel-s-attack-on-the-Madleen-humanitarian-aid-ship
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Israel's_attack_on_teh_Madleen_humanitarian_aid_ship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Israel's_attack_on_teh_Madleen_humanitarian_aid_ship)

content:
 
<p>

On June 8-9, Israel attacked the Madleen, a ship bringing humanitarian
aid to Gaza, operated by the Hind Rajab Foundation.  The foundation
has <a href="https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/perpetrators">formally filed a war crimes complaint</a> about this attack,
</p>
<p>
*Eyewitnesses report that passengers were physically assaulted,
exposed to choking white substances sprayed from drones, and denied
communication with the outside world.*
</p>
<p>
The ship and its personnel did not try to commit any violence or any
damage against Israel, so there is no possible excuse for the violence
that Israel committed against the ship and the personnel.
</p>
<p>
  Israel <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_August_2018_(Gaza_aid_ship)">attacked vessels carrying humanitarian aid</a> to Gaza several
years ago.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Order on grant applications that talk about DEI
uri: Order-on-grant-applications-that-talk-about-DEI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Order_on_grant_applications_that_talk_about_DEI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Order_on_grant_applications_that_talk_about_DEI)

content:
 
<p>

  A federal judge has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/10/judge-blocks-trump-anti-dei-grants">temporarily blocked enforcement</a>
of the executive order to reject grant applications that talk
about DEI or mention the existence of trans people.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Algae in waterways rapidly increasing
uri: Algae-in-waterways-rapidly-increasing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Algae_in_waterways_rapidly_increasing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Algae_in_waterways_rapidly_increasing)

content:
 
<p>

  *   As the Earth heats up, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/10/toxic-blooms-algae-marine-dead-zones-lakes-ecosystems-dead-elephants-fish-sea-lions-aoe">amount of algae in our waterways</a> is rapidly
   increasing, transforming the colour of lakes and killing entire
   ecosystems.*   
</p>
<p>
Several massive human outputs combine to cause algae blooms,
and human economic growth increases all of them.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Big_Bad_Bill_built_on_falsehoods)
title: Big Bad Bill built on falsehoods
uri: Big-Bad-Bill-built-on-falsehoods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Big_Bad_Bill_built_on_falsehoods)
content:
 
<p>

  *[The Big Bad Bill] is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/trump-big-beautiful-bill-low-income-families">built on falsehoods</a> about low-income families.*
</p>
<p>
Poor people don't make bad decisions out of laziness.  They do it
out of high levels of stress in their lives.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Executive order reversing all vasectomies
uri: (satire)-Executive-order-reversing-all-vasectomies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_((satire)_Executive_order_reversing_all_vasectomies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_((satire)_Executive_order_reversing_all_vasectomies)

content:
 
<p>

  (Satire) *[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">Saboteur-in-chief</a>] Issues <a href="https://theonion.com/trump-issues-executive-order-reversing-all-vasectomies/">Executive Order Reversing All Vasectomies</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Planet roasters labeling methane as "clean energy"
uri: Planet-roasters-labeling-methane-as-clean-energy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Planet_roasters_labeling_methane_as_clean_energy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Planet_roasters_labeling_methane_as_clean_energy)

content:
 
<p>

  Orwellian <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a> are <a href="https://www.levernews.com/war-is-peace-gas-is-now-clean-energy/">labeling fossil gas (methane) as "clean energy"</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker to label power plant emissions "not significant"
uri: Wrecker-to-label-power-plant-emissions-not-significant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Wrecker_to_label_power_plant_emissions_not_significant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Wrecker_to_label_power_plant_emissions_not_significant)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> is planning to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/trump-epa-power-plant-emissions">label US greenhouse emissions</a> from power
plants as "not significant", showing his usual disregard for facts,
as an excuse to permit increasing them.
</p>
</li>

 


title: How Chicago protects residents from deportation
uri: How-Chicago-protects-residents-from-deportation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(How_Chicago_protects_residents_from_deportation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(How_Chicago_protects_residents_from_deportation)

content:
 
<p>

  What <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/chicago-immigrants-trump-mass-deportation">Chicago does to protect its residents</a> from deportation.
</p>
<p>
I must rebuke the article's author for saying that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a> has
*worked to fulfill campaign pledges to carry out mass deportations
after promising to remove "millions".* Yes, he said that, but he has
no sense of obligation to carry out promises, whether campaign
promises or any other kind.
</p>
<p>
He sticks to this line of attack because he thinks it is an effective
strategy for reducing the US to submission.  Part of the reason for
that is that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a> are mad for it.  That has a superficial partial
resemblance to "carrying out a promise," but they are fundamentally
different.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Grass taking over vast areas of Britain
uri: Grass-taking-over-vast-areas-of-Britain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Grass_taking_over_vast_areas_of_Britain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Grass_taking_over_vast_areas_of_Britain)

content:
 
<p>

  Vast areas of Britain have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/britain-deserts-dead-zones-purple-moor-grass">taken over by a grass</a> that forms a
mono culture.  No birds or insects can live in those areas.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Former prisoners in Guantánamo suing UK government
uri: Former-prisoners-in-Guantánamo-suing-UK-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Former_prisoners_in_Guantánamo_suing_UK_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Former_prisoners_in_Guantánamo_suing_UK_government)

content:
 
<p>

Two former prisoners in Guantánamo are suing the UK government,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/09/claims-that-uk-spy-agencies-aided-cia-torture-after-911-to-be-heard-in-rare-trial">claiming it was complicit in the torture they suffered</a> at the hands of
the US government.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Ocean acidification worse than believed
uri: Ocean-acidification-worse-than-believed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Ocean_acidification_worse_than_believed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Ocean_acidification_worse_than_believed)

content:
 
<p>

  Remeasuring ocean acidification has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/09/sea-acidity-ecosystems-ocean-acidification-planetary-health-scientists">found it is worse</a> than scientists
had believed.
</p>
<p>
This will soon start wiping out corals, crustaceans, and mollusks with
shells, by dissolving their shells.  This will also wipe out thousands
of species that depend on corals.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Support Higher Wages for American Workers Act
uri: Urgent-Support-Higher-Wages-for-American-Workers-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Urgent:_Support_Higher_Wages_for_American_Workers_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Urgent:_Support_Higher_Wages_for_American_Workers_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your senators to support the Higher Wages for
American Workers Act, which would increase the federal minimum wage
to $15 per hour.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: UK scheme to turn children away from crime
uri: UK-scheme-to-turn-children-away-from-crime
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(UK_scheme_to_turn_children_away_from_crime)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(UK_scheme_to_turn_children_away_from_crime)

content:
 
<p>

* A [UK] scheme aiming to turn children arrested for violence away
from crime has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/04/youth-workers-in-london-custody-centres-stop-90-reoffending-says-report">claimed staggering success</a>, with up to nine out of
   10 diverted from further offending, according to a report.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: New rules on betting ads must be considered
uri: New-rules-on-betting-ads-must-be-considered
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(New_rules_on_betting_ads_must_be_considered)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(New_rules_on_betting_ads_must_be_considered)

content:
 
<p>

  *John Maynard tells Guardian the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/gambling-industry-us-regulator">US must consider new rules</a> on betting
ads as operators lobby against federal crackdown.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Parents allowed children to walk to a store
uri: Parents-allowed-children-to-walk-to-a-store
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Parents_allowed_children_to_walk_to_a_store)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Parents_allowed_children_to_walk_to_a_store)

content:
 
<p>

North Carolina parents allowed their children to walk to a store.
One was killed in an unlikely accident; now they are <a href="https://www.freerangekids.com/authorities-forbid-parents-to-attend-funeral-of-son-who-ran-into-traffic/">threatened with many years in jail</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Foreign_flags_at_LA_protests)
title: Foreign flags at LA protests
uri: Foreign-flags-at-LA-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Foreign_flags_at_LA_protests)
content:
 
<p>

*[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>] claims [foreign flags at LA protests] signify a
"foreign invasion" but experts say they're <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/foreign-flags-los-angeles-protests">flown by US citizens</a>
   proud of their heritage.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: UK government seems to have sold should to nuclear power
uri: UK-government-seems-to-have-sold-should-to-nuclear-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(UK_government_seems_to_have_sold_should_to_nuclear_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(UK_government_seems_to_have_sold_should_to_nuclear_power)

content:
 
<p>

  The UK government seems to have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/13/spending-billions-on-unclean-risky-energy-what-a-nuclear-waste">sold its soul to nuclear power</a>, and
cites arguments based on assuming the habitual problems of nuclear
power will inexplicably not happen this time.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Mainstream media have enabled war on universities
uri: Mainstream-media-have-enabled-war-on-universities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Mainstream_media_have_enabled_war_on_universities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Mainstream_media_have_enabled_war_on_universities)

content:
 
<p>

  *The mainstream media [have] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/mainstream-media-trump-universities">enabled [the bully's] war on universities</a>.
For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over
   leftists on campus while failing to report on the right [wing]'s
   assault.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Kenyan thugs appear to have killed Albert Ojwang
uri: Kenyan-thugs-appear-to-have-killed-Albert-Ojwang
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Kenyan_thugs_appear_to_have_killed_Albert_Ojwang)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Kenyan_thugs_appear_to_have_killed_Albert_Ojwang)

content:
 
<p>

  Kenyan <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/13/kenyan-police-officer-arrested-anger-and-protests-over-death-in-custody-albert-ojwang">appear to have arrested and then killed Albert Ojwang</a> for
making accusations against one of the high officials of the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.
  Now that official and some other <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are being investigated for this.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Deportation thugs lurked next to an elementary school
uri: Deportation-thugs-lurked-next-to-an-elementary-school
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Deportation_thugs_lurked_next_to_an_elementary_school)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Deportation_thugs_lurked_next_to_an_elementary_school)

content:
 
<p>

Deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> lurked next to an elementary school, apparently using
the school children as <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/06/13/ice-school-raid-long-island-new-york/">bait to arrest their parents</a>.
  One of their cars collided with another vehicle whose driver was then
taken away in an ambulance.
</p>
</li>

 


title: RFK Jr fired CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization
uri: RFK-Jr-fired-CDC-s-Advisory-Committee-on-Immunization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(RFK_Jr_fired_CDC's_Advisory_Committee_on_Immunization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(RFK_Jr_fired_CDC's_Advisory_Committee_on_Immunization)

content:
 
<p>

  RFK jr has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/eight-new-cdc-vaccine-advisers-robert-f-kennedy">fired everyone on the CDC's Advisory Committee</a> on
Immunization Practices and appointed Antivaxxers to
</p>
<p>
Many medical and scientific organizations in the US make a practice of
relying on the recommendations of such advisory panels.  Now that this
one has been rendered incompetent, those organizations may find that
institutional inertia stands in the way of recognizing that they are no
longer fit for such trust.  Those that are prepared to recognize this
encounter another problem: who else can they trust instead?
</p>
</li>

 


title: Historical survey on nonviolent activism
uri: Historical-survey-on-nonviolent-activism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Historical_survey_on_nonviolent_activism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Historical_survey_on_nonviolent_activism)

content:
 
<p>

  A <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world">historical survey concludes</a> that 3.5% of the population, engaged steadily
in nonviolent activism to change the government, achieve that goal.
</p>
<p>
The survey also found that in general nonviolent activism is
considerably more effective than armed resistance.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Nine protesters in LA being prosecuted
uri: Nine-protesters-in-LA-being-prosecuted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Nine_protesters_in_LA_being_prosecuted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Nine_protesters_in_LA_being_prosecuted)

content:
 
<p>

  Nine protesters in LA are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/protester-charged-ice-los-angeles">being prosecuted</a> for supposed fights with
official <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>, which appears not to have occurred at all.
</p>
<p>
It is not unusual for official <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> to bear false witness so as to
get someone unjustly punished.  Solidarity in lying is part of their
culture, so when one does it, the rest know they are expected to lie
to support it.
</p>
<p>
  I don't have a basis to be certain that <em>all</em> nine of those protesters
  are victims of lies and that <em>all</em> the accusations are false.  What I
will say is that we should not trust the word of official <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> about
such accusations.
</p>
</li>

 


title: President toying with invoking Insurrection Act
uri: President-toying-with-invoking-Insurrection-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(President_toying_with_invoking_Insurrection_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(President_toying_with_invoking_Insurrection_Act)

content:
 
<p>

*   Four years after the January 6 attack, the president is toying with
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/trump-insurrection-violence-chaos">invoking the Insurrection Act</a> to respond to a conflict he provoked.*
</p>
<p>
*Some Republicans Opposed Using Troops Against Protests in 2020. Now They’re Marching in Lockstep.*
</p>
<p>
Some Republicans Opposed Using Troops Against Protests in 2020. Now They’re Marching in Lockstep.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Brazil to auction oil exploration rights
uri: Brazil-to-auction-oil-exploration-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Brazil_to_auction_oil_exploration_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Brazil_to_auction_oil_exploration_rights)

content:
 
<p>

  *Brazil to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/13/brazil-to-auction-oil-exploration-rights-months-before-hosting-cop30">auction oil exploration rights</a> months before hosting Cop30.*
</p>
<p>
When Lula was president before, he was a strong champion of curbing
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.  Sad to say, this seems to have changed.  Even worse,
the change seems to be a world-wide pattern, that governments are
dropping most of the efforts they did make to save civilization and
nature from <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Texas trying to enforce law which treats fetus or embryo as person
uri: Texas-trying-to-enforce-law-which-treats-fetus-or-embryo-as-person
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Texas_trying_to_enforce_law_which_treats_fetus_or_embryo_as_person)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Texas_trying_to_enforce_law_which_treats_fetus_or_embryo_as_person)

content:
 
<p>

  Texas is <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/10/2326896/-Texas-latest-attack-on-abortion-will-fascinate-and-horrify-you">trying to enforce its law</a> that treats a fetus or embryo as a
person, by murder charges against someone who gave a pregnant woman an
abortion drug.
</p>
</li>

 


title: California's special stricter standards on new cars
uri: California-s-special-stricter-standards-on-new-cars
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(California's_special_stricter_standards_on_new_cars)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(California's_special_stricter_standards_on_new_cars)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/12/trump-california-gas-car-ban">claims to have abolished California's authorization</a> to impose
special stricter standards on new cars.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Should Columbia be called a university?
uri: Should-Columbia-be-called-a-university
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Should_Columbia_be_called_a_university_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Should_Columbia_be_called_a_university_)

content:
 
<p>

  After <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/25/does-columbia-merit-the-name-of-university">surrendering to political censorship and control</a>, should Columbia
be called a university?
</p>
</li>

 


title: Russia and China sabotage of undersea cables
uri: Russia-and-China-sabotage-of-undersea-cables
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Russia_and_China_sabotage_of_undersea_cables)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Russia_and_China_sabotage_of_undersea_cables)

content:
 
<p>

  Russia and China seem to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/15/uk-woefully-ill-protected-against-chinese-and-russian-undersea-cable-sabotage">collaborating on sabotage of undersea cables</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Australian sent back to Australia when he arrived in US
uri: Australian-sent-back-to-Australia-when-he-arrived-in-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Australian_sent_back_to_Australia_when_he_arrived_in_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Australian_sent_back_to_Australia_when_he_arrived_in_US)

content:
 
<p>

  Australian Alistair Kitchen was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/15/australian-deported-from-us-says-he-was-targeted-due-to-writing-on-pro-palestine-student-protests">sent back to Australia</a> when he arrived
in the US.  Agents told him the reason for interrogating him was
due to his writings about protests against Israel's war crimes in Gaza, which
he had witnessed shortly before his 2024 graduation from Columbia university.
</p>
<p>
Most of what the agents did would have been reasonable and not cruel,
if they had done it for a real reason.  What was wrong was that they
did it to someone based on per nonviolent exercise of constitutional
rights.  That is totally offensive to the United States and its
Constitution.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Steven_Donziger:_How_Greenpeace_lost)
title: Steven Donziger: How Greenpeace lost
uri: Steven-Donziger-How-Greenpeace-lost
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_June_2025_(Steven_Donziger:_How_Greenpeace_lost)
content:
 
<p>
*Greenpeace lost &mdash; not because it did something wrong but because it was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota">denied
a fair trial</a>.*


 


title: (satire) Sen. Padilla had even deadlier opinion that failed to go off
uri: (satire)-Sen-Padilla-had-even-deadlier-opinion-that-failed-to-go-off
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_((satire)_Sen._Padilla_had_even_deadlier_opinion_that_failed_to_go_off)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_((satire)_Sen._Padilla_had_even_deadlier_opinion_that_failed_to_go_off)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Kristi Noem: Sen. Padilla Had <a href="https://theonion.com/?p=1851685869">Even Deadlier Opinion</a> That
Failed To Go Off.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: How UK could take over water companies
uri: How-UK-could-take-over-water-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(How_UK_could_take_over_water_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(How_UK_could_take_over_water_companies)

content:
 
<p>

  Explaining <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/09/water-companies-public-ownership-could-cost-close-to-zero-says-common-wealth-thinktank">how the UK could take over</a> the incompetent and corrupt
water companies without giving them to any other companies, and
without paying a ransom to anyone.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wetland in Australia attacked by algae bloom
uri: Wetland-in-Australia-attacked-by-algae-bloom
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Wetland_in_Australia_attacked_by_algae_bloom)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Wetland_in_Australia_attacked_by_algae_bloom)

content:
 
<p>

An ecologically important protected wetland in Australia has been
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/15/deadly-algal-bloom-in-south-australias-coorong-an-environmental-eye-opener-ecologist-says">attacked by a toxic algae bloom</a>, brought about by human-caused global
heating and pollution.  The bloom is likely to repeat whenever the
high temperatures repeat.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Lawful protesters' right to cover faces
uri: Lawful-protesters-right-to-cover-faces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Lawful_protesters'_right_to_cover_faces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Lawful_protesters'_right_to_cover_faces)

content:
 
<p>

Lawful protesters should be free to cover their faces, and in the US,
the Supreme Court has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/11/protesters-masks-trumps-double-standard">recognized their right to do so</a>.
</p>
<p>
The article contrasts lawful protest with civil disobedience.
However, it is an obvious error to categorized whistleblowing as a
kind of civil disobedience.  Whistleblowing is not symbolic
disobedience, it is direct action.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Beatings, threats and lies dished by Putin forces
uri: Beatings-threats-and-lies-dished-by-Putin-forces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Beatings,_threats_and_lies_dished_by_Putin_forces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Beatings,_threats_and_lies_dished_by_Putin_forces)

content:
 
<p>

Ukrainian soldier Maksym Butkevych, captured by the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> and
recently exchanged, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/11/ukrainian-held-by-russia-describes-torture-sinister-threats-and-kafkaesque-court-process">described the beatings, threats and lies</a> dished
out by the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> guards during his two years of captivity.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Campaign pressuring Target to support minority groups
uri: Campaign-pressuring-Target-to-support-minority-groups
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Campaign_pressuring_Target_to_support_minority_groups)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Campaign_pressuring_Target_to_support_minority_groups)

content:
 
<p>

  About the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/jamal-harrison-bryant-target-boycott-interview">campaign pressuring Target</a> to bring back some of support
for the minority groups that face unequal treatment by society.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Proposed_My_Body,_My_Data_Act)
title: Proposed "My Body, My Data Act"
uri: Proposed-My-Body-My-Data-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Proposed_My_Body,_My_Data_Act)
content:
 
<p>

  The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/democrats-my-body-my-data-act">proposed My Body, My Data Act</a> would prohibit "collecting, using,
retaining or disclosing information about someone’s reproductive
health," except for a "specific request".
  Because of the words "collecting" and "retaining", this might do
  some real good.  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_June_2025_(Texas_thugs_searched_license_plate_cameras_of_other_states)">Texas</a> can't use a subpoena retroactively to make a
system collect or retain data that it did not collect or did not
retain.
</p>
<p>
It would be crucial to make sure that offer the option of storing
the data solely on the device.  If the only mode of operation that an
app offers is to store the data in some cloudy server, and the user
asks the app to do anything with per data, that might create a
loophole: asking the app to do anything might be construed as an
"explicit request" for the app/server to collect the data and retain
it.
</p>
<p>
Other dark patters or manipulative money saving offers might also
be used to manipulate people into making the poisonous "request".
</p>
<p>
As the Texas example shows, reproductive health data is not the only
data that can be used for faith-based repression of abortion, birth control and
medicine.  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(FBI_bought_location_tracking_data)">Location data</a> can serve the same unjust purpose.  The requirements
for collecting or retaining location records must be made bulletproof
against fanatical officials willing to distort the truth or lie outright.
</p>
</li>
 


title: Test case of using military to crush peaceful protests
uri: Test-case-of-using-military-to-crush-peaceful-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Test_case_of_using_military_to_crush_peaceful_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Test_case_of_using_military_to_crush_peaceful_protests)

content:
 
<p>

The fascist-in-waiting has prepared for years to create a test case
of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/trump-military-force-plotting">using the military to crush peaceful protests</a>.
  Defending democracy will require careful tactics to avoid giving him
a bogus excuse which he can then distort.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israeli government issuing "illegal" orders
uri: Israeli-government-issuing-illegal-orders
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Israeli_government_issuing_illegal_orders)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Israeli_government_issuing_illegal_orders)

content:
 
<p>

  *Israeli government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/11/israeli-government-orders-must-not-be-obeyed-idf-intelligence-officers">issuing "illegal" orders</a> that must not be obeyed, say IDF
intelligence officers.*
</p>
<p>
Unlike the usual position of Israeli opposition to the war, based on
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#14_February_2025_(Hostage_release_issues,_ISR)">wish to ransom the Israeli hostages</a> soon,
this opposition is based
on recognizing the right to life of Palestinians.  The "illegal
orders" are illegal because they are orders to kill innocent
Palestinians, with no military justification &mdash; and that makes them
war crimes.
</p>
<p>
And they are being presented by prestigious army officers who back up
their criticism with defiance &mdash; refusing to obey those illegal
orders.
</p>
<p>
This resistance has the potential to shake the Netanyahu government.
I hope so.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Wrecker_plans_to_abolish_FEMA)
title: Wrecker plans to abolish FEMA
uri: Wrecker-plans-to-abolish-FEMA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Wrecker_plans_to_abolish_FEMA)
content:
 
<p>

To ensure Americans get less help in coping with disasters,
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/trump-fema-phase-out-hurricane-season">plans to abolish FEMA</a> and take direct White House
control over the distribution of aid.
</p>
<p>
Giving the job to people he has personally appointed
will also cause confusion that will surely reduce what really gets done.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Pushing for unified definition of racism
uri: Pushing-for-unified-definition-of-racism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Pushing_for_unified_definition_of_racism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Pushing_for_unified_definition_of_racism)

content:
 
<p>

  Organized groups of Muslims in Australia are pressuring for a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/27/muslim-groups-reject-push-for-new-islamophobia-definition-at-australian-universities-ntwnfb">unified definition of racism (or bigotry)</a>,
so as to block the push for an unjust criterion for antisemitism.
</p>
<p>
Bravo!  This is an important issue, and they have chosen the right
direction for solving it.
</p>
<p>
Side issue:
</p>
<p>
The word "racism" means prejudice based on race.  A prejudice based on
religion, sex, gender, national origin, or caste, is not racism.  It
is a similar moral issue, and may be equally unjust, but it doesn't
fit into the word "racism".
</p>
<p>
Let's not adopt terminology that builds confusion into the moral
foundation of our views.  When we want to reject bigotry whether based
on race or not, let's use the broader word "bigotry".
</p>
</li>

 


title: Turkey's democracy is fighting for its life
uri: Turkey-s-democracy-is-fighting-for-its-life
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Turkey's_democracy_is_fighting_for_its_life)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Turkey's_democracy_is_fighting_for_its_life)

content:
 
<p>

Orhan Pamuk: *I've never seen such clampdowns in Istanbul. Turkey's
democracy is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/clampdowns-istanbul-turkey-democracy-jail-president-erdogan-rival-protesters">fighting for its life</a>.*
</p>
<p>
The country's most popular politician has been jailed, to stop
him from running for president and perhaps defeating Erdoğan.
Other dirty tricks are being used to stop him from running.
</p>
<p>
Even metro stations, buses and car travel in İstanbul are restricted,
as is entry to the city, to make protests difficult.
</p>
<p>
When we see <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> beating up members of Congress, we have
to wonder whether the federal courts will be able to protect democracy
effectively from <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> if he does the sort of things Erdoğan does.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Municipal systems heating homes and water
uri: Municipal-systems-heating-homes-and-water
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Municipal_systems_heating_homes_and_water)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(Municipal_systems_heating_homes_and_water)

content:
 
<p>

Heating homes and water is more efficient when done in Stockholm by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/28/the-heat-you-need-at-a-reasonable-price-how-district-heating-can-speed-the-switch-to-clean-energy">municipal systems serving neighborhoods</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: CDC official in charge of Covid data resigns
uri: CDC-official-in-charge-of-Covid-data-resigns
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(CDC_official_in_charge_of_Covid_data_resigns)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(CDC_official_in_charge_of_Covid_data_resigns)

content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/cdc-official-covid-data-resigbns">CDC official in charge of Covid data resigns</a> ahead of vaccine
meeting.  &hellip;  She does not have confidence data will be use[d] to
make "evidence-based vaccine policy decisions."*
</p>
<p>
Resigning from an official position makes no impression on <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a>.
They do not care about the capacity to judge carefully, based on
evidence, a question they prefer to judge based on emotion alone, so
the government's loss of that capacity does not strike them as
significant.
</p>
<p>
It would be more effective to stay in the position and criticize
vociferously whenever <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magat</a> officials.  Eventually they will fire you,
and your reproach will win more attention.
</p>
</li>

 


title: California bill for officers who cover face on duty
uri: California-bill-for-officers-who-cover-face-on-duty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(California_bill_for_officers_who_cover_face_on_duty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_June_2025_(California_bill_for_officers_who_cover_face_on_duty)

content:
 
<p>

  *California bill <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/california-officers-face-covering-misdemeanor">proposes misdemeanor for officers</a> who cover their
face on duty.*
</p>
<p>
I would expect there to be an exception for undercover cops that
infiltrate criminal activities.  That activity is useful.  But it will
be a challenge to draw up a rule to distinguish legitimate undercover
investigation from anonymous snatches.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_June_2025_(Israeli_leaflets_over_Tehran)
title: Israeli leaflets over Tehran
uri: Israeli-leaflets-over-Tehran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_June_2025_(Israeli_leaflets_over_Tehran)
content:
 
<p>
Israel "ordered" people to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/what-if-the-strikes-hit-us-on-the-highway-thousands-flee-tehran-amid-bombardment">"evacuate"</a>
a large part of Tehran, its capital city.  It said that it would
attack "military infrastructure", but in fact bombs and missiles are
falling on civilian markets.
<p>
*[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/trump-iran-israel-nuclear">brushes
off US intel reports on Iran</a> to align himself with Israel.*
<p>
Millions of Iranians hate their government, but that doesn't mean they
don't love their country.  The attacks by Israel are just the thing to
make them unite (at least for the while).  Threats from the US will
make Iranians hate the US and look for more ways to support Russia.
<p>
Hmm, maybe <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> is still trying to serve Putin.

<p>
 


title: Congressional bid to keep US out of Iran
uri: Congressional-bid-to-keep-US-out-of-Iran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_June_2025_(Congressional_bid_to_keep_US_out_of_Iran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_June_2025_(Congressional_bid_to_keep_US_out_of_Iran)

content:
 
<p>
A bipartisan resolution in Congress aims to
<a href="https://theinterhcept.com/2025/06/17/iran-war-powers-resolution-congress-israel-trump-massie-khanna/k">invoke
the War Powers Act</a> to stop <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> from adding the US to
Israel's attacks on Iran.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_June_2025_(Israeli_kills_at_food_center,_Gaza)
title: Israeli kills at food center, Gaza
uri: Israeli-kills-at-food-center-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_June_2025_(Israeli_kills_at_food_center,_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
Israeli
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/16/gaza-food-centre-shooting-israel-ghf">troops
shot 37 Palestinians</a> who were trying to collect some food.
<p>
Similar incidents have been happening daily.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_June_2025_(Los_angeles_immigration_protests)
title: Los Angeles immigration protests
uri: Los-Angeles-immigration-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_June_2025_(Los_angeles_immigration_protests)
content:
 
<p>
Massive
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tom-homan-trump-border-czar-los-angeles-rcna211701">protests
against deportation</a> are flooding Los Angeles, as <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a>
sub-bullies revel in threats.
<p>
There are situations where deportation is called for, and they may
need the option of using force in those situations.  But deportation
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> have a pattern of disregarding immigrants' legal rights -- sometimes
under commands by presidents, and sometimes as individual improvisation.
They treat laws as opportunities to stretch them into excuses to do wrong.
<p>
They also have a habit of making vague, blustery threats of violence,
and given their history of refusing to correct "mistakes" we can't be
confident that their exaggerations are nothing more than bluster.
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/california-lawsuit-national-guard-trump">federalized
the California National Guard</a> and deployed them in Los Angeles to
attack protesters.  California is suing, claiming that the legal
requirements for doing that without permission from California's
governor, Newsom, were not satisfied.
<p>
Meanwhile, the Great Leader plans to
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/06/09/la-ice-protests-national-guard-marines-trump/">deploy
Marines</a> in Los Angeles to emphasize the threat of repression.  An
inside source asserted that the purpose of this is provocation for a
"manufactured Crisis".  Governor Newsom said that <!---->the bully "wants a
spectacle &mdash; so don't give him one."
<p>
(satire) *Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration
<a href="https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/">Pretext For What It
 Already Doing</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Economic_policy_of_Democratic_Party)
title: Economic policy of Democratic Party
uri: Economic-policy-of-Democratic-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Economic_policy_of_Democratic_Party)
content:
 
<p>
The Democratic Party is now
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/how-to-end-democrats-civil-war/">split
between two camps</a>: the "abundance" side which is really just
trickle down warmed over, and the "anti-oligarchy" camp which aims to
actively stop the richest from practicing squeeze-up economics.
<p>
In the past I have called them the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_(Break_up_the_big_banks)">plutocratist
Democrats</a> and the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#20%20December%202010%20(Tax%20cuts%20pass%20Congress)">progressive Democrats</a>.

<p>
 


title: Human rights protests VS missiles, Iran
uri: Human-rights-protests-VS-missiles-Iran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Human_rights_protests_VS_missiles,_Iran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Human_rights_protests_VS_missiles,_Iran)

content:
 
<p>
Iranians demanding human rights regard the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/17/iranian-people-liberty-prosperity-israel-iran-missiles">Israeli
attacks as an impediment</a> to achieving their goal.

<p>
 


title: Official skirmish over deportation, NYC
uri: Official-skirmish-over-deportation-NYC
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Official_skirmish_over_deportation,_NYC)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Official_skirmish_over_deportation,_NYC)

content:
 
<p>
Masked <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> arrested an NYC elected official for challenging them to
show a warrant before
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/brad-lander-arrested-new-york-city-comptroller">arresting
a migrant on his way out of a courtroom</a>.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_bombing_Iran)
title: Urgent: Stop bombing Iran
uri: Urgent-Stop-bombing-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_bombing_Iran)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/no-war-iran-war-powers/">call on Congress</a>
to oppose Israel's attacks on Iran  and
stop the US from supporting them.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Support_federal_courts)
title: Urgent: Support federal courts
uri: Urgent-Support-federal-courts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Support_federal_courts)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stop-the-55-trillion-billionaire-tax-scam-no-cuts-to-medicaid-or-medicare?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-stop-trumps-illegal-usps-takeover-tell-the-postal-board-of-governors-to-stand-strong-3">call
on the Senate</a> to preserve the authority of federal courts over
uncnstitutional or illegal executive actions, by defeating the No
Rogue Rulings act.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: The military troops in Los Angeles
uri: Urgent-The-military-troops-in-Los-Angeles
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Military_troops_in_Los_Angeles)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Military_troops_in_Los_Angeles)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/la-ice-protest-troops/">call on the White House</a>
to remove military troops
from Los Angeles and prevent further deployment of troops to the city.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a> and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Restore_vaccine_research)
title: Urgent: Restore vaccine research
uri: Urgent-Restore-vaccine-research
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Restore_vaccine_research)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-the-cdc-reinstate-vaccine-programs-for-hivaids-bird-flu-and-the-next-pandemic-now?nowrapper=true">call
on RFK jr</a> and his subordinates to un-cancel the vaccine research
for HIV and bird flu, which they recently canceled.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Repeal_Comstock_Act)
title: Urgent: Repeal Comstock Act
uri: Urgent-Repeal-Comstock-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Repeal_Comstock_Act)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/stop-comstock-act-2025/">repeal
the Comstock Act</a> (postal
censorship).
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: No conflict of interest with postmaster general
uri: Urgent-No-conflict-of-interest-with-postmaster-general
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_No_conflict_of_interest_with_postmaster_general)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_No_conflict_of_interest_with_postmaster_general)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the USPS board of governors not to appoint a
postmaster general
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/postmaster-general?nowrapper=true">who
has a conflict of interest</a> &mdash; being on the board
of FEDEX.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Safe_food_for_prisoners)
title: Urgent: Safe food for prisoners
uri: Urgent-Safe-food-for-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Safe_food_for_prisoners)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on prisons in the US to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/cheap-jail-and-prison-food-is-making-people-sick?nowrapper=true">give
prisoners safe food</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Denounce cuts to Department of Education
uri: Urgent-Denounce-cuts-to-Department-of-Education
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Denounce_cuts_to_Department_of_Education)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Denounce_cuts_to_Department_of_Education)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/denounce-cuts-to-the-department-of-education">Denounce
cuts to the Department of Education</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Block saboteur in chief's logging expansion
uri: Urgent-Block-saboteur-in-chief-s-logging-expansion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Block_saboteur_in_chief's_logging_expansion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Block_saboteur_in_chief's_logging_expansion)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-congress-to-stop-trump-s-logging-expansion">block
the saboteur in chief's logging expansion</a>.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Block merger of T-Mobile and Sprint
uri: Urgent-Block-merger-of-T-Mobile-and-Sprint
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Block_merger_of_T-Mobile_and_Sprint)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Block_merger_of_T-Mobile_and_Sprint)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the FCC to
<a href="https://act.freepress.net/go/30931?t=1002&akid=40218%2E9489429%2E__GMB8">block
the merger</a> of T-Mobile and
Sprint.
</p>
<p>
There is far too little competition among phone radio networks already.
Any decrease is clearly bad.
</p>
<p>
Of course, there are more important problems with mobile phones.  For
instance, both cellular and WiFi connections track the phone's
location, and the phone can be made to listen and transmit all the
time.  (That last is a consequence of nonfree software in the phone's
radio processor.)  By contrast with that, the increased price caused
by insufficient competition is a superficial issue.  It is,
nonetheless, bad to decrease the competition.
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title: Urgent: Fossil fuel exploration in the Amazon
uri: Urgent-Fossil-fuel-exploration-in-the-Amazon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Fossil_fuel_exploration_in_the_Amazon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Fossil_fuel_exploration_in_the_Amazon)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on JPMorgan Chase to
<a href="https://act.350.org/sign/jun-25-em-petition-us-jpmorganchase/?r=US&c=NA">stop
bankrolling</a> fossil fuel
exploration in the Amazon.
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title: Urgent: Phone senators to block worst in Big Bad Bill
uri: Urgent-Phone-senators-to-block-worst-in-Big-Bad-Bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Phone_senators_to_block_worst_in_Big_Bad_Bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Urgent:_Phone_senators_to_block_worst_in_Big_Bad_Bill)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone each of your senators and urge them to block the
worst things in the Big Bad Bill.  Ask them, for instance, to protect
Medicaid and SNAP.  Ask them to protect Medicare by not cutting taxes
for the rich.  Ask them to protect the authority of federal judges.
</p>
<p>
Ask them to protect tax-exempt organizations from tax.
Who's afraid of the Big Bad Bill?  Anyone who isn't rich, or cares
about people who aren't rich, or values democracy and human rights.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
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