# articles

title: Law that allows extensions of patents
uri: Law-that-allows-extensions-of-patents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Law_that_allows_extensions_of_patents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Law_that_allows_extensions_of_patents)

content:
 
<p>

There is a push to repeal the law that allows extensions of patents
that <a href="https://www.levernews.com/drugmakers-secret-weapon-to-keep-your-meds-overpriced/">block
the manufacture of important generic medicines</a>.
</p>
<p>
I've argued that patents
<a href="media/1dcfd209.45_1_stallman.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/law/students/publications/llj/pdfs/45_1_stallman.pdf">should
not be allowed on medicines at all</a>.
There are other ways to fund the development and testing of drugs.
</p>
<p>
To allow drug companies to fund the tests for approval of a drug
is an <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#7_July_2012_(US_Law)">invitation
to corruption</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Thugs arrested journalist covering No Kings rally
uri: Thugs-arrested-journalist-covering-No-Kings-rally
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Thugs_arrested_journalist_covering_No_Kings_rally)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Thugs_arrested_journalist_covering_No_Kings_rally)

content:
 
<p>

A group of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/journalist-ice-protest-arrest-mario-guevara">arrested
journalist Mario Guevara</a> as he was covering
a No Kings rally in Atlanta.
</p>
<p>
The charges were dropped, but they handed him to the deportation
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.
From the description I suspect that the arrest was planned in
advance.
</p>
<p>
Guevara used to cover issues of human rights in El Salvador, until he
fled death threats and asked the US for asylum.  The article does not
say explicitly what his immigration status is in the US, but I expect
that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a>
henchmen would consider "journalism about
deportation" to be a "threat to national security".
</p>
</li>

 


title: Living in a world of increasing disaster
uri: Living-in-a-world-of-increasing-disaster
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Living_in_a_world_of_increasing_disaster)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Living_in_a_world_of_increasing_disaster)

content:
 
<p>

On <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/28/how-do-i-navigate-the-fear-and-anger-of-this-political-moment">living
in a world of increasing disaster</a>:
</p>
<p>
*   the point isn’t just to feel better necessarily, but to feel in ways
that allow us to show up in the moments that matter most.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: VA allowed to refuse patients based on political views
uri: VA-allowed-to-refuse-patients-based-on-political-views
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(VA_allowed_to_refuse_patients_based_on_political_views)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(VA_allowed_to_refuse_patients_based_on_political_views)

content:
 
<p>

Doctors and other medical staff at veterans' hospitals
are now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients">permitted
to refuse patients</a> based on the patient's national
origin, or political views.
The organization justifies this as implementation of one
of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> executive <em>dis</em>orders.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Lawsuit to overturn bully's persecution of law firms
uri: Lawsuit-to-overturn-bully-s-persecution-of-law-firms
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Lawsuit_to_overturn_bully's_persecution_of_law_firms)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Lawsuit_to_overturn_bully's_persecution_of_law_firms)

content:
 
<p>

The American Bar Association has
<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aba-trump-law-firms_n_68506313e4b0534654df30d2?ncid=NEWSSTAND0001">sued
to overturn</a>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> persecution
of law firms that worked for his adversaries.
</p>
</li>

 


title: We should all grieve about state of the world
uri: We-should-all-grieve-about-state-of-the-world
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(We_should_all_grieve_about_state_of_the_world)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(We_should_all_grieve_about_state_of_the_world)

content:
 
<p>

*We should all
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/18/we-should-all-grieve-about-the-state-of-the-world-it-can-be-an-integral-part-of-activism">grieve
about the state of the world</a>. It can be an integral part
of activism.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Senator Padilla recounts being attacked by agents
uri: Senator-Padilla-recounts-being-attacked-by-agents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Senator_Padilla_recounts_being_attacked_by_agents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Senator_Padilla_recounts_being_attacked_by_agents)

content:
 
<p>

Senator Padilla
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/alex-padilla-senate-speech">recounts
the experience</a> of being suddenly attacked
and handcuffed by agents, while the agents who had brought him there
said nothing about who he was.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Corruption_by_UnitedHealth)
title: Corruption by UnitedHealth
uri: Corruption-by-UnitedHealth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Corruption_by_UnitedHealth)
content:
 
<p>

Corruption by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#united-hellth">UnitedHealth</a>:
*  secret bonuses have been paid out as part of a
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#united-hellth">UnitedHealth</a>
program that stations the company’s own medical teams in nursing homes
and pushes them to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/unitedhealth-nursing-homes-payments-hospital-transfers">cut
care expenses</a> for residents covered by the
insurance giant.*
</p>
<p>
The specific remedy we need is to break apart the different activities
of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#united-hellth">UnitedHealth</a>,
and also splitting the insurance part into 10
competing sub-companies which are forbidden to merge.
</p>
<p>
But what we really need is to replace private medical insurance
entirely with a national medical system.
</p>
<p>
Of course, Republicans won't do any of this.  Biden made moves in that
direction, but there were too few Democrats in Congress and they were
not progressive enough.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Invasive thorn bush spreading through Kenya
uri: Invasive-thorn-bush-spreading-through-Kenya
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Invasive_thorn_bush_spreading_through_Kenya)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Invasive_thorn_bush_spreading_through_Kenya)

content:
 
<p>

An invasive thorn bush is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/22/kenya-mathenge-desertification-invasive-plants-neltuma-prosopis-juliflora-samburu-pastoralists-aoe">spreading
rapidly through Kenya</a>, drying up land where
it grows.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Evidence US planning to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities
uri: Evidence-US-planning-to-bomb-Iran-s-nuclear-facilities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Evidence_US_planning_to_bomb_Iran's_nuclear_facilities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Evidence_US_planning_to_bomb_Iran's_nuclear_facilities)

content:
 
<p>

Evidence that the US is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/us-military-assets-missile-launch-sites-iran-fordow">preparing
to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Right-wing disinformation about shooting of Democratic officials
uri: Right-wing-disinformation-about-shooting-of-Democratic-officials
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Right-wing_disinformation_about_shooting_of_Democratic_officials)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Right-wing_disinformation_about_shooting_of_Democratic_officials)

content:
 
<p>

Right-wing disinformationists
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/minnesota-lawmaker-killings-misinformation-rightwing">spread
lots of lies</a> about the shooting
of two Democratic elected officials in Minnesota.
</p>
<p>
This illustrates their practice of disrespect for truth.
Even if on some occasion their statements accord with facts,
giving them support enhances the power of the lie.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Proposal would make it impossible to sue for injunction against government
uri: Proposal-would-make-it-impossible-to-sue-for-injunction-against-govern
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Proposal_would_make_it_impossible_to_sue_for_injunction_against_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Proposal_would_make_it_impossible_to_sue_for_injunction_against_government)

content:
 
<p>

Senate Republicans
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/06/17/senate-trump-big-beautiful-bill-injunction-contempt-courts/">propose
to make it impossible to sue</a> to get an
injunction against the government unless you put down a potentially
enormous sum as bond in case the injunction is reversed.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Toy maker accused of planning AI experiment on kids
uri: Toy-maker-accused-of-planning-AI-experiment-on-kids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Toy_maker_accused_of_planning_AI_experiment_on_kids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Toy_maker_accused_of_planning_AI_experiment_on_kids)

content:
 
<p>

*Toy-maker Mattel accused of planning
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/mattel-sparks-fear-that-planned-chatgpt-fueled-toys-will-warp-kids/">"reckless"
AI social experiment on kids</a>.*
</p>
<p>
These toys evidently have microphones and internet connections.
Don't assume they aren't making a permanent record of everything
the children say.  If Mattel says they don't, you can't trust that.
There may be "fine print" in what they say about this, which would
appear to promise something which isn't really promised.
</p>
<p>
There may even be a universal back door that can alter some or all of
the nonfree software in the device.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Current greenhouse emissions for two more years too much
uri: Current-greenhouse-emissions-for-two-more-years-too-much
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Current_greenhouse_emissions_for_two_more_years_too_much)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Current_greenhouse_emissions_for_two_more_years_too_much)

content:
 
<p>

Two more years of greenhouse emissions at the current rate
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis">will
be too much</a>
to allow Earth to remain under 1.5°C of heating.
</p>
<p>
Prepare yourself for food shortages and tropical diseases.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Maga regime judgments of foreign student applications
uri: Maga-regime-judgments-of-foreign-student-applications
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Maga_regime_judgments_of_foreign_student_applications)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_June_2025_(Maga_regime_judgments_of_foreign_student_applications)

content:
 
<p>

The maga regime intends to judge foreign student applications
based on the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/social-media-student-visa-screening">students'
opinions of various things about the US</a>.
</p>
<p>
One requirement forbids "Any indications of hostility toward the
citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles of
the United States."  That would include a wide range of opinions that
are protected by the First Amendment.
</p>
<p>
* You might feel hostility towards US citizens who are bigots, or who
own companies that exploit their workers.
</p>
<p>
* You might well dislike various aspect of US culture.  I strongly
dislike rap and blues, for instance, and weddings that are fancy and
formal.  I also dislike the sound of the accents of certain groups of
Americans.
</p>
<p>
* You might find the government disgusting while billionaires have
control of it and rig elections.
</p>
<p>
* You might condemn institutions such as churches that preach hatred
or repression.
</p>
<p>
* You might abhor founding principles such as slavery and the
disenfranchisement of blacks, women, and poor men.
</p>
<p>
Note that these criteria are all vague, leaving a broad range of
possible places to draw the line of what is forbidden.
</p>
<p>
If these lines are drawn in the strictest and harshest place &mdash; which
recent events must lead us to expect &mdash; they will be unconstitutional,
if the First Amendment applies to what would-be students have said
outside the US.  But does it?
</p>
<p>
What about the next criterion: "advocacy for, aid or support for
foreign terrorists and other threats to US national security"?
Rejecting anyone who directly helps a terrorist group is legitimate;
indeed such help would be a crime.  But "aid or support" could be
construed to include peacefully supporting the cause for which some
terrorist group fights.
</p>
<p>
The last criterion, "support for unlawful antisemitic harassment or
violence", could be a legitimate basis for objection provided the
interpretation of that criterion scrupulously follows the First
Amendment and does not misconstrue condemnation of Israel's war crimes
as "antisemitism".  But since officials are often frequently does
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#12_May_2025_(Antisemitism)">misconstrue that</a>,
we have to expect this criterion to be
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-jan-apr.html#8_March_2024_(Antisemitism,_the_original_definition)">wrongly enforced</a>.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Weather_intensity's_steep_rise,_NASA)
title: Weather intensity's steep rise, NASA
uri: Weather-intensity-s-steep-rise-NASA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Weather_intensity's_steep_rise,_NASA)
content:
 
<p>
*New data from NASA has revealed a dramatic rise in the intensity of
weather events such as droughts and floods
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/nasa-data-reveals-dramatic-rise-in-intensity-of-weather-events">over
the past five years</a>.*
<p>
*The study shows that such extreme events are becoming more frequent,
longer-lasting and more severe, with last year’s figures reaching twice
that of the 2003-2020 average.*

<p>
 


title: Climate disinfo as deceptive conspiracy
uri: Climate-disinfo-as-deceptive-conspiracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Climate_disinfo_as_deceptive_conspiracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Climate_disinfo_as_deceptive_conspiracy)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/19/climate-misinformation-turning-crisis-into-catastrophe-ipie-report">Climate
disinformation</a> now finds fault in various methods for reducing
greenhouse emissions.  The idea is to show that all the solutions are
inconvenient, so we may as well resign ourselves to the fall of
civilization and the death of most of our descendants.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Iranian_regime)
title: Iranian regime
uri: Iranian-regime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Iranian_regime)
content:
 
<p>
Iranians, inside and outside Iran, talk about their hopes, fears and
wishes, supposing war makes
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/19/an-implosion-a-collapse-or-a-transition-what-would-regime-change-in-iran-look-like">the
state</a> collapse.

<p>
 


title: Congressional bid to keep US out of Iran
uri: 2025-06-24-Congressional-bid-to-keep-US-out-of-Iran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Congressional_bid_to_keep_US_out_of_Iran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Congressional_bid_to_keep_US_out_of_Iran)

content:
 
<p>
A bipartisan resolution in Congress aims to
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/06/17/iran-war-powers-resolution-congress-israel-trump-massie-khanna/">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>
 


title: Cloud-cover's steady decline, NASA, NOAA
uri: Cloud-cover-s-steady-decline-NASA-NOAA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Cloud-cover's_steady_decline,_NASA,_NOAA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Cloud-cover's_steady_decline,_NASA,_NOAA)

content:
 
<p>
An unexpected positive feedback: <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> reduces clouds
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/19/planets-reflective-cloud-coverage-is-shrinking-and-amplifying-the-climate-crisis-research-finds">in
the polar regions</a>.  Since clouds reflect some sunlight into space,
the decrease in clouds means more heating.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(No-Kings_protest_sizes)
title: No-Kings protest sizes
uri: No-Kings-protest-sizes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(No-Kings_protest_sizes)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/no-kings-how-many-protesters-attended">4 to 6 million people</a>
are estimated to have joined No Kings protests
on June 14.
<p>
*The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/19/anti-trump-no-kings-slogan-protest-march">anti-Trump
camp was in disarray</a>.  How has No Kings managed to unite it?*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Upcomming_fire_season)
title: Upcomming fire season, US
uri: Upcomming-fire-season-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Upcomming_fire_season)
content:
 
<p>
Due to the DOPE's cuts, the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/summer-wildfire-preparedness">US
is not prepared</a> to handle this year's fire season if it is like
other recent years.  And what if it is worse than other recent years?


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Urgent:_Shut_down_DOGE)
title: Urgent: Shut down DOGE
uri: Urgent-Shut-down-DOGE
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Urgent:_Shut_down_DOGE)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-congress-shut-down-doge-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-democracy-for-america-advocacy-fund&source=group-democracy-for-america-advocacy-fund">call
on Congress</a> to shut down DOPE.
<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#23_June_2025_(Urgent:_Message_to_Vanguard_CEO)
title: Urgent: Message to Vanguard CEO
uri: Urgent-Message-to-Vanguard-CEO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Urgent:_Message_to_Vanguard_CEO)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-vanguard-ceo-meet-with-climate-justice-campaigners">call
on the CEO of Vanguard</a> to meet with climate justice campaigners.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Urgent:_Stand_with_Senator_Padilla)
title: Urgent: Stand with Senator Padilla
uri: Urgent-Stand-with-Senator-Padilla
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Urgent:_Stand_with_Senator_Padilla)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-congress-we-stand-with-senator-padilla?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">tell
Congress</a> that we stand with Senator Padilla.  who was battered by
thugs as he tried to ask a question in Kristi Noem's press conference.
<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#23_June_2025_(Urgent:_US_troops_VS_US_protestors)
title: Urgent: US troops VS US protestors
uri: Urgent-US-troops-VS-US-protestors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Urgent:_US_troops_VS_US_protestors)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-to-demand-congressmembers-denounce-trumps-illegal-unprecedented-deployment-of-troops-against-us-protesters?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-denounce-trumps-deployment-of-troops-against-us-civilian-protesters-add-your-name">call on Congress</a>
to denounce [the repressor]'s illegal, unprecedented  deployment of troops against U.S. protesters.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(US_bombed_Iran_for_Israel)
title: US bombed Iran for Israel
uri: US-bombed-Iran-for-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(US_bombed_Iran_for_Israel)
content:
 
<p>
The US has once again gone to war
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/22/donald-trump-usa-iran-israel-war-bombing">based on false certainties</a>
without an exit strategy, at the behest once again of Netanyahu.


<p>
 


title: Iran conflict playing out with US, ISR
uri: Iran-conflict-playing-out-with-US-ISR
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Iran_conflict_playing_out_with_US,_ISR)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Iran_conflict_playing_out_with_US,_ISR)

content:
 
<p>
The warlord ordered the US Air Force to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/22/how-the-carefully-planned-us-bombing-of-irans-nuclear-facilities-unfolded">bomb
Iran's nuclear facilities</a>.  It seems the arrangements to do this
were started some weeks ago.
<p>
US intelligence has been saying that
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/06/21/iran-israel-united-states-war/">Iran
was not working on designing a nuclear weapon</a>, so Netanyahu's
claims about danger were alarmist.
<p>
It appears that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/22/how-effective-was-the-us-attack-on-irans-nuclear-sites-a-visual-guide">Iran prepared</a>
for the attack weeks ago too
by moving the enriched uranium and crucial equipment elsewhere.
<p>
Iran responded by attacking a civilian target in Israel, and their
parliament has approved a motion to close
the Straights of Hormuz, cutting off oil shipments from Kuwait, Qatar,
UAE and <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>.  I think that those countries will try
to stop any blockade.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(June_heatwave,_Eastern_US)
title: June heatdome over Eastern US
uri: June-heatdome-over-Eastern-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(June_heatwave,_Eastern_US)
content:
 
<p>
*Tens of millions in US face
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/22/midwest-east-coast-heatwave-temperatures">dangerously
hot weather</a> in rare June heatwave.*
<p>
We could have prevented this, and other worse heatwaves of coming
years, if we had done since 2000 what the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2002-nov-feb.html#pnid8357">climate
scientists told us</a> we needed to do.


 


title: Urgent: Reject proposals to encourage coal mining and coal burning
uri: Urgent-Reject-proposals-to-encourage-coal-mining-and-coal-burning
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_proposals_to_encourage_coal_mining_and_coal_burning)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_proposals_to_encourage_coal_mining_and_coal_burning)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on your congresscritter to <a href="https://act.350.org/go/490484?source=em20250618-1-full-us&akid=471079%2E1151744%2EhLGTGp">reject proposals</a> to
encourage coal mining and coal burning.
  It is good to mention that the air pollution from coal burning  kills tens
 of thousands of Americans per year nowadays, but the global  heating it
 contributes to will kill tens or hundreds of millions later this century.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Pete Hegseth suggests he would disobey court ruling on LA
uri: Pete-Hegseth-suggests-he-would-disobey-court-ruling-on-LA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Pete_Hegseth_suggests_he_would_disobey_court_ruling_on_LA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Pete_Hegseth_suggests_he_would_disobey_court_ruling_on_LA)

content:
 
<p>

  *Pete Hegseth <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/hegseth-senate-hearing-los-angeles-troop-deployment">suggests he would disobey court ruling</a> against deploying
military in LA.*
</p>
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">Magat</a> officials frequently suggest they would disobey court orders.
Sometimes they engage in sort-of-disobedience making bogus excuses.
</p>
<p>
All this, I believe, is to prepare the political climate for major
disobedience of courts, a path to reduce US democracy to nothing more
than a sham, within which <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> can act like an autocrat.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Patent in way of HIV-suppressing medicine
uri: Patent-in-way-of-HIV-suppressing-medicine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Patent_in_way_of_HIV-suppressing_medicine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Patent_in_way_of_HIV-suppressing_medicine)

content:
 
<p>

A new HIV-suppressing medicine is effective for six months, and could
be made for around $25 per <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dose">dose</a>.  It would open the possibility of
eliminating HIV, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/making-long-acting-prep-accessible-to-all-could-help-end-aids">if not for the patent in the way</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: People in LA put up posters to mourn deported loved ones
uri: People-in-LA-put-up-posters-to-mourn-deported-loved-ones
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(People_in_LA_put_up_posters_to_mourn_deported_loved_ones)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(People_in_LA_put_up_posters_to_mourn_deported_loved_ones)

content:
 
<p>

  People in LA put up hand-made posters to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/los-angeles-missing-posters-ice">mourn their dear deported</a>
loved ones, calling them "abducted".
</p>
</li>

 


title: Karen Read found not guilty of murder
uri: Karen-Read-found-not-guilty-of-murder
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Karen_Read_found_not_guilty_of_murder)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Karen_Read_found_not_guilty_of_murder)

content:
 
<p>

  Karen Read has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/karen-read-not-guilty-second-degree-murder">found not guilty of murder</a>.  She was accused
of murdering her boyfriend, a cop.
</p>
<p>
The case has become a scandal, because the prosecutor's allegations
were contradicted by a mountain of evidence.  People suspect that he
was killed by his fellow <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> and that they tried to frame Karen for
it.  I suppose they expected to succeed.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Iranian dissidents divided on bully's threats
uri: Iranian-dissidents-divided-on-bully-s-threats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Iranian_dissidents_divided_on_bully's_threats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Iranian_dissidents_divided_on_bully's_threats)

content:
 
<p>

  Iranian dissidents are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/iranian-opposition-supporters-grapple-with-us-and-israeli-regime-change-plans">divided on what to think of the bully's threats</a>
and demands.
</p>
<p>
One thing they can be sure of: <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> does not value democracy, not
for Iran any more than for his own country.  He supports imposition of
religious rules in the US, so he is not likely to oppose that for
Iran.  So if he succeeds in making the repressive Iranian religious
tyranny sue for peace, you can't expect him to do anything for the
sake of democracy in Iran.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Drought_fears_in_Europe)
title: Drought fears in Europe
uri: Drought-fears-in-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Drought_fears_in_Europe)
content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/11/drought-fears-in-europe-amid-reports-may-was-worlds-second-hottest-ever">Drought fears in Europe</a> amid reports May was world's second hottest ever.
   Copernicus data show month was 1.4°C above estimated 1850-1900 average
   used to define pre-industrial level*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Key crop yields could fall due to climate crisis
uri: Key-crop-yields-could-fall-due-to-climate-crisis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Key_crop_yields_could_fall_due_to_climate_crisis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Key_crop_yields_could_fall_due_to_climate_crisis)

content:
 
<p>

  *Key crop yields <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/crop-yields-climate-crisis-adaptation">could fall due to climate crisis</a> even if farmers
adapt, study finds. By as much as 120 calories per person per
day for every 1C the planet heats up,*
</p>
</li>

 


title: NHS nurse ordered to remove painting of watermelon
uri: NHS-nurse-ordered-to-remove-painting-of-watermelon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(NHS_nurse_ordered_to_remove_painting_of_watermelon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(NHS_nurse_ordered_to_remove_painting_of_watermelon)

content:
 
<p>

  An NHS nurse was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/18/nhs-nurse-ordered-to-remove-antisemitic-video-of-watermelon-launches-legal-action">ordered by his hospital to remove a painting</a> of a
watermelon (a symbol for Palestine) from the background of per video
calls.  The hospital called it "antisemitic".
</p>
<p>
Supporting Palestine or Palestinians' rights <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-jan-apr.html#8_March_2024_(Antisemitism,_the_original_definition)">is not in itself antisemitic</a>.
But pro-Israel campaign organizations regularly conflate
the two as a means to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(NYU_denying_diploma's_over_antisemitism)">gag criticism of Israel's violence</a> against
Palestinians.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Civilian deaths from persecutor's bombings of Yemen
uri: Civilian-deaths-from-persecutor-s-bombings-of-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Civilian_deaths_from_persecutor's_bombings_of_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Civilian_deaths_from_persecutor's_bombings_of_Yemen)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor's</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/trump-yemen-bombings-killed-civilians-us-attacks-analysis">bombing of Yemen killed around 220 civilians</a> &mdash; almost
as many as 23 years of bombardment of Yemen before.
</p>
<p>
This seems to imply that he dropped some previous policies to protect
civilians.
</p>
<p>
The tactic of waiting for medics to respond to a bomb, and then
bombing again, is one I first read about as something that "terrorists"
did.  When the US military does it, can we deny that that is terrors?
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israel admitted its soldiers shot at ambulances in Gaza
uri: Israel-admitted-its-soldiers-shot-at-ambulances-in-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Israel_admitted_its_soldiers_shot_at_ambulances_in_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Israel_admitted_its_soldiers_shot_at_ambulances_in_Gaza)

content:
 
<p>

  After two months delay, Israel admitted its soldiers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/29/israel-admits-firing-at-ambulances-in-gaza-after-palestinians-say-rescuers-missing-in-rafah">shot at ambulances in Gaza</a>.
  The fact that they did so was <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Phone_footage_of_killing_of_Gaza_paramedics)">clear shortly after the act</a>.
</p>
<p>
  The Israeli army has attacked rescue vehicles, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Palestinian_medical_doctors,_ISR)">rescue workers</a>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#10_December_2024_(israel_attacks_hospital_gaza)">medical facilities</a> regularly in Gaza.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Reducing existence to series of ChatGPT prompts
uri: Reducing-existence-to-series-of-ChatGPT-prompts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Reducing_existence_to_series_of_ChatGPT_prompts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Reducing_existence_to_series_of_ChatGPT_prompts)

content:
 
<p>

  *   <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/30/ai-promises-to-free-up-time-but-what-if-it-spares-us-from-learning-writing-painting-and-exploring-the-world">If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts</a>, the act of my
   living is only shorter &mdash; not better.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israel keeps Palestinian prisoners incommunicado
uri: Israel-keeps-Palestinian-prisoners-incommunicado
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Israel_keeps_Palestinian_prisoners_incommunicado)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Israel_keeps_Palestinian_prisoners_incommunicado)

content:
 
<p>

  Israel <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/30/palestinian-hostages-israeli-prison-coming-home-catastrophe">keeps some (or all?) Palestinian prisoners incommunicado</a> for
months (or years).  Alaa abu Zeid was not informed until he was
released, after over a year, that a bomb dropped on a school had
killed his wife and children.
</p>
<p>
If abu Zeid had had even occasional contact with anyone from home, he
would have found out what had happened to them.  We can deduce he had
none.
</p>
<p>
  Other Palestinian prisoners <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/30/palestinian-gaza-civilians-held-israel-attacks">report similar experiences</a>.
  Clearly this is a systematic practice.
</p>
<p>
  West Bank prisoners also are physically <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-may-aug.html#7_August_2024_(Israeli_prison-conditions)">tortured and injured</a>, and mentally
damaged by brain-washing conditions.
</p>
</li>

 


title: RFK plans to have government "reevaluate" vaccines
uri: RFK-plans-to-have-government-reevaluate-vaccines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(RFK_plans_to_have_government_reevaluate_vaccines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(RFK_plans_to_have_government_reevaluate_vaccines)

content:
 
<p>

  RFK plans to have the government <a href="https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/after-rfk-jr-overhauls-cdc-panel-measles-and-flu-vaccines-are-up-for-debate/">"reevaluate" the approval</a> of various life-saving
vaccines.
  The evaluations that led to their approval were done too scientifically,
it seems.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Financing_for_fossil_fuels_in_2024)
title: Financing for fossil fuels in 2024
uri: Financing-for-fossil-fuels-in-2024
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Financing_for_fossil_fuels_in_2024)
content:
 
<p>

  The world's largest banks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/17/world-banks-fossil-fuel-finance-2024">gave almost a trillion dollars more</a>
financing to fossil fuels in 2024.
</p>
<p>
Governments are abandoning civilization's future so that banks and
billionaires can profit now.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Men raised under Evangelical "Purity" movement
uri: Men-raised-under-Evangelical-Purity-movement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Men_raised_under_Evangelical_Purity_movement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#23_June_2025_(Men_raised_under_Evangelical_Purity_movement)

content:
 
<p>

Men who were raised under the Evangelical "Purity" movement can go for
decades <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/17/evangelical-sex-marriage">without ever learning what it is like to go on a date</a>.
  Some may never overcome the fear that this taught them.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_June_2025_(RMS's_October_trip_to_Europe)
title: RMS's October trip to Europe
uri: RMS-s-October-trip-to-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_June_2025_(RMS's_October_trip_to_Europe)
content:
 
<p>
I will have a trip to Europe in the second week of October and I am
looking for invitations for additional talks in the same trip.  If you
would like to invite me to speak in that trip, please write to me at
rms-invitation@gnu.org with "october" as the subject.
<p>
It is more likely I can actually go if you have funds to cover the
additional cost, and a speaker's fee would be nice.




<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_June_2025_(Those_who_know_US_fascism_flee)
title: Those who know US fascism flee
uri: Those-who-know-US-fascism-flee
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_June_2025_(Those_who_know_US_fascism_flee)
content:
 
<p>
Some professors who studied and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/why-a-professor-of-fascism-left-the-us-the-lesson-of-1933-is-you-get-out">taught
in the US about fascism</a> have
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_March_2025_(Fascism_expert_fleeing_US_for_CAN)">moved
to Canada</a>, seeing the current situation in the US as having little
barrier against full-blown fascism.
<p>
The Russian concept of
"obnazhenie" seems to describe exactly what <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> and his
officials have been implementing even before Jan 20, wherever they had
local power.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_June_2025_(Authoritarian-resistance_experience)
title: Authoritarian-resistance experience
uri: Authoritarian-resistance-experience
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_June_2025_(Authoritarian-resistance_experience)
content:
 
<p>
*I
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/22/democratic-resistance-trump">study the resistance against the Nazis</a>.
Here’s what the US
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(Long-time_Argentina_activist_teaches_US)">left</a>
can
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#16_June_2025_(Long-time_Russian_activists_teach_US)">learn</a>
from it.*

<p>
 


title: Failed bombing Iranian uranium bunkers
uri: Failed-bombing-Iranian-uranium-bunkers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_June_2025_(Failed_bombing_Iranian_uranium_bunkers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_June_2025_(Failed_bombing_Iranian_uranium_bunkers)

content:
 
<p>
The ignoramus's "intelligence" ministers are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/21/maga-isolationists-influence-over-trumps-decision-on-iran">learning
to agree with their master</a> and disregard what the experts working
for them think.  Their master wants them to say the damage was total.
<p>
In any case, the US government can't know for certain.
<p>
Iranian officials know what damage was done to Iran's nuclear
facilities, but they too may lie about it.  So far their story is
that everything is ok.
<p>
Imagine if Iranians officials and American officials join in telling
the ignoramus what he wants to hear, exaggerating the damage.  What
would he do?  Perhaps he would declare victory and let the fighting
end.

<p>
 


title: The poverty of campaign finance in US
uri: The-poverty-of-campaign-finance-in-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_June_2025_(The_poverty_of_campaign_finance_in_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_June_2025_(The_poverty_of_campaign_finance_in_US)

content:
 
<p>
Billionaires put 2.6 billion
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/billionaires-record-spending-2024-election">dollars
  into election campaigns in 2024</a>.  That doesn't count what they
  have found
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#28_December_2024_(Campaign_donation_trends,_US)">sneaky ways to contribute
anonymously</a>.
<p>
One new practice was eliminating progressive Democrats from Congress
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#18_June_2020_(Republican_donors_are_supporting_Democrat_Eliot_Engel)">by supporting primary challenges</a>
by <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> Democrats.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_June_2025_(Iran_regime_change)
title: Iran regime change
uri: Iran-regime-change
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#24_June_2025_(Iran_regime_change)
content:
 
<p>
If Israel (perhaps with the US) "win" a war against Iran,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/19/iran-tehran-regime-change-libya-iraq-impossible">what
would come next</a>?  There are reasons to expect it to be messy.


<p>
 


title: British activist with "spy cop" as a lover
uri: British-activist-with-spy-cop-as-a-lover
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(British_activist_with_spy_cop_as_a_lover)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(British_activist_with_spy_cop_as_a_lover)

content:
 
<p>

One of the British activist who had a "spy cop" as lover <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/22/spies-lies-and-betrayal-my-ruinous-relationship-with-an-undercover-cop">pursued her legal case</a> to the end, and it ended in victory.  She received all the
confidential reports he had made while spying on her.  Now she has
published them.
</p>
</li>

 


title: How Democratic Party leaders support war with Iran
uri: How-Democratic-Party-leaders-support-war-with-Iran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(How_Democratic_Party_leaders_support_war_with_Iran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(How_Democratic_Party_leaders_support_war_with_Iran)

content:
 
<p>

  *How Democratic Party Leaders <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/06/19/democratic-iran-war-trump-schumer-jeffries-meeks/">Quietly Support</a> [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a>] March to
 War With Iran.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Bully forbids entry to US from 12 countries
uri: Bully-forbids-entry-to-US-from-12-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Bully_forbids_entry_to_US_from_12_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Bully_forbids_entry_to_US_from_12_countries)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> has forbidden (with narrow exceptions) entry into the US of
the nationals of 12 countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of
the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia,
Sudan and Yemen.
</p>
<p>
Referring to this as a "Muslim ban" is false.  According to Wikipedia,
four of the countries &mdash; Burma, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti and Republic
of the Congo &mdash; have few Muslims (those in Burma are a persecuted
minority, the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#19_May_2015_(Rohingya_in_concentration_camps)">Rohingya</a>).
  Eritrea is more or less evenly divided between Christians and Muslims.
</p>
<p>
Meanwhile, many mainly Muslim countries are not covered by the ban.
These include Albania, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Malaysia,
Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Syria, and Turkey, and some
more.
</p>
<p>
It seems clear that the motives for the ban are political, not racial
or religious.
</p>
<p>
I don't see a sensible reason for the ban.  The US has quarrels with
some of these countries, but not all.  And it is perverse to deny a
person asylum because of something bad about the country <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> is
fleeing from.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Congress to request permission 12 hours in advance of visiting deportation prisons
uri: Congress-to-request-permission-12-hours-in-advance-of-visiting-deporta
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Congress_to_request_permission_12_hours_in_advance_of_visiting_deportation_prisons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Congress_to_request_permission_12_hours_in_advance_of_visiting_deportation_prisons)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/dhs-immigration-detention-center-visits-new-guidance">ordered members of Congress to request permission</a> 12
hours in advance before visiting deportation prisons.
</p>
<p>
This would give the employees of the prison company a chance to clean
up the signs of cruelty.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Deportation thugs attacked protester Jose Manuel Mojica
uri: Deportation-thugs-attacked-protester-Jose-Manuel-Mojica
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Deportation_thugs_attacked_protester_Jose_Manuel_Mojica)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Deportation_thugs_attacked_protester_Jose_Manuel_Mojica)

content:
 
<p>

  Deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/jose-manuel-mojica-la-protester-charges-dropped">attacked protester Jose Manuel Mojica</a>, then accused
him of attacking them.  Fortunately, the charges against him have been
dropped.
 Full justice calls for charges against the agents who attacked him.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Man had near-death experience forced to sign NDA
uri: (satire)-Man-had-near-death-experience-forced-to-sign-NDA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_((satire)_Man_had_near-death_experience_forced_to_sign_NDA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_((satire)_Man_had_near-death_experience_forced_to_sign_NDA)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Man <a href="https://theonion.com/man-returning-from-near-death-experience-recalls-angels-making-him-sign-nda/">Returning From Near-Death Experience</a> Recalls Angels
Making Him Sign NDA.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Right-wingers in Brazil trying to completely wipe out abortion
uri: Right-wingers-in-Brazil-trying-to-completely-wipe-out-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Right-wingers_in_Brazil_trying_to_completely_wipe_out_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Right-wingers_in_Brazil_trying_to_completely_wipe_out_abortion)

content:
 
<p>

Abortion is almost prohibited in Brazil, but religious right-wingers are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/19/rio-de-janeiro-anti-abortion-signs">trying to get rid of the "almost"</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Anti-protest_law_in_New_South_Wales)
title: Anti-protest law in New South Wales
uri: Anti-protest-law-in-New-South-Wales
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Anti-protest_law_in_New_South_Wales)
content:
 
<p>

New South Wales, in Australia, has an anti-protest law that allows
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun/19/palestine-action-group-tells-nsw-supreme-court-that-laws-meant-to-protect-places-of-worship-are-chilling-ntwnfb">conflating condemnation of Israel's war crimes with antisemitism</a>.  The
confusion can be invoked by holding political and military events in
synagogues.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Supreme Court authorized law forbidding medicine based on intention to be transgender
uri: Supreme-Court-authorized-law-forbidding-medicine-based-on-intention-to
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Supreme_Court_authorized_law_forbidding_medicine_based_on_intention_to_be_transgender)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Supreme_Court_authorized_law_forbidding_medicine_based_on_intention_to_be_transgender)

content:
 
<p>

The Supreme Court authorized a state law which forbids medicines
on criteria <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/19/us-supreme-court-gender-equality">specifically based on the intention to be transgender</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Speed_of_bully's_attack_on_democracy)
title: Speed of bully's attack on democracy
uri: Speed-of-bully-s-attack-on-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Speed_of_bully's_attack_on_democracy)
content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully's</a> attack on democracy and freedom in the US is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/trump-us-autocracy-authoritarianism">rushing ahead</a>
much faster than today's other authoritarians did.
</p>
<p>
It is unfair to list Hugo Chávez as one.  He held real elections and
the people really voted for him.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Indian deportation thugs forcing Muslim Indians into Bangladesh
uri: Indian-deportation-thugs-forcing-Muslim-Indians-into-Bangladesh
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Indian_deportation_thugs_forcing_Muslim_Indians_into_Bangladesh)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Indian_deportation_thugs_forcing_Muslim_Indians_into_Bangladesh)

content:
 
<p>

  Indian deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/19/india-deporting-indians-muslim-citizens-bangladesh-say-rights-groups-border">grabbing Muslim Indians and forcing</a> them
across the border with Bangladesh.  
  Bangladeshi border guards reject many of them, saying they are
Indians no Bangladeshis, and force them back to India, sometimes by
arduous (and unguarded?) routes.
</p>
<p>
A few years ago, India passed a law allowing it to claim that people
were immigrants if they didn't have documents to prove their forebears
were Indian citizens.  Another law allowed such people to claim
Indian citizenship, but not if they are Muslims.
</p>
<p>
  Put them together and they combine as a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-jan-apr.html#16_March_2024_(Muslims_as_outcasts,_India)">recipe for labeling</a> a Muslim
Indian who was born and raised in India as an unauthorized immigrant,
so as to expel per.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Canada sucking up to Canadian businesses
uri: Canada-sucking-up-to-Canadian-businesses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Canada_sucking_up_to_Canadian_businesses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Canada_sucking_up_to_Canadian_businesses)

content:
 
<p>

  Canada is "fighting" <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/18/canada-trump-flood-zone">sucking up to Canadian businesses</a>
to the detriment of the non-rich.
</p>
<p>

 


title: Florida's attorney general found in contempt of court
uri: Florida-s-attorney-general-found-in-contempt-of-court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Florida's_attorney_general_found_in_contempt_of_court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Florida's_attorney_general_found_in_contempt_of_court)

content:
 
<p>

  Florida's attorney general was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/florida-attorney-general-contempt-immigration-arrests">found in contempt of court</a> for ordering
state agencies to disregard a court order against enforcing a state law
to arrest unauthorized immigrants.
</p>
<p>
So far, <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magat</a> officials have played at defying court orders.  I think
that was meant to make their supporters eager to see real defiance and
a showdown that might make the federal courts powerless.  Then what
steps could judges take?  I fear that would be the end of rule of law
in the US.
</p>
</li>

 


title: WhatsApp "help" gives wrong phone number
uri: WhatsApp-help-gives-wrong-phone-number
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(WhatsApp_help_gives_wrong_phone_number)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(WhatsApp_help_gives_wrong_phone_number)

content:
 
<p>

Someone asked the WhatsApp "help" chatbot for a train company's
customer service phone number and it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/whatsapp-ai-helper-mistakenly-shares-users-number">gave some other user's</a>
phone number.
</p>
<p>
When the user objected to that, it generated output that resembled
what a human being would say if trying to excuse that mistake or claim
that nothing was wrong.
</p>
<p>
The article quotes someone criticizing this chatbot in a way that
assumes it is capable of understanding what was defective about its
output, and even ideas of ethics and responsibility as applied to its
own output.  How foolish!
</p>
<p>
That Artificial Stupidity system does not understand what it means to
help someone, does not understand what it means to harm someone, and
does not understand what it means to be honest &mdash; or deceptive.  It
only looks for ways to make pertinent-sounding responses based on
frequency tables.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Salafi Arabian journalist executed for criticizing government
uri: Salafi-Arabian-journalist-executed-for-criticizing-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Salafi_Arabian_journalist_executed_for_criticizing_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Salafi_Arabian_journalist_executed_for_criticizing_government)

content:
 
<p>

  Salafi Arabian journalist Turki al-Jasser <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/saudi-arabia-turki-al-jasser-executed">has been executed</a> for
criticizing the government of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> on <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#extwitter">ex-Twitter</a>, after 7
years in prison with torture.
</p>
</li>

 


title: What the wrecker thinks about relations with other countries
uri: What-the-wrecker-thinks-about-relations-with-other-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(What_the_wrecker_thinks_about_relations_with_other_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(What_the_wrecker_thinks_about_relations_with_other_countries)

content:
 
<p>

Sage commentary about what <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> thinks about relations with other
democratic countries.
</p>
<p>
*[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>] claims simply to want deals with dictators, but he seems also to
   crave validation from them. By contrast, he thinks it is humiliating
   for the US commander-in-chief to be seated at a round table as the peer
   of a German chancellor or the prime minister of Canada – barely a
   proper country. The idea of coordinating foreign and trade policy on
   the basis of shared respect for political pluralism and the rule of law
   is an idea Trump finds absurd, if he even understands it.*
</p>
<p>
  *Over time, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/18/g7-leaders-paralysed-fear-donald-trump">reluctance to say aloud</a> that [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>] is an
authoritarian menace to the US’s constitutional republic becomes
complicity in the assault.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Press freedom threatened in various countries
uri: Press-freedom-threatened-in-various-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Press_freedom_threatened_in_various_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(Press_freedom_threatened_in_various_countries)

content:
 
<p>

  Press freedom is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/pacific-faces-critical-moment-in-fight-for-press-freedom-media-watchdog-warns-ntwnfb">threatened in various countries</a> in the Pacific Ocean.
</p>
</li>

 


title: No Kings rallies in contrast to the narcissist's birthday parade
uri: No-Kings-rallies-in-contrast-to-the-narcissist-s-birthday-parade
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(No_Kings_rallies_in_contrast_to_the_narcissist's_birthday_parade)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(No_Kings_rallies_in_contrast_to_the_narcissist's_birthday_parade)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/16/trump-military-parade">Contrasting the No Kings rallies</a> with the narcissist's disappointing
birthday parade.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) SWAT Team Robot Successfully Dismantles Black Man
uri: (satire)-SWAT-Team-Robot-Successfully-Dismantles-Black-Man
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_((satire)_SWAT_Team_Robot_Successfully_Dismantles_Black_Man)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_((satire)_SWAT_Team_Robot_Successfully_Dismantles_Black_Man)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *SWAT Team Robot <a href="https://theonion.com/swat-team-robot-successfully-dismantles-black-man/">Successfully Dismantles Black Man</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: How mainstream mockers ridicule leaders of resistance
uri: How-mainstream-mockers-ridicule-leaders-of-resistance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(How_mainstream_mockers_ridicule_leaders_of_resistance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#25_June_2025_(How_mainstream_mockers_ridicule_leaders_of_resistance)

content:
 
<p>

  How the mainstream mockers <a href="https://www.medialens.org/2025/the-selfie-yacht-greta-thunberg-and-the-merchants-of-smear/">ridicule leaders of the resistance</a>
and make them look foolish or small.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: Average person 40% poorer if world warms by 4C
uri: Average-person-40-poorer-if-world-warms-by-4C
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Average_person_40%25_poorer_if_world_warms_by_4C)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Average_person_40%25_poorer_if_world_warms_by_4C)

content:
 
<p>

  *Average person will be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/01/average-person-will-be-40-poorer-if-world-warms-by-4c-new-research-shows">40% poorer if world warms by 4C</a>, new research shows.*
   Experts say previous economic models underestimated impact of global
heating &mdash; as well as likely ‘cascading supply chain disruptions’.
</p>
<p>
If they have estimated well the effect of those cascades, maybe this
estimate will be on target.  But I doubt that is even possible.
With globalized production, it is easy for even a local disaster
to make a crucial component totally unavailable for years.
Maybe there would be no new computers, or no new cars.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Mahmoud_Khalil_freed_by_a_judge)
title: Mahmoud Khalil freed by a judge
uri: Mahmoud-Khalil-freed-by-a-judge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Mahmoud_Khalil_freed_by_a_judge)
content:
 
<p>

  Mahmoud Khalil <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/22/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-new-york-speech-rally">has been freed by a judge</a>, and has returned to New York
to appear at a rally for *Palestinian freedom and opposition to both
the university and the [bully].*
</p>
<p>
I also advocate for a free state of Palestine, but I partly disagree
with Khalil.  I am careful to make it clear that Palestine would be
alongside Israel, <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">not a replacement for Israel</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Kilmar Ábrego García's case has become complex and paradoxical
uri: Kilmar-Ábrego-García-s-case-has-become-complex-and-paradoxical
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Kilmar_Ábrego_García's_case_has_become_complex_and_paradoxical)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Kilmar_Ábrego_García's_case_has_become_complex_and_paradoxical)

content:
 
<p>

Kilmar Ábrego García's case has become complex and paradoxical, as
different parts of the US government demand to do different things to
him.  The consequence is that he can't be released on bail lest that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/22/judge-orders-kilmar-abrego-garcia-release-tennessee">put him in danger of precipitous deportation</a>.
</p>
<p>
This shows there is a dangerous flaw in the current law.  The criminal
charges were created as a justification for deporting him; even if
they were true, it is an obvious injustice to use them to deport him
before those charges are adjudicated.
</p>
</li>

 


title: UK government labels activist group as "terrorist"
uri: UK-government-labels-activist-group-as-terrorist
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(UK_government_labels_activist_group_as_terrorist)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(UK_government_labels_activist_group_as_terrorist)

content:
 
<p>

  The UK government has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/22/ban-on-palestine-action-as-terrorists-is-shameful">labeled an activist group as "terrorist"</a> for a
peaceful protest, and plans to abolish its existence.  That is such
contempt for human rights that it reminds me of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>.
</p>
<p>
  *Israel kills innocent Palestinians. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/22/israel-palestine-action-uk-government-terrorism-sally-rooney">Activists spray-paint a plane</a>. Guess
which the UK government calls terrorism.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Journalists have had difficulty knowing how to present Kilmar Ábrego's name
uri: Journalists-have-had-difficulty-knowing-how-to-present-Kilmar-Ábrego
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Journalists_have_had_difficulty_knowing_how_to_present_Kilmar_Ábrego's_name)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Journalists_have_had_difficulty_knowing_how_to_present_Kilmar_Ábrego's_name)

content:
 
<p>

Kilmar Ábrego, victim of an unjust deportation, has been much in the news,
and journalists have had difficulty knowing how to present his name.
</p>
<p>
The Hispanic naming system gives Kilmar Armando Ábrego Garcia (like
almost everyone else) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Given_name#Compound">two apellidos (family names)</a>: 
his are Ábrego and
Garcia.  It is helpful, in an article which discusses a person at
length, to present per name in full form (as in this paragraph) at
least once, for completeness.  But mostly one uses only the first
apellido.
</p>
<p>
Some writers in English seem to think that the two apellidos are
equivalent to a hyphenated double name in English, but that is not so.
An English hyphenated name is just one name, and it is incorrect to
omit part of it.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Excuse for repression in universities
uri: Excuse-for-repression-in-universities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Excuse_for_repression_in_universities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Excuse_for_repression_in_universities)

content:
 
<p>

Rep. Nadler condemned the weaponization of a supposed fight against
antisemitism into an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/jerry-nadler-trump-antisemitism">excuse for repression in universities</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: ChatGPT lowers subjects' capacity to think
uri: ChatGPT-lowers-subjects-capacity-to-think
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(ChatGPT_lowers_subjects'_capacity_to_think)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(ChatGPT_lowers_subjects'_capacity_to_think)

content:
 
<p>

  Preliminary <a href="https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/">results from an experiment</a> suggest that using ChatGPT
lowers subjects' capacity to think while writing a essays.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Law requiring display of Ten Commandments in schools
uri: Law-requiring-display-of-Ten-Commandments-in-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Law_requiring_display_of_Ten_Commandments_in_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Law_requiring_display_of_Ten_Commandments_in_schools)

content:
 
<p>

  *Court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/21/court-ruling-louisiana-law-ten-commandments-schools">strikes down Louisiana law</a> requiring display of Ten
Commandments in schools.*
  Texas is on the verge of passing a similar law.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Common for thugs to attack and accuse victims of "assault"
uri: Common-for-thugs-to-attack-and-accuse-victims-of-assault
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Common_for_thugs_to_attack_and_accuse_victims_of_assault)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Common_for_thugs_to_attack_and_accuse_victims_of_assault)

content:
 
<p>

It is commonplace for <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> to attack people and then accuse their
victims of "assaulting" them.  Usually they do that to people with
little influence, such as poor young black men.
</p>
<p>
  Now they are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/21/dhs-violence-false-claims">doing it to Democratic elected officials</a>, 
  which is a terrorist/intimidation tactic.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Campaign to crush universities grows out of decades old right-wing hostility
uri: Campaign-to-crush-universities-grows-out-of-decades-old-right-wing-hos
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Campaign_to_crush_universities_grows_out_of_decades_old_right-wing_hostility)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Campaign_to_crush_universities_grows_out_of_decades_old_right-wing_hostility)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor's</a> campaign to crush universities, and make universities
repress the left, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/11/trump-war-on-harvard">grows out of a right-wing hostility decades old</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Deporting every unauthorized foreign worker not a good thing to do
uri: Deporting-every-unauthorized-foreign-worker-not-a-good-thing-to-do
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Deporting_every_unauthorized_foreign_worker_not_a_good_thing_to_do)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Deporting_every_unauthorized_foreign_worker_not_a_good_thing_to_do)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor</a> has <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/12/trump-immigration-migrant-farmers-hotel-workers-deported/84166061007/">acknowledged that deporting every unauthorized foreign worker</a>
  is not actually a good thing to do.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Call for armed aid convoys to deliver food
uri: Call-for-armed-aid-convoys-to-deliver-food
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Call_for_armed_aid_convoys_to_deliver_food)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Call_for_armed_aid_convoys_to_deliver_food)

content:
 
<p>

  The UN special rapporteur on the right to food <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/16/send-armed-un-troops-to-protect-aid-convoys-gaza-sudan-or-risk-dystopia-un-rapporteur">calls for armed aid convoys</a>
to deliver food, were that is necessary.
</p>
<p>
I think this might be successful in places such as Sudan, where the enemies
are not powerful enough to crush the arms of he aid convoys from a distance.
But I think they would be ineffective in Gaza, because Israel would kill
the armed UN guards from the air.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Republican congresscritters who say they would have voted against Big Bad Bill
uri: Republican-congresscritters-who-say-they-would-have-voted-against-Big
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Republican_congresscritters_who_say_they_would_have_voted_against_Big_Bad_Bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Republican_congresscritters_who_say_they_would_have_voted_against_Big_Bad_Bill)

content:
 
<p>

At least two Republican congresscritters said they would have voted against
the Big Bad Bill <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/16/trump-steamrolling-republicans">if they had known it said X or Y</a>.
</p>
<p>
To be adopted, the House will have to approve the final version.  If
that final version still contains X and Y, will they vote to defeat
it?  Their majority is so small that Just a couple of Republicans
voting no would be enough to defeat it.
</p>
</li>

 


title: UK proposes prohibiting online commercial advertising of sexual services
uri: UK-proposes-prohibiting-online-commercial-advertising-of-sexual-servic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(UK_proposes_prohibiting_online_commercial_advertising_of_sexual_services)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(UK_proposes_prohibiting_online_commercial_advertising_of_sexual_services)

content:
 
<p>

  The UK proposes to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/18/uk-politicians-propose-ban-pimping-websites">prohibit online commercial advertising of sexual services</a>,
and the wording makes it clear that the motive of this campaign is based on
rigid conservative ideas of right and wrong in sex.
</p>
<p>
The author rigidly presumes that doing sex work is "being exploited".
Women who are trafficked are being exploited.  Women who do sex work
by choice, and there are many of those, are doing business for their
benefit.
</p>
<p>
In a better world, the traffickers would be punished, the trafficked
women would be freed, and the self-employed sex workers would not have
to hide or be ashamed.  We cannot get there without recognizing all of
these groups.
</p>
</li>

 


title: PEN America concerned by deportation of Australian writer
uri: PEN-America-concerned-by-deportation-of-Australian-writer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(PEN_America_concerned_by_deportation_of_Australian_writer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(PEN_America_concerned_by_deportation_of_Australian_writer)

content:
 
<p>

  *PEN America <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/18/pen-america-gravely-concerned-by-deportation-of-australian-writer-critical-of-trump-ntwnfb">"gravely concerned"</a> by deportation of Australian writer critical
of Trump administration.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: "Predictive policing" is disguided excuse for harassment of black males
uri: Predictive-policing-is-disguided-excuse-for-harassment-of-black-male
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Predictive_policing_is_disguided_excuse_for_harassment_of_black_males)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Predictive_policing_is_disguided_excuse_for_harassment_of_black_males)

content:
 
<p>

  "Predictive policing" often amounts to a <a href="https://theconversation.com/predictive-policing-ai-is-on-the-rise-making-it-accountable-to-the-public-could-curb-its-harmful-effects-254185">disguided excuse</a> for systematic
harassment of black males.
</p>
<p>
The article raises the possibility that it could be better if it is "more transparent", but no actual results of trying.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(This_presidency_is_a_brand-franchise)
title: This presidency is a brand-franchise
uri: This-presidency-is-a-brand-franchise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(This_presidency_is_a_brand-franchise)
content:
 
<p>

*"This presidency is a brand-franchise": the profiteer has taken the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/21/trump-products-presidency-as-a-brand">commercialization of politics to a new level</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Effect_of_antivax_disinformation)
title: Effect of antivax disinformation
uri: Effect-of-antivax-disinformation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(Effect_of_antivax_disinformation)
content:
 
<p>

  Antivax disinformation is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/24/children-global-vaccine-rates-fall-study-finds">having an effect in many countries</a>: more children
are not vaccinated.
</p>
</li>

 


title: CDC invited anti-vaxxer to present report on thimerosal
uri: CDC-invited-anti-vaxxer-to-present-report-on-thimerosal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(CDC_invited_anti-vaxxer_to_present_report_on_thimerosal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#27_June_2025_(CDC_invited_anti-vaxxer_to_present_report_on_thimerosal)

content:
 
<p>

The CDC has invited an anti-vaxxer to present a report containing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/cdc-vaccine-presentation-autism">disinformation about thimerosal</a>.  It contains a mistaken citation that
seems intended to report a real study, but cites that study's results
exactly wrong.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_June_2025_(Internet_shutdown,_Iran)
title: Internet shutdown, Iran
uri: Internet-shutdown-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_June_2025_(Internet_shutdown,_Iran)
content:
 
<p>
Iran's government has blocked international communication by internet
for most people, which has made it
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/young-iranians-break-through-internet-blackout">hard
for Iranians in Iran</a> to communicate securely with each other.
<p>
Reportedly the state fears a student uprising.

<p>
 


title: Socialist in NYC mayoral race with Adams
uri: Socialist-in-NYC-mayoral-race-with-Adams
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_June_2025_(Socialist_in_NYC_mayoral_race_with_Adams)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_June_2025_(Socialist_in_NYC_mayoral_race_with_Adams)

content:
 
<p>
Progressive candidate Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary
to run for mayor of New York City, defeating <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> Democratic
Andrew Cuomo, who conceded.
<p>
Bernie Sanders, who
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/democrats-learn-zohran-mamdani-victory">campaigned
for Mamdani</a>, is triumphant.
<p>
Cuomo was governor of New York State, then was compelled to resign
over sexual improprieties whose details I don't recall.  The principal
reason he was a bad governor is that he harmed all non-rich citizens
of New York State by favoring the rich.  This year, rich people tried
to parachuted him in as mayor, so it is good that he lost.
<p>
In the final election, Mamdani will run against <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#nightmayor">Night-Mayor</a> Adams, who
stands for being harsh on crime
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_April_2025_(Corruption_charges_dropped_against_New_York's_mayor)">except
when committed by him</a>.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_June_2025_(Effective_US_public_resistance)
title: Effective US public resistance
uri: Effective-US-public-resistance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#28_June_2025_(Effective_US_public_resistance)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich reposts a call to effective resistance
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-message">from Liz Cheney</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#29_June_2025_(Urgent:_Censure_Senator_Mike_Lee)
title: Urgent: Censure Senator Mike Lee
uri: Urgent-Censure-Senator-Mike-Lee
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#29_June_2025_(Urgent:_Censure_Senator_Mike_Lee)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-the-senate-censure-mike-lee">call
on the Senate</a> to censure Senator Mike Lee for his contempt towards
the assassinated Democrats in Minnesota.




<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_June_2025_(Erased_history,_UK)
title: Erased history, UK
uri: Erased-history-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_June_2025_(Erased_history,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Shortly before the last UK parliamentary election, the thug department
that had brutally attacked striking miners in 1984
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/24/northumbria-police-destroy-battle-orgreave-miners-strike-files">destroyed its
records</a>
about that attack.  Thus they ensured that Labour's plans to
fully investigate what the thugs did in 1984 cannot now be fully
carried out.
<p>
If that prevents the investigation, Labour should pass laws to make it
a crime for thugs to destroy, or fail to protect, records about the
thugs' accused plausibly criminal past actions.

<p>
 


