# articles

title: Thugs confiscated books in Palestinian business
uri: Thugs-confiscated-books-in-Palestinian-business
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Thugs_confiscated_books_in_Palestinian_business)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Thugs_confiscated_books_in_Palestinian_business)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> visited a Palestinian business, Education Bookshop, in Jerusalem
again, without a warrant, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/11/israeli-police-raid-palestinian-bookshop-east-jerusalem-twice-in-a-month">confiscated "subversive" books</a> by Banksy,
Noam Chomsky and Israeli academic Ilan Pappé.
</p>
<p>
Then they arrested one of the owners, not stating any charge,
took him to a <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> station and released him.  This was clearly a campaign of harassment, showing how Israel respects freedom of the press.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Ex-president of Philippines being tried by International Criminal Court
uri: Ex-president-of-Philippines-being-tried-by-International-Criminal-Cour
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Ex-president_of_Philippines_being_tried_by_International_Criminal_Court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Ex-president_of_Philippines_being_tried_by_International_Criminal_Court)

content:
 
<p>

Ex-<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dodirty">president Do-Dirty</a> of the Philippines is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/11/the-guardian-view-on-rodrigo-duterte-in-the-hague-a-warning-to-rogue-leaders">now being tried by the
    International Criminal Court</a>
on charges of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#26_October_2016_(Duterte's_murder_campaign)">killing supposed drug dealers</a> without bothering to establish
that they were guilty of anything.
</p>
<p>
He called this the "war on drugs", and it confirms that when a war
is on drugs, it is likely to kill innocent people.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Federal judge orders release of Doge internal records
uri: Federal-judge-orders-release-of-Doge-internal-records
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Federal_judge_orders_release_of_Doge_internal_records)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Federal_judge_orders_release_of_Doge_internal_records)

content:
 
<p>

  *Federal judge orders Doge to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/judge-orders-doge-document-release">release internal records for transparency</a>*
  and release its internal documents.
</p>
<p>
  Meanwhile, its first target, USAid, has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/usaid-staff-documents">destroying secrets</a>.
I am guessing that this was illegal, and that the motive for this was to
prevent courts from figuring out how to reconstruct what was
destroyed.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Customers_of_payment_tech)
title: Customers of payment tech
uri: Customers-of-payment-tech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Customers_of_payment_tech)
content:
 
<p>

Republicans are trying to leave the customers of payment tech <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/house-republicans-poised-to-clear-the-way-for-big-tech-financial-fraud">vulnerable
    to cheating</a>.
</p>
<p>
As it happens, I am one of the few who will not be vulnerable to this.
Those systems are nonfree, and I have always rejected them on principle
for that reason.  A nonfree program is "owned" by someone and that
puts users under the power of that owner.  See
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html</a>.  If
you don't reject them on principle, at least reject them on grounds of
safety.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Prisoners_held_in_isolation)
title: Prisoners held in isolation
uri: Prisoners-held-in-isolation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Prisoners_held_in_isolation)
content:
 
<p>

In those US states that still carry out capital punishment, prisoners
sentenced to execution are typically <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/south-carolina-death-row-isolation">held in extreme conditions of
    isolation for months or even years</a>.
</p>
<p>
This is a form of psychological torture, and it takes strength of
character to avoid cracking.  As far as I can see, no conceivable
justification exists for it.  It can't be based on rational concern
that a given prisoner might try to escape, or engage in violence,
because those risks are not specific to those sentenced to death.
</p>
<p>
As far as I can see, the practice of "death row" is nothing but a way
of acting out despisement through cruelty.  The primary evil is the
death penalty itself, but this secondary evil contributes
substantially to that.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Brain_damage_in_seabirds)
title: Brain damage in seabirds
uri: Brain-damage-in-seabirds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Brain_damage_in_seabirds)
content:
 
<p>

  *Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/12/plastic-pollution-leaves-seabirds-chicks-with-brain-damage-similar-to-alzheimers-study-aoe">brain damage similar to Alzheimer's</a>.*
</p>
<p>
This doesn't prove it harms humans too, but it makes that seem likely.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Oil_and_gas_conference)
title: Oil and gas conference
uri: Oil-and-gas-conference
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Oil_and_gas_conference)
content:
 
<p>

*At a major oil and gas conference in Texas this week,
companies publicly retreated from their flashy climate pledges of years
past, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/fossil-fuels-oil-gas-conference-ceraweek">redoubling their commitment to planet-[roasting] fossil fuels</a>.*
</p>
<p>
These companies are taking actions that will <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#26_November_2024_(Evidence_global_heating_supercharging_deadly_weather)">wipe out increasing
    fractions</a> of future generations in America and other countries.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Young_people_who_condemn_democracy)
title: Young people who condemn democracy
uri: Young-people-who-condemn-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Young_people_who_condemn_democracy)
content:
 
<p>

  Why do young people who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/02/shocking-finding-gen-z-democracy-isnt-perfect">condemn democracy for its flaws</a>, and would
prefer autarchy, not understand how bad that is?
</p>
</li>

 


title: "Ethics waiver" to advisor of "AI" and cryptocurrency
uri: Ethics-waiver-to-advisor-of-AI-and-cryptocurrency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Ethics_waiver_to_advisor_of_AI_and_cryptocurrency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Ethics_waiver_to_advisor_of_AI_and_cryptocurrency)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a> gave his special advisor for so-called AI and
cryptocurrency an <a href="https://www.levernews.com/trump-issues-ethics-waiver-for-his-ai-crypto-czar/">"ethics waiver"</a>, meaning he is permitted to give
advice on questions that directly affect his own business interests.
</p>
<p>
Since <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>/bully disregards ethics in favor of crude power,
he wants advisors who do the same.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Reforming_corps_of_military_lawyers)
title: Reforming corps of military lawyers
uri: Reforming-corps-of-military-lawyers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Reforming_corps_of_military_lawyers)
content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> plans to reform the corps of military lawyers to
systematically <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/pete-hegseth-pentagon-lawyers-rules-of-war">condone some kinds of war crimes</a>.
</p>
<p>
We can call this MABA, or Make America Barbaric Again.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_((satire)_Dozen_has_always_meant_9)
title: (satire) Dozen has always meant 9
uri: (satire)-Dozen-has-always-meant-9
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_((satire)_Dozen_has_always_meant_9)
content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Egg Companies Assure Customers <a href="https://theonion.com/egg-companies-assure-customers-dozen-has-always-meant-9/">Dozen Has Always Meant 9</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Miami_Beach_trying_to_evict_cinema)
title: Miami Beach trying to evict cinema
uri: Miami-Beach-trying-to-evict-cinema
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Miami_Beach_trying_to_evict_cinema)
content:
 
<p>

  Miami Beach is trying to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/florida-mayor-no-other-land-documentary-cinema">evict an independent cinema</a> for showing the
Oscar-winning documentary, No Other Land, which documents expulsion of
Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank.  The film was made by
Palestinians and Israelis working together.
</p>
<p>
This documentary has faced powerful censorship in the US.
</p>
<p>
Based on what I have read, it would not surprise me if the film
contains some antisemitic statements that I would disapprove of.  I
expect that it shows violent crimes committed against Palestinians by
fanatical Israeli "settlers"; but I don't know that for certain.  I
disapprove of both of those kinds of things, but violent crimes of
bigotry are much worse than verbal expressions of bigotry.  I don't
know enough to say more than that about the film.
</p>
<p>
I can, however, condemn the repression that aims to prevent showing
the film.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_((satire)_Terabytes_of_free_speech)
title: (satire) Terabytes of free speech
uri: (satire)-Terabytes-of-free-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_((satire)_Terabytes_of_free_speech)
content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Feds <a href="https://theonion.com/feds-uncover-terabytes-of-free-speech-during-raid-of-protestors-residence/">Uncover Terabytes Of Free Speech</a> During Raid Of
Protester's Residence.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Thugs attacked demonstrators who were retired people
uri: Thugs-attacked-demonstrators-who-were-retired-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Thugs_attacked_demonstrators_who_were_retired_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Thugs_attacked_demonstrators_who_were_retired_people)

content:
 
<p>

*More than 1,000 riot [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>] used teargas, rubber[-coated steel]
 bullets and water cannons [plus clubs] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/13/argentina-pensioner-protest-police-violence">to [attack] demonstrators [who
    were retired people] late on Wednesday</a>.*
  The aged protesters were protesting the right-wing extremist's cuts
to their medicines.
</p>
<p>
Their signs saying things like "Don't hit us, we are your parents"
did not restrain the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> from going wild with violence.
</p>
<p>
That is the spirit that right-wing extremism builds up and looses against
its scapegoats.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Lesson_in_patriotism)
title: Lesson in patriotism
uri: Lesson-in-patriotism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Lesson_in_patriotism)
content:
 
<p>

  A <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-teddy-roosevelts-face-will-remain">lesson in patriotism from President T. Roosevelt</a> for people who are
more loyal to one leader than to their country.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Convincing big pollution emitters to save themselves
uri: Convincing-big-pollution-emitters-to-save-themselves
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Convincing_big_pollution_emitters_to_save_themselves)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Convincing_big_pollution_emitters_to_save_themselves)

content:
 
<p>

The UK's energy minister recognizes that saving the UK from global
heating disaster <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/climate-crisis-china-beijing-ed-miliband">depends on convincing big emitters such as China</a> to
save themselves.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Apple_fighting_UK_government)
title: Apple fighting UK government
uri: Apple-fighting-UK-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Apple_fighting_UK_government)
content:
 
<p>

  Apple is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/14/what-could-apples-high-court-challenge-mean-for-data-protection">fighting a lawsuit by the UK government</a> which demands that
Apple add a back door to examine whatever users store in Apple's
encrypted storage servers.
</p>
<p>
Does anyone with a UK legal background know how this case compares to
the case of a laptop with GPG loaded on it?  If there is a legal
difference between that case and the case of the iThing, can you
explain what that difference is?
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Terms_for_a_would-be_autocrat_of_US)
title: Terms for a would-be autocrat of US
uri: Terms-for-a-would-be-autocrat-of-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Terms_for_a_would-be_autocrat_of_US)
content:
 
<p>
Ralph Nader's derogatory
<a href="https://nader.org/2024/08/30/wrecking-america-and-the-purpose-of-nicknames-for-trump/">terms
for the would-be autocrat of America</a>.  If you use them often
enough, they can help you decide to take other other necessary
actions.
<p>
Dumb Donald
<em>Convicted Crook Donald Trump</em>
Lying Donald
<em>Delusional Donald</em>
Dangerous Donald
<em>Disgusting Donald</em>
Serial Law-breaker Donald
<em>Deceiver Donald</em>
Loser Donald
<em>Trump-serial abuser of women</em>
Lazy Donald
<em>Violence Inciter Donald</em>
Trump-obstructor of Justice
<em>Dictator Donald</em>
Dictator-lover Donald
<em>Weak Donald</em>
Dishonest Donald
<em>Deadly Donald – Early Covid Denier</em>
Fake Donald
<em>Tax Escapee Donald</em>
Unstable Donald
<em>The Lyin’ King</em>
Cheating Donald
<em>Low IQ DONALD</em>
Racist Trump
<em>Know-Nothing Donald</em>
Know It All Trump
<em>Insecure Donald</em>
Don the Con
<em>The Incompetent Trump</em>
Trump the Grifter
<em>Betrayer Trump</em>
Greedy Trump
<em>Pardon Myself Donald</em>
Lawless Donald
<em>Corrupt Don</em>
Ignorant Don
<em>Bragging Trump</em>
Trump Fantasy Land
<em>Daily Lawbreaking Donald</em>
Egomaniacal Donald
<em>The Trump Dump</em>
<p>
You may have seen these used here:
<!---->The Aggressor
<!----><em>The Bullshitter</em>
<!---->The Cheater
<!----><em>The Corrupter</em>
<!---->The Corruptor
<!----><em>The Disease-spreader</em>
<!---->The Exploiter
<!----><em>The Fascist</em>
<!---->The Gangster
<!----><em>The Grandstander</em>
<!---->The Grifter
<!----><em>The Hustler</em>
<!---->The Hate-monger
<!----><em>The Hater</em>
<!---->The Hate-spreader
<!----><em>The Hostage-taker</em>
<!---->The Liar
<!----><em>The Loser</em>
<!---->The Monster
<!----><em>The Murderer-in-chief</em>
<!---->The Persecutor
<!----><em>The Poisoner</em>
<!---->The Provocateur
<!----><em>The Pussy-grabber</em>
<!---->The Repressor
<!----><em>The Saboteur</em>
<!---->The Saboteur
<!----><em>The Scapegoater</em>
<!---->The Truth-hater
<!----><em>The War-dreamer</em>
<!---->The War-lover
<!----><em>The Warlover</em>
<!---->The Warmonger
<!----><em>The Warmonger-in-chief</em>
<!---->The Wrecker


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_March_2025_(Urgent:_My_UK_Travel_plans)
title: Urgent: My UK Travel plans
uri: Urgent-My-UK-Travel-plans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_March_2025_(Urgent:_My_UK_Travel_plans)
content:
 
<p>
I will be traveling to the UK in April or May, and I'm looking for
other invitations to speak there on the same visit.
<p
>To respond, please write to <a href="mailto:rms-invitation@gnu.org">rms-invitation@gnu.org</a>.
<p>
I am also looking for places I could stay for a day or two.
<p>
Because I am somewhat immunocompromised, I am vulnerable to Covid and
flu.  I need to say in place where I have a room and a bathroom that
are somewha isolated, in air circulation, from the rest of the
indoors.
<p>
To respond, please write to <a href="mailto:rms-invitation@gnu.org">rms-invitation@gnu.org</a>.



<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_March_2025_(The_plan_for_the_Ukraine)
title: The plan for the Ukraine
uri: The-plan-for-the-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_March_2025_(The_plan_for_the_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
*US official [put in charge of] Ukraine peace plan [by Putin's pal]
 has history [in print] of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/15/keith-kellogg-ukraine-russia-trump">empathizing
with Russia</a>.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_March_2025_(Allies_of_the_Ukraine)
title: Allies of the Ukraine
uri: Allies-of-the-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_March_2025_(Allies_of_the_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
Kyiv's allies must not fall
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/the-observer-view-on-the-proposed-ukraine-deal-kyivs-allies-must-not-fall-into-putins-trap">into
Putin’s trap</a>.  This is the trap I warned about &mdash; a cease fire,
drawn out ad infinitum, would add up to authorizing Putin's conquests.


<p>
 


title: Jewish history, recent fact checking
uri: Jewish-history-recent-fact-checking
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_March_2025_(Jewish_history,_recent_fact_checking)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_March_2025_(Jewish_history,_recent_fact_checking)

content:
 
<p>
Peter Beinart's meditation on biblical history compared with
recent history in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/11/jews-gaza-palestine-israel-purim">Israel/Palestine
and in Gaza</a>.
<p>
My ideas of right and wrong are secular, not based on the bible, but I
found his article interesting.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Urgent:_Save_NPR_and_PBS)
title: Urgent: Save NPR and PBS
uri: Urgent-Save-NPR-and-PBS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Urgent:_Save_NPR_and_PBS)
content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/save-npr-pbs-musk-greene-doge/?t=1003&akid=33108%2E96703%2EMHQ6Wg">save NPR and PBS</a> from Musk, Trump,
and others' right-wing attacks.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Planet roasters lobbying for immunity
uri: Planet-roasters-lobbying-for-immunity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Planet_roasters_lobbying_for_immunity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Planet_roasters_lobbying_for_immunity)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">Planet roasters</a> are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/fossil-fuel-lobby-immunity-lawsuits">lobbying the US to give them explicit immunity</a> for
damage to everyone and everything caused by their fuel's greenhouse gas
emissions.
</p>
<p>
It will not be possible in practice to make the fossil fuel companies
pay for the damage that those fuels will do, because that will be
bigger than the world economy.  They will go bankrupt, but fossil fuel
extraction won't stop.
</p>
<p>
However, at an earlier stage, while civilization still exists, the
smaller amounts of liability might make them shift to renewable energy
(instead of just pretending that they will), so as to avoid more
liability later.  That might do some real good.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Government workers must email nudes to Musk
uri: (satire)-Government-workers-must-email-nudes-to-Musk
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_((satire)_Government_workers_must_email_nudes_to_Musk)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_((satire)_Government_workers_must_email_nudes_to_Musk)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">The muskrat</a>] ordered "all government workers must email me
<a href="https://theonion.com/elon-musk-creates-federal-employee-revenge-porn-database/">private nudes they would never want leaked</a>,*.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Government spending cuts on food for Children
uri: Government-spending-cuts-on-food-for-Children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Government_spending_cuts_on_food_for_Children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Government_spending_cuts_on_food_for_Children)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/usda-cuts-food-banks-schools">Cuts in government spending on food for children</a> will harm millions
of American children.
  Malnutrition can stunt a child permanently.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Worse_dry_spells_and_bigger_floods)
title: Worse dry spells and bigger floods
uri: Worse-dry-spells-and-bigger-floods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Worse_dry_spells_and_bigger_floods)
content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> is causing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/12/global-weirding-climate-whiplash-hitting-worlds-biggest-cities-study-reveals">worse dry spells and bigger floods</a>.
  Both are very bad for cities.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Bully wants criticism of judge to be a crime
uri: Bully-wants-criticism-of-judge-to-be-a-crime
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Bully_wants_criticism_of_judge_to_be_a_crime)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Bully_wants_criticism_of_judge_to_be_a_crime)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> said it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/trump-justice-department-speech-criminal-cases">should be a crime to criticize a judge</a>.
  For anyone other than him, I suppose he means.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: Government targets weakest citizens, UK
uri: Government-targets-weakest-citizens-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Goverment_targets_weakest_citizens,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Goverment_targets_weakest_citizens,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
Labour is stretching
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/keir-starmer-tory-radical-prime-minister-poor-people">crush-the-poor
austerity</a> beyond what the Tories did.  It is not "Tory lite" any
more, it is "Tory extra-strong".


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Landmine_havoc,_Syria)
title: Landmine havoc, Syria
uri: Landmine-havoc-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Landmine_havoc,_Syria)
content:
 
<p>
*Landmines in Syria kill hundreds of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/17/syria-landmines-kill-hundreds-fall-of-assad">civilians
returning home</a> after fall of Assad.*
<p>
As a million people head home, thousands will step on mines.  And
people will keep stepping on mines for decades, until the whole
country is demined, if that ever is done.
<p>
This is why the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#30_November_2012_(Landmines)">treaty
to ban land mines is so important</a>.

<p>
 


title: Alien Enemies Act targets universities
uri: Alien-Enemies-Act-targets-universities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Alien_Enemies_Act_targets_universitites)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_March_2025_(Alien_Enemies_Act_targets_universitites)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/brown-university-rasha-alawieh-deported-lebanon">The
wrecker's henchmen</a> have deported various people in defiance of
federal court orders.
<p>
The courts are the only force in the US that has been able to defend
human rights against his depredations.  If his agents defy them with
impunity, that will imply the US government, and rule of law, have been
overthrown.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Deporting_without_due_process)
title: Deporting without due process
uri: Deporting-without-due-process
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Deporting_without_due_process)
content:
 
<p>
Immigration <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> rushed to deport a transplant doctor working at
Brown University for no visible reason, in
<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/16/metro/dr-rasha-alawieh-ri-doctor-deported-lebanon-against-judge-order-protest-hearing/">defiance
of a judge's order</a> to wait to give him time to rule on the case.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Authoritarian_checklist)
title: Authoritarian checklist
uri: Authoritarian-checklist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Authoritarian_checklist)
content:
 
<p>
The fascist asserted, in an official government speech, that it is
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2025/03/14/dictator-trump-declares-its-illegal-to-criticize-him-the-way-cnn-does-video.html">a
crime to criticize him</a>.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Rushing_to_deport_Venezuelans)
title: Rushing to deport Venezuelans
uri: Rushing-to-deport-Venezuelans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Rushing_to_deport_Venezuelans)
content:
 
<p>
The underminer and his henchmen cited an invalid excuse to deport a
group of 250 Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act -- claiming that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/trump-judge-venezuela-deportations-el-salvador">the
plane left US air space</a> before the judge made his ruling.
<p>
From what I have read, anyone targeted under that law is entitled to a
hearing to determine whether valid grounds to deport per exist.  This
right can't be eliminated away by rushing the deportation.
<p>
If a large group of people are in jail, and threatened with rushed
deportation as an false excuse to deny their legal rights, maybe they
riot and seize control of their jail so as to delay it.  They could
demand, as condition to end their riot, that a representative of the
judge come to the jail and read out an order stating their legal
rights, accompanied by media teams to report the judge's order.  They
could truthfully claim that this is upholding United States law
against a lawless organized gang.


<p>
 


title: Air-traffic control contract for Musk
uri: Air-traffic-control-contract-for-Musk
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Air-traffic_control_contract_for_Musk)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Air-traffic_control_contract_for_Musk)

content:
 
<p>
*Democrats demand investigation into Musk over
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/democrats-elon-musk-investigation">possible
criminal corruption</a>.*
<p>
I doubt that a loyal <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#magat">magat</a> would investigate anyone that the fascist leader
strongly supports, regardless of the evidence.  These people were chosen
for their loyalty to their master rather than their country.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Rural_America_broadband_for_Musk)
title: Rural America broadband for Musk
uri: Rural-America-broadband-for-Musk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Rural_America_broadband_for_Musk)
content:
 
<p>
*[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#saboteur">The saboteur</a>/corrupter] poised to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/trump-musk-starlink-rural-internet">"strand
rural America with worse internet</a>" to help [<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> and his
company Starlink], official warns.*
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a> has not disguised his willingness to make political
decisions affecting large numbers of Americans for corrupt reasons.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Israel_population_ebbs_and_flows)
title: Israel population ebbs and flows
uri: Israel-population-ebbs-and-flows
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Israel_population_ebbs_and_flows)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/17/israelis-moving-live-europe-rejuvenating-jewish-communities">Migration
of Jews</a> our of Israel has increased greatly, and exceeds the
migration of Jews to Israel.
<p>
I can imagine that Israel must feel bad to a Jew who is not right-wing.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Russian_sabotage_in_LTU_and_POL)
title: Russian sabotage in LTU and POL
uri: Russian-sabotage-in-LTU-and-POL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Russian_sabotage_in_LTU_and_POL)
content:
 
<p>
Russia is accused of organizing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/17/russia-behind-arson-attack-on-ikea-store-in-lithuania-capital-says-prosecutor">arson
attacks</a> in various eastern European countries.  Those countries
are supporters of Ukraine and these attacks are part of Putin's low
intensity war against supporters of Ukraine's independence.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Protesting_Tesla)
title: Protesting Tesla
uri: Protesting-Tesla
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Protesting_Tesla)
content:
 
<p>
Americans are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/tesla-protests-elon-musk">protesting
very effectively</a> at Tesla dealerships.
<p>
They could achieve even more if they condemn <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> for making
<a href="/tesa.html">cars that snoop</a> on their drivers and on
people in the vicinity.
<p>
How about making signs about surveillance and bringing them to the
protests.

<p>
 


title: Gaza's historical preservations
uri: Gaza-s-historical-preservations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Erasing_Gaza's_historical_preservations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Erasing_Gaza's_historical_preservations)

content:
 
<p>

*Trump wants to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/08/donald-trump-gaza-history-mosques-churches-real-estate">wipe
out</a> Gaza's history. Saving its mosques and churches would defy
him.*
<p>
Israel's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/17/i-will-spend-my-life-rebuilding-gaza-heritage-sites-destroyed-by-war">bombardment
of Gaza</a> has destroyed historic palaces as well as mosques and
churches, and archaeological sites too.
<p>
When an archaeological site that has not been fully excavated and
published is bombed, there is no way to recover the information it
used to hold.  It is destroyed irreparably.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Film_No_Other_Land)
title: Film "No Other Land"
uri: Film-No-Other-Land
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Film_No_Other_Land)
content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/florida-mayor-seeks-evict-cinema-screening-israeli-palestinian-film-2025-03-14/">More about the campaign</a> to prevent the film <em>No Other Land</em>
  from <a href="https://reason.com/2025/03/13/no-other-land-won-an-oscar-miami-beachs-mayor-is-trying-to-evict-a-movie-theater-for-screening-it/">being shown in the US</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Callousness and cruelty of Zuckerberg
uri: Callousness-and-cruelty-of-Zuckerberg
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Callousness_and_cruelty_of_Zuckerberg)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Callousness_and_cruelty_of_Zuckerberg)

content:
 
<p>

  Zuckerberg's former aide has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/13/careless-people-by-sarah-wynn-williams-review-zuckerberg-and-me">published a revealing exposé</a> of his
callousness and cruelty, not only towards the peoples of many
countries but towards his associates too.
</p>
<p>
For instance, he directed Facebook' efforts for years towards
developing censorship just as Xi likes it.  I suppose his new target
will be censorship just as <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> likes it.
</p>
<p>
  More <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/mark-zuckerberg-free-speech-meta-sheryl-sandberg">about this book</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Tariffs_paid_by_the_poor)
title: Tariffs paid by the poor
uri: Tariffs-paid-by-the-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Tariffs_paid_by_the_poor)
content:
 
<p>

  *Trump’s tariffs will be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/trump-tariffs-robert-reich">paid by the poor</a> &mdash; while his tax cuts help the rich.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Labor_redefined_as_party_of_work)
title: Labor redefined as "party of work"
uri: Labor-redefined-as-party-of-work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Labor_redefined_as_party_of_work)
content:
 
<p>

  Now that Labour has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/the-guardian-view-on-labours-semantic-shift-its-the-party-of-work-not-workers">redefined itself</a> as the "Party of Work" rather
than "Party of Workers",
  one more similar shift can redefine it as the "Party of Bosses and
Shareholders that others work for."
</p>
<p>
The same party distanced itself from the non-rich who need
help in caring for their sick relatives, by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/labour-is-gaslighting-disabled-people-and-that-should-terrify-us-all">proposing big cuts</a>
in government support for them.
</p>
<p>
Maybe it should rename itself to the "Hard Labour" party.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Britain could unlock house construction
uri: Britain-could-unlock-house-construction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Britain_could_unlock_house_construction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Britain_could_unlock_house_construction)

content:
 
<p>

  Britain could <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/17/in-the-rush-to-build-houses-lets-remember-what-communities-need">unlock house construction</a> if it spent money to build
housing that would belong to the state, for non-rich people to live in.
</p>
<p>
  But it may not be necessary to <em>build</em> all the additional housing
  Britain needs to <em>use</em>.  I've read that Britain has enough houses and
apartments, if only all were available for people to live in.  They
are not available because their owners use them some other way &mdash;
often just as investments, kept empty.  Increasing tax on doing that
should get them sold off to people who will use them productively.
</p>
<p>
It all comes down to taxing the rich enough, in various ways.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Quarantine for having watched "Will and Grace"
uri: (satire)-Quarantine-for-having-watched-Will-and-Grace
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_((satire)_Quarantine_for_having_watched_Will_and_Grace)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_((satire)_Quarantine_for_having_watched_Will_and_Grace)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Texas Implements <a href="https://theonion.com/texas-implements-mandatory-6-month-quarantine-for-anyone-who-has-watched-will-and-grace/">Mandatory 6-Month Quarantine</a> For Anyone Who
Has Watched "Will And Grace".*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Joke that US should return Statue of Liberty
uri: Joke-that-US-should-return-Statue-of-Liberty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Joke_that_US_should_return_Statue_of_Liberty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Joke_that_US_should_return_Statue_of_Liberty)

content:
 
<p>

  *French politician <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/return-statue-liberty-french-parliament">jokes US should return Statue of Liberty</a> for siding with
"tyrants".*
</p>
<p>
Alas, giving up that statue would not help free Americans from
authoritarian rule.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Asylum seekers from Russia jailed by US
uri: Asylum-seekers-from-Russia-jailed-by-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Asylum_seekers_from_Russia_jailed_by_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Asylum_seekers_from_Russia_jailed_by_US)

content:
 
<p>

Since 2024, many asylum seekers from Russia and some neighboring countries
have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/i-escaped-one-gulag-only-to-end-up-in-another-russian-asylum-seekers-face-ice-detention-in-the-us">jailed by the US</a> until their final asylum hearings.
</p>
<p>
Rumor is that some of them are sent by Putin with false stories as disguise.
That can happen.  But why take their children away and hand them to strangers?
</p>
</li>

 


title: How Switzerland transformed its rivers
uri: How-Switzerland-transformed-its-rivers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(How_Switzerland_transformed_its_rivers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(How_Switzerland_transformed_its_rivers)

content:
 
<p>

  *From sewage and scum to swimming in "blue gold": how Switzerland <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/17/from-sewage-and-scum-to-swimming-in-blue-gold-how-switzerland-transformed-its-waterways-aoe">transformed its rivers</a> [in a few decades].
  *And other countries are
   looking to follow their lead.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Parasite_companies)
title: Parasite companies
uri: Parasite-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Parasite_companies)
content:
 
<p>

  Yet again, a company that is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/16/welwyn-hatfield-council-under-fire-as-it-issues-unjustified-fly-tipping-fines">paid a commission</a> for each person it
fines has become a parasite.
</p>
<p>
All such companies should be abolished.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Governor_Newsom_hosts_a_video_show)
title: Governor Newsom hosts a video show
uri: Governor-Newsom-hosts-a-video-show
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Governor_Newsom_hosts_a_video_show)
content:
 
<p>

  Governor Newsom now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/gavin-newsom-steve-bannon-podcast">hosts a video show</a> in which he interviews guests,
including several right-wing extremists.  The writer conjectures that
Newsom is planning to run for president in 2028 and wants to to gain
support from that voting bloc.
</p>
<p>
  Perhaps that is why he is advocating <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(Homelessness_illegal_in_Fremont)">extreme repression of homeless</a>
people.
</p>
</li>

 


title: National Cancer Institute cannot publish without approval
uri: National-Cancer-Institute-cannot-publish-without-approval
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(National_Cancer_Institute_cannot_publish_without_approval)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(National_Cancer_Institute_cannot_publish_without_approval)

content:
 
<p>

  The antivaxxer has ordered the National Cancer Institute staff <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/national-cancer-institute-flagged-topics-vaccines-autism-rfk-jr">cannot publish</a>
anything about vaccines without special approval from political higher-ups.
</p>
<p>
Giving higher priority to chronic diseases may be a wise change,
but giving lower priority to infectious diseases is not.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(False_fears_about_measles_vaccine)
title: False fears about measles vaccine
uri: False-fears-about-measles-vaccine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(False_fears_about_measles_vaccine)
content:
 
<p>

  Antivaxxers are <a href="https://boingboing.net/2025/03/12/rfk-jr-s-scary-fiction-measles-vaccine-causes-blindness-and-death.html">spreading absurd false fears</a> about measles vaccine.
</p>
<p>
This can kill thousands.  They are trying to lure parents into causing
their children's deaths.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Immigrants deported to Panama prison
uri: Immigrants-deported-to-Panama-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Immigrants_deported_to_Panama_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Immigrants_deported_to_Panama_prison)

content:
 
<p>

The US deported immigrants from various countries to Panama,
which is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-deportations-panama">holding them in an inaccessible prison</a>.  Their lawyers
cannot contact them.
</p>
<p>
Even worse, the US did nothing to find out whether they are entitled to
asylum.  Some come from countries that regularly persecute people,
including Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,
Turkey, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.  It is forbidden to to deport anyone
to those countries.
</p>
<p>
Imagine if you are a woman from Afghanistan or Iran, you escape and
ask for asylum in the US, and you are sent to a prison in a jungle and
cannot talk with anyone there.
</p>
<p>
Australia has used similar tricks to eliminate in practice the
right to asylum, such as <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#26_September_2021_(Nauru_immigration_prison)">sending people to countries such as Nauru</a>
that don't allow journalists to enter.
</p>
</li>

 


title: An activist's phone under surveillance
uri: An-activist-s-phone-under-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(An_activist's_phone_under_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(An_activist's_phone_under_surveillance)

content:
 
<p>

*   A prominent activist in Italy has warned the international criminal
court (ICC) that his mobile phone was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/19/italian-activist-david-yambio-alerts-icc-spyware-attack">under surveillance</a> when he was
   providing the ICC with confidential information about victims of
   torture in Libya.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Hotel developer who could testify against NYC mayor Adams
uri: Hotel-developer-who-could-testify-against-NYC-mayor-Adams
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Hotel_developer_who_could_testify_against_NYC_mayor_Adams)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Hotel_developer_who_could_testify_against_NYC_mayor_Adams)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#nightmayor">Night-Mayor</a> Adams has NYC <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/eric-adams-nyc-developer">paying half a million dollars per month</a>
to an indicted hotel developer who could testify against him.
</p>
<p>
One must suspect this is corruption like what Adams is accused of.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Saboteur-in-chief wants to cancel EPA rules
uri: Saboteur-in-chief-wants-to-cancel-EPA-rules
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Saboteur-in-chief_wants_to_cancel_EPA_rules)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Saboteur-in-chief_wants_to_cancel_EPA_rules)

content:
 
<p>

  The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-epa-pollution-regulation-cuts">wants to cancel EPA rules</a> that are expected
to prevent 200,000 premature deaths.
</p>
<p>
They would also protect endangered species; canceling them could cause
extinctions.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Dissent repressed and labeled "antisemitism"
uri: Dissent-repressed-and-labeled-antisemitism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Dissent_repressed_and_labeled_antisemitism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Dissent_repressed_and_labeled_antisemitism)

content:
 
<p>

  Right-wing extremists are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/the-far-rights-pretend-fight-against-antisemitism-is-a-perfect-political-strategy">committing repression of dissent</a> that criticizes them, and labeling the dissent "antisemitism", as a tactic
to lead the public to hold Jews responsible for the repression.
</p>
<p>
  Columbia <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/19/columbia-mahmoud-khalil-suspension-gaza-protests/">Apologized to Mahmoud Khalil</a> in May 2024 for One-Day Suspension.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Canadian woman jailed in deportation prison
uri: Canadian-woman-jailed-in-deportation-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Canadian_woman_jailed_in_deportation_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Canadian_woman_jailed_in_deportation_prison)

content:
 
<p>

  A Canadian woman with a US work visa <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney">jailed in deportation prison</a> and
never got an explanation of why.
</p>
<p>
The system did many cruel and avoidable things to her.  Some of them
were perhaps motivated by increasing the profits of the prison.  The
deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> refused to tell her what they were doing to her
or what they were going to do the next day.
</p>
<p>
Despite the brainwashing practices, the other prisoners had it much
worse.  She at least was sure she would get back to Canada some day.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Climate protesters should not have to express remorse
uri: Climate-protesters-should-not-have-to-express-remorse
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Climate_protesters_should_not_have_to_express_remorse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_March_2025_(Climate_protesters_should_not_have_to_express_remorse)

content:
 
<p>

  An <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/mar/19/non-violent-protesters-should-not-have-to-disavow-motives-trial-study">academic report</a> says UK courts should not require climate
protesters to express remorse for risking punishment to save
civilization from <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: Ransom note from US government to Columbia University
uri: Ransom-note-from-US-government-to-Columbia-University
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_March_2025_(Ransom_note_from_US_government_to_Columbia_University)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_March_2025_(Ransom_note_from_US_government_to_Columbia_University)

content:
 
<p>

  *The US government has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/government-trump-columbia-university">sent Columbia University a ransom note</a>*,
threatening to cancel much of its funding unless it rushes
to comply with impossible demands.
</p>
<p>
But those demands are just a "precondition".   If Columbia does comply,
it will then have to beg and plead.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Erdoğan blocked main rival from running
uri: Erdoğan-blocked-main-rival-from-running
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_March_2025_(Erdoğan_blocked_main_rival_from_running)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_March_2025_(Erdoğan_blocked_main_rival_from_running)

content:
 
<p>

  Erdoğan has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/19/istanbul-mayor-arrested-ekrem-imamoglu-days-before-likely-presidential-nomination-erdogan-ntwnfb">blocked his main election rival</a> from running,
by giving arbitrary orders to punish him.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Nearly 25,000 federal workers rehired
uri: Nearly-25-000-federal-workers-rehired
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_March_2025_(Nearly_25,000_federal_workers_rehired)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_March_2025_(Nearly_25,000_federal_workers_rehired)

content:
 
<p>

Court response to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat's</a> evisceration of agencies: *Nearly
25,000 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-administration-briefing-nearly-25000-fired-workers-to-be-rehired-as-ftcs-only-democrats-fired">fired workers to be rehired</a>; USAid shutdown likely violated
constitution.*
</p>
<p>
But they are threatening yet more evisceration of the useful parts of
the state.
</p>
<p>
  *Trump administration may <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/19/epa-fire-scientists-staff-environmental-protection-agency-remove-research-office">fire more than 1,000 EPA scientists</a> and scrap
research office, Democrats say.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Ruling on dismissing trans people from military
uri: Ruling-on-dismissing-trans-people-from-military
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_March_2025_(Ruling_on_dismissing_trans_people_from_military)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_March_2025_(Ruling_on_dismissing_trans_people_from_military)

content:
 
<p>

A federal judge ruled that dismissing trans people fro the military
for being trans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/judge-blocks-trump-executive-order-trans-military-ban">violates their constitutional rights</a>.
  She recognized that this decision will be appealed, but in the mean time,
the hate-spreader cannot dismiss them.
</p>
</li>

 


title: "Unprecedented" climate disasters in 2024
uri: Unprecedented-climate-disasters-in-2024
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_March_2025_(Unprecedented_climate_disasters_in_2024)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_March_2025_(Unprecedented_climate_disasters_in_2024)

content:
 
<p>

  *More than 150 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/19/unprecedented-climate-disasters-extreme-weather-un-report">"unprecedented" climate disasters</a> struck world in 2024,
 says UN.*
</p>
<p>
They included *scores of unprecedented heatwaves, floods and storms across
the globe.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Urgent:_FCC_firings)
title: Urgent: FCC firings
uri: Urgent-FCC-firings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Urgent:_FCC_firings)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators at 202-688-0628 and call on them to
block <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> from disrespecting the independence of independent
government-affiliated organizations.
<p>
Here’s a script you can use.
You will need to call twice to reach both of your senators.
<blockquote>
<p>
Hello! My name is [First Name]. I'm a constituent and am calling to
ask Sen. [Senator] to respond to Trump’s illegal firing of FTC
Commissioners Slaughter and Bedoya.
<p>
I urge you to vote “no” on all nominees, halt the Senate’s business —
and do whatever it takes to restore constitutional order in this
nation.
<p>
Stop Trump’s illegal power grabs immediately.
</blockquote>
You don't have to call <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> "Trump".


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_SNAP)
title: Urgent: Protect SNAP
uri: Urgent-Protect-SNAP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_SNAP)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators and call on them
to protect SNAP (food stamps) and other federal nutrition programs.
<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-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Convicting_UK_thug_of_manslaughter)
title: Convicting UK thug of manslaughter
uri: Convicting-UK-thug-of-manslaughter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Convicting_UK_thug_of_manslaughter)
content:
 
<p>

It is not easy to convict a UK <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> of manslaughter, let alone murder.
But the current right-wing government plans to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/09/changes-to-law-armed-police-uk-accountability-review">create more obstacles</a>
to make sure they won't be convicted.
</p>
<p>
In addition, it will declare the accused <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug's</a> identity a secret.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(US_Institute_of_Peace)
title: US Institute of Peace
uri: US-Institute-of-Peace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(US_Institute_of_Peace)
content:
 
<p>

The president has no authority over the US Institute of Peace, and no
authority to change its board or executives, but his henchmen claim to
have done so and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/us-institute-of-peace-doge">took over its building</a> with the help of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.
</p>
<p>
  *US Institute of Peace sues Trump administration to
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/institute-peace-lawsuit-trump-doge">block Doge takeover</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Return of trans-women prisoners to women's facilities
uri: Return-of-trans-women-prisoners-to-women-s-facilities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Return_of_trans-women_prisoners_to_women's_facilities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Return_of_trans-women_prisoners_to_women's_facilities)

content:
 
<p>

  *Judge orders [Bureau of Prisons] to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-trans-women-prisons">return two [trans-women] prisoners</a>
to women’s facilities.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Temporary_cease-fire_in_Gaza)
title: Temporary cease-fire in Gaza
uri: Temporary-cease-fire-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Temporary_cease-fire_in_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>

  Israel has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/19/our-hopes-are-gone-gaza-faces-fresh-devastation-as-ceasefire-collapses">ended the temporary cease-fie in Gaza</a>, resuming the bombardment
and siege.
  Once again Palestinians are told to flee to "safe" areas.
  In the past, those "safe" areas were <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-sep-dec.html#2_December_2023_(Attacks_could_leave_people_fleeing)">not always really safe</a>.
</p>
<p>
One difference is that, where Biden tried to avoid talking about the
military support for Israel's atrocities, <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> treats the carnage
as legitimate.
</p>
<p>
  *Israeli protesters say <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/18/israeli-protesters-say-airstrikes-are-cover-for-benjamin-netanyahu-to-keep-power">airstrikes are "cover"</a> for Benjamin Netanyahu
to keep power.*
</p>
<p>
Morally, that criticism is too weak to do justice to Netanyahu's
campaign of death.   But it will help make the world aware that
he is ready to kill for mere advantage.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Former_Conservative_judge_on_Trump)
title: Former Conservative judge on Trump
uri: Former-Conservative-judge-on-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Former_Conservative_judge_on_Trump)
content:
 
<p>

  *Conservative former federal judge says Trump has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-court-order-immigration-constitutional-crisis">"declared war"</a> on US
rule of law.*
</p>
<p>
This may influence judges appointed before <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#saboteur">the saboteur's</a> first term
who considered themselves "conservative" and still do.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Law that woman talk with baby voice
uri: (satire)-Law-that-woman-talk-with-baby-voice
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_((satire)_Law_that_woman_talk_with_baby_voice)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_((satire)_Law_that_woman_talk_with_baby_voice)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *New Federal Law Mandates <a href="https://theonion.com/new-federal-law-mandates-women-talk-with-baby-voice/">Women Talk With Baby Voice</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Unilever's_ousted_CEO)
title: Unilever's ousted CEO
uri: Unilever-s-ousted-CEO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Unilever's_ousted_CEO)
content:
 
<p>

  *Ben & Jerry’s claims Unilever <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/19/ben-jerrys-unilever-ceo-ince-cream-david-stever">ousted its CEO for his progressive stance</a>.*
</p>
<p>
When I read this, I checked to see if it were fro The Onion.
No such luck &mdash; it is a factual article.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Illegal_firing_of_FTC_commissioners)
title: Illegal firing of FTC commissioners
uri: Illegal-firing-of-FTC-commissioners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Illegal_firing_of_FTC_commissioners)
content:
 
<p>

  Robert Reich on the <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-of-trumps-descent-into-dictatorship">illegal firing of the FTC commissioners</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Judge ordered government to reinstate USaid workers
uri: Judge-ordered-government-to-reinstate-USaid-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Judge_ordered_government_to_reinstate_USaid_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Judge_ordered_government_to_reinstate_USaid_workers)

content:
 
<p>

  A federal judge ordered the government to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/elon-musk-doge-usaid-shutdown-ruling">undo its destruction</a> of
USaid and reinstate its workers with whatever they need so they
could resume their work.
</p>
<p>
He did not order the agency to resume distributing aid now.  That
depends, it seems, on a final decision which has not been made now.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Democratic party supporters condemned Senator Schumer
uri: Democratic-party-supporters-condemned-Senator-Schumer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Democratic_party_supporters_condemned_Senator_Schumer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Democratic_party_supporters_condemned_Senator_Schumer)

content:
 
<p>

  Democratic Party supporters have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/nearly-90-of-grassroots-voters-call-for-schumer-to-step-down-nationwide-survey-of-9000-our-revolution-members-finds">mostly condemned Senator Schumer</a> for
surrendering to the Republican threat to temporarily shut down the
government (by not extending the debt limit) if Democrats didn't agree
to the ransom the Republican demanded, which consisted of permanent
harmful changes in laws.
</p>
<p>
Since Republicans are trying to permanently destroy important parts of
the government, it makes no sense to respond by approving that damage
to avoid lesser damage.  Make the Republicans eat the shutdown!
</p>
<p>
I've suspected for years that part of the reason Schumer leads the
Democratic Party is rich people's campaign support for various
Democratic elected officials.  But I can't cite any proof of that.
</p>
<p>
However, Schumer said something that I think we should investigate: he
said that Republicans would be able to use a temporary shutdown to
destroy parts of the government.  Before dismissing that as ridiculous,
I'd like to see exactly hat he was referring to.  It could conceivably
be true: the shutdown could conceivably enable them to do other kinds
of destruction with their Disgusting and Outrageous Government
Evisceration.
</p>
<p>
I would not take Schumer's word for that, but it may be true, so we
should listen to what he means.  The Project 2025 planners planned
their destruction carefully.
</p>
</li>

 


title: US cruelty toward Europeans entering US
uri: US-cruelty-toward-Europeans-entering-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(US_cruelty_toward_Europeans_entering_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(US_cruelty_toward_Europeans_entering_US)

content:
 
<p>

  The US has displayed recently a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/germany-investigates-after-national-with-green-card-arrested-at-us-border">pattern of cruelty</a> toward Europeans trying
to enter with visas, or even with permanent residence.
</p>
<p>
Some of the victims had mad mistakes, while others do not seem to have
done anything even slightly wrong.
</p>
<p>
They have been subject to various forms of torture.  I suppose that
this treatment was formerly reserved for immigrants from poor
countries who were suspected of wanting to stay without permission,
but Trump has decided to give allies a taste of hatred.
</p>
<p>
It is legitimate for the US to deny entry to visitors (unless they are
entitled to asylum), but it is never justified to torture them
for asking to visit or live in the US.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Musk firing workers preventing bloated tech contracts
uri: Musk-firing-workers-preventing-bloated-tech-contracts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Musk_firing_workers_preventing_bloated_tech_contracts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Musk_firing_workers_preventing_bloated_tech_contracts)

content:
 
<p>

  *Musk Is Firing Federal Workers <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/19/18f-tech-federal-workers-musk-trump-doge/">Who Prevent Bloated Tech Contracts</a>.*
  One must wonder if this is to help him get bloated tech contracts.
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a> doesn't wish to reduce government waste, rather to
direct it to his friends.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply
uri: Glacier-meltdown-risks-food-and-water-supply
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Glacier_meltdown_risks_food_and_water_supply)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Glacier_meltdown_risks_food_and_water_supply)

content:
 
<p>

  *Glacier meltdown <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/20/glacier-meltdown-risks-food-and-water-supply-of-2bn-people-says-un">risks food and water supply</a> of 2bn people, says UN.
   Two-thirds of all irrigated agriculture in the world is likely to be
   affected in some way by receding glaciers and dwindling snowfall in
   mountain regions,*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Legality_of_phone_tracking_program)
title: Legality of phone tracking program
uri: Legality-of-phone-tracking-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Legality_of_phone_tracking_program)
content:
 
<p>

  *DEA Insiders <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/18/dea-hemisphere-phone-data-collection-surveillance/">Warned About Legality of Phone Tracking Program</a>. Their Concerns
Were Kept Secret.*
</p>
<p>
This surveillance program, which still continues, tracks cell phone
locations and who calls whom.  It can track any cell phone the DEA
wants to track.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Judge blocks musk from social security records
uri: Judge-blocks-musk-from-social-security-records
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Judge_blocks_musk_from_social_security_records)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_March_2025_(Judge_blocks_musk_from_social_security_records)

content:
 
<p>

  *Judge <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/20/musk-doge-social-security">blocks Elon Musk's gang</a> from accessing social security records*
  with a temporary court order.  I think this means that the legality
of its access to those records is still undecided, but the order aims
to prevent permanent harm from occurring before that final decision.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#24_March_2025_(Judgements_unwanted_in_ongoing_coup)
title: Judgments unwanted in ongoing coup
uri: Judgments-unwanted-in-ongoing-coup
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#24_March_2025_(Judgements_unwanted_in_ongoing_coup)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#magat">Magats</a> in
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/19/2311225/-House-Republicans-rally-around-idiotic-plan-to-punish-judges?detail=emailaction">Congress
want to impeach judges</a> that rule against the will of El Supremo.


l

 


title: Universities selling out to US regime
uri: Universities-selling-out-to-US-regime
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#27_March_2025_(Universities_selling_out_to_US_regime)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#27_March_2025_(Universities_selling_out_to_US_regime)

content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich:
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-shame-of-columbia-university">*The
shame of Columbia University</a>* (and some others).
<p>
*If you give in to extortionists, they’ll extort you and others for
more. If you let bullies get their way, those bullies will bully you
and others even more menacingly.*


<p>
 


title: A social media score for immigrants, US
uri: A-social-media-score-for-immigrants-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(A_social_media_score_for_immigrants,_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(A_social_media_score_for_immigrants,_US)

content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> plans to demand anyone applying for a visa (or a green card,
or citizenship) to report their antisocial media accounts, so the
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/23/trump-immigrants-social-media-citizenship-green-card/">government
can judge their opinions</a>.
<p>
This is a scheme to subvert freedom of speech, through intimidation.
Meanwhile, I wonder what they will do to people who say they don't
have any social media accounts &mdash; even if it is true.
<p>
The article assumes this will specifically target Muslims, but doesn't
provide a basis for that claim.  Won't they persecute dissidents of
other religions too?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Prevent_id_to_use_web)
title: Urgent: Prevent Internet-id laws
uri: Urgent-Prevent-Internet-id-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Prevent_id_to_use_web)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-online-id-checks?nowrapper=true">call
on states</a> not to require ID checks to access any web sites.
<p>
You can find your state governor phone number at
<a href="https://www.usa.gov/state-governments">USA.gov</a>.
If you phone, please spread the word!

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_block_weapons_for_ISR)
title: Urgent: block US weapons bound for ISR
uri: Urgent-block-US-weapons-bound-for-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_block_weapons_for_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/urge-congress-to-support-rashidas-and-her-colleagues-latest-joint-resolutions-of-disapproval-to-block-over-8-billion-in-weapons-to-israel?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-the-us-must-stop-arming-israel">call on Congress</a>
to block $8 billion in weapons for Israel.

<p>
 


title: US-Houthi war plan leak, civilian deaths
uri: US-Houthi-war-plan-leak-civilian-deaths
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(US-Houthi_war_plan_leak,_civilian_deaths)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(US-Houthi_war_plan_leak,_civilian_deaths)

content:
 
<p>
The US started a wave of attacks on the Houthis by
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/26/signal-chat-yemen-strike/">bombing
a civilian residence</a>.  An officer went there to visit his
girlfriend.
<p>
I would be interested to see what the rules of war say about such
situations.  That officer surely was a legitimate target, but surely
she was not.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Signs_of_impending_tyranny)
title: Signs of impending tyranny
uri: Signs-of-impending-tyranny
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Signs_of_impending_tyranny)
content:
 
<p>
In 2018, Robert Reich published "20 signs of impending tyranny."
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/20-signs-of-tyranny">The
signs are back now</a>, but Reich says they represent actual tyranny
rather than mere danger of near future tyranny.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Fascism_expert_fleeing_US_for_CAN)
title: Fascism expert fleeing US for CAN
uri: Fascism-expert-fleeing-US-for-CAN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Fascism_expert_fleeing_US_for_CAN)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada">Yale
professor</a> [Jason Stanley], who studies fascism, fleeing US to work
in Canada.*
<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Masked_men_deport_student_protester)
title: Masked men deport student protester
uri: Masked-men-deport-student-protester
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Masked_men_deport_student_protester)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/ice-agents-detain-tufts-university-graduate-student">Masked
deportation thugs arrested graduate student</a> Rumeysa Ozturk who had
been in protests against atrocities in Gaza.
<p>
Perhaps they wore masks because they were were violating a specific
federal court order and did not want to be found in contempt of court.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Journalists_blocked_from_Gaza,_ISR)
title: Journalists blocked from Gaza, ISR
uri: Journalists-blocked-from-Gaza-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Journalists_blocked_from_Gaza,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
*BBC's Jeremy Bowen accuses Israel of blocking journalists from Gaza*
<em>and</em> says this is an
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/26/bbc-jeremy-bowen-accuses-israel-blocking-journalists-gaza">effort
to hide the fighting</a>.

<p>
 


title: Yale investments in ISR arms as illegal
uri: Yale-investments-in-ISR-arms-as-illegal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Yale_investments_in_ISR_arms_as_illegal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Yale_investments_in_ISR_arms_as_illegal)

content:
 
<p>
*Yale Investments in
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/26/yale-endowment-israel-weapons-divest/">Companies
Selling Arms to Israel</a> Violate State Law.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Northern_Gaza_protesting_HAMAS)
title: Northern Gaza protesting HAMAS
uri: Northern-Gaza-protesting-HAMAS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Northern_Gaza_protesting_HAMAS)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/hundreds-join-protest-against-hamas-in-northern-gaza">Palestinians
protested</a> against HAMAS in north Gaza.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Harder_to_sue_for_Roundup_cancer)
title: Harder to sue for Roundup cancer
uri: Harder-to-sue-for-Roundup-cancer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Harder_to_sue_for_Roundup_cancer)
content:
 
<p>
*Trump
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/21/trump-epa-monsanto-roundup-bayer-cancer-chemicals/">EPA’s
Next Move</a>: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from
Roundup.* This is because "<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a>" now stands for "Environmental
Poisoning Agency".

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(DOJ_tactic_to_suppress_dissent)
title: DOJ tactic to suppress dissent
uri: DOJ-tactic-to-suppress-dissent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(DOJ_tactic_to_suppress_dissent)
content:
 
<p>
The fascists now running the "department of justice"
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/21/october-7-taskforce-students-free-speech-mccarthyism">plan
to investigate rhetorical links</a> between student protesters and
real terrorist organizations including HAMAS.
<p>
As the author explains, this can lead to imprisonment (of Americans as
well as visiting foreigners) for what we would normally consider
constitutionally protected speech.  If you show signs of being
influenced rhetorically by HAMAS slogans, they can try you for
providing HAMAS with the "service" of spreading its views.
<p>
This legal policy threatens freedom of speech in the US, and we need
to change it to shore up our constitutional rights.  But since
American right-wing extremists don't believe in freedom of speech for
those who disagrees with them, they will be glad to terrorize
human rights-supporting dissidents.
<p>
*Trump is using antisemitism as a pretext for a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/12/trump-antisemitism-free-speech">war
on the first amendment</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Muskrat_as_working_with_Chairman_Xi)
title: Muskrat as working with Chairman Xi
uri: Muskrat-as-working-with-Chairman-Xi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Muskrat_as_working_with_Chairman_Xi)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: Is the
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/is-the-muskrat-working-for-china">muskrat
working for Chairman Xi</a>?
<p>
I conjecture <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> thinks that Xi is working for him.
But I don't think Xi will let anyone else take any part of China
or Chinese business out of his control.  A few years ago he slapped
down the most powerful tech businesses in China.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Homeland_security_cruelty_checks)
title: Homeland security cruelty checks
uri: Homeland-security-cruelty-checks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Homeland_security_cruelty_checks)
content:
 
<p>
The US department of homeland harassment has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/us-homeland-security-guts-three-oversight-offices">eliminated
staff that monitored</a> that department's behavior to limit its
cruelty.

<p>
 


title: US visitors hesitation hurts US economy
uri: US-visitors-hesitation-hurts-US-economy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(US_visitors_hesitation_hurts_US_economy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(US_visitors_hesitation_hurts_US_economy)

content:
 
<p>
Recent reports of harsh treatment of visitors to the US who had visas,
or even green cards, is making
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/tourism-trump-immigration-arrests">Europeans
hesitate</a> to visit the US.  The decrease is enough to affect the
economy.
<p>
Businesses can learn to treat foreign visitors decently when cruelty
drives them to a boycott.  However, people who care about goodness can
learn this point simply from seeing the avoidable suffering that
cruelty causes.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Large,_Democrat,_political_rallies)
title: Large, Democrat-led, political rallies
uri: Large-Democrat-led-political-rallies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Large,_Democrat,_political_rallies)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-aoc-fight-oligarchy-denver">Sanders
and AOC</a> held a political rally together, the largest either of
them had ever held.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Fighting_for_democracy,_TUR)
title: Fighting for democracy, TUR
uri: Fighting-for-democracy-TUR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Fighting_for_democracy,_TUR)
content:
 
<p>
*Turkey's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/22/turkey-protests-istanbul-mayor-grow-into-fight-about-democracy">protests
over [jailed] Istanbul mayor</a> grow into "fight about democracy".*
<p>
Wouldn't you know, the sudden jailing of Turkey's main opposition
presidential candidate doesn't bother <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> at all.  He seems to
make enemies of democracy feel safer in all countries.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Columbia_U._decisions_in_hindsight)
title: Columbia U. decisions in hindsight
uri: Columbia-U-decisions-in-hindsight
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Columbia_U._decisions_in_hindsight)
content:
 
<p>
*Columbia
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/22/columbia-university-trump-demands">should
have said</a> "see you in court," not "yes, Mr President."*
<p>
Putting it differently, its cowardice was a defeat for freedom for
everyone in the US.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(SSA_slowdown)
title: SSA slowdown
uri: SSA-slowdown
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(SSA_slowdown)
content:
 
<p>
How shutting Social Security Administration field offices would make
some workers
<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-administrations-social-security-changes-could-limit-access-to-benefits-for-millions">wait
a long time</a> to receive their funds &mdash; unless they submit to
the injustice of using a snoop-phone.
<p>
I would not yield to using a snoop-phone, and I don't have one,
so I had to visit the Boston field office.  Fortunately that wasn't
difficult <em>then</em>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Federal_Court_jurisdiction)
title: Federal Court jurisdiction
uri: Federal-Court-jurisdiction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Federal_Court_jurisdiction)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans in Congress are
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scoop-bill-preventing-activist-judges-from-blocking-trumps-agenda-backed-white-house">pushing
a law to block federal district courts</a> from ruling that an illegal
nationwide practice must stop nationwide.
<p>
For instance, the question of whether the president, or a billionaire
outsider, can shut down Social Security Agency offices would have to
be litigated in each of the 90-odd federal districts.  That would be
highly distracting, but We could call them federal distract courts.
<p>
If a decision by one federal appeals court could apply nationwide, the
system could still function.  But there would remain the question of
how long it would take to stop progressive sabotage, for instance
firing 1000 experienced workers per business day.  In such cases,
courts can issue preliminary orders which stop the dismissals
temporarily until there is a final decision in the case.  If the case
had to go through two levels before that could be done, the damage
would continue for longer before a court can pause it.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Bills to wreck Social Security
uri: Urgent-Bills-to-wreck-Social-Security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Bills_to_wreck_Social_Security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Bills_to_wreck_Social_Security)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to support these bills
designed to prevent Republicans from wrecking the Social Security
Administration.
<ul>
<li>
The Keeping Our Field Offices Open Act will block the closure of Social Security Field Offices for this presidential term.
<li>
The Protecting Americans’ Social Security Data Act will deny social security system personal data to outsiders such as <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a>.
<li>
A Resolution of Inquiry to compel the <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> to disclose to
Congress information about outside sabotage activity at SSA and any
plans to close field offices or cut staff.
</ul>
It won't be easy to convince Republicans to pass any of these, but
that could be possible if the public outrage at difficulties with
their Social Security Payments is strong enough to overpower their
obedience to their master.  We can help make that happen.
<p>
If that happens, I suggest Congress also legislate to require rehiring
of all the fired SSA workers who are willing to return.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: SS commissioner: NOT Bisignano
uri: Urgent-SS-commissioner-NOT-Bisignano
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_SS_commissioner:_NOT_Bisignano)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_SS_commissioner:_NOT_Bisignano)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and call on them to reject the
saboteur's nominee for Social Security commissioner (Bisignano), and
insist on a commissioner who is loyal to the Social Security system
and the Americans who do or may depend on it.  Fire <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a>!
<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-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Attacking_journalists,_SRB)
title: Attacking journalists, SRB
uri: Attacking-journalists-SRB
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Attacking_journalists,_SRB)
content:
 
<p>
The government of Serbia is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/press-freedom-in-serbia-is-facing-a-dangerous-turning-point-warn-editors">persistently
attacking the independent press</a>, going as far as physical attacks.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(The_ongoing_Gaza-food_blockade)
title: The ongoing Gaza-food blockade
uri: The-ongoing-Gaza-food-blockade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(The_ongoing_Gaza-food_blockade)
content:
 
<p>
*Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/israel-gaza-war-malnutrition-alert-israeli-blockade">total
Israeli blockade enters fourth week</a>.*
<p>
Netanyahu and Smotrich are carrying out mass killing by starvation.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Hospital_attack,_Gaza)
title: Hospital attack, Gaza
uri: Hospital-attack-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Hospital_attack,_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
Israel attacked a hospital in Gaza and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/israeli-strike-at-gaza-hospital-kills-five-including-hamas-political-leader">killed
one of the leaders of HAMAS</a> along with several doctors.
<p>
The leader was a legitimate target, I think, but I don't think his presence
in a hospital with doctors makes them legitimate targets.
<p>
Israel attacked
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/there-was-just-wave-after-wave-gaza-medics-recount-horror-of-the-last-week">the
same hospital</a> massively the day before.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Prevent_cuts_to_Medicaid)
title: Urgent: Prevent cuts to Medicaid
uri: Urgent-Prevent-cuts-to-Medicaid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Prevent_cuts_to_Medicaid)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/make-your-call-tell-congress-no-cuts-to-medicaid-to-pay-for-tax-cuts-for-billionaires-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-national-protect-medicaid-day-of-action">phone
your congresscritter at (888) 853-7037</a> and urge per to oppose any
cuts to Medicaid.

<p>
 


title: Innocent migrant deported to SLV prison
uri: Innocent-migrant-deported-to-SLV-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Innocent_migrant_deported_to_SLV_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Innocent_migrant_deported_to_SLV_prison)

content:
 
<p>
*Venezuelan migrant deported from U.S. to El Salvador has
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-migrant-deported-el-salvador-no-criminal-record/">no
criminal record</a>, documents show.*
<p>
This would be anomalous if the officials working for <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor</a>
on deportations thought they had an obligation to investigate
any specific accusations against the people they planned to deport.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Humanitarian_aid_for_Gaza)
title: Urgent: Humanitarian aid for Gaza
uri: Urgent-Humanitarian-aid-for-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Humanitarian_aid_for_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/allow-humanitarian-aid-into-gaza?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-aid-to-gaza">call
on the bully</a> to insist that Israel allow humanitarian aid to reach
the people of Gaza.
<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-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_release_Mahmoud_Khalil)
title: Urgent: release Mahmoud Khalil
uri: Urgent-release-Mahmoud-Khalil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_release_Mahmoud_Khalil)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: Demand the
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/oembed?url=https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-mahmoud-khalils-immediate-release-from-dhs-custody?nowrapper=true">immediate release</a>
of Mahmoud Khalil.
<p>
(I reject the emotionless word
"<a href="https://stallman.org/antiglossary.html#custody">custody</a>"
to describe being in jail.)

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Mahmoud_Khalil_petition)
title: Urgent: Mahmoud Khalil petition
uri: Urgent-Mahmoud-Khalil-petition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Mahmoud_Khalil_petition)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-mahmoud-khalils-immediate-release-from-dhs-custody?nowrapper=true">call
for the immediate release</a> of Mahmoud Khalil a nonviolent protester
who demonstrated against Israel's bombardment and siege of Gaza.  He
has not been charged with a crime, but <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> wants to cancel his
green card and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(Freedom_of_speech_hit)">expel
him from the US</a> without showing any grounds for that.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Voter-ID_executive_order_signed)
title: Voter-ID executive order signed
uri: Voter-ID-executive-order-signed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Voter-ID_executive_order_signed)
content:
 
<p>
The <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> signed an executive order which purports to block
citizens that lack a passport from
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/trump-executive-order-voter-registration-immigration">voting</a>.
<p>
The right-wing extremists in Congress were going to pass a law to do this,
but  but now <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> claims Congress is not necessary.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Break_up_Big_Medicine)
title: Urgent: Break up Big Medicine
uri: 2025-03-29-Urgent-Break-up-Big-Medicine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Break_up_Big_Medicine)
content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: Call for <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/break-up-big-medicine">breaking up Big Medicine</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Resist_saboteur-in-chief)
title: Urgent: Resist saboteur-in-chief
uri: Urgent-Resist-saboteur-in-chief
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Resist_saboteur-in-chief)
content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-congress-dont-comply-dont-negotiate">resist the saboteur-in-chief</a> firmly &mdash;
don't look for a compromise.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Do not wipe out post office staff
uri: Urgent-Do-not-wipe-out-post-office-staff
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Do_not_wipe_out_post_office_staff)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Do_not_wipe_out_post_office_staff)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/doge-dejoy-usps/">not to allow the DOSE to wipe out post
    office staff</a>.
</p>
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dose">DOSE</a> stands for Department of Sabotage and Evisceration.
</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 Starlink from replacing rural broadband
uri: Urgent-Stop-Starlink-from-replacing-rural-broadband
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_Starlink_from_replacing_rural_broadband)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_Starlink_from_replacing_rural_broadband)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to stop <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> from
  <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/musk-contracts-broadband/">replacing the rural broadband access with Starlink</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Amazon lawsuit attacking Consumer Product Safety Commission
uri: Urgent-Amazon-lawsuit-attacking-Consumer-Product-Safety-Commission
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Amazon_lawsuit_attacking_Consumer_Product_Safety_Commission)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Urgent:_Amazon_lawsuit_attacking_Consumer_Product_Safety_Commission)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Amazon to <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/amazon-hands-off-the-consumer-product-safety-commission">drop its lawsuit</a> attacking the Consumer
Product Safety Commission.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Magats falsify "facts" to blame trans people
uri: Magats-falsify-facts-to-blame-trans-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Magats_falsify_facts_to_blame_trans_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Magats_falsify_facts_to_blame_trans_people)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">Magats</a> falsify "facts" to create excuses to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/washington-dc-plane-crash-diversity-trans-jo-ellis">blame trans people</a> for
whatever harm occurs.
</p>
<p>
This illustrates one dishonest aspect of a system that influences
their tribe to believe imaginary criticisms of the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a>
leader tells them to hate.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Experiment shows microplastics damage mouse brain
uri: Experiment-shows-microplastics-damage-mouse-brain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Experiment_shows_microplastics_damage_mouse_brain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Experiment_shows_microplastics_damage_mouse_brain)

content:
 
<p>

  An experiment has found a way <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/11/microplastics-mice-brains">microplastics can damage mouse brain</a>
function in living mice.
</p>
<p>
I would expect that the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dose">dose</a> level in the experiment far exceeded what
any animal encounters in normal life, but that would not mean the same
thing doesn't happen in normal life &mdash; it might just take many years
rather than hours.
</p>
<p>
Whether human brains are vulnerable to this particular mechanism is
not certain.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Cancellation of US initiative to document Russian war crimes
uri: Cancellation-of-US-initiative-to-document-Russian-war-crimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Cancellation_of_US_initiative_to_document_Russian_war_crimes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Cancellation_of_US_initiative_to_document_Russian_war_crimes)

content:
 
<p>

  The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250322224023/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/18/trump-ukraine-children-russia-war-crimes/">terminated a U.S.-funded initiative</a> that
documents alleged Russian war crimes, including details of mass
deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, according to officials.
</p>
<p>
This blocked transmission of evidence to prosecutors pursuing multiple
criminal cases.
</p>
<p>
Can some European country provide replacement funding to make this
operate again?
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Hate_spreader_endorses_prejudice)
title: Hate spreader endorses prejudice
uri: Hate-spreader-endorses-prejudice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Hate_spreader_endorses_prejudice)
content:
 
<p>

  The hate spreader has <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5326118/segregation-federal-contracts-far-regulation-trump">endorsed all kinds of prejudice</a> &mdash;
even racial segregation.
</p>
<p>
If racism against blacks is OK with him, clearly he can't really
object to antisemitism either.  So his campaign against it is not
sincere.  His concern with it must be to weaponize it.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(People_defend_independent_cinema)
title: People defend independent cinema
uri: People-defend-independent-cinema
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(People_defend_independent_cinema)
content:
 
<p>

  The people of Miami Beach stood up to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/19/no-other-land-documentary-florida-miami-beach">defend an independent cinema</a>
from censorship, after it became the only cinema in the US o show
the film Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.
</p>
<p>
  The mayor backed down from threat to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_March_2025_(Miami_Beach_trying_to_evict_cinema)">force that cinema to close</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: French scientist denied entry to the US
uri: French-scientist-denied-entry-to-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(French_scientist_denied_entry_to_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(French_scientist_denied_entry_to_the_US)

content:
 
<p>

A French scientist who was sent by CNRS to a conference in the US was denied
entry because the border <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> who searched the messages in his cell phone
found <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained">condemnation of the wrecker's funding cuts for scientific research</a>.
</p>
<p>
The outrage here is the idea of excluding people because they denounce
a US government policy.  That is vicious censorship.  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> is
looking for opportunities to do this to US citizens too.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Complaint against U.S. Commerce Secretary
uri: Complaint-against-U-S-Commerce-Secretary
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Complaint_against_U.S._Commerce_Secretary)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Complaint_against_U.S._Commerce_Secretary)

content:
 
<p>

  *Campaign Legal Center <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/campaign-legal-center-files-complaint-against-u-s-commerce-secretary-howard-lutnick-for-violating-federal-ethics-rules">Files Complaint Against U.S. Commerce Secretary</a> Howard
 Lutnick for Violating Federal Ethics Rules.*
</p>
<p>
I have a feeling that the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> will use this opportunity to
sabotage government ethics rules by giving Lutnick as a punishment
the requirement to buy 5 Teslas and market 50 Teslas to others.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Harder to get accurate economic data
uri: Harder-to-get-accurate-economic-data
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Harder_to_get_accurate_economic_data)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Harder_to_get_accurate_economic_data)

content:
 
<p>

*Instead of Dealing with the Weakening Economy,
Administration Officials Are Making it <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/instead-of-dealing-with-the-weakening-economy-administration-officials-are-making-it-harder-to-get-accurate-economic-data">Harder to Get Accurate Economic Data</a>.*
</p>
<p>
I have to make it clear that I don't believe that declining share
prices are the worst thing that could happen to the US.  If they were
falling because corporations were going to have to pay more tax that
would be used to help working and poor people's lives, I would cheer.
If they were the result of policies likely to make Netanyahu or Putin
stop making war, I would cheer.
</p>
<p>
But since the stock decline is being caused by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a>, I don't think
anything good is likely to result.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Members of British punk band denied entry to US
uri: Members-of-British-punk-band-denied-entry-to-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Members_of_British_punk_band_denied_entry_to_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Members_of_British_punk_band_denied_entry_to_US)

content:
 
<p>

  *Members of British punk rock band UK Subs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/uk-subs-band-detained-deported">denied entry into the US</a>,*
where they were going to perform,
  and there was some mystery about why.
</p>
<p>
It seems that the regime is trying to impose censorship on people who
might visit the US, to intimidate them from criticism.  I expect this
will arouse a lot of hatred for the US.
</p>
<p>
It strikes me that these airport "waiting" rooms are designed to be
harsh.  It can't be an accident that the rooms are cold or there is
nothing to lie down on.  People who run prisons know what will make
prisoners uncomfortable, and the US could do better if it wanted to.
The punishment starts even before they say they have decided to punish
you.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Outside stimuli sneaked into sensory deprivation tank
uri: (satire)-Outside-stimuli-sneaked-into-sensory-deprivation-tank
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_((satire)_Outside_stimuli_sneaked_into_sensory_deprivation_tank)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_((satire)_Outside_stimuli_sneaked_into_sensory_deprivation_tank)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Man <a href="https://theonion.com/man-sneaks-bag-of-outside-stimuli-into-sensory-deprivation-tank/">Sneaks Bag Of Outside Stimuli</a> Into Sensory Deprivation Tank.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Posting photos of balding Elon Musk
uri: (satire)-Posting-photos-of-balding-Elon-Musk
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_((satire)_Posting_photos_of_balding_Elon_Musk)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_((satire)_Posting_photos_of_balding_Elon_Musk)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *DOJ Designates <a href="https://theonion.com/doj-designates-posting-photos-of-balding-elon-musk-as-domestic-terrorism/">Posting Photos Of Balding Elon Musk</a> As
Domestic Terrorism.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Boeing_whistleblower's_family)
title: Boeing whistleblower's family
uri: Boeing-whistleblower-s-family
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Boeing_whistleblower's_family)
content:
 
<p>

  *Boeing whistleblower's family claims <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/21/boeing-whistleblower-family-claims-company-conduct-caused-suicide">company’s conduct caused his suicide</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Bullshitter misreports diplomatic phone calls
uri: Bullshitter-misreports-diplomatic-phone-calls
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Bullshitter_misreports_diplomatic_phone_calls)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Bullshitter_misreports_diplomatic_phone_calls)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/donald-trump-ukraine-russia-war-ceasefire-putin-zelenskyy">misreports his own diplomatic phone calls</a>.
</p>
<p>
It could be dishonesty, or it could be he simply does not remember.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Maybe bully not really Putin's agent
uri: Maybe-bully-not-really-Putin-s-agent
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Maybe_bully_not_really_Putin's_agent)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Maybe_bully_not_really_Putin's_agent)

content:
 
<p>

  Maybe <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/gulf-in-us-and-russian-expectations-marks-start-of-latest-ceasefire-talks">not really Putin's agent</a> &mdash; he is not rushing
to give Putin everything he wants in Ukraine.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Church of Scientology accused of intimidating UK critics
uri: Church-of-Scientology-accused-of-intimidating-UK-critics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Church_of_Scientology_accused_of_intimidating_UK_critics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Church_of_Scientology_accused_of_intimidating_UK_critics)

content:
 
<p>

*"I've been getting 100 messages a day": Church of Scientology accused
of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/uk-scientology-critics-targets-harassment-online-abuse">intimidating UK critics</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Contagiousness_of_measles)
title: Contagiousness of measles
uri: Contagiousness-of-measles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Contagiousness_of_measles)
content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/measles-spread-vaccine-misinformation">Measles is so contagious</a> that if you are unvaccinated and going to
visit a clinic, you should warn it before you go &mdash; so they can make
sure no other patients catch it from you when you visit.
</p>
<p>
We should not allow fools to operate anti-vax movements to the
point that they spread actual sickness and cause actual deaths.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Effects_of_person's_biological_sex)
title: Effects of person's biological sex
uri: Effects-of-person-s-biological-sex
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(Effects_of_person's_biological_sex)
content:
 
<p>

Whatever society may say and do about gender roles, a person's
biological sex has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/23/the-observer-view-on-gender-failure-to-accurately-record-biological-sex-harms-us-all">effects on per for medical and biological</a>
reasons that are not about psychology or social relationships.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(US_deportation_thugs_retaliation)
title: US deportation thugs retaliation
uri: US-deportation-thugs-retaliation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(US_deportation_thugs_retaliation)
content:
 
<p>

  The US deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/21/trump-free-speech-lawsuit-ice-momodou-taal/">trying to retaliate</a> against a non-citizen
graduate student who sued the government for mistreating others.
The retaliation is demanding to jail him for deportation.
</p>
<p>
The US no longer has rules for visitors to follow &mdash; instead it has
rules for how to crush them.
</p>
</li>

 


title: US responsibility to command NATO forces in Europe
uri: US-responsibility-to-command-NATO-forces-in-Europe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(US_responsibility_to_command_NATO_forces_in_Europe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_March_2025_(US_responsibility_to_command_NATO_forces_in_Europe)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/defense-senate-house-republicans-nato">Republican politicians disagree</a> about whether the US should resign from its
responsibility to command NATO forces in Europe, or cling tightly to its
power that comes from that role.
</p>
<p>
It seems to me that once <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> cast doubt on whether he would try
to defend certain NATO countries, he also made the US untrustworthy
as commander of NATO forces.  Would he command them to let Putin capture some
countries?
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: BBC reporter arrested and deported from Turkey
uri: BBC-reporter-arrested-and-deported-from-Turkey
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(BBC_reporter_arrested_and_deported_from_Turkey)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(BBC_reporter_arrested_and_deported_from_Turkey)

content:
 
<p>

  **BBC reporter <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/27/bbc-reporter-mark-lowen-arrested-and-deported-from-turkey-after-covering-protests">arrested and deported from Turkey</a> after covering protests.
  He was considered a "threat to public order" after reports on
   nationwide anti-government demonstrations.*
</p>
<p>
Is <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> imitating Erdoğan, or is Erdoğan imitating the bully?
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Signal_chat_leak)
title: Signal chat leak
uri: Signal-chat-leak
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Signal_chat_leak)
content:
 
<p>

  *The real problem with the Signal chat leak is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/signal-chat-leak-pete-hegseth">it shows systemic dishonesty</a>.*
</p>
<p>
  As typical in an authoritarian state, the tyrant is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/trump-fire-waltz-signal-atlantic-leak">not going to punish</a>
anyone for an embarrassing mistake who remains loyal to the tyrant.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Sanctuary city policies in Tennessee
uri: Sanctuary-city-policies-in-Tennessee
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Sanctuary_city_policies_in_Tennessee)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Sanctuary_city_policies_in_Tennessee)

content:
 
<p>

  Tennessee <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/tennessee-immigration-policies">proposes to make it a crime</a> for local legislators to vote
for sanctuary city policies.
</p>
<p>
It is clear that the state could pass a law that overrides
any local law of this sort, but no state should be allowed
to criminalize the act of voting as such.
</p>
</li>

 


title: The "five eyes" intelligence network fraying
uri: The-five-eyes-intelligence-network-fraying
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(The_five_eyes_intelligence_network_fraying)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(The_five_eyes_intelligence_network_fraying)

content:
 
<p>

The "five eyes" intelligence network between the Australia,
Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/trump-signal-leak-reaction-canada-five-eyes">is fraying</a> after the US
accidentally revealed to the others that they could not rely on it
to help them.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Sensitivities_to_gluten)
title: Sensitivities to gluten
uri: Sensitivities-to-gluten
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Sensitivities_to_gluten)
content:
 
<p>

Experiments show that many people who believe they are sensitive to
eating gluten are having a reaction which is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/27/gluten-intolerant-intolerance-non-coeliac-disease">not triggered by gluten</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: House speaker proposes elimination of "federal courts"
uri: House-speaker-proposes-elimination-of-federal-courts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(House_speaker_proposes_elimination_of_federal_courts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(House_speaker_proposes_elimination_of_federal_courts)

content:
 
<p>

  House speaker proposes to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/mike-johnson-congress-courts-trump">eliminate official "federal courts"</a> and
replacing them with new courts that would be subject to the president's
control.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Biodiversity_loss_in_all_species)
title: Biodiversity loss in all species
uri: Biodiversity-loss-in-all-species
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Biodiversity_loss_in_all_species)
content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/26/human-link-biodiversity-loss-species-ecosystems-climate-pollution-eawag-study-nature-aoe">Biodiversity loss in all species</a> and every ecosystem linked to humans.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Leaked conversation about attacking Houthis
uri: Leaked-conversation-about-attacking-Houthis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Leaked_conversation_about_attacking_Houthis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Leaked_conversation_about_attacking_Houthis)

content:
 
<p>

The US military and spy officials who leaked their conversation
about attacking the Houthis were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/new-revelations-us-signal-leak-claims-doubt-yemen">deficient in competence</a> and
deficient in respect for human rights.
  But this should be no surprise.
</p>
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a> chose them, not for loyalty to conscience or to country,
but only for loyalty to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>.  That's what they have, and that's
how he will judge them.
</p>
</li>

 


title: India accused of disinformation campaign
uri: India-accused-of-disinformation-campaign
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(India_accused_of_disinformation_campaign)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(India_accused_of_disinformation_campaign)

content:
 
<p>

  Canadian officials accuse India of a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/26/canada-election-india-interference-warning">disinformation campaign</a> to put a
Indian-Canadian politician in position to become prime minister.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Homeless inhabitant in Seattle running for mayor
uri: Homeless-inhabitant-in-Seattle-running-for-mayor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Homeless_inhabitant_in_Seattle_running_for_mayor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Homeless_inhabitant_in_Seattle_running_for_mayor)

content:
 
<p>

  Joe Molloy, a homeless inhabitant of Seattle, is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/joe-molloy-seattle-mayor-election">running for mayor</a>.
</p>
<p>
  I do not use the fashionable word <a href="../antiglossary.html#unhoused">"unhoused"</a> because I don't like its
implications.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Trees knocked down by Hurricane Helene
uri: Trees-knocked-down-by-Hurricane-Helene
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Trees_knocked_down_by_Hurricane_Helene)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Trees_knocked_down_by_Hurricane_Helene)

content:
 
<p>

Hurricane Helene struck the US Atlantic coast in September and knocked
down many trees.  Now, six months later, they are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/26/wildfires-north-south-carolina-helene">fueling wildfires</a>.
</p>
<p>
Two different effects of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> are thus combining to do
increased damage.  How is the US responding to them?  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(Nature_protections)">Increasing</a>
fossil fuel extraction and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#27_January_2025_(Executive_shuns_FEMA_per_Project_2025)">demolishing FEMA</a>.
</p>
<p>
The smoke from the fires will cause medical damage.  How will Republicans
protect Americans from that?  By <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(Budget_bill)">cutting Medicaid</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Group chats invites from National Security Advisors
uri: (satire)-Group-chats-invites-from-National-Security-Advisors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_((satire)_Group_chats_invites_from_National_Security_Advisors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_((satire)_Group_chats_invites_from_National_Security_Advisors)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *<a href="https://theonion.com/teen-warned-not-to-accept-group-chat-invites-from-national-security-advisors-she-doesnt-know/">Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors</a> She Doesn’t Know.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Business-financed_legal_campaigns)
title: Business-financed legal campaigns
uri: Business-financed-legal-campaigns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Business-financed_legal_campaigns)
content:
 
<p>

  Business-financed legal campaigns seek to <a href="https://www.levernews.com/a-dark-money-deluge-to-kill-consumer-protections/">bar federal agencies</a> from
punishing businesses for practices that cheat people or pollute the
environment.
  The Supreme Court's decision could upend every
American's life.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Senator Schumer conducting business as usual
uri: Senator-Schumer-conducting-business-as-usual
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Senator_Schumer_conducting_business_as_usual)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Senator_Schumer_conducting_business_as_usual)

content:
 
<p>

  *[Senator Schumer] is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/26/chuck-schumer-step-down-democrats">conducting business as usual</a> while the US burns.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Economic growth from tackling climate crisis
uri: Economic-growth-from-tackling-climate-crisis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Economic_growth_from_tackling_climate_crisis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Economic_growth_from_tackling_climate_crisis)

content:
 
<p>

  *Tackling climate crisis will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/26/tackling-climate-crisis-will-increase-economic-growth-oecd-research-finds">increase economic growth</a>, OECD research
 finds.
   [One] third of global GDP could be lost this century if climate crisis runs
   unchecked, says report.*
</p>
<p>
This would be an enormous damage figure, but I expect hat it will be
an underestimate.  As global temperatures rise, new forms of climate
disaster will arise, causing damage (and thus losses) that can't be
estimated today.  I wonder whether the figures tried to estimate the
amount of damage caused by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Trees_knocked_down_by_Hurricane_Helene)">wildfires fueled by forests</a> brought down
by hurricanes.  I would guess not.
</p>
<p>
Although China is investing heavily in renewable electric generation,
it is still <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Surge_in_renewables,_China)">building more fossil fuel infrastructure</a> and thus accelerating
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Attitude toward freedom of speech at ex-Twitter
uri: Attitude-toward-freedom-of-speech-at-ex-Twitter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Attitude_toward_freedom_of_speech_at_ex-Twitter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Attitude_toward_freedom_of_speech_at_ex-Twitter)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">The muskrat's</a> right-wing platform, ex-Treme <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#extwitter">ex-Twitter</a>, demonstrated
its <a href="https://gizmodo.com/free-speech-platfrom-x-suspends-opposition-party-accounts-in-turkey-2000579502">attitude towards freedom of speech</a> by turning off the account of the
Turkish opposition party.
   as young people protest in the streets against the arrest of its leader.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Ideological cleansing of Smithsonian Institution
uri: Ideological-cleansing-of-Smithsonian-Institution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Ideological_cleansing_of_Smithsonian_Institution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Ideological_cleansing_of_Smithsonian_Institution)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a> orders the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/trump-smithsonian-executive-order">ideological cleansing</a> of the Smithsonian
Institution &mdash; its exhibits, its publications, and everything else.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Public has turned against Republicans
uri: Public-has-turned-against-Republicans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Public_has_turned_against_Republicans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Public_has_turned_against_Republicans)

content:
 
<p>

  The public has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/trump-withdraws-elise-stefanik-nomination-gop-house-majority">turned against Republicans</a> so much that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> is
afraid to lose even right-wing districts.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Brutal pogrom in Palestine against co-director of "No Other Land".
uri: Brutal-pogrom-in-Palestine-against-co-director-of-No-Other-Land
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Brutal_pogrom_in_Palestine_against_co-director_of_No_Other_Land.)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(Brutal_pogrom_in_Palestine_against_co-director_of_No_Other_Land.)

content:
 
<p>

  A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/27/hamdan-ballal-settler-attacks-palestinian-villages-west-bank">brutal pogrom in Palestine</a>, carried out by the fanatical Israeli
"settlers", included among its victims the Oscar-winning co-director
Hamdan Ballal of the film, No Other Land, which is about those brutal
pogroms.
</p>
<p>
This called the attention of many in the west to the usual repression
Palestinians face, with the explicit support of Israel's government.
</p>
<p>
The author suggests ways other countries could try to curb this violence.
</p>
</li>

 


title: US "reviewing" visas of those that joined protests about Gaza
uri: US-reviewing-visas-of-those-that-joined-protests-about-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(US_reviewing_visas_of_those_that_joined_protests_about_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_March_2025_(US_reviewing_visas_of_those_that_joined_protests_about_Gaza)

content:
 
<p>

  The US has started <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/state-department-visas-pro-palestine-protesters">"reviewing", and sometimes canceling</a>, visas
of hundreds of visitors that may have joined protests about Gaza.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_((satire)_texan_id_required)
title: (satire) Texans To Show ID
uri: (satire)-Texans-To-Show-ID
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_((satire)_texan_id_required)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *New Law Requires Texans To Show ID To 
<a href="https://theonion.com/new-law-requires-texans-to-show-id-to-buy-phallic-foods/">Buy Phallic Foods.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(hegseth_war_plans_jail)
title: Hegseth war plan leaks
uri: Hegseth-war-plan-leaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(hegseth_war_plans_jail)
content:
 
<p>
*🤯Hegseth should go to jail for war plan leaks, 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/25/2312398/-Hegseth-should-go-to-jail-for-war-plan-leaks-according-to-Hegseth">according to Hegseth.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(open_letter_columbia_university)
title: Open letter Columbia University
uri: Open-letter-Columbia-University
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(open_letter_columbia_university)
content:
 
<p>
*Open letter: we call on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/25/open-letter-columbia-university-trump-administration-authoritarianism">Columbia to stand up to authoritarianism.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(russia_ukraine_ceasefire_trump)
title: Russia ukraine ceasefire deal
uri: Russia-ukraine-ceasefire-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(russia_ukraine_ceasefire_trump)
content:
 
<p>
*Ukraine ceasefire deal looks like a Russian 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/russia-ukraine-ceasefire-trump">wishlist tied with a US bow.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_((Satire)_big_bird_pbs_funding_cut)
title: (satire) Big Bird At Starbucks
uri: (satire)-Big-Bird-At-Starbucks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_((Satire)_big_bird_pbs_funding_cut)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Big Bird Seen Working At Local Starbucks 
<a href="https://theonion.com/big-bird-seen-working-at-local-starbucks-after-pbs-funding-cuts/">After PBS Funding
Cuts.*</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(putin_endorsement_trump_greenland)
title: Greenland takeover
uri: Greenland-takeover
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(putin_endorsement_trump_greenland)
content:
 
<p>
Putin has enthusiastically supported the US intention to seize Greenland,
probably expecting the corrupter to support his 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/28/putins-endorsement-of-trumps-greenland-takeover-reflects-their-vision-of-a-new-world-order">intention to seize Ukraine.</a>

 


title: Palestinian director
uri: Palestinian-director
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(oscar_winning_palestinian_director_released)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(oscar_winning_palestinian_director_released)

content:
 
<p>
*Oscar-winning Palestinian director released 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/oscar-winning-palestinian-director-hamdan-ballal-released-from-israeli-detention">from Israeli detention.*</a>
<p>
The "Academy" that gives these awards has persistently 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/28/no-other-land-co-director-condemns-academys-letter-to-members-after-hamdan-ballal-attack-ntwnfb">refused to
comment on the attack.</a>
<p>
This attack by extremist bullies and the arrest by the Israeli state
are not unusual in the West Bank.  They happen to plenty of
Palestinians.  They are just as vicious when they are done to people
who have not won awards.  However, the fact of the award has one
significant implication: it shows that the attackers have completely
quashed their consciences.

 


title: Protests held in Turkey
uri: Protests-held-in-Turkey
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(eight_journalists_government_protests_turkey)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(eight_journalists_government_protests_turkey)

content:
 
<p>
8 more Turkish journalists have been jailed for covering nationwide
protests 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/eight-journalists-covering-anti-government-protests-held-in-turkey
">against Erdoğan.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_((Satire)_elon_musk_midwest)
title: (satire) Elon Musk Amazed
uri: (satire)-Elon-Musk-Amazed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_((Satire)_elon_musk_midwest)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Elon Musk Amazed At How Much Cheaper 
<a href="https://theonion.com/elon-musk-amazed-at-how-much-cheaper-bribing-voters-is-in-midwest/">Bribing Voters Is In
Midwest.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Urgent:_Town-hall_meetings)
title: Urgent: Town-hall meetings
uri: Urgent-Town-hall-meetings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Urgent:_Town-hall_meetings)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say, "Hold town-hall
meetings with the public, in your district and maybe in other
districts too."
<p>
When Democrats do this, it wins support.  But when Republicans do this,
it exposes what they really are.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Robert Reich on Social Security
uri: Urgent-Robert-Reich-on-Social-Security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Urgent:_Robert_Reich_on_Social_Security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Urgent:_Robert_Reich_on_Social_Security)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-social-security-is-in-the-worst">phone
your congresscritter and senators</a> at (202) 224-3121 and call on
them to save Social Security, by rehiring the staff that the DOSE(*)
got rid of and reversing all other recent changes made
by <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>
and <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a>.
<p>
* Depredations of Swinging Evisceration.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Israel_broke_cease-fire)
title: Israel broke cease-fire
uri: Israel-broke-cease-fire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Israel_broke_cease-fire)
content:
 
<p>
Israel broke the cease-fire with Lebanon
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/28/israel-dahiyeh-beirut-lebanon-hezbollah">by
destroying a specific building</a> by bombing.  It gave warnings
first, but that doesn't mean the attack was justified.


 


title: Urgent: Protect privacy of customers of 23 and Me
uri: Urgent-Protect-privacy-of-customers-of-23-and-Me
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_privacy_of_customers_of_23_and_Me)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_privacy_of_customers_of_23_and_Me)

content:
 
<p>

  Everyone: call on the directors of 23 and Me to <a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/protect-our-genetic-data-23andme-privacy-rights/">protect the privacy</a> of
their customers.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Search_warrants_for_student_rooms)
title: Search warrants for student rooms
uri: Search-warrants-for-student-rooms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Search_warrants_for_student_rooms)
content:
 
<p>

The deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> seems to have got search warrants for student
rooms at Columbia University by <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/28/ice-warrants-columbia-students-gaza-protests/">misleading a judge</a>,
  as well as misrepresenting
the law they were claiming to enforce.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Wrecker_attacking_law_firms)
title: Wrecker attacking law firms
uri: Wrecker-attacking-law-firms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Wrecker_attacking_law_firms)
content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/jenner-block-wilmerhale-law-firms-sue-trump">attacking law firms</a> with executive orders to cut off their
business.  Three of them have taken legal action against these orders.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Head of CDC facing right-wing disinformation
uri: Head-of-CDC-facing-right-wing-disinformation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Head_of_CDC_facing_right-wing_disinformation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Head_of_CDC_facing_right-wing_disinformation)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> tried to appoint a serious medical researcher as head of
the CDC.  He, and she, now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/trump-pick-cdc-maga-backlash">face right-wing extremist disinformation</a>.
</p>
<p>
I expect he will try to develop a system by which to control more
completely which kinds of disinformation are permitted.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Quid pro quo deals between US government and billionaires
uri: Quid-pro-quo-deals-between-US-government-and-billionaires
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Quid_pro_quo_deals_between_US_government_and_billionaires)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Quid_pro_quo_deals_between_US_government_and_billionaires)

content:
 
<p>

Alvaro Bedoya, FTC commissioner until he was fired by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>,
warns of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/trump-firings-ftc-alvaro-bedoya">apparent "quid pro quo" deals</a> between the US government and
billionaires.
  In other words, apparent corruption.
</p>
<p>
When the "Department of Justice" is part of the same corruption, there
is no way to tackle it.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Parents following RFK's medical misinformation
uri: Parents-following-RFK-s-medical-misinformation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Parents_following_RFK's_medical_misinformation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Parents_following_RFK's_medical_misinformation)

content:
 
<p>

  Parents <a href="https://boingboing.net/2025/03/28/signs-of-liver-damage-rfk-jrs-anti-vaccine-propaganda-hurts-kids.html">following RFK's medical misinformation</a> are giving their children
cod-liver oil, thinking that will cure or prevent measles.
  It does nothing against measles, but it does cause liver damage.
</p>
</li>

 


title: European universities rescuing threatened scientists from US
uri: European-universities-rescuing-threatened-scientists-from-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(European_universities_rescuing_threatened_scientists_from_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(European_universities_rescuing_threatened_scientists_from_US)

content:
 
<p>

  European universities are starting to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/when-the-physicists-need-burner-phones-thats-when-you-know-americas-changed">rescue threatened scientists</a>
from US universities.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Turks_holding_large_rallies)
title: Turks holding large rallies
uri: Turks-holding-large-rallies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Turks_holding_large_rallies)
content:
 
<p>

  Turks are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/29/turkish-opposition-calls-mass-rally-in-defence-of-jailed-istanbul-mayor">holding very large rallies</a> for jailed opposition leader
İmamoğlu.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Florida law against teachers that are Chinese residents
uri: Florida-law-against-teachers-that-are-Chinese-residents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Florida_law_against_teachers_that_are_Chinese_residents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Florida_law_against_teachers_that_are_Chinese_residents)

content:
 
<p>

Florida's law forbidding hiring teachers who are officially residents of
China (or some other countries) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-new-college-fires-chinese-professor">makes no exception</a> for Chinese refugees
who are applying for asylum.
</p>
<p>
I wonder whether this law violates federal anti-discrimination law.
</p>
</li>

 


title: FDA official in charge of vaccines has resigned
uri: FDA-official-in-charge-of-vaccines-has-resigned
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(FDA_official_in_charge_of_vaccines_has_resigned)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(FDA_official_in_charge_of_vaccines_has_resigned)

content:
 
<p>

  The FDA's official in charge of vaccines <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/top-us-vaccine-official-resigns-over-rfk-jrs-misinformation-and-lies-dr-peter-marks">has resigned</a>, saying RFK
"wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
</p>
<p>
This and other appointments described here suggest he will attack
vaccinations and put Americans greatly in danger.
</p>
<p>
That includes me.  I got a Covid-19 booster vaccination a week ago,
because I was worried it might cease to be available if I waited.
That's good for now, but what about next fall. and subsequent years.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Academics_in_US)
title: Academics in US
uri: Academics-in-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Academics_in_US)
content:
 
<p>

  Academics in the US are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/29/trump-ice-deportation-universities">making preparations</a> in case they are
disappeared.
</p>
<p>
I expect that Republican officials will maintain the lie that the
people who may be arrested and deported are supporting terrorists
and insist that nothing is wrong.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Social_Security_website_crashing)
title: Social Security website crashing
uri: Social-Security-website-crashing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_March_2025_(Social_Security_website_crashing)
content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/25/social-security-phones-doge-cuts/">Social Security website is crashing</a>, nobody monitors customer
experience since <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#doge">DOGE</a> eliminated that office.*
</p>
<p>
This could be their plan for how to get rid of Social Security in practice
even though it may continue to exist in name.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Amazon lawsuit attacking CPCS
uri: Urgent-Amazon-lawsuit-attacking-CPCS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#31_March_2025_(Urgent:_Amazon_lawsuit_attacking_CPCS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#31_March_2025_(Urgent:_Amazon_lawsuit_attacking_CPCS)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Amazon to
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/amazon-hands-off-the-consumer-product-safety-commission">drop
its lawsuit</a> attacking the Consumer
Product Safety Commission.
<p>
Also, don't buy from <a href="/amazon.html">Amazon</a>.
Yes, you can do it!


 


title: Urgent: Stop fueling destruction to Amazon forest
uri: Urgent-Stop-fueling-destruction-to-Amazon-forest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_fueling_destruction_to_Amazon_forest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_fueling_destruction_to_Amazon_forest)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on banks to <a href="https://act.stand.earth/page/54896/petition/1?locale=en-US">stop fueling destruction</a> of the
Amazon forest.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Wedge_in_solidarity)
title: Wedge in solidarity
uri: Wedge-in-solidarity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Wedge_in_solidarity)
content:
 
<p>

*Despite the diversity of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, [deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>] go
after <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/us-universities-students-israel-palestine-protests">non-white visa and scholarship holders</a> "to create a wedge in
solidarity".*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Universities that survive eager submission to state
uri: Universities-that-survive-eager-submission-to-state
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Universities_that_survive_eager_submission_to_state)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Universities_that_survive_eager_submission_to_state)

content:
 
<p>

Universities that hope to survive through eager submission to state
repression will find themselves reduced to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/26/universities-columbia-trump">even more abject subservience</a>,
</p>
</li>

 


title: Saboteur tried to seize control over who can vote
uri: Saboteur-tried-to-seize-control-over-who-can-vote
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Saboteur_tried_to_seize_control_over_who_can_vote)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Saboteur_tried_to_seize_control_over_who_can_vote)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#saboteur">The saboteur</a> tried to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/25/trump-executive-order-voter-id/82657485007/">seize personal control</a> over who is allowed to vote
in the US.
</p>
<p>
It follows the latest <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magat</a> fashion of using a small federal power for
leverage to bully lesser governments and institutions into repression:
in this case, into requiring voters to show ID cards.  The range of ID
cards to be accepted would be so limited that many poor voters would
do without them, and be disenfranchised.
</p>
<p>
Greg Palast estimates that 21 million eligible voters would be
<a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-musk-order-will-cost-21-million-their-vote/">barred from voting</a>, if states obey this.
</p>
<p>
It would also take the US another bit step towards having a national
ID card &mdash; <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_November_2022_(UK_considering_national_ID_cards_again)">which is, itself, oppression</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Trump administrator at "war" with mRNA technology
uri: Trump-administrator-at-war-with-mRNA-technology
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Trump_administrator_at_war_with_mRNA_technology)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Trump_administrator_at_war_with_mRNA_technology)

content:
 
<p>

  *Trump administration <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/trump-vaccine-skeptics-research-funding">at "war" with mRNA technology</a>: scientists alarmed
vaccine skeptics could kill research.*
</p>
<p>
mRNA vaccines are the target of persistent disinformation along many
fronts.  Some disinformation exaggerates the significance of side
effects that happen a small fraction of the time and generally cause
no permanent harm.  Others harp on thousands of people go had serious
side effects but neglect to compare those with the millions of lives
the vaccines saved.
</p>
</li>

 


title: EPA email address to request exemption to evade air pollution rules
uri: EPA-email-address-to-request-exemption-to-evade-air-pollution-rules
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(EPA_email_address_to_request_exemption_to_evade_air_pollution_rules)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(EPA_email_address_to_request_exemption_to_evade_air_pollution_rules)

content:
 
<p>

*   <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> sets up email address where "regulated community" can request
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/epa-trump-email-fossil-fuel-exemptions">exemption to evade air pollution rules</a>.*
</p>
<p>
This is to speed the billionaires' ultimate sabotage project &mdash; to make
the survival of civilization outside their realms impossible.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Harvard's Middle Eastern Studies department
uri: Harvard-s-Middle-Eastern-Studies-department
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Harvard's_Middle_Eastern_Studies_department)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Harvard's_Middle_Eastern_Studies_department)

content:
 
<p>

Two faculty of Harvard's Middle Eastern Studies department
have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/mar/29/harvard-middle-eastern-studies-departures">suddenly "departed"</a>, and it is reported that they were fired
except that the university doesn't want to admit that.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Migrating Social Security Administration off of COBOL
uri: Migrating-Social-Security-Administration-off-of-COBOL
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Migrating_Social_Security_Administration_off_of_COBOL)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Migrating_Social_Security_Administration_off_of_COBOL)

content:
 
<p>

The Social Security Administration has 60 million lines of COBOL code
and has long planned to migrate that very slowly and carefully into a
more modern programming language.  It would take years.  But now the
wrecking crew (LOGE, *) <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/">wants to do it in a few months</a>.
</p>
<p>
It will surely have many new bugs.  But instead of having humans do it,
they plan to use <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligance">bullshit generators</a>
     to write the new code.
</p>
<p>
That will guarantee plenty of absurd mistakes that humans wouldn't make.
</p>
<p>
What could make the situation worse than that?
The SSA could stop answering the phones, and eliminate most
of the human beings to complain to.
</p>
<p>
Hmm, that's what they just did.  Looks like someone is planning to
make the Social Security system fail disastrously.
</p>
<p>
* LOGE = Lots of Grief, Evisceration
</p>
</li>

 


title: Data from Amazon echo to be sent to Amazon
uri: Data-from-Amazon-echo-to-be-sent-to-Amazon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Data_from_Amazon_echo_to_be_sent_to_Amazon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Data_from_Amazon_echo_to_be_sent_to_Amazon)

content:
 
<p>
Amazon "echo" devices should be called "tattle" because they <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/">tell Amazon</a>
what they hear.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Rebuke_for_Smithsonian_Institute)
title: Rebuke for Smithsonian Institute
uri: Rebuke-for-Smithsonian-Institute
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Rebuke_for_Smithsonian_Institute)
content:
 
<p>

  The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/trump-annoyed-the-smithsonian-isnt-promoting-discredited-racial-ideas/">rebuke the Smithsonian Institution</a> for presenting modern
scientists' and scholars' ideas of science and history, instead of the
old-fashioned superstitions and prejudices they replaced.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: Trump administration at "war" with mRNA technology
uri: Trump-administration-at-war-with-mRNA-technology
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Trump_administration_at_war_with_mRNA_technology)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Trump_administration_at_war_with_mRNA_technology)

content:
 
<p>

  *Trump administration <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/trump-vaccine-skeptics-research-funding">at "war" with mRNA technology</a>: scientists alarmed
vaccine skeptics could kill research.*
</p>
<p>
mRNA vaccines are the target of persistent disinformation along many
fronts.  Some disinformation exaggerates the significance of side
effects that happen a small fraction of the time and generally cause
no permanent harm.  Others harp on thousands of people go had serious
side effects but neglect to compare those with the millions of lives
the vaccines saved.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(US_Trade_war_response,_UK)
title: US Trade war response, UK
uri: US-Trade-war-response-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(US_Trade_war_response,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Starmer offered to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/starmer-offered-big-us-tech-firms-tax-cuts-in-return-for-lower-trump-tariffs">reduce
British taxes on digital "services"</a> in general in exchange for
lower US tariffs on UK exports.  (We can presume that this includes
digital dis-services as well as true digital services.)
<p>
This offer was foolish in two ways, which become obvious when we note
that the biggest threat to society, is taxing business too little, and
that the T-usk regime is a part of that threat.
<ol>
<li>The deal would increase the power of companies that have too much
power already, thus making them an even bigger threat.
<li>To offer an enemy a lasting concession, in exchange for not
attacking you <em>just now</em>, is a bad bargain, thus a change for the worse.
<p>
</ol>
It would have been wiser to threaten to increase the taxes on digital
"services" &mdash; either all of them, or some of them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Science,_Engineering,_Medicine,_US)
title: Science, Engineering, Medicine, US
uri: Science-Engineering-Medicine-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Science,_Engineering,_Medicine,_US)
content:
 
<p>
1800 members of the US National Academies have published an
<a href="media/d584ec76.tement_on_Supporting_Science_for_the_Benefit_of_All_Citizens.pdf" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/Public_Statement_on_Supporting_Science_for_the_Benefit_of_All_Citizens.pdf">open
letter</a>
calling on the US government to stop attacking science.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(University_speaker_canceled,_NYU)
title: University speaker canceled, NYU
uri: University-speaker-canceled-NYU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(University_speaker_canceled,_NYU)
content:
 
<p>
NYU canceled a talk by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doctor-nyu-usaid-gaza-presentation-canceled">Joanne
Liu, former head of Doctors Without Borders</a>, for reporting on
casualties in Gaza and on <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor's</a> cuts to US foreign
aid.
<p>
I have not seen the slides, but this seems like a very stretched
instance of the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/cpiral.html#3_April_2025_(Free_speech_as_terrorism)">"Israel exception</a>".
<p>
Can anyone find NYU's allegedly "clear" guidelines?
Have they been posted anywhere?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Free_speech_as_terrorism)
title: Free speech as terrorism
uri: Free-speech-as-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Free_speech_as_terrorism)
content:
 
<p>
Ken Roth: *There can be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/israel-free-speech-mahmoud-khalil">no
"Israel exception" for free speech</a>*, and the case of Mahmoud
Khalil illustrates this.



<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Deportation_deactivation)
title: Urgent: Deportation deactivation
uri: Urgent-Deportation-deactivation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Deportation_deactivation)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/trump-irs-ice">call on Congress</a>
to block funds for the Donald
Deportation Derby and fund medicine and Social Security instead.
<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-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Resign_Hegseth)
title: Urgent: Resign Hegseth
uri: Urgent-Resign-Hegseth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Resign_Hegseth)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com?detail=emailaction">call on Hegseth</a>
to resign immediately.
<p>
*Hegseth should go to jail for war plan leaks, according to Hegseth.*
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Congresscritters who profit war
uri: Urgent-Congresscritters-who-profit-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Congresscritters_in_war-machine_stocks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Congresscritters_in_war-machine_stocks)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-to-support-rashida-tlaibs-stop-politicians-profiting-from-war-act-3?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-hd&source=group-hd">call on Congress</a>
to ban members of Congress from having financial
interests  in companies that do business with the Pentagon.
<p>
Contrast this with the bill to stop them from buying or selling stocks.
The two operate in the same area, but they are different enough to be
complementary.
<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-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Silencing_dissidents,_US)
title: Silencing dissidents, US
uri: Silencing-dissidents-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Silencing_dissidents,_US)
content:
 
<p>
*an administration that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/trump-administration-student-protesters-immigration">imprisons
and expels foreign students</a> for their pro-Palestinian advocacy is
unlikely to stop with foreign students or, for that matter, with
pro-Palestinian advocacy. Trump’s student roundup has already
progressed from visa holders to legal permanent residents, and
administration officials have said they intend to come after
naturalized citizens as well. And the argument the administration is
advancing to justify the cancellation of students’ visas &mdash; that
the students’ advocacy undermines US foreign policy &mdash; could as
easily be made with respect to those who advocate in support of any
other cause the Trump administration happens to disfavor.*


<p>
 


title: Urgent: Stop financing oil and gas extraction in Amazonia
uri: Urgent-Stop-financing-oil-and-gas-extraction-in-Amazonia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_financing_oil_and_gas_extraction_in_Amazonia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_financing_oil_and_gas_extraction_in_Amazonia)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Santander bank to <a href="https://act.stand.earth/page/64528/petition/1?locale=en-US">stop financing</a> oil and
gas extraction in Amazonia.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Support release of Mahmoud Khalil
uri: Urgent-Support-release-of-Mahmoud-Khalil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Support_release_of_Mahmoud_Khalil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Support_release_of_Mahmoud_Khalil)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/release-mahmoud-khalil/">support the release</a> Mahmoud Khalil,
and protect the right to protest.
</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 destroying Amazon forest
uri: Urgent-Stop-destroying-Amazon-forest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_destroying_Amazon_forest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_destroying_Amazon_forest)

content:
 
<p>

  Everyone: call on big U.S. Banks to <a href="https://act.350.org/sign/mar-25-us-em-amazon/">stop destroying</a> the Amazon forest
via gas and oil investments.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Protect voting rights of Americans
uri: Urgent-Protect-voting-rights-of-Americans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_voting_rights_of_Americans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_voting_rights_of_Americans)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress and state legislatures to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-congress-and-state-legislatures-protect-and-expand-voting-rights">protect</a> the
voting rights of Americans.
</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-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_((satire)_Pentagon_employee_cuts)
title: (satire) Pentagon employee cuts
uri: (satire)-Pentagon-employee-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_((satire)_Pentagon_employee_cuts)
content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Pentagon Cuts All Employees <a href="https://theonion.com/pentagon-cuts-all-employees-with-weak-jawlines/">With Weak Jawlines</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Cuts in steps to AA recovery
uri: (satire)-Cuts-in-steps-to-AA-recovery
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_((satire)_Cuts_in_steps_to_AA_recovery)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_((satire)_Cuts_in_steps_to_AA_recovery)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Pete Hegseth Calls For <a href="https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-calls-for-steep-cuts-to-number-of-steps-in-aa-recovery/">Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Implications_of_US_Signal_leak)
title: Implications of US Signal leak
uri: Implications-of-US-Signal-leak
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Implications_of_US_Signal_leak)
content:
 
<p>

With the  US in a Tr-ance, its Signal leak shows that the rulers think
of Europe <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/donald-trump-europe-trade-war-greenland">mainly as a rival or enemy</a>.  What does this imply?
</p>
</li>

 


title: US inspectors general sue to win jobs back
uri: US-inspectors-general-sue-to-win-jobs-back
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(US_inspectors_general_sue_to_win_jobs_back)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(US_inspectors_general_sue_to_win_jobs_back)

content:
 
<p>

  *US inspectors general fired by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/inspector-generals-fired-trump-lawsuit">sue to win jobs back</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_((satire)_Musk_bid_to_Acquire_respect)
title: (satire) Musk bid to Acquire respect
uri: (satire)-Musk-bid-to-Acquire-respect
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_((satire)_Musk_bid_to_Acquire_respect)
content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Musk Signals Willingness To <a href="https://theonion.com/musk-signals-willingness-to-bid-more-than-97-billion-to-acquire-respect/">Bid More Than $97 Billion</a> To
Acquire Respect.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(US_has_disappeared_people)
title: US has disappeared people
uri: US-has-disappeared-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(US_has_disappeared_people)
content:
 
<p>

  The US has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/trump-deports-alleged-gang-members-el-salvador">disappeared people</a> by sending them to a prison in El Salvador.
</p>
<p>
We are told that they are gang members.  We are told that they have
committed heinous crimes.  We are told that they are Venezuelan.
We are told that they are not US citizens.
</p>
<p>
But there is no way to verify any of that; we have it only from the
bullshitter's officials.
</p>
<p>
By refusing to say anything specific about those people, not even
names and photos, <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a> has made it impossible for a US
court to check whether he violated US laws.  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a> could do
this to anyone, even US citizens, if courts can't detect it.
</p>
<p>
One of the previous articles about this said that some of the deportees
had US lawyers but El Salvador did not allow them to meet with their
clients.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Risks for exiles working for Voice of America
uri: Risks-for-exiles-working-for-Voice-of-America
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Risks_for_exiles_working_for_Voice_of_America)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Risks_for_exiles_working_for_Voice_of_America)

content:
 
<p>

Exiles working for Voice of America and similar US government
broadcasters, which <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> is trying to eliminate, face the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/trump-shuttering-global-media-agency-endangers-reporters">threat of being deported</a> to countries which would punish them for
their broadcasting they did.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Honduras accepting deportations for Venezuelans
uri: Honduras-accepting-deportations-for-Venezuelans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Honduras_accepting_deportations_for_Venezuelans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Honduras_accepting_deportations_for_Venezuelans)

content:
 
<p>

  Honduras is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/venezuela-immigrants-us-honduras">accepting deportations of Venezuelans</a> from the US, and
sending them to Venezuela.  Apparently Venezuela has accepted this.
</p>
<p>
This does not have the injustice of sending Venezuelans to be
imprisoned indefinitely without trial in El Salvador.  But it may have
other injustices.  Some Venezuelans would be persecuted by Venezuela's
authoritarian government, and the US should give them at least
temporary asylum.  Also, like all deportees, they have the right to a
hearing to argue that they deserve asylum.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces
uri: Palestinian-paramedics-shot-by-Israeli-forces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Palestinian_paramedics_shot_by_Israeli_forces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Palestinian_paramedics_shot_by_Israeli_forces)

content:
 
<p>

  *Palestinian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/01/palestinian-paramedics-shot-by-israeli-forces-had-hands-tied-eyewitnesses-say">paramedics shot [in Gaza] by Israeli forces</a> had hands
tied, eyewitnesses say.*
</p>
<p>
Willful murder of medics is a heinous war crime.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Corrupter seeks to corrupt our memories
uri: Corrupter-seeks-to-corrupt-our-memories
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Corrupter_seeks_to_corrupt_our_memories)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Corrupter_seeks_to_corrupt_our_memories)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a> seeks to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2025/apr/01/trump-smithsonian">corrupt our memories as well as our consciences</a>.
</p>
<p>
To paraphrase 1984: Who controls the museums, controls the future: who
controls the present controls the museums.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Bullshitter's henchmen deported someone by mistake
uri: Bullshitter-s-henchmen-deported-someone-by-mistake
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Bullshitter's_henchmen_deported_someone_by_mistake)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Bullshitter's_henchmen_deported_someone_by_mistake)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter's</a> henchmen say that they deported someone to El
Salvador <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/ice-error-deported-maryland-man-el-salvador">by mistake</a>.  Now, they say, the court cannot order them to
bring him back because US courts have no authority over El Salvador.
</p>
<p>
The US court may have no authority over El Salvador, but since it has
authority over those US officials, it can order them to say and do
things that will convince El Salvador to send him back.  For instance,
to say, "You can let him out now, and he is welcome to return to the
US."
</p>
<p>
If at that point El Salvador does not let him, the question is why
not?
</p>
</li>

 


title: Open letter for US government to stop attacking science
uri: Open-letter-for-US-government-to-stop-attacking-science
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Open_letter_for_US_government_to_stop_attacking_science)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Open_letter_for_US_government_to_stop_attacking_science)

content:
 
<p>

  1800 members of the US national academies have <a href="media/fa40e106.tement_on_Supporting_Science_for_the_Benefit_of_All_Citizens.pdf" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/archives/../Public_Statement_on_Supporting_Science_for_the_Benefit_of_All_Citizens.pdf">published an open letter</a>
  calling on the US government to stop attacking science.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Carry out drone strike in straight line
uri: (satire)-Carry-out-drone-strike-in-straight-line
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_((satire)_Carry_out_drone_strike_in_straight_line)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_((satire)_Carry_out_drone_strike_in_straight_line)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Highway Patrol Officer Asks Pete Hegseth To Carry Out Drone
Strikes <a href="https://theonion.com/highway-patrol-officer-asks-pete-hegseth-to-carry-out-drone-strikes-in-straight-line/">In Straight Line</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Bullshitter's "methods" to be president for life
uri: Bullshitter-s-methods-to-be-president-for-life
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Bullshitter's_methods_to_be_president_for_life)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Bullshitter's_methods_to_be_president_for_life)

content:
 
<p>

  Is anyone preparing to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/01/donald-trump-third-term-no-one-opposing-him">oppose the bullshitter's "methods"</a> to be president
for life?
</p>
<p>
He talks about this now as psychological warfare.  The only way he
could use any "methods" to become president for a third term is by
first crushing opposition at the federal level.
</p>
<p>
The resistance has more immediate battles to fight right now, mostly
in court but in Congress too and on the streets.
</p>
<p>
The outcomes of those battles will also increase or decrease the
strength of the opposition.  Thus, The opposition we do this year will
determine, long before 2028, whether he can seize the power of
president for life in that year.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Senate Republican admits GOP coming for Medicare
uri: Senate-Republican-admits-GOP-coming-for-Medicare
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Senate_Republican_admits_GOP_coming_for_Medicare)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Senate_Republican_admits_GOP_coming_for_Medicare)

content:
 
<p>

  *Senate Republican <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/1/2313871/-Senate-Republican-accidentally-admits-GOP-is-coming-for-Medicare?detail=emailaction">accidentally admits</a> GOP is coming for Medicare.*
</p>
<p>
The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a> always say it is just a matter of making the system
"function more efficiently", but the actual result is that the system
more or less ceases to function.
</p>
<p>
There is a good reason for making changes slowly in systems that people
depend on, and ever more slowly when millions of people depend on
them, and intentionally disregarding this need is in itself sabotage.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Resolution that would block wrecker's tariffs on Canada
uri: Resolution-that-would-block-wrecker-s-tariffs-on-Canada
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Resolution_that_would_block_wrecker's_tariffs_on_Canada)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Resolution_that_would_block_wrecker's_tariffs_on_Canada)

content:
 
<p>

*   Several Republican senators joined Democrats to pass a resolution that
would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/republicans-democrats-canada-tariffs">block the wrecker's tariffs on Canada</a>,*
</p>
<p>
To avoid the trade war with Canada is wise, but what seems even better to
me is that several Republican senators voted against <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>.
That is a step forward.
</p>
</li>

 


title: One lone survivor of Israeli army's massacre of rescue workers
uri: One-lone-survivor-of-Israeli-army-s-massacre-of-rescue-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(One_lone_survivor_of_Israeli_army's_massacre_of_rescue_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(One_lone_survivor_of_Israeli_army's_massacre_of_rescue_workers)

content:
 
<p>

Munther Abed, the one known survivor of the Israeli army's massacre of
rescue workers, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/i-heard-them-take-their-last-breath-survivor-recounts-gaza-paramedic-killings">describes what he saw</a>.
  It is gruesome &mdash; vicious hatred and dehumanization carried out with
no shame.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Fable of the university and the tyrant
uri: Fable-of-the-university-and-the-tyrant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Fable_of_the_university_and_the_tyrant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Fable_of_the_university_and_the_tyrant)

content:
 
<p>

The fable of the university and the tyrant is similar to one that
Aesop collected about a <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/2/2314061/-Allegory-of-the-Farmer-and-the-Snake?_=2025-04-02T07:29:10.000-07:00">farmer and a snake</a>,
  except that, when fully grasped, Columbia's error is worse.  The
farmer didn't endanger all the farmers in his country, and Columbia did.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Access to hospitals for women in Afghanistan
uri: Access-to-hospitals-for-women-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Access_to_hospitals_for_women_in_Afghanistan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_April_2025_(Access_to_hospitals_for_women_in_Afghanistan)

content:
 
<p>

Women in Afghanistan who are ill sometimes die because the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/03/i-begged-them-my-daughter-was-dying-how-taliban-male-escort-rules-are-killing-mothers-and-babies">Taliban's repression prevents them from reaching a hospital</a>.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_April_2025_(New_pun)
title: New pun
uri: 2025-04-04-New-pun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_April_2025_(New_pun)
content:
 
<p>
New pun about <a href="/spanish-puns.html#polisemias">monosemia</a>
joins pun about "polisemia".

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Block_a_weapons_sale_to_ISR)
title: Urgent: Block a weapons sale to ISR
uri: Urgent-Block-a-weapons-sale-to-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Block_a_weapons_sale_to_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/block-weapons-sales-sanders-vote-25/">call
on Congress</a> to adopt Sanders' resolution to block the next weapons
sale to Israel.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>


 


title: Urgent: Petition against plan attacking refugees
uri: Urgent-Petition-against-plan-attacking-refugees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Petition_against_plan_attacking_refugees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Petition_against_plan_attacking_refugees)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-denounce-trumps-attacks-on-immigrants-fleeing-authoritarianism-and-violence?nowrapper=true">denounce
plans</a> to send refugees back to Haiti, Venezuela, and maybe even
Ukraine.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_reject_the_SAVE_act)
title: Urgent: reject the SAVE act
uri: Urgent-reject-the-SAVE-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_reject_the_SAVE_act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-congress-reject-the-anti-voter-save-act?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">call on Congress</a>
to reject the SAVE act,
which would require Americans to show federal ID to vote.
<p>
Compare with <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Saboteur_tried_to_seize_control_over_who_can_vote)">executive
order that tries to restrict voting</a>.  Variations on the same
unjust theme.
<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-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Truth_to_Ukraine)
title: Urgent: Truth to Ukraine
uri: Urgent-Truth-to-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Truth_to_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stand-with-ukraine-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-democracy-for-america-advocacy-fund&source=group-democracy-for-america-advocacy-fund">tell
the Ukrainian people</a>: The American people stand with you, not with
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor</a>.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Use_of_Signal_so_no_FOI,_no_record)
title: Use of Signal so no FOI, no record, US
uri: Use-of-Signal-so-no-FOI-no-record-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Use_of_Signal_so_no_FOI,_no_record)
content:
 
<p>
Kevin Carroll, who worked under
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a> officials in
2017-2020, believes that the choice of Signal for the Yemen bombing
chat was not mere stupidity.  Quite the contrary: it had a practical
purpose:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/05/why-trump-administration-used-signal-hegseth-gabbard">to
hide the chat</a> and records of it from any official investigation.
<p>
If they had used the official systems for secret
communication, there would be records about the chat and its
participants; some official could have investigated it.
<p>
That is a crime, right?  But no one in the government who has the
authority to investigate and punish such cheaters will go against
per corrupt master.
<p>
*National Security Adviser Michael Waltz
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/michael-waltz-gmail-signal-national-security">reportedly
conducted official business via Gmail</a>.*
<p>
Thanks to the fortuitous inclusion of a journalist in the chat, the
Pentagon can, and will, investigate.


<p>
 


title: Urgent: Demand resignation of officials in Signal war chat
uri: Urgent-Demand-resignation-of-officials-in-Signal-war-chat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Demand_resignation_of_officials_in_Signal_war_chat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Demand_resignation_of_officials_in_Signal_war_chat)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: demand that every official in the Signal war chat,
including Secretary Hegseth and National Security Adviser Waltz,
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/signal-war-chat-resign-or-fired">resign or be fired now</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Protesting Tesla is not domestic terrorism
uri: Urgent-Protesting-Tesla-is-not-domestic-terrorism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Protesting_Tesla_is_not_domestic_terrorism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Protesting_Tesla_is_not_domestic_terrorism)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: Protesting Tesla is not domestic terrorism.
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/protesting-tesla-is-not-terrorism">Denounce any attempt</a> to arrest and imprison nonviolent activists.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Protect Social Security Administration
uri: Urgent-Protect-Social-Security-Administration
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_Social_Security_Administration)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_Social_Security_Administration)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to protect the
  <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/trump-social-security-admin/">Social Security Administration</a> from being gored by a t-Usk.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Denounce persecutor's attacks on immigrants
uri: Urgent-Denounce-persecutor-s-attacks-on-immigrants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Denounce_persecutor's_attacks_on_immigrants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Denounce_persecutor's_attacks_on_immigrants)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-denounce-trumps-attacks-on-immigrants-fleeing-authoritarianism-and-violence">Denounce the persecutor's attacks on immigrants</a> fleeing
authoritarianism and violence.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Protect America's Workforce Act
uri: Urgent-Protect-America-s-Workforce-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_America's_Workforce_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_America's_Workforce_Act)

content:
 
<p>

  Phone your congresscritter at <a href="tel:+18448965059">844-896-5059</a> and call on per to
support the Protect America’s Workforce Act, which would cancel the
wrecker's executive order and restore many US government employees
right to unionize.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_No_Rogue_Rulings_act)
title: Urgent: Reject No Rogue Rulings act
uri: Urgent-Reject-No-Rogue-Rulings-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_No_Rogue_Rulings_act)
content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/reject-norra-hr1526-house/">reject the No Rogue Rulings act</a>, which would
make it impossible for federal courts to act quickly to halt an
illegal or unconstitutional nationwide executive order or policy.
</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-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Price_of_protest_in_Britain_today)
title: Price of protest in Britain today
uri: Price-of-protest-in-Britain-today
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Price_of_protest_in_Britain_today)
content:
 
<p>

George Monbiot: *Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/protest-britain-activists-quaker-meeting-house">price of protest</a> in Britain today.*
</p>
<p>
The government labels protesters as "terrorists", which is qualitative
and quantitative exaggeration of what they plan to do.  The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> seem
to believe that propaganda, and treat these "conspiracies" as very
dangerous.  (Are they trying to increase the credibility of their
exaggeration by pretending to believe it?  Are <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> chiefs misleading
the rank and file <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>?)
</p>
<p>
The protesters' bombastic slogan, "shut down London", may have
encouraged the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs'</a> own exaggeration, but does not excuse it.  If
they are fooled so easily, they are doing their job badly.
</p>
<p>
The article describes and prove that the government's
policy towards protests is biased (repress the left), in accord
with its politics, and traces it to the influence of lobbying.
</p>
<p>
As Labour's policies become ever more right-wing, it is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/left-uk-slide-into-farageism-leader-leftwing">losing the support</a>
of its party members, as well as the voters.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Bully's excuses are not his real concerns
uri: Bully-s-excuses-are-not-his-real-concerns
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Bully's_excuses_are_not_his_real_concerns)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Bully's_excuses_are_not_his_real_concerns)

content:
 
<p>

Robert Reich: *Stop treating [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a>] excuses as his real
concerns&hellp; [His] major interest is capitulation itself. Surrender
is <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-deal-with-trumps-demands-for">the whole point</a>. He and those under him who are managing these
extortionate initiatives want headlines that say "they" have
surrendered to him &mdash; whether "they" is a country, a major university,
a large law firm, a big nonprofit, even a Democratic state like
California. Surrender is the point. Domination is his goal. (It always
has been.)
</p>
<p>
Reich urges the victims &mdash; whether universities, or law firms, or
trade partners &mdash; to unite and resist.
</p>
</li>

 


title: If global heating makes insurance unfeasible
uri: If-global-heating-makes-insurance-unfeasible
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(If_global_heating_makes_insurance_unfeasible)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(If_global_heating_makes_insurance_unfeasible)

content:
 
<p>

An executive of Allianz, one of the largest insurance companies, warns
that if <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> makes insurance unfeasible, many other parts of
the of the financial and market systems will <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-risk-insurance-future-capitalism-günther-thallinger-smw5f/">cease to be possible</a>.
Even states cannot afford to insure when disasters become too frequent.
</p>
<p>
If investments become so unpredictable that they are inherently
unprofitable, neither individuals nor corporations nor states will
be able to invest.
</p>
<p>
As he says, all is not lost.  We can fix this, if we apply the
zero-emissions technology we already have &mdash; quickly.
</p>
<p>
However, to do so depends on first defeating the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters'</a>
political power, and that fight has been going against us.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Hungary leaving International Criminal Court
uri: Hungary-leaving-International-Criminal-Court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Hungary_leaving_International_Criminal_Court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Hungary_leaving_International_Criminal_Court)

content:
 
<p>

Hungary, which invited Netanyahu to visit and refused to arrest him,
is <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250403-hungary-says-it-is-withdrawing-from-icc-during-netanyahus-visits/">leaving the International Criminal Court</a>.
</p>
<p>

It was <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a> who made the US start fighting against the ICC, when he
saw it might prosecute American war criminals that the US government
failed to prosecute.  I wonder if it would have prosecuted <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a> for
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-mar-jun.html#01%20April%202004%20(Administration%20Lies)">invading Iraq</a> based on falsified 
"intelligence" about the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2003-sep-dec.html#5%20October%202003%20(mass%20destruction)">fictional</a>
   "weapons of mass destruction" if the US were a member.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Corruption charges dropped against New York's mayor
uri: Corruption-charges-dropped-against-New-York-s-mayor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Corruption_charges_dropped_against_New_York's_mayor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Corruption_charges_dropped_against_New_York's_mayor)

content:
 
<p>

The US government gave New York's <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#nightmayor">night-mayor</a> his side of its
(unacknowledged) deal with him, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/eric-adams-corruption-case-dismissed">dropping corruption charges</a>.
</p>
<p>
Letting corrupt officials buy their way out of prosecution by bowing to
the tyrant is even worse corruption than what he was charged for,
but it may not be illegal.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Why_officials_used_Signal_Chat)
title: Why officials used Signal Chat
uri: Why-officials-used-Signal-Chat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Why_officials_used_Signal_Chat)
content:
 
<p>

Kevin Carroll, who worked under <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a> officials in
2017-2020, believes that the choice of Signal for the Yemen bombing
chat was not mere stupidity.  Quite the contrary: it had a practical
purpose: to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/05/why-trump-administration-used-signal-hegseth-gabbard">hide the chat and records</a> of it from any official
investigation.
</p>
<p>
If they had used the official systems for secret
communication, there would be records about the chat and its
participants; some official could have investigated it.
</p>
<p>
That is a crime, right?  But no one in the government who has the
authority to investigate and punish such cheaters will go against
per corrupt master.
</p>
<p>
*National Security Adviser Michael Waltz reportedly conducted official
business <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/michael-waltz-gmail-signal-national-security">via Gmail</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Clean streets and recycling in Indian city
uri: Clean-streets-and-recycling-in-Indian-city
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Clean_streets_and_recycling_in_Indian_city)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Clean_streets_and_recycling_in_Indian_city)

content:
 
<p>

  The Indian city of Indore has made a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/04/how-indian-city-indore-beat-the-rubbish">clean streets and recycling</a>
campaign really work, even training people to reject the old habits of
dropping trash on the street.
  Success has continued for 8 years.
</p>
<p>
My mother taught never to drop trash on the street, and I am glad she
did.  In Boston I occasionally tell a stranger "you just dropped
something" which seems to be trash, hoping it will lead to a change of
habit.  But this would be far more effective as part of a general
campaign.  And having trash bins everywhere would certainly help.
Near my home, you have to walk for blocks to find one.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Impeachment of rogue president in South Korea
uri: Impeachment-of-rogue-president-in-South-Korea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Impeachment_of_rogue_president_in_South_Korea)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Impeachment_of_rogue_president_in_South_Korea)

content:
 
<p>

  South Korea has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/04/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-verdict-results-removal">completed the impeachment</a> of its rogue president.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Emerson College employee that showed film Israelism
uri: Emerson-College-employee-that-showed-film-Israelism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Emerson_College_employee_that_showed_film_Israelism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Emerson_College_employee_that_showed_film_Israelism)

content:
 
<p>

  Emerson College appears to have <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/emerson-college-israel-free-speech-lawsuit/">fired an employee</a> for showing the film
<em>Israelism</em> which criticizes Israel's PR activities to win support
among American Jews.
</p>
<p>
Massachusetts law requires private colleges to respect freedom of speech
on campus, and the employee is suing.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Desire is Root of All Suffering
uri: (satire)-Desire-is-Root-of-All-Suffering
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_((satire)_Desire_is_Root_of_All_Suffering)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_((satire)_Desire_is_Root_of_All_Suffering)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Trump <a href="https://theonion.com/trump-calmly-reminds-nation-that-desire-the-root-of-all-suffering/">Calmly Reminds Nation</a> That Desire The Root Of All Suffering.*
</p>
<p>
Maybe someone should teach he wrecker and <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> about Buddhism.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Bill_to_overrule_tariff_increases)
title: Bill to overrule tariff increases
uri: Bill-to-overrule-tariff-increases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Bill_to_overrule_tariff_increases)
content:
 
<p>

  Senators (of both parties) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/senators-bipartisan-bill-trump-tariffs">introduced a bill to permit Congress</a>
to overrule tariff increases.
</p>
<p>
It is not clear whether this would apply to tariffs adopted shortly
before the bill was passed.  It would need to do that if it is to give
Congress the ability to remove the tariffs that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> imposed
last week.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Flooding_in_Australia)
title: Flooding in Australia
uri: Flooding-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_April_2025_(Flooding_in_Australia)
content:
 
<p>

  A region of Australia larger than Texas <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/05/bigger-than-texas-the-true-size-of-australias-devastating-floods">has been flooded</a> by 2 weeks of
heavy rain.  Many towns, have been cut off, and many have been inundated.
  Around 200,000 cattle have died.
</p>
<p>
I don't think it will be feasible to build flood defenses for that.
Perhaps they could put all buildings on stilts in the area likely to
be flooded.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_April_2025_(Severe_Weather,_KY,_AK)
title: Severe Weather in KY and AK
uri: Severe-Weather-in-KY-and-AK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_April_2025_(Severe_Weather,_KY,_AK)
content:
 
<p>
Regions of the US have had very
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/torrential-rain-and-flash-flooding-follow-deadly-tornadoes-as-storms-rage-in-central-us">heavy
rains for many days</a>, leading to scattered floods and evacuations.
<p>
There is no evident reason the heavy rains can't continue, and if they do,
floods may start destroying hundreds or thousands of buildings.

<p>
 


title: Weaponize semitism, control universities
uri: Weaponize-semitism-control-universities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_April_2025_(Weaponize_semitism,_control_universities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_April_2025_(Weaponize_semitism,_control_universities)

content:
 
<p>
*Congressman [Nadler] tells the Guardian that [<a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>] is exploiting fight against
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/jerry-nadler-trump-antisemitism">antisemitism
as a ruse</a> to stamp his will on schools.*
<p>
I am sure that is true, but that's only half of it.
<p>
Machiavelli, in <i>the Prince</i>, suggested many tactics and ploys to
beat the people into submission.  One was to put someone in charge of
the repression; then, after a sufficient period of repression, to fire
per for being so cruel about it.  By putting the blame on per, you can
evade being blamed yourself, even though in truth the repression
was decided by you.
<p>
I speculate that <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the
bully</a> is doing a variation on that: after repressing people in the
name of protecting Jews, he will later blame someone for that
repression on those Jews, so he can evade responsibility for his own
repression.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_April_2025_(About_urban_fire_wildland_interfaces)
title: About urban fire wildland interfaces
uri: About-urban-fire-wildland-interfaces
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_April_2025_(About_urban_fire_wildland_interfaces)
content:
 
<p>
Modeling suggests that 1/3 of the population of the US lives within reach of
the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/us-wildfires-cities-dangers">supercharged
fires</a> that <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> has made
possible.
<p>
Scientists are studying how fires nowadays spread between and within
buildings, hoping to find ways towns can protect themselves.
But it may require removing lots of urban trees that help protect
people from heatstroke.
<p>
Building houses out of concrete could make them fireproof.
That's what people in cities generally do in India.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Weakening_the_rules_around_PFAS)
title: Weakening the rules around PFAS
uri: Weakening-the-rules-around-PFAS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Weakening_the_rules_around_PFAS)
content:
 
<p>

  The poisoner's henchmen are working to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals">weaken the rule</a> requiring
measuring the danger of each PFAS, so that only a few will ever have
to be tested.
</p>
</li>

 


title: "Advanced technology" used in controls of new cars
uri: Advanced-technology-used-in-controls-of-new-cars
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Advanced_technology_used_in_controls_of_new_cars)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Advanced_technology_used_in_controls_of_new_cars)

content:
 
<p>

  A comic <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/05/tech-car-driving-government">makes fun of the "advanced technology"</a> used in the controls
of some new cars.
  It is funny, but too bad he doesn't realize this is a serious issue.
Those peculiar interfaces are implemented by computers that
use sensors learn all sorts of things about you, cameras among them,
and you don't know which companies are watching you through them.
</p>
<p>
This ought to be a HHOS.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Kill_zone_strip_in_Gaza)
title: Kill zone strip in Gaza
uri: Kill-zone-strip-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Kill_zone_strip_in_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>

  Israel declared a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/07/israel-military-gaza-perimeter-land-testimony-report">kill zone strip</a> up to a mile wide inside border of
Gaza, and soldiers shoot at anyone they see in it.  They have
destroyed all the houses, farms, and everything else inside that strip.
</p>
<p>
They have no told the Palestinians where the edge of that strip runs.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Ten_Britons_accused_of_war_crimes)
title: Ten Britons accused of war crimes
uri: Ten-Britons-accused-of-war-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Ten_Britons_accused_of_war_crimes)
content:
 
<p>

  Ten Britons <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr/07/ten-britons-accused-of-committing-war-crimes-while-fighting-for-israel-in-gaza">accused of committing war crimes</a> while fighting for Israel
in Gaza.*
</p>
<p>
Britain may be able to prosecute them.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Arrested by deportation thugs while going from US to Canada
uri: Arrested-by-deportation-thugs-while-going-from-US-to-Canada
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Arrested_by_deportation_thugs_while_going_from_US_to_Canada)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Arrested_by_deportation_thugs_while_going_from_US_to_Canada)

content:
 
<p>

  Rebecca Burke describes being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre">arrested by the deportation thugs</a>
as she was trying to go from the US to Canada, then held for weeks
in a harsh prison where the lights were always on and there wasn't
enough to eat.
</p>
<p>
I suspect the harshness was because the prison had been farmed off to
a company.  There is no excuse for being so harsh to those facing
possible deportation.
</p>
<p>
I have a theory about why they put her in prison: because she tried to
cross into Canada overland, where there was no airport.  According to
their rules, they can't let anyone do that.  But if we look at the
issue actually at stake, they had no real reason to be so strict and
harsh.  If they let her out so she could get a flight and leave, her
presence in the US for a few more days would have done the US no
significant harm.  The underlying reason was that they are too eager
to be cruel.
</p>
</li>

 


title: US neo-Nazi group calls for targeted Ukraine attacks
uri: US-neo-Nazi-group-calls-for-targeted-Ukraine-attacks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(US_neo-Nazi_group_calls_for_targeted_Ukraine_attacks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(US_neo-Nazi_group_calls_for_targeted_Ukraine_attacks)

content:
 
<p>

  *US neo-Nazi group with Russia-based leader calls for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/the-base-neo-nazi-russia-ukraine">targeted Ukraine attacks</a>.
   The Base, terrorist group founded in 2018, free to export violence
abroad as Trump pulls FBI from pursuing far right.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Landmines_creeping_back_into_use)
title: Landmines creeping back into use
uri: Landmines-creeping-back-into-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Landmines_creeping_back_into_use)
content:
 
<p>

  Landmines are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/the-guardian-view-on-the-return-of-landmines-a-deadly-peril-resurges">creeping back into use</a>, reversing the progress in
getting rid of them.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_((satire)_Money_in_heaven_now)
title: (satire) Money in heaven now
uri: (satire)-Money-in-heaven-now
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_((satire)_Money_in_heaven_now)
content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their <a href="https://theonion.com/parents-gently-explain-to-child-that-their-money-in-heaven-now/">Money In Heaven Now</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(US_revokes_visas_or_South_Sudanese)
title: US revokes visas or South Sudanese
uri: US-revokes-visas-or-South-Sudanese
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(US_revokes_visas_or_South_Sudanese)
content:
 
<p>

  *US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/us-revokes-all-visas-for-south-sudanese-over-countrys-failure-to-repatriate-citizens">revokes all visas</a> for South Sudanese over country's failure to
cooperate with deportation of its citizens.*
</p>
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> is doing this just as it looks like
South Sudan is going to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/27/fears-grow-of-return-to-civil-war-in-south-sudan-after-vice-president-riek-machar-detention">fall back into civil war</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Photos_from_April_5_protests)
title: Photos from April 5 protests
uri: Photos-from-April-5-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Photos_from_April_5_protests)
content:
 
<p>

  Photos from the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2025/apr/05/anti-trump-hands-off-worldwide-protests">April 5 protests</a> against the Republican threat to
human rights and democracy.
</p>
<p>
I was blocked from effectively supporting these protests because the
web site to find out where and when they would occur demands users run
nonfree software to get that information.
</p>
<p>
The site that contains the data, and requires nonfree JS code, is
mobilize.us.  If you can find a way to obtain these data about coming
protests, and post them on a web site that <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">respects users' freedom</a>,
  I will gratefully link to that for future protests I support.
</p>
</li>

 


title: New York State officials refuse to terminate DEI policies
uri: New-York-State-officials-refuse-to-terminate-DEI-policies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(New_York_State_officials_refuse_to_terminate_DEI_policies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(New_York_State_officials_refuse_to_terminate_DEI_policies)

content:
 
<p>

  New York State officials have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/new-york-schools-trump-dei">refused the wrecker's demand</a> to terminate
the DEI policies in state schools.
  They are prepared to fight his demands in court.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Phone footage of killing of Gaza paramedics
uri: Phone-footage-of-killing-of-Gaza-paramedics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Phone_footage_of_killing_of_Gaza_paramedics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(Phone_footage_of_killing_of_Gaza_paramedics)

content:
 
<p>

  *Phone footage <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/05/phone-footage-appears-to-contradict-israeli-account-of-killing-of-gaza-paramedics">appears to contradict</a> Israeli account of killing of Gaza
paramedics.*
</p>
<p>
We have seen the Israeli government lie many times to deny war crimes,
and cruelty to Palestinian civilians.  I don't expect Israel to tell
the truth after so many lies.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Suppressing human-rights defenders, UK
uri: Suppressing-human-rights-defenders-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_April_2025_(Suppressing_human-rights_defenders,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_April_2025_(Suppressing_human-rights_defenders,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
*An Afghan woman who risked her life to defend human rights [while
there] before fleeing to the UK has been told &hellip; it
is safe for her to return after [UK] officials
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/05/afghan-rights-defender-told-she-faces-no-risk-from-taliban-as-home-office-denies-asylum">rejected
her asylum claim</a>.*
<p>
Many other Afghan women who have fled to the UK recently
have got similar responses.

<p>
 


title: Law schools pressure law firms to resist
uri: Law-schools-pressure-law-firms-to-resist
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_April_2025_(Law_schools_pressure_law_firms_to_resist)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_April_2025_(Law_schools_pressure_law_firms_to_resist)

content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: call on law school deans, law school graduates, and
not-partner employees to organize to pressure the
<a khref="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/in-unity-theres-strength-to-confront">law
firms that have surrendered to the corrupter</a>, insisting that they
join the law firm resistance against him.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_April_2025_(Urgent:_Two-terms_is_the_limit)
title: Urgent: Two terms is a limit
uri: Urgent-Two-terms-is-a-limit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_April_2025_(Urgent:_Two-terms_is_the_limit)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-senate-republicans-denounce-trump-s-third-term-talk">call
on Senate Republicans</a> to denounce the anti-American "Third Term" Talk.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Petition to free Ozturk, op-ed writer
uri: Urgent-Petition-to-free-Ozturk-op-ed-writer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_April_2025_(Urgent:_Petition_to_free_Ozturk,_op-ed_writer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_April_2025_(Urgent:_Petition_to_free_Ozturk,_op-ed_writer)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/free-rumeysa-ozturk?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-the-intercept&source=group-the-intercept">call
for freeing Rumeysa Ozturk</a>: No one who writes a political article
should be arrested or deported for that expression of per views.
<p>
Side issue:
<p>
"Per" here is a third-person gender-neutral singular pronoun.
Please join me in using
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html">gender-neutral
singular pronouns</a> rather than plural pronouns such as "they"
when referring to a singular antecedent without specifying gender.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_April_2025_(Urgent:_Democrats'_minority_leader)
title: Urgent: Democrats' minority leader
uri: Urgent-Democrats-minority-leader
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_April_2025_(Urgent:_Democrats'_minority_leader)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/we-need-a-minority-leader-who-will-not-cave-to-trump?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">tell
Senate Democrats</a> that we need a minority leader who will not cave
to <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>.
<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-jan-apr.html#9_April_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_Social_Security)
title: Urgent: Protect Social Security
uri: 2025-04-10-Urgent-Protect-Social-Security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_April_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_Social_Security)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.ourrevolution.com/signup/stop-musk-social-security-cuts-take-effect/">call
on Congress</a> to protect Social Security from <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat's</a> cuts and propaganda.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>


 


title: Urgent: Budget poor need, not rich want
uri: Urgent-Budget-poor-need-not-rich-want
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Urgent:_Budget_poor_need,_not_rich_want)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Urgent:_Budget_poor_need,_not_rich_want)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call on per fight against
any budget that cuts critical human needs programs to   
fund more tax breaks for billionaires.
<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-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Urgent:_Contact_for_Our_Revolution)
title: Urgent: Contact for Our Revolution
uri: Urgent-Contact-for-Our-Revolution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Urgent:_Contact_for_Our_Revolution)
content:
 
<p>
If you have a way to communicate with a person in the organization Our
Revolution, and are willing to help me make contact, please write to
me, rms, at the GNU domain (gnu.org).
<p>
I would like to donate to Our Revolution, but I can't find a morally
acceptable way to send the donation.  The only way they publish is
through the web, and their payment system (as is usual on the web)
works by sending nonfree software to the user's browser.  Running such
software is unjust and insecure, so I refuse absolutely &mdash; no
exceptions, not even for an organization that follows Bernie Sanders.
<p>
If I can reach anyone there, I will try to work out a way to donate by
check.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_((Satire)_Sinks_as_wasteful)
title: (Satire) Sinks as wasteful
uri: (Satire)-Sinks-as-wasteful
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_((Satire)_Sinks_as_wasteful)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *RFK Jr Orders
<a href="https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-orders-removal-of-sinks-from-hhs-bathrooms/">Removal
Of Sinks</a> From HHS Bathrooms.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(US_relations_undermined,_SE_Asia)
title: US relations undermined, SE Asia
uri: US-relations-undermined-SE-Asia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(US_relations_undermined,_SE_Asia)
content:
 
<p>
*How [US economic warfare] tariffs could push  Vietnam into
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/how-trump-tariffs-could-push-vietnam-into-the-arms-of-china">the
 arms of China</a>.*
<p>
There are so many ironies.  South Vietnamese communist rebellion left
a corrupt dictatorship (still pledging allegiance to Communism), but
then the 2000-year old struggle against China reemerged.  The conflict
with the distant US was temporary, while the threat from nearby China
was perpetual.  So
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-sep-dec.html#18_September_2023_(Upgrade_in_US-Vietnam_relations)">that
dictatorship became an ally</a> of the US, and has hosted US military
bases.
<p>
I am sure the general predilection of Vietnamese is to have
mutually-beneficial but not close relationship with the US.  But harsh
harshness fro the US can make that impossible.


<p>
 


title: USDA excused reporting injuries of meat factory workers
uri: USDA-excused-reporting-injuries-of-meat-factory-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(USDA_excused_reporting_injuries_of_meat_factory_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(USDA_excused_reporting_injuries_of_meat_factory_workers)

content:
 
<p>

As part of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> War on Workers, the USDA has excused some
meat factories from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/us-poultry-workers-injury-safety">reporting injuries to their workers</a>.  This will
permit them to achieve higher profits by making workers hurry (and
risk injuries).
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Roseanne Barr's Illiteracy Charity
uri: (satire)-Roseanne-Barr-s-Illiteracy-Charity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_((satire)_Roseanne_Barr's_Illiteracy_Charity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_((satire)_Roseanne_Barr's_Illiteracy_Charity)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Roseanne Barr's Illiteracy Charity <a href="https://theonion.com/roseanne-barrs-illiteracy-charity-snatches-100-millionth-book-from-child/">Snatches 100 Millionth</a>
Book From Child.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(First_protesters,_now_students)
title: First protesters, now students
uri: First-protesters-now-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(First_protesters,_now_students)
content:
 
<p>

  First they came for the protesters, but now they are <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/08/trump-immigration-international-student-visas-deport/">coming for the students</a>
  solely because of their ethnic background, religion, or
national origin.
</p>
<p>
If a school tries to protect its students from persecution, <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> legal
gangsters may try to punish it by canceling its funding.  But it can resist
that too, by suing.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Environment_more_crucial_than_genes)
title: Environment more crucial than genes
uri: Environment-more-crucial-than-genes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Environment_more_crucial_than_genes)
content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/19/environment-more-crucial-genetics-explaining-risk-early-death-study">Environment more crucial than genes</a> in risk of early death, study suggests.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) 3 Days to return her from El Salvador Prison
uri: (satire)-3-Days-to-return-her-from-El-Salvador-Prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_((satire)_3_Days_to_return_her_from_El_Salvador_Prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_((satire)_3_Days_to_return_her_from_El_Salvador_Prison)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To <a href="https://theonion.com/judge-gives-trump-administration-3-days-to-return-her-from-el-salvador-prison/">Return Her From El Salvador Prison</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Police on high alert over Tesla protests
uri: Police-on-high-alert-over-Tesla-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Police_on_high_alert_over_Tesla_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Police_on_high_alert_over_Tesla_protests)

content:
 
<p>

  *Police Across the Country Are <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/police-across-the-country-are-on-high-alert-over-tesla-protests/">on High Alert</a> Over Tesla Protests.*
  They are struggling to drive the public to equate protests against
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> with terrorism.  Alas, they are pushing against a
self-driving campaign which recognizes <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> as a dangerous
threat to Americans' human rights and democracy, and to all the useful
and important things that the government does for people (such as
medical treatment) and for humanity (research and climate defense).
</p>
<p>
Some of those activities were already grossly insufficient, but
eliminating them, as <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat's</a> meddling is doing, will only make
things worse.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Presidential power to pardon a corporation
uri: Presidential-power-to-pardon-a-corporation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Presidential_power_to_pardon_a_corporation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Presidential_power_to_pardon_a_corporation)

content:
 
<p>

  Does the US president have the power to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/02/trump-pardons-corporation-bitmex-crypto/">pardon a corporation</a>?
</p>
<p>
That constitutional issue is separate from whether this particular
pardon for a conviction for money laundering was a personally-motivated
attack on the United States.  Given who did it, we can be sure of
that.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israeli military account of Palestinian medics' killing
uri: Israeli-military-account-of-Palestinian-medics-killing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Israeli_military_account_of_Palestinian_medics'_killing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Israeli_military_account_of_Palestinian_medics'_killing)

content:
 
<p>

*Israeli military admits initial account of Palestinian medics' killing was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/06/israeli-military-admits-initial-account-of-palestinian-medics-killing-was-mistaken">"mistaken"</a>.*
</p>
<p>
Such "mistakes" happen in the Israeli army.
</p>
<p>
  Red Crescent: *Gaza paramedics shot in upper body <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/07/gaza-paramedics-shot-in-upper-body-with-intent-to-kill-red-crescent-says">"with intent to kill."</a>*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Foreign students in the US who face deportation
uri: Foreign-students-in-the-US-who-face-deportation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Foreign_students_in_the_US_who_face_deportation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Foreign_students_in_the_US_who_face_deportation)

content:
 
<p>

  Hundreds of foreign students in the US who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-student-visas-deportation">face deportation</a> with no
explanation or accusation wonder if it was due to a traffic ticket
or some other minor interaction with <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.
</p>
<p>
It looks like <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> has found a possibly lawful Kafkaesque method
of terrorizing innocent foreign visitors.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Judge orders White House lift access restrictions on Associated Press
uri: Judge-orders-White-House-lift-access-restrictions-on-Associated-Press
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Judge_orders_White_House_lift_access_restrictions_on_Associated_Press)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Judge_orders_White_House_lift_access_restrictions_on_Associated_Press)

content:
 
<p>

  *Judge orders &hellip; White House to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/judge-orders-white-house-restore-associated-press-access">lift access restrictions</a> on Associated
Press.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Grovelling to the bully harms the world
uri: Grovelling-to-the-bully-harms-the-world
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Grovelling_to_the_bully_harms_the_world)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_April_2025_(Grovelling_to_the_bully_harms_the_world)

content:
 
<p>

  Robert Reich: *Those who grovel [to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>] are <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-art-of-the-despicable-deal">harming</a> the
world. They are traitors to America. We fought a Revolutionary War
  almost 250 years ago to avoid just this.*
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: Permission to stay in US while waiting asylum canceled
uri: Permission-to-stay-in-US-while-waiting-asylum-canceled
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Permission_to_stay_in_US_while_waiting_asylum_canceled)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Permission_to_stay_in_US_while_waiting_asylum_canceled)

content:
 
<p>

  The cheater <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/trump-immigration-cbp-one-biden">canceled the permission</a> to stay in the US and work while
waiting for an asylum hearing, which they were granted by the
government through the CBP One app.
</p>
<p>
The CBP One app was unjust because it was nonfree software and ran on
a phone with a <a href="https://gnu.org/malware/malware-mobile.html">nonfree operating system</a>.
  But that doesn't excuse what the cheater has done.  Canceling
anyone's parole on no grounds is a promise broken by the United State
government to a person who has asked for the chance to demonstrate
that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> is fleeing oppression.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israel's military in denying culpability for war crimes
uri: Israel-s-military-in-denying-culpability-for-war-crimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Israel's_military_in_denying_culpability_for_war_crimes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Israel's_military_in_denying_culpability_for_war_crimes)

content:
 
<p>

Israel's military is well trained in using defense in depth, when it
comes to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/08/idf-has-long-history-of-denying-involvement-in-civilian-killings">denying culpability for war crimes</a>.
   They consider that no alternative explanation is too implausible to
be offered.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Saboteur in chief discourages investigation of cryptocurrencies
uri: Saboteur-in-chief-discourages-investigation-of-cryptocurrencies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Saboteur_in_chief_discourages_investigation_of_cryptocurrencies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Saboteur_in_chief_discourages_investigation_of_cryptocurrencies)

content:
 
<p>

The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur in chief</a> loves cryptocurrencies so much that he
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/trump-crypto-doj">discourages investigation of possible frauds</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Demands to censor books initiated by pressure groups
uri: Demands-to-censor-books-initiated-by-pressure-groups
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Demands_to_censor_books_initiated_by_pressure_groups)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Demands_to_censor_books_initiated_by_pressure_groups)

content:
 
<p>

  *Last year <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/08/majority-of-attempts-to-ban-books-in-us-come-from-organised-groups-not-parents">72% of demands to censor books</a> were initiated by pressure
groups and government entities; with just 16% of ban attempts made
by parents.*
</p>
<p>
In other words, the right-wing censorship activists are using the parents
as a smokescreen.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Magats_condemn_Justice_Barrett)
title: Magats condemn Justice Barrett
uri: Magats-condemn-Justice-Barrett
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Magats_condemn_Justice_Barrett)
content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">Magats</a> now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/amy-coney-barrett-venezuela-deportation-ruling-republicans">condemn Justice Barrett</a> for defending the rule of law.
They demand she serve <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> without question.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Man who bumped Tesla while trying to park
uri: (satire)-Man-who-bumped-Tesla-while-trying-to-park
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_((satire)_Man_who_bumped_Tesla_while_trying_to_park)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_((satire)_Man_who_bumped_Tesla_while_trying_to_park)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that Raymond Pratt, a
   54-year-old resident of Chula Vista, CA who bumped a Tesla while
   parallel parking, had been sentenced to death. “Let me be clear: This
   man, who attempted to park on the street and damaged the rear bumper of
a Model 3, is a <a href="https://theonion.com/man-who-bumped-tesla-while-parallel-parking-sentenced-to-death/">domestic terrorist who deserves to die</a>,” said Bondi&hellip'*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Dr Oz wants to replace doctors with bullshit generators
uri: Dr-Oz-wants-to-replace-doctors-with-bullshit-generators
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Dr_Oz_wants_to_replace_doctors_with_bullshit_generators)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Dr_Oz_wants_to_replace_doctors_with_bullshit_generators)

content:
 
<p>

Dr Oz, newly confirmed as head of Medicare and Medicaid, wants to replace
our doctors <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-ai-health-care-medicare-cms-town-hall/">with bullshit generators</a>.
</p>
<p>
Occasionally there is a misunderstanding between me and a doctor, but
we can usually clear them up and get on the same page.  An LLM can't
understand anything, so they can never be cleared up.
</p>
<p>
I think this represents billionaires' idea that there doesn't need to
be good medical care for us non-billionaires.  They would have us live
for as long as keeping us alive is cheap, and push us off to the
crematorium.
</p>
<p>
  Reopening <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/trump-executiver-order-coal-power-plants">coal-fired electric generators</a> would help power the bullshit
generators when the pollution kills us.
</p>
</li>

 


title: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
uri: American-Academy-of-Arts-and-Sciences
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences)

content:
 
<p>

  The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded 1780, has <a href="http://go.pardot.com/e/868921/rd-statement-values-april-2025/n7ztfl/2359860803/h/V-ZngIfWaDT9l0a9irtzgaaLkvByiEMOiuWJt_tXGMI">taken a public stand</a>
  to defend knowledge, science, constitutional democracy
and rule of law, now that all those are threatened in the US.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Urgent:_Stand_up_against_Tariffs)
title: Urgent: Stand up against Tariffs
uri: Urgent-Stand-up-against-Tariffs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Urgent:_Stand_up_against_Tariffs)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-congress-stand-up-against-trumps-tariffs?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">call
on Congress</a> to stand up against <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> tariffs.
<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-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Urgent:_Uphold_due_process)
title: Urgent: Uphold due process
uri: Urgent-Uphold-due-process
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Urgent:_Uphold_due_process)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-to-tell-congress-federal-courts-and-the-us-marshals-service-take-urgent-action-now-to-defend-our-due-process-rights-and-stop-trumps-fascist-repression?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-re-sign-to-defend-due-process-rights-from-trumps-attacks">call
on Congress</a>, federal courts, and the U.S. Marshals Service to
defend the right of due process of law against <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Bribery in recent WI elections
uri: Urgent-Bribery-in-recent-WI-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Urgent:_Bribery_in_recent_WI_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Urgent:_Bribery_in_recent_WI_elections)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-fec-investigate-elon-musks-election-bribery?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-democracy-for-america-advocacy-fund&source=group-democracy-for-america-advocacy-fund">call
on the FEC</a> to investigate Elon Musk's election bribery
in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
<!--  [pol note] not found -->

<p>
 


title: Current tariff stats per country
uri: Current-tariff-stats-per-country
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Per_country,_current_tariff,_status:_OFF)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Per_country,_current_tariff,_status:_OFF)

content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The
bullshitter</a> announced that he has postponed his tariff trade war
for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-tariffs-list-pause">90 days</a>
(except against China).
<p>
I suspect this decision reflects a combination of a tactical decision
(perhaps most countries were not giving him the subservient response
he hoped for) and a general strategic predilection to be
unpredictable.
<p>
I am not an advocate of business globalization, so I do not advocate
"free trade".  Perhaps the tariff rate of 10% is a reasonable choice.
But that doesn't mean the <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur in chief</a> has really chosen
that choice.

<p>
 


title: Google search algorithm status: poor
uri: Google-search-algorithm-status-poor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Google_search_algorithm_status:_poor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_April_2025_(Google_search_algorithm_status:_poor)

content:
 
<p>
Changes in the output of Google Search, to display output of bullshit
generators rather than direct people to web sites, are
<a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/07/google-ai-search-shift-leaves-website-makers-feeling-betrayed/">making
businesses fail</a>.
<p>
Google's supposed explanation, that these changes respond to "new ways
people consume information" (How absurd to think of information as
being "consumed".)  You might thing that they are responding to what
customers <em>want to do</em>, but the words could just as easily fit
what <em>Google can make users do</em>.


 


title: Princeton climate research funding cuts
uri: Princeton-climate-research-funding-cuts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Princeton_climate_research_funding_cuts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Princeton_climate_research_funding_cuts)

content:
 
<p>
*[US government] cuts $4m to
Princeton’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/trump-administration-cuts-princeton-climate-research-funding">climate
research funding</a>.  White House claims university’s work exposed
students to "climate anxiety" and "exaggerated climate threats."*
<p>
No one deserves to be blamed for showing students the danger that
human practices are causing.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_((Satire)_Trump_strongarms_Trump)
title: (Satire) Trump strongarms Trump
uri: (Satire)-Trump-strongarms-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_((Satire)_Trump_strongarms_Trump)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>] Boasts About <a href="https://theonion.com/trump-boasts-about-strong-arming-trump-into-pausing-tariffs/">Strong-Arming [the saboteur in
chief] Into Pausing Tariffs</a>.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then right-click
and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as lynx
that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Mahmoud_Khalil)
title: Mahmoud Khalil
uri: Mahmoud-Khalil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Mahmoud_Khalil)
content:
 
<p>
In the preparation for Mahmoud Khalil's deportation hearing, the
government did not try to accuse Khalil of breaking any law.  It only
said he was inconvenient for <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> plans and claimed that is
enough grounds.
<p>
Specifically, the plans in question are to use weaponized accusations
of "antisemitism" --
a <a href-"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/mahmoud-khalil-memo-marco-rubio-deport-beliefs">stretched
concept of "antisemitism"</a> -- to bully and punish those who
criticizes Israel for its war crimes and crimes against humanity.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(14th_Amendment_defied)
title: 14th Amendment defied
uri: 14th-Amendment-defied
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(14th_Amendment_defied)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a> deportation
squads <a href="https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2025/04/new-york-kidnapping-club-redux/#more-120528">defy
the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution</a> by imprisoning and
deporting people without due process of law.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Economic_damage)
title: Economic damage
uri: Economic-damage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Economic_damage)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a> last-minute change of tariff plans avoided big problems
(until he changes the plan again), but the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/nils-pratley-on-finance/2025/apr/10/weve-been-spared-financial-armageddon-but-trumps-tariff-chaos-is-far-from-over">uncertainty he has already
caused will continue causing economic damage</a>.

<p>
 


title: Resurrected dire wolves more hype than reality
uri: Resurrected-dire-wolves-more-hype-than-reality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Resurrected_dire_wolves_more_hype_than_reality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Resurrected_dire_wolves_more_hype_than_reality)

content:
 
<p>
The announcement about "resurrected dire wolves"
was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/10/de-extincted-dire-wolf-hype-breakthrough-grey-wolves">more
hype than reality</a>.  They made genetically modified wolves with
around 20 pieces of their DNA copied from fossil dire wolves.
<p>
At least, that is what they say they have done.  There is no report of
independent verification of what they have actually done.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia)
title: Kilmar Abrego Garcia
uri: Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia)
content:
 
<p>
The Supreme Court unanimously ordered <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> to help Kilmar Abrego
Garcia get back to the US from El Salvador, where he was
illegally <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/supreme-court-order-el-salvador">deported
without due process</a>.
<p>
Since <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> has no reluctance to lie, I would not put it past him
to pretend to be trying to help, this while quietly urging El
Salvadors's cruel president to refuse obdurately.  Then <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>
will say, "I tried, but it's impossible."  He can lie with a smile
that means, "You know I'm lying but you can't make me stop."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Clearview's_sales_pitch)
title: Clearview's sales pitch
uri: Clearview-s-sales-pitch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Clearview's_sales_pitch)
content:
 
<p>
The application of political retaliation was part
of <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/">Clearview
AI's initial sales pitch</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Urgent:_US_Postal_Service)
title: Urgent: US Postal Service
uri: Urgent-US-Postal-Service
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Urgent:_US_Postal_Service)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say not to privatize
the US Postal Service.
<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-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(SSA_phone_service)
title: SSA phone service
uri: SSA-phone-service
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(SSA_phone_service)
content:
 
<p>
Public pressure made the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur in chief</a> climb down from the plan
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/retirees-welcome-news-that-ssa-phone-services-will-remain-available-to-the-public">close
the Social Security Administration's service-by-phone system</a>.
<p>
That doesn't mean the problem is gone for good.  When it comes to
hurting people that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#saboteur">the saboteur</a> despises, which includes "useless"
non-rich aged or disabled people, he is very persistent.  He might
decide to try it again some months from now, perhaps in a slightly
different way.  He might simply hire so few operators that one must
wait a week for actual service -- or have
a <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligance">bullshit
generator</a> respond.

<p>
 


title: Violence prevention research funding cancelled
uri: Violence-prevention-research-funding-cancelled
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Violence_prevention_research_funding_cancelled)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Violence_prevention_research_funding_cancelled)

content:
 
<p>
The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur in chief</a> has cancelled funds for various research projects
about preventing
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-gun-violence-federal-programs">gun
violence, sexual violence, domestic terrorist attacks and violent hate
crimes.</a>*
<p>
This must be to please the gun fanatics among the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_April_2025_(Rightwing_extremist_terror,_US)
title: Rightwing extremist terror, US
uri: Rightwing-extremist-terror-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_April_2025_(Rightwing_extremist_terror,_US)
content:
 
<p>
The <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> has canceled funds
for various research projects
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/trump-counter-terrorism-cuts">studying
ways to curb</a> right-wing extremist terrorism in the US.
<p>
I find that natural.  He is a right-wing extremist, and they are
among his supporters.  Some of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/12/charlottesville-far-right-crowd-with-torches-encircles-counter-protest-group">their
acts of terror</a> helped build his support.  Howsoever an effort to
prevent such terrorism might operate, its success would work against
him.  He has already told the FBI to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_April_2025_(US_neo-Nazi_group_calls_for_targeted_Ukraine_attacks)">stop
focusing on right-wing terrorism</a>. Ending the research too is the
sort of long-term completeness that his cunning Project 2025 advisors
would think of.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_April_2025_(McCarthy_VS_Persecutor)
title: McCarthy VS Persecutor
uri: McCarthy-VS-Persecutor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_April_2025_(McCarthy_VS_Persecutor)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor's</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/trump-crackdown-free-speech">repression
of protesters</a> is more rigid than McCarthyism's persecution of
suspected Communists in the 1950s.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/30/joe-mccarthy-mccarthyism-donald-trump-clay-risen-red-scare">More comparison</a>
between the two.


<p>
 


title: Thousands SS numbers changed to "dead"
uri: Thousands-SS-numbers-changed-to-dead
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#14_April_2025_(Thousands_SS_numbers_changed_to_dead)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#14_April_2025_(Thousands_SS_numbers_changed_to_dead)

content:
 
<p>
<!---->The persecutor has listed
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/social-security-canceled-immigrants">6,000 immigrants</a>
as dead to inactivate
their social security numbers.
<p>
How is it that these immigrants have social security numbers?  Because
Biden gave them temporary protected status because of chaos or
repression in their home countries, and that includes permission to
work in the US &mdash; therefore, social security numbers.
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor</a>
abruptly canceled this permission to work.  That could deny them
access to their bank accounts and pensions.  This is gratuitous
cruelty.
<p>
If a country is no longer suffering from chaos or repression, its
refugees may no longer be entitled to temporary protected status.  But
it is gratuitous cruelty to rush them to leave quickly.  TPS has an
expiration date, so why not let them stay that while so they can
return home with a good plan?
<p>
That is assuming that a country's situation has improved enough to end
TPS for its refugees.  As far as I have heard, nothing has improved in
Cuba, Haiti or Venezuela.  <!----> The persecutor is piling one gratuitous
cruelty on another on another.
<p>
<!---->With the persecutor, it's cruelties all the way down.



<p>
 


title: Urgent: Money over-influencing politics
uri: Urgent-Money-over-influencing-politics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#14_April_2025_(Urgent:_Money_over-influencing_politics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#14_April_2025_(Urgent:_Money_over-influencing_politics)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-get-billionaire-money-out-of-politics?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-hd&source=group-hd">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-jan-apr.html#14_April_2025_(Mahmoud_Khalil_legal_struggle)
title: Mahmoud Khalil legal struggle
uri: Mahmoud-Khalil-legal-struggle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#14_April_2025_(Mahmoud_Khalil_legal_struggle)
content:
 
<p>
Mahmoud Khalil's continuing legal struggle against being deported,
perhaps for his political views or for no known reason at all, is
complex since
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/12/mahmoud-khalil-immigration-hearing-deportation-trump/">two
parallel court systems are working on it</a>.  It is impossible to
predict the outcome, except that it's clear that <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> is out to get him.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#14_April_2025_(A_ruling_in_the_Mahmoud_Khalil_case)
title: A ruling in the Mahmoud Khalil case
uri: A-ruling-in-the-Mahmoud-Khalil-case
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#14_April_2025_(A_ruling_in_the_Mahmoud_Khalil_case)
content:
 
<p>
*US judge rules Mahmoud Khalil
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-ruling-immigration">can
be deported</a> [solely] for his views.*
<p>
(I believe this was the specially selected judge for whom they sent
Khalil to Louisiana instead of holding the hearing near New York.)
<p>
This ruling is worse than it purports to be.  Supposedly the Secretary
of State can deport any non-citizen who <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> claims is somehow harmful to the
country.  But since there is no requirement to demonstrate that is
true, the Secretary of State could fabricate anything.  The result is
a totally arbitrary non-process which can be used at any time against
any non-citizen.
<p>
A Secretary of State could print up form letters with duplicated
signatures with a blank for adding the target's name.
<p>
Requiring "due process of law" is the method used by US law to make
the government demonstrate grounds for decisions that deny a person's
rights.  But a proclamation by an official is no proof, and citing it
is no real process.  If courts accept that as satisfying the
requirement for "due process", due process becomes a sham and a
pretense.


<p>
 


title: Mahmoud Khalil appeal for free speech
uri: Mahmoud-Khalil-appeal-for-free-speech
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#14_April_2025_(Mahmoud_Khalil_to_appeal_for_free_speech)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#14_April_2025_(Mahmoud_Khalil_to_appeal_for_free_speech)

content:
 
<p>
*I disagree with Mahmoud Khalil’s politics. But
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/11/mahmoud-khalil-court-ruling">the
deportation decision</a> is abhorrent.*

<p>
 


title: (satire) Pregnancy test comes with flight voucher
uri: (satire)-Pregnancy-test-comes-with-flight-voucher
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_((satire)_Pregnancy_test_comes_with_flight_voucher)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_((satire)_Pregnancy_test_comes_with_flight_voucher)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *[Pregnancy] Test <a href="https://theonion.com/new-clearblue-test-comes-with-flight-voucher-in-case-result-positive/">Comes With Flight Voucher</a> In Case Result Positive.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker eager to do damage to California
uri: Wrecker-eager-to-do-damage-to-California
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Wrecker_eager_to_do_damage_to_California)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Wrecker_eager_to_do_damage_to_California)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/trump-china-tariffs-california-farms">eager to do damage to California</a>.  Could that be one of
his reasons for provoking trade war?
</p>
</li>

 


title: Unusual tattoo listed as supposed gang tattoo
uri: Unusual-tattoo-listed-as-supposed-gang-tattoo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Unusual_tattoo_listed_as_supposed_gang_tattoo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Unusual_tattoo_listed_as_supposed_gang_tattoo)

content:
 
<p>

A British man who has no connections with Venezuela or gangs found his
own unusual tattoo listed in the Department of Horror and Suffering's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/dhs-british-tattoo-identify-alleged-gang-venezuela">supposed gang tattoo photo catalog</a>.
  The tattoo depicts a clock showing he hour of his daughter's birth.
</p>
<p>
Now he is afraid to visit Miami with his family, afraid he might be
imprisoned by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> cunning nincompoops.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Ships required to pay carbon emissions in 2028
uri: Ships-required-to-pay-carbon-emissions-in-2028
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Ships_required_to_pay_carbon_emissions_in_2028)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Ships_required_to_pay_carbon_emissions_in_2028)

content:
 
<p>

  Starting in 2028, ships will be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/shipping-companies-pay-carbon-dioxide-produced-by-vessels">required to pay</a> for their carbon
emissions.
</p>
<p>
This is important for pressuring to make ships more efficient.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Republicans' love for children of unauthorized immigrants
uri: Republicans-love-for-children-of-unauthorized-immigrants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Republicans'_love_for_children_of_unauthorized_immigrants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Republicans'_love_for_children_of_unauthorized_immigrants)

content:
 
<p>

  Republicans love the children of unauthorized immigrants &ellip;
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/12/tennessee-lawmakers-abortion-bans">until they are born</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: People asking for return of donations to Senator Fetterman
uri: People-asking-for-return-of-donations-to-Senator-Fetterman
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(People_asking_for_return_of_donations_to_Senator_Fetterman)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(People_asking_for_return_of_donations_to_Senator_Fetterman)

content:
 
<p>

People who made small campaign contributions to Senator Fetterman's
campaign when he pretended to be progressive are asking for
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/05/john-fetterman-israel-campaign-donation-refunds/">return of their donations</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: How much did Congress make off market turmoil?
uri: How-much-did-Congress-make-off-market-turmoil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(How_much_did_Congress_make_off_market_turmoil_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(How_much_did_Congress_make_off_market_turmoil_)

content:
 
<p>

  *How Much Did Congress <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/10/congress-ban-stocks-insider-trading-tariffs-trump/">Make Off Market Turmoil</a> and Why're They Allowed
to Make Anything at All?*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Accusations US troops were sent to Panama
uri: Accusations-US-troops-were-sent-to-Panama
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Accusations_US_troops_were_sent_to_Panama)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Accusations_US_troops_were_sent_to_Panama)

content:
 
<p>

  Panama's opposition party accuses <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/panama-hegseth-us-invasion-canal">sending US troops</a>
to former US military bases in Panama &mdash; in effect, a clandestine invasion,
though the government denies that it is one.
</p>
<p>
It reminds me of Putin's conquest of Crimea, though there are differences.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israeli army unit that attacked ambulances
uri: Israeli-army-unit-that-attacked-ambulances
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Israeli_army_unit_that_attacked_ambulances)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Israeli_army_unit_that_attacked_ambulances)

content:
 
<p>

  The Israeli army unit that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/idf-unit-killing-palestinian-paramedics-golani-brigade">attacked a column of ambulances</a> in Rafah,
and murdered captured paramedics afterward, is under the command of a
general who has encouraged killing any Arab whatsoever, and so have
other officers.
</p>
</li>

 


title: White House may seek legally binding control over Columbia
uri: White-House-may-seek-legally-binding-control-over-Columbia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(White_House_may_seek_legally_binding_control_over_Columbia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(White_House_may_seek_legally_binding_control_over_Columbia)

content:
 
<p>

  *White House may seek <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/trump-columbia-consent-decree">legally binding control</a> over Columbia through
consent decree – report.*
</p>
<p>
I don't think <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> aims to destroy Columbia; he wants to make
it subservient.  I wonder if New York State could pass a law
forbidding the accreditation of a university that doesn't respect
academic freedom, such that agreeing to such a consent decree would
force it to cease to operate.  (This would be something like the
liberty-or-death-for-this-code clause of the GNU General Public License.)
</p>
<p>
If <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> wants to destroy that university, he could do it this
way, but that changes little since he could destroy it in other ways.
But if what he wants is to have it continue to exist in a subservient
way, this could prevent it, 
</p>
</li>

 


title: Chinese captain charged with damaging undersea cables
uri: Chinese-captain-charged-with-damaging-undersea-cables
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Chinese_captain_charged_with_damaging_undersea_cables)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Chinese_captain_charged_with_damaging_undersea_cables)

content:
 
<p>

  *Taiwan <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/11/taiwan-charges-chinese-captain-with-damaging-undersea-cables">charges Chinese captain</a> with damaging undersea cables.*
</p>
<p>
Bravo for taking action against this covert form of warfare.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Federal prosecutors ordered to ignore cryptocurrency corruption
uri: Federal-prosecutors-ordered-to-ignore-cryptocurrency-corruption
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Federal_prosecutors_ordered_to_ignore_cryptocurrency_corruption)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_April_2025_(Federal_prosecutors_ordered_to_ignore_cryptocurrency_corruption)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a> ordered federal prosecutors to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-tells-prosecutors-ease-crypto-enforcement/story?id=120589406">avert their eyes</a> from
cryptocurrency corruption.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Urgent:_Hold_Big_Oil_accountable)
title: Urgent: Hold Big Oil accountable
uri: Urgent-Hold-Big-Oil-accountable
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Urgent:_Hold_Big_Oil_accountable)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your state governor and attorney general to hold
Big Oil <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/make-polluters-pay-tell-your-state-attorney-general-to-hold-big-oil-accountable-for-their-climate-crimes">accountable for its climate crimes</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_the_SAVE_act)
title: Urgent: Reject the "SAVE" act
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-SAVE-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_the_SAVE_act)
content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on The Senate to <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/senate-reject-save-act/">reject the "SAVE" Act</a>, short for
Suppress All sorts of Voters Explicitly.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Making sense of what the corrupter means
uri: Making-sense-of-what-the-corrupter-means
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Making_sense_of_what_the_corrupter_means)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Making_sense_of_what_the_corrupter_means)

content:
 
<p>

An attempt to make sense of what <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> means by what he says.
It proposes a model of how he thinks about his actions and their aims:
he has no principles, no values except gain, and no loyalty except for
mutual gain.
</p>
<p>
  When he causes havoc, it is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/24/donald-trump-doctrine-usa-reshape-the-world">not always that he is unaware</a> of the
damage his acts can do to others.  Sometimes he just doesn't care.
</p>
<p>
It makes sense that he inclines towards promoting prejudice, hatred
and cruelty: because they insulate a person from values and loyalty
other than taking away from others.
</p>
<p>
The hardest challenge for those who wish to restore the former
(partial and insufficient) role of principle, loyalty and justice will
be how to defeat that empire without sinking to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a> level
and thus replacing one corrupter with another.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Palestinian_medics_survivor)
title: Palestinian medics survivor
uri: Palestinian-medics-survivor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Palestinian_medics_survivor)
content:
 
<p>

A survivor among the group of Palestinian medics massacred in Gaza, who
was missing afterward, has been found &mdash; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/13/palestinian-medic-assad-al-nsasrah-attacked-gaza-detained-israel-says-icrc">imprisoned by Israel</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Being recorded as "dead" by Social Security Agency
uri: Being-recorded-as-dead-by-Social-Security-Agency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Being_recorded_as_dead_by_Social_Security_Agency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Being_recorded_as_dead_by_Social_Security_Agency)

content:
 
<p>

Being erroneously recorded as "dead" by the Social Security Agency
<a href="https://tracking.us.nylas.com/l/112972514c334802a08d655d6de241e7/4/ec22ed7822faf0b19a122011272034dfff4dfd5c5518953bac36678e7e07da85?cache_buster=1744320772">can be disastrous</a>.  The problems it causes might kill you.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Harvard_heroic_efforts)
title: Harvard University heroic efforts
uri: Harvard-University-heroic-efforts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Harvard_heroic_efforts)
content:
 
<p>
Harvard has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/14/trump-harvard-funding-freeze">refused
to surrender</a> to the bully/cheater's political demands and will
fight them in court.  Bravo!
<p>
*Harvard University
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/12/harvard-university-sues-trump-administration">faculty sue</a>
to block Trump review of nearly $9bn in
funding.*
<p>
It is futile to make a deal with the bully/cheater, since he does not
hesitate to cancel a deal, or cheat.  Once you choose the path of
appeasement, he will demand more and more appeasement.
<p>
The bully/cheater told Columbia that giving him all he had demanded
was not enough to have its research funds reinstated.

<p>
 


title: Foreign, business, US bribes now OK, US
uri: Foreign-business-US-bribes-now-OK-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Foreign,_business,_US_bribes_now_OK,_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Foreign,_business,_US_bribes_now_OK,_US)

content:
 
<p>
The wrecker has ended prosecution of US companies for paying bribes
in other countries.  He claims that, in places where bribery is normal,
the US companies should not be at a disadvantage in that game.
<p>
This article argues that the game is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/21/donald-trump-halting-anti-bribery-laws-will-harm-not-help-us-companies">bad for the companies that play it</a>,
and that US companies will be better off if corruption is kept down.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Xi_in_Vietnam)
title: Xi in Vietnam
uri: Xi-in-Vietnam
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_April_2025_(Xi_in_Vietnam)
content:
 
<p>
The bully claims that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/15/china-xi-jinping-vietnam-screw-donald-trump">Chairman
Xi is in Vietnam</a> to develop ways to screw the US.  He might very
well want to screw the US, but he no longer needs to figure out ways
to do it.  It suffices to pick u<!--0-->p the opportunities that the bully
throws his way.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#17_April_2025_(Urgent:_Lawmakers_vs_Judiciary)
title: Urgent: Lawmakers vs Judiciary
uri: Urgent-Lawmakers-vs-Judiciary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#17_April_2025_(Urgent:_Lawmakers_vs_Judiciary)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/stop-no-rogue-rulings-act-2025-cwc/?t=1003&akid=33335%2E96703%2ECXhvBS">call
on Congress</a> to reject the bill to undermine the judiciary's power
to resist unconstitutional laws.


<p>
 


title: European State of the Climate report
uri: European-State-of-the-Climate-report
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(European_State_of_the_Climate_report)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(European_State_of_the_Climate_report)

content:
 
<p>

  *   European State of the Climate report <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/15/europe-storms-floods-and-wildfires-in-2024-affected-more-than-400000">"lays bare" impact of fossil fuels</a>
   on continent during its hottest 12 months on record.*
</p>
<p>
*Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Salvadoran President lacks humanity
uri: (satire)-Salvadoran-President-lacks-humanity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_((satire)_Salvadoran_President_lacks_humanity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_((satire)_Salvadoran_President_lacks_humanity)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *Salvadoran President <a href="https://theonion.com/salvadoran-president-claims-he-lacks-humanity-to-return-wrongly-deported-man/">Claims He Lacks Humanity</a> To Return
Wrongly Deported Man.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Threats to end rule of law over deportation
uri: Threats-to-end-rule-of-law-over-deportation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(Threats_to_end_rule_of_law_over_deportation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(Threats_to_end_rule_of_law_over_deportation)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-two-tipping-points-for-when-we">threatens to end rule of law over deportation</a> in two
different ways.
</p>
</li>

 


title: We must not idolize system of global "free trade"
uri: We-must-not-idolize-system-of-global-free-trade
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(We_must_not_idolize_system_of_global_free_trade)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(We_must_not_idolize_system_of_global_free_trade)

content:
 
<p>

We must not let the damage done by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> stupid tariff policies
lead us to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/13/trump-bullying-must-stop-but-true-costs-globalisation-remain">idolize the system of global "free trade"</a> that he has smashed.
   That system was inflicted on us by plutocrats who did <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR's</a>
dirty work.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Mohsen Mahdawi is bully's latest choice for arbitrary expulsion
uri: Mohsen-Mahdawi-is-bully-s-latest-choice-for-arbitrary-expulsion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(Mohsen_Mahdawi_is_bully's_latest_choice_for_arbitrary_expulsion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(Mohsen_Mahdawi_is_bully's_latest_choice_for_arbitrary_expulsion)

content:
 
<p>

  Mohsen Mahdawi, <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-detained">latest choice for arbitrary expulsion</a> for
supposedly hampering <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> plans for peace between Israel
and Palestine.
  (Comparing this claim with the actions of the US suggests that, for
the US, "peace" for Palestinians means "the peace of the grave".)
</p>
<p>
Here Israeli student Mikey Baratz, who works with Mahdawi to make
real peace possible, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/15/rubio-antisemitism-mahdawi-columbia-student-ice-palestine-israel/">refutes that accusation</a>.
</p>
<p>
You could hardly imagine clearer proof that the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a> are using the
Big Lie method.
</p>
<p>
We must take care to resist the mind-set of all-out conflict which can
blind people to tactics that can make the world worse even when used
for a cause that is basically valid.  Like Baratz, I have felt that
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_May_2024_(Columbia_University_protesters_drama)">the movement to end the bombardment and siege of Gaza</a> and defend
Palestinians' rights often goes too far &mdash;
to the point of demanding to annex and abolish Israel.  A demand
for annexation is as wrong in one direction as it is in the other.
</p>
<p>
  <a href="benevolence.html">My criticism</a> of that excess
is in no way meant to excuse Israel's
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-jan-apr.html#25_April_2024_(Israeli_colonist_violence)">atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank</a>, which are enormous crimes that
call for prosecution.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(Students_sue_Hegseth_over_book_bans)
title: Students sue Hegseth over book bans
uri: Students-sue-Hegseth-over-book-bans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(Students_sue_Hegseth_over_book_bans)
content:
 
<p>

  *Students at Pentagon schools <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/pentagon-school-students-sue-hegseth-book-bans">sue Hegseth</a> over book bans on race and gender.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: University of Pittsburgh's suspension of Pro-Palestine Student Group
uri: University-of-Pittsburgh-s-suspension-of-Pro-Palestine-Student-Group
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(University_of_Pittsburgh's_suspension_of_Pro-Palestine_Student_Group)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(University_of_Pittsburgh's_suspension_of_Pro-Palestine_Student_Group)

content:
 
<p>

  *[The University of Pittsburgh]'s Suspension of Pro-Palestine Student Group <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/15/pitt-students-sjp-palestine-free-speech-aclu-lawsuit/">Violates First Amendment</a>, Says ACLU Lawsuit.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(Harvard's_pushback_against_Trump)
title: Harvard's pushback against Trump
uri: Harvard-s-pushback-against-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(Harvard's_pushback_against_Trump)
content:
 
<p>

  *How Harvard's pushback against Trump <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/harvard-pushback-trump-administration">may embolden more US resistance</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Bezos's publicity stunt suborbital rocket flight
uri: Bezos-s-publicity-stunt-suborbital-rocket-flight
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(Bezos's_publicity_stunt_suborbital_rocket_flight)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(Bezos's_publicity_stunt_suborbital_rocket_flight)

content:
 
<p>

Bezos's publicity stunt suborbital rocket flight, in which all the
passengers were women, reduces science, engineering and feminism to
superficial tokens, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/15/blue-origin-flight-american-feminism">replacing the substance they formerly had</a>.
</p>
<p>
It is not a bad thing that the launcher is so automated that
it doesn't need a crew.  What was bad was the pretense that this
publicity stunt had real significance.
</p>
</li>

 


title: US-born citizen ordered to leave the US
uri: US-born-citizen-ordered-to-leave-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(US-born_citizen_ordered_to_leave_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(US-born_citizen_ordered_to_leave_the_US)

content:
 
<p>

The Department of Homeland Suffering ordered a US-born citizen to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/self-deportation-email-citizen-immigration-lawyer">leave the US</a>.  Fortunately she is a lawyer and knows how to deal with this.
</p>
<p>
The border <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> told her that they
“used the known email addresses of the alien to
send notifications". If a non-personal email such as an American
citizen contact was provided by the alien, notices may have been sent
to unintended recipients."
</p>
<p>
But that doesn't explain why the letter was addressed to her, not to
any of her clients.  If they did not intend to threaten her, their
sending this letter to her demonstrates inexcusable carelessness.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Pentagon cutting down projects to reduce US caused civilian casualties
uri: Pentagon-cutting-down-projects-to-reduce-US-caused-civilian-casualties
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(Pentagon_cutting_down_projects_to_reduce_US_caused_civilian_casualties)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(Pentagon_cutting_down_projects_to_reduce_US_caused_civilian_casualties)

content:
 
<p>

  Under direction from <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#infant">the hater</a>, the Pentagon is <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/15/pete-hegseth-pentagon-civilian-casualties-harm/">cutting down its projects</a>
to reduce the number of civilian casualties US forces cause.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(ISR_ready_to_starve_all_in_Gaza)
title: ISR ready to starve all in Gaza
uri: ISR-ready-to-starve-all-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(ISR_ready_to_starve_all_in_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
Israel says that, to get the hostages released from Gaza it is ready
to starve everyone Gaza to death (which
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/no-humanitarian-aid-gaza-israeli-minister-israel-katz-hamas">includes
the hostages</a>).
<p>
I can imagine the government claiming that,
<a href="https://bracingviews.com/2021/08/02/destroying-the-village-in-vietnam/">"We
had to destroy our people to save them</a>."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(Were_Gaza_paramedics_murdered_)
title: Were Gaza paramedics murdered?
uri: Were-Gaza-paramedics-murdered
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(Were_Gaza_paramedics_murdered_)
content:
 
<p>
Autopsies of [the Gaza paramedics] killed in Gaza show ‘gunshots to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/autopsies-of-rescue-workers-killed-in-gaza-show-gunshots-to-head-and-torso">head
and torso</a>’.
<p>
This is additional evidence that they were murdered.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: GOP weak in all voting districts
uri: Urgent-GOP-weak-in-all-voting-districts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(Urgent:_GOP_weak_in_all_voting_districts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(Urgent:_GOP_weak_in_all_voting_districts)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Democratic Party to run candidates all across
the country in 2026, to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-democrats-fight-everywhere?source=group-democracy-for-america-advocacy-fund&nowraooer=true">take
advantage of the hostility</a> and resentment generated by the
Republicans that hate our freedoms.

<p>
 


title: J. Stiglitz on Columbia U. capitulation
uri: J-Stiglitz-on-Columbia-U-capitulation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(J._Stiglitz_on_Columbia_U._capitulation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(J._Stiglitz_on_Columbia_U._capitulation)

content:
 
<p>
*Nobel Winner Joseph Stiglitz
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/15/stiglitz-columbia-trump-academic-freedom-universities/">Denounces
Columbia’s Apparent Capitulation</a> to [<a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>].*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(Toxic_metals_in_cropland)
title: Toxic metals in cropland
uri: Toxic-metals-in-cropland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(Toxic_metals_in_cropland)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/17/about-15-world-cropland-polluted-toxic-metals-say-researchers">About
15% of world’s cropland</a> polluted with toxic metals, say
researchers.*
<p>
I wonder if there is a feasible way to decontaminate large areas of soil.

<p>
 


title: Food and Drug Administration staff cuts
uri: Food-and-Drug-Administration-staff-cuts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(Food_and_Drug_Administration_staff_cuts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(Food_and_Drug_Administration_staff_cuts)

content:
 
<p>
*The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/fda-suspends-quality-control-food-testing-staff-cuts">FDA
labs that test food</a> to prevent illness have been affected by wider
health and human services staff cuts.* Some tests have ceased to be
made.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(uk_military_bases_chemical_leaks)
title: Forever chemicals
uri: 2025-04-20-Forever-chemicals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(uk_military_bases_chemical_leaks)
content:
 
<p>
*Fears that UK military bases may be leaking toxic "forever chemicals" 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/19/uk-military-bases-chemical-leaks-forever-chemicals-drinking-water">into
drinking water.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(trump_coal_mining_health_cuts)
title: Trump’s coal expansion
uri: Trump-s-coal-expansion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(trump_coal_mining_health_cuts)
content:
 
<p>
The saboteur in chief wants to expand coal mines, and is cutting
programs that try to protect the workers from getting sick 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/trump-coal-mining-health-cuts">from
working in a coal mine.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(musk_fraud_social_security)
title: Musk & Social Security
uri: Musk-Social-Security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(musk_fraud_social_security)
content:
 
<p>
*Musk Is Lying About Waste and Fraud in Social Security to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/musk-fraud-social-security">Have an
Excuse to Kill It.*</a>

<p>
 


title: Berkeley Fire Safety
uri: Berkeley-Fire-Safety
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(berkeley_california_gardens_wildfires)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(berkeley_california_gardens_wildfires)

content:
 
<p>
Berkeley, California, is about to vote on new fire safety rules
designed to slow the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/berkeley--california-gardens-wildfires">spread of wildfires.</a>
<p>
The rules include having no plants (and other flammable material)
within 5ft of a residence.
<p>
I wonder why this does not include other kinds of buildings,
in the areas that are most vulnerable.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(who_is_kilmar_abrego_garcia)
title: Legal saga of Ábrego Kilmar
uri: Legal-saga-of-Ábrego-Kilmar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(who_is_kilmar_abrego_garcia)
content:
 
<p>
Detailed history of the case of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/who-is-kilmar-abrego-garcia">Kilmer Ábrego García.</a>
<p>
President Bukele justifies holding him in prison on the supposed
grounds that he is a "terrorist", but has not tried to prove that that
is true.  He has not had a trial to justify that claim.
<p>
Under Bukele's "war on drugs", it is normal to imprison people for
years and trials are considered unimportant.
<p>
The greatest outrage of this case for the United States is that
the bully and Bukele are blatantly conspiring to respond to the
Supreme Court by coordinated deceptions.
<p>
The bully's deception is the claim that he has no influence
over Bukele.
<p>
Bukele's deception is the claim that <li>(1) Ábrego is a terrorist though
he was never tried for this, </li><li>(2) this somehow forbids Bukele to let him
go to the US at the US request, and </li><li>(3) allowing him to go to the US
with US permission would be "smuggling".
<p>
The two deceptions are designed so that there is no way to <Em>prove</Em>
that either of them is false, even though by common sense we can be
completely sure they are false.  The message to the Supreme Court is,
"We can use these deceptions to thumb our noses at your rulings."
<p>
A SU senator went to El Salvador and asked to speak with Ábrego.
The vice president told him that was somehow impossible, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-chris-van-hollen">as
some law of nature</a>
<p>
Homan, the Tsar's "border tsar" called Ábrego a "terrorist".
Since Ábrego has not sought publicity, can he win a lawsuit for libel
against Homan?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(trump_kilmar_garcia_bukele)
title: Kilmar Garcia
uri: Kilmar-Garcia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(trump_kilmar_garcia_bukele)
content:
 
<p>
The bully admits that deporting Kilmar Ábrego Garcia was a "mistake",
but he shows no contrition about the harm that it did to Ábrego and to
his family.  He joins Bully Bukele in laughing at their 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-nov-feb.html#17_February_2024_(Tough-on-gangs_Bukele_reelected,_SLV)">suffering.</a>
<p>
Note the curious contrast between the bully's ready admission that he
has no authority to order Bukele to release Ábrego to the US, when it
is an excuse to allow Bukele to do what the bully really wants Bukele
to do.  Contrast this with what the bully does when he wants to impose
his will by force in the US in situations where legally he has no such
right.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(doge_musk_vera_non_profit)
title: Doge agency
uri: Doge-agency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(doge_musk_vera_non_profit)
content:
 
<p>
The DOPE agency demanded to mess with an NGO because it received 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/doge-musk-vera-non-profit">some
government funds.</a>
<p>
The agency personnel were embarrassed to discover that the wrecker had
cancelled the government support a few weeks before.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(lyft_convo_transcribed)
title: Lyft convo transcription
uri: Lyft-convo-transcription
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(lyft_convo_transcribed)
content:
 
<p>
Canadian friends riding in a Lyft car found that their conversation
had been recorded and sent in the form of text 
<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lyft-conversation-transcribed-1.7508106">the phone of one of them.</a>
<p>
This is supposed to be illegal, but Lyft says it shouldn't have been possible
and it doesn't understand what happened.
<p>
I can't draw any specific moral conclusions about Lyft from these fragments
of understanding, but it is clear that microphones in cars are dangerous
and taxi passengers should be able to switch them off.


<p>
 


title: Toxic heavy metals
uri: Toxic-heavy-metals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(15_world_cropland_polluted_toxic_metals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(15_world_cropland_polluted_toxic_metals)

content:
 
<p>
*About 15% of world’s cropland polluted with toxic metals, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/17/about-15-world-cropland-polluted-toxic-metals-say-researchers">say researchers.*</a>
<p>
I wonder if there is a feasible way to decontaminate large areas of soil.

<p>
 


title: Endangered species
uri: 2025-04-20-Endangered-species
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(trump_endangered_species_protections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#19_April_2025_(trump_endangered_species_protections)

content:
 
<p>
The wrecker plans to change endangered species protection
to enable 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/trump-remove-endangered-species-protections">reckless habitat destruction.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_April_2025_(RMS_will_give_a_talk_in_London)
title: RMS will give a talk in London
uri: RMS-will-give-a-talk-in-London
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_April_2025_(RMS_will_give_a_talk_in_London)
content:
 
<p>
I will speak about free
software and computing freedom, and about related issues that affect
whether your computing respects your freedom.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/talks.html#04-22-2025">This talk</a>
will be at King's College, on Tuesday,
April 22 in London, England. 
<p>
There are many threats to freedom in the digital society. They
include nonfree software, massive surveillance, and censorship.
Nonfree programs are often designed to restrict users, control
users or manipulate users. The War on Sharing aims to stop users
from sharing copies of published works. Computers for voting make
election results untrustworthy.
<p>
Other threats come from use of web services, implemented by
companies that can impose any conditions whatsoever.
Finally, most internet activities (aside from those which existed
before 2000) are precarious, dependent on permission from one company.
All of these threats originate more or less in the use of nonfree
software.  That is why free software is the first battle in
the liberation of the digital society.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_April_2025_(RMS_will_give_a_talk_in_Oxford)
title: RMS will give a talk in Oxford
uri: RMS-will-give-a-talk-in-Oxford
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_April_2025_(RMS_will_give_a_talk_in_Oxford)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/talks.html#04-24-2025">Oxford on Tuesday</a>
<br />I will give a talk at 
the Lecture Theatre, on Thursday,
April 24 in Oxford, England.
<p>
The topic is free/libre software and freedom in the digital society.
<p>
We understand that the uses of computing can be unjust.
Most do not realize that the <em>mechanisms</em> of computing
can be unjust in other ways.
<p>
If a program that the users do not control does your computing,
it controls your computing.
<p>
When servers that the users do not control do your computing,
those servers control it.
<p>
So Don't entrust your own computing to a program that isn't libre or a
server whose operator isn't a loyal friend.  For your own computing,
insted of a server that might mistreat you, use free software
on your own computer.

<p>
 


title: Foreign disinformation welcomed in US
uri: Foreign-disinformation-welcomed-in-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_April_2025_(Foreign_disinformation_welcomed_in_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#20_April_2025_(Foreign_disinformation_welcomed_in_US)

content:
 
<p>
The wrecker has eliminated an agency whose mission is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/trump-state-department-foreign-disinformation">to
detect and counter disinformation campaigns</a>, especially Russian.
<p>
I suspect this is one little part in the establishment of the axis of
dictators, to start with the wrecker and Putin.  But it may be more
than that.  The wrecker depends on disinformation too, and some
of that originates in Russia.

<p>
 


title: US-deported Venezuelans now pawns, SLV
uri: US-deported-Venezuelans-now-pawns-SLV
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_April_2025_(US-deported_Venezuelans_now_pawns,_SLV)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_April_2025_(US-deported_Venezuelans_now_pawns,_SLV)

content:
 
<p>
The persecutor has sent
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/el-salvador-president-nayib-bukele-prisoner-swap-venezuela">hundreds
of Venezuelan refugees</a> to El&nbsp;Salvador which engaged to hold them
in prison without trial.  Now El&nbsp;Salvador is offering to release many
of them to Venezuela in exchange for Venezuela's political prisoners.
<p>
Such an exchange might be good, if we could assume that (1) the
Venezuelans now in El Salvador want to go to Venezuelans and would be
safe there, and (2) the prisoners now in Venezuela want to go to
El&nbsp;Salvador and would be safe there.
<p>
I can't tell from the article whether any of that would be so.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_April_2025_(Feeding_the_exploiter_more_wins)
title: Feeding the exploiter more wins
uri: Feeding-the-exploiter-more-wins
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_April_2025_(Feeding_the_exploiter_more_wins)
content:
 
<p>
Ariel Dorfman imagines new kinds of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/20/donald-trump-nobel-prize">honors
that might be bestowed</a> on the bullshitter.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_April_2025_(Mass_rallies_condemn_regime,_US)
title: Mass rallies condemn regime, US
uri: Mass-rallies-condemn-regime-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_April_2025_(Mass_rallies_condemn_regime,_US)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich:  mass rallies to condemn the bully are a display of courage,
which inspires
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-69d">courage
in those who felt helpless</a> to resist.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_April_2025_(Tesla_odometer_as_warranty_cheater)
title: Tesla odometer as warranty cheater
uri: Tesla-odometer-as-warranty-cheater
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#21_April_2025_(Tesla_odometer_as_warranty_cheater)
content:
 
<p>
*Tesla
<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/#more-like-edison-amirite">accused
of hacking odometers</a> to weasel out of warranty repairs.*


<p>
 


title: Unraveling decades of progress in safeguarding our nation
uri: Unraveling-decades-of-progress-in-safeguarding-our-nation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_April_2025_(Unraveling_decades_of_progress_in_safeguarding_our_nation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_April_2025_(Unraveling_decades_of_progress_in_safeguarding_our_nation)

content:
 
<p>

  *   Despite such painful lessons of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jan-apr.html#30%20April%202010%20(Deepwater%20Horizon%20clean-up%20begins)">[the Big Spill]</a>,
   we find ourselves once again
   hurtling toward disaster. The [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur in chief</a>]'s personnel and
   programmatic cuts at science, environmental and safety agencies, and
the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/20/deepwater-horizon-trump-administration-attacks-on-science">wholesale rollback of environmental regulations</a>, threaten to
   unravel decades of progress in safeguarding our nation. These actions
   aren't just misguided &mdash; they're a dangerous rejection of the hard-won
   knowledge gained from former crises and a gamble we cannot afford to
   take.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_April_2025_(Disasters_of_melting_Arctic_ice)
title: Disasters of melting Arctic ice
uri: Disasters-of-melting-Arctic-ice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_April_2025_(Disasters_of_melting_Arctic_ice)
content:
 
<p>

Melting Arctic ice is a disaster mainly because it is raising sea
level, but it is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/20/melting-glaciers-will-harm-us-all-yet-still-we-watch-unmoved">causing several kinds of secondary disasters</a> too.
</p>
</li>

 


title: UK imprisoning people for sleeping on the street
uri: UK-imprisoning-people-for-sleeping-on-the-street
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_April_2025_(UK_imprisoning_people_for_sleeping_on_the_street)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#22_April_2025_(UK_imprisoning_people_for_sleeping_on_the_street)

content:
 
<p>

  The UK is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/21/concern-over-asbis-after-report-finds-people-jailed-for-sleeping-rough-and-feeding-birds">putting people in prison</a> for months for sleeping on the
street.
  That is shame-worthy in itself, but it gets worse: sometimes the
decision is made in a court hearing where the accused person was not
present, has no legal representation, or both.
</p>
<p>
Proposed new powers to punish people for begging or feeding pigeons
are even harsher.
</p>
<p>
For the man who desperately needs to feed pigeons for company, I
wonder if giving him a budgerigar to take care of might have enabled
him to feel better while avoiding bothering neighbors.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#23_April_2025_(Supreme_contempt_of_court)
title: Supreme contempt of court
uri: Supreme-contempt-of-court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#23_April_2025_(Supreme_contempt_of_court)
content:
 
<p>
*[Senator] Amy Klobuchar calls on supreme court to hold
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/amy-klobuchar-samuel-alito-trump-immigration">Trump officials</a>
in contempt.*
<p>
I hesitated to call for that particular action because I was not sure
it was tactically wise.  It might just play into <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> hand.  But if a
senator thinks that we have come to this, I suppose it is so.


 


title: "Christian nationalists" imposing religion on the US
uri: Christian-nationalists-imposing-religion-on-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#23_April_2025_(Christian_nationalists_imposing_religion_on_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#23_April_2025_(Christian_nationalists_imposing_religion_on_the_US)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> is trying to help <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> "Christian nationalists"
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/christian-nationalists-trump-administration">impose their extreme religion</a> on the United States
&mdash; and to lead them
to be more <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Lies and coercion used to arrest Aditya Wahyu Harsono
uri: Lies-and-coercion-used-to-arrest-Aditya-Wahyu-Harsono
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#23_April_2025_(Lies_and_coercion_used_to_arrest_Aditya_Wahyu_Harsono)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#23_April_2025_(Lies_and_coercion_used_to_arrest_Aditya_Wahyu_Harsono)

content:
 
<p>

  Deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/aditya-wahyu-harsono-immigration-indonesia">lied to Aditya Wahyu Harsono</a>, saying they had
revoked his permanent visa weeks before so he was "late" in leaving
the US, then pressured his coworkers to fake a work meeting so they
could surprise and arrest him.
</p>
<p>
Those coworkers may be ashamed of this for the rest of their lives.
Worse, they may teach themselves to believe <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> lies so as to
convince themselves that what they did was right.
</p>
<p>
Or they may instead join the resistance to make up for the harm they did.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#23_April_2025_(Effects_of_wrecker_bullying_China)
title: Effects of wrecker bullying China
uri: Effects-of-wrecker-bullying-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#23_April_2025_(Effects_of_wrecker_bullying_China)
content:
 
<p>

With <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> bullying various countries to demand that they
punish China, China is now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/beijing-threatens-countermeasures-countries-appease-us-tariffs-trade-war">threatening those countries</a> with similar
bullying if they do what <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> demands.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#23_April_2025_(Urgent:_D.C._U.S._Attorney_nominee)
title: Urgent: D.C. U.S. Attorney nominee
uri: Urgent-D-C-U-S-Attorney-nominee
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#23_April_2025_(Urgent:_D.C._U.S._Attorney_nominee)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: Call on the Senate to reject Ed Martinâ as U.S. Attorney
for the District of Columbia.  His praise for a notorious January 6
rioter should
<a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/senate-reject-ed-martin/?utm_source=aa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=RejectEdMartin&t=1008">disqualify
him</a> from any position in the government; in this position, he will
leave Congress exposed to physical violence.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#24_April_2025_(Wrecker_regime_legal_setbacks)
title: Wrecker regime legal setbacks
uri: Wrecker-regime-legal-setbacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#24_April_2025_(Wrecker_regime_legal_setbacks)
content:
 
<p>
*<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a> officials
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/trump-immigration-court-orders">create
uncertainty to evade court orders</a> rather than comply.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#24_April_2025_(Wind_projects_in_ruins,_US_coasts)
title: Wind projects imperiled, US coasts
uri: Wind-projects-imperiled-US-coasts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#24_April_2025_(Wind_projects_in_ruins,_US_coasts)
content:
 
<p>
[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/trump-new-york-wind-farm-cancellaction">*halts
construction</a> of big wind farm off New York coast.*

<p>
 


title: Political philosophy of UK Labour Party
uri: Political-philosophy-of-UK-Labour-Party
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_(Political_philosophy_of_UK_Labour_Party)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_(Political_philosophy_of_UK_Labour_Party)

content:
 
<p>

The political philosophy of the UK Labour Party seems to be "we must
convince businesses to invest <em>here</em> by giving them all the power they
want, no matter how this <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2025/apr/20/the-guardian-view-on-city-deregulation-a-recipe-for-recklessness">puts us in danger</a> from them."
</p>
</li>

 


title: "Professional failures" over Gaza paramedic killings
uri: Professional-failures-over-Gaza-paramedic-killings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_(Professional_failures_over_Gaza_paramedic_killings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_(Professional_failures_over_Gaza_paramedic_killings)

content:
 
<p>

  *Israeli military admits <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/20/israeli-military-admits-professional-failures-over-gaza-paramedic-killings">"professional failures"</a> over Gaza paramedic killings.*
</p>
<p>
This admission is such an understatement that it amounts to continued
denial of the facts.  The PR brigade has pulled back to the next line
of defensiveness, but not all the way back to where it would confess
the truth.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_(Pope_Francis_allowed_Vance_to_visit)
title: Pope Francis allowed Vance to visit
uri: Pope-Francis-allowed-Vance-to-visit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_(Pope_Francis_allowed_Vance_to_visit)
content:
 
<p>

  Pope Francis allowed Vance to visit, then <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/jd-vance-granted-lightning-audience-with-pope-francis-in-vatican">died the next day</a>.
</p>
<p>
An overdose of disgust?
</p>
</li>

 


title: Tunisia's activists sentenced to decades in prison
uri: Tunisia-s-activists-sentenced-to-decades-in-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_(Tunisia's_activists_sentenced_to_decades_in_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_(Tunisia's_activists_sentenced_to_decades_in_prison)

content:
 
<p>

  Tunisia's dictatorship has sentenced opposition activists to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/20/tunisia-court-prison-sentences-kais-saied">decades in prison</a>
for political opposition.
</p>
<p>
It makes me very sad to see Tunisia's new-formed democracy fall into a
dictatorship as bad as before.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Severity of climate disaster in unequal society
uri: Severity-of-climate-disaster-in-unequal-society
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_(Severity_of_climate_disaster_in_unequal_society)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_(Severity_of_climate_disaster_in_unequal_society)

content:
 
<p>

For the present stage of climate disaster, "The more unequal the
society is, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/19/climatologist-friederike-otto-the-more-unequal-the-society-is-the-more-severe-the-climate-disaster">more severe the climate disaster"</a>.
</p>
<p>
That is plausible in the short term, while the disasters are within
what society can cope with if it is well organized to do so.  Thus,
the people who are truly crushed are the poor.  Make fewer people poor,
and the local climate disasters are survivable.
</p>
<p>
But that won't apply if climate disaster reaches the stage at which
globalized industrial production collapses, each region is reduced to
what it can produce locally, the level of technology is sinking,
and most humans die.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Bringing back extinct species
uri: (satire)-Bringing-back-extinct-species
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_((satire)_Bringing_back_extinct_species)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_((satire)_Bringing_back_extinct_species)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *<a href="https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-bringing-back-extinct-species/">Pros And Cons</a> Of Bringing Back Extinct Species.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Judge blocks shuttering Consumer Financial Protection Board
uri: Judge-blocks-shuttering-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Board
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_(Judge_blocks_shuttering_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Board)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_(Judge_blocks_shuttering_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Board)

content:
 
<p>

  *Federal judge <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/federal-judge-blocks-musk-consumer-agency">blocks [muskrat's] effort to shutter</a> [Consumer
Financial Protection Board].*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_((satire)_DOJ_Plants_Gun_On_Maine)
title: (satire) DOJ Plants Gun On Maine
uri: (satire)-DOJ-Plants-Gun-On-Maine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#25_April_2025_((satire)_DOJ_Plants_Gun_On_Maine)
content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *DOJ <a href="https://theonion.com/doj-plants-gun-on-maine/">Plants Gun On Maine</a>.*
  The state's population is now in jail.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#24_April_2025_(US_measles_epidemic)
title: US measles outbreak growing
uri: US-measles-outbreak-growing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#24_April_2025_(US_measles_epidemic)
content:
 
<p>
The US measles epidemic is spreading so fast that the CDC, after
being gored by the t-usk, is
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/17/2316837/-The-measles-crisis-is-worse-than-we-know-and-the-CDC-can-t-keep-up?detail=emailaction">unable
to keep up</a> with them.
<p>
RFK defends his harmful propaganda by saying that "We can't rely
simply on the vaccine. We also have to know how to treat measles." 
That, in itself, is true but it is also changing the subject.
<p>
If his idea is that it's good to discourage vaccination so as to
ensure plenty of patients for doctors to maintain their skill,
that is sick.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(coral_reef_bleaching)
title: Coral reef bleaching
uri: 2025-04-27-Coral-reef-bleaching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(coral_reef_bleaching)
content:
 
<p>
*Coral reefs have a high concentration of biodiversity that supports
about a third of all marine species and 109 billion people.* They
are having the worst bleaching event ever before recorded, because
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/23/coral-reef-bleaching-worst-global-event-on-record">they
are hotter now than was ever before recorded.</a>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(barnard_college_gaza_protests)
title: Bomb threat, Columbia U.
uri: Bomb-threat-Columbia-U
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(barnard_college_gaza_protests)
content:
 
<p>
A bomb threat was announced against protesters at Columbia
University protesting on behalf of Palestinians.  Columbia's public
response presented the protesters as possible
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/24/barnard-college-gaza-protests-bomb-threat/">
culprits rather than as the targets.</a>
<p>
(Barnard College is part of Columbia University, and it seems the
school thugs are using the bomb threat as an excuse to use more force
against the protesters while trying to cast them as terrorists.)
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(capital_one_discover)
title: Merger of credit services
uri: Merger-of-credit-services
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(capital_one_discover)
content:
 
<p>
Non-regulators appointed by the saboteur in chief have approved the
merger of Discover Financial and Capital One, two
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/18/capital-one-discover-financial-merger">enormous financial
companies.</a>
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#26_December_2024_(Nisan_as_Honda_as_Mitsubishi)">
Lina Khan would</a> have prevented this.
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(defend_section_230)
title: Defend section 230
uri: Defend-section-230
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(defend_section_230)
content:
 
<p>
Why Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
<a href="https://www.whatissection230.org/?link_id=1&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-theres-no-coming-back-from-this-2">must
be defended.</a>
<p>
I agree with the article's position but I am revulsed by its use of the
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">word
"content"</a>
<p>
to refer to what people write, or what people say.
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(australia_university_student_life)
title: Virtual classes and loneliness
uri: Virtual-classes-and-loneliness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(australia_university_student_life)
content:
 
<p>
The virtual classes common in many colleges leads to isolating
loneliness with no chance to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/25/australia-university-student-life">meet
people and converse.</a>
<p>
This is the consequence of using software which (though the users don't
recognize this) is based on nonfree software that subjugates them.
</li>

 


title: Trump's voter requirement
uri: Trump-s-voter-requirement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(trump_proof_citizenship_vote_blocked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(trump_proof_citizenship_vote_blocked)

content:
 
<p>
A court order has blocked the persecutor's attempt to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/trump-proof-citizenship-vote-blocked">impose voter-id
nationally.</a>
<p>
Republicans are trying to do the
<a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/senate-reject-save-act/">same thing with legislation.</a>
<p>
That might be upheld by courts, and it would do the same harm.
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(build_city_from_wood)
title: City from wood
uri: City-from-wood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(build_city_from_wood)
content:
 
<p>
Building a city out of wood, but not with the old methods, eliminates
a lot of the CO2 emissions and makes
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/25/it-shapes-the-whole-experience-what-happens-when-you-build-a-city-from-wood">building
a lot faster.</a>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(putin_ukraine_spokesperson_talks)
title: Peace plan
uri: 2025-04-27-Peace-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(putin_ukraine_spokesperson_talks)
content:
 
<p>
Putin has agreed to have direct discussions with Ukraine about a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/22/putin-ready-for-direct-talks-with-ukraine-spokesperson-says">hypothetical
peace deal.</a>
<p>
This is a gesture which doesn't commit Putin to anything.  It as no
significant progress.
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(mahmoud_khalil_ice_noor)
title: Palestinian activist
uri: Palestinian-activist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(mahmoud_khalil_ice_noor)
content:
 
<p>
"ICE" stands for "not nice", using a double negative.
It refused to allow Mahmoud Khalil to join is wife as she gave birth,
rejecting several ways that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/mahmoud-khalil-ice-noor-abdalla-birth">would
have been lawful and reasonable.</a>
<p>
I speculate this is part of a standard tactic used by many
brutal-minded "law enforcers" in various countries: to convince the
public that someone is very dangerous, pretend perse is very dangerous
and take superfluous precautions accordingly; to convince the public
that someone is a monster, be superfluously cruel to person.
</li>

 


title: Academic freedom
uri: Academic-freedom
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(president_trump_administration_news_updates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#26_April_2025_(president_trump_administration_news_updates)

content:
 
<p>
Harvard is suing the US misgovernment calling on judges to rule in favor
of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today">academic freedom.</a>
</li>

 


title: Storms damage, FEMA refuses to emerge
uri: Storms-damage-FEMA-refuses-to-emerge
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#27_April_2025_(Storms_damage,_FEMA_refuses_to_emerge)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#27_April_2025_(Storms_damage,_FEMA_refuses_to_emerge)

content:
 
<p>
*[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/trump-denies-aid-arkansas-tornados">denies
aid for Arkansas</a> after storms that killed more than 40 people.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#27_April_2025_(Universities_united_against_wrecker)
title: US Universities united against wrecker
uri: US-Universities-united-against-wrecker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#27_April_2025_(Universities_united_against_wrecker)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/us-university-presidents-trump-administration">Over
100 US university presidents</a> sign letter decrying Trump
administration.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#27_April_2025_(Covid-19_study_canceled)
title: Covid-19 study canceled
uri: Covid-19-study-canceled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#27_April_2025_(Covid-19_study_canceled)
content:
 
<p>
*The largest ever global study into the safety of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/24/global-covid-vaccine-data-nework-safety-doge-funding-cuts">Covid-19
vaccines</a> has been terminated just 13 months shy of completion,
after becoming caught up in [<a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a>] sweeping funding
cuts.
<p>
Anti-vaxxers such as RFK will find this very helpful.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#27_April_2025_(Meuseum_loses_US_grants)
title: Museum loses US grants
uri: Museum-loses-US-grants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#27_April_2025_(Meuseum_loses_US_grants)
content:
 
<p>
*[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecuter</a>]
cuts federal grants to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/23/whitney-plantation-museum-trump-funding">a plantation museum</a>
focused on reality of slavery.*
<p>
Removing the moral stigma that racism has and deserves to have
is one of his goals.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Fossil_fuel_mining_permits)
title: Fossil fuel mining permits
uri: Fossil-fuel-mining-permits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Fossil_fuel_mining_permits)
content:
 
<p>
Clearance -- the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/interior-agency-fossil-fuel-mining-permits">whole environment must go</a>!  At least in US national parks.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Climate_action)
title: Climate action
uri: Climate-action
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Climate_action)
content:
 
<p>
*Most of the world's population wants <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/22/89-percent-project-climate-change">stronger climate action</a>.  They
just don't realize that they are a majority.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_((Satire)_Eucharistic_overdose)
title: (Satire) Eucharistic overdose
uri: (Satire)-Eucharistic-overdose
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_((Satire)_Eucharistic_overdose)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Vatican Coroner <a href="https://theonion.com/vatican-coroner-confirms-eucharistic-overdose/">Confirms Eucharistic Overdose</a>.*
<p>
Did the coroner check for Vance poisoning?
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then right-click
and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as lynx
that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(abortion_clinic_pills_shield_laws)
title: Controversial shield laws
uri: Controversial-shield-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(abortion_clinic_pills_shield_laws)
content:
 
<p>
*Volunteers rush to send abortion pills to US women,* heading for a legal
conflict over the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/abortion-clinic-pills-shield-laws">state's shield law.</a>
</li>

 


title: Google's Local Services Ads
uri: Google-s-Local-Services-Ads
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(google_asset_ownership_local_services_ads)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(google_asset_ownership_local_services_ads)

content:
 
<p>
Reportedly Google will soon start listening to and recording the calls
made to local businesses that it advertises, by 
<a href="https://searchengineland.com/google-asset-ownership-local-services-ads-454561">people responding to the
advertisements.</a>
<p>
I have never seen Google's advertisements because I have used few
Google services for many, many years, and none for many, many years.
I don't know how "local services advertisements" work.  Is there
something that prevents a person from calling the business's phone
number?  Is it simply that most people unthinkingly do the simplest
thing?
</li>

 


title: No-Bid ICE Contract
uri: No-Bid-ICE-Contract
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(ice_deportation_contracts_us_advisors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(ice_deportation_contracts_us_advisors)

content:
 
<p>
*No-Bid ICE Contract Went to Former ICE Agents Sued for 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/17/ice-deportation-contracts-us-advisors/">Fabricating Criminal
 Evidence on the Job.*</a>
 <p>
The wrecker's henchmen would consider dishonesty an irresistible job
qualification.
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(ineptitude_incompetence_stupidity)
title: Trump’s inept handling
uri: Trump-s-inept-handling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(ineptitude_incompetence_stupidity)
content:
 
<p>
The wrecker has picked up a club and is wandering around US
government affairs and banging it into important institutions in 
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ineptitude-incompetence-stupidity">an
apparently chaotic fashion.</a>
<p>
However, it is not in fact chaotic.  He has a plan, which is to wreck
any institution which could help people resist against the tyranny
he aims to establish.
</li>

 


title: Funding cuts to programs
uri: Funding-cuts-to-programs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(trump_admin_funding_gun_violence_opioid_addiction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(trump_admin_funding_gun_violence_opioid_addiction)

content:
 
<p>
*[The wrecker's] officials cut hundreds of millions to combat
gun violence and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/trump-administration-funding-gun-violence-opioid-addiction">opioids addiction.*</a>
<p>
For fascists, helping to protect the people is not part of the mission
of government.
<p>
The US government under Biden sued Alabama and made the state agree to
provide sewer systems in some places 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/trump-sewage-pollution-settlement-alabama">where poor people live.</a>
<p>
The wrecker cancelled the agreement, leaving those residents under threat
of losing their homes because they can't afford to put in septic systems.
<p>
There is no aspect of American life where the wrecker's henchmen won't
reach to spread suffering &ndash; and then boast about it.
<p>
I do agree with them on one thing: the US should ensure there is
sewage treatment for <Em>all</Em> citizens, which requires helping for <Em>all</Em>
those who can't afford their own sewage systems.  This means doing
more, not less.  That is why this action was a step in the wrong
direction.
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(judiciary_committee_kilmar_abrego)
title: Demand Garcia’s Release
uri: Demand-Garcia-s-Release
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(judiciary_committee_kilmar_abrego)
content:
 
<p>
Call on Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to visit 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-judiciary-committee-democrats-go-to-el-salvador-demand-garcias-release?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-trump-defied-scotus-judiciary-dems-must-act">Kilmar Ábrego.</a>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(anohni_great_barrier_reef)
title: The Great Barrier Reef
uri: 2025-04-29-The-Great-Barrier-Reef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(anohni_great_barrier_reef)
content:
 
<p>
Starting to mourn the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/26/people-cant-imagine-something-on-that-scale-dying-anohni-on-mourning-the-great-barrier-reef">Great Barrier Reef.</a>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(us_egypt_authoritarian_dictatorship)
title: A slide into a dictatorship
uri: A-slide-into-a-dictatorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(us_egypt_authoritarian_dictatorship)
content:
 
<p>
Mona Eltahawy fled Egypt's dictatorship and moved to the US.  She
reports here on seeing the US reach the end of a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/26/us-egypt-authoritarian-dictatorship-donald-trump">slide into
dictatorship.</a>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(itamar_ben_gvir_yale_shabtai_israel)
title: Ben-Gvir
uri: Ben-Gvir
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(itamar_ben_gvir_yale_shabtai_israel)
content:
 
<p>
The Israel/Palestine double standard for free speech in the US:
Violent Israeli fanatics are invited to speak, whereas those in power
revile people who condemn the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/25/itamar-ben-gvir-yale-shabtai-israel">total siege of Gaza as "fanatics".</a>
</li>

 


title: Banned DDT in Canadian trout
uri: Banned-DDT-in-Canadian-trout
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(banned_ddt_discovered_in_canadian_trout)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(banned_ddt_discovered_in_canadian_trout)

content:
 
<p>
70 years after Canada banned use of DDT, brook trout caught nowadays
contain amounts of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/21/banned-ddt-discovered-in-canadian-trout-70-years-after-use-research-finds">DDT that could be dangerous.</a>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(irish_woman_cliona_ward_detained)
title: Irish woman detained
uri: Irish-woman-detained
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(irish_woman_cliona_ward_detained)
content:
 
<p>
*Irish woman living in US [with green card] for decades [jailed] by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/irish-woman-cliona-ward-us-detained-immigration">immigration officials.*</a>
<p>
The deportation thugs seem to be aiming to be as sadistic as possible to
each person they jail.  This senseless harassment must be awfully expensive,
and the magats will usually do drastic things to make do with fewer staff,
but I guess sadism is important enough to override that.
</li>

 


title: Immigrant children
uri: Immigrant-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(ice_unaccompanied_immigrant_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(ice_unaccompanied_immigrant_children)

content:
 
<p>
*[The deportation thugs] are seeking out unaccompanied immigrant
   children in operations nationwide with a view to deporting them or
   pursuing criminal cases against them or adult sponsors 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/ice-unaccompanied-immigrant-children">sheltering
  them legally in the US.*</a>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(policy_manifesto_doge)
title: DOGE Zone FAQ
uri: DOGE-Zone-FAQ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(policy_manifesto_doge)
content:
 
<p>
The Yes Men present the policy 
<a href="https://dogezone.theyesmen.org/faq/#goals2">manifesto of the DOPE</a>
<p>
  (Department of Personnel Elimination).
</li>

 


title: Defense policy
uri: Defense-policy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(pentagon_tucker_carlson_defense_policy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(pentagon_tucker_carlson_defense_policy)

content:
 
<p>
The magats of the Pentagon have a recipe for firing or gag anyone not loyal
to the wrecker first and everything else last: suspect them of leaks,
then 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/24/tucker-carlson-defense-policy-board-hegseth/">use that as the justification.</a>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(media_trump_paramount_disney_meta)
title: Media Giants Settling
uri: Media-Giants-Settling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(media_trump_paramount_disney_meta)
content:
 
<p>
*Media Giants Settling With [the corrupter] Are Setting a 
<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/media-donald-trump-paramount-disney-meta">"Dangerous"
 Precedent.*</a>
 <p>
A catalog on his 
<a href="https://rsf.org/en/one-month-trump-press-freedom-under-siege">attacks on the press.</a>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Pun_re-done)
title: Pun re-done
uri: Pun-re-done
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Pun_re-done)
content:
 
<p>

This pun was re-done:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

&iquest;Cu&aacute;l es la relaci&oacute;n 
<a href="/spanish-puns.html#el cura">entre el cura</a>, la cura,
y lo cura?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Urgent:_Medicare_for_All)
title: Urgent: Medicare for All
uri: 2025-04-29-Urgent-Medicare-for-All
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Urgent:_Medicare_for_All)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at <a href="tel:2022243121">202-224-3121</a>
to support the Medicare for All act.
<p>
It would
<ul>
<li> provide [medical] coverage to all residents of the United States with   
  no premiums, deductibles, co-pays, or surprise bills;    
<li> expand and include all medically necessary services such as   
  primary care, vision, dental, hearing, prescription drugs, mental   
  health, long-term care, reproductive health and more.
</ul>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Voter_suppression_tactic_blocked)
title: Voter suppression tactic blocked
uri: Voter-suppression-tactic-blocked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Voter_suppression_tactic_blocked)
content:
 
<p>
*Federal judge blocks Trump order that could disenfranchise
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/trump-proof-citizenship-vote-blocked">millions
of voters</a>.*
<p>
This is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_April_2025_(Saboteur_tried_to_seize_control_over_who_can_vote)">the
order</a> to require
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#16_February_2025_(Urgent:_The_voter_suppression_bill)">voters
to show</a> federally approved identity documents.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Trumps_approval_ratings_tanked)
title: Trump's approval ratings way down
uri: Trump-s-approval-ratings-way-down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Trumps_approval_ratings_tanked)
content:
 
<p>
Most American
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/americans-republicans-trump-ratings-poll">voters
disapprove</a> of <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the
bully's</a> actions as president.
<p>
But is that still true if we limit the question to those whom Republicans
will fail to block from voting?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Judge_arrested_by_FBI,_WI)
title: Wisconson judge arrested
uri: Wisconson-judge-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Judge_arrested_by_FBI,_WI)
content:
 
<p>
The FBI, acting under right-wing fanatic Kash Patel,
and <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>,
has arrested
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/wisconsin-judge-hannah-dugan-democrats-republicans">a Wisconsin judge</a>.
<p>
I don't know whether what the judge is accused of doing was illegal,
but we have already seen that the goal of those fanatics is to abolish
rule of law.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Urgent:_Disaster_relief)
title: Urgent: Disaster relief
uri: Urgent-Disaster-relief
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Urgent:_Disaster_relief)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-protect-federal-disaster-relief-from-trump-attacks?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progressive-reform-network&source=direct_link">call
on Congress</a> to protect federal disaster relief
from <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the
wrecker's</a> attacks.
<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-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Urgent:_Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia_case)
title: Urgent: Kilmar Abrego Garcia case
uri: Urgent-Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia-case
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_April_2025_(Urgent:_Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia_case)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/send-message/wrongful-deportations">Call
on Congress</a> to make sure Kilmar Ábrego can return to the US from
El Salvador.
<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-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(Urgent:_McDonald's_vs_local_laws)
title: Urgent: McDonald's vs local laws
uri: Urgent-McDonald-s-vs-local-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(Urgent:_McDonald's_vs_local_laws)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: Oppose McDonald's lobbying campaign against
local laws to
<a href="https://action.storyofstuff.org/sign/mcdonalds-dont-hamburglar-reusable-packaging/?t=1015&utm_medium=email">require reusable packaging</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Protect nonviolent activists
uri: Urgent-Protect-nonviolent-activists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_nonviolent_activists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_nonviolent_activists)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:  Denounce any attempt to arrest and imprison nonviolent activists.
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/protesting-tesla-is-not-terrorism?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progressive-reform-network&source=direct_link">Protesting
Tesla</a> is not "domestic terrorism".

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(Voting_rights_pillars_fired)
title: US voting rights pillars fired
uri: US-voting-rights-pillars-fired
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(Voting_rights_pillars_fired)
content:
 
<p>

<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#saboteur">The saboteur's</a> henchmen in the Justice Department have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/trump-doj-voting-rights">sabotaged the
defense</a>
of Americans' voting rights.
<p>
The attorney general has just fired the whole of the team
that was supposed to defend Americans' voting rights.
<p>
Or course they would do this &mdash; they are the ones attacking our voting
rights.  Republicans can only "win" an election through
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-jan-apr.html#19_January_2024_(Voting_machine_ballots_in_code)">voter
suppression</a>.
<p>
Greg Palast has documented
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#31_January_2025_(Voter_suppression_rampant_in_red_states)">their
latest methods</a> from 2024.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(To_combat_an_oppressive_regime)
title: To combat an oppressive regime
uri: To-combat-an-oppressive-regime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(To_combat_an_oppressive_regime)
content:
 
<p>
Poles who resisted Communism and then right-wing extremism offer
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/28/right-defeated-same-antibodies-poles-developed-beat-communism">advice
to Americans</a> about what to do about our oppressive regime.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(A_bid_to_silence_dissent,_US)
title: A bid to silence dissent, US
uri: A-bid-to-silence-dissent-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#29_April_2025_(A_bid_to_silence_dissent,_US)
content:
 
<p>
*The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/28/the-fbis-arrest-of-judge-hannah-dugan-is-a-bid-to-silence-dissent">FBI's
arrest of Judge</a> Hannah Dugan is a bid to silence dissent.*
<p>
What's more, the FBI agents went there to break up a court hearing and
it was the judge's responsibility to enable the hearing to finish.
Her action was in service to the legal system; <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> henchmen, as usual, were
acting to make it collapse.


<p>
 


title: US no longer gold standard for press freedom
uri: US-no-longer-gold-standard-for-press-freedom
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(US_no_longer_gold_standard_for_press_freedom)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(US_no_longer_gold_standard_for_press_freedom)

content:
 
<p>

  *The US used to be the gold standard for press freedom. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/28/press-freedom-us-trump">Not any more</a>.*
</p>
<p>
One other cause of this is that mainstream media are no longer
independent.  They have been bought, either by billionaires that are
easily corrupted by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wreckers</a> or by bigger companies that don't
dare get on <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> bad side.
</p>
<p>
People have said to me that the US Constitution ought to be changed to
make it harder to subversion by powerful elected officials.  If that
is possible, but I don't see how it could work.  (Never mind that the
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a> would block the effort.)  Every governmental system is made of
humans, If the most powerful of those humans want to make the system
bad, we can't count on the system to stop them.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Space_superstorms)
title: Space superstorms
uri: Space-superstorms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Space_superstorms)
content:
 
<p>

Space superstorms of charged particles coming from the Sun
can bring down power-grids.  The loss of electric power could
lead to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/28/solar-storm-nuclear-disaster">disastrous superleaks of radiation</a> from old nuclear fuel
that depends on power to cool the cooling water.  Such a disaster
could expose millions of people to carcinogenic radioisotopes.
</p>
<p>
It occurs to me that one solution might be to install large wind farms
and batteries near each nuclear plant.  That would also speed the day
that we can retire and clean up the nuclear plants.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Right-wing extremists targeting Hong Kong's exiled dissidents
uri: Right-wing-extremists-targeting-Hong-Kong-s-exiled-dissidents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Right-wing_extremists_targeting_Hong_Kong's_exiled_dissidents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Right-wing_extremists_targeting_Hong_Kong's_exiled_dissidents)

content:
 
<p>

  Someone <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/revealed-online-campaign-urged-far-right-to-attack-chinas-opponents-in-uk">encouraged Britain's right-wing extremists to target</a> Hong Kong's exiled
dissidents.
</p>
<p>
We must suppose that was done by China's agents.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Responding_to_Amazon's_wrongdoing)
title: Responding to Amazon's wrongdoing
uri: Responding-to-Amazon-s-wrongdoing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Responding_to_Amazon's_wrongdoing)
content:
 
<p>
Suggestions for responding to <a href="../amazon.html">Amazon's</a> wrongdoing
  beyond simply refusing to do business with it.
  From AthenaForAll.org.
</p>
<ol>
<li>
 States can enforce and update their antitrust laws to stop Amazon     
  from hoarding wealth and power – for example, by stopping it from     
  overcharging online vendors and crushing smaller competitors.     
</li>
<li>
 Stop giving Amazon public handouts like sales tax exemptions and     
  discounted utility prices – especially since these subsidies come     
  at the expense of public services like school budgets.     
</li>
<li>
 Support workers organizing for better working conditions and a say     
  in how the corporation operates.     
</li>
<li>
 Pass privacy laws to stop Amazon from using its surveillance tools     
  to punish workers and manipulate customers.     
</li>
<li>
 Require Amazon’s data centers to be powered by renewable energy     
  instead of coal and gas, and make sure we don’t have to pay higher     
  utility bills to offset its energy use.     
</li>
<li>
 Encourage state and local governments to buy their supplies from     
  local businesses instead of signing enormous contracts with Amazon,     
  and to place stricter rules on their contracts with cloud     
  providers.     
</li>
<li>
 Rebalance the tax code so Amazon pays its fair share of taxes     
  instead of getting lower rates than most small businesses and     
  regular people.     
</li>
<li>
 Vote out politicians – even progressive ones – who consistently     
  side with corporations at the expense of regular people.     
</li>
</ol>
</li>

 


title: Republican's "terrified" to cross Trump
uri: Republican-s-terrified-to-cross-Trump
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Republican's_terrified_to_cross_Trump)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Republican's_terrified_to_cross_Trump)

content:
 
<p>

*Eric Swalwell, a Democratic representative from California, said his
Republican colleagues were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/republicans-trump-threats">"terrified" of crossing Trump</a> not only
   because of the negative impact on their political careers, but also
   from anxiety that it might provoke physical threats that could cause
   personal upheaval and require them to hire round-the-clock security as
   protection.*
</p>
<p>
We know from the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, as well as the
attack on the capitol on 6 Jan 2021, that this danger exists.
</p>
<p>
But that danger does not excuse what they are doing, which is allowing
the same menace to engulf and destroy their country.  It is their duty
to start to resist.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Lawyer used Artificial Stupidity for submission to court
uri: Lawyer-used-Artificial-Stupidity-for-submission-to-court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Lawyer_used_Artificial_Stupidity_for_submission_to_court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Lawyer_used_Artificial_Stupidity_for_submission_to_court)

content:
 
<p>

A lawyer defending a right-wing activist gave the task of finishing
a submission to the court <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/mypillow-ceos-lawyers-used-ai-in-brief-citing-fictional-cases-judge-says/">to an Artificial Stupidity</a>.
  Since it had not passed the bar exam, or studied law,
the text it output was full of errors.
</p>
<p>
  Please <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligance">do not call these systems "intelligence"</a>.  It is important for
people to know not to expect their output to be veridical.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Microsoft forcing Windows useds to identify themselves
uri: Microsoft-forcing-Windows-useds-to-identify-themselves
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Microsoft_forcing_Windows_useds_to_identify_themselves)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Microsoft_forcing_Windows_useds_to_identify_themselves)

content:
 
<p>

  Microsoft is <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/new-windows-11-build-makes-mandatory-microsoft-account-sign-in-even-more-mandatory/">tightening the chains</a> that force Windows <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#used">useds</a> to
identify themselves.
</p>
<p>
I suspect that it planned the strategy of leaving openings to avoid
doing this, then gradually close them, as a way to avoid inspiring a
lot of resistance all at once.
</p>
<p>
If you have been using other workarounds =, now is the tune to put your
foot down and stop.  Bite the bullet and defenestrate your computer!
</p>
</li>

 


title: Rapid increase in civilian casualties in Yemen
uri: Rapid-increase-in-civilian-casualties-in-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Rapid_increase_in_civilian_casualties_in_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Rapid_increase_in_civilian_casualties_in_Yemen)

content:
 
<p>

  *Trump promised peace but brings <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/us-escalation-yemen-civilian-casualties">rapid increase in civilian casualties</a> to
Yemen.*
</p>
<p>
(Don't ever expect <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a> to do what he said he would do.)
</p>
<p>
  US bombs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/yemen-houthi-rebels-say-scores-killed-in-us-airstrike-on-prison">hit an immigration prison</a> in Yemen and killed 68 immigrants.
None of them were combatants.
</p>
<p>
Do we believe that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> henchmen tried to check who they would kill?
</p>
</li>

 


title: Gaza has run through supplies of food and medicine
uri: Gaza-has-run-through-supplies-of-food-and-medicine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Gaza_has_run_through_supplies_of_food_and_medicine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Gaza_has_run_through_supplies_of_food_and_medicine)

content:
 
<p>

  Gaza has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/27/gaza-on-brink-of-catastrophe-as-aid-runs-out-and-prices-soar-groups-warn">run through the supplies of food and medicine</a> that it had
when Israel imposed a total siege.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Over_reliance_on_gps)
title: Over reliance on gps
uri: Over-reliance-on-gps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_April_2025_(Over_reliance_on_gps)
content:
 
<p>

Letting tech companies and governments track you all the time is
dangerous not only if they declare you an enemy.  If you go into the
wild after getting used to that way of life, you may find yourself
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise">hopelessly lost</a> because your navigation skill was never developed.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(Electric_power_outage_lessons,_Spain)
title: Electric power outage lessons, Spain
uri: Electric-power-outage-lessons-Spain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(Electric_power_outage_lessons,_Spain)
content:
 
<p>
The big power failure has taught many in Spain how dangerous it is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/30/no-one-knew-what-to-do-power-cuts-bring-chaos-connection-and-revaluation-of-digital-dependency">to
rely on digital payment</a>.  This may help us campaign to resume use
of cash.
<p>
When the systems are working normally, we still have reasons to pay
cash for most payments: to maintain our freedom and security, and to
block surveillance.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(Urgent:_Food_inspections)
title: Urgent: Food inspections
uri: Urgent-Food-inspections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(Urgent:_Food_inspections)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-the-fda-don-t-end-routine-food-safety-inspections">call
on The FDA</a> not to end routine food safety inspections &mdash;
change would lead to sickness and death.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(Urgent:_Section_230_and_online_dissent)
title: Urgent: Section 230 and online dissent
uri: Urgent-Section-230-and-online-dissent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(Urgent:_Section_230_and_online_dissent)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-congress-read-this-website-before-you-make-changes-to-section-230?nowrapper=true">call
on Congress</a> not to attack Section 230 &mdash; that is dangerous
for people's freedom of speech.
<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#1_May_2025_(Elections_stay_Liberals_course,_CAN)
title: Elections stay Liberals course, CAN
uri: Elections-stay-Liberals-course-CAN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(Elections_stay_Liberals_course,_CAN)
content:
 
<p>
The Canadian Liberal party just won a national election
because its
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/29/canada-election-result-liberal-win-mark-carney-anti-trump">new
leader stood firm</a> against <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> threats and harassment.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(First_100_days_of_wrecking)
title: First 100 days of wrecking, US
uri: First-100-days-of-wrecking-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#1_May_2025_(First_100_days_of_wrecking)
content:
 
<p>
What <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>
has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/29/trump-chaos-lloyd-green">ruined
in just 100 days</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(US_foreign_relations)
title: US foreign relations
uri: US-foreign-relations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(US_foreign_relations)
content:
 
<p>
Former
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/30/former-us-ambassadors-warn-authoritarianism">US
ambassadors compare the situation</a> in the countries where they
served with the situation in the US now.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Urgent:_fake_abortion-clinics)
title: Urgent: fake abortion-clinics
uri: 2025-05-03-Urgent-fake-abortion-clinics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Urgent:_fake_abortion-clinics)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/No_CPCs/">call on
Congress</a> to stop fake abortion clinics' deceptive and predatory
practices.
<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#2_May_2025_(State_of_world,_Amnesty_International)
title: State of world, Amnesty International
uri: State-of-world-Amnesty-International
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(State_of_world,_Amnesty_International)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> has
done harm around the world to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/29/trump-first-100-days-rollback-human-rights-amnesty-report-repression-climate-corporate-power-women-migrants-lgbtq">humanity's freedom and future</a>.

<p>
 


title: US-mandated climate assessment dismissed
uri: US-mandated-climate-assessment-dismissed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(US-mandated_climate_assessment_dismissed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(US-mandated_climate_assessment_dismissed)

content:
 
<p>
The US engages experts to recommend policies for coping with global
heating effects; the next report is due in 2028.  <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> has just
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/trump-fires-climate-report-contributors">dismissed
all of them</a>.
<p>
Judging from his other actions, he will choose new bogus "experts" to
make a bogus report advising damaging policies, then will pressure all
states to follow it, and some of them will do so (to their own misfortune).

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(US_Dept_of_Justice:_ten_red_flags)
title: US Dept of Justice: ten red flags
uri: US-Dept-of-Justice-ten-red-flags
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(US_Dept_of_Justice:_ten_red_flags)
content:
 
<p>
Attorney General Bondi's actions, since appointed, have amounted
to a campaign of
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/100-days-of-conflicted-justice">sabotage
against due process</a> of law and equal rights, opening opportunities
for sabotage by America's enemies (foreign and domestic).

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(US_journalism's_peril,_Democrats_fault)
title: US journalism's peril, Democrats fault
uri: US-journalism-s-peril-Democrats-fault
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(US_journalism's_peril,_Democrats_fault)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> plans to eliminate
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/29/press-act-trump-doj-journalists-leaks-subpoenas/">rules
that protected journalists</a> from subpoenas for investigations into
leaks.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Harvard's_battle_with_US_gov)
title: Harvard's battle with US gov
uri: Harvard-s-battle-with-US-gov
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Harvard's_battle_with_US_gov)
content:
 
<p>
The hypocrite's henchmen have ordered
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/trump-harvard-law-review-investigation">an investigation of Harvard</a>
because a student-run organization complied with federal DEI policies
while they were in effect.

<p>
 


title: (Satire) US President approval-ratings
uri: (Satire)-US-President-approval-ratings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_((Satire)_US_President_approval-ratings_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_((Satire)_US_President_approval-ratings_)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a>]
<a href="https://theonion.com/trumps-support-surges-after-he-points-gun-at-nation/">Support
Surges</a> After He Points Gun At Nation.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(A_talk_in_Czech_Republic)
title: A talk in Czech Republic
uri: A-talk-in-Czech-Republic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(A_talk_in_Czech_Republic)
content:
 
<p>
RMS will give <a href="/talks.html#05-07-2025">a talk in Liberec, Czech Republic</a>,
Wednesday, May 7, 16:30 &ndash; 18:30.
<p>
For programs that you could run,
and for network services that could do </em>your own computing</em>,
under what circumstances is it reasonable to trust them?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(A_talk_in_Alicante,_Spain)
title: A talk in Alicante, Spain
uri: A-talk-in-Alicante-Spain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(A_talk_in_Alicante,_Spain)
content:
 
<p>
RMS will give <a href="/talks.html#05-05-2025">a talk in Alicanta, Spain</a>,
Monday, May 5, and it is already full.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Condemn the arrest of Judge Dugan
uri: Urgent-Condemn-the-arrest-of-Judge-Dugan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Urgent:_Condemn_the_arrest_of_Judge_Dugan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Urgent:_Condemn_the_arrest_of_Judge_Dugan)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: tell the <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur in chief</a> that you condemn the
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/add-your-name-condemn-trumps-arrest-of-judge-hannah-dugan?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">arrest
of Judge Hannah Dugan</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Bird_populations_down,_N._Amer.)
title: Bird populations down, N. America
uri: Bird-populations-down-N-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Bird_populations_down,_N._Amer.)
content:
 
<p>
A study of populations of 500 species of birds found that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/collapsing-bird-numbers-north-america-study-species">3/4
are declining</a>,
especially where they were formerly numerous.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Study_of_satellites'_aluminum_oxides)
title: Study of satellites' aluminum oxides
uri: Study-of-satellites-aluminum-oxides
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#2_May_2025_(Study_of_satellites'_aluminum_oxides)
content:
 
<p>
Disposing of thousands of satellites by letting them burn up in reentry
will release thousands of tons of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/may/01/dying-satellites-can-drive-climate-change-and-ozone-depletion-study-finds">aluminum
oxides</a> into the upper atmosphere, which can significantly increase
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global
heating</a>.


<p>
 


title: Urgent: Pass the Social Security Expansion Act
uri: Urgent-Pass-the-Social-Security-Expansion-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Social_Security_Expansion_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Social_Security_Expansion_Act)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/become-a-grassroots-co-sponsor-of-the-social-security-expansion-act">pass the Social Security Expansion Act</a>.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>

</li>

 


title: Groundwork for privatizing some space and satellite operations
uri: Groundwork-for-privatizing-some-space-and-satellite-operations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Groundwork_for_privatizing_some_space_and_satellite_operations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Groundwork_for_privatizing_some_space_and_satellite_operations)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">The muskrat</a> *appears to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/25/doge-musk-spacex-starlink-contracts">laying the groundwork</a> to privatize some
space and satellite operations now under the authority of National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), or steer lucrative
contracts toward his SpaceX and Starlink companies, former agency
employees say.*
</p>
<p>
This shows us a directly corrupt potential in the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dose">DOSE</a>
(Depredations of Sabotage and Evisceration).
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Israel_abuse_of_UNRWA_staff)
title: Israel abuse of UNRWA staff
uri: Israel-abuse-of-UNRWA-staff
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Israel_abuse_of_UNRWA_staff)
content:
 
<p>

  *UNRWA says Israel has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/29/unrwa-says-israel-has-abused-detained-staff-and-used-some-as-human-shields">abused [jailed UNRWA] staff</a> and used some as
human shields.*
</p>
<p>
UNRWA says that Israeli prison guards subjected some of them to
brainwashing techniques and obtained some forced confessions.
This is what Israeli prisons <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-sep-dec.html#14_December_2018_(Arresting_Palestinian_minors)">generally do to Palestinian prisoners</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Time for US to guarantee healthcare to all
uri: Time-for-US-to-guarantee-healthcare-to-all
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Time_for_US_to_guarantee_healthcare_to_all)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Time_for_US_to_guarantee_healthcare_to_all)

content:
 
<p>

  Bernie Sanders: *It's time for the US to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/29/america-universal-healthcare-bernie-sanders">guarantee healthcare to all</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Switch_to_no-till_farming)
title: Switch to no-till farming
uri: Switch-to-no-till-farming
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Switch_to_no-till_farming)
content:
 
<p>

US farms switched to no-till farming to reduce loss of topsoil,
which prevents harmful environmental degradation.  Friends of the Earth
warns that this has led to much <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/new-report-reveals-no-tills-massive-pesticide-problem">more use of dangerous herbicides</a>.
</p>
<p>
So what should we do?  The loss of topsoil is permanent and we need to
prevent that.  We need to keep people safe from the herbicides too &mdash
but how do we do both?
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Muskrat_wants_to_end_subsidies)
title: Muskrat wants to end subsidies
uri: Muskrat-wants-to-end-subsidies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Muskrat_wants_to_end_subsidies)
content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">The muskrat's</a> companies benefited greatly from government subsidies.
Now he wants to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/29/musks-companies-got-billions-from-the-government-now-hes-pulling-up-the-ladder-behind-him">end such subsidies</a> for the future.
</p>
<p>
But I don't think we should continue being ripped off to subsidize
businesses.

[Below, for each area, link to an example of foolish subsidies that
should not have been given]
</p>
<p>
In my view, no government should ever subsidize a business without
getting a fair amount of debt or shares in exchange.  This includes
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#29_September_2017_(Government_subsidized_planes)">manufacturing</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-nov-feb.html#23_January_2024_(Costs_of_sports_stadiums)">stadiums</a>(including Olympic games),
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jan-apr.html#16_February_2019_(Urgent:_Subsidies_for_movies)">movies</a>,
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_July_2018_(Corporate_welfare)">other things</a>. Otherwise, the people are being cheated.
In the case of paying for research, the government should
make sure that the discoveries can be used by anyone.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Putin forces held a Ukrainian civilian journalist prisoner
uri: Putin-forces-held-a-Ukrainian-civilian-journalist-prisoner
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Putin_forces_held_a_Ukrainian_civilian_journalist_prisoner)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Putin_forces_held_a_Ukrainian_civilian_journalist_prisoner)

content:
 
<p>

  The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/29/viktoriia-roshchyna-ukrainian-journalist-death-russian-prison">kept a Ukrainian civilian journalist prisoner</a> almost
totally incommunicado, Eventually they handed over her dead body,
which showed signs of torture.
</p>
<p>
I am puzzle by the people on the left who are included to excuse this.
They would not excuse Israel for torturing Palestinian civilians in
its jails.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Warning of extremism in Israeli government
uri: Warning-of-extremism-in-Israeli-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Warning_of_extremism_in_Israeli_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Warning_of_extremism_in_Israeli_government)

content:
 
<p>

Former Israeli military chiefs warn Israelis that their government is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/29/israel-security-agency-extremist-government-war">threatened by extremism</a>.
</p>
<p>
This is one of the things that are gravely wrong in the Israeli
government.  The other is repression and persecution of Palestinians.
I think the two are causally related.
</p>
<p>
  Let Benevolence Shine<br>
  Richard Stallman, 2023-12-14
</p>
<p>
    Twixt the river and the sea,<br>
    Palestine nigh Israel be.<br>
    Both in peace, let both be free;<br>
    Be lands of democracy. <br>
</p>
<p>
We should not get so caught up in how to take the difficult next step that we forget where we are trying to get to. 
</p>
</li>

 


title: Deportation thugs seek out immigrant minors
uri: Deportation-thugs-seek-out-immigrant-minors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Deportation_thugs_seek_out_immigrant_minors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Deportation_thugs_seek_out_immigrant_minors)

content:
 
<p>

  *Deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/ice-unaccompanied-immigrant-children">seeking out unaccompanied immigrant [minors]</a> to
 deport or prosecute them.*
</p>
<p>
The article's title says "children", but I think that is an example of
the misleading practice of calling adolescents "children".  If I am
right about that, the fact that the victims are over 18 does not make
the actions any less wrong.  But real children are the ones least
likely to be able to stand up to such pressure.
</p>
<p>
Using "welfare checks", supposedly meant to protect people, to find
excuses to persecute them is even more vicious.  That will teach
people to distrust real efforts to protect them, much like the fake
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#07_September_2012_(Pakistan_punishes_Save_the_Children)">"vaccination campaign"</a> which the US set up to look for Osama bin
Laden.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Deported women separated from US citizen children
uri: Deported-women-separated-from-US-citizen-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Deported_women_separated_from_US_citizen_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Deported_women_separated_from_US_citizen_children)

content:
 
<p>

*Two women who were deported to ]Honduras alongside their US citizen
children were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/women-children-citizens-deported-honduras">held in “complete isolation”</a> and denied any opportunity
to coordinate the care and custody of their children before being put
on a flight, according to one of the lawyers representing them.*
</p>
<p>
The effect was to forcibly deport their US citizen children too.
</p>
<p>
They experienced several other forms of unjust treatment from the US
government, described in the article.  The government is using its mistakes
as excuses for unjust treatment.
</p>
<p>
But that's Republicans for you.  If a person is in a group they have
decided to start, when some nasty treatment gives them an excuse to do
more harm, they grasp the opportunity gleefully.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Instances of cruelty by deportation thugs
uri: Instances-of-cruelty-by-deportation-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Instances_of_cruelty_by_deportation_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Instances_of_cruelty_by_deportation_thugs)

content:
 
<p>

  A survey of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/trump-immigration-people-detained-deported-cases">noteworthy recent instances of cruelty</a> by the US deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Gavel and black gowns ties to MS-13 gang
uri: (satire)-Gavel-and-black-gowns-ties-to-MS-13-gang
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_((satire)_Gavel_and_black_gowns_ties_to_MS-13_gang)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_((satire)_Gavel_and_black_gowns_ties_to_MS-13_gang)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *FBI Claims Gavel, Black Gowns <a href="https://theonion.com/fbi-claims-gavel-black-gowns-prove-ties-to-ms-13-gang/">Prove Ties To MS-13 Gang</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Value of Musk's DOPE conflicts of interest
uri: Value-of-Musk-s-DOPE-conflicts-of-interest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Value_of_Musk's_DOPE_conflicts_of_interest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Value_of_Musk's_DOPE_conflicts_of_interest)

content:
 
<p>

  *Elon Musk's DOPE conflicts of interest <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/28/elon-musk-doge-conflict-of-interest">worth $2.37bn</a>, Senate report says.*
</p>
<p>
DOPE = Depredation's of Perverse Evisceration.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Using psychedelics to treat mental distress
uri: Using-psychedelics-to-treat-mental-distress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Using_psychedelics_to_treat_mental_distress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Using_psychedelics_to_treat_mental_distress)

content:
 
<p>

Arguing that the recent idea of using psychedelics to treat people in
mental distress <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/01/the-ancient-psychedelics-myth-people-tell-tourists-the-stories-they-think-are-interesting-for-them">comes from shamans</a> who told tourists what tourists
wanted to hear, in the last century.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Record_level_Australian_coal_exports)
title: Record level Australian coal exports
uri: Record-level-Australian-coal-exports
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Record_level_Australian_coal_exports)
content:
 
<p>

  Australia's coal exports have reached a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/labor-and-coalition-accused-of-being-on-fossil-fuel-unity-ticket-as-thermal-coal-exports-hit-record-high">record level</a>, 
  as the coal companies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/02/australian-institute-for-progress-anti-greens-election-ads-coal-australia-donations-ntwnfb">fund ads</a> to promote the right-wing planet
roaster parties.
</p>
<p>
The money trail was visible in that instance, but I am sure they are
doing far more of this than people can trace.
</p>
<p>
  *Labor and Coalition <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/labor-and-coalition-accused-of-being-on-fossil-fuel-unity-ticket-as-thermal-coal-exports-hit-record-high">accused of being on fossil fuel ‘unity ticket’</a> as thermal
coal exports hit record high.*
</p>
<p>
The government's foot is on the coal pedal as well as the gas pedal
as the world <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/arctic-plant-study-warning-climate-change">accelerates towards the climate cliff</a>.  We can't see how
far away the cliff actually is, but there are signs it will be difficult to
slow nature in falling in.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Reducing Tariffs from Canada in a selective way
uri: Reducing-Tariffs-from-Canada-in-a-selective-way
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Reducing_Tariffs_from_Canada_in_a_selective_way)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Reducing_Tariffs_from_Canada_in_a_selective_way)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> ordered reducing tariffs on cars from Canada,
in a selective way that <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/30/trump-auto-car-tariffs-tesla-elon-musk/">helps Tesla most of all</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: New York Times article on targeting of Muslims
uri: New-York-Times-article-on-targeting-of-Muslims
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(New_York_Times_article_on_targeting_of_Muslims)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(New_York_Times_article_on_targeting_of_Muslims)

content:
 
<p>

A New York Times article took evidence that Muslims are the religion
most targeted by prejudice in universities, but spun it to give the
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/30/harvard-new-york-times-antisemitism-reports-palestine/">impression that Jews are most targeted</a>.
</p>
<p>
  Here is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/30/harvard-anti-muslim-antisemitism-taskforces">careful account</a> of the report they are talking about.
</p>
<p>
Note: I criticize using the term "Islamophobia" to refer to bigotry
against Muslims, or to refer to criticism of Islam.  That bigotry is
nasty (like other bigotries), while criticism of that religion is a
legitimate issue for discussion (like criticism of other religions),
and neither of them is a "phobia".
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israeli government meddling on protesters in Britain
uri: Israeli-government-meddling-on-protesters-in-Britain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Israeli_government_meddling_on_protesters_in_Britain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Israeli_government_meddling_on_protesters_in_Britain)

content:
 
<p>

There is information that suggests that the British government helped
the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/29/police-and-prosecutors-details-shared-with-israel-during-uk-protests-inquiry-papers-suggest">Israeli government meddle</a> to bring about prosecution of protesters
in Britain.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Conflicts of interest in undersecretary of the army
uri: Conflicts-of-interest-in-undersecretary-of-the-army
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Conflicts_of_interest_in_undersecretary_of_the_army)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Conflicts_of_interest_in_undersecretary_of_the_army)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter's</a> choice for undersecretary of the army says he will end
all his conflicts of interest except one: all the stock he owns in
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/01/trump-army-anduril-mike-obadal-ethics/">one arms company</a>.
</p>
<p>
This is enough to conclude he is not serious about doing the job
honestly; enough reason to reject him.  But I don't think that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magat</a>
senators object seriously to corruption.  If they did, they would not
serve <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Judge's_rule_on_Alien_Enemies_Act)
title: Judge's rule on Alien Enemies Act
uri: Judge-s-rule-on-Alien-Enemies-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Judge's_rule_on_Alien_Enemies_Act)
content:
 
<p>

  A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/01/alien-enemies-act-judge-ruling-texas">judge has ruled</a> that the *Alien Enemies Act does not allow White
House to deport alleged gang members* in the southern district of
Texas.
</p>
<p>
Eventually appeals courts will rule on this.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Reasons_to_use_cash)
title: Reasons to use cash
uri: Reasons-to-use-cash
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#4_May_2025_(Reasons_to_use_cash)
content:
 
<p>

How many different reasons to use cash will it take to convince your
friends that they have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/01/cash-banks-gen-z-power-outages-dystopia">good reason to use cash too</a>?
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(British_insect_population_decline)
title: British insect population decline
uri: British-insect-population-decline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(British_insect_population_decline)
content:
 
<p>
The population of flying insects in Britain fell by half from 2021 to
2023.  In
2024 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/30/alarming-bug-splat-decline-uk-cars-fears-flying-insect-numbers">it
did not bounce back</a>.  The cause is not known, but it can cause
disaster for many kinds of plants, as well as birds, frogs, and other
things that eat insects.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Trump_cancels_HIV_elimination_funding)
title: Trump cancels HIV elimination funding
uri: Trump-cancels-HIV-elimination-funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Trump_cancels_HIV_elimination_funding)
content:
 
<p>
Just as the world came to have a chance to eliminate HIV through
medicines that prevent its spread, the
wrecker <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/30/developing-world-aid-response-hiv-aids-winnie-byanyima">showed
up and cancelled</a> US plans to pay for doing that.
<p>
If civilization falls due to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, we are likely to lose the
technology to make medicine to treat and prevent HIV.  What a shame to
prevent us from getting rid of it first.
<p>
Eliminating patents on
medicines <a href="media/d0cffc35.45_1_stallman.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.next.gen.oh.us/home/anton/reference/45_1_stallman.pdf">is
very important</a>.  The three fields where patents are most harmful
are agriculture, medicine and software.

<p>
 


title: El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT)
uri: El-Salvador-s-Terrorism-Confinement-Center-(CECOT)
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(El_Salvador's_Terrorism_Confinement_Center_(CECOT))

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(El_Salvador's_Terrorism_Confinement_Center_(CECOT))

content:
 
<p>
El Salvador's CECOT prison
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/30/el-salvador-cecot-mega-prison-trump">more
cruel</a> than Guantanamo.  The prisoners are kept incommunicado and
have no legal rights.  Anyone there can be sent to that prison on the
"president"s whim.  Other, older prisons there are (reportedly) even
more cruel.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Israel_and_Red_Cross)
title: Israel and Red Cross
uri: Israel-and-Red-Cross
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Israel_and_Red_Cross)
content:
 
<p>
*Israel must give Red Cross <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/01/israel-must-give-access-to-jailed-palestinians-uk-tells-world-court">access to jailed Palestinians</a>, Britain tells ICJ.*
<p>
The crimes of HAMAS are grave, an many, but the crimes of Israel are
comparably grave and far more numerous.   Citing one side's crimes
does not justify the other's.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(US-Ukraine_minerals_deal)
title: US-Ukraine minerals deal
uri: US-Ukraine-minerals-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(US-Ukraine_minerals_deal)
content:
 
<p>
*US and Ukraine <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/30/us-ukraine-minerals-deal-russia">sign minerals deal</a>* that sets up a way for Ukraine to pay the
price of the military aid that the US has already donated.
<p>
This agreement is not really a deal; rather, it is a general roadmap
to reach a deal.  This will give the cheater at least one excuse to
start demanding that Ukraine sell the whole store for one dollar.  But
since he doesn't feel the need a valid excuse, the cheater won't
hesitate to break it anyway to demand more money.  You should prepare
for any deal with him to be cancelled at any moment.
<p>
Nonetheless, if this deal results in continued US military aid and
that stops the advance of the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>
(<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/putin-forces.html"> please
don't call them "the Russians"</a>), it is better than no agreement at
all.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Trump_environment_onslaught)
title: Trump environment onslaught
uri: Trump-environment-onslaught
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Trump_environment_onslaught)
content:
 
<p>
*Charting 100 days of [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#saboteur">the saboteur</a> in
chief]’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/01/trump-100-days-climate-environment">onslaught
on the environment</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Trump_vs_clean_air)
title: Trump vs clean air
uri: Trump-vs-clean-air
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Trump_vs_clean_air)
content:
 
<p>
*[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>] has
launched <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/trump-air-climate-pollution-regulation-100-days">more
attacks</a> on the environment in 100 days than his entire first
term.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(US_cruelty)
title: US cruelty
uri: US-cruelty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(US_cruelty)
content:
 
<p>
*I
witnessed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/01/guantanamo-trump-deportations">US
cruelty</a> as a Guantánamo lawyer. [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully's</a>] deportations are
disturbingly familiar.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Paramount_and_CBS)
title: Paramount and CBS
uri: Paramount-and-CBS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Paramount_and_CBS)
content:
 
<p>
Paramount wants to do a merger, and Paramount owns CBS.  That
relationship enabled the represser
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/01/60-minutes-press-freedom">impose
censorship on CBS</a>.
<p>
Last year, the FTC might have blocked the merger to preserve
competition, but it would not have demanded power over CBS
programming.
<p>
It is clear that the purchase of news publishers by much bigger
businesses is bad for the freedom of the press.  These larger
companies are vulnerable to many kinds of government pressure, and
they have no tradition of seeing censorship as bad.
<p>
If we get out of this mess, we should ban such mergers and break up
those mergers.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(RFK_Jr's_false_vaccine_claims)
title: RFK Jr's false vaccine claims
uri: RFK-Jr-s-false-vaccine-claims
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(RFK_Jr's_false_vaccine_claims)
content:
 
<p>
*RFK Jr and [department of HHS] falsely claim MMR vaccine <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/01/rfk-mmr-vaccines-fetus-claim">includes
"aborted fetus debris"</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Mohsed_Mahdawi_bailed)
title: Mohsed Mahdawi bailed
uri: Mohsed-Mahdawi-bailed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Mohsed_Mahdawi_bailed)
content:
 
<p>
Mohsed Mahdawi has
been <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/30/mohsen-mahdawi-released-student-deportation-immigration-trump/">freed
on bail</a>.  There was never any reason to jail him except the
Republican policy of intimidating all opposition into submission.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Mercenary_spyware)
title: Mercenary spyware
uri: Mercenary-spyware
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Mercenary_spyware)
content:
 
<p>
Italian journalists that have exposed fascist-leaning members of
Melonu's right-wing governing Party have
been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/01/second-italian-journalist-allegedly-targeted-with-mercenary-spyware">attacked
with spyware on their snooping devices</a>.  (They don't by default
snoop for anybody and everybody.)

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Carbon_bombs)
title: "Carbon bombs"
uri: Carbon-bombs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Carbon_bombs)
content:
 
<p>
*[London Banks] have poured more than $100bn (£75bn) into companies
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/uk-banks-put-75bn-into-firms-building-climate-wrecking-carbon-bombs-study-finds">developing “carbon bombs”</a> -- huge oil, gas and coal projects that
would drive the climate past internationally agreed temperature
limits with catastrophic global consequences.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Robert_Reich:_Trump's_next_100_days)
title: Robert Reich: Trump's next 100 days
uri: Robert-Reich-Trump-s-next-100-days
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(Robert_Reich:_Trump's_next_100_days)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/30/trump-next-100-days">Robert Reich</a>: If leaders stay silent, the US won't survive [the
corrupter's] next 100 days.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(An_American's_democracy_plea)
title: An American's democracy plea
uri: An-American-s-democracy-plea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#5_May_2025_(An_American's_democracy_plea)
content:
 
<p>
An American pleads for other countries to adopt policies that can
lead/press the US back to democracy.
<p>
*I firmly believe that the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada
and
Japan <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/01/western-world-diplomacy-american-democracy-trump">have
a historic obligation to the American people to do what they can</a>
to help us preserve our democracy. An America descending into
authoritarianism also poses a threat to the democracies they lead.*
<p>
I hope that they share these feelings, despite the disadvantage that
they must scramble to protect themselves from the right-wing extremists
in the United States while resisting similar extremists in their own
countries.


 


title: Lobby group pushing for censorship of ethnic studies classes
uri: Lobby-group-pushing-for-censorship-of-ethnic-studies-classes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Lobby_group_pushing_for_censorship_of_ethnic_studies_classes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Lobby_group_pushing_for_censorship_of_ethnic_studies_classes)

content:
 
<p>

  A Zionist lobby group is pushing for California to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/28/california-schools-ethnic-studies-israel-palestine/">impose state censorship</a>
of the ethnic studies classes that re mandatory in high school there.
</p>
<p>
  I think these classes should teach Uri Avnery's <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/downloads/truth/Truth%20Against%20Truth%20-%20English">Truth Against Truth</a>
  and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_May_2014_(DePaul_students_vote_to_divest_from_occupation_profiteers)">follow that</a> with the work of today's bridge-builders,
  such as Mohsen Mahdawi and his <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#18_April_2025_(Mohsen_Mahdawi_is_bully's_latest_choice_for_arbitrary_expulsion)">Israeli colleague Mikey Baratz</a>
</p>
<p>
But that should not be enforced by government censorship.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Disturbing_plan_to_bring_back_serfdom)
title: Disturbing plan to bring back serfdom
uri: Disturbing-plan-to-bring-back-serfdom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Disturbing_plan_to_bring_back_serfdom)
content:
 
<p>

  *Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick laid out a <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/194572/trump-lutnick-work-factories-forever-with-grandpa">disturbing plan</a> to bring
back serfdom.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(RFK_jr._rejects_Germ_theory)
title: RFK jr. rejects Germ theory
uri: RFK-jr-rejects-Germ-theory
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(RFK_jr._rejects_Germ_theory)
content:
 
<p>

  *RFK jr. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-stance-is-rooted-in-a-disbelief-in-germ-theory/">rejects cornerstone of health science</a>: Germ theory.*
</p>
<p>
  He also endorses the <a href="https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-goes-full-tinfoil-pledges-to-stop-chemtrails-in-latest-dr-phil-interview-2000596357">implausible theory</a> that "chemtrails" are made
intentionally and by DARPA.
</p>
<p>
It is dangerous to let an ignoramus mess with America's medical system.
He will order the use of useless "treatments" for imaginart problems
while rejecting the real treatments fr real medical problems based on
imaginary reasons.
</p>
</li>

 


title: NYU's repressive punishment of nonviolent protests
uri: NYU-s-repressive-punishment-of-nonviolent-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(NYU's_repressive_punishment_of_nonviolent_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(NYU's_repressive_punishment_of_nonviolent_protests)

content:
 
<p>

  On NYU's <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/03/nyu-law-students-protests-gaza-palestine-israel/">repressive punishment</a> of nonviolent student protests,
which it improvises from week to week and enforces in a biased 
and haphazard way.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Mohsen_Mahdawi_was_released_on_bail)
title: Mohsen Mahdawi was released on bail
uri: Mohsen-Mahdawi-was-released-on-bail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Mohsen_Mahdawi_was_released_on_bail)
content:
 
<p>

  Mohsen Mahdawi was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may/03/mohsen-mahdawi-trump-deportations">released on bail</a> and defended democracy for all
Americans.
</p>
<p>
*Once the repression of dissent, in the name of security, becomes a key
objective of a government, authoritarian rule and even martial law are
not far off. When they look at my case, all Americans should ask
themselves: what is left of our democracy, and who will be targeted
next?*
</p>
<p>
The US needs more citizens like him/
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Arbitrary_restrictions_on_the_press)
title: Arbitrary restrictions on the press
uri: Arbitrary-restrictions-on-the-press
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Arbitrary_restrictions_on_the_press)
content:
 
<p>

  Many countries have passed laws that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/03/world-press-freedom-day-rights-journalists">label journalists that criticize the state as "foreign agents"</a>.  This enables arbitrary restrictions on the press.
</p>
<p>
The challenge is how to distinguish foreign-organized influence
campaigns from campaigns for journalistic freedom.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Protests with important political effects
uri: Protests-with-important-political-effects
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Protests_with_important_political_effects)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Protests_with_important_political_effects)

content:
 
<p>

  Rebecca Solnit talks about protests that have had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/protest-can-shape-the-world-rebecca-solnit-on-the-fight-back-against-trump">important political effects</a>,
  even if the target doesn't explicitly agree to any demands.
</p>
<p>
One example, was the protests in Seattle in 1999, which blocked a
global "free trade" initiative.
</p>
<p>
"Free trade" tends to mean that companies can get away with whatever
they wish and rich people can hide all their wealth from taxation, so
it is very harmful.  I have a feeling that some super-rich people and
companies are using the example of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> reckless and sudden
tariff increases to teach the public that "tariffs are bad, we must
eliminate them", but that idea would be as harmful now as it was in
the 1990s.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Call for charges with complicity in war crimes
uri: Call-for-charges-with-complicity-in-war-crimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Call_for_charges_with_complicity_in_war_crimes_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Call_for_charges_with_complicity_in_war_crimes_)

content:
 
<p>

The U.N. special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories
calls for more European leaders to be <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/03/eu-israel-palestine-war-crimes-accountability/">charged with complicity in war crimes</a>
   for supporting Israel's bombardment of Gaza.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Revulsion of many Labour voters against right-wing policies
uri: Revulsion-of-many-Labour-voters-against-right-wing-policies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Revulsion_of_many_Labour_voters_against_right-wing_policies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Revulsion_of_many_Labour_voters_against_right-wing_policies)

content:
 
<p>

A former Labour shadow minister, now in Parliament as an independent,
calls on Labour to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/03/labour-reform-voters-keir-starmer-local-elections">listen to the revulsion of many Labour voters</a>
against Starmer's right-wing policies.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: Cost of pardons to white-collar criminals
uri: Cost-of-pardons-to-white-collar-criminals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_(Cost_of_pardons_to_white-collar_criminals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_(Cost_of_pardons_to_white-collar_criminals)

content:
 
<p>

  *{<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter's</a>] white-collar criminal pardons <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/trump-pardons-cost-liz-oyer">cost public $1bn</a>,
says ex-DoJ official.*
</p>
<p>
Assuming he profited from this in some way, it amounts to a transfer
from America's account to his account.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Confusion on deported mothers and their children
uri: Confusion-on-deported-mothers-and-their-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_(Confusion_on_deported_mothers_and_their_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_(Confusion_on_deported_mothers_and_their_children)

content:
 
<p>

While some groups of deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> told mothers being deported that they
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/trump-florida-mom-cuba-deported">had to take their US-citizen children with them</a>, another group told
another mother that she could not do so.
</p>
<p>
I conjecture that they have been given vague and confusing
instructions, written in a hurry by inexperienced people,
so in similar situations various officials draw
different conclusions.  That tends to happen when those who write the
instructions don't think carefully about them.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Do your own research on Dragons
uri: (satire)-Do-your-own-research-on-Dragons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_((satire)_Do_your_own_research_on_Dragons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_((satire)_Do_your_own_research_on_Dragons)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To <a href="https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-encourages-americans-to-do-their-own-research-about-dragons/">Do Their Own Research About Dragons</a>.*
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title: Closure of scientific centers that monitor US waters
uri: Closure-of-scientific-centers-that-monitor-US-waters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_(Closure_of_scientific_centers_that_monitor_US_waters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_(Closure_of_scientific_centers_that_monitor_US_waters)

content:
 
<p>

  *   The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur in chief</a> has ordered the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/trump-administration-united-states-geological-service">closure of 25 scientific</a>
   centers that monitor US waters for flooding and drought, and manage
   supply levels to ensure communities around the country don't run out of
   water.*
</p>
<p>
From now on, if your region has floods or water shortages, the
saboteur will be partly to bale.
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title: British defeat of one increase in repression of protests
uri: British-defeat-of-one-increase-in-repression-of-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_(British_defeat_of_one_increase_in_repression_of_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_(British_defeat_of_one_increase_in_repression_of_protests)

content:
 
<p>

  British human rights defenders have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may/02/campaigners-claim-victory-as-judges-quash-braverman-move-against-protests">defeated in court</a> one increase in
repression of protests.  The increase was serious but the Tories
treated it as minor.
</p>
<p>
I wonder whether this will free any of the UK's political prisoners who
were convicted of protesting.
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feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_(Ship_carrying_aid_to_Gaza_attacked)
title: Ship carrying aid to Gaza attacked
uri: Ship-carrying-aid-to-Gaza-attacked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_(Ship_carrying_aid_to_Gaza_attacked)
content:
 
<p>

There is once again a fleet of unarmed ships carrying aid to Gaza.
Someone used drones to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/02/gaza-humanitarian-aid-ship-bombed-drones-waters-off-malta">attack one of the ships</a>, half the Mediterranean
sea away.  Attackers suspect the attack was done by Israel.
</p>
<p>
I agree it was probably the Israeli army , because Israel had means,
motive and opportunity.  Some other countries had the means, and
perhaps an opportunity, but No other country had a motive.
</p>
<p>
  Israel used to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_(Gaza_aid_boats)">seize aid boats</a> and arrest the people on them.
  The change to attack the boats and maybe kill the people
on them reflects how Israel has changed since then.
</p>
<p>
Was that attack terrorism?  I think it was.
Terrorism means making war on noncombatants, and those unarmed
aid workers are clearly not combatants.
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title: Labour bill threatens protected habitats
uri: Labour-bill-threatens-protected-habitats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_(Labour_bill_threatens_protected_habitats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#7_May_2025_(Labour_bill_threatens_protected_habitats)

content:
 
<p>

  *Labour's planning bill <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/02/labour-planning-bill-threatens-protected-habitats-says-environment-watchdog">threatens protected habitats</a> [in Britain],
says environment watchdog.*
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feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Buddha's_burial_gems_going_to_auction)
title: Buddha's burial gems going to auction
uri: Buddha-s-burial-gems-going-to-auction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#6_May_2025_(Buddha's_burial_gems_going_to_auction)
content:
 
<p>
Some Buddhists are making a big fuss about the auction of ancient gems
that belonged to a man who found them and excavated them.
They claim that the gems were mixed with a kind of relic &mdash; some of the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/02/auction-of-ancient-indian-gems-imbued-with-living-presence-of-buddha-condemned">
dust remaining from Buddha's cremation</a> &mdash; and this makes them
sacred so they can't be auctioned.
<p>
I can imagine what the Buddha would say about this obsession: 
<blockquote>
I invite all of you to learn to be less attached<br />
to physical things, including gems and<br />
derivatives of parts of my former body.<br />
Attachment generates suffering, and that<br />
includes attachment to those things.  If my<br />
former body has any importance, it is only in<br />
the advice that it once spoke to you, which I<br />
now repeat.
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Please join me in focusing on things that<br />
really matter and you will become more enlightened.
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