# articles

title: Serbian students block Belgrade road junction
uri: Serbian-students-block-Belgrade-road-junction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Serbian_students_block_Belgrade_road_junction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Serbian_students_block_Belgrade_road_junction)

content:
 
<p>

  *Serbian students <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/27/serbian-students-block-autokomanda-junction-belgrade-vucic">block Belgrade road junction</a> to demand that the
government do its job.
</p>
<p>
In Britain such protesters would be sentenced to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#27_January_2025_(Extended_jail_term_for_Just_Stop_Oil_protester)">years in prison for
    that</a>.
     Curbing <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> is necessary for the survival of
civilization, so it is part of the government's job.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Water companies in England us Greenwashing playbook
uri: Water-companies-in-England-us-Greenwashing-playbook
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Water_companies_in_England_us_Greenwashing_playbook)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Water_companies_in_England_us_Greenwashing_playbook)

content:
 
<p>

  *Water companies in England <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/27/water-companies-in-england-use-greenwashing-playbook-to-hide-environmental-harm">"use greenwashing playbook to hide environmental harm."</a>*
</p>
<p>
Privatizing water services was a terrible idea which has had only bad
effects.  It is very disappointing that Labour is not getting rid of
them.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Corruptor's_crypto_ties)
title: Corruptor's crypto ties
uri: Corruptor-s-crypto-ties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Corruptor's_crypto_ties)
content:
 
<p>

*"[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corruptor's</a>] grifting tendencies": how [his] crypto ties <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/trump-meme-coin-cryptocurrency">could
    spur corruption</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(UK_agencies_cancel_chatbots)
title: UK agencies cancel chatbots
uri: UK-agencies-cancel-chatbots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(UK_agencies_cancel_chatbots)
content:
 
<p>

UK agencies that support the public were supposed to use chatbots to
talk with people seeking help, but they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/27/ai-prototypes-uk-welfare-system-dropped">canceled several</a> because they
don't work reliably.
</p>
<p>
It is a nice thing that they had the decency to cancel these, rather than
forcing them on people.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Bulgarian border thugs blocking rescuers
uri: Bulgarian-border-thugs-blocking-rescuers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Bulgarian_border_thugs_blocking_rescuers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Bulgarian_border_thugs_blocking_rescuers)

content:
 
<p>

  Bulgarian border <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/27/bulgaria-border-police-block-rescue-egyptian-migrant-boys-freeze-death-human-rights-activists">accused of blocking rescuers</a> from reaching
migrants who were freezing to death at the border with Turkey.
</p>
<p>
That constitutes murder, it seems to me.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Digital_government_identification)
title: Digital government identification
uri: Digital-government-identification
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Digital_government_identification)
content:
 
<p>

A new UK plan for digital government identification via a snoop-phone app
could lead to a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/govuk-app-wallet-could-lead-to-mandatory-id-scheme-claim-privacy-groups">de-facto mandatory national ID card</a>.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Global_humanitarian_US-aid_halted)
title: Global humanitarian US-aid halted
uri: Global-humanitarian-US-aid-halted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Global_humanitarian_US-aid_halted)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a>
sudden halt to payments for humanitarian aid is causing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/28/charities-reeling-from-usaid-freeze-warn-of-life-or-death-effects">danger
and suffering around the world</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Medicare, Medicare, Social Security
uri: Urgent-Medicare-Medicare-Social-Security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Urgent:_Medicare,_Medicare,_Social_Security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Urgent:_Medicare,_Medicare,_Social_Security)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/doge-musk-cuts-inauguration/?t=1005&akid=33065%2E96703%2EWFQAPY">call
on Congress</a> not to let
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the Muskrat</a> destroy
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
<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/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(RFK_HHS_confirmation_hearings)
title: RFK Jr., Sec. HHS confirmation hearings
uri: RFK-Jr-Sec-HHS-confirmation-hearings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(RFK_HHS_confirmation_hearings)
content:
 
<p>
An irrational zealot like RFK Jr. as head of the Department of Health
and Human Services would have many methods available to
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-man-no-rational-person-would">wreck
public health in the US</a>, and as a follower of <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>, he would
threaten them.
<p>
RFK Jr. is now trying to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/rfk-jr-confirmation-hearing">pretend
he was never anti-vax</a>.
<p>
This shows that his views on issues are calculated opportunistically,
which means he might do anything whatsoever if it seems profitable.
He is not fit to be in charge of <em>anything</em>.
<p>
Phone your senators and tell them this.
<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/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(ICE_raided_Newark)
title: When ICE raided Newark
uri: When-ICE-raided-Newark
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(ICE_raided_Newark)
content:
 
<p>
Deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>
raided Newark and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/newark-mayor-immigration-raid">arrested
over 500 people</a>,
including US citizens as well as unauthorized immigrants.
</p>
<p>
They questioned a US citizen veteran and doubted the validity of his
discharge papers.  I wonder if he was, perhaps, Hispanic &mdash; could they
have disbelieved him because of his race?
</p>
<p>
Will we find people put in deportation prison for days, or longer,
because they did not have their papers at the time of the raid?
</p>
(Later): Indeed, they checked only
<a href="https://americasvoice.org/press_releases/the-troubling-significance-of-the-u-s-military-veteran-detained-in-new-jersey-ice-raid/">people who looked Hispanic</a>.
</li>

<p>
 


title: Proof of citizenship for voting, OK
uri: Proof-of-citizenship-for-voting-OK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Proof_of_citizenship_for_voting,_OK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_January_2025_(Proof_of_citizenship_for_voting,_OK)

content:
 
<p>
Oklahoma plans to demand proof of citizenship (or legal immigration
status)
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/oklahoma-schools-immigration-status">from
children</a> who should go to school.  In addition to to denying to
unauthorized immigrants' children,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-may-aug.html#14_June_2024_(Millions_of_citizens_lack_document_access)">many
US citizens</a>
would have
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-sep-dec.html#29_December_2021_(Proving_citizenship)">trouble
proving</a> they
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Arizona_voters_given_30_days_to_dig_up_citizenship_proof)">are citizens</a>.
<p>
The House of Representatives is
<a href="https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/restricting-the-freedom-to-vote?publication_id=1061914&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=5n3e&utm_medium=email">about
to vote on that bill</a>.


 


title: EU tech-laws VS big US tech-companies
uri: EU-tech-laws-VS-big-US-tech-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(EU_tech-laws_VS_big_US_tech-companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(EU_tech-laws_VS_big_US_tech-companies)

content:
 
<p>
*Europe
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/29/europe-must-not-be-bullied-by-trump-and-musk-on-tech-laws-ngos-say">"must
not be bullied"</a> by Trump and Musk on tech laws, NGOs say.*
<p>
I think the EU should resist <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a> on every demand
that would strengthen his power.
<p>
Bullies generally exaggerate their strength and pretend to be
invincible.  But they always have weakpoints too.  The first surrender
makes <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>
stronger &mdash; so almost always you should resist the first
demand/threat.
<p>
The only exception that occurs to me is when you are rapidly building
your strength and have real reasons to think you will have a better
chance of winning if you wait for that.

<p>
 


title: CNN chief anchor and critic resigns
uri: CNN-chief-anchor-and-critic-resigns
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(CNN_chief_anchor_and_critic_resigns)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(CNN_chief_anchor_and_critic_resigns)

content:
 
<p>
A prominent CNN critic of <!---->the wrecker quit after
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/28/jim-acosta-leaves-cnn">the
network moved his show to midnight</a>.
<p>
We have to conclude that this was an attempt to
win <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the
wrecker's</a> forgiveness for showing criticism of him to so many
people.


<p>
 


title: Urgent: Huckabee Ambassador hearings
uri: Urgent-Huckabee-Ambassador-hearings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(Urgent:_Huckabee_hearings,_Ambassador_to_ISR)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(Urgent:_Huckabee_hearings,_Ambassador_to_ISR)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/reject-huckabee?akid=10269.223515.6rCLwv&c0=reject-huckabee.Ueanc5&rd=1&source=em20250125&t=1006">call
on the Senate</a> to reject Mike Huckabee, the extremist nominee for
U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

<p>
 


title: Labor Relations Board deactivated, US
uri: Labor-Relations-Board-deactivated-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(Labor_Relations_Board_deactivated,_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(Labor_Relations_Board_deactivated,_US)

content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
illegally
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/if-anyone-needed-more-proof-that">fired
a member of the NLRB</a>, leaving it with no quorum and therefore
deactivated.
<p>
By hook or by crook, he will support the billionaires against American
workers.

<p>
 


title: Dept. of Edu. ignoring school book-bans
uri: Dept-of-Edu-ignoring-school-book-bans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(Dept._of_Edu._ignoring_school_book-bans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(Dept._of_Edu._ignoring_school_book-bans)

content:
 
<p>
As part of the War on Human Rights, <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> has given permission for
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/29/2300071/-In-its-War-on-DEI-Trump-s-DOE-Okays-Book-Bans?_=2025-01-29T15:41:23.000-08:00
">state and local book-banning in schools</a>.

<p>
 


title: Voter suppression rampant in red states
uri: Voter-suppression-rampant-in-red-states
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(Voter_suppression_rampant_in_red_states)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(Voter_suppression_rampant_in_red_states)

content:
 
<p>
<!-- please accept this recent duplicate URL.  It is registered in ~/.filter-dups. -->
Greg Palast:
<a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/?mc_cid=c8454331ca&mc_eid=UNIQID">*Trump
lost</a>.  That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all
legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of
Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala
Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes.*
<p>
*Harris cheated out of 3,650,000 votes by these Jim Crow tricks.
4.7 million voters purged. 3.2 million registrations rejected. 2.1 million mail-in ballots tossed.*



<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#1_February_2025_(Health_insurance_VS_doctors,_USA)
title: Health insurance VS doctors, USA
uri: Health-insurance-VS-doctors-USA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#1_February_2025_(Health_insurance_VS_doctors,_USA)
content:
 
<p>
*"It's a death sentence": US health
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/us-health-insurance-system-doctors">insurance
system is failing</a>, say doctors.  Firms including
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#united-hellth">United [Hellthcare]</a> have denied basic scans and taken months to reconsider,
physicians say.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#1_February_2025_(Tariffs_initiated,_MEX,_CAN)
title: Tariff processes initiated, MEX, CAN
uri: Tariff-processes-initiated-MEX-CAN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#1_February_2025_(Tariffs_initiated,_MEX,_CAN)
content:
 
<p>
<!---->The wrecker
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china">announced
25% tariffs</a> on products from Mexico and Canada.
<p>
I suggest that those countries respond by declaring sanctions on the
muskrat and his companies.  That could provoke friction between
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>
and <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#1_February_2025_(Funding_freeze_blocked_by_courts)
title: Funding freeze blocked by courts
uri: Funding-freeze-blocked-by-courts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#1_February_2025_(Funding_freeze_blocked_by_courts)
content:
 
<p>
The maladministration stated it was withdrawing the memo that blocked
nearly all US government payments in programs to help non-rich people.
<p>
Then it "clarified" that only the memo was rescinded, not the policy.
<p>
A judge thereupon ruled that this was meaningless bullshit, and that
<a href="https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/a-distinction-without-a-difference-judge-cites-white-house-press-secretarys-x-post-in-blocking-trumps-funding-freeze-on-federal-aid/">the
policy was indeed canceled</a>.


<p>
 


title: UnitedHellth expanded corruptly: history
uri: UnitedHellth-expanded-corruptly-history
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#1_February_2025_(UnitedHellth_expanded_corruptly:_history)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#1_February_2025_(UnitedHellth_expanded_corruptly:_history)

content:
 
<p>
*The
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/the-deadly-consequences-of-unitedhealths-unchecked-growth/">Deadly
Consequences</a> 
Of [<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#united-hellth">UnitedHellth</a>]’s
Unchecked Growth*, and the company's influence over judges.


<p>
 


title: Talk in Surathkal, India, on Feb 3
uri: Talk-in-Surathkal-India-on-Feb-3
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#1_February_2025_(Talk_in_Surathkal,_India,_on_Feb_3)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#1_February_2025_(Talk_in_Surathkal,_India,_on_Feb_3)

content:
 
<p>
Richard Stallman will give
<a href="/talks.html#2025-02-03">a talk</a> at
<blockquote>
National Institute of Technology, Surathkal<br />
Hall Complex - C (LHC-C)<br />
Western Campus, NITK Surathkal<br />
</blockquote>
<p>
Surathkal is near Mangalore.


<p>
 


title: State universities' academic freedom, FL
uri: State-universities-academic-freedom-FL
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(State_universities'_academic_freedom,_FL)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(State_universities'_academic_freedom,_FL)

content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a> is
wiping out a second Florida state university that is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/ron-desantis-university-west-florida-conservative">liberal-leaning</a>.
<p>
The first one still exists in name, but the old facilty and students
left and what remains is an ideoloical right-wing propaganda mill.
<p>
Other right-wing states may imitate this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(About_that_ceasefire,_ISR)
title: About that ceasefire, ISR
uri: About-that-ceasefire-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(About_that_ceasefire,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
Israel is planning to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/27/israel-insists-it-is-going-ahead-with-unrwa-ban-what-it-may-mean-for-palestinians">shut
down all UN aid to Palestinians</a>, both in Gaza and in the West
Bank.
<p>
A cease-fire condition that allows aid to be delivered to Palestinians
would be pure bullshit if Israel can get away with disregarding it.
I suppose the cease-fire would collapse at that point and Israel
would start killing thousands more Palestinians.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(About_LA_fires)
title: About LA fires
uri: About-LA-fires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(About_LA_fires)
content:
 
<p>
*Experts suggest that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/los-angeles-wildfires-rebuild">replicating
the conditions</a> that saw neighborhoods burn to the ground may not be
the best policy.*
<p>
Helping the people who have been rendered homeless is one issue and
rebuilding in a similar way in the same place is another.  It would be
reasonable to change building codes; anyone building in fire-prone
zones, whether <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> lived there before, would thus
be required to build a home that won't burn.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(rat_numbers_city_climate_rodents)
title: Perfect rat storm
uri: Perfect-rat-storm
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(rat_numbers_city_climate_rodents)
content:
 
<p>
Global heating seems to be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/31/rat-numbers-cities-climate-temperatures-rodents">helping
rats breed in cities.</a>

<p>
 


title: Trump’s aid freeze
uri: Trump-s-aid-freeze
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(trumps_aid_freeze_famine_monitoring)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(trumps_aid_freeze_famine_monitoring)

content:
 
<p>
The wrecker's shutdown of all foreign aid is causing disasters around
the world.  Here's news about one crucial system whose absence could
cause disasters in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/31/trumps-aid-freeze-shuts-down-gold-standard-famine-monitoring-system">various countries.</a>
<p>
The shutdown is nominally for 90 days only, but there is no telling
how much aid will actually resume.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(new_york_louisiana_abortion_pill)
title: Doctor indicted
uri: Doctor-indicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(new_york_louisiana_abortion_pill)
content:
 
<p>
Louisiana has pressed charges against a New York doctor who by
telephone wrote a prescription for abortion medicine for a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/new-york-louisiana-abortion-pill-charges">woman in
Louisiana.</a>
<p>
I expect this case will come down to a question of which state has
jurisdiction over the doctor's actions: the state where the woman was,
or the state where the doctor was.
<p>
But I fear that the persecutor will direct the FBI to intervene
to aid Louisiana cops in grabbing the doctor from New York
and taking her to Louisiana.  That is just the sort of bullying
that he would love.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(sterilization_women_roe_v_wade)
title: Sterilization
uri: Sterilization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(sterilization_women_roe_v_wade)
content:
 
<p>
*Young women turn to sterilization as [the persecutor] intensifies war
on
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/sterilization-women-roe-v-wade-trump">reproductive rights.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(robert_reich_power_oligarchy)
title: Concentrating power
uri: Concentrating-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(robert_reich_power_oligarchy)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich conjectures how the
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/keep-your-eye-on-the-big-picture">wrecker's
strategy and goal.</a>
<p>
The goal *is to concentrate ever more power in [his] hands, so he can
concentrate ever more wealth in the oligarchy's hands.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(trump_constitutional_order)
title: Trump constitutional order
uri: Trump-constitutional-order
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(trump_constitutional_order)
content:
 
<p>
The wrecker has, it seems, crushed the principle that government
employees owe their first loyalty to their country and their mission,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/31/trump-has-already-remade-our-constitutional-order">rather
than to the president.</a>
<p>
Without that principle, no government can be honest, and it is unlikely
that any employees hired after this will want to try.
<p>
Some of these derelictions of duty could perhaps still be overcome by
judges.  Not all judges appointed by the corrupter in his first term
will reject this principle now.  If those prosecutors sue to get their
jobs back, they may win.  And that would help, for the long term,
to preserve that principle.
<p>
But it won't make a big difference right away, because if they win and
get their jobs back, I expect they will be given no work to do.  I
suppose they expect that too.  I hope they sue anyway.
<p>
Little talk of resistance from Democrats: *Why
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/vichy-france-trump-democrats">people are warning
about "Vichy" America</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(trump_dei_plane_crash)
title: Deadly DC plane crash
uri: Deadly-DC-plane-crash
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(trump_dei_plane_crash)
content:
 
<p>
The wrecker arbitrarily blamed the Washington DC plane-helicopter
collision on government diversity polices.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/first-thing-trump-baselessly-blames-diversity-and-democrats-for-deadly-dc-plane-crash">Simply
using it as a way
to attack them.</a>
<p>
In fact, the cause seems to have been the opposite: an insufficiency
of a kind diversity of staff at that moment.  *An initial Federal
Aviation Administration report obtained by US media organisations said
staffing levels were "not normal for the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/washington-dc-crash-initial-report-staffing-levels-not-normal">time
of day and volume of
traffic."*</a>
<p>
*Crash called "avoidable", with lawmakers and residents previously
sounding alarm about
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/reagan-national-airport-congested-airspace">region's
crowded skies.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(australia_influence_unesco)
title: Lobbying campaign
uri: Lobbying-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(australia_influence_unesco)
content:
 
<p>
The Australian government lobbied UNESCO and other countries
to prevent listing the Great Barrier
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/01/australia-tried-to-influence-other-countries-and-unesco-to-keep-great-barrier-reef-off-in-danger-list">Reef
as "in danger".</a>
<p>
This represents a decision to cover up the danger from global heating and
increased CO2, rather than protect the reef itself.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(simple_sabotage_document)
title: Nonviolent ways
uri: Nonviolent-ways
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(simple_sabotage_document)
content:
 
<p>
This list of suggested nonviolent ways of sabotaging an
<a href="media/7b478ddf.SimpleSabotage.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.stallman.org/SimpleSabotage.pdf">organization
from within.</a>
<p>
was published by the US government during World War II.  People are
suggesting it may be useful against the fascists who took over the US
government by
<a href="https://stallman.org/cgi-bin/new-polnote-search.cgi?term=Greg+Palast&type=Normal+search">attacking
its election system.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(nurses_healthcare_ai_report)
title: Uber for nursing
uri: Uber-for-nursing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(nurses_healthcare_ai_report)
content:
 
<p>
Gig payment hiring for nurses makes them work for less pay (and
thus pressures them to accept overload as a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/17/nurses-healthcare-ai-apps-report">normal
state of affairs).</a>
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(unitedhealth_unchecked_growth)
title: Unchecked growth
uri: Unchecked-growth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(unitedhealth_unchecked_growth)
content:
 
<p>
*The Deadly Consequences Of [UnitedHellth]’s
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/the-deadly-consequences-of-unitedhealths-unchecked-growth/">Unchecked Growth*,</a>
<p>
and the company's influence over judges.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(google_gemini_workspace)
title: Google Gemini
uri: Google-Gemini
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(google_gemini_workspace)
content:
 
<p>
Google is forcing its bullshit generator, Gemini, on many users of Gmail
without asking them, and not even offering the
<a href="https://slate.com/technology/2025/01/google-gemini-ai-workspace-default-opt-in.html?via=rss">users
a way to deactivate it.</a>
<p>
Workplace IT managers, whose employees are forced to use Gmail, can
get it turned off after a laborious procedure, followed by waiting &mdash;
the darkest of dark patterns.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(General_Milley_in_peril)
title: General Milley in peril
uri: General-Milley-in-peril
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(General_Milley_in_peril)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor</a>
can't prosecute General Milley (for blocking him for illegally sending
soldiers to attack peaceful protesters), so he is trying
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trumps-pentagon-strips-mark-milley-of-security-clearance-and-guard-detail">various
underhanded means</a>
that he does not have to justify.
<p>
Removing his security guard detail
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#26_January_2025_(Fauci_security_detail_derailed)">is
a way</a> of deniability facilitating his murder.  <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor</a> is aware that his
violent fanatical followers try to murder anyone he labels as an
enemy, and they will now expect him to pardon them.  But I don't that
would be grounds to convict him of participating in the murder.
<p>
The president can't pardon people for state crimes.  If Milley goes to
live in a strong blue state, that will help thwart plans to kill him.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Federal_employee_buyouts)
title: Federal employee buyouts
uri: Federal-employee-buyouts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Federal_employee_buyouts)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich warns that the "buyout" scheme for federal employees is
intended to help <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> install right-wing
extremists as replacements.
<p>
It is
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/some-free-advice-to-federal-workers">probably
a swindle</a>, too.  If you accept the deal, you may get stiffed, left
with
<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-buyout/">no job and no
buyout</a>.  Both the cheater and <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> have done this before.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Sec._of_Transportation)
title: Sec. of Transportation
uri: Sec-of-Transportation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Sec._of_Transportation)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a>
new Secretary of Transportation has canceled a coming
strengthening of
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/sean-duffy-seeks-to-make-vehicles-less-efficient-more-expensive">fuel
efficiency standards</a>.  That will lead to transfer of more money
to fossil fuel billionaires, and a shorter time for civilization to
survive.


<p>
 


title: Environmentalists urge rethinking airports and roads
uri: Environmentalists-urge-rethinking-airports-and-roads
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Environmentalists_urge_rethinking_airports_and_roads)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Environmentalists_urge_rethinking_airports_and_roads)

content:
 
<p>

*Environmentalists urge [UK Chancellor] Reeves to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/29/environmentalists-urge-reeves-to-rethink-plans-for-airports-and-roads">rethink plans for
    airports and roads</a>.*
</p>
<p>
This is more of the inevitable consequences of surrendering to the rich
instead of taxing them more.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Small scale fusion generating useful energy
uri: Small-scale-fusion-generating-useful-energy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Small_scale_fusion_generating_useful_energy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Small_scale_fusion_generating_useful_energy)

content:
 
<p>

Some distinguished physicists say that some teams have made cold fusion
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/28/cold-fusion-may-a-viable-energy-alternative-to-end-reliance-on-fossil-fuels">reliably generate useful energy</a>, at a small scale but steadily.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Gaza_without_Palestinians)
title: Gaza without Palestinians
uri: Gaza-without-Palestinians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Gaza_without_Palestinians)
content:
 
<p>

*Make no mistake: Israel’s far right is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/28/israel-far-right-planning-gaza-without-palestinians">planning for a Gaza without
    Palestinians</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Coastal_inlets_of_Galicia)
title: Coastal inlets of Galicia
uri: Coastal-inlets-of-Galicia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Coastal_inlets_of_Galicia)
content:
 
<p>

  The coastal inlets of Galicia are a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/28/spanish-fishers-in-galicia-report-catastrophic-collapse-in-shellfish-stocks">prized source of mollusks</a> &mdash;
except that many species' populations have collapsed.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Bird_life_declining_steadily)
title: Bird life declining steadily
uri: Bird-life-declining-steadily
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Bird_life_declining_steadily)
content:
 
<p>

Even in some pristine forests in Ecuador and Panama, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/30/birds-dying-pristine-amazon-climate-crisis-aoe">bird life is
    declining steadily</a>.  Most species have lost more than half of their
1980 population density.
</p>
<p>
No concrete cause has been found, but scientist suspect it is due to
ecological disruption due to climate.
</p>
</li>

 


title: New Zealand recognized mountain as a "person"
uri: New-Zealand-recognized-mountain-as-a-person
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(New_Zealand_recognized_mountain_as_a_person)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(New_Zealand_recognized_mountain_as_a_person)

content:
 
<p>

New Zealand has surrendered to blatant irrationality by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/30/taranaki-mounga-new-zealands-second-highest-mountain-granted-same-legal-rights-as-a-person">recognizing a mountain as legally a "person"</a>.
This is almost as absurd as recognizing a corporation as a "person".
</p>
</li>

 


title: Targeted political repression from the persecutor
uri: Targeted-political-repression-from-the-persecutor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Targeted_political_repression_from_the_persecutor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Targeted_political_repression_from_the_persecutor)

content:
 
<p>

Here comes the explicit targeted political repression we have
expected fro <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor</a> &mdash; aimed at those opposing the
bombardment and siege of Gaza, and calling them "antisemitic".
</p>
<p>
*Order asks agencies to explore ways to deport activists, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trump-executive-order-pro-palestinian-activists">including
      students with visas, who engaged in protests</a>.*
</p>
<p>
This repression started occurring while Biden was president, but this makes
it more painful and explicit.
</p>
<p>
  Jewish Voice for Peace is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/jewish-voice-for-peace-opposes-trumps-plan-to-silence-and-deport-anti-war-students">fighting the repression</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Hiding groups that help find Abortion pills
uri: Hiding-groups-that-help-find-Abortion-pills
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Hiding_groups_that_help_find_Abortion_pills)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Hiding_groups_that_help_find_Abortion_pills)

content:
 
<p>

  Instagram is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/29/abortion-pills-instagram-shadow-banning">obscuring or hiding</a> the groups that help Americans find
abortion pills.
</p>
<p>
We are entitled to hold Zuckerberg responsible for this.  It is
understandable given his decision to become a vassal of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>,
but that is no excuse for it.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Iraqi exile in Sweden was murdered
uri: Iraqi-exile-in-Sweden-was-murdered
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Iraqi_exile_in_Sweden_was_murdered)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Iraqi_exile_in_Sweden_was_murdered)

content:
 
<p>

  An Iraqi exile in Sweden was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/30/salwan-momika-quran-burnings-trial-reportedly-shot-dead-sweden">murdered</a> while on trial for burning a
copy of the Qur'an.
</p>
<p>
I don't express my disapproval of movements or views by burning their
symbols.  As a form of criticism, it is a rather inarticulate.
</p>
<p>
However, doing that merely offending people, and offending anyone is
part of human rights.  To punish people for defying terrorist threats
is to legitimize those threats.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Data in US Office of Personnel Management's servers
uri: Data-in-US-Office-of-Personnel-Management-s-servers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Data_in_US_Office_of_Personnel_Management's_servers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Data_in_US_Office_of_Personnel_Management's_servers)

content:
 
<p>

Reporting that people connected with <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> have been given control
over the data in the US Office of Personnel Management's servers.

[[ Don't be unkind except to greedy bastards ] ] 
[[ Consider how this might affect the FSF ] ] 

 


title: Illegal surveillance and unjustified arrests of journalists
uri: Illegal-surveillance-and-unjustified-arrests-of-journalists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Illegal_surveillance_and_unjustified_arrests_of_journalists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Illegal_surveillance_and_unjustified_arrests_of_journalists)

content:
 
<p>

  UK <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> departments were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/17/psni-met-police-unlawfully-spied-on-two-journalists-tribunal-finds">punished by a court</a> for illegal surveillance
and unjustified arrest of two journalists, who published leaked
information that accused <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> of colluding with the Protestant
terrorists in Northern Ireland.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Big-time bullshit generator made in China
uri: Big-time-bullshit-generator-made-in-China
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Big-time_bullshit_generator_made_in_China)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Big-time_bullshit_generator_made_in_China)

content:
 
<p>

The newest big-time bullshit generator, competing with the famous US
bullshit generators, is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/01/was-this-the-week-deepseek-started-the-slow-unwinding-of-the-ai-bet">made in China</a>.
</p>
<p>
All of them are generally called "artificial intelligence" by their
developers, but <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligance">none of them qualifies as "intelligence"</a>,
   because they are unable to
know or understand anything.
</p>
<p>
The Chinese system is subject to strict Chinese censorship; there are
many sensitive topics it will not say anything about.  I've heard that
Google's bullshit generator is subject to US right-wing censorship.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Doctors with suspended or revoked licenses support RFK Jr
uri: Doctors-with-suspended-or-revoked-licenses-support-RFK-Jr
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Doctors_with_suspended_or_revoked_licenses_support_RFK_Jr)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Doctors_with_suspended_or_revoked_licenses_support_RFK_Jr)

content:
 
<p>

*Support letter for RFK Jr’s confirmation includes signatures of
[medical] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/01/rfk-jr-support-letter-doctors">doctors with suspended or revoked licenses</a>.*
</p>
<p>
Just the soft of person to be involved with the 
medical disinformation that fascinates Republicans.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(The_promise_of_cheaper_groceries)
title: The promise of cheaper groceries
uri: The-promise-of-cheaper-groceries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(The_promise_of_cheaper_groceries)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> told
voters, before the election, that he would reduce the price of
groceries.

His subsequent comments suggest that he did not understand
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/14/2291656/-Trump-has-no-idea-what-groceries-are-and-he-won-t-shut-up-about-it?detail=emailaction">the
meaning of "groceries"</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(US_President's_approval_rating)
title: US President's approval rating
uri: US-President-s-approval-rating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(US_President's_approval_rating)
content:
 
<p>
*With 47% approval rating [<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>] is only president to have sub-50%
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/trump-low-approval-rating">reading
at start of term</a>, Gallup poll indicates.*
<p>
This makes sense given that, according to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(Voter_suppression_rampant_in_red_states)">Greg
Palast's investigation</a>, less than half of the votes that US voters
tried to cast were for <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>.

<p>
 


title: Greenland's financial, mining, situation
uri: Greenland-s-financial-mining-situation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Greenland's_financial,_mining,_situation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Greenland's_financial,_mining,_situation)

content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a> plans for
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/trumps-tech-donors-have-big-plans-for_greenland/">Greenland</a>
would allow his business barons to
trash the environment there, and privatize the land.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Europe_muted_on_Greenland)
title: Europe muted on Greenland
uri: Europe-muted-on-Greenland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Europe_muted_on_Greenland)
content:
 
<p>
By his brazen demands to seize (he says "buy") Greenland,
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> has put
European
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/30/greenland-europe-donald-trump-us-threats">leaders
in an emotional vice</a>.  It is less frightening to ignore the
threats than to confront them.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Climate_defense_laws)
title: Urgent: Climate defense laws
uri: Urgent-Climate-defense-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Climate_defense_laws)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.350.org/sign/Jan-25-em-us-PCA-gov-petition/?akid=442497.1151744.BTJiUO&rd=1&source=em20250127-1-subs-us">call
on state governors</a> to pass climate defense laws.
<p>
Please find your state governor's phone number at
<a href="https://www.usa.gov/state-governments">USA.gov</a>

<p>
 


title: Airport commissions own growth, Heathrow
uri: Airport-commissions-own-growth-Heathrow
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Airport_commissions_own_growth,_Heathrow)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Airport_commissions_own_growth,_Heathrow)

content:
 
<p>
The UK minister who decided in favor of expanding Heathrow airport
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/01/reevess-heathrow-third-runway-report-was-commissioned-by-london-airport">cited
a report for "evidence"</a>.  The report was commissioned by Heathrow
airport.
<p>
Citing lobbying material without saying that's what it is is a typical
technique of politicians in bed with business.  Doing this on an issue
so important for curbing <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, and that
has attracted so much public concern already, shows how much the
Labour Party is now under the thumb of business.
<p>
It caused this by choosing
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#24_September_2012_(Living_standards_in_UK)">"growth" rather than "tax the rich"</a>.
<p>
Perhaps the party should change its name to "Tory Lite".

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(DNC_design_flaws)
title: DNC design flaws
uri: DNC-design-flaws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(DNC_design_flaws)
content:
 
<p>
*The Democratic National Committee
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/01/dnc-democratic-national-committee-election-undemocratic/">Is
Undemocratic</a>.  That's by Design.*
<p>
The 448 members of the committee are supposed to act as its board of
directors, but they are not given enough information about the
organization's spending make informed judgments about it.  And until recently
the organization wouldn't tell them how to get in touch with each other.
<p>
Of the four candidates for chairman, only one (Shakir) would give The
Intercept an interview.  He was headed the Sanders campaign in 2020.
The DNC strongly opposed Sanders, and changed the schedule of primaries
for 2024 in a way that gave the Sanders campaign
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html#21_December_2015_(DNCs_data_company)">little
chance to catch on</a>.


 


title: Urgent: Crack down on wealthy tax cheats
uri: Urgent-Crack-down-on-wealthy-tax-cheats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Crack_down_on_wealthy_tax_cheats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Crack_down_on_wealthy_tax_cheats)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the acting IRS Commissioner: Continue to use your
authority to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-interim-irs-commissioner-continue-to-use-your-authority-to-crack-down-on-wealthy-tax-cheats-while-you-still-can?nowrapper=true">crack down on wealthy tax cheats</a> while you still can.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Reject Gulf of America imperialist fantasy
uri: Urgent-Reject-Gulf-of-America-imperialist-fantasy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_Gulf_of_America_imperialist_fantasy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_Gulf_of_America_imperialist_fantasy)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on schools to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/reject-trumps-gulf-of-america">reject [the bully]'s Gulf of America
    imperialist fantasy</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Refuse to buy from Starbucks
uri: Urgent-Refuse-to-buy-from-Starbucks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Refuse_to_buy_from_Starbucks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Refuse_to_buy_from_Starbucks)

content:
 
<p>

In countries where Starbucks operates: Pledge to <a href="https://crm.broadstripes.com/ctf/SJID0H">refuse to buy from
    Starbucks</a> in solidarity with striking workers.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Accountability for illegal purge of Inspectors General
uri: Urgent-Accountability-for-illegal-purge-of-Inspectors-General
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Accountability_for_illegal_purge_of_Inspectors_General)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Accountability_for_illegal_purge_of_Inspectors_General)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/ig-purge">hold the wrecker accountable</a> for his
illegal purge of Inspectors General.
</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/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Save_Net_Neutrality)
title: Urgent: Save Net Neutrality
uri: 2025-02-04-Urgent-Save-Net-Neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Save_Net_Neutrality)
content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/net-neutrality-ruling-fcc/">save Net Neutrality</a>.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Reject Kash Patel as head of FBI
uri: 2025-02-04-Urgent-Reject-Kash-Patel-as-head-of-FBI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_Kash_Patel_as_head_of_FBI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_Kash_Patel_as_head_of_FBI)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/senate-reject-kash-patel/">reject Kash Patel</a> as head of the
 FBI.
</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/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Approval_of_PFA_chemicals)
title: Approval of PFA chemicals
uri: Approval-of-PFA-chemicals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Approval_of_PFA_chemicals)
content:
 
<p>

The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> was already, under Biden, quietly <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/19/epa-pfas-approvals-semiconductors">speeding approval of
    industrial use of new PFA chemicals</a>, after hardly any experiments
to find out whether they are dangerous.
</p>
<p>
(I write just "PFA" because that expands to an adjectival phrase.)
</p>
<p>
This illustrates a general point.  Biden gave only partial support
to many progressive causes, and was far from the president we needed
at the same time, <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> is far, far worse.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker's sabotage to NOAA email system
uri: Wrecker-s-sabotage-to-NOAA-email-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Wrecker's_sabotage_to_NOAA_email_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Wrecker's_sabotage_to_NOAA_email_system)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a> <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-noaa-email-system-compromised-2024152">sabotage to the email system of NOAA</a>
left it wide open for anyone to blast emails with.
</p>
<p>
Presumably the intended result was to enable <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat's</a> men to send
bullying emails to the staff.  I suspect it was implemented by
non-experts.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Insufficient_home_insurance)
title: Insufficient home insurance
uri: Insufficient-home-insurance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Insufficient_home_insurance)
content:
 
<p>

*People with insufficient home insurance more <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/02/people-with-insufficient-home-insurance-more-likely-to-risk-their-lives-in-bushfires-experts-say">likely to risk their
    lives</a> [trying to save them from] bushfires, experts say.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Israel ignored reports of Hamas preparations
uri: Israel-ignored-reports-of-Hamas-preparations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Israel_ignored_reports_of_Hamas_preparations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Israel_ignored_reports_of_Hamas_preparations)

content:
 
<p>

Israeli soldiers whose mission was to watch carefully specific nearby
parts of Gaza repeatedly reported on dangerous Hamas preparations for
the Oct, 2023, attack.  Some who were taken hostage and recently
released <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/01/israels-female-spotters-are-free-now-their-families-want-to-know-why-warnings-were-ignored">demand a thorough investigation</a> of why the government ignored
this.
</p>
<p>
I heard reports in 2024 about suspicion of government responsibility
for leaving the border open &mdash; and blocking an investigation of how
that came to happen.  Given how bloodthirsty and unprincipled
Netanyahu has been, some Israeli suspect he decided to let HAMAS
attack since that would give him an excuse for killing or expelling
all Palestinians.
</p>
<p>
It would be wrong to jump to the conclusion that that is what
happened, based on the little evidence we have.  It is not proof, but
it is reasonable grounds for suspicion.  The US and Palestines, as
well as Israelis, should demand this investigation.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Protecting New York City's immigrant students
uri: Protecting-New-York-City-s-immigrant-students
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Protecting_New_York_City's_immigrant_students)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Protecting_New_York_City's_immigrant_students)

content:
 
<p>

  New York City's <a href="https://tcf.org/content/commentary/how-school-districts-can-take-action-to-protect-their-immigrant-students/">methods of protecting immigrant students</a> from being grabbed
via the schools by deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>,
  and why this is important for the rest of the students as well as for them.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker's disregard for US constitution
uri: Wrecker-s-disregard-for-US-constitution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Wrecker's_disregard_for_US_constitution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Wrecker's_disregard_for_US_constitution)

content:
 
<p>

*[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a>] disregard for US constitution <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/01/trump-executive-orders-constitution-law">"a blitzkrieg on the
    law"</a>, legal experts say.*
  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> is crashing ship into the foundation of checks and balances
which is supposed to keep the US government democratic.
</p>
<p>
  *[His] deliberate deluge of policies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/01/trump-executive-order-power-grab">overwhelms resistance</a> as he
aims to weaken the legislature, analysts say.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: The persecutor wants to fire FBI agents
uri: The-persecutor-wants-to-fire-FBI-agents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(The_persecutor_wants_to_fire_FBI_agents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(The_persecutor_wants_to_fire_FBI_agents)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor's</a> servitors in the Justice Department want to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/fbi-trump-january-6-justice-department">fire as
    many as thousands of FBI agents</a>, nominally as an irrational act of
retaliation because the agents worked on investigations they were told
to work on &mdash; of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor</a> himself and of the fanatical
supporters whom he whipped up to attack the Capitol.
</p>
<p>
It was not even their choice to work on those investigations, but they
were lawful and were part of their job, so they did it.  For the
persecutor, justice as we understand the term is not part of any
question.
</p>
<p>
I think that he wants Americans to be terrified of finding themselves
obliged to disappoint or inconvenience him in any way, much as
Russians would be if by luck they found themselves in Putin's way.
</p>
<p>
However, the ultimate aim of this may be to make it possible
to recruit thousands of new agents who are slavishly loyal to
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Websites referencing climate crisis
uri: Websites-referencing-climate-crisis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Websites_referencing_climate_crisis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Websites_referencing_climate_crisis)

content:
 
<p>

*[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>] orders USDA to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/trump-order-usda-websites-climate-crisis">take down websites referencing climate
    crisis</a>.*
</p>
<p>
This is going to hurt farmers both in the short term and the long term.
I hope they figure this out fast and start raging.
</p>
</li>

 


title: HAMAS held hostage in UNRWA premises
uri: HAMAS-held-hostage-in-UNRWA-premises
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(HAMAS_held_hostage_in_UNRWA_premises)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(HAMAS_held_hostage_in_UNRWA_premises)

content:
 
<p>

*Freed Gaza hostage told Starmer that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/31/woman-freed-by-hamas-tells-starmer-she-was-held-in-premises-owned-by-unrwa-her-mother-says">HAMAS held her in UNRWA
    premises</a>, her mother says.*
</p>
<p>
We have only indirect report of this, but it could be true.  If it is
true, what follows from that?  To militarize a hospital is wrong; so
HAMAS did wrong when it did that.  Of course, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-jan-apr.html#7_March_2024_(HAMAS_terrorismists)">HAMAS committed much
    worse crimes</a> than that.
</p>
<p>
However, we cannot condemn UNRWA for "allowing" this, because given he
circumstances UNRWA, which had no soldiers, could not have prevented it
and maybe could not even have found out it was happening.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Air_safety_around_Washington_DC)
title: Air safety around Washington DC
uri: Air-safety-around-Washington-DC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Air_safety_around_Washington_DC)
content:
 
<p>

  On the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/30/israel-and-the-delusions-of-germanys-memory-culture">probable underlying causes</a> of decreased air safety around
National Airport in Washington DC.
</p>
</li>

 


title: The cheater refusing to pay legal fees
uri: The-cheater-refusing-to-pay-legal-fees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(The_cheater_refusing_to_pay_legal_fees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(The_cheater_refusing_to_pay_legal_fees)

content:
 
<p>

  *[The cheater] has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trump-has-refused-to-pay-290000-in-legal-fees-after-case-dismissed-in-uk-court-told">refused to pay £290,000 in legal fees</a> after [a lawsuit of his was] dismissed in UK, court told.
</p>
<p>
  He has a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#15_June_2016_(Trumps_unpaid_workers)">history of stiffing people</a> he as hired for the work they have done.
</p>
<p>
It is unwise to agree to work for him unless you have something on him
to make him pay you.
</p>
<p>
Will the UK government have the guts not to allow him to enter the UK
until he pays these legal fees?
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: OPM as another Elon Musk enterprise, US
uri: OPM-as-another-Elon-Musk-enterprise-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(OPM_as_another_Elon_Musk_enterprise,_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(OPM_as_another_Elon_Musk_enterprise,_US)

content:
 
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-office-personnel-management-opm-neuralink-x-boring-stalin/">US Office of Personnel Management has been filled</a>
with people
linked to <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat's</a> companies, and
to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies">Palantir</a>.
<p>
In effect, he can now control the entire US government personnel
management, which in practice means he can get rid of anyone
who remains loyal to the country instead of to the empire.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Tulsi_Gabbard_nominated_for_DNI)
title: Tulsi Gabbard nominated for DNI
uri: Tulsi-Gabbard-nominated-for-DNI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Tulsi_Gabbard_nominated_for_DNI)
content:
 
<p>
Ironically, Tulsi Gabbard may be rejected as the nominated director of
national intelligence for steadfastly
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/01/30/tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-hearing-edward-snowden/">defending
principles of liberty</a> that I support
too:
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_June_2013_(Snowden_achieved_initial_goal)">defending</a>
Edward
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html#4_October_2016_(Snowden)">Snowden</a>
and condemning the twisting
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#17_September_2014_(US_must_stop_claiming_that_the_law_is_secret)">of the law</a>
so as to surveil Americans without a warrant.
<p>
See
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">surveillance-vs-democracy</a>
at gnu.org.


<p>
 


title: Urgent: Reject Bondi as attorney general
uri: Urgent-Reject-Bondi-as-attorney-general
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_Bondi_as_attorney_general)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Urgent:_Reject_Bondi_as_attorney_general)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/No_Bondi/">reject Bondi as attorney general</a>.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Citing constitutional rights to protect against deportation
uri: Citing-constitutional-rights-to-protect-against-deportation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Citing_constitutional_rights_to_protect_against_deportation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Citing_constitutional_rights_to_protect_against_deportation)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wreckers</a> deportation tsar complains that non-citizens (and
occasionally citizens too when the deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> threaten to
deport them) <a href="https://www.themarysue.com/making-it-very-difficult-to-arrest-trumps-border-czar-supposedly-hates-that-migrants-know-their-rights/">protect themselves from deportation prison</a> by citing their constitutional rights.
</p>
<p>
The article also describe the lies that deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> use to
invade without a warrant.
</p>
</li>

 


title: US Government websites disappearing
uri: US-Government-websites-disappearing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(US_Government_websites_disappearing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(US_Government_websites_disappearing)

content:
 
<p>

  *US Government Websites Are <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/us-government-websites-are-disappearing-in-real-time/">Disappearing in Real Time</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Canadians propose cutting off crucial exports to US
uri: Canadians-propose-cutting-off-crucial-exports-to-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Canadians_propose_cutting_off_crucial_exports_to_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Canadians_propose_cutting_off_crucial_exports_to_US)

content:
 
<p>

  Canadians propose to <a href="https://canadianlabour.ca/cut-off-u-s-energy-and-resources-now-no-electricity-no-critical-minerals-no-oil-and-gas/">cut off crucial exports to the US</a>
as well as replying with tariffs.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Unsolved question of artificial intelligence
uri: Unsolved-question-of-artificial-intelligence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Unsolved_question_of_artificial_intelligence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Unsolved_question_of_artificial_intelligence)

content:
 
<p>

One of the unsolved questions of artificial intelligence is how to tell
whether an apparently intelligent system really has thoughts and feeling.
Is it conscious, or is it only mimicking.  Some academics are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/03/ai-systems-could-be-caused-to-suffer-if-consciousness-achieved-says-research">proposing
    moral rules</a> for treatment of any artificial conscious systems.
</p>
<p>
The case of today's bullshit generators has nothing to do with this.
We know how they work, and we know they are not conscious.
There is no need to worry that a chatbot will feel hurt by your
cursing at being compelled to talk to it.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Syrian_Kurds_in_Kobane)
title: Syrian Kurds in Kobane
uri: Syrian-Kurds-in-Kobane
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Syrian_Kurds_in_Kobane)
content:
 
<p>

  With Syrian Kurds in Kobane, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/03/kobane-syria-turkey-airstrikes-kurds-dam/">under constant attack</a> by the Turkish army.
</p>
<p>
The article has some information about Rojava.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker and muskrat carrying out coup
uri: Wrecker-and-muskrat-carrying-out-coup
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Wrecker_and_muskrat_carrying_out_coup)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Wrecker_and_muskrat_carrying_out_coup)

content:
 
<p>

Robert Reich: "winning" an election (*) and becoming president didn't
give <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> enough power, so he and <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> are <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-muskrat-is-messing-with-your">carrying out a coup</a>,
overthrowing constitutional government at various government agencies
that make payments required by law.
</p>
<p>
We can call this unusual event a step-by-step slow coup.
It depends on the subornation of the actual legal authorities
so that they obey the duumvirate rather than upholding the checks
and balances of the Republic.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Most accurate name for Gulf of Mexico
uri: Most-accurate-name-for-Gulf-of-Mexico
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Most_accurate_name_for_Gulf_of_Mexico)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Most_accurate_name_for_Gulf_of_Mexico)

content:
 
<p>

The most accurate name for the Gulf of Mexico is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/03/trump-gulf-of-mexico">"Gulf of Non-Natural
    Disasters"</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(US_and_Mexico_to_postpone_tariffs)
title: US and Mexico to postpone tariffs
uri: US-and-Mexico-to-postpone-tariffs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(US_and_Mexico_to_postpone_tariffs)
content:
 
<p>

  The US and Mexico have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/03/mexican-president-announces-one-month-pause-on-trump-us-tariffs">made a deal to postpone tariffs</a>.
  It may be impossible to carry out &mdash; I don't think any country has
ever succeeded in stopping smuggling of drugs, or guns &mdash; but at least
there is nothing barbaric and cruel in it, and nothing fascist.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Rate Greenland ice sheet is cracking
uri: Rate-Greenland-ice-sheet-is-cracking
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Rate_Greenland_ice_sheet_is_cracking)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Rate_Greenland_ice_sheet_is_cracking)

content:
 
<p>

  *Greenland ice sheet <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/03/greenland-ice-sheet-cracking-study">cracking more rapidly than ever</a>, study shows.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Odd_hero_for_antifascists)
title: Odd hero for antifascists
uri: Odd-hero-for-antifascists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Odd_hero_for_antifascists)
content:
 
<p>

  An <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/trump-fbi-james-e-dennehy">odd hero for antifascists</a>: "Today, we find ourselves in the middle
of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the
FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in
accordance with the law and FBI policy," wrote James E Dennehy,
who has led the New York field office since last September.
</p>
<p>
He may be able to sue to stop this purge.
</p>
<p>
Cops, mostly Republicans, used to stand for "law and order" targeted
at the weak, poor and downtrodden.  Here is one who stands for law and
order against marauding billionaires.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Corrupter planning on US government buying TikTok
uri: Corrupter-planning-on-US-government-buying-TikTok
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Corrupter_planning_on_US_government_buying_TikTok)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Corrupter_planning_on_US_government_buying_TikTok)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a> is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/trump-sovereign-wealth-fund-tiktok">planning for the US government to buy TikTok</a>.
</p>
<p>
That way, instead of spying for authoritarian China it will spy for
the authoritarian US.  Instead of authoritarian Chinese censorship,
users will encounter authoritarian US censorship.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(A_coup_veiled_by_chaos)
title: A coup veiled by chaos
uri: A-coup-veiled-by-chaos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(A_coup_veiled_by_chaos)
content:
 
<p>

*The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s power grab: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/03/the-guardian-view-on-donald-trumps-power-grab-a-coup-veiled-by-chaos">a coup veiled by
    chaos</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Republicans keeping lead poisoning alive
uri: Republicans-keeping-lead-poisoning-alive
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Republicans_keeping_lead_poisoning_alive)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Republicans_keeping_lead_poisoning_alive)

content:
 
<p>

  Republicans' latest sacred cause is to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/republicans-lead-exposure-rules">keep lead poisoning alive</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(State_of_the_US_per_Robert_Reich)
title: State of the US per Robert Reich
uri: State-of-the-US-per-Robert-Reich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(State_of_the_US_per_Robert_Reich)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: will the cruelty of <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> awaken Americans
to recognize that
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-fuking-nightmare">he
and his backers are our enemies</a>?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Mining_and_persecution,_SLV)
title: Mining and persecution, SLV
uri: Mining-and-persecution-SLV
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Mining_and_persecution,_SLV)
content:
 
<p>
El Salvador's autocratic president is putting environmental defenders
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/02/el-salvador-retrial-environmental-activists">on
trial a second time</a>, after their first trial found there was no
evidence of any crime.
<p>
The second trial has been carefully prepared so that the result will be
different.


 


title: Department of Transportation impose no mask or vaccine requirements
uri: Department-of-Transportation-impose-no-mask-or-vaccine-requirements
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Department_of_Transportation_impose_no_mask_or_vaccine_requirements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Department_of_Transportation_impose_no_mask_or_vaccine_requirements)

content:
 
<p>

The Department of Transportation has imposed the irrelevant
requirement on cities and states
<a href="https://explainingthelaw.com/department-of-transportation-releases-memo-with-handmaids-tale-mandates-tying-funding-to-birth-rates/">not
to make mask or vaccine
requirements</a>.
Also the irrelevant preference for places that have higher
marriage and birth rates.
</p>
<p>
The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a>
who have seized the US government are looking for every way
to impose their religion and their superstition on all Americans.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Why_the_wrecker's_tariffs_are_bad)
title: Why the wrecker's tariffs are bad
uri: Why-the-wrecker-s-tariffs-are-bad
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Why_the_wrecker's_tariffs_are_bad)
content:
 
<p>

*Why <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a>
tariffs will be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/31/pro-gaza-protest-london-met-police-tactics-trade-unions-complaint">"very
bad for America
and for the world"</a>.*
</p>
<p>
I think <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>
intends these tariffs as a threats and expects
other countries to pay a big ransom &mdash; going beyond money &mdash; to avoid them.
</p>
<p>
If they do, the world economic harm of the tariffs themselves will not occur,
or not for long.  But that would introduce a global empire of
the billionaires, who will steadily impoverish everyone else
and eventually wipe out most of humanity through
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker got rid of many USAID staff
uri: Wrecker-got-rid-of-many-USAID-staff
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Wrecker_got_rid_of_many_USAID_staff)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Wrecker_got_rid_of_many_USAID_staff)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/usaid-officials-put-on-leave-musk-doge">got
rid of many of the staff of USAID</a> and sent the
muskrat's dogs to destroy it.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Temporary permission for Venezuelans to be in US
uri: Temporary-permission-for-Venezuelans-to-be-in-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Temporary_permission_for_Venezuelans_to_be_in_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Temporary_permission_for_Venezuelans_to_be_in_US)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor</a>
has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/trump-revokes-protections-venezuelans">canceled
the temporary permission</a> of 300,000
Venezuelans to stay in the US, and has threatened 300,000 more.
</p>
<p>
They <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-may-aug.html#4_August_2024_(Short_US-VEN_history)">fled
Venezuela due to economic collapse</a> caused by US sanctions
against Maduro's government, rejecting it as the US encouraged them to
do.
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#3_September_2023_(Venezuela_punishing_people_with_little_evidence)">Maduro
is a tyrant</a>, and action against his rule can be justified in
principle.
And the US claimed to be acting for the sake of Venezuelans who were
suffering from it.  It was proper for the US to act on concern for
Venezuelans that suffered as a result, especially if they wanted to
cease their allegiance to Maduro.
</p>
<p>
However, with <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor</a>
it is "all hatred, all the time".
</p>
<p>
Just remember, if you support him and you are not a billionaire,
your turn to be his victim will come.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Marco_Rubio_has_gone_to_Panama)
title: Marco Rubio has gone to Panama
uri: Marco-Rubio-has-gone-to-Panama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Marco_Rubio_has_gone_to_Panama)
content:
 
<p>

Marco Rubio has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/marco-rubio-holds-talks-with-panama-president-jose-raul-mulino-amid-us-claims-to-canal">gone
to Panama</a>, perhaps to play the role of "good cop"
in contrast to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> as "bad cop".
</p>
<p>
It would be dangerous for a repressive, expansionist great power, led
by a megalomaniac liar, to take control of the Panama Canal or systems
it depends on.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Georgian police arrested opposition leaders
uri: Georgian-police-arrested-opposition-leaders
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Georgian_police_arrested_opposition_leaders)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Georgian_police_arrested_opposition_leaders)

content:
 
<p>

*Georgian police have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/02/georgia-opposition-leaders-arrested-anti-government-protest">arrested
two opposition leaders</a> during a street
protest against the ruling party, which has been accused of democratic
backsliding and of moving Tbilisi closer to Russia.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Prohibiting medical many procedures to prohibit abortion
uri: Prohibiting-medical-many-procedures-to-prohibit-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Prohibiting_medical_many_procedures_to_prohibit_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Prohibiting_medical_many_procedures_to_prohibit_abortion)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">Magats</a>
in Wyoming propose to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/wyoming-republicans-anti-abortion-bill">prohibit
many kinds of medical procedures</a>
in order to prohibit abortion as well.
</p>
<p>
It seems their prohibition on causing harm *to the heart, lungs, brain
and other organs* is meant to refer to the organs of a fetus, but
would also cover those that harm to the patient's own organs, and that
is an unavoidable cost of many important treatments.  For instance cancer
treatments often damage some organs, but patients accept that because it
is preferable to dying.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Caving_to_the_wrecker's_pressure)
title: Caving to the wrecker's pressure
uri: Caving-to-the-wrecker-s-pressure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Caving_to_the_wrecker's_pressure)
content:
 
<p>

*Billionaires and corporations leading TV networks and newspapers seem
to have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/trump-media-pressure">caved
to the [wrecker]'s pressure</a>.*
*"He's become America’s assignment editor."*
</p>
<p>
You can't expect to get real journalism from them any more.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Predicting some aspects of appearance based on genes
uri: Predicting-some-aspects-of-appearance-based-on-genes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Predicting_some_aspects_of_appearance_based_on_genes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_February_2025_(Predicting_some_aspects_of_appearance_based_on_genes)

content:
 
<p>

Scientists can now
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/02/forensic-dna-phenotyping-parabon-nanolabs-police/">predict
some aspects of a person's appearance</a>
from genes, but not reliably or completely enough that anyone
should be convicted of a crime on that basis.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: Federal employees personally threatened
uri: Federal-employees-personally-threatened
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Federal_employees_personally_threatened)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(Federal_employees_personally_threatened)

content:
 
<p>
*[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor</a>] Hit With New Lawsuit for
<a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/190784/trump-lawsuit-funneling-info-federal-workers-elon-musk">Funneling
Sensitive Info</a> [about federal employees] to
[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a>].*

<p>
 


title: Talk in Torino, Italy on February 12th
uri: Talk-in-Torino-Italy-on-February-12th
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Talk_in_Torino,_Italy_on_February_12th)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Talk_in_Torino,_Italy_on_February_12th)

content:
 
<p>

<li>Torino, Italy
<p>
Richard Stallman will <a href="/talks.html#2025-02-12">give a talk</a>
in Torino, Italy, February 12<sup>th</sup> at 17:00.
<p>
The talk will be at the Sala Ciminiera of the Department of Computer Engineering.

 


title: Urgent: Reinstate Gwynne Wilcox in NLRB
uri: Urgent-Reinstate-Gwynne-Wilcox-in-NLRB
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Urgent:_Reinstate_Gwynne_Wilcox_in_NLRB)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Urgent:_Reinstate_Gwynne_Wilcox_in_NLRB)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call on per to sign a
letter calling on the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a>
to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#1_September_2023_(Urgent:_reconfirm_Gwynne_Wilcox,_NLRB)">reinstate Gwynne
Wilcox</a> in the NLRB.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>

 


title: Central Intelligence Agency staff "buyouts"
uri: Central-Intelligence-Agency-staff-buyouts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Central_Intelligence_Agency_staff_buyouts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Central_Intelligence_Agency_staff_buyouts)

content:
 
<p>

*The Central Intelligence Agency
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/cia-reported-buyouts-workforce-donald-trump-administration">offered
[its staff "buyouts"]</a>, citing
aim to bring agency in line with [new regime's] priorities, US media
report.*
</p>
<p>
Making the whole staff hostile seems like a really foolish thing
for an intelligence agency to do.  Driving many agents to leave
seems dumb too, since some will be angry enough to sell secrets
to foreign countries.
</p>
<p>
Especially now that their country won't be the United States of
constitutional rights that they used to be loyal to.  Disobeying your
country's rulers is not betrayal if they have betrayed your country
already.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Corrupter_wants_to_take_over_Gaza)
title: Corrupter wants to take over Gaza
uri: Corrupter-wants-to-take-over-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Corrupter_wants_to_take_over_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a>
said the US should
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/05/donald-trump-plan-to-take-over-gaza-strip-netanyahu-visit">take
over Gaza</a> and move all the inhabitants
permanently to other countries.
Implicitly, this would mean transferring them by force, although he claimed
(implausibly) that they would be glad to move.
</p>
<p>
His proposal continues that the US would take over Gaza and rebuild it.
It doesn't say who would own it after that. It would not surprise
me if he arranged for this to be his property and exempted himself from
paying taxes on it.
</p>
<p>
It has been suggested that this proposal is meant to distract
attention from his
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(Wrecker_and_muskrat_carrying_out_coup)">attack
on the US system of government</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Leaving names off prescriptions for abortion pills
uri: Leaving-names-off-prescriptions-for-abortion-pills
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Leaving_names_off_prescriptions_for_abortion_pills)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Leaving_names_off_prescriptions_for_abortion_pills)

content:
 
<p>

*Democratic [New York] governor Kathy Hochul signs law permitting
doctors to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/new-york-abortion-pill-law">leave
names off prescriptions for abortion pills</a>.*
</p>
<p>
This is good, but if the organization that employs per is not limited
to New York State, fanatics might be able to subpoena that name from
that organization outside New York State.  It would be enough to
determine who that patient had an appointment with on the date the
prescription was issued.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Self $10 Billion Federal Buyout
uri: (satire)-Self-10-Billion-Federal-Buyout
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_((satire)_Self_$10_Billion_Federal_Buyout)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_((satire)_Self_$10_Billion_Federal_Buyout)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Elon Musk Offers Self
<a href="https://theonion.com/elon-musk-offers-self-10-billion-federal-buyout/">$10
Billion Federal Buyout</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Meta making abortion information harder to find
uri: Meta-making-abortion-information-harder-to-find
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Meta_making_abortion_information_harder_to_find)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Meta_making_abortion_information_harder_to_find)

content:
 
<p>

*Meta accused of "bowing" to [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>]
by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/meta-abortion-content">making abortion
[information] harder to find</a>.*
</p>
<p>
Please join me in
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">refusing
to use the word "content"</a> to mean
"publications, treated as a commodity".
</p>
</li>

 


title: Claims the wrecker has sent prisoners to Guantanamo
uri: Claims-the-wrecker-has-sent-prisoners-to-Guantanamo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Claims_the_wrecker_has_sent_prisoners_to_Guantanamo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Claims_the_wrecker_has_sent_prisoners_to_Guantanamo)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a>
press secretary claims that he has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/trump-guantanamo-migrants-deportation">already sent
prisoners to Guantanamo</a>, unauthorized immigrants who were in the US.
</p>
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>,
or someone working for him, has a cunning awareness of
the US's sores, and picks at them to exacerbate the soreness.
This spreads the feeling that the US will be so massively cruel and evil
that it threatens to demoralize Americans who want their country to be good
rather than cruel.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(The_oldest_bullying_technique)
title: The oldest bullying technique
uri: The-oldest-bullying-technique
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(The_oldest_bullying_technique)
content:
 
<p>

*The <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-trump-ignores">oldest
bullying technique</a> is to threaten little guys who don’t
have nearly the power you have &mdash; say, Canada, Mexico, Columbia, and
Greenland (Greenland!) &mdash; and then, when they appear to cave, announce
that your bullying has worked. And then move on to larger targets.*
</p>
<p>
This is what <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>
is doing now.  But he has an additional
advantage that so many treat anything he says as truth.
He <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#4_February_2025_(US_and_Mexico_to_postpone_tariffs)">didn't
get a surrender from Mexico</a>
or Canada, but when he
boasts about one, his <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a> are thrilled that the USA is
(in their minds) a powerful overlord.
</p>
<p>
But it is not guaranteed to stay that way.  He could start doing to
other countries the real damage he has done in USAID, the OPM, the US
treasury, NOAA, and the CDC.
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/04/what-is-motivating-trumps-reckless-trade-war">Another
bullying tactic</a> he uses is acting unpredictably and showing he
can do drastic things (that less vicious leaders would be wise enough
to avoid) and get away with them.  The message is, "I am so powerful
no one can restrain me &mdash; so be afraid and bow down."
</p>
<p>
Putin tried the same thing in his "I'm a madman with a nuke, so give
me whatever I demand" act.  Putin's disinformationists
and supporters told us
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#30_November_2024_(Putin_continues_his_nuclear_panic_campaign)">we
should be terrified and meek</a>.
Biden and other western leaders realized it was an act, so they
ignored it and dealt with Putin as someone evil and vicious but
nonetheless sane.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Persecutor "paused" CFPB's regulatory work
uri: Persecutor-paused-CFPB-s-regulatory-work
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Persecutor_paused_CFPB's_regulatory_work)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Persecutor_paused_CFPB's_regulatory_work)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor</a>
"paused" the CFPB's regulatory work, including the regulation
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/medical-debt-reform-trump">not
to include medical debt</a> in people's credit reports.
</p>
<p>
This was a weak response to the problem that medical costs were ruining
Americans, but it had the advantage that the executive branch could do
it without support from Congress.  The stronger measures were blocked
by Republicans.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(FBI_agents_sue_DoJ)
title: FBI agents sue DoJ
uri: FBI-agents-sue-DoJ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(FBI_agents_sue_DoJ)
content:
 
<p>

*FBI agents <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/fbi-jan-6-trump-doj">sue
the &hellip; DoJ</a> over effort to target January 6
investigation workers.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Amerindians_born_before_1970)
title: Amerindians born before 1970
uri: Amerindians-born-before-1970
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Amerindians_born_before_1970)
content:
 
<p>

Amerindians born before 1970
<a href="https://apnews.com/article/0305f75865a741c2a1e9fb6a7aa8baeb">did
not get birth certificates</a>.
</p>
<p>
With the law to limit voter registration that Republicans are
proposing now, in practice those Amerindians would be disenfranchised.
</p>
<p>
Arizona is making it easier for them to get birth certificates
belatedly.  But I would not be surprised if red states did the
opposite, as a form of voter suppression.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Call for total blockade of Trump nominees
uri: Call-for-total-blockade-of-Trump-nominees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Call_for_total_blockade_of_Trump_nominees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(Call_for_total_blockade_of_Trump_nominees)

content:
 
<p>

*Grassroots & Progressive Democrats Call for
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/grassroots-progressive-democrats-call-for-total-blockade-of-trump-nominees">Total
Blockade of Trump
Nominees</a>.*
</p>
<p>
The problem of how ti rouse "mainstream"
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> Democrats to
fight for a New Deal has been with us for decades.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: Wrecker and Netanyahu not above the law
uri: Wrecker-and-Netanyahu-not-above-the-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Wrecker_and_Netanyahu_not_above_the_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Wrecker_and_Netanyahu_not_above_the_law)

content:
 
<p>

*Who will show [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>]
and Netanyahu that they're
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/06/donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu-law-europe">not
above the law</a>? It
has to be Europe.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Fossil fuel extraction in national monuments
uri: Fossil-fuel-extraction-in-national-monuments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Fossil_fuel_extraction_in_national_monuments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Fossil_fuel_extraction_in_national_monuments)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
proposes to let
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/trump-national-monuments">allow
fossil fuel extraction in national
monuments</a>.
That could poison the wildlife in the short term, but in the long
term the world's fossil fuel policy is to let the billionaires make
civilization collapse.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Corrupter tried to fire US election commission chair
uri: Corrupter-tried-to-fire-US-election-commission-chair
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Corrupter_tried_to_fire_US_election_commission_chair)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Corrupter_tried_to_fire_US_election_commission_chair)

content:
 
<p>

*US election commission chair says
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/federal-election-commission-trump">tried to fire her
illegally</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Calls for Syria's sanctions to be lifted
uri: Calls-for-Syria-s-sanctions-to-be-lifted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Calls_for_Syria's_sanctions_to_be_lifted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Calls_for_Syria's_sanctions_to_be_lifted)

content:
 
<p>

*Defector [from Assad's army] who exposed Assad’s brutality calls for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/06/defector-who-exposed-assads-brutality-calls-for-syria-sanctions-to-be-lifted">Syria
sanctions to be lifted</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Key national security position pick
uri: Key-national-security-position-pick
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Key_national_security_position_pick)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Key_national_security_position_pick)

content:
 
<p>

*[The underminer]'s pick for key national security position
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/trump-national-security-joe-kent">linked to
far-right figures</a>.*
</p>
<p>
We can expect him, if approved, to develop a blind spot against crimes
planned by right-wing extremists.  That would be quite convenient
for anyone who in the future commits crimes at the behest of
a right-wing extremist official.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Autocrats more dangerous second time in office
uri: Autocrats-more-dangerous-second-time-in-office
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Autocrats_more_dangerous_second_time_in_office)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Autocrats_more_dangerous_second_time_in_office)

content:
 
<p>

*Aspiring autocrats &hellip; are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/06/autocrats-dangerous-trump-office">always
more dangerous the second time in
office</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Error in ad made by bullshit generator
uri: Error-in-ad-made-by-bullshit-generator
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Error_in_ad_made_by_bullshit_generator)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Error_in_ad_made_by_bullshit_generator)

content:
 
<p>

Google used its bullshit generator to make an ad for its bullshit
generator, and the ad had a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/06/google-edits-super-bowl-ad-for-ai-that-featured-false-information">glaring
factual error</a>, which Google had to
use human editing to fix.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Increase in patient deaths in nursing homes
uri: Increase-in-patient-deaths-in-nursing-homes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Increase_in_patient_deaths_in_nursing_homes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Increase_in_patient_deaths_in_nursing_homes)

content:
 
<p>

*[US] government report says private equity [purchases of] nursing homes led
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/private-equity-healthcare">11%
increase in patient deaths</a>.*
</p>
<p>
The amended headline called these purchases "investments", but I
think that word is as false as perfume on a turd.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


title: Wrecker orders reservoirs drained, CA
uri: Wrecker-orders-reservoirs-drained-CA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Wrecker_orders_reservoirs_drained,_CA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Wrecker_orders_reservoirs_drained,_CA)

content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/climate/trump-california-water-dams-reservoirs/index.html">sabotaged
California farmers</a> by opening dams and releasing water that was
being saved to give to them in the summer, when they will need it.
<p>
He pretended that this was a way to help fight fires in Los Angeles,
but (1) LA does not have a shortage of water overall, and (2) the
water will not flow to Los Angeles.
<p>
What LA is short of is capacity to pump water up to the hilly areas
where the fires have been out of control.
<p>
More generally, the problem is caused by <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, and as long
as we keep pushing <!----> global heating that problem
is likely to spread.


<p>
 


title: Stockholders' more-info request denied
uri: Stockholders-more-info-request-denied
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Stockholder_request_denied_for_more_info)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Stockholder_request_denied_for_more_info)

content:
 
<p>
Amazon and <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#united-hellth">UnitedHellth</a> have
asked <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the
corrupter</a> for favors,
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/amazon-and-unitedhealths-inaugural-demands-post/">which we can
presume are in exchange</a>
for their million dollar inaugural "donations".

<p>
 


title: Treasury onslaught reduced to two people
uri: Treasury-onslaught-reduced-to-two-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Treasury_onslaught_reduced_to_two_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Treasury_onslaught_reduced_to_two_people)

content:
 
<p>
The first
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/interim-court-order-restricts-treasury-data-access-to-select-government-employees">court rebuke</a>
<!---->to the muskrat's rampage through government
departments has come, denying <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> and his followers access
to data from the US Treasury.
<p>
<!---->The muskrat's rampage can be compared to
<a href="https://cyberscoop.com/musk-doge-opm-treasury-breach/">an
ongoing security breach</a>.


<p>
 


title: Federal workers facing blacklisting
uri: Federal-workers-facing-blacklisting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Federal_workers_facing_blacklisting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Federal_workers_facing_blacklisting)

content:
 
<p>
A right-wing  extremist
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/project-2025-federal-worker-blacklist">organization
is compiling lists</a> of government employees that it labels as
"woke".
<p>
That organization has no real power to hurt them, but it surely
believes it is providing guidance for right-wing extremist political
appointees who would be glad to punish or fire those employees without
bothering to offer justification.


 


title: Iran non-nuclear agreement restarting?
uri: Iran-non-nuclear-agreement-restarting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Iran_non-nuclear_agreement_restarting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Iran_non-nuclear_agreement_restarting)

content:
 
<p>
Amazingly, <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> wants to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/05/donald-trump-signals-wish-to-hold-talks-with-iran-over-nuclear-deal">negotiate a new non-nuclear agreement</a>
with Iran, which would replace the one he canceled in 2019.
<p>
It remains to be seen whether these two parties could actually make a deal.
Both tend to be very hard to negotiate with.
<p>
If they do, I will say that is good.  However, let's keep a sense of
proportion.  This success, if it happens, would not come near to
compensating for the harm he has done to the US in the past 3 weeks,
or the wrong of
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#31_January_2025_(Voter_suppression_rampant_in_red_states)">the rigged election of 2024</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(US_takeover_of_Gaza_as_war_crime)
title: US takeover of Gaza as war crime
uri: US-takeover-of-Gaza-as-war-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(US_takeover_of_Gaza_as_war_crime)
content:
 
<p>
*<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/feb/05/trump-gaza-plan-could-amount-to-war-crime-say-experts">Gaza
plan</a> could amount to war crime, say experts.*

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Social Security, Medicare payments
uri: Urgent-Social-Security-Medicare-payments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Urgent:_Social_Security,_Medicare_payments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Urgent:_Social_Security,_Medicare_payments)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/doge-musk-cuts-social-security/?t=1003">Call
on Congress</a> to protect Social Security and Medicare from
<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/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Mass_deporation_is_a_mirage)
title: Mass deportation is a mirage
uri: Mass-deportation-is-a-mirage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Mass_deporation_is_a_mirage)
content:
 
<p>
*US immigration is gaming Google to create
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/ice-us-immigration-deportations-google">a mirage of mass deportations</a>.*
<p>
If the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#6_February_2025_(The_oldest_bullying_technique)">goal
is to spread panic</a> and discouragement, a false impression of facts
is as good as real facts.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Large_TB_outbreak_hamstrung,_KS)
title: Large TB outbreak hamstrung, KS
uri: Large-TB-outbreak-hamstrung-KS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Large_TB_outbreak_hamstrung,_KS)
content:
 
<p>
In a small part of Kansas, tuberculosis has increased to a level that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/kansas-tuberculosis-public-health">US
public health would never have allowed</a>.  Republican attacks on
public health organizations, both state and federal, are interfering
with the normal response when tuberculosis starts to increase.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Language_and_executive_function)
title: Language and executive function
uri: Language-and-executive-function
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Language_and_executive_function)
content:
 
<p>
An experiment found that bilingual children tend
to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250130025152/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250129162136.htm">have
better executive function</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Australia_rain)
title: Australia rain
uri: Australia-rain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Australia_rain)
content:
 
<p>
Parts of Australia had
over <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/03/queensland-floods-cause-townsville-impact-bom">2
feet of rain</a> in 24 hours,
and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/05/north-queensland-floods-ingham-residents-cut-off-townsville-cairns">over
7 feet</a> in the past week.
<p>
People
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/03/really-quite-scary-with-no-power-and-dwindling-supplies-queenslands-flooded-north-dreads-the-worst">cut
off</a>, without potable water and electricity and out of food.
<p>
Where and when such things happen is largely random, but the fact that
they get much worse nowadays is part of global heating.  So we can
expect it to get much worse over coming decades.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Ukraine_robotic_military_vehicles)
title: Ukraine robotic military vehicles
uri: Ukraine-robotic-military-vehicles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Ukraine_robotic_military_vehicles)
content:
 
<p>
Ukraine's military intends
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/06/ukraine-war-briefing-bomber-dies-in-attack-on-army-recruitment-centre">make
armed robotic vehicles</a> to deploy at the front.
<blockquote>
*"Our goal is to create a military where innovative technologies help
perform the most dangerous tasks, saving the lives of our defenders,"
he said.*
</blockquote>
<p>
That goal is fine, but is this an autonomous killer robot?  I can't
tell from the brief notice in that article, but It sounds like one.
No one should be the first to introduce autonomous killer robots into
the world.  The west should not allow Ukraine to do it.
<p>
Israel did something like it, by using a machine learning system
to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-sep-dec.html#6_December_2023_(Israel_using_computer_systems_to_choose_where_to_bomb)">choose
targets for human-controlled weapons</a>.  The expectation that human
control over weapons will avoid some atrocities presumes that human
soldiers are fighting a war to defeat another army, not a campaign of
hatred.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Air_pollution)
title: Air pollution
uri: 2025-02-09-Air-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#8_February_2025_(Air_pollution)
content:
 
<p>
*Air
pollution <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/06/air-pollution-affects-peoples-ability-to-focus-on-everyday-tasks-study-finds">reduces
people’s ability</a> to focus on everyday tasks, study finds.  Even
brief exposure to particulate matter found to impede selective
attention and emotional recognition.*

<p>
 


title: Inspectors general and Musk's companies
uri: Inspectors-general-and-Musk-s-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(Inspectors_general_and_Musk's_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(Inspectors_general_and_Musk's_companies)

content:
 
<p>
Several of the inspectors general that 
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>
fired worked at agencies that were, or had been,
investigating <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the
muskrat's</a>
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/trump-purges-inspectors-general-investigating-musks-businesses/">government
contracts</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_the_coup)
title: Urgent: Stop the coup
uri: Urgent-Stop-the-coup
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_the_coup)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone our senators and call on them to stop Elon Musk's
Coup.  Call 202-688-0628.
<p>
Free Press Action posted his campaign but did not include a URL
for it, so I a copying the text here.
<p>
<hr />
<blockquote>
Members of Free Press Action took part in protests across the nation’s
capital this week as Elon Musk and his squad of sycophantic tech bros
abruptly shuttered federal agencies.
<p>
The richest man on the planet — and what we can only describe as the
Elon Youth — invaded the Treasury Department’s Social Security and
Medicare database and will exploit that access for the next step in
their horrific autocratic scheme.
<p>
Via his unconstrained "Department of Government Efficiency", Musk is
blitzing major agencies like the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID), the Treasury, and the Departments of Education
and Labor. He's forcing out civil servants with actual expertise to
make room for his handpicked legion, literally reshaping our
government to fit his deranged and dangerous plans.
<p>
Free Press Action has sounded the alarm on Elon Musk for years: From
reinstating thousands of neo-Nazis and other extremists on Twitter to
gutting the platform’s content moderation rules to helping repressive
regimes silence dissidents, Musk has a pattern of spreading hate and
harassing critics. But now that he’s spent nearly $300 million to
elect Trump — successfully buying his way into the highest echelon of
the federal government — he is more dangerous than ever.
<p>
This is a clear authoritarian power grab from a man who twice gave an
apparent Nazi salute to cheers from an adoring inaugural crowd. No one
elected this man. And yet he won’t take no for an answer.
<p>
Elon is conducting a coup before our eyes and members of the Senate
have an obligation to do everything in their power to stop him. Please
call your senators at 202-688-0628 before it's too late.
<p>
Here’s a sample script to get you started:
<p>
-------------------
<p>
Hello! My name is [First Name]. I'm a constituent and am calling to
ask Sen. [Senator] to stop Elon Musk’s unelected takeover of the
federal government.
<p>
I urge you to vote "no" on all nominees and halt the Senate’s business
while this power grab is underway, until the separation of powers is
restored and you have answers.
<p>
Stop Elon Musk’s coup immediately.<br />  -------------------
<p>
Elon and his loyalists are running roughshod over the Constitution and
our public servants — and everyday people like you will be the ones
who pay the price. He's stealing your most sensitive data while
threatening basic social services. It's far past time for our elected
officials to protect us from this monstrous coup.
<p>
In solidarity,
<p>
All of us at Free Press Action
</blockquote>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(US_Treasury_and_USAID_payments)
title: US Treasury and USAID payments
uri: US-Treasury-and-USAID-payments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(US_Treasury_and_USAID_payments)
content:
 
<p>
*[Musk rats] sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down
USAID spending,
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/politics/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-system/index.html">emails
show</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(Wrecking_crews_monkeyed)
title: Wrecking crews making monkeys
uri: Wrecking-crews-making-monkeys
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(Wrecking_crews_monkeyed)
content:
 
<p>
*FBI turns over
<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/fbi-employees-tuesday/index.html">details
of 5,000 employees</a> who worked on January 6 cases to [corrupted]
Justice Department, as agents sue* to stop <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> from having them fired.
<p>
We have seen at least one judge refuse to let the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/current.html#1_February_2025_(Funding_freeze_blocked_by_courts)">wrecking
crew make a monkey</a> out of him, by rejecting the claim that
although a payment shutdown order had been "rescinded", the shutdown
was still in effect.
<p>
This will eventually come to the Supreme Court, dominated by right-wing
extremists.   Will they choose between loyalty to their country and its freedom?
Or obedience to their master?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(USAid_workings_saved_by_judge)
title: USAid workings saved by judge
uri: USAid-workings-saved-by-judge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(USAid_workings_saved_by_judge)
content:
 
<p>
*Judge temporarily blocks Trump from placing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/judge-temporarily-blocks-usaid-leave">2,200
USAid workers</a> on leave
<p>
Forced leaves had already begun when ruling came through, as workers
tried to halt dismantling of agency.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(Stalinesque,_ICE_fear_mongering)
title: Stalinesque ICE fear mongering
uri: Stalinesque-ICE-fear-mongering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(Stalinesque,_ICE_fear_mongering)
content:
 
<p>
*Thousands of [old] press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped
search results
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/ice-us-immigration-deportations-google">on
[Google], all updated with a timestamp</a> from after [Jan 20].*
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The
bullshitter</a> must have told his fanatical followers to aim to wipe
the possibility of making national decisions based on the truth.  This
ranges from
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/current.html#31_January_2025_(Labor_Relations_Board_deactivated,_US)">barring
publication</a> of the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/current.html#8_February_2025_(Large_TB_outbreak_hamstrung,_KS)">truth
in some areas</a>,
shutting agencies' eyes to the facts in others, and publishing a flood
of distraction in this instance.

<p>
 


title: Malice against Coast Guard commander
uri: Malice-against-Coast-Guard-commander
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(Coast_Guard_commander-eviction_malice)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(Coast_Guard_commander-eviction_malice)

content:
 
<p>
A few days after firing the commander of the US Coast Guard, <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a>
abruptly ordered her to leave her official residence with
<a href="https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/linda-fagan-us-coast-guard-eviction-trump-b2693472.html">three
hours notice</a> and leave the door unlocked.  This meant, in effect,
exposing her to the risk that her own property (which she had been
given no chance to remove) remaining in the residence would be stolen.
<p>
This is a sign of <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the
bully's</a> vindictiveness, but it is part of a system with a
dangerous practical purpose: to scare everyone in US employment,
whether civil or military, into eager compliance with the ruling
party's ideology.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(US_shakedown_diplomacy)
title: US shakedown diplomacy
uri: US-shakedown-diplomacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(US_shakedown_diplomacy)
content:
 
<p>
*In this &hellip; era of shakedown diplomacy,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/in-this-trump-era-of-shakedown-diplomacy-everything-has-a-price">everything has a price</a>.*
<p>
The article describes how bullying as diplomacy can backfire.  Alas, he
equates "countries making and keeping agreements" with "acting in ways
that help everyone", but they are
<a href="https://stallman.org/business-supremacy-treaties.html">sometimes in conflict</a>,
as in the
example of the
<a href="https://stallman.org/trance-pacific-partnership.html">Trance Pacific Partnership</a>
<p>
The article presumes that the US remained a moral force until the
start of this year,  On some issues it was, while on others it was not.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(New,_James_Hansen,_climate_study)
title: New, James Hansen, climate study is out
uri: New-James-Hansen-climate-study-is-out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(New,_James_Hansen,_climate_study)
content:
 
<p>
James Hanson says that <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> is going
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/04/climate-change-target-of-2c-is-dead-says-renowned-climate-scientist">faster
than predicted</a>, showing that human-caused greenhouse gases have a
bigger effect than was assumed in modeling.
(Other climate scientists disagree.)
<p>
He concludes that it is impossible now to avoid 2°C of heating,
an amount which scientists expect to cause massive worldwide disaster.
<p>
Thousands of Jor-Els, with detailed predictions, and still they cannot
convince the political leaders to take the necessary action to avoid
climate catastrophe.



<p>
 


title: Government web sites losing climate data
uri: Government-web-sites-losing-climate-data
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(Underway:_.gov_purge;_climate_data,_etc)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(Underway:_.gov_purge;_climate_data,_etc)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/trump-climate-change-federal-websites">Scientists
brace "for the worst"</a> as [<a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a>] purges climate
mentions from websites &hellip; [P]ulling references online "won’t make
crisis stop" [impacting] Americans’ lives, say experts.*



<p>
 


title: Google AI in surveillance, weapons
uri: Google-AI-in-surveillance-weapons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Weaponizing_their_AI_efforts,_Google)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Weaponizing_their_AI_efforts,_Google)

content:
 
<p>
Google(<a href="#gevil">&ddagger;</a>) has adopted the motto,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/05/google-owner-drops-promise-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons">"Be evil in
every possible way,"</a>
by its decision to use artificial intelligence
for weapons.
<p>
I write "artificial intelligence" because I presume this would use the
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligance">adaptive pattern matching</a>
that really is artificial intelligence,
not the bullshit generators which aren't.
<p id="gevil">
&ddagger; I don't distinguish between the different corporate entities of
Google because I see those distinctions as insignificant details
that cloud the overall picture.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Wealthy_interests_VS_Government)
title: Wealthy interests VS Government, AZ
uri: Wealthy-interests-VS-Government-AZ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Wealthy_interests_VS_Government)
content:
 
<p>
Phoenix, Arizona, tried to prohibit construction in areas where there
is no sustainable groundwater available.  Rich real estate interests are
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/the-american-dream-water-not-included/">trying
to invalidate the ban</a> in court.
<p>
I guess they hope to make money selling houses to people who will
eventually find that it is impossible to live in them for lack of water.

<p>
 


title: About midair collisions in DC airspace
uri: About-midair-collisions-in-DC-airspace
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(About_midair_collisions_in_DC_airspace)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(About_midair_collisions_in_DC_airspace)

content:
 
<p>
A collision between an airliner and a military helicopter near Reagan
National Airport
<a href="https://apnews.com/article/american-airlines-5342-blackhawk-reagan-national-airport-81a43f2ba5cc59cbe9273fa593f1e9cf">happened
in 1949</a>.  Ever since pilots and people involved in air safety
have warned of the danger that the difficult situation would lead to
another collision.
<p>
So don't believe the fabricator when he puts the blame on his usual suspects.

<p>
 


title: DEI history, air-traffic controllers
uri: DEI-history-air-traffic-controllers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(DEI_in_air-trafic_controller_hiring)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(DEI_in_air-trafic_controller_hiring)

content:
 
<p>
Facts concerning the
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyeg61pnl5o">FAA's DEI
hiring program</a>, compared with presidential bullshit.

<p>
 


title: Wrecker prefers law of the jungle
uri: Wrecker-prefers-law-of-the-jungle
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Wrecker_prefers_law_of_the_jungle)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Wrecker_prefers_law_of_the_jungle)

content:
 
<p>
The Guardian suggests that <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/07/the-guardian-view-on-trump-and-the-international-criminal-court-following-the-law-of-the-jungle">attack
on the International Criminal Court</a> bespeaks his preference for
the law of the jungle.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Drug-resistant_bacteria)
title: Insects and AMR in hospitals, NGA
uri: Insects-and-AMR-in-hospitals-NGA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Drug-resistant_bacteria)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/05/flies-in-hospital-wards-may-be-spreading-drug-resistant-bacteria-to-patients">Flies
in hospitals</a> can carry drug-resistant bacteria from patient to
patient.

<p>
 


title: US int'l aid VS China aid
uri: US-int-l-aid-VS-China-aid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(US_int'l_aid_cuts_replaced_by_China_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(US_int'l_aid_cuts_replaced_by_China_)

content:
 
<p>
<!---->The wrecker's destruction of USAID and cutoff of most
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/07/donald-trump-usaid-shutdown-impact-china-relationship-funding">nonmilitary
foreign aid</a> has probably increased China's global influence.
<p>
I don't think <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> cares about this as much as he cares
about his own power.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(USAID_cuts_revive_fears_of_PISSI)
title: US aid-cuts invoke PISSI
uri: US-aid-cuts-invoke-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(USAID_cuts_revive_fears_of_PISSI)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/09/kurdish-officials-fear-islamic-state-revival-as-us-aid-cuts-loom-syria">Kurdish officials</a>
fear [<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> will revive] as US aid cuts loom.*

<p>
 


title: Dem. reps at Treasury-raid protests
uri: Dem-reps-at-Treasury-raid-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Dem._reps_at_Treasury-raid_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Dem._reps_at_Treasury-raid_protests)

content:
 
<p>
*Democrats [in Congress] join protest against [<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat's</a>]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/democrats-protest-elon-musk-treasury-washington">"hostile
takeover" of federal payment systems</a>.*
<p>
Legally, their presence in a protest may not change anything.
But it will contribute to the spirit of resistance, and that is vital.

<p>
 


title: Scorn for protesters of Gaza massacres
uri: Scorn-for-protesters-of-Gaza-massacres
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Scorn_for_protestors_of_Gaza_massacres)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Scorn_for_protestors_of_Gaza_massacres)

content:
 
<p>
Right-wing extremist groups in the US now express their scorn for
people protesting on behalf of Palestinians by
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/06/betar-palestine-school-activists-target-deport-trump/">threatening
to get them deported</a> by claiming (arbitrarily) that they support
terrorism.
<p>
Arrogant right-wing attacks are often based on some false
presupposition.  In this case, it the presupposition is, "Everyone
that stands up Palestinians' human rights is a jihadi Islamist
terrorist."  The goal of these campaigns is to lead the public to
believe the false presupposition.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Bill_against_sanctuary_cities)
title: Bill against sanctuary cities
uri: Bill-against-sanctuary-cities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(Bill_against_sanctuary_cities)
content:
 
<p>
Analyzing the proposed No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act,
and its likely consequences for
<a href="https://immigrationforum.org/article/bill-analysis-no-bailout-for-sanctuary-cities-act/">cities that practice community policing</a>.

<p>
 


title: US covets CAN resources
uri: US-covets-CAN-resources
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(US_acquisition_of_others'_countries,_CAN)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_February_2025_(US_acquisition_of_others'_countries,_CAN)

content:
 
<p>
*Trudeau says that [<!---->the bully] is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/07/trudeau-trump-canada-annex">serious
about wanting to annex Canada</a>.*
<p>
For the moment, <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> has made Canadians feel more committed and
loyal to Canada.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Specter_of_censorship,_ISR)
title: Specter of national censorship, ISR
uri: Specter-of-national-censorship-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Specter_of_censorship,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
Freedom of the press is threatened in Israel.  <!---->Thugs in Jerusalem
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/10/israeli-police-raid-jerusalem-bookshops-and-arrest-palestinian-owners">arrested the Palestinian owners of a bookstore</a>.
<p>
The <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> seized
many books, including each book that showed a Palestinian flag.  This
included books by Noam Chomsky and Israeli writer Ilan Pappé.
<p>
They also seized a copy of the newspaper Haaretz.
<p>
This is part of a wave of arrests of Palestinian political
intellectuals in Israel and Palestine.
<p>
Side point:<br />
I used to make links to articles in Haaretz before it sprouted a
paywall.  To pass the paywall is impossible without running nonfree
JavaScript software on my own computer, so I cannot see that
newspaper's articles, nor recommend them to others.
<p>
The payment of money, as such, I would on some occasions accept, if I
could pay it anonymously without running nonfree software.  But I
never accept running nonfree software, and I never urge the public to
do so.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Research_outlook_grim,_US)
title: "Efficient" government research, US
uri: Efficient-government-research-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Research_outlook_grim,_US)
content:
 
<p>
The National Institutes of Health have
<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/08/g-s1-47383/nih-announces-new-funding-policy-that-rattles-medical-researchers?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub">cut
the ratio of "overhead" payments</a> that they add to research grants.
<p>
The NIH offers these overhead payments knowing that the things that
they fund are necessary for the research organizations to function so
they can do the contracted research.  Reducing them will make it hard
for the research organizations to do the research.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Increase climate-emergency funding
uri: Urgent-Increase-climate-emergency-funding
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_climate-emergency_management)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_climate-emergency_management)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators
and call on them to protect FEMA from plans to
abolish it or greatly cut its funding.
Climatic disasters are increasing, and will continue to increase
as long as we keep increasing greenhouse gases in the air.
FEMA will need more funding than it needs now.
<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/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Spike_in_phone_calls_to_Congress)
title: Spike in phone calls to Congress
uri: Spike-in-phone-calls-to-Congress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Spike_in_phone_calls_to_Congress)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/02/people-are-really-angry-fury-over-musk-and-doge-triggers-spike-in-calls-to-congress/">Fury Over Musk and DOGE</a>
Triggers Spike in Calls to Congress.*
<p>
*Members of Congress say they are being flooded with calls from angry
constituents about President Donald Trump's Director of the Department
of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk, and what he is doing inside the
federal government.*

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Wrecker's inauguration fund
uri: Urgent-Wrecker-s-inauguration-fund
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Urgent:_Wrecker's_inauguration_fund)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Urgent:_Wrecker's_inauguration_fund)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/investigate-trump-inauguration-fund/?t=1003&akid=33059%2E96703%2Ek2_5ZN">call
on Congress</a> to investigate <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a> inauguration fund.
<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/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Plastic_waste_order)
title: Plastic waste executive order
uri: Plastic-waste-executive-order
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Plastic_waste_order)
content:
 
<p>
The trasher thinks of the environment as an enemy and yearn to trash
it at every opportunity, even in small ways, to demonstrate his hate
for it.  He decided to encourage plastic pollution by canceling
Biden's decision to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/08/trump-plastic-straws">gradually
end use of plastic straws</a> in the US government.
<p>
The trasher's campaign for plastic straws may seem to be a pointless
frivolity, but the attitude he seeks to instill is broader and
potentially deadly.  The attitude consist of prioritizing short-term
desires over long-term needs.  People who approach questions this way
can be manipulated into wasting their money.
<p>
That campaign turns the World War II slogan, "Use it up, wear it out,
do without," on its head, applying it to the environment rather than
to products such as straws.
<p>
If we use up and wear out the environment, humanity can't survive very
long.
<p>
The reason so little plastic is recycled is only a few kinds of
plastic are practically
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Recycling_plastics_can_release_microplastics)">feasible
to recycle</a>.  Several other kinds are recyclable in principle, but it
is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-nov-feb.html#20_February_2024_(Feasibility_of_plastic_recycling)">too
expensive</a> so so that never happens.  Plastic industry PR fooled
the public about this by getting
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_May_2022_(Plastic_recycling)">the
"recycle" symbol</a> put on those other kinds, so people imagine they
will be recycled.

<p>
 


title: Kyrsten Sinema dooH niboR, AZ
uri: Kyrsten-Sinema-dooH-niboR-AZ
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Republican_Senator_dooH_niboR,_AZ)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Republican_Senator_dooH_niboR,_AZ)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/12/20/kyrsten-sinema-campaign-spending-castle-franc/">In
Waning Senate Days</a>, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent
Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Flag_security_at_Super_Bowl)
title: Flag "security" at Super Bowl
uri: Flag-security-at-Super-Bowl
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Flag_security_at_Super_Bowl)
content:
 
<p>
*Performer in Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl show [questioned by
"security"] on field after holding up
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/super-bowl-sudan-gaza-protest">Sudan-and-Gaza combined flag</a>.


<p>
 


title: Hints on fate of US payments systems
uri: Hints-on-fate-of-US-payments-systems
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Hints_on_fate_of_US_payments_systems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Hints_on_fate_of_US_payments_systems)

content:
 
<p>
*An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to
federal payments systems "the single greatest
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-bfs-doge-insider-threat/">insider
threat risk</a> the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced."*
<p>
A federal judge
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/07/trump-musk-government-efficiency-attorneys-general-lawsuit/">temporarily
blocked</a> <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the
muskrat's</a> men from accessing personal data held by the US
Treasury.
<p>
The permanent decision will be made later.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Rulings_for_Treasury,_USAID)
title: Rulings on Treasury and on USAID
uri: Rulings-on-Treasury-and-on-USAID
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Rulings_for_Treasury,_USAID)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/politics/elon-musk-doge-treasury-payment-system/index.html">Federal
judge blocks</a> [<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat's</a> men from] access to critical Treasury
payment system.*

<p>
 


title: R/W access to Treasury payments system
uri: R-W-access-to-Treasury-payments-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Elez'_access_to_Treasury_payments_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Elez'_access_to_Treasury_payments_system)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/">[Engineer]
Marko Elez</a>, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has
direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly
all payments made by the US government, three sources tell WIRED.*
<p>
His "ties" with <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the
muskrat</a> are clearly active, because The only way he could have got
this power is because <!---->the muskrat gave the command.
<p>
Elez resigned from <!---->the muskrat's employ after he was linked to
flaming racist posting, but <!---->the muskrat now says
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-vance/bring-back-vance-says-supports-rehiring-doge-staffer-resigned-racist-s-rcna191224">he
will rehire Elez</a>.
<p>
After all, why would a Nazi sympathizer like <!---->the muskrat object to racism?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(A_domestic_terror_trial,_US)
title: A domestic terror trial, US
uri: A-domestic-terror-trial-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(A_domestic_terror_trial,_US)
content:
 
<p>
A US
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/brandon-russell-neo-nazi-bomb-plot-trial">neo-Nazi
leader has been convicted</a> of planning to attack power grid
facilities with a bomb.
<p>
It's a shame that the FBI won't be willing to investigate possible ties
to <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> followers.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Hostage_releases_postponed,_ISR)
title: Hostage releases postponed, ISR
uri: Hostage-releases-postponed-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#12_February_2025_(Hostage_releases_postponed,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
HAMAS says it will postpone the next prisoner swap
on the grounds that Israel is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/10/hamas-suspends-release-israeli-hostages-violations-ceasefire">violating
the cease fire</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, Israel's minister of hatred, Smotrich, says he will not
permit the cease fire to be extended past this first phase &mdash he would
rather bring the government down.
<p>
Since <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the
corrupter</a> does not have real moral commitments, I don't think he
will care whether this cease fire continues as long as he can make the
situation be about him.


<p>
 


title: UK Chinese oppose mega-embassy, London
uri: UK-Chinese-oppose-mega-embassy-London
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(UK_Chinese_oppose_mega-embassy,_London)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(UK_Chinese_oppose_mega-embassy,_London)

content:
 
<p>
Protesters in London opposed plans to allow China to build a large
embassy, warning that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/08/large-protest-against-chinese-mega-embassy-takes-place-in-london">it
would be used for espionage</a> and for punishing Chinese expats in
the UK.  It could even be used to imprison Chinese expats when they
come in for an appointment, and perhaps even refugee dissidents.
<p>
Chinese embassies in various countries
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_November_2024_(China_wants_its_embassy_in_UK_bigger)">threaten
residents Chinese people</a> living in those countries, to stop them
from criticizing China.

<p>
 


title: Art by generative systems contentious
uri: Art-by-generative-systems-contentious
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Art_by_generative_systems_contentious)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Art_by_generative_systems_contentious)

content:
 
<p>
The LLM-excused copyright grab is advancing with a lawsuit against
the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/10/mass-theft-thousands-of-artists-call-for-ai-art-auction-to-be-cancelled">sale of art generated</a>
using a generative video model.
<p>
Using generative systems to generate text that does not appear to be fiction
has the problem that people believe it is truthful.  Likewise using them
to generate art that appears to be a photo.
<p>
That problem does not arise for text or visual art that is presented
as, or appears to be, fiction or art.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Iron_Man_film_as_propaganda)
title: Iron Man film as propaganda
uri: Iron-Man-film-as-propaganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Iron_Man_film_as_propaganda)
content:
 
<p>

How the Iron Man film of 2008 was
<a href="https://share.transistor.fm/s/082c8fce/transcript.txt">designed
as propaganda</a> for the US
military.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Donors of scapegoater used Mexican workers illegally
uri: Donors-of-scapegoater-used-Mexican-workers-illegally
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Donors_of_scapegoater_used_Mexican_workers_illegally)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Donors_of_scapegoater_used_Mexican_workers_illegally)

content:
 
<p>

*Major Donors [for the scapegoater] who complained of immigrant
"invasion" <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/uline-mexican-workers-trump">used
Mexican workers illegally</a>, sources allege.*
</p>
<p>
It would not surprise me if they were hypocritical.  Why wouldn't they be?
</p>
</li>

 


title: Falsified environmental reports by oil and gas firms
uri: Falsified-environmental-reports-by-oil-and-gas-firms
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Falsified_environmental_reports_by_oil_and_gas_firms)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Falsified_environmental_reports_by_oil_and_gas_firms)

content:
 
<p>

*Oil and gas firms operating in Colorado
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/colorado-oil-gas-false-environmental-impact-reports">falsified environmental
impact reports</a>.*
</p>
<p>
Is anyone threatened with prison for this?
</p>
<p>
I expect not &mdash; and that weakness of enforcement is why it happens so
much.  Millions of lives will depend in the future on how we enforce
environmental regulations.  Inadequate enforcement is as dangerous as
inadequate rules.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker and muskrat misunderstandings of genetics
uri: Wrecker-and-muskrat-misunderstandings-of-genetics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Wrecker_and_muskrat_misunderstandings_of_genetics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Wrecker_and_muskrat_misunderstandings_of_genetics)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
and
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a>
use two different <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/30/donald-trump-elon-musk-genetics-science-right">naive misunderstandings
of genetics to advocate eugenics</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Starmer one of Labour's most rightwing members
uri: Starmer-one-of-Labour-s-most-rightwing-members
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Starmer_one_of_Labour's_most_rightwing_members)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Starmer_one_of_Labour's_most_rightwing_members)

content:
 
<p>

*Keir Starmer is one of Labour's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/30/keir-starmer-is-one-of-labours-most-rightwing-mps-study-finds">most
rightwing members of parliament</a>,
according to a study of the political positions of the MPs from every
major party.*
</p>
<p>
This gives some hope that a defeat could make the party replace him.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Misleading use of term "antisemitism"
uri: Misleading-use-of-term-antisemitism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Misleading_use_of_term_antisemitism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Misleading_use_of_term_antisemitism)

content:
 
<p>

Various political camps weaponize the term "antisemitism"
misleadingly, and that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/31/antisemitism-israel-gaza-war-right">obstructs
campaigning against the real wrong of
bigotry against Jews</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Ukraine invasion used to influence the wrecker
uri: Ukraine-invasion-used-to-influence-the-wrecker
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Ukraine_invasion_used_to_influence_the_wrecker)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Ukraine_invasion_used_to_influence_the_wrecker)

content:
 
<p>

Historian Timothy Snyder argues that Putin invaded Ukraine as a way to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/01/timothy-snyder-trump-musk-russia-ukraine-putin">use
his influence with the wrecker</a>, supposing the latter became
president of the US.
</p>
<p>
He also explains the importance of refusing to "obey in advance".
Even if bigger and richer people are bowing down and obeying, we must
continue to refuse.

<blockquote>
"It's particularly distressing that it's the billionaires who have the
media outlets, so who are in some sense the most powerful. Like, what
do you have to be afraid of? Why don’t you do something interesting
that the historians will remember you for instead? But I also want to
say it’s not surprising. The reason we have Lesson One of On Tyranny is
because we can’t count on the non-regime-proximate oligarchs to do the
right thing. Like the regime-proximate oligarchs, like Elon Musk,
they're doing the wrong thing."
</blockquote>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Infection by parasites in Mississippi Delta
uri: Infection-by-parasites-in-Mississippi-Delta
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Infection_by_parasites_in_Mississippi_Delta)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Infection_by_parasites_in_Mississippi_Delta)

content:
 
<p>

*Infrastructure neglect and poverty lead to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/01/mississippi-delta-water-parasites">[infection by] parasites
in the Mississippi Delta</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Frozen_potato_market_in_the_US)
title: Frozen potato market in the US
uri: Frozen-potato-market-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#13_February_2025_(Frozen_potato_market_in_the_US)
content:
 
<p>

The frozen potato market in the US is
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/the-rise-of-big-potato/">dominated
by just four companies</a>, and
the result (whether explicitly planned or not) is price fixing.
</p>
</l>

<p>
 


title: NSA blinding itself, deleting web pages
uri: NSA-blinding-itself-deleting-web-pages
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#14_February_2025_(NSA_blinding_itself,_deleting_web_pages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#14_February_2025_(NSA_blinding_itself,_deleting_web_pages)

content:
 
<p>
The NSA is now blinding itself to
<a href="https://popular.info/p/the-nsas-big-delete">concerns of
justice and/or rational thought</a>, by ordering the deletion of web
pages that use the terms "injustice" or
"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias>confirmation
bias</a>" &mdash; as well as many others.
<p>
This policy threatens to wipe discussions of whether policies are just
or unjust, and discussions of whether certain arguments are valid or not.
<p>
The deletion campaign is intended to wipe anything that relates to the
diversity movement, and recognizes that some occurrences of words on
the target list may be legitimate even to the <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#magat">magat</a> mind.  But judging each of the
occurrences individually is an enormous job, so there will be blanket
deletion at least at first.
<p>
Imagine pages discussing the inclusion of certain words on the
deletion list.  Those discussions might get deleted because of the
word "inclusion".

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Phone senators with this message
uri: Urgent-Phone-senators-with-this-message
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#14_February_2025_(Urgent:_Phone_senators_with_this_message)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#14_February_2025_(Urgent:_Phone_senators_with_this_message)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone each of your senators and say this (in your own words).
<blockquote>
Stop the attacks on government agencies that Congress has established
and the gutting of crucial programs that Congress has already funded.
<p>
Congress sets the budget &mdash; not the president and not the hateful
rich. I urge you to treat this like the constitutional crisis it is by
stopping business as usual in the Senate until Trump and Musk back
down.  </blockquote>
<p>
If no one picks up, please leave a message &mdash;
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/notes/current.html#12_February_2025_(Spike_in_phone_calls_to_Congress)">it&apos;ll count</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/2024-nov-feb.html#14_February_2025_(Hostage_release_issues,_ISR)
title: Hostage release issues, ISR
uri: Hostage-release-issues-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#14_February_2025_(Hostage_release_issues,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
A few days ago, HAMAS accused Israel of violating the cease fire
terms, and said it would delay the next release of hostages until
Israel started complying.
<p>
The alleged violations are numerous and of many kinds.
The details are described in
<a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-report-israeli-ceasefire-violations-gaza-netanyahu">this
article</a>, and some are independently confirmed.
<p>
A report attributed to HAMAS appears as two images in the article.
If they do not appear, each image&apos;s space has a link to visit it,
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a>
has done nothing to pressure Israel to keep its side of the agreement,
but
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-gaza-ceasefire-hamas-hostages">instead
threatens HAMAS</a>, demanding it disregard Israel's violations.
<p>
You can't expect a corrupt man to serve as an honest broker in making
a deal, because he will not honestly insist that both sides keep the deal.
<p>
As we look at the horrible events of the war in Gaza, let's not lose
sight of <a
href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to
end up</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#14_February_2025_(Facebook_VS_Linux_distros)
title: Facebook VS Linux distros
uri: Facebook-VS-Linux-distros
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#14_February_2025_(Facebook_VS_Linux_distros)
content:
 
<p>
Users report that
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250127020059/https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250127#sitenews">Facebook
blocks posting about "Linux"</a>.  That implicitly also
<a href="https://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">blocks posting about
GNU</a>, when people erroneously treat GNU as part of "Linux".
<p>
I would like to see first-hand and journalistic reporting about this.
I can't test it myself since I absolutely refuse to be used
by <a href="/facebook.html">Facebook</a> in any fashion.


<p>
 


title: Extreme weather whiplashing, S. BRA
uri: Extreme-weather-whiplashing-S-BRA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#14_February_2025_(Extreme_weather_whiplashing,_S._BRA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#14_February_2025_(Extreme_weather_whiplashing,_S._BRA)

content:
 
<p>
*Intense
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/12/brazil-record-heat-rio-grande-do-sul">heatwave
in southern Brazil</a> [Rio Grande do Sul] forces schools to suspend
return.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#14_February_2025_(USAid_food_stewardship_imperiled)
title: USAid food stewardship imperiled
uri: USAid-food-stewardship-imperiled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#14_February_2025_(USAid_food_stewardship_imperiled)
content:
 
<p>
*Nearly $500m of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/usaid-trump-elon-musk-cuts">food
aid at risk</a> of spoilage after [<a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a>] USAid cuts.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#15_February_2025_(Kyoto_protocol_failure)
title: Kyoto protocol failure
uri: Kyoto-protocol-failure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#15_February_2025_(Kyoto_protocol_failure)
content:
 
<p>
*The Kyoto protocol was the first really clear example of how
politicians can say all the right words on the world stage about
tackling [global heating], but then fail miserably
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/25/the-kyoto-climate-treaty-is-hailed-on-stage-but-reality-tells-a-different-story">to
deliver real action at home</a>.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#15_February_2025_(Bird_flu_information_stoppage)
title: Bird flu information stoppage
uri: Bird-flu-information-stoppage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#15_February_2025_(Bird_flu_information_stoppage)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/trump-bird-flu-response">disrupting
the federal agencies</a> that have the responsibility to protect the
country against bird flu.


<p>
 


title: Urgent: Richard Stallman speaking, opportunities in Europe
uri: Urgent-Richard-Stallman-speaking-opportunities-in-Europe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(Urgent:_Your_Richard_Stallman_speaking_opportunities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(Urgent:_Your_Richard_Stallman_speaking_opportunities)

content:
 
<p>
I am considering a trip to Europe for late April, and perhaps half of
May.  If you would like to invite me to speak in Europe, please send
me email now at rms on the site gnu dot org, with the subject line
"Europe in the spring".  You'll have to fund the extra costs of my
travel there.
<p>
Please repost this elsewhere to spread the word.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#15_February_2025_(USA_under_a_coup_d'etat)
title: USA under a coup d'etat
uri: USA-under-a-coup-d-etat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#15_February_2025_(USA_under_a_coup_d'etat)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: the
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/say-what-it-is-a-coup">mainstream
media are failing America</a> by refusing to call this a coup.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: FBI head confirmation hearings
uri: Urgent-FBI-head-confirmation-hearings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#15_February_2025_(Urgent:_FBI_head_confirmation_hearings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#15_February_2025_(Urgent:_FBI_head_confirmation_hearings)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators (<em>especially</em> Republicans) and
say <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kash_Patel#ct"#Promotion_of_conspiracy_theories">not to</a>
vote to confirm
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kash_Patel#Nomination_as_director_of_the_FBI">Kash Patel</a>
as head of the FBI.


<p>
 


title: Orders persecuting trans people, USA
uri: Orders-persecuting-trans-people-USA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(Orders_persecuting_trans_people,_USA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(Orders_persecuting_trans_people,_USA)

content:
 
<p>
*US park service
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/stonewall-website-transgender">erases references to trans people</a>
from Stonewall Inn website.*
<p>
Removing mentions of trans people from government web sites is not
just deletion of attitudes and opinions, or even advice &mdash; it covers
historical fact as well.
<p>
I admire the people who fought the <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> at Stonewall.  No matter that it
wasn't my own fight; it was a fight for the freedom not to conform to
rigidity, and that is something to cheer for.


<p>
 


title: US DoJ vs NYC in legal scandal
uri: US-DoJ-vs-NYC-in-legal-scandal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(US_DoJ%26ndash;NYC_legal,_big_scandal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(US_DoJ%26ndash;NYC_legal,_big_scandal)

content:
 
<p>
Mayor Adams of NYC is the beneficiary of some sort of deal with
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>,
who has ordered the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/justice-department-officials-resign-eric-adams-charges">Department
of Justice to drop charges</a> against Adams.
<p>
It looks like what Adams did for <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> in return was to aid
deportation raid in NYC.
<p>
I got mail from a campaign to call on New York Governor Hochul to
remove Adams as mayor.  I did not sign it because I expect that
signatures of people who don't live in that state won't count,
but I hope she does so.
<p>
Several
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/federal-prosecutor-danielle-sassoon-eric-adams-charges">officials
involved</a> with the prosecution
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/justice-department-officials-resign-eric-adams-charges">have
resigned</a> in outrage.  I share their outrage, but I think it would
have been better in this situation not to quit.  Now they will be
replaced will loyal henchmen.  If they had stayed in position until
fired, they might have had the chance to do something for justice and
get away with it, at least for a while.
<p>
In the old days, officials resigning in outrage would have been a
scandal and had an influence on the next election.  But
today's <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a> are
so isolated from the truth that they will hardly care about it.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(Coup_profits_big_business)
title: Coup profits big business, US
uri: Coup-profits-big-business-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(Coup_profits_big_business)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/01/02/trump-tariffs-small-business/">Only
the biggest</a> of big businesses are likely to benefit from the
wrecker's coup.  Those are the ones that can
expect <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the
corrupter</a> to appreciate their support, and reward them.  The
others will suffer from the tariffs, if the tariffs don't get
negotiated away.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Congress members owning stocks
uri: Urgent-Congress-members-owning-stocks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(Urgent:_Congress_members_owning_stocks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(Urgent:_Congress_members_owning_stocks)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/prohibit-members-of-congress-from-owning-stocks-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-democracy-for-america-advocacy-fund&source=group-democracy-for-america-advocacy-fund">call
on Congress</a> to prohibit members of Congress from owning stocks.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: renewable electricity policies
uri: Urgent-renewable-electricity-policies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(Urgent:_renewable_electricity_policies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(Urgent:_renewable_electricity_policies)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-overturn-trumps-attack-on-clean-energy?nowrapper=true">call
on Congress</a> to block <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> attack on renewable
electricity.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: The voter suppression bill
uri: Urgent-The-voter-suppression-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(Urgent:_The_voter_suppression_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#16_February_2025_(Urgent:_The_voter_suppression_bill)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/save-act/">call on
Congress</a> to defeat the SAVE Act.
<p>
"This baseless voter suppression bill would create unnecessary barriers
to voting for [nonwhites], young people, disabled people, transgender
people, people with low incomes, tribal voters, rural voters,
survivors of natural and climate disasters, and military families,
not to mention the tens of millions of married women who have changed
their names."
<p>
It would also block remote registration and registration by mail.
<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/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(RFK_Jr._is_Secretary_of_HHS)
title: RFK Jr. is Secretary of HHS
uri: RFK-Jr-is-Secretary-of-HHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(RFK_Jr._is_Secretary_of_HHS)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/rfk-health-secretary-confirmed">Antivaxxer
RFK Jr.</a>  has been confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human
Services.
<p>
Millions of Americans will be at risk if he undermines vaccination.
Will vaccines for the latest flu and Covid-19 variants be prepared at all?
<p>
By now we have seen that the Senate's Republicans are too intimidated
to reject any nominee, no matter how outrageously unfit.
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a>
Gaza plan is provoking
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/trump-gaza-plan-galvanizing-jihadist-far-right">condemnation
from jihadis</a> and from right-wing white nationalists.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Rabbis_against_ethnic_cleansing)
title: Rabbis against ethnic cleansing
uri: Rabbis-against-ethnic-cleansing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Rabbis_against_ethnic_cleansing)
content:
 
<p>
*"No to ethnic cleansing": over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing
[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecuter</a>]'s
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/rabbis-ad-trump-gaza-plan">Gaza plan</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Defining and redefining antisemitism
uri: Defining-and-redefining-antisemitism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Defining_and_redefining_antisemitism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Defining_and_redefining_antisemitism)

content:
 
<p>
Harvard adopted the misguided IRHA definition of antisemitism, and
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/12/2303343/-Criticism-of-Israel-Does-Not-Equal-Antisemitism?_=2025-02-12T14:46:38.000-08:00">based
on that definition punished protesters</a> who campaigned against the
bombardment and siege of Gaza.
<p>
It is possible some of them actually endorsed antisemitism,
but with
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jul-oct.html#15_October_2020_(Definition_of_antisemitism)">that
bad definition</a> it is quite likely that some of them were falsely
labeled as "antisemitic".

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(DEI_as_a_dogwhistle)
title: "DEI" as a dogwhistle
uri: DEI-as-a-dogwhistle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(DEI_as_a_dogwhistle)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans use "DEI" as a racist dogwhistle &mdash; to presume, based on
nothing at all, that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/11/dei-trump-republicans-racism">every
black is unqualified</a> for per job.
<p>
I linked above to that article because it tells us something
important about racism.  Racism is an intense form of bigotry; it is a
collective injustice that I condemn, and support the campaign against.
I think making a link to that article will help that campaign.
<p>
Ironically, that article itself embodies symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid this bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  I denounce lesser forms of
bigotry too, and I don't want to normalize symbolic bigotry by letting
it pass without calling it out.  Normally I avoid any mention of
articles that practice it.
<p>
I had conflicting feelings about that article based on these two valid
goals: to make a link, because of its important point about racism, or
not to link, to avoid normalizing the article's own bigotry.  I
concluded that the first goal could not be neglected, and made the
link.  But the second goal also should not be neglected -- hence this
note to criticize the article's own bigotry.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(The_recent_NASA_drama)
title: The recent NASA drama
uri: The-recent-NASA-drama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(The_recent_NASA_drama)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a>
actions toward NASA might endanger flight safety, as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/trump-dei-nasa-executive-order">staff
was insufficient</a> and some are already leaving in disgust.

<p>
 


title: Undermining national agencies, UK
uri: Undermining-national-agencies-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Undermining_national_agencies,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Undermining_national_agencies,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
Labour is imitating <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> by undermining crucial
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/11/donald-trump-labour-government">agencies
that regulate businesses</a>.  Details in the article.
<p>
Perhaps that's their idea of how to promote economic growth of
business: by letting them disregard regulations intended to prevent
them from doing various sorts of harm.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Abortion-pill_mailing_fined,_TX)
title: Abortion-pill mailing fined, TX
uri: Abortion-pill-mailing-fined-TX
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Abortion-pill_mailing_fined,_TX)
content:
 
<p>
*Texas judge fines
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/13/texas-abortion-pills-shield-laws-new-york-doctor">New
York doctor</a> for mailing abortion pills to patient in Texas.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(USAID_closure_entailments)
title: USAID closure entailment
uri: USAID-closure-entailment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(USAID_closure_entailments)
content:
 
<p>
The closure of USAID will spread confusion and cause independent media
outlets to shut down.  That will leave the field clear for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/11/trump-usaid-cuts-freeze-press-freedom-ukraine-afghanistan-media-rsf">propaganda
and disinformation</a> published by states.
<p>
I suppose <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the
wrecker's</a> advisors will be pleased by this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Ukraine_war_negotiations)
title: Ukraine war negotiations
uri: Ukraine-war-negotiations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Ukraine_war_negotiations)
content:
 
<p>
<!---->The wrecker showed how he
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/14/donald-trump-ukraine-peace-plan-europe-britain">plans to make a deal over Ukraine</a>.
He simply told Putin, "You can have everything you want."
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The
bullshitter</a> has a history of being
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#5_August_2016_(Trump_and_Putin_a_love_story.)">a
follower of Putin</a>. In the past year, he has talked tough about how
he would deal with Putin, but we now see that that was just bullshit,
like his
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-jul-oct.html#7_July_2024_(Project_2025_aloofness)">claim
not to have anything to do with Project 2025</a>.
<p>
Will Putin conquer Ukraine with <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> help?

<p>
 


title: About mass firings of federal employees
uri: About-mass-firings-of-federal-employees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(About_mass_firings_of_federal_employees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(About_mass_firings_of_federal_employees)

content:
 
<p>
*Union leader calls mass firings
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/union-leader-calls-mass-firings-reckless-and-will-fight-for-all-impacted-employees">"reckless"
and will fight</a> for all impacted employees.*
<p>
Arguing that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/14/trump-unions-fighting-back">unions
can be effective for deploying power</a> against <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>.


<p>
 


title: Immigrant solidarity VS Ice in NYC
uri: Immigrant-solidarity-VS-Ice-in-NYC
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Immigrant_solidarity_VS_Ice_in_NYC)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Immigrant_solidarity_VS_Ice_in_NYC)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/new-york-protest-trump-immigration-policies">New
Yorkers resisting</a> the deportation <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.


<p>
 


title: Record-high ocean temperatures could become norm
uri: Record-high-ocean-temperatures-could-become-norm
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Record-high_ocean_temperatures_could_become_norm)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Record-high_ocean_temperatures_could_become_norm)

content:
 
<p>

Climate models predict that the *record-high ocean temperatures
observed in 2023 <a href="https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2024/Research-News/Unprecedented-ocean-heating-shows-risks-of-a-world-3C-warmer">could become the norm</a>* with 3°C of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(UK_assisted_suicide_bill)
title: UK assisted suicide bill
uri: UK-assisted-suicide-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(UK_assisted_suicide_bill)
content:
 
<p>

  The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/10/right-to-die-dignified-death-assisted-dying-bill-safeguarding">UK assisted suicide bill</a> will employ a panel of a judge, a
psychiatrist and a social worker to make sure that the person
requesting this is doing so voluntarily.
</p>
<p>
I think that is reasonable.  However, the part of the bill I still
criticize is that it is limited to people who are going to die anyway
in a few months.  What about the people whose lives have become
useless due to diseases that prevent them from doing anything useful?
Lacking terminal illnesses, they might have to suffer this for years.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Elon_Musk_owning_OpenAI)
title: Elon Musk owning OpenAI
uri: Elon-Musk-owning-OpenAI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Elon_Musk_owning_OpenAI)
content:
 
<p>

  *Elon Musk owning OpenAI <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/elon-musk-owning-openai-trump-ai-sam-altman">would be a terrible idea</a>.  That doesn't mean
it won't happen.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Musk-linked group could not find voter fraud
uri: Musk-linked-group-could-not-find-voter-fraud
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Musk-linked_group_could_not_find_voter_fraud)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Musk-linked_group_could_not_find_voter_fraud)

content:
 
<p>

*Musk-linked group offered $5m reward for proof of voter fraud &mdash; and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/elon-musk-voter-fraud-group">came up with nothing</a>.*
</p>
<p>
No matter, the noise that Republicans made by claiming there was
a lot of election fraud gave them the excuse to make it harder
for Americans to vote.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Canceling_views_of_academics)
title: Canceling views of academics
uri: Canceling-views-of-academics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Canceling_views_of_academics)
content:
 
<p>

Right-wing extremists have designed a playbook for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/chris-rufo-jo-boaler-academics-woke">canceling academics
    whose views oppose theirs</a>.
  They set up an echo chamber and introduce
accusations based on <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dei">Republican DEI</a>: distortion, exaggeration, and
insinuation.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Far-right populist politicians more likely to spread fake news
uri: Far-right-populist-politicians-more-likely-to-spread-fake-news
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Far-right_populist_politicians_more_likely_to_spread_fake_news)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Far-right_populist_politicians_more_likely_to_spread_fake_news)

content:
 
<p>

*Far-right populist [politicians] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study">much more likely than the left [or
    centrist politicians] to spread fake</a> news &mdash; study.*
  The study examined every tweet made by any politician in 26 countries.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Hydroelectric generator dams in "protected" rivers
uri: Hydroelectric-generator-dams-in-protected-rivers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Hydroelectric_generator_dams_in_protected_rivers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Hydroelectric_generator_dams_in_protected_rivers)

content:
 
<p>

Norway plans to attack wildlife systematically by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/13/norway-to-open-protected-rivers-to-hydropower-plants">allowing large
    hydroelectric generator dams</a> in supposedly "protected" rivers.
</p>
<p>
These dams would endanger salmon and other wildlife.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Written language developed to avoid breaking up in person
uri: (satire)-Written-language-developed-to-avoid-breaking-up-in-person
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_((satire)_Written_language_developed_to_avoid_breaking_up_in_person)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_((satire)_Written_language_developed_to_avoid_breaking_up_in_person)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *New Evidence Suggests Humans <a href="https://theonion.com/new-evidence-suggests-humans-developed-written-language-to-avoid-breaking-up-in-person/">Developed Written Language To
    Avoid Breaking Up In Person</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Temperature rise reason for reduced chocolate harvests
uri: Temperature-rise-reason-for-reduced-chocolate-harvests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Temperature_rise_reason_for_reduced_chocolate_harvests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Temperature_rise_reason_for_reduced_chocolate_harvests)

content:
 
<p>

*   Scientists say more-frequent hotter temperatures in west African region
are part of reason for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/13/climate-crisis-contributing-to-chocolate-market-meltdown-research-finds">reduced [chocolate] harvests and price rises</a>.*
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(RMS_will_give_a_talk_in_Balzano)
title: RMS will give a talk in Balzano
uri: RMS-will-give-a-talk-in-Balzano
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(RMS_will_give_a_talk_in_Balzano)
content:
 
<p>
In Bolzano, Italy, Richard Stallman will give a talk,
<i><a href="/talks.html#2025-02-24">Free/Libre software and freedom in the digital society</a></i>,
in English, 18:00&ndash;20:00, at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.


 


title: Muskrat spreading political disinformation
uri: Muskrat-spreading-political-disinformation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Muskrat_spreading_political_disinformation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Muskrat_spreading_political_disinformation)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">The muskrat</a>
is directly <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-muskrat-is-moving-europe">spreading
political disinformation</a> to attack
foreign politicians.
It includes weaponizing antisemitism through false accusations.
</p>
<p>
This is on top of his other efforts to support European neo-Nazis.
</p>
<p>
I disagree with Robert Reich on one pertinent question.  I think it is
an injustice to prohibit expression of certain views and attitudes &mdash;
even those that I condemn, such as antisemitism, racism and sexism &mdash;
and even to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#5_October_2020_(Tyranny)">prohibit
insulting a person</a>.
This is one of the aspects of European countries that make me
uncomfortable.
</p>
<p>
Another similar injustice in European countries is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/16/when-its-to-cause-distress-to-believers-call-it-for-what-it-is-a-secular-version-of-blasphemy">prohibition of
blasphemy</a> &mdash; or its secular, ecumenical version, prohibition against
expression that would hurt the feelings of believers in some religion
or other.
</p>
<p>
I suggest that countries instead pass laws forbidding the operation of
a social network that is owned by hateful foreigners.  In other words,
treat <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#extwitter">ex-Twitter</a>
and Facebook the way the US for a while treated
TikTok.  Also, to prohibit operating a social network so as to drive
people to use a specific recommendation engine.
</p>
<p>
This would not censor any kind of views, but it would prevent managing
a social network so as to boost particular kinds of views.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Systematically planning to suppress resistance
uri: Systematically-planning-to-suppress-resistance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Systematically_planning_to_suppress_resistance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Systematically_planning_to_suppress_resistance)

content:
 
<p>

A month ago, the US fascists were systematically planning to
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-trump-is-seeking-to-destroy-the">suppress
four main areas of resistance</a> to their power: universities,
nonprofits, the media, and unions.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Women sentenced to prison "for their own protection"
uri: Women-sentenced-to-prison-for-their-own-protection
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Women_sentenced_to_prison_for_their_own_protection)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Women_sentenced_to_prison_for_their_own_protection)

content:
 
<p>

The UK regularly sentences women to prison
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/16/why-are-women-still-being-sent-to-prison-as-a-place-of-safety">supposedly "for their own
protection"</a>.
</p>
<p>
That is obviously an injustice, and it often has the opposite effect.
</p>
</li>

 


title: (Humor) Manipulation paradox of personality-training systems
uri: (Humor)-Manipulation-paradox-of-personality-training-systems
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_((Humor)_Manipulation_paradox_of_personaliy-training_systems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_((Humor)_Manipulation_paradox_of_personaliy-training_systems)

content:
 
<p>

(Humor) The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/picture/2025/feb/16/simone-lia-how-to-become-a-person-of-good-character-cartoon">manipulation
paradox of personality-training systems</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Missouri_sues_Starbucks)
title: Missouri sues Starbucks
uri: Missouri-sues-Starbucks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Missouri_sues_Starbucks)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/13/starbucks-missouri-dei-lawsuit">Missouri
sues Starbucks</a>, claiming "systemic discrimination" via DEI.
[In it's suit] claiming &mdash; without evidence &mdash;
coffee chain's hiring policies cause higher prices.*
</p>
<p>
This is an example of a widely repeated harassment tactic:
sue until the victim can't stand more lawsuits.
</p>
</li>

 


title: British court canceled new oilfields
uri: British-court-canceled-new-oilfields
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(British_court_canceled_new_oilfields)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(British_court_canceled_new_oilfields)

content:
 
<p>

A British court canceled licenses for new oilfields on the ground
that the decision disregarded the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/13/thirteen-more-oil-and-gas-licences-could-be-cancelled-after-rosebank-court-ruling">effects
of greenhouse emissions</a>
from burning the products that would be pumped out.
</p>
</li>

 


title: USAID workers possibly recorded by Google's Gemini
uri: USAID-workers-possibly-recorded-by-Google-s-Gemini
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(USAID_workers_possibly_recorded_by_Google's_Gemini)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(USAID_workers_possibly_recorded_by_Google's_Gemini)

content:
 
<p>

*USAID Workers Reportedly Believe They Were
<a href="https://gizmodo.com/usaid-workers-reportedly-believe-they-were-recorded-by-googles-gemini-ai-2000563837">Recorded
by Google's Gemini
[chatbot]</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker shutting off funding at NIH
uri: Wrecker-shutting-off-funding-at-NIH
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Wrecker_shutting_off_funding_from_NIH)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Wrecker_shutting_off_funding_from_NIH)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
is <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-rfk-jr-infectious-disease-chronic-nih-research-rcna191902">shutting
off funding at the NIH</a> for research on infectious
diseases.
RFK is ideologically opposed to research in that area.
</p>
<p>
I don't know for certain, but I expect that Congress decided how much
funding to put into that area, which would imply that these cuts
are illegal,
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker ordered to resume USAID's foreign aid payments
uri: Wrecker-ordered-to-resume-USAID-s-foreign-aid-payments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Wrecker_ordered_to_resume_USAID's_foreign_aid_payments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Wrecker_ordered_to_resume_USAID's_foreign_aid_payments)

content:
 
<p>

A judge orders <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>
to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/13/foreign-aid-funding-trump-administration-00204289">resume
USAID's foreign aid payments</a>.
</p>
<p>
It is not clear whether this order will compel USAID to rehire the
staff necessary to make the payments.  I expect that
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> will
respond by making a monkey out of the judge and the law.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Wrecker's_contradictory_goals)
title: Wrecker's contradictory goals
uri: Wrecker-s-contradictory-goals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Wrecker's_contradictory_goals)
content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
has two contradictory goals: to reduce the federal
government's office space, and to make every employee
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/15/return-to-office-mandate-trump-desks/">work in the
office five days a week</a>.  When they all come in, they can't get work done
because there aren't enough desks &mdash;
or parking lots.
</p>
<p>
Soon many of them will be out sick from Covid-19 or flu.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Abortion legalized in Missouri state constitution
uri: Abortion-legalized-in-Missouri-state-constitution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Abortion_legalized_in_Missouri_state_constitution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Abortion_legalized_in_Missouri_state_constitution)

content:
 
<p>

Missouri's voters voted to legalize abortion on the state constitution,
but Republicans in the legislature enacted impossible requirements
to ensure no abortion clinic could open.  But a court has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/judge-strikes-down-licensing-requirement-abortion-providers-missouri">struck them down</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_the_CFPB)
title: Urgent: Protect the CFPB
uri: 2025-02-19-Urgent-Protect-the-CFPB
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_the_CFPB)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say to protect the CFPB
so it can continue to protect Americans from gouging by banks
and other financial dis-services.
</p>
<p>
Here is what <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/trump-consumer-financial-protection-bureau">doing to the CFPB</a>.
</p>
<p>
The senators in the Senate Banking Committee are well paid by
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a> and want to get it out of the way so they can <a href="https://www.levernews.com/tim-scott-is-proud-to-protect-his-donors-junk-fees/">gouge
    using junk fees</a>.
</p>
<p>
Another way US banks gouge the public is by <a href="https://substack.perfectunion.us/">pushing credit card interest
    rates up to loan shark levels</a>.
  This happens because the Supreme Court eliminated states' ability to
regulate the interest rates they can charge.
</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/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Urgent:_Defeat_HR_899)
title: Urgent: Defeat HR 899
uri: Urgent-Defeat-HR-899
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Urgent:_Defeat_HR_899)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call on per to
defeat HR 899, which would abolish the Department of Education.
This would be a big blow to the children in non-rich US families.
The children of poor people would have even less chance of getting
good jobs, and they might have to go without some meals.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: No drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Reserve
uri: Urgent-No-drilling-in-Arctic-National-Wildlife-Reserve
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Urgent:_No_drilling_in_Arctic_National_Wildlife_Reserve)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Urgent:_No_drilling_in_Arctic_National_Wildlife_Reserve)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: demand <a href="https://act.progressamerica.us/ss/c/u001.EtNV8HBC60Tl7UuGmXS3sYMMMCXQg6tLXTP6gYXpdfSVsdfpil7cDhjahHkNIBF_OjL5XYYGrR6VV-tpS6ul_yQwLTFOJ2JzKAREqzRVNyd0cClKM4DdpVJXBX0C9HCIoRarV4pabJ5e58K58XoPiNn2kyX72Xom97ogZF02vZYM81ehuTFQKshxZbyEooZcwLaJ42KOBYjEtYwXE-NBwmHK8xp2o-L14a1hEmpw0jWuHZyqzU2ArMF9Tvq79WN_PfmOzMshoHkQ8bVb_dBq0xWefblWXgrulm_A5i_gJUDoLPR2hWmMIvLSBl5A2GQEWow9FkdsgB-Wdu712VvBXyV4MzqlKLzFMWlCBbmPsaFJt1bJsYeQWLhuvajmfYMn/4d0/jCpAjNsET_WoU3mQUq7GzA/h0/h001.A0opvNrvmC2AG1Bhp9JVG7ZU2EYuOYbNOsEalfGE0jg">no oil drilling</a> in the Arctic National Wildlife
Reserve.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Block funding for deportation machine
uri: Urgent-Block-funding-for-deportation-machine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Urgent:_Block_funding_for_deportation_machine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Urgent:_Block_funding_for_deportation_machine)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/stop-trump-deportation-funding-guantanamo/">block funding</a> for <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a>
deportation machine.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Threats of violence to lawyers of Jimmy Lai
uri: Threats-of-violence-to-lawyers-of-Jimmy-Lai
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Threats_of_violence_to_lawyers_of_Jimmy_Lai)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Threats_of_violence_to_lawyers_of_Jimmy_Lai)

content:
 
<p>

The British lawyers working in Britain to defend Hong Kong democracy
activist Jimmy Lai have been hit by a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/uk-based-lawyers-for-hong-kong-activist-jimmy-lai-targeted-by-chinese-state">campaign of threats of violence</a>
and cracking attacks on their bank accounts
as well as other forms of cracking and physical harassment.
</p>
<p>
We have to presume that what <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> and <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> are aiming to
do with the US is something like this.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Defying court orders to restart government agencies
uri: Defying-court-orders-to-restart-government-agencies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Defying_court_orders_to_restart_government_agencies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Defying_court_orders_to_restart_government_agencies)

content:
 
<p>

  The duumvirs are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-court-rulings-lawsuits">defying some of the court orders</a> that told
them to restart some of the government activities and agencies they
have shut or wrecked.
  They are pushing for absolute power.
</p>
<p>
They openly say that laws and judges are supposed to serve them, never
limit them.  This fully justifies the terms "fascist" and "coup".
</p>
<p>
The Guantanamo prison was a previous Republican president's excuse
for disregarding human rights and the laws that protect some of them,
even for people accused of grave crimes.  Because it was outside the US,
he could argue that it was a zone in which human rights did not apply.
</p>
<p>
So it is natural that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor</a> would seek to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/15/guantanamo-trump-expansion">put those he aims
    to persecute into Guantanamo prison</a> as another way to evade the rule
of law.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Federal workers being thrown to the dogs
uri: Federal-workers-being-thrown-to-the-dogs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Federal_workers_being_thrown_to_the_dogs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Federal_workers_being_thrown_to_the_dogs)

content:
 
<p>

Hundreds of thousands of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/federal-worker-layoffs-trump-musk">Federal workers are being thrown to the
    dog&hellip;s</a>.  *Some were reportedly given only 30 minutes to pack their
belongings and vacate federal offices.*
</p>
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">The muskrat</a> us treating them with special vindictiveness, not for
anything that they did, but <em>because he can</em> (due to a gap in civil
service protection).
</p>
<p>
Why would he do this?  It could be that he simply revels in the chance
to be cruel to someone, anyone.  But I don't think he has let his
emotions run away with them completely.  I think this is a calculated
maneuver meant to make other federal employees scared and weak.
</p>
<p>
Federal employees, at any moment you may be told you can't see that
office ever again, so be ready for it &mdash; remove immediately from your
offices everything you would be sad to lose.  And remain
ostentatiously ready for that, for as long as <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#infant">the haters</a> remain in
power.
</p>
<p>
It will be a way of saying, "Yes, I know you could fire me in a
vindictive way, but I'm prepared for that and you don't scare me!"
</p>
</li>

 


title: Muskrat not cutting government spending to his own company
uri: Muskrat-not-cutting-government-spending-to-his-own-company
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Muskrat_not_cutting_government_spending_to_his_own_company)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#18_February_2025_(Muskrat_not_cutting_government_spending_to_his_own_company)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">The muskrat</a> is determined to cut government spending, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/13/us-department-of-state-plans-to-spend-400m-on-tesla-armoured-vehicles-elon-musk">except when it is buying from his own company</a>.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(Ukraine_war_negotiations)
title: Ukraine war negotiations
uri: 2025-02-19-Ukraine-war-negotiations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(Ukraine_war_negotiations)
content:
 
<p>
Zelenskyy said that Ukraine would not recognize any
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/17/ukraine-russia-saudi-arabia-talks-peace-deal-zelenskyy-eu">peace
deal negotiated</a> by the Putin regime with the Tr-usk regime.


 


title: New York sued over letting unauthorized immigrants drive
uri: New-York-sued-over-letting-unauthorized-immigrants-drive
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(New_York_sued_over_letting_unauthorized_immigrants_drive)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(New_York_sued_over_letting_unauthorized_immigrants_drive)

content:
 
<p>
Attorney General Bondi is suing New York State
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/trump-administration-sues-new-york-immigration">overturn
laws</a> that permit unauthorized immigrants to get driver's licenses,
and to inform them if the federal government asks the state registry of
motor vehicles about them.
<p>
The practical reason for this law is to improve road safety, but Bondi
is a fanatic and sees no loss if Americans die to achieve her goals of
deportation.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(Homelessness_illegal_in_Fremont)
title: Homelessness illegal in Fremont
uri: Homelessness-illegal-in-Fremont
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(Homelessness_illegal_in_Fremont)
content:
 
<p>
Fremont, California, has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/fremont-california-unhoused-law">made it a crime</a> to be homeless there.
<p>
I wonder what Fremont will do to people found to be homeless there.
Jail them?  That would be expensive.  Forcibly transport them to out
of the city?  The city which does that would be shirking its share of
the burden of housing people, and dumping it on other cities.
<p>
Perhaps it will transport them by helicopter to a wilderness area,
where no one will notice if they can't make it out.  That fits the
cruel spirit of the repression of the homeless.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(West_Bank_land_grab)
title: West Bank land grab
uri: West-Bank-land-grab
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(West_Bank_land_grab)
content:
 
<p>
Right-wing Israelis
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/13/last-nail-in-the-coffin-israeli-settlers-push-on-with-fresh-west-bank-land-grab">proceeding
parcel by parcel</a> with driving Palestinians off their land and
seizing the land.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(Carbon_bomb)
title: Carbon bomb
uri: Carbon-bomb
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(Carbon_bomb)
content:
 
<p>
*World’s largely unprotected peatlands
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/13/worlds-largely-unprotected-peatlands-are-ticking-carbon-bomb-warns-study">ticking
"carbon bomb"</a>, warns study.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(Nature_protections)
title: Nature protections
uri: Nature-protections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(Nature_protections)
content:
 
<p>
The wrecker
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/13/endangered-extinction-us-nature-protections-survive-trump-god-squad-aoe">eliminating</a>
a broad range of protections for nature, to allow more fossil fuel
extraction.
<p>
Put that together with the additional global heating caused by burning
those fossil fuels, and the result is a double danger.
<p>
The idea of an "energy emergency" that could be addressed by rapidly
burning up the Earth's remaining fossil fuels is doubly nonsense.
Keeping fossil fuel inexpensive for a couple of decades would be
followed by rapid price increases, and in the mean time we would
suffer from the air pollution and the heat.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(Gulf_of_America_dispute)
title: Gulf of America dispute
uri: Gulf-of-America-dispute
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(Gulf_of_America_dispute)
content:
 
<p>
*White
House <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/white-house-ap-ban-oval-office">bans
AP journalists</a> from Oval Office amid continued &hellip; dispute*
the name of the Gulf of Mexico.
<p>
The wrecker is hoping to teach all news organizations that he will
damage them if they don't completely obey.  The AP is carrying out
heroic resistance to that threat.
<p>
I too have declines to do interviews with people if they did not
commitments about whet names to use.  But my declining to give someone
an interview is not a threat to per freedom to work, because I am not
so important or influential that anyone would imagine perse could not
do without it.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(US_and_Europe)
title: US and Europe
uri: US-and-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#19_February_2025_(US_and_Europe)
content:
 
<p>
European countries are starting to address the need to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/17/europe-tries-to-shore-up-fragile-unity-as-it-realises-it-cannot-rely-on-us">organize a
strong defense, without (and perhaps from)</a> the United States.
<p>
*The US president's bullying of allies and partners
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/17/the-guardian-view-on-the-us-china-and-the-rest-trump-is-opening-doors-for-xi">short-termist</a>
and will boost Beijing's power, not Washington's.*
<p>
I think Tr-usk are too focused on breaking and subjugating the
American people, especially nonwhites and women, to be concerned about
anything as remote as a future contest with China.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Facebook_VS_GNU%2FLinux_distros)
title: Facebook VS GNU/Linux distros
uri: Facebook-VS-GNU-Linux-distros
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Facebook_VS_GNU%2FLinux_distros)
content:
 
<p>
Facebook says that blocking posts about Linux or "Linux" was
<a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-admits-that-the-linux-topic-crackdown-was-in-error-and-has-been-fixed">an
unintentional error</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Urgent:_Remove_Mayor_Adams)
title: Urgent: Remove NYC Mayor Adams
uri: Urgent-Remove-NYC-Mayor-Adams
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Urgent:_Remove_Mayor_Adams)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fire-mayor-adams/?nowrapper=true">call
on New York governor</a> Hochul to remove NYC <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#nightmayor">night-mayor</a> Adams for his deal to
escape federal corruption charges.
<p>
The National Campaign for Justice mailed out this:
<p>
<blockquote>
It's a corrupt quid pro quo, and New Yorkers are the bargaining   
chip. This isn't speculation. [<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a>]'s ICE henchman Tom Homan   
basically admitted it on FOX News, practically waving the deal in   
our faces:    
<p>
<blockquote>
"If he doesn’t come through ... I’ll be in his office, up his   
butt, saying, ‘Where the hell is the agreement we came to?’"
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<p>
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code.
(See https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html.)
<p>
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.
<p>
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above.  That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without javascript!"
<p>
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
<p>
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page.  That's how you say who's sending the letter.
<p>
Then click the "START WRITING" button.  That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code.  (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely _by running_ that nonfree code, you should
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript before going there.)  You can
finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's
address bar, as follows:
<p>
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'.  Then tell the
browser to visit that URL.  This should give you a version of the page
that works without JavaScript.  Edit the subject and body of your
letter.  Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.
<p>
This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters
to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender.
Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to
bypass the nonfree JavaScript code.  I'm sure you'll agree it is a
small effort for the result of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.

<p>
 


title: OOPS firing nuclear weapons workers
uri: OOPS-firing-nuclear-weapons-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(OOPS_firing_nuclear_weapons_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(OOPS_firing_nuclear_weapons_workers)

content:
 
<p>
<!---->The wrecker's agents fired some of the workers
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-administration-nuclear-arsenal-worker-firings">that
maintain security for US nuclear weapons</a>.  Then it realized that
this was stupid, but it can't figure out how to reach them to offer
them their jobs back.
<p>
If you do things without careful thought, you are likely to make
mistakes.  I am sure <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> destruction workers
have made many mistakes in its haste.  But usually they don't care,
and say nothing.
<p>
What is newsworthy this time is that they care enough to try to undo it.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Consumer financial protection
uri: Urgent-Consumer-financial-protection
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Urgent:_Preserve_consumer_financial_protection)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Urgent:_Preserve_consumer_financial_protection)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protect-cfpb-musk-attacks/?t=1003">call
on Congress</a> to protect the CFPB from sabotage
by <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat's</a>
dog(e)s.

<p>
 


title: Fighting corruption, recent history
uri: Fighting-corruption-recent-history
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Fighting_corruption,_recent_history)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Fighting_corruption,_recent_history)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/17/donald-trump-us-corruption-kleptocracy-britain-corruption-law-oligarchs">For
decades the US has been systematically trying</a> to curb global
corruption, but <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> has eliminated many
of the programs that contributed to the campaign.  It looks like the
US government has flipped to the pro-corruption side.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Supporting_Israel,_a_history)
title: Supporting Israel, a story
uri: Supporting-Israel-a-story
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Supporting_Israel,_a_history)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/16/2304113/-I-am-a-Jew-Who-Won-t-Visit-Israel?_=2025-02-16T07:08:58.000-08:00">Alan Singer</a>
describes the history over time of his relationship with
Israel, developing from intense support to moral reproach.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Fascism)
title: The fascism label
uri: The-fascism-label
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Fascism)
content:
 
<p>
Rejecting the superstition that if we refuse to call it "fascism" that
will somehow
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/17/the-new-world-order-is-exactly-what-it-looks-like-are-we-too-frozen-with-fear-to-name-itk">restrain
the regime from going</a> all the way there.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Dismantling_a_fragile_democracy)
title: Dismantling a fragile democracy
uri: Dismantling-a-fragile-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Dismantling_a_fragile_democracy)
content:
 
<p>
*In
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/trump-musk-government-cost-cutting-coup">slashing
staff and disabling entire agencies</a> the administration is
lacerating the structures of US democracy.*

<p>
 


title: DOE ignoring accessibility requirements
uri: DOE-ignoring-accessibility-requirements
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(DOE_ignoring_accessibility_requirements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(DOE_ignoring_accessibility_requirements)

content:
 
<p>
The Department of Education used to be responsible for enforcing
accessibility requirements for US schools, as
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post">to
ensure disabled students could attend</a> school.  Now it has more or
less stopped doing this.
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
wants to eliminate the Department of Education, so we must expect the
US government will abandon the goal as well as the means.
<p>
I made the above link to an article because it tells us something
important about racism.  Racism is an intense form of bigotry; it is a
collective injustice that I condemn, and support the campaign against.
I think posting a link to that article will help that campaign.
<p>
Ironically, that article itself embodies symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid this bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  I denounce lesser forms of
bigotry too, and I don't want to normalize symbolic bigotry by letting
it pass without calling it out.  Normally I avoid any mention of
articles that practice it.
<p>
I had conflicting feelings about that article based on these two valid
goals: to make a link, because of its important point about racism, or
not to link, to avoid normalizing the article's own bigotry.  I
concluded that the first goal could not be neglected, and made the
link.  But the second goal also should not be neglected -- hence this
note to criticize the article's own bigotry.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Unqualified_heads_of_state,_US)
title: Unqualified heads of state, US
uri: Unqualified-heads-of-state-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Unqualified_heads_of_state,_US)
content:
 
<p>
*By voting in favor of nominees
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/16/donald-trump-us-senate">they
knew should never be approved</a>, Republican senators became
[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the
corrupter's</a>] subjects.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Posting_negatively_online_on_ICE)
title: Posting negatively online on ICE
uri: Posting-negatively-online-on-ICE
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Posting_negatively_online_on_ICE)
content:
 
<p>
The US government plans to
<a href="https://join.theintercept.com/go/79566">scan the internet for
postings</a> that express hostility to the deportation <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>, then
search high and low for all information it can get about the person
who posted them.
<p>
We cannot at this point expect that this search will confine itself to legal
methods.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Library_censorship,_US_military)
title: Library censorship, US military
uri: Library-censorship-US-military
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Library_censorship,_US_military)
content:
 
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/17/a-great-shock-julianne-moores-childrens-book-under-review-by-trump-administration">right-wing-controlled
Pentagon</a> is imposing right-wing censorship on the libraries of the
schools for military personnel.

<p>
 


title: Vance's insulting speech in Europe
uri: Vance-s-insulting-speech-in-Europe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Vance's_insulting_speech_in_Europe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_(Vance's_insulting_speech_in_Europe)

content:
 
<p>
Vance
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/jd-vance-decried-as-extremist-over-attack-on-uk-abortion-clinic-safe-zones">distorted
edge-cases</a> of European laws to attack crucial human rights, and to
promote his allies in Europe &mdash; European far-right extremists-Nazis &mdash;
and encourage them to seize repressive power there as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/jd-vance-munich-speech-laid-bare-collapse-transatlantic-alliance-us-europe">the
Trusk regime</a> is doing in the US.
<p>
European anti-Nazis need to be bold, not hesitate and rely on measures that
aim only to oppose them.
<p>
Since
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/16/europeans-are-right-to-be-angry-with-donald-trump-but-they-should-also-be-furious-with-themselves">the
US appreciates Putin more than Europe</a>, and is as likely to behave
like Europe's enemy than like Europe's enemy, Europe urgently needs to
re-arm.
<p>
The lesson from this is that European governments must ensure their
weapons production does not depend significantly on US industry.
They could be cut off by sanctions at any time.  Europe must cease
buying US weapons systems that depend on US spare parts, US maintenance,
or software that Europe cannot maintain and change.
<p>
NATO no longer makes sense with the US as a member, so perhaps the
other members of NATO should construct a new alliance without the US.
That could be a framework to facilitate joint defense of Greenland,
for instance.  With luck, that would deter <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> from actually invading
Greenland.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_((Satire)_Unitary_executive)
title: (Satire) Unitary executive
uri: (Satire)-Unitary-executive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#20_February_2025_((Satire)_Unitary_executive)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *[The saboteur-in-chief] Unsure What Department He Has To Cut To
<a href="https://theonion.com/trump-unsure-what-department-he-has-to-cut-to-make-jd-vance-go-away/">Make
JD Vance Go Away</a>.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Urgent:_Preserve_Medicaid)
title: Urgent: Preserve Medicaid
uri: Urgent-Preserve-Medicaid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Urgent:_Preserve_Medicaid)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-republicans-no-cuts-to-medicaid">call on Republicans</a>
not to cut Medicaid.
<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/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(IRS_systems'_civilian_handover)
title: IRS systems&apos; civilian handover
uri: IRS-systems-apos-civilian-handover
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(IRS_systems'_civilian_handover)
content:
 
<p>
The IRS is reportedly considering giving <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat's</a> agents access to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/irs-musk-doge-taxpayer-data">tax
returns</a>.  We can hardly take for granted that his or their sense
of duty would restrain them from using this data for illegal
purposes such as revenge or extortion.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Ukraine_war_dealings,_US,_RUS)
title: Ukraine war dealings, US, RUS
uri: Ukraine-war-dealings-US-RUS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Ukraine_war_dealings,_US,_RUS)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/18/ukraine-and-europe-made-to-sit-outside-as-us-and-russia-sharpen-their-carving-knives">Ukraine
and Europe made to sit outside</a> as US and Russia sharpen their
carving knives.*
<p>
Zelenskyy says that <!---->the corrupter is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/18/ukraine-officials-say-us-is-appeasing-russia-with-talks-in-riyadh">"appeasing"
Putin</a>, which compares Putin to Hitler and <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> to Neville
Chamberlain.  I think that is putting a nice face on something far
worse.  A better comparison would be with Hitler and Stalin in 1939,
when they made an agreement to attack Poland and carve it up.
<p>
Before the election I thought
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#17_May_2023_(CNN's_unreliable_town_hall)">the
two might get into cahoots</a> like this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Zelensky_and_Ukraine_facts_)
title: Zelenskyy and Ukraine facts
uri: Zelenskyy-and-Ukraine-facts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Zelensky_and_Ukraine_facts_)
content:
 
<p>
Debunking <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the
bullshitter's</a> disinformation
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/20/ukraine-elections-start-of-war-volodymyr-zelenskyy">about
President Zelenskyy</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Senate_approves_Kash_Patel)
title: Senate approves Kash Patel
uri: Senate-approves-Kash-Patel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Senate_approves_Kash_Patel)
content:
 
<p>
The Senate approved allowing Kash Patel
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/kash-patel-senate-confirms-fbi-director">to
corrupt the FBI</a>.  Seeing what <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> crew have done in
other agencies, I expect that the FBI will henceforth focus on
persecuting <!---->the wrecker's enemies list.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Deportees_due_process)
title: Deportees&apos; due process
uri: Deportees-apos-due-process
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Deportees_due_process)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> is
denying deportees due process of law by deporting them before their
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/deportation-venezuelans-guantanamo-bay-honduras">lawyers
can even get in touch</a> with them.  This is done using Guantanamo to
hold them during the deportation process in a place which lawyers
cannot get through to.

<p>
 


title: Immigrants, pillar of economy, fearful
uri: Immigrants-pillar-of-economy-fearful
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Immigrants,_pillar_of_economy,_fearful)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Immigrants,_pillar_of_economy,_fearful)

content:
 
<p>
Many immigrants in the US who do not have permanent residency did have
various forms of temporary official permission to stay and work in the
US.  They were authorized immigrants, of a kind.
But <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>
abruptly canceled these permissions for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/immigrant-workers-trump-deportation">hundreds of thousands</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(USPS_Postmaster_resigns)
title: USPS Postmaster resigns
uri: USPS-Postmaster-resigns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(USPS_Postmaster_resigns)
content:
 
<p>
Postmaster DeJoy has resigned, after so many
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/18/usps-postmaster-louis-dejoy-steps-down">years of clinging to power</a>.
<p>
It is surely not a coincidence that he has done this less than a month
after the <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> became president
again.  I think he was told to wait until Republicans would choose his
successor.


<p>
 


title: Triggered, systemic collapse to locality
uri: Triggered-systemic-collapse-to-locality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Triggered,_systemic_collapse_to_locality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Triggered,_systemic_collapse_to_locality)

content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot: as <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> tears up various
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/donald-trump-global-collapse-wildfires-pandemic-financial-crisis">measures
that protect the governments and economies</a> from various sorts of
collapse. Collapse (even global collapse) will become increasingly
likely.  He recommends making local connections so we can help each
other in that case.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Head_prosecutor_of_Washington_DC)
title: Head prosecutor of Washington DC
uri: Head-prosecutor-of-Washington-DC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Head_prosecutor_of_Washington_DC)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a>
expressed contempt for Congress, law and police at once, by appointing
as the head prosecutor of Washington DC the ideological
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/18/ed-martin-nominee-us-attorney-washington-dc">lawyer who defended Jan 6 attackers</a>
when they were prosecuted.
<p>
He has expressed that he believes prosecutors work for the president
rather than for the country.  Given how the president is the enemy of
the country, it is clear that this prosecutor is not on the country's
side.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Fetterman_wishes)
title: Fetterman wishes
uri: Fetterman-wishes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Fetterman_wishes)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/18/john-fetterman-democrat-trump-progressive">Senator
Fetterman is a Democrat</a> that supports <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>.
<p>
He claims to wish to be the senator for all Pennsylvanians,
those that support the Constitution and rule of law, and those that
support <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Tipping_point_detectors,_UK)
title: Climate tipping point detectors, UK
uri: Climate-tipping-point-detectors-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Tipping_point_detectors,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/18/early-warning-system-for-climate-tipping-points-given-81m-kickstart">Ambitious UK project</a>
aims to forecast climate catastrophes using fleets
of drones, cosmic ray detection, patterns of plankton blooms and more.*
<p>
It is ambitious, but what is most significant is that it is aimed at
trying to survive the many local disasters that <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> has started
to cause.  If the world's governments were serious about
<em>preventing</em> these tippings, they already know what must be done.

<p>
 


title: Our cybersecurity in election systems
uri: Our-cybersecurity-in-election-systems
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Cybersecurity_in_election_systems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#22_February_2025_(Cybersecurity_in_election_systems)

content:
 
<p>
It seems that <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the
wrecker</a> has ordered the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Agency to stop its efforts to help secure state election
systems and
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/cisa-election-security-freeze-memo/">countering mis- and dis-information</a>.
<p>
It should not surprise us, now that the foxes have taken control of
the electoral hen house, that they choose to reduce security of it.



<p>
 


title: State-sponsored religious revival in India
uri: State-sponsored-religious-revival-in-India
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(State-sponsored_religious_revival_in_India)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(State-sponsored_religious_revival_in_India)

content:
 
<p>

The Hindu-nationalist government of India has created a state-sponsored
religious revival, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/16/modi-india-kumbh-mela-hindu-festival-sects">pushing to make India a Hindu-nationalist country</a>.
  It would then be committed to the principles of various orders of
Hindu ascetics, as well as to the principle of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#19_December_2019_(Repression_in_India)">repression of people</a>
that do not agree.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Extreme weather is our new reality
uri: Extreme-weather-is-our-new-reality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Extreme_weather_is_our_new_reality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Extreme_weather_is_our_new_reality)

content:
 
<p>

*Extreme weather is our new reality. We must <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2025/feb/15/extreme-weather-new-reality-wildfires-floods-droughts">accept it and begin
    planning</a>.*  Careful plans can protect people from temporary disasters
such as storms and fires.
</p>
<p>
  There is, however, no <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#6_July_2023_(Sea_Barrier,_London)">feasible way to protect coastal cities</a> from
sea-level rise when it reaches several meters. And no way to protect
the people who live on sea food from ocean <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-jul-oct.html#21_September_2024_(coral_reefs_record_heat_event_study)">acidification caused by our
    emissions of CO2</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Discouragement against investing in the US
uri: Discouragement-against-investing-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Discouragement_against_investing_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Discouragement_against_investing_in_the_US)

content:
 
<p>

Stiglitz warns that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> economic policies are likely to
discourage investment in the US, and thus to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/17/joseph-stiglitz-economist-donald-trump-policies-tariffs-stagflation-risk-us-investment">drive the US into
    stagflation</a> &mdash; rising prices but little growth.
</p>
<p>
His arguments that businesses would decide to invest elsewhere
would perhaps not affect businesses owned by billionaires who
have <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_February_2025_(Stockholder_request_denied_for_more_info)">paid for special treatment</a> from <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>.
</p>
</li>

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title: Wrecker undermining Epidemic Intelligence Service
uri: Wrecker-undermining-Epidemic-Intelligence-Service
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Wrecker_undermining_Epidemic_Intelligence_Service)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Wrecker_undermining_Epidemic_Intelligence_Service)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> is undermining the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown
jewel’ of public health which tries to detect emerging diseases that
could cause great harm.
</p>
<p>
EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and
abroad
</p>
<p>
I wonder whether RFK jr specifically hates that department, or perhaps
it was simply the first one the terminator happened on.
</p>
</li>
--> 

 


title: Airplane evacuating dogs instead of people
uri: Airplane-evacuating-dogs-instead-of-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Airplane_evacuating_dogs_instead_of_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Airplane_evacuating_dogs_instead_of_people)

content:
 
<p>

Leaked British government internal emails seem to show that Bogus
Johnson personally intervened to override the priorities of
evacuation to enable an airplane to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/18/kabul-afghanistan-animal-airlift-whistleblower-employment-tribunal">evacuate carrying dogs instead of
    one carrying human beings</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Thwarted from destroying Covid tests
uri: Thwarted-from-destroying-Covid-tests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Thwarted_from_destroying_Covid_tests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Thwarted_from_destroying_Covid_tests)

content:
 
<p>

Servants of the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> were going to destroy Covid tests
rather than send them to needy Americans, but the Washington Post
published the news of that plan, and the saboteus <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/18/trump-administration-covid-tests-stockpile/">decided to hand
  them out</a> in accord with previous policies.
</p>
<p>
One small piece of the sabotage plans was thus overcome.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Snoop phone impact on school children
uri: Snoop-phone-impact-on-school-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Snoop_phone_impact_on_school_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Snoop_phone_impact_on_school_children)

content:
 
<p>

The author reports on children starting school who are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/children-school-screen-time-early-years-specialist-smartphones-physical-activity">unable to sit up and hold a pencil</a>, and unable to relate in personal presence to
children or teachers.  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#perse">Perse</a> concludes that this is due to being
shaped wrong by snoop-phones.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Britain's chance to discard old policies with US
uri: Britain-s-chance-to-discard-old-policies-with-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Britain's_chance_to_discard_old_policies_with_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Britain's_chance_to_discard_old_policies_with_US)

content:
 
<p>

Arguing that Britain can take advantage of the end of the myth
of the "special relationship" with the US by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/britain-donald-trump-defence-foreign-policy">discarding old policies</a>
that are now manifestly useless &mdash; if it has the courage to do it.
Here a Labour MP who doesn't adore Starmer proposes how to combine this.
</p>
<p>
Much as the Communist parties of 100 years ago were agents of Stalin,
intended to soften up their countries to strengthen the Soviet Union,
so too far-right parties of today are henceforth the agents of
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trumpery">trumpery</a>.  As Tr-usk do ever nastier things, spitting on honesty and
justice, European governments can validly tie those far-right
parties to the intent to behave likewise.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Purge of staff studying brain-computer interfaces
uri: Purge-of-staff-studying-brain-computer-interfaces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Purge_of_staff_studying_brain-computer_interfaces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Purge_of_staff_studying_brain-computer_interfaces)

content:
 
<p>

  The Food and Drug Administration <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/18/fda-staff-fired-musk-neuralink">purged some of the staff</a> studying
brain-computer interfaces for possible future approval.
</p>
<p>
I am sure <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> will make sure the FDA is aware that it has no
real choice but to approve <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat's</a> "Neuralink" product.
</p>
<p>
I don't expect the circuitry of the product to have specifically
malicious hardware features.  But it will be easy to design the
surrounding system within which it is used so as to push patients into
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#extwitter">ex-Twitter</a> and other far-right platforms.  The package could include
gratis ("free") accounts on <a href="twitter.html">ex-Twitter</a>, <a href="facebook.html">Facebook</a>, Instagram, and Faux
News.
</p>
<p>
The system could also make the personal data collected by the use of
the product available for personalized propaganda and disinformation.
This is nominally illegal, but I don't think Attorney General Bondi
would allow prosecution of it.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Arresting unauthorized immigrants when they show up for appointments
uri: Arresting-unauthorized-immigrants-when-they-show-up-for-appointments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Arresting_unauthorized_immigrants_when_they_show_up_for_appointments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Arresting_unauthorized_immigrants_when_they_show_up_for_appointments)

content:
 
<p>

Deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> now regularly arrest and deport unauthorized immigrants
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/18/trump-immigration-dragnet">when they show up for required appointments</a>.
</p>
<p>
These unpredictable attacks fiendishly do injustice in two ways: they
surprise some immigrants with arrest and deport them without the
chance to prepare, appeal or say goodbye, and they frighten others
into staying away, which will create an excuse to deport them later.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Chemical compounds in sunscreen may bleach coral
uri: Chemical-compounds-in-sunscreen-may-bleach-coral
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Chemical_compounds_in_sunscreen_may_bleach_coral)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Chemical_compounds_in_sunscreen_may_bleach_coral)

content:
 
<p>

*The chemical compounds [in sunscreens] that block UV rays may lead to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/18/sunscreens-impact-on-marine-life-needs-urgent-investigation-study-finds">bleaching of
    coral</a> and a decrease in fish fertility.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Spain grew economy by welcoming immigrants
uri: Spain-grew-economy-by-welcoming-immigrants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Spain_grew_economy_by_welcoming_immigrants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Spain_grew_economy_by_welcoming_immigrants)

content:
 
<p>

  Spain made its economy grow by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/18/how-spains-radically-different-approach-to-migration-helped-its-economy-soar">welcoming immigrants</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker abolished regulations to protect environment
uri: Wrecker-abolished-regulations-to-protect-environment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Wrecker_abolished_regulations_to_protect_environment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Wrecker_abolished_regulations_to_protect_environment)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> has <a href="https://www.levernews.com/trump-moves-to-kill-the-environmental-magna-carta/">effectively abolished regulations</a> that require
all federal agencies to take care to obey environmental protection laws.
</p>
<p>
The laws still exist, but I think this order invites all agencies to
disregard environmental laws and do what they like, unless and until
people sue them for violating those laws.  If a government action
poisons a river, the people who live their might sue, but the damage
might be irreversible by then.
</p>
<p>
If the government causes extinction of a species, would anyone have
standing to sue? 
</p>
</li>

 


title: Us right-wing support for Germany's Nazi-ish party
uri: Us-right-wing-support-for-Germany-s-Nazi-ish-party
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Us_right-wing_support_for_Germany's_Nazi-ish_party)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Us_right-wing_support_for_Germany's_Nazi-ish_party)

content:
 
<p>

Support for Germany's Nazi-ish party from US right-wing extremists
has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/18/could-the-left-linke-surprise-in-german-election-elon-musk-afd-election">boosted the Left Party</a> ("Links" in German) which calls for taxing
billionaires to the point that they won't be billionaires any more.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Apple_advertising_on_ex-Twitter)
title: Apple advertising on ex-Twitter
uri: Apple-advertising-on-ex-Twitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Apple_advertising_on_ex-Twitter)
content:
 
<p>
As of 2025, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/611967/apple-resumes-x-twitter-ad-spending-boycott">Apple advertises on ex-Twitter</a>, evidently showing
fealty to the would-be emperor Elon I.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(US_chooses_to_bully_Zelenskyy)
title: US chooses to bully Zelenskyy
uri: US-chooses-to-bully-Zelenskyy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(US_chooses_to_bully_Zelenskyy)
content:
 
<p>
<!---->The bully decided
that Zelenskyy was not subservient enough, so decided it was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/first-thing-trump-calls-zelenskyy-a-dictator-in-unparalleled-relations-rift">time
to insult</a> him.  However, he only succeeded in showing the world
how vicious he is.
<p>
It is true that Ukraine has not held a election since Putin invaded.
Its constitution does not allow elections while martial law is in
place, and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/20/thursday-briefing-the-real-reasons-that-volodymyr-zelenskyy-cant-face-a-new-election-yet">an
election could not be fair</a> while part of the country is occupied
by an invader.
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> is
condemning Zelenskyy for
what <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html#13_September_2016_(Trump_admires_Putin)">the
bully's hero Putin</a> has done to Ukraine.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Insurrection_as_illegal,_KOR)
title: Insurrection as illegal, KOR
uri: Insurrection-as-illegal-KOR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Insurrection_as_illegal,_KOR)
content:
 
<p>
The president of South Korea that tried to declare martial law,
now in jail,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/20/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-criminal-trial-insurrection-charges">will
be tried for insurrection</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Insurrection_as_illegal,_BRA)
title: Insurrection as illegal, BRA
uri: Insurrection-as-illegal-BRA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Insurrection_as_illegal,_BRA)
content:
 
<p>
*In Brazil
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/19/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-coup">coup-mongers go to jail</a>.
In the US they get back into the White House.*

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Schoolteachers' Gulf of Mexico
uri: Urgent-Schoolteachers-Gulf-of-Mexico
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Urgent:_Schoolteachers_Gulf_of_Mexico)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Urgent:_Schoolteachers_Gulf_of_Mexico)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/reject-trumps-gulf-of-america?nowrapper=true">call
on schools</a> to reject <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> demand to use the
ridiculous name "Gulf of America".
<p>
This demand is of no importance in itself, but he uses such demands
to put people and institutions on the path of subservience.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(US-Panama_relations)
title: US-Panama detention-center deal
uri: US-Panama-detention-center-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(US-Panama_relations)
content:
 
<p>
Panama's agreement to receive non-Panamanians deported by the US seems
to include a plan to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/19/migrants-panama-city-darien">imprison
them for the US</a>, perhaps indefinitely, until perhaps someday it
can deport them elsewhere.
<p>
Panama is blocking them from talking with journalists, and even with
their lawyers.
<p>
This could easily become a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#11_August_2016_(Nauru_refugee_prison)">Nauru-like scheme</a>
of isolated permanent imprisonment.
<p>
Some of them want to apply for asylum in Panama.  Panama has the same
obligation as the US, to offer asylum to people who qualify.  Will it
heed that obligation?


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(National_dividing_lines,_per_FRA)
title: National dividing lines, per FRA
uri: National-dividing-lines-per-FRA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(National_dividing_lines,_per_FRA)
content:
 
<p>
<p>
France rejects the distracting terms "global south" and "global north",
and says that what matters is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/20/jean-noel-barrot-france-international-law-global-north-south">how
countries treat each other</a>, wherever they be located.
<p>
I reject those terms too, because they attempt to squeeze various forms
of exploitation into a fictitious fight between one fictitious region
and another.  Perhaps some activists think that it will be easier to
get people to identify with one geographical side against another, but
that's a false understanding.
<p>
I don't entirely agree with the French minister's article.  It focuses
on one especially grave form of injustice, the violent kind which
violates international law, and ignores the wrong of economic
colonization and extractivism, which is also important even if it
won't get you tried at the Hague.

<p>
 


title: Guantanamo expanded, privatized, prison
uri: Guantanamo-expanded-privatized-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Guantanamo_expanded,_privatized,_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Guantanamo_expanded,_privatized,_prison)

content:
 
<p>
The US private prison company Akima, which now runs Guantanamo
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/guantanamo-migrant-jail-akima-revealed">deportation
prison</a>, has been accused of violating prisoners' human rights in
other prisons it runs.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(8th_Amdt_VS_cruel_punishing,_US)
title: 8th Amdt VS cruel punishing, US
uri: 8th-Amdt-VS-cruel-punishing-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(8th_Amdt_VS_cruel_punishing,_US)
content:
 
<p>
*[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#trump">The persecutor</a>]
called for subjecting some convicts in federal prisons to "monstruous"
conditions specifically
<a href="https://join.theintercept.com/go/79604">so that they will suffer</a>
more.
<p>
That is unconstitutional, as well as perverse.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(The_facism_label)
title: The facism label
uri: The-facism-label
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(The_facism_label)
content:
 
<p>
Rejecting the superstition that if we refuse to call it "fascism" that
will somehow
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/17/the-new-world-order-is-exactly-what-it-looks-like-are-we-too-frozen-with-fear-to-name-it">restrain
the regime from going</a> all the way there. <i>[Corrected URL]</i>

 


title: Six states united in Common Cause
uri: Six-states-united-in-Common-Cause
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Six_states_united_in_Common_Cause)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Six_states_united_in_Common_Cause)

content:
 
<p>
How Common Cause is
<a href="https://www.commoncause.org/articles/elon-musk-and-big-money-in-politics-how-common-cause-is-fighting-back/">fighting
against the corrupting influence of billionaires</a>, starting with
(but not limited to) <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Urgent:_Minimum_wage,_MI)
title: Urgent: Minimum wage, MI
uri: Urgent-Minimum-wage-MI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Urgent:_Minimum_wage,_MI)
content:
 
<p>
In Michigan:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-gov-whitmer-uphold-the-constitution-and-save-the-raise/?nowrapper=true">call on Governor Whitmer</a>
of Michigan to veto
bill SB 8 that would continue the low minimum age for tipped workers.
<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>
 


title: Urgent: Arctic Wildlife Refuge matters
uri: Urgent-Arctic-Wildlife-Refuge-matters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Urgent:_Arctic_Wildlife_Refuge_matters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Urgent:_Arctic_Wildlife_Refuge_matters)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/no-oil-drilling-in-the-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge">call
on oil companies</a> to refuse to bid to drill in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Democracy_VS_oligarchy)
title: Democracy VS oligarchy
uri: Democracy-VS-oligarchy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Democracy_VS_oligarchy)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: *In the global clash between democracy and oligarchy,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/20/trump-musk-oligarchy-russia-far-right">the
US is switching sides</a> &hellip; making the world safe for
oligarchy.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Muskrat-firings_aftermath)
title: Muskrat-firings aftermath
uri: Muskrat-firings-aftermath
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Muskrat-firings_aftermath)
content:
 
<p>
The reckless firings that <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> is organizing will
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/trump-federal-worker-firings-impact">endanger
safety in many daily activities</a> &mdash; not just flying and
visiting national parks, but eating food as well.
<p>
*[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>]'s dismantling of USAid raises
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/trump-usaid-mpox">risk
of mpox global emergency</a>, experts warn.*

<p>
 


title: Ukraine war negotiation, Bernie Sanders
uri: Ukraine-war-negotiation-Bernie-Sanders
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Ukraine_war_negotiation,_Bernie_Sanders)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Ukraine_war_negotiation,_Bernie_Sanders)

content:
 
<p>
An associate of Bernie Sanders discusses
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/21/trump-ukraine-russia-policy">what
is required for a legitimate negotiated end</a> to the war in Ukraine.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Dealing_with_Putin)
title: Dealing with Putin
uri: 2025-02-25-Dealing-with-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Dealing_with_Putin)
content:
 
<p>
If you think of <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> as trying to <em>get something</em>
from a deal with Putin, it would follow that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/21/donald-trump-usa-russia-vladimir-putin-weakest-strongman">he
has made a fool of himself</a>.
<p>
But if you think of him as trying to strengthen Putin as his future
ally, what he did is not so absurd.
<p>
Apple
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/21/apple-removes-advanced-data-protection-tool-uk-government">disabled
end-to-end encryption</a> on iThings of users in the UK in response to
a UK law that requires a backdoor in any end-to-end encryption in
communication products.
<p>
Although <a href="/apple.html">Apple</a> often treats its customers
with contempt, it is not the culprit in this instance.  The choices it
was given by the UK were to add a snooping back door and make the
feature dishonest, or to eliminate the feature.

Expensive mistake
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> made a remark that hinted at an intention to declare
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/16/forget-trumps-tariffs-the-presidents-bond-market-threat-is-worse">some
of US debts "fraudulent"</a>.  This almost made it necessary for the
US to pay a higher interest rate when it borrows money.
<p>
His babbling is not very intelligent and it may mean nothing.  But
since he has contempt for rules, laws, and treaties, as well as
customary habits of dealing with others, no one can be sure of that.
<p>
Contractors have learned that
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#15_June_2016_(Trumps_unpaid_workers)">he
may refuse to pay them</a> for work done and they may have to sue to
get paid.  [pol note]
<p>
He has already broken many deals that the US had made, through
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(USAid_workings_saved_by_judge)">USAID</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Wrecker's_sabotage_to_NOAA_email_system)">NOAA</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Wrecker_shutting_off_funding_from_NIH)">NIH</a>,
and other agencies.  So it is not surprising he does the same thing
with deals that the US has made.  Other countries will learn not to
make deals with the US, while a <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#magat">magat</a> is president.



<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#26_February_2025_(School_curriculum_controls,_US)
title: School curriculum controls, US
uri: School-curriculum-controls-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#26_February_2025_(School_curriculum_controls,_US)
content:
 
<p>
*Expect [Right-wing extremists]
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/12/2296590/-Expect-the-Right-to-Tighten-Control-Over-School-Curriculum?_=2025-01-12T16:02:32.000-08:00">to Tighten Control</a>
Over School Curriculum.*

<p>
 


title: National Institute of Health efficiency
uri: National-Institute-of-Health-efficiency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#26_February_2025_(National_Institute_of_Health_efficiency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#26_February_2025_(National_Institute_of_Health_efficiency)

content:
 
<p>
*Critics say [the <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a>]'s executive orders
to reshape the NIH
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/nih-trump-executive-orders">"will
kill</a>" Americans.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#25_February_2025_(Palestinians_supporting_HAMAS)
title: Palestinians supporting HAMAS
uri: Palestinians-supporting-HAMAS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#25_February_2025_(Palestinians_supporting_HAMAS)
content:
 
<p>
A large majority of Palestinians in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/21/people-gaza-future-hamas-poll">Gaza
have stopped</a> supporting HAMAS.
Alas, there is no visible alternative they could try to replace it with.
<p>
For a government to lose public support does not necessary lead to
replacing it.  Look at Israel, where most are disgusted with Netanyahu
but they have been unable to dislodge his government.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#25_February_2025_(Gov't_aid_algorithm)
title: Gov't aid algorithm
uri: Gov-t-aid-algorithm
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#25_February_2025_(Gov't_aid_algorithm)
content:
 
<p>
Many government agencies in the US use a software system to evaluate
whether individuals are entitled to certain government aid.  Many of
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/rage-against-the-algorithm/">these systems make horrible decisions</a>.
<p>
In the case described at the start of the article, the program was
developed by a contractor which is not known for developing free
software.  We must suspect that the program is nonfree and that the
staff of the agency have no way of understanding why people get
rejected.  Indeed, the agency staff seem to have no way to respond to
horrible decisions except to say, "Fill in the form again.
<p>
Some of these programs may use machine learning.  (I doubt many of them
make use of
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligance">bullshit
generators</a>.)  Machine learning can learn to predict outcomes by
recognizing patterns, but when there is no objective information
about what the right answer was in training cases, they can't learn to
predict the right answer.

When it comes to the question of whether a person deserves state aid,
this approach is simply wrong.  It should be illegal to use a software
system to make such decisions about people unless the decision-making
criteria that the system implements is precisely documented so that
specific wrong decisions can be traced to a specific cause.
<p>
For bureaucrats whose priority is reducing expenses, a mysterious
program that erroneously and inexplicably rejects 27 percent of
applicants is a welcome excuse to respond, "Computer says no."  The
kind of Christian that practices systematic non-charity might call it a
"godsend".

Many years ago I posted about a nonfree program that
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#26_June_2016_(Sentences_for_convicted_criminals)">courts used to
decide</a>
<!-- [polnote not found, fudged] -->
whether an accused person can be given bail.
<p>
There is a campaign to restrict the use of software for making
decisions about
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-may-aug.html#6_August_2020_(AI_system_to_judge_immigration_applications)">how to treat specific people</a>.
<!-- [polnote not found, fudged ] -->


<p>
 


title: iThings' snooping backdoor, UK
uri: iThings-snooping-backdoor-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Encryption_backdoor_on_iThings,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(Encryption_backdoor_on_iThings,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
Apple
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/21/apple-removes-advanced-data-protection-tool-uk-government">disabled
end-to-end encryption</a> on iThings of users in the UK in response to
a UK law that requires a backdoor in any end-to-end encryption in
communication products.
<p>
Although <a href="/apple.html">Apple</a> often treats its customers
with contempt, it is not the culprit in this instance.  The choices it
was given by the UK were to add a snooping back door and make the
feature dishonest, or to eliminate the feature.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(US_debts_may_be_fraudulent)
title: US debts may be "fraudulent"?
uri: US-debts-may-be-fraudulent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#24_February_2025_(US_debts_may_be_fraudulent)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> made a remark that hinted at an intention to declare
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/16/forget-trumps-tariffs-the-presidents-bond-market-threat-is-worse">some
of US debts "fraudulent"</a>.  This almost made it necessary for the
US to pay a higher interest rate when it borrows money.
<p>
His babbling is not very intelligent and it may mean nothing.  But
since he has contempt for rules, laws, and treaties, as well as
customary habits of dealing with others, no one can be sure of that.
<p>
Contractors have learned that
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#15_June_2016_(Trumps_unpaid_workers)">he
may refuse to pay them</a> for work done and they may have to sue to
get paid.
<p>
He has already broken many deals that the US had made, through
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#10_February_2025_(USAid_workings_saved_by_judge)">USAID</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#3_February_2025_(Wrecker's_sabotage_to_NOAA_email_system)">NOAA</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Wrecker_shutting_off_funding_from_NIH)">NIH</a>,
and other agencies.  So it is not surprising he does the same thing
with deals that the US has made.  Other countries will learn not to
make deals with the US, while a <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#magat">magat</a> is president.

<p>
 


title: Health from fossil-fuel rollbacks
uri: Health-from-fossil-fuel-rollbacks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#27_February_2025_(Health_from_fossil-fuel_rollbacks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#27_February_2025_(Health_from_fossil-fuel_rollbacks)

content:
 
<p>
The reductions in fossil fuel use proposed in the name of "net zero"
will not only slow <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, they will also reduce deaths by
reducing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/21/rolling-back-on-climate-actions-may-spell-rise-in-preventable-illness-study">toxic
pollution</a> from fossil fuels.
<p>
I criticize the term
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jul-oct.html#16_September_2020_(Undermining_own_emissions-cutting_targets)">"net
zero</a>" because it stands for
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#7_December_2024_(More_reasons_carbon_offsets_are_self-delusional_excuses)">overcounting
the reductions</a>, and therefore accepting less reduction in
greenhouse emissions than we really need.  If we reduce fossil fuel
use as much as needed to avoid disaster, it would save even more
lives.

<p>
 


title: Climate-chaos violence and disruption
uri: Climate-chaos-violence-and-disruption
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#27_February_2025_(Climate-chaos_violence_and_disruption)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#27_February_2025_(Climate-chaos_violence_and_disruption)

content:
 
<p>
US agencies are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/21/trump-scientific-research-climate">cutting
off funding for research</a> projects because they use the word
"climate".
<p>
Climate scientists, as we know, have a nearly total consensus that
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> has happened already occurred, and is continuing and
accelerating.  And that the results will be increasing disasters (that
have already begun).
<p>
They can form this conclusion because (1) they do measurements in many
ways, (2) they use large computers for climate models, (3) they can
reach conclusions freely, and (4) they can talk about those
conclusions.
<p>
This policy is meant to interfere with all of those crucial things.
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> seeks to hamper the research itself, hamper the modeling,
and above all hamper the formation of consensus from the conclusions.
This is intended to ensure that no one knows whether there is a
consensus of scientists about the coming global catastrophe.
<p>
At the same time, <!---->the wrecker and his billionaires are doing
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#5_November_2024_(donald_trump_climate_change)">everything</a>
to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#30_November_2024_(Climate_denial_theme)">increase</a>
the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#21_December_2024_(Fear_for_attacks_on_climate_research)">catastrophe</a>.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#27_February_2025_(Urgent:_DOGE_attacks_SS)
title: Urgent: DOGe attacks SS
uri: Urgent-DOGe-attacks-SS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#27_February_2025_(Urgent:_DOGE_attacks_SS)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.ourrevolution.com/sign/protect-social-security-Musk-ssa/?akid=7725.7207819.wrUm0b&rd=1&source=email-20250218&t=1016">call
on Congress</a> to protect Social Security from funding cuts and and
DOGE 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/2024-nov-feb.html#27_February_2025_(Resistance_to_the_Tr-ance)
title: Resistance to the Tr-ance
uri: Resistance-to-the-Tr-ance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#27_February_2025_(Resistance_to_the_Tr-ance)
content:
 
<p>
Resistance to the Tr-ance is manifesting
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-optimism">in
the US in many ways</a>.  Meanwhile, <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the muskrat</a> is subject to
increasing public condemnation.


<p>
 


title: Authoritarian state characteristics
uri: Authoritarian-state-characteristics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Authoritarian_state_characteristics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Authoritarian_state_characteristics)

content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot: *Here are three of the consistent features of
authoritarian states: the extreme persecution of dissent, the use of
para judicial measures to shut down opposition movements, and the
selective application of the law. All three are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2025/feb/22/keir-starmer-labour-illiberal-laws-hard-right-authoritarians">already
widely deployed in the UK</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Limiting free speech for human rights
uri: Limiting-free-speech-for-human-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Limiting_free_speech_for_human_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Limiting_free_speech_for_human_rights)

content:
 
<p>
Kenneth Roth:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/21/jd-vance-far-right-censorship-free-speech">*How
do we defend free speech</a> &mdash; without falling prey to
extremism?*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_Social_Security)
title: Urgent: Protect Social Security
uri: 2025-03-01-Urgent-Protect-Social-Security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_Social_Security)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.ourrevolution.com/sign/protect-social-security-Musk-ssa/">call on Congress</a>
to protect Social Security from funding
cuts and  and DOGE attacks.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Prevent funding Guantanamo Bay
uri: Urgent-Prevent-funding-Guantanamo-Bay
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Urgent:_Prevent_funding_Guantanamo_Bay)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Urgent:_Prevent_funding_Guantanamo_Bay)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/imm-detention-gitmo">call
on Congress</a> not to fund <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor's</a> Guantanamo Bay
deportation prison.  US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/trump-media-attacks-25/?t=1003">call
on Congress</a> to stop Trump's information takeover and attacks on
the press.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Urgent:_Medicare_and_Medicaid )
title: Urgent: Medicare and Medicaid
uri: Urgent-Medicare-and-Medicaid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Urgent:_Medicare_and_Medicaid )
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/No_DrOz/">call on the
Senate</a> to reject Dr Oz as head of Central Medicare & Medicaid
Services.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Urgent:_The_press_needs_Congress)
title: Urgent: The press needs Congress
uri: Urgent-The-press-needs-Congress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Urgent:_The_press_needs_Congress)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/trump-media-attacks-25/">Call
on Congress</a> to stop Trump's information takeover and attacks on
the press.

<p>
 


title: Google Maps blocking reviews about Gulf of Mexico
uri: Google-Maps-blocking-reviews-about-Gulf-of-Mexico
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Google_Maps_blocking_reviews_about_Gulf_of_Mexico)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Google_Maps_blocking_reviews_about_Gulf_of_Mexico)

content:
 
<p>
Google Maps is <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlky380wd7o">blocking users from posting reviews</a> about the Gulf of
Mexico, because many users had left negative reviews to rebuke the
bully's attempt to rename it,
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Washington_post_newspaper_ad)
title: Washington post newspaper ad
uri: Washington-post-newspaper-ad
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Washington_post_newspaper_ad)
content:
 
<p>

The Washington Post newspaper sold an ad saying "Fire Elon Musk",
then <a href="https://thehill.com/media/5148497-washington-post-backs-out-of-fire-elon-musk-ad-order/">canceled the sale</a> instead of running the ad.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Palestinian flags covered in art display
uri: Palestinian-flags-covered-in-art-display
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Palestinian_flags_covered_in_art_display)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Palestinian_flags_covered_in_art_display)

content:
 
<p>

  The National Gallery of Australia <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/20/palestinian-flags-covered-nga-gallery-exhibition-ntwnfb">covered up Palestinian flags</a> in
a piece of art on display as part of an exhibit, saying this was
for "security".
</p>
<p>
It did not try to explain why the goal of "security" justified, or
even suggested, such censorship.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Corrupter to punish EU for fines on Facebook
uri: Corrupter-to-punish-EU-for-fines-on-Facebook
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Corrupter_to_punish_EU_for_fines_on_Facebook)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Corrupter_to_punish_EU_for_fines_on_Facebook)

content:
 
<p>
Facebook told the EU that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> will <a href="https://gizmodo.com/meta-says-itll-tattle-to-trump-if-eu-keeps-being-mean-2000564638">punish the EU</a> if he
disapproves of how much it fines Facebook for violating EU laws.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Conquest of Australia by British colonists
uri: Conquest-of-Australia-by-British-colonists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Conquest_of_Australia_by_British_colonists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Conquest_of_Australia_by_British_colonists)

content:
 
<p>

An Australian commission has determined that the conquest of Australia
by British colonists involved <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/23/more-than-10000-first-nations-people-killed-in-australias-frontier-wars-final-massacre-map-shows-ntwnfb">violently killing around 10.000
    aboriginals</a>.
</p>
<p>
That massive violence was just a part of it.  I learned how this
operated from a book called <em>The Other Side of the Frontier</em>, by Henry
Reynolds.  Colonists moving into an area occupied the river valleys to
farm them.  The local indigenous people still held most of the land,
but they had lost most of the food resources.  They could not survive
that way.
</p>
<p>
I reject the term "first nations" because it is designed to impose an
attitude of reverence which no ethnic group is entitled to.  We can
criticize colonialism without ritual bowing to the people who were
colonized.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Ways UK could fund military buildup
uri: Ways-UK-could-fund-military-buildup
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Ways_UK_could_fund_military_buildup)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Ways_UK_could_fund_military_buildup)

content:
 
<p>

  An article <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/feb/23/how-uk-and-eu-could-find-more-money-for-defence-without-spooking-the-markets">considers various ways</a> the UK could fund the necessary
military buildup.  The most obvious method, which would also correct
the increasing concentration of wealth &mdash; to tax the rich more &mdash; 
   is mysteriously missing from the list.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Long-term_effects_of_Gaza_war)
title: Long-term effects of Gaza war
uri: Long-term-effects-of-Gaza-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Long-term_effects_of_Gaza_war)
content:
 
<p>

  *Long-term effects of Gaza war could <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/22/gaza-wars-aftereffects-palestinian-death-toll-warn-uk-doctors-disease-malnutrition-healthcare">quadruple Palestinian death toll</a>, warn UK
doctors.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Mass firings effects on federal land agencies
uri: Mass-firings-effects-on-federal-land-agencies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Mass_firings_effects_on_federal_land_agencies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Mass_firings_effects_on_federal_land_agencies)

content:
 
<p>

  *Mass firings <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/trump-federal-land-wildfire-response">hamstring federal land agencies and wildfire response</a>.*
</p>
<p>
The whole country will suffer from the Depredations of Government
Evisceration..
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Subservience-signaling)
title: Subservience-signaling
uri: Subservience-signaling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Subservience-signaling)
content:
 
<p>

US progressives have been criticized in recent years for
"virtue-signaling" terminology that they pressure everyone to adopt,
</p>
<p>
Now <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a> have formulated subservience-signaling terminology; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/21/trump-media-rename-gulf-of-mexico">"Gulf
    of America"</a> is one example.
Those who don't adopt this terminology are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#23_February_2025_(Urgent:_Schoolteachers_Gulf_of_Mexico)">threatened with discrimination</a>
by the government or by billionaires.
</p>
<p>
This term, though of little inherent importance, is the thin edge of
an axe blade that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> is swinging to cripple the free press.
</p>
</li>

 


title: What is happening in Los Angeles is our future
uri: What-is-happening-in-Los-Angeles-is-our-future
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(What_is_happening_in_Los_Angeles_is_our_future)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(What_is_happening_in_Los_Angeles_is_our_future)

content:
 
<p>

  *What is happening in Los Angeles <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/13/la-fires-future-climate-change">is our future</a>.*
</p>
<p>
The Tr-ance tells everyone to forget this; recognizing it insistently
is one way to resist, and struggle for the survival of civilization.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Federal judge ruled against wrecker
uri: Federal-judge-ruled-against-wrecker
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Federal_judge_ruled_against_wrecker)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Federal_judge_ruled_against_wrecker)

content:
 
<p>

  A federal judge ruled that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/trump-refugee-resettlement-program">exceeded valid presidential authority</a>
when he ordered refugee resettlement suspended.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Starmer_against_taxing_the_rich)
title: Starmer against taxing the rich
uri: Starmer-against-taxing-the-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Starmer_against_taxing_the_rich)
content:
 
<p>

Britain could have guns and donate butters, but Starmer is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/25/the-guardian-view-on-starmers-aid-cuts-they-wont-buy-security-but-they-will-undermine-it">adamantly against taxing the rich</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Pitting immigrants against other working people
uri: Pitting-immigrants-against-other-working-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Pitting_immigrants_against_other_working_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Pitting_immigrants_against_other_working_people)

content:
 
<p>

*Trump pits immigrants against other working people. But <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/25/trump-pits-immigrants-against-other-working-people-but-we-have-a-common-enemy">we have a common enemy</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Staff_of_US_Digital_Service)
title: Staff of US Digital Service
uri: Staff-of-US-Digital-Service
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Staff_of_US_Digital_Service)
content:
 
<p>

Many staff of the US Digital Service, which was taken over by the
muskrat who uses it as a wrecking ball for attacking other agencies,
have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/musk-doge-employees-resign">resigned to refuse to help with those attacks</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Bolivians_battle_food_shortages)
title: Bolivians battle food shortages
uri: Bolivians-battle-food-shortages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#28_February_2025_(Bolivians_battle_food_shortages)
content:
 
<p>

  *[Bolivians] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/20/bolivia-chiquitania-wildfires-climate-crisis-drought-food-shortages-health-disease-women-sexual-violence">battle food shortages and health issues</a> after [40,000
square miles] of forest and farmland burned last year.*
</p>
<p>
By comparison, the notorious and destructive "camp" fire in northern
California burned 240 square miles, and the Eaton fire in Altadena
burned around 22 square miles.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Chief_of_decision_control)
title: Chief of decision control
uri: Chief-of-decision-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Chief_of_decision_control)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich asserts that the <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> is aiming to
establish personal control over all parts of the US government that
can employ force.  He is doing this by
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-tyranny">*putting
into power people who are more loyal</a> to him than they are to the
United States.*
<p>
Once this has gone far enough, he will be able to threaten all
opposition leaders with imprisonment or death -- by asking
those bent officials to bend the law for his sake.

<p>
 


title: Undersea cable damage suspect, Taiwan
uri: Undersea-cable-damage-suspect-Taiwan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Undersea_cable_damage_suspect,_Taiwan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Undersea_cable_damage_suspect,_Taiwan)

content:
 
<p>
*Taiwan detains
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/25/taiwan-detains-chinese-crewed-cargo-ship-after-undersea-cable-damaged">Chinese-crewed
cargo ship</a> after undersea cable damaged.*
<p>
Since the polite words of states attacked this way were treated as a
sign of weakness, it's necessary that they show their strength.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Neo-Nazi_party_deception,_DEU)
title: Neo-Nazi party deception, DEU
uri: Neo-Nazi-party-deception-DEU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Neo-Nazi_party_deception,_DEU)
content:
 
<p>
Germany's neo-Nazi party temporarily tried to give the impression, for
the election, that it was a little less Nazi.  Turns out
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/25/afd-readmits-two-politicians-excluded-over-na`zi-related-remarks">that
was just a sham</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Hold-time_algorithm)
title: On-hold-time algorithm
uri: On-hold-time-algorithm
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Hold-time_algorithm)
content:
 
<p>
HP came up with a clever way to boost use of bullshit generators:
when customers called the phone line for customer disservice, HP would
<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/22/ink-spattered-pitchforks/#racehorse-semen">make
each one wait 15 minutes</a> listening to would-be brainwashing to use
the chatbot instead, before allowing the connection.
<p>
The rage of customers must have been powerful, because HP soon
retreated from this nastiness.
<p>
But it still carries out many forms of nastiness.
<p>
I have often had to wait over an hour for a business to respond.  So I
have learned how to handle my email while hearing these "use our
convenient but unjust web site" torture session.  Having email to
distract me from the torture so it doesn't hurt.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(US-RUS_at_UN,_G7,_NATO)
title: US-RUS at UN, G7, NATO
uri: US-RUS-at-UN-G7-NATO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(US-RUS_at_UN,_G7,_NATO)
content:
 
<p>
The tyrant-lover has enrolled the US in the hall of shame for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/un-general-assembly-russia-ukraine-war">countries
that refuse to condemn</a> Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Judge_blocks_Musk_agency)
title: Judge blocks Musk agency
uri: Judge-blocks-Musk-agency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Judge_blocks_Musk_agency)
content:
 
<p>
*Judge blocks Musk agency access to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/elon-musk-doge-personal-information">millions
of Americans' personal data</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(West_Bank_militarization)
title: West Bank militarization
uri: West-Bank-militarization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(West_Bank_militarization)
content:
 
<p>
*Major military operation causes
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/26/family-mourns-grandfathers-death-as-israel-brings-gaza-tactics-to-west-bank">largest displacement of Palestinians</a>
in West Bank since Israel seized it in 1967.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Gaza_doctors_prison_ordeal)
title: ISR prison ordeals, Gaza doctorsZ
uri: ISR-prison-ordeals-Gaza-doctorsZ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(Gaza_doctors_prison_ordeal)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/26/testimony-of-gaza-doctors-israel-prison">Eight
Gaza doctors</a> on their Israeli prison ordeal.*
<p>
It is a war crime to torture prisoners like that.
It is also a war crime to attack hospitals.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(RSF:_War_journalist_repression,_RUS)
title: RSF: War journalist repression, RUS
uri: RSF-War-journalist-repression-RUS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#1_March_2025_(RSF:_War_journalist_repression,_RUS)
content:
 
<p>
A summary of
<a href="https://rsf.org/en?mc_cid=f44304649f&mc_eid=UNIQID">attacks</a>
against non-allied media by <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> and his henchmen.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Deporting_Uyghurs,_THA)
title: Deporting Uyghurs, THA
uri: Deporting-Uyghurs-THA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Deporting_Uyghurs,_THA)
content:
 
<p>
*Thailand deports dozens of Uyghurs to China
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/27/thailand-deports-dozens-of-uyghurs-to-china-despite-torture-fears">despite
torture fears</a>.
&nbsp; &nbsp;
Rights experts say group who have been detained for more than 10 years
face high risk of torture and imprisonment.*
<p>
Not deporting people to countries likely to persecute them is a basic principle
of the international system of asylum, but many countries are visibly
treating that system with contempt, including
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-sep-dec.html#30%20September%202010%20(Better%20off%20dead)">Australia</a>,
the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#23_February_2025_(US-Panama_relations)">US</a>,
the
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100818203642/http://www.independent.co.uk:80/news/uk/politics/police-to-get--powers-to-hold-terror-suspects-indefinitely-629866.html">UK</a>
and various
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-may-aug.html#20%20June%202008%20(Europe%20and%20the%20EU)">EU</a>
countries.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(US_power_in_EU)
title: US power in EU
uri: US-power-in-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(US_power_in_EU)
content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot: *So much of [UK]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/27/britain-defend-itself-us-military">intelligence
and military systems are shared</a> [with] or reliant on the US
&mdash; if it becomes the enemy, it is already inside the gates.*
<p>
The idea of NATO, like that of "five-eyes" intelligence sharing, was
predicated on the idea of an alliance that would never end, as well as
on the idea of shared principles of democracy and human rights that
would certainly continue (albeit occasionally deniably betrayed by the
various governments).
<p>
Nowadays, for the US in a Tr-ance, "cooperation with" other countries
is a euphemism for making them submit and obey, or recruiting them
into the gang.  It is trying to recruit Putin, Europe's main existing
enemy.
<p>
Will <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>
share the UK's intelligence with Putin?  I don't think any principles
or loyalties would hold him back.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(When_Clinton_cut_gov't_jobs)
title: When Clinton cut gov't jobs
uri: When-Clinton-cut-gov-t-jobs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(When_Clinton_cut_gov't_jobs)
content:
 
<p>
Musk claimed that his abrupt firing of thousands of federal workers is
just like Clinton's job cuts in the 1990s.  Robert Reich, who carried
out part of those cuts, lays out
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/musks-rubbish">the fundamental differences</a>.
<p>
*When you hear Musk say his effort is similar to what I and others did
in the 1990s, know he’s lying. When you see him call people who
benefit from public programs "parasites," know he’s a hypocrite.*
<p>
To avoid painting an exaggeratedly favorable picture of Bill Clinton
as a champion of the people, let it be known also that he did many
things that transferred wealth from the poor to the rich.  This
included his "welfare reform" that reduced government aid to the poor.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Gender_as_contamination,_US_military)
title: US military gender ideation
uri: US-military-gender-ideation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Gender_as_contamination,_US_military)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
ordered the US military to find and discharge all
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/transgender-us-military-personnel-pentagon-memo-stood-down-trump-administration">transgender servicemembers</a>.
<p>
The supposed justification for this is a bald assertion that being
trans is incompatible with military service.  Saying so does not
make it true.


<p>
 


title: State pensions in cryptocurrency
uri: State-pensions-in-cryptocurrency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Corrupt_state_pensions_in_cryptocurrency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Corrupt_state_pensions_in_cryptocurrency)

content:
 
<p>
Some Democrats running for state governor receive
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/27/crypto-elections-campaign-governor-nj-ny/">campaign
support from cryptocurrency</a> schemes.  They earn that money by
saying they will put pension fund money into those schemes.
<p>
Pension funds should choose investments that are pretty low in risk.
The only way "investment" in cryptocurrency can have low enough risk
not to be considered speculation is if corruption ensures its value
can't decrease much.
<p>
It follows that any candidate who suggests putting some state pension
funds into a cryptocurrency is either incompetent or bent.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Judge_blocks_mass_firings,_US_govt)
title: Judge blocks mass gov't-firings
uri: Judge-blocks-mass-gov-t-firings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Judge_blocks_mass_firings,_US_govt)
content:
 
<p>
*Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s mass firings at federal agencies.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/judge-temporarily-blocks-trump-firings">US
Office of Personnel Management lacks power</a> to order firings,
including those of probationary employees.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Urgent:_Sustaine_Medicaid)
title: Urgent: Sustain Medicaid
uri: Urgent-Sustain-Medicaid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Urgent:_Sustaine_Medicaid)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/gop-medicaid-cuts-resolution/?t=1004&akid=33188%2E96703%2ETrAmv-">call
on Congress</a> not to cut Medicaid.  The proposed cuts would bring
about the death of non-rich Americans that get sick.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Zelenskyy_ambushed_by_Tr-ance_on_TV)
title: Zelenskyy ambushed by Tr-ance on TV
uri: Zelenskyy-ambushed-by-Tr-ance-on-TV
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(Zelenskyy_ambushed_by_Tr-ance_on_TV)
content:
 
<p>
*Ukraine "gambling with world war three", Trump tells Zelenskyy in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-meeting-ukraine-aid-war">fiery
meeting</a>.*
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> is echoing Putin's repeated propaganda line: "Give in to
my demands or I might use nuclear weapons."  I have called this his
"I'm a madman with a nuke" routine.
<p>
This is more reason to think that <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> is in cahoots with Putin
or else under Putin's control.
<p>
When <!---->the bully insists that what he wants peace (at any price), I
think of a line from an old Reggae song: "I don't want peace, I want
equal rights."  It is easy for a bully with an army to shake victims
down by starting a war and offering to end it in exchange for some
valuable prize.  But if you give in, you lose.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(3M_chemicals_disinformation_early_on)
title: 3M chemicals disinformation early on
uri: 3M-chemicals-disinformation-early-on
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(3M_chemicals_disinformation_early_on)
content:
 
<p>
*3M told customers its
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/15/3m-firefighting-foams-pfas-forever-chemicals-documents">firefighting foams were harmless</a>
and biodegradable, when it knew they
contained toxic substances so persistent they are now known as
"forever chemicals" and banned in many countries.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_((Satire)_jeff_bezos_whole_foods)
title: (Satire) Criticism Of Grapes
uri: (Satire)-Criticism-Of-Grapes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_((Satire)_jeff_bezos_whole_foods)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Jeff Bezos Sends Note To Whole Foods Staff Forbidding 
<a href="https://theonion.com/jeff-bezos-sends-note-to-whole-foods-staff-forbidding-criticism-of-grapes/">Criticism Of Grapes.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(door_dash_tips_delivery_workers)
title: DoorDash tips
uri: DoorDash-tips
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(door_dash_tips_delivery_workers)
content:
 
<p>
*[DoorDash] claimed that 100% of tips went to [the delivery people] but instead
used them to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/doordash-new-york-tips-delivery-workers">subsidize workers' base salary.*</a>
<p>
As far as I know, only that one food delivery company has cheated in that
particular way.  But others <a href="https://www.stallman.org/food-delivery.html">cheat various parties</a>
<p>
in various ways.  We should not trust or reward any of them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(colorado_tesla_dealership_vandalism)
title: Dealership vandalism
uri: Dealership-vandalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#2_March_2025_(colorado_tesla_dealership_vandalism)
content:
 
<p>
*Colorado woman charged with vandalizing 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/colorado-tesla-dealership-vandalism-charge">Tesla dealership.*</a>
<p>
If cars are made by a Nazi sympathizer, does that justify calling the
cars "Nazi cars"?  We don't know that the cars share the views of the
owner of the company.  Perhaps the cars were traumatized by the
attitude inside the factory to the point that they are ready to blow
the whistle on the owner's right-wing subversion.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Zelenskyy_acrimony,_ambush,_US%2FUKR)
title: Zelenskyy acrimony, ambush, US/UKR
uri: Zelenskyy-acrimony-ambush-US-UKR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Zelenskyy_acrimony,_ambush,_US%2FUKR)
content:
 
<p>
A meeting between Zelenskyy and Tr-ance in the White House
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-meeting-transcript">broke
up in acrimony</a>.
<p>
They tried to bully him into selling Ukraine's mineral resources
without getting military support in return, by attacking him and
Ukraine.  He responded civilly to the points they made, while sticking
to his negotiating position.  They searched for and found ways to
interpret his words as attacks so they could counterattack to bully
more.
<p>
A journalist called this an "ambush", and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-shouting-match-oval-office">maybe it was</a>.
<p>
I think that they set up the meeting so they could bully him very
harshly, and even planned ending the meeting with insults if he did
not give them what they wanted.
<p>
Including Vance in the meeting looks to me like a tactic to make the
argument two-against-one and thus be nastier.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Prevent US plans for war, MEX
uri: Urgent-Prevent-US-plans-for-war-MEX
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Urgent:_Prevent_US_plans_to_bomb_Mexico)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Urgent:_Prevent_US_plans_to_bomb_Mexico)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/fto-designation">call on
Congress</a> not to support <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> idea for a war with
Mexico.  The "war on drugs" is stupid as a metaphor, and even stupider
as a shooting war.
<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_March_2025_(First_official_language,_US)
title: First official language, US
uri: First-official-language-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(First_official_language,_US)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
plans to screw everyone in the US who does not speak English well
enough to deal with government bureaucracy, by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-executive-order-english-official-language">eliminating
support for interpreters</a> to help.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Gazan_medics'_prison_torture)
title: Gazan medics' prison torture
uri: Gazan-medics-prison-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Gazan_medics'_prison_torture)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/25/more-than-160-gazan-medics-held-in-israeli-prisons-amid-reports-of-torture">More
than 160 Gazan medics</a> held in Israeli prisons amid reports of
torture.*
<p>
*Gaza's doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in
Israeli [prison].*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Continue_world_aid,_AND_rearm,_UK)
title: Continue world aid, AND rearm, UK
uri: Continue-world-aid-AND-rearm-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Continue_world_aid,_AND_rearm,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/02/international-aid-is-as-vital-as-defence-spending-cutting-either-undermines-british-security">Britain
must</a> continue foreign aid as well as rearm.  It must also raise
the standard of living of Britons, which has fallen since Thatcher
redirected Britain's wealth to the rich.
<p>
Britain can do all of these things if it starts taxing the rich as they
deserve.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Pro-Ukranian_protestor_backlash_)
title: Pro-Ukranian backlash, protests
uri: Pro-Ukranian-backlash-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Pro-Ukranian_protestor_backlash_)
content:
 
<p>
Americans rallied to support Ukraine
(<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/ukraine-protests-zelenskyy-trump">and condemn</a>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>).
<p>
Europeans in various counties also rallied to support Ukraine.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(ACLU_stands_up_for_immigrants)
title: ACLU stands up for deportees
uri: ACLU-stands-up-for-deportees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(ACLU_stands_up_for_immigrants)
content:
 
<p>
*ACLU sues to block White House from sending [certain] immigrants
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/aclu-immigration-trump-guantanamo">to
 Guantánamo</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Ruling_against_the_executive_rulers)
title: Ruling against the executive rulers
uri: Ruling-against-the-executive-rulers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Ruling_against_the_executive_rulers)
content:
 
<p>
*A US judge on Saturday declared president Donald Trump’s firing of the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/02/trumps-firing-of-watchdog-agency-chief-and-would-give-license-to-bully-officials-judge-rules">head
of [the Office of Special Counsel]</a> illegal.*
<p>
Enough decisions like this might lead to restoring rule of law.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Urgent:_Investigate_Musk)
title: Urgent: Investigate Musk
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Musk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#3_March_2025_(Urgent:_Investigate_Musk)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/investigate-elon-musk/">call on Congress</a>
to investigate Musk and his depredations.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>


<p>
 


title: Tesla, SpaceX vulnerable to Democrats
uri: Tesla-SpaceX-vulnerable-to-Democrats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Tesla,_SpaceX_vulnerable_to_Democrats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Tesla,_SpaceX_vulnerable_to_Democrats)

content:
 
<p>
*Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/17/elon-musk-trump-government-tesla-spacex/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter">pushing
Musk out of politics</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(CO2_pipeline_safety_regulations)
title: CO2 pipeline safety regulations
uri: CO2-pipeline-safety-regulations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(CO2_pipeline_safety_regulations)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a>
latest gift to the fossil fuel companies is to
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/trump-removes-zombie-pipeline-safety-rules/">cancel
the proposed safety regulations</a> on pipelines that transport CO2
under high pressure.  A little CO2 in the air is normal and not
medically harmful, but high-pressure leaks have put people nearby in
the hospital.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(City_LNG_restrictions_sabotaged)
title: City LNG restrictions sabotaged
uri: City-LNG-restrictions-sabotaged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(City_LNG_restrictions_sabotaged)
content:
 
<p>
How the fossil gas industry uses
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/gas-new-homes-construction">lobbying
and lawsuits to quash city laws</a> that stop new buildings from being
hooked up to gas pipelines.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Depending_on_US_LNG_as_risky)
title: Depending on US LNG as risky
uri: Depending-on-US-LNG-as-risky
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Depending_on_US_LNG_as_risky)
content:
 
<p>
*Planned EU investments in LNG risk increased dependency on US at
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/planned-eu-investments-in-lng-risk-increased-dependency-on-us-at-worst-possible-time">worst
possible time</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Plant_CO2_absorption_slowing)
title: Plant CO2 absorption slowing
uri: Plant-CO2-absorption-slowing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Plant_CO2_absorption_slowing)
content:
 
<p>
Earth's plants and soil have been decreasing their absorption of CO2
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/26/plants-losing-appetite-for-carbon-dioxide-amid-effects-of-warming-climate">ever
since 2008</a>.


<p>
 


title: No US Net-Zero Banking Alliance, COP26
uri: No-US-Net-Zero-Banking-Alliance-COP26
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(No_US_Net-Zero_Banking_Alliance,_COP26)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(No_US_Net-Zero_Banking_Alliance,_COP26)

content:
 
<p>
From mid-January: *Major banks are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/15/woke-capital-net-zero-banking-alliance">abandoning
their climate alliance</a> en masse. So much for "woke capital".*
<p>
Many is clear that the companies that halfheartedly agreed to help reduce
CO2 emissions had no real appreciation of the danger they were agreeing
to help prevent.  Now that the US has fallen into a Tr-ance, and his pushing
those companies to help wreck the world, they do not resist.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Texas_measles_outbreak)
title: Texas measles outbreak
uri: Texas-measles-outbreak
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Texas_measles_outbreak)
content:
 
<p>

Some of the people living near the Texas measles outbreak are
recognizing that it was
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-grows-parents-vaccinate-rcna193637">foolish
not to vaccinate their children</a>.
</p>
<p>
The people now in the hospital with measles show that we should not
have left an opening for antivax disinformation to spread.
Its spread paves the way for the spread of measles itself.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Reducing countering of Putin's cracking army
uri: Reducing-countering-of-Putin-s-cracking-army
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Reducing_countering_of_Putin's_cracking_army)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Reducing_countering_of_Putin's_cracking_army)

content:
 
<p>

The Putin-loving president has ordered US intelligence agencies to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-russia-hacking-cyber-security">reduce
the priority of countering</a> Putin's cracking and disinformation
army.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Scapegoating_and_persecuting_workers)
title: Scapegoating and persecuting workers
uri: Scapegoating-and-persecuting-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(Scapegoating_and_persecuting_workers)
content:
 
<p>

*Trump can’t fulfill his promise [to working-class Americans] to [end
inflation], so he's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/28/trump-economy-broken-promises">[scapegoating
and persecuting] workers instead</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: (satire) Zoo hiding animals ahead of Landlord visit
uri: (satire)-Zoo-hiding-animals-ahead-of-Landlord-visit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_((satire)_Zoo_hiding_animals_ahead_of_Landlord_visit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_((satire)_Zoo_hiding_animals_ahead_of_Landlord_visit)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *City Zoo
<a href="https://theonion.com/city-zoo-scrambles-to-hide-animals-ahead-of-landlord-visit/">Scrambles
To Hide Animals Ahead Of Landlord Visit</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: China can capitalise on damage caused by Trump
uri: China-can-capitalise-on-damage-caused-by-Trump
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(China_can_capitalise_on_damage_caused_by_Trump)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#4_March_2025_(China_can_capitalise_on_damage_caused_by_Trump)

content:
 
<p>

*"America is going down": China can
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/02/america-is-going-down-china-can-capitalise-on-damage-caused-by-trump-former-pla-colonel-says">capitalise
on damage caused by Trump</a>, former PLA colonel says.*
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(Urgent:_Preserve_Medicaid_payments)
title: Urgent: Preserve Medicaid payments
uri: Urgent-Preserve-Medicaid-payments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(Urgent:_Preserve_Medicaid_payments)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/gop-medicaid-cuts-resolution/">call
on Congress</a> not to cut Medicaid.  The proposed cuts would bring
about the death of non-rich Americans that get sick.
<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_March_2025_(Gaza_aid_cut,_ISR)
title: Gaza aid cut, ISR
uri: Gaza-aid-cut-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(Gaza_aid_cut,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
*Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza as it seeks to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/02/israel-cuts-off-humanitarian-supplies-to-gaza-as-it-seeks-to-change-ceasefire-deal">change
ceasefire deal</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(No_civil_rights_for_trans_peope,_IA)
title: No civil rights for trans people, IA
uri: No-civil-rights-for-trans-people-IA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(No_civil_rights_for_trans_peope,_IA)
content:
 
<p>
*Iowa Becomes the
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/01/iowa-trans-civil-rights/">First
State to Repeal Civil Rights Protections</a> for Trans People.*
<p>
Persecution of people for adopting a different lifestyle is a
traditional part of the religion that most supporters of <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>
believe in, and imposing their religion's rules on everyone is part of
what they stand for.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(RFK_orders_vaccines)
title: RFK orders vaccines
uri: RFK-orders-vaccines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(RFK_orders_vaccines)
content:
 
<p>
RFK jr. went against his anti-vax ideology and ordered US agencies
to provide measles vaccines
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-health-department">to
limit the measles outbreak</a>.
<p>
That's a good outcome for this specific problem but we can't count on him to
have become sane overall.
<p>
The HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/hhs-resignation-rfk-jr-measles">resigned
on Friday</a>.  He did not say why, but apparently it was in
condemnation of the anti-vax policy which RFK jr has subsequently
altered.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(Zelenskyy's_dealings_with_US)
title: Zelenskyy's dealings with US
uri: Zelenskyy-s-dealings-with-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(Zelenskyy's_dealings_with_US)
content:
 
<p>
<p>
<!---->The bully's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/trump-officials-zelenskyy">White
House officials criticized Zelenskyy</a> for insisting on agreeing to
both sides of the deal together.  They say he should have taken for
granted that, once <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> had received the part that he wanted, he
would have given Ukraine something in return.  They have faith in the
bully, and they think everyone else should too.
<p>
However, Zelenskyy is too wise to have much faith in a bombastic and
volatile habitual liar.
<p>
Since then, <!---->the bully
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/04/us-military-aid-ukraine-pause-trump-zelenskyy-updates">froze
the shipping of arms and supplies</a> to Ukraine, including those that
were already in transit.


<p>
 


title: When Zelenskyy went to the Whitehouse
uri: When-Zelenskyy-went-to-the-Whitehouse
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(When_Zelenskyy_went_to_the_Whitehouse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#5_March_2025_(When_Zelenskyy_went_to_the_Whitehouse)

content:
 
<p>
*Trump and Vance, I think, never really intended to have a conversation
with Zelenskyy. Instead, they wanted to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/01/trumps-style-of-petty-domination-was-in-full-display-with-zelenskyy">look tough on TV</a>.*
<p>
That agrees with the conclusion I reached &mdash; that they planned to gang
up on Zelenskyy two-on-one for a quarrel that Zelenskyy would
inevitably "lose".
<p>
Those who wonder whether Zelenskyy used the best possible approach to
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> are
misunderstanding the situation.  When confronting arrogant bullies
whose plan is to attack you, if you have responsibilities to people
beyond yourself, no possible approach can reach a good outcome for
them.  Your choices are the bad outcome of an overt confrontation with
the bullies, or the worse outcome of licking their boots.  You must
avoid the latter!
<p>
I wish I could think that the worst possible outcome was that the US
would have no allies, but a worse one occurs to me: that Putin and Xi
will be the allies of America in its Tr-ance, forming the
Beijing-Moscow-Washington axis.
<p>
Robert Reich wrote, in an email for which I have no URL: "[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>]
isn't just trying to dismantle American democracy.  He's gunning to
destroy democracy worldwide."


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#6_March_2025_(Energy-systems_extract_and_burn)
title: Energy-systems extract and burn
uri: Energy-systems-extract-and-burn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#6_March_2025_(Energy-systems_extract_and_burn)
content:
 
<p>
*BP dropping its green ambitions is a travesty.* (And shows that its
publicity for those supposed commitments was mere manipulation.)  *But
that's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/03/bp-green-ambitions-climate-emergency-capitalism">exactly
how capitalism works</a>.
<p>
Companies will never solve the climate emergency alone. The impetus
for change [I'd say, the requirement for companies to change] needs to
come from government.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Stop_wrecker's_information_takeover)
title: Stop wrecker's information takeover
uri: Stop-wrecker-s-information-takeover
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Stop_wrecker's_information_takeover)
content:
 
<p>

  *Urge Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/trump-media-attacks-25/">stop the wrecker's information takeover</a> and attacks on the press!.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Provinces in Canada cease sale of alcohol from US
uri: Provinces-in-Canada-cease-sale-of-alcohol-from-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Provinces_in_Canada_cease_sale_of_alcohol_from_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Provinces_in_Canada_cease_sale_of_alcohol_from_US)

content:
 
<p>

  Several provinces in Canada have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/jack-daniels-canada-trump-tariffs">ceased sale of alcohol from the US</a>,
as retaliation for <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> tariffs.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(JP_Morgan's_sustainable_funds)
title: JP Morgan's "sustainable" funds
uri: JP-Morgan-s-sustainable-funds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(JP_Morgan's_sustainable_funds)
content:
 
<p>

  *JP Morgan's "sustainable" funds <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/01/jp-morgan-sustainable-funds-mining-giant-glencore">invested £200m in mining giant Glencore</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Steps_to_make_Europe_more_secure)
title: Steps to make Europe more secure
uri: Steps-to-make-Europe-more-secure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Steps_to_make_Europe_more_secure)
content:
 
<p>

  *How do we make Europe more secure? Here are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/01/how-do-we-make-europe-more-secure-here-are-five-steps-we-need-to-take-now">five steps we need to take now</a>.*
</p>
<p>
*   Some might agonize about whether Zelenskyy could have played things
   differently. It's the wrong question. The point is that we can't carry
   on being so dependent on every meeting at the White House.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Investigation into Britain's spy cops
uri: Investigation-into-Britain-s-spy-cops
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Investigation_into_Britain's_spy_cops)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Investigation_into_Britain's_spy_cops)

content:
 
<p>

  Reporting on a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/02/revealed-at-least-25-uk-spy-cops-sexual-relations-deceived-women">years-long investigation</a> into Britain's spy cops,
who pretended to be progressive activists so as to couple with
activist women and report on their activities.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(The_US_we_thought_we_knew_is_gone)
title: The US we thought we knew is gone
uri: The-US-we-thought-we-knew-is-gone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(The_US_we_thought_we_knew_is_gone)
content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/04/australia-us-relationship-trump-albanese-zelenskyy">The US we thought we knew is gone</a> – and Australians know it.*
</p>
<p>
Australia should consider whether it can rely on US-made weapons
systems to function as expected.  Will there be a surprise demand for an
expensive subscription &mdash; perhaps to sell half of Australia's mining output
to the US at a discounted price?
</p>
<p>
Did those weapon systems come with complete source code?
Or will software maintenance depend on an entity under US control?
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(US_put_German_tourist_in_prison)
title: US put German tourist in prison
uri: US-put-German-tourist-in-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(US_put_German_tourist_in_prison)
content:
 
<p>

  The deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/ice-german-tourist-detained-immigration">put a German tourist in deportation prison</a> 
because she was carrying tattoo needles.  They suspected her of
planning to do work (making tattoos) instead of being a tourist.
</p>
<p>
The basic point may be valid &mdash; I don't know.  However, if they intend
to send her to Germany, why keep her in deportation prison so long?
The could have sent her weeks before.
</p>
<p>
I can't assert that this harshness is the fault of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the persecutor</a>.  It
might be so, but the deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> have been cruel for years.
Maybe this is not new.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Wrecker preparing to lift sanctions on Russia
uri: Wrecker-preparing-to-lift-sanctions-on-Russia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Wrecker_preparing_to_lift_sanctions_on_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Wrecker_preparing_to_lift_sanctions_on_Russia)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-sanctions-russia">preparing to lift sanctions on Russia</a>.
  That would make sense as preparation for a Moscow-Washington axis.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Russia-linked_Telegram_channels)
title: Russia-linked Telegram channels
uri: Russia-linked-Telegram-channels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Russia-linked_Telegram_channels)
content:
 
<p>

*Russia-linked Telegram channels "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/28/russia-linked-telegram-channels-offering-to-pay-for-attacks-on-mosques">offering to pay for attacks on
    [British] mosques</a>."
</p>
<p>
Campaigners say cryptocurrency payments were offered to UK
residents if they daubed anti-Muslim graffiti.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(US_natalist_conference)
title: US natalist conference
uri: US-natalist-conference
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(US_natalist_conference)
content:
 
<p>

  *US natalist conference to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/natal-conference-austin-texas-eugenics">host race-science promoters and eugenicists</a>.*
</p>
<p>
  It's harmful to urge people to <a href="/articles/children.html">"have more babies,"</a>
but they are making it nasty as well: "have more white babies."
</p>
</li>

 


title: Expense vs rational climate adaptation
uri: Expense-vs-rational-climate-adaptation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(expence_vs_rational_climate_adaptation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(expence_vs_rational_climate_adaptation)

content:
 
<p>
The extent of commitment given by governments that ought to know
better to far-fetched energy schemes &mdash;
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/05/carbon-can-be-captured-but-it-isnt-worth-the-cost">carbon
capture and storage, and new kinds of nuclear fission</a> &mdash;
suggests to me that governments' reason for supporting them is
influence by the businesses that stand to profit from them.  I can't
see any other reason there could be.

<p>
 


title: Union of Concerned Scientists vs firings
uri: Union-of-Concerned-Scientists-vs-firings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Union_of_Concerned_Scientists_vs_firings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Union_of_Concerned_Scientists_vs_firings)

content:
 
<p>
*[<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a>]
purge raises
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/endangered-species-trump-federal-worker-firings">extinction
threat for endangered species</a>, fired workers warn.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Glysophate_labeling_regulations_cut)
title: Glyphosate labeling regulations cut
uri: Glyphosate-labeling-regulations-cut
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Glysophate_labeling_regulations_cut)
content:
 
<p>
Danger: food grown in America could hazardous due
to <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#magat">magats</a>
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/the-plan-to-make-america-hazardous-again/">and
their chemicals</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Wiping_out_wild_side)
title: Wiping out wild side
uri: Wiping-out-wild-side
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Wiping_out_wild_side)
content:
 
<p>
Right-wing politicians in Spain push to wipe out the rewilded lynx,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/03/spain-iberian-lynx-rewilding-lobbying-hunters-farmers">just as</a>
right-wing politicians in the US push to wipe out wolves.
<p>
Both of them spread an exaggerated fear of danger from the animals they
want to kill, while ignoring the ways those animals, in limited numbers,
are beneficial for human activities.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Forest_logging_increase)
title: Forest logging increase
uri: Forest-logging-increase
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Forest_logging_increase)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
ordered logging in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order">half
a million square miles</a> of US forests.
<p>
This doesn't mean those forests will be razed, but does mean more
logging, and in some places increased fire danger.
<p>
The worst part is that he wants to disregard protection of endangered
species.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Land_use_study,_UK_grasslands)
title: Land use study, UK grasslands
uri: Land-use-study-UK-grasslands
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Land_use_study,_UK_grasslands)
content:
 
<p>
*High fertilizer use halves
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/20/uk-agriculture-farming-fertilisers-yields-biodiversity-study-park-grass-pollinators-bees-wildflowers-aoe">numbers
of pollinators</a>, world’s longest study finds.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_the_EPA_coup)
title: Urgent: Stop the EPA coup
uri: Urgent-Stop-the-EPA-coup
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#7_March_2025_(Urgent:_Stop_the_EPA_coup)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-stand-up-to-the-coup-at-the-environmental-protection-agency-fire-elon-musk-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-hd&source=group-hd">call
on Congress</a> to stand up to the coup at the Environmental
Protection Agency, and to 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>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(Mining_Greenland)
title: Mining Greenland
uri: Mining-Greenland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(Mining_Greenland)
content:
 
<p>
A
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/glossary.html#business-supremacy">trade
treaty</a> with an <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#isds">ISDS</a> clause
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/05/greenland-mining-energy-transition-minerals-environmental-laws-uranium-rare-earth-toxic-waste-investor-state-dispute-settlement-isds-aoe">may
compel Greenland to permit</a> uranium mining,
even though it can poison the land near the mine.

<p>
 


title: State of Union address to Congress
uri: State-of-Union-address-to-Congress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(State_of_Congress_and_the_Union_address)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(State_of_Congress_and_the_Union_address)

content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> gave a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/trump-turns-congress-speech-into-a-sordid-campaign-rally-igniting-a-democrat-fightback">speech
in Congress</a>, showing that Republicans revel in being the crazed
mob following a bully.  Democrats' response was sometimes visible but
his mob disregarded even his visible falsehoods.  (The speech was full
of those.)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/trump-congress-address-fact-check

I think that
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-may-aug.html#19_July_2024_(Cloaking_authoritarian_plans)">authoritarian followers</a>
<!--[not found: pol note where I explained that right-wing mob
members are authoritarian followers.  Search for "authoritarian
followers" to find them.]--> will find displays in which their leader
successfully bullies his enemies as gratifying and reinforcing to
their obedience.

<p>
 


title: Viciously applying vengeful nihilism, US
uri: Viciously-applying-vengeful-nihilism-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(Visciously_apply_vengeful_nihilism,_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(Visciously_apply_vengeful_nihilism,_US)

content:
 
<p>
Conjecture: <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">The
muskrat's</a> fantasy is to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/05/humans-earth-donald-trump-nihilism-maga">wear
out the Earth</a> as a habitat for civilization, so as to create
cities on Mars which are his personal property.
<p>
Whether or not this results in sustainable Martian cities, it could
wipe out civilization on Earth, and wipe out freedom and democracy.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(Pesticide_mixing,_more_dangerous)
title: Pesticide-mixing even more dangerous
uri: Pesticide-mixing-even-more-dangerous
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(Pesticide_mixing,_more_dangerous)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/pesticides-childhood-cancer-study">Study
on cancer data</a> in US agricultural heartland finds children more at
risk [if exposed to a pair of pesticides] than if exposed to just one
[of those two].*
<p>
"Pesticide" here includes herbicides such as dicamba and glyphosate.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(Legal_abortion,_24_weeks,_AZ)
title: Legal abortion, 24 weeks, AZ
uri: Legal-abortion-24-weeks-AZ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(Legal_abortion,_24_weeks,_AZ)
content:
 
<p>
Arizona's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/05/arizona-court-ruling-15-week-abortion-ban">referendum
to abortion</a> has taken full effect.

<p>
 


title: Supreme Court ruling for USAID
uri: Supreme-Court-ruling-for-USAID
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(Supreme_Court_ruling_on_USAID_payments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(Supreme_Court_ruling_on_USAID_payments)

content:
 
<p>
The Supreme Court ordered <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/trump-supreme-court-foreign-aid">resume
payment of foreign aid</a> by the USAid agency.
<p>
I am not sure whether this applies to all the aid that Congress had
approved, or only paid-for work already done.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(US_intelligence_on_Russia)
title: US intelligence on Russia
uri: US-intelligence-on-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#8_March_2025_(US_intelligence_on_Russia)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/05/us-stops-sharing-intelligence-on-russia-with-ukraine">US stops sharing</a>
intelligence on Russia with Ukraine.*
<p>
This is meant to make Zelenskyy surrender to the demand
that Ukraine "repay" the US aid, which wasn't a loan, at extortionate interest rates for decades.



<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Urgent:_Support_workers'_unions)
title: Urgent: Support workers' unions
uri: Urgent-Support-workers-unions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Urgent:_Support_workers'_unions)
content:
 
<p>
Call your congresscritter to oppose the bills to weaken unions
including the National "Right to Work" Act.
<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_March_2025_(Carcinogen_factories_of_Louisianna)
title: Carcinogen factories of Louisianna
uri: Carcinogen-factories-of-Louisianna
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Carcinogen_factories_of_Louisianna)
content:
 
<p>
Biden had the DoJ sue a factory in Louisiana that was emitting carcinogen.
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> has
canceled the lawsuit, so that the company can
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/trump-cancer-alley-plant-biden-lawsuit">promote
cancer unimpeded</a>.
<p>
This is a consequence of <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> priorities: rich
business owners over poor people (especially if they are black).


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Stopping_HIV_processes,_ZAF)
title: Stopping HIV processes, ZAF
uri: Stopping-HIV-processes-ZAF
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Stopping_HIV_processes,_ZAF)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>
stopped the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/07/trumps-attacks-on-south-africa-are-a-punishment-for-independence">function
for preventing spread of HIV</a> in South Africa as punishment for
prosecuting Israel at the International Criminal Court.

<p>
 


title: Stress kills, sleep saves, go figures
uri: Stress-kills-sleep-saves-go-figures
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Stress_kills,_sleep_saves,_go_figures)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Stress_kills,_sleep_saves,_go_figures)

content:
 
<p>
Wealthy Americans have 7 years more life expectancy than working-class
Americans.  It's an indirect consequence of the effects of poverty
on
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/new-report-working-class-americans-can-expect-to-die-at-least-7-years-earlier-than-the-wealthy">whoever
is poor</a>.
<p>
Instead of letting billionaires set working class whites against other
Americans, we can unite and demand to distribute more of America's income
and wealth to those who are poor.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Ralph_Nader_suggests)
title: Ralph Nader suggests
uri: Ralph-Nader-suggests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Ralph_Nader_suggests)
content:
 
<p>
Ralph Nader suggests Democrats in Congress
<a href="https://nader.org/2025/03/07/democratic-party-leaders-get-tough-and-hold-regular-unofficial-congressional-hearings-by-and-for-the-people/">*hold
unofficial public hearings</a> on Capitol Hill, highlighting an
all-time winning agenda supported by the citizenry and opposed by the
Trumpsters.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Pensions_en-crypto)
title: Pensions en-crypto
uri: Pensions-en-crypto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Pensions_en-crypto)
content:
 
<p>
US residents: phone your state governor and say to veto any
bill that would permit "investing" (gambling) state pension funds
in cryptocurrencies.
<p>
As with other forms of gambling, the house generally to win,
and in this case the pension fund would not be the house.
<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#9_March_2025_(Republican_donors)
title: Republican donors
uri: Republican-donors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#9_March_2025_(Republican_donors)
content:
 
<p>
*Republicans [running for state offices] are relying on "nameless"
donors who want to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/billionaires-funding-republicans">push
a rightwing agenda and gain long-term hegemony</a>.*
<p>
They can do this because they put judges on the Supreme Court that tore up
most of the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-jan-apr.html#25_January_2024_(Further_weakening_of_Voting_Rights_Act)">Voting Rights Act</a>
and campaign donation rules, including the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#3_May_2023_(Politico's_court_power)">"Citizens" United decision</a>.
<p>
But you can identify those candidates because they advocate allowing
billionaires to do this.  They are the supporters of oligarchy rather
than democracy.  They also oppose
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-may-aug.html#21_August_2024_(Normal_politics_as_a_1945-75_anomaly)">taxing
the rich fairly</a>.


<p>
 


title: Christian nationalism as federal policy
uri: Christian-nationalism-as-federal-policy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Christian_nationalism_as_federal_policy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Christian_nationalism_as_federal_policy)

content:
 
<p>
The madmap
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/07/briefing-podcast-trump-christian-right-talia-lavin/">told
Congress</a> that he is on a divine mission to impose fanatical
right-wing Christianity on the US.


<p>
 


title: Ralph Nader warns, explains, reminds US
uri: Ralph-Nader-warns-explains-reminds-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Ralph_Nader_warns,_explains,_reminds_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Ralph_Nader_warns,_explains,_reminds_US)

content:
 
<p>
Ralph Nader calls for people to
<a href="https://nader.org/2025/03/01/trumps-autocratic-moves-toward-corporate-fascism/">organize
large rallies</a> against the right-wing wrecking crew.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Gaza_ceasefire_new_ultimatum)
title: Gaza ceasefire new ultimatum
uri: Gaza-ceasefire-new-ultimatum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Gaza_ceasefire_new_ultimatum)
content:
 
<p>
<!---->*Hamas has accused [the wrecker] of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/hamas-trump-threats-encourage-israel-back-out-gaza-ceasefire">seeking
to undermine</a> the shaky pause in hostilities in Gaza with his
latest intervention in the region: a new and fierce ultimatum telling
the group to release all hostages.*
<p>
This directly undermines the completion of the cease-fire deal, which
would have included releasing all the hostages, and also ended the war.
<p>
In effect, it demands that HAMAS give Israel everything immediately,
thus eliminating pressure for Israel to end its killing.
<p>
It also shows that <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> is acting directly to undermine
the "peace plan" he claimed to have brought about.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Social Security Expansion Act
uri: 2025-03-10-Urgent-Social-Security-Expansion-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Urgent:_Social_Security_Expansion_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Urgent:_Social_Security_Expansion_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/become-a-grassroots-co-sponsor-of-the-social-security-expansion-act?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-democracy-for-america-advocacy-fund&source=group-democracy-for-america-advocacy-fund">call
on Congress</a> to pass the Social Security Expansion Act of 2025)
<p>
The page explains what that bill would do.
<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_March_2025_(US_Tariff_war_fallout,_CAN)
title: US Tariff war fallout, CAN
uri: US-Tariff-war-fallout-CAN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(US_Tariff_war_fallout,_CAN)
content:
 
<p>
*Canadians protest imports of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/canadians-toxic-waste-trump-tariffs">US
toxic waste</a> amid Trump tariff war.*
<p>
Canada could address this issue very simply by putting a tariff on
toxic waste imports from the US.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(National_Labor_Relations_Board)
title: National Labor Relations Board
uri: National-Labor-Relations-Board
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(National_Labor_Relations_Board)
content:
 
<p>
A court ordered reinstatement of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox,
who <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/trump-labor-board-firing-gwynne-wilcox">fired
for affirming</a> that the president of the US is not a king.
<p>
This means that the NLRB can now function normally &mdash; unless he fires
her again.  I wonder what absurd excuse he will use next.

<p>
 


title: Joseph Stiglitz: ISDS trade treaties
uri: Joseph-Stiglitz-ISDS-trade-treaties
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Joseph_Stiglitz:_ISDS_trade_treaties)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Joseph_Stiglitz:_ISDS_trade_treaties)

content:
 
<p>
Joseph Stiglitz calls for the elimination of <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#isds">ISDS</a> trade treaties,
that make states
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/07/private-investors-ability-to-sue-governments-is-a-form-of-legal-terrorism-ending-this-system-is-imperative-aoe">pay
for he privilege</a> of changing their laws to protect public health
or the environment.
<p>
One question is how to eliminate those treaties.  Most of them say that
even if a country withdraws from the treaty, it is still bound by the
treaty's parasitical rules for many years after.
<p>
In the cases where these treaties do big harm, they causes the death
of thousands of people if not millions.  So one idea is to legislate
that enforcing one of these treaties in a case where the consequence
is to kill people or make people sick constitutes homicide or gross
bodily harm, and that the penalty to any corporation convicted of
these crimes is confiscation of all assets and/or income.
<p>
A company that is willing to seek profit by those means
deserves to lose everything.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(US_National_Weather_Service)
title: US National Weather Service
uri: US-National-Weather-Service
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(US_National_Weather_Service)
content:
 
<p>
Staffing cuts at the US National Weather Service have made it struggle
to carry out its mission.  Some local weather
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/trump-layoffs-nws">bureaus face severe
shortages</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Urgent:_Break_up_Big_Medicine)
title: Urgent: Break up Big Medicine
uri: Urgent-Break-up-Big-Medicine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Urgent:_Break_up_Big_Medicine)
content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call for legislation to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/break-up-big-medicine">break up Big Medicine</a>,
including <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#united-hellth">UnitedHellth</a>.
  (The article explains all the different medicine
businesses that conglomerate combines.)
</p>
<p>
I think horizontal monopolies like that used to be
limited generally by US anti-trust law.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Block weapons sale to Israel
uri: Urgent-Block-weapons-sale-to-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Urgent:_Block_weapons_sale_to_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Urgent:_Block_weapons_sale_to_Israel)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to block <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/block-weapons-sales-sanders-25/">weapons
    sale to Israel</a>.
</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#10_March_2025_(Urgent:_Defend_freedom_of_the_press)
title: Urgent: Defend freedom of the press
uri: Urgent-Defend-freedom-of-the-press
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Urgent:_Defend_freedom_of_the_press)
content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on media companies to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/media-companies-must-stand-up-for-free-speech-3">defend freedom of the press</a>,
rather than let <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> intimidate them.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Overturn attack on clean energy policies
uri: Urgent-Overturn-attack-on-clean-energy-policies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Urgent:_Overturn_attack_on_clean_energy_policies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Urgent:_Overturn_attack_on_clean_energy_policies)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to overturn <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-overturn-trumps-attack-on-clean-energy">attack on clean
    energy policies</a>.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Students in Malta charged with breaking "security"
uri: Students-in-Malta-charged-with-breaking-security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Students_in_Malta_charged_with_breaking_security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Students_in_Malta_charged_with_breaking_security)

content:
 
<p>

  Three students in Malta and their instructor have been <a href="https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/court_and_police/133925/lecturer_and_three_students_charged_with_hacking_maltas_largest_student_app">charged with the crime of breaking "security"</a>.  They found vulnerabilities in an
app (surely nonfree) and reported them to its developer after
verifying they were real vulnerabilities.
</p>
<p>
I don't know any other facts about the app, but I expect it would be
malware.  It follows that the app harms the computing security of
students who use it much more than these students did to the app.
</p>
<p>
Reporting bugs in a program helps the program's developers.  If the
developers treat you decently, which includes respecting your freedom,
such cooperation is the right thing for users to do.  But if the
developers thinks "security" means keeping users firmly under the
developers' power, they deserve punishment rather than help.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Policy_of_quiet_towards_HAMAS)
title: "Policy of quiet" towards HAMAS
uri: Policy-of-quiet-towards-HAMAS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Policy_of_quiet_towards_HAMAS)
content:
 
<p>

  *Report by [Israeli intelligence] says <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/05/israeli-security-agency-says-netanyahus-policies-paved-the-way-for-2023-hamas-attack">"policy of quiet"</a> towards HAMAS allowed it to build up resources for 2023 attack.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Half of worlds CO2 from 36 fossil fuel firms
uri: Half-of-worlds-CO2-from-36-fossil-fuel-firms
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Half_of_worlds_CO2_from_36_fossil_fuel_firms)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Half_of_worlds_CO2_from_36_fossil_fuel_firms)

content:
 
<p>

  *Half of world's CO2 emissions <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/05/half-of-worlds-co2-emissions-come-from-36-fossil-fuel-firms-study-shows">come from 36 fossil fuel firms</a>, study shows.*
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Why_charges_of_hypocrisy_don't_land)
title: Why charges of hypocrisy don't land
uri: Why-charges-of-hypocrisy-don-t-land
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Why_charges_of_hypocrisy_don't_land)
content:
 
<p>

*Charges of hypocrisy do not land if the supposed hypocrite is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/04/trump-hypocrisy">not
    committed to any kind of consistency in the first place</a>.*
  (Think "bullshitter".)
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Congress_hearing_on_Antisemitism)
title: Congress hearing on Antisemitism
uri: Congress-hearing-on-Antisemitism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Congress_hearing_on_Antisemitism)
content:
 
<p>

  *Congress Hearing on Antisemitism <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/congress-hearing-on-antisemitis">Does Nothing for Jewish Safety</a>,
 Advances Authoritarianism.*
</p>
<p>
  *[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/trump-university-funding-protests">threatens to pull federal funds for US schools</a> allowing "illegal
protests".*
  By which he means, "any protests" that he doesn't like.
</p>
<p>
Antisemitism and condemnation of violent repression are not the same.
People protesting Israel's violent repression of Palestinians should
take care to clarify that distinction, and <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">set an example to help
    others recognize the difference</a>.  By doing that, they will thwart the
efforts of Netanyahu and other right-wingers to confuse the two.
</p>
</li>

 


title: RFK Jr casting doubt on measles vaccination
uri: RFK-Jr-casting-doubt-on-measles-vaccination
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(RFK_Jr_casting_doubt_on_measles_vaccination)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(RFK_Jr_casting_doubt_on_measles_vaccination)

content:
 
<p>

  RFK Jr <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/rfk-jr-vitamins-measles-outbreak">continues to cast doubt</a> on measles vaccination.
</p>
</li>

 


title: LA Times bullshit-generated counteropinion
uri: LA-Times-bullshit-generated-counteropinion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(LA_Times_bullshit-generated_counteropinion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(LA_Times_bullshit-generated_counteropinion)

content:
 
<p>

  The LA Times bullshit-generated counteropinion <a href="https://boingboing.net/2025/03/04/la-times-ai-defends-the-ku-klux-klan.html">defended the KKK</a>. 
</p>
</li>

 


title: Bully threatens to deport non-citizens for "antisemitic" statements
uri: Bully-threatens-to-deport-non-citizens-for-antisemitic-statements
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Bully_threatens_to_deport_non-citizens_for_antisemitic_statements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Bully_threatens_to_deport_non-citizens_for_antisemitic_statements)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/foreign-student-visas-pro-palestinian-ai">threatened to deport non-citizens</a> who make statements
about Gaza and Israel that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> chooses to call "antisemitic".
</p>
<p>
As the ACLU reports, deportation on those grounds would be
unconstitutional, but <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> feels entitled to disregard the
Constitution.
</p>
<p>
  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> will surely <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#17_February_2025_(Defining_and_redefining_antisemitism)">stretch the meaning of "antisemitic"</a>,
as has become habitual for right-wing extremists,
  and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-sep-dec.html#14_December_2023_(University_presidents_questioned_on_antisemitic_statements)">conflate condemnation of Israel's deadly violence with antisemitism</a>.
To make matters worse, he proposes to use some dodgy software to make
the accusations.  It is unjust to find someone guilty of anything
based on heuristics.
</p>
<p>
For <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>, rushing to judgment and punishment is a way of
demonstrating his power.  Here's another act of bullying aimed
at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/university-california-antisemitism-gaza-israel">forcing US universities into strict censorship of protests</a>.
</p>
<p>
HAMAS plainly is a terrorist organization, but it is unjust for
governments to label groups (or individuals) as "terrorist" by fiat.
That decision calls for a fair trial.
</p>
<p>
The practice of declaring organizations "terrorist" denies a fair
trial to people charged with the crime of "aiding" that "terrorist
organization".  Their trials do not try to judge the crucial question
&mdash; is that organization really terrorist? &mdash; which is simply taken for
granted.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(London_low-emissions_zone)
title: London low-emissions zone
uri: London-low-emissions-zone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(London_low-emissions_zone)
content:
 
<p>

  The London low-emissions zone is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/07/london-air-pollution-down-since-ulez-expansion-study">very effective in reducing toxic air</a>
pollution, and also substantially reduces greenhouse gas emissions from
driving.
</p>
<p>
The one really bad thing about it that it is enforced using
surveillance &mdash; and that is not inherently necessary.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Bully's men considering deporting Ukrainian refugees
uri: Bully-s-men-considering-deporting-Ukrainian-refugees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Bully's_men_considering_deporting_Ukrainian_refugees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Bully's_men_considering_deporting_Ukrainian_refugees)

content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully's</a> men are <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/">considering deporting all Ukrainian refugees</a>.
</p>
<p>
Sending people back to a country where they would be in danger is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#11_January_2025_(Nauru_ruling_against_AUS)">directly prohibited</a> by the treaties that established the asylum system.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Population of butterflies in US fell
uri: Population-of-butterflies-in-US-fell
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Population_of_butterflies_in_US_fell)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Population_of_butterflies_in_US_fell)

content:
 
<p>

The total population of butterflies in the US <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/butterfly-loss-study">fell 20% from 2000 to
    2020</a>.
  (I do not say "22%" because that is surely more precision
than these measurements can support.)
</p>
<p>
This decline is surely continuing.
</p>

 


title: Doge blocked from shutting down Africa development agency
uri: Doge-blocked-from-shutting-down-Africa-development-agency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Doge_blocked_from_shutting_down_Africa_development_agency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Doge_blocked_from_shutting_down_Africa_development_agency)

content:
 
<p>

  *Federal workers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/federal-workers-block-musks-doge-africa-development-agency">block Musk's "Doge"</a> from shutting down Africa
development agency.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: US judges alarmed over rise in violent threats
uri: US-judges-alarmed-over-rise-in-violent-threats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(US_judges_alarmed_over_rise_in_violent_threats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(US_judges_alarmed_over_rise_in_violent_threats)

content:
 
<p>

  *US judges <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/us-judges-threats-trump-musk">alarmed over rise in violent threats</a> as Trump and Musk
lambaste them.*
</p>
<p>
I expect they perceive see judges as the last remaining obstacle to
establishing outright dictatorship in the US, and they surely know that
their hate machine provokes real violence.
</p>
</li>

 


title: "Echoes of Munich in Ukrainian Reversal
uri: Echoes-of-Munich-in-Ukrainian-Reversal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Echoes_of_Munich_in_Ukrainian_Reversal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Echoes_of_Munich_in_Ukrainian_Reversal)

content:
 
<p>

  Alan Singer sees <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/5/2308265/-Echoes-of-Munich-in-Trump-Ukrainian-Reversal">*Echoes of Munich in [the wrecker's] Ukrainian Reversal.*</a>
</p>
<p>
I have been thinking the same.  There is no reason to believe the Putin's
appetite for expansion stops with Ukraine.  With <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a> support,
Putin might aim to capture various countries now part of NATO.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Immigration_judges_in_the_US)
title: Immigration judges in the US
uri: Immigration-judges-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#10_March_2025_(Immigration_judges_in_the_US)
content:
 
<p>

Immigration judges in the US are not chosen for knowing immigration
law, or for thinking clearly about it, and a fraction are so strongly
biased that they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/turkey-us-immigration-asylum-denial">always deny asylum</a>, even to people who were tortured
as political prisoners.
</p>
<p>
I am sure this is at least indirectly related by the general attitude
of hostility to immigrants.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_March_2025_(Prices_not_lowered)
title: Prices not lowered
uri: Prices-not-lowered
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_March_2025_(Prices_not_lowered)
content:
 
<p>
Americans are realizing that <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a> did not mean it
when he said claimed he would protect working-class Americans (if they
are white)
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/affordability-czar-nothing-more-than-a-pr-stunt-says-groundworks-alex-jacquez">from
high prices</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_March_2025_(Business_as_usual,_NOT)
title: Business as usual, NOT
uri: Business-as-usual-NOT
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_March_2025_(Business_as_usual,_NOT)
content:
 
<p>
The <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> tries to be
unpredictable to hamper resistance.  It turns out that that very
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/how-trumps-dizzying-jerks-and-jolts-on-tariffs-are-freezing-us-business">unpredictability
hampers US businesses</a> from making nonpolitical business decisions.
<p>
The businesses controlled by oligarchs are partly exempt from this
problem because they have enough influence on the <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> to make sure their
decisions will be safe.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_March_2025_(Amy_Coney_Barrett_defending_const'n)
title: Amy Coney Barrett defending const'n
uri: Amy-Coney-Barrett-defending-const-n
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#11_March_2025_(Amy_Coney_Barrett_defending_const'n)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#magat">Magats</a> are excoriating
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/amy-coney-barrett-under-attack-by-right-wing">Justice
Barrett for voting to disapprove</a> one of <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> extrema acts of
sabotage.  They demand that "their" judges strictly follow the party
line established by the great leader.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Independent_app_stores)
title: Independent app stores
uri: Independent-app-stores
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Independent_app_stores)
content:
 
<p>
Suggesting that Canada and Europe retaliate for US tariffs, not by
putting up their own tariffs, but but
<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/03/friedmanite/">allowing
independent app stores</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Microplastics_and_photosynthesis)
title: Microplastics and photosynthesis
uri: Microplastics-and-photosynthesis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Microplastics_and_photosynthesis)
content:
 
<p>
A research project estimates that microplastics cut crop production by
4% or more by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/10/microplastics-hinder-plant-photosynthesis-study-finds-threatening-millions-with-starvation">hampering
photosynthesis</a> when they get into plants.
<p>
They also retard the growth of algae, which slows the growth of sea animals.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Syria_chaotic_violence)
title: Syria chaotic violence
uri: Syria-chaotic-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Syria_chaotic_violence)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/10/deadly-clashes-between-syrian-security-and-assad-loyalists-what-we-know-so-far">Chaotic
violence</a> has broken out in coastal northwest Syria between
Assad loyalists and Turkey-sponsored groups who hate them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Coca_leaf_prohibition)
title: Coca leaf prohibition
uri: Coca-leaf-prohibition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Coca_leaf_prohibition)
content:
 
<p>
Colombia urges the UN to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/10/colombia-coca-leaf-united-nations">end
international prohibition</a> of coca leaf.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Syria_human_rights)
title: Syria human rights
uri: Syria-human-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Syria_human_rights)
content:
 
<p>
*Syrian government reaches deal with Kurdish-led SDF (Rojava) to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/10/syrian-government-reaches-deal-with-kurdish-led-sdf-to-integrate-north-east-region">unite
and respect human rights of Kurds</a>.*
<p>
I admire what I have read about democracy in Rojava.  The article doesn't
make it clear whether that will be preserved under this deal.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Israel's_lethal_force)
title: Israel's lethal force
uri: Israel-s-lethal-force
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Israel's_lethal_force)
content:
 
<p>
6 weeks ago, the UN was
*‘<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/24/un-deeply-concerned-israel-using-unlawful-lethal-force-in-west-bank">deeply
concerned</a>’ Israel using ‘unlawful
lethal force’in West Bank.*
<p>
I hope to encounter and post a mo article soon.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Chemical_plant_pollution)
title: Chemical plant pollution
uri: Chemical-plant-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Chemical_plant_pollution)
content:
 
<p>
Astronomers are concerned that a proposed chemical plant in
the Atacama desert will
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/04/chile-stargazing-night-sky">pollute
the region's air</a> and spoil it
for many telescopes.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Urgent:_Save_Social_Security)
title: Urgent: Save Social Security
uri: Urgent-Save-Social-Security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Urgent:_Save_Social_Security)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-congress-keep-elon-musks-hands-off-our-social-security?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">call
on Congress</a> to keep the muskrat's hands off Social Security.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Urgent:_Stand_with_Ukraine)
title: Urgent: Stand with Ukraine
uri: Urgent-Stand-with-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Urgent:_Stand_with_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-america-stands-with-ukraine?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">tell
Congress</a> that America stands with Ukraine.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Urgent:_Write_to_the_USPS_board)
title: Urgent: Write to the USPS board
uri: Urgent-Write-to-the-USPS-board
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Urgent:_Write_to_the_USPS_board)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the USPS board of governors
to resist the tyrant's plan to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-trumps-illegal-usps-takeover?nowrapper=true">seize direct power over it</a>.
<p>
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code.
(See <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html</a>.)
<p>
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.
<p>
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above.  That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without javascript!"
<p>
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
<p>
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page.  That's how you say who's sending the letter.
<p>
Then click the "START WRITING" button.  That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code.  (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely _by running_ that nonfree code, you can
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.)  You can
finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's
address bar, as follows:
<p>
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'.  Then tell the
browser to visit that URL.  This should give you a version of the page
that works without JavaScript.  Edit the subject and body of your
letter.  Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.
<p>
This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters
to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender.
Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to
bypass the nonfree JavaScript code.  I'm sure you'll agree it is a
small effort for the result of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(A_replacement_for_plastic)
title: A replacement for plastic
uri: A-replacement-for-plastic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(A_replacement_for_plastic)
content:
 
<p>
A new kind of plastic degrades in sea water into compounds that
will be
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-11-durable-supramolecular-plastic-fully-ocean.html">eaten
by bacteria, with no harmful residue</a>.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Resist_worldwide_dystopia_led_by_US)
title: Resist worldwide dystopia led by US
uri: Resist-worldwide-dystopia-led-by-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Resist_worldwide_dystopia_led_by_US)
content:
 
<p>
*The world’s most admired democracy is being held hostage by a clique
of far-right <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>. It would be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/03/donald-trump-world-leaders-democracy">a
mistake to placate them</a>.*
<p>
I am not sure that the US was really the most admired democracy a year
ago.  Certainly it had big flaws, introduced by earlier stages of
<a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> subversion.  But
it was, arguably, the oldest stable democracy.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Disconnected_identities,_UK_and_US)
title: Disconnected identities, UK and US
uri: Disconnected-identities-UK-and-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Disconnected_identities,_UK_and_US)
content:
 
<p>
*We've witnessed the rise of a kind of identity politics
that sidelines class. And the far right is benefiting from it.*
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/03/identity-politics-the-left-the-right-liberation-victimhood">An
insightful article</a> explains how identity politics on antisocial
media tends to divide people into groups that argue about which of the
many kinds of cruelty, and of the many groups that sometimes are caused
to suffer, deserves the "worst oppression" award.
<p>
I don't like this competition.  I prefer Martin Luther King's message,
that we should try to help others who suffer and to end social
injustices, regardless of "identity" groups.

<p>
 


title: Executive order: judge firings' legality
uri: Executive-order-judge-firings-legality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Executive_order:_judge_firings'_legality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_March_2025_(Executive_order:_judge_firings'_legality)

content:
 
<p>
One of the underminer's executive orders says that he can fire anyone
in the federal government
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/trump-executive-order-dictatorship">who
disputes his version</a> of what the law requires.
<p>
"The essence of it is that Donald Trump is trying, quite consciously,
to make himself an elected dictator," said law professor Frank Bowman.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(The_gangster_pushing_Tesla)
title: The gangster pushing Tesla
uri: The-gangster-pushing-Tesla
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(The_gangster_pushing_Tesla)
content:
 
<p>
<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a> said
that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/trump-tesla-boycott-musk">the
boycott of Tesla is illegal</a>.
<p>
That is impossible, in the US legal system.  But I don't know whether
the real laws can prevail over the <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#magat">magat</a> prosecutors' fake laws.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(Teacher_training_funding)
title: Teacher training funding
uri: Teacher-training-funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(Teacher_training_funding)
content:
 
<p>
*
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/trump-administration-teacher-training-blocked">Judge
blocks</a> [<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the
wrecker's</a>] plan to cut millions for teacher training.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(Freedom_of_speech_hit)
title: Freedom of speech hit
uri: Freedom-of-speech-hit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(Freedom_of_speech_hit)
content:
 
<p>
<!---->The wrecker's regime is directly attacking freedom of speech in the US,
by
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/10/mahmoud-khalil-palestine-columbia-immigration-deport/">deporting
Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil</a> who was a negotiator for the
protest movement at Columbia University in 2024.
<p>
Khalil is not a Columbia student nowadays because he has graduated
since then, but he remains a lawful permanent resident of the US.
And anyone in the US has the right of freedom of speech.
<p>
When <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> claims the authority to arbitrarily jail any
non-citizen for deportation, he is trying to abolish constitutional
rights, not only in practice but in principle.  The legal right to
freedom of speech means that no official can arbitrarily decide which
views to "tolerate", and repress other views.
<p>
The article explains at length what US law actually says about
"support for HAMAS" &mash; not that you should trust what <!---->the wrecker or
his agents say about anyone's supposed "support for HAMAS", because
they commonly stretch the law on that question.
<p>
See what I recently posted about about how the US ought to determine
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/university-california-antisemitism-gaza-israel">whether an organization is terrorist or not</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(Urgent:_Release_Mahmoud_Khalil_now)
title: Urgent: Release Mahmoud Khalil now
uri: Urgent-Release-Mahmoud-Khalil-now
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(Urgent:_Release_Mahmoud_Khalil_now)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call on per
to demand that the government
<a href="https://act.mpowerchange.org/go/71725">release Mahmoud
Khalil</a> and then respect his human rights.
<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#13_March_2025_(Budget_bill)
title: Budget bill
uri: Budget-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(Budget_bill)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter, whether <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> Democrat or Republican,
and call on per to vote against the Republican cut-the-poor budget bill.
<p>
Call a Republican because it's their bill.
<p>
Call a Democrat because there is a danger that some Democrats will
yield to pressure to vote for it.  Please make sure <!---->perse does not.
<p>
People for the American Way reports:
<blockquote>
If Republicans get their way, this bill will:
<ul>
<li>
Delay Social Security checks for millions of seniors who rely on them
to make ends meet.
<li>
Reduce FEMA resources, leaving communities vulnerable in the face of
natural disasters.
<li>
Cut cancer research funding, putting lifesaving treatments on the
chopping block.
<li>
Make air travel less safe, cutting staff who ensure aviation safety.
<li>
Slash $23 billion in veterans' benefits, betraying those who served
our country by gutting healthcare and assistance programs.
</ul>
<blockquote/>
<p>
I did not make a link to their page because it suggests using a
nonfree program.  It is against my principles to legitimize that.
<p>
I think the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#30_January_2025_(Urgent:_Medicare,_Medicare,_Social_Security)">same
bill would also attack Medicaid</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(Censorship_at_Washington_Post)
title: Censorship at Washington Post
uri: Censorship-at-Washington-Post
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(Censorship_at_Washington_Post)
content:
 
<p>

Bezos, the owner of amazon.com, is imposing strict censorship of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/10/washington-post-ruth-marcus-resigns">political
opinions</a> on the Washington Post.  We can punish Bezos for this and
other hostility to human rights by boycotting amazon.com, at the same
time as we protect ourselves from the way the company's mistreatment
described here.

<p>
 


title: Gov't historical, DEI, material deleted
uri: Gov-t-historical-DEI-material-deleted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(Gov't_historical,_DEI,_material_deleted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#13_March_2025_(Gov't_historical,_DEI,_material_deleted)

content:
 
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/25/air-force-videos-tuskegee-airmen-female-pilots">US
air force</a> deleted material about the Tuskegee airmen and
acceptance of women as pilots.
<p>
Why cover this up?  To end the explicit policy of DEI does not by
itself entail hushing up historic facts.
<p>
To have a reason to delete those, the government would need to have a
policy in favor of discrimination, exclusion and injustice.  It would
not surprise me if that's what <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> demands.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Freedoms_in_speech_and_acedemia,_UK)
title: Freedoms in speech and academia, UK
uri: Freedoms-in-speech-and-academia-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Freedoms_in_speech_and_acedemia,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/mar/10/stimulate-debate-on-contentious-topics-expert-urges-english-universities">Stimulate
debate</a> on contentious topics, expert urges English universities.*
<p>
Debate on controversial political and philosophical questions is a
traditional part of studying politics and moral philosophy.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Mahmoud_Khalil_deporation)
title: Mahmoud Khalil deportation
uri: Mahmoud-Khalil-deportation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Mahmoud_Khalil_deporation)
content:
 
<p>
The attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil is based on stretching an obscure
law that allows the State Department to declare that a foreigner's
presence in the US would have "potentially serious
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/why-was-mahmoud-khalil-arrested">adverse
foreign policy consequences</a>."
<p>
This is so vague that, if it is accepted by courts, it would give
officials an excuse to cancel the green card of nearly anyone who
disagrees with some US government practice.
<p>
Other countries have been attacking
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/mahmoud-khalil-trump-free-speech">freedom
of speech for foreigners</a> too.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Ruling_to_reinstate_the_fired)
title: Ruling to reinstate the fired
uri: Ruling-to-reinstate-the-fired
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Ruling_to_reinstate_the_fired)
content:
 
<p>
*Judge orders [federal agencies] to reinstate
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/federal-court-orders-fired-workers-doge">most
 fired probationary staff</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Ceasefire_proposal,_UKR)
title: Ceasefire proposal, UKR
uri: Ceasefire-proposal-UKR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Ceasefire_proposal,_UKR)
content:
 
<p>
Ukraine has accepted <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully's</a> demand for a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/13/vladimir-putin-accept-ceasefire-ukraine-kremlin-russia-donald-trump">temporary
cease-fire with Russia</a>.  If Putin accepts that, it will put
Ukraine in an even worse situation.
<p>
It would be easy for a cease-fire to extend slowly into annexation
of the territory already conquered.  However, Ukraine's control of
Russian territory in Kursk may help prevent that, because Putin won't
want to accept permanent loss of any Russian territory.

<p>
 


title: Oppression against Mahmoud Khalil, US
uri: Oppression-against-Mahmoud-Khalil-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Oppression_against_Mahmoud_Khalil,_US)

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

content:
 
<p>
Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil accuse the deportation <a class="glossary"
href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> of taking him rapidly to two
other prisons as a means of making him suffer and
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/11/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-ice-louisiana/">hampering
his lawyers</a> from communicating with him.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(CAN,_Europe,_boycotting_US)
title: CAN, Europe, boycotting US
uri: CAN-Europe-boycotting-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(CAN,_Europe,_boycotting_US)
content:
 
<p>
*From Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/i-feel-utter-anger-from-canada-to-europe-a-movement-to-boycott-us-goods-is-spreading">is spreading</a>.*
<p>
I understand the feeling, but I think out would be more effective, as
well as more just, to target their rage and disgust more specifically.
They could boycott <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#musk">the
muskrat's</a> companies, and Amazon, and Face-gram, and perhaps others
that might be identified.
<p>
I implore them to extend their hatred for Nazish Americans to apply
also to Nazish Europeans.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_protesting_students)
title: Urgent: Protect protesting students
uri: Urgent-Protect-protesting-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_protesting_students)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on various university presidents to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urgent-stop-the-growing-crackdown-on-students-protesting-genocide/">protect
    protesting students</a> from threats of government repression.

<h3> signing without Javascript</h3>

<p>
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code.
(See <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html</a>.)
</p>
<p>
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.
</p>
<p>
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above.  That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without javascript!"
</p>
<p>
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
</p>
<p>
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page.  That's how you say who's sending the letter.
</p>
<p>
Then click the "START WRITING" button.  That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code.  (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely <em>by running</em> that nonfree code, you can
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.)  You can
finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's
address bar, as follows:
</p>
<p>
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'.  Then tell the
browser to visit that URL.  This should give you a version of the page
that works without JavaScript.  Edit the subject and body of your
letter.  Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.
</p>
<p>
This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters
to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender.
Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to
bypass the nonfree JavaScript code.  I'm sure you'll agree it is a
small effort for the result of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.
</p>

<h3>My letter</h3>
<p>
Here is the text I sent.
</p>

<blockquote>
<p>
Defend academic freedom and rule of law
</p>
<p>
I call on you to defend and protect students from punishment for
courageously speaking out against a long campaign of deadly atrocities
combined with a deadly siege.
</p>
<p>
International students now face a new threat from right-wing
extremists in our government, who seek to deport them without trial
for speaking up against atrocities.  This attacks the Bill of Rights
and academic freedom in the United States, as well as international
humanitarian law whose enforcement they advocate.
</p>
<p>
Students should be saluted for nonviolent political action, not
punished, and never victimized by police or ICE for exercising their
rights. Shutting down dissent undermines the principles of free
speech, rule of law and academic freedom that universities are meant
to uphold.
</p>
<p>
I implore you to resist illegal un-American orders from un-American
officials, and defend human rights in our country.
</p>
<p>
  Sincerely,
</p>
<p>
Richard Stallman
</p>
</blockquote>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Urgent:_Don't_privatize_USPS)
title: Urgent: Don't privatize USPS
uri: Urgent-Don-t-privatize-USPS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Urgent:_Don't_privatize_USPS)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/trump-usps-takeover-25/?t=1003&akid=33228%2E96703%2EOPvTPd">Don't let the wrecker wreck and privatize the
    USPS</a>.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Independent audit of Musk's federal contracts
uri: Urgent-Independent-audit-of-Musk-s-federal-contracts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Urgent:_Independent_audit_of_Musk's_federal_contracts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Urgent:_Independent_audit_of_Musk's_federal_contracts)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/audit-elon-musk?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">call for an independent audit</a> of Elon Musk's federal
contracts.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Urgent: Protect judicial independence
uri: Urgent-Protect-judicial-independence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_judicial_independence)

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

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/oppose-judicial-reform-bills-house/?utm_source=aa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=judicialindependence&t=1008&akid=47839%2E660322%2EUd3e6r">protect judicial independence</a>.
</p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>
</p>
</li>

 


title: Cops acted wrong in arrest and killing of Manuel Páez
uri: Cops-acted-wrong-in-arrest-and-killing-of-Manuel-Páez
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Cops_acted_wrong_in_arrest_and_killing_of_Manuel_Páez)

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

content:
 
<p>

Records of the arrest &mdash; and killing &mdash; of "Cop City" protester Manuel
Páez show that the cops <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/georgia-cop-city-killing">acted dangerously wrong</a>, in several ways.
</p>
<p>
They started by not wearing body cameras, which suggests they were
preparing to cover something up.  After meeting Páez, they shot first
at him as he hid in his tent.
</p>
<p>
Those first shots were less-often-lethal "pepper balls", rather than
bullets, but one can hardly blame Páez for not knowing that.  He must
have thought they were shooting to kill him.  In moral terms, they
started the shooting, and spoke a deceptive half-truth when they
claimed he started it.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Applause to Vance being called "a knob"
uri: Applause-to-Vance-being-called-a-knob
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Applause_to_Vance_being_called_a_knob)

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

content:
 
<p>

The leader of Australia's Labor Party, just before an election,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/who-is-roger-cook-the-australian-politician-who-called-jd-vance-a-knob-ntwnfb">called Vance "a knob", and received applause</a>.
  (Or should I say "just before an erection"?)
</p>
<p>
Bravo, Australians, for openly despising the Tr-ance.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Trump_being_Putin's_stooge)
title: Trump being Putin's stooge
uri: Trump-being-Putin-s-stooge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Trump_being_Putin's_stooge)
content:
 
<p>

*Being Putin’s stooge won’t win Trump a peace prize. The Order of
Lenin, though, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/08/being-putins-stooge-wont-win-trump-a-peace-prize-the-order-of-lenin-though-is-in-the-bag">is in the bag</a>.*
</p>
</li>

 


title: Military tactics brought to occupied West Bank
uri: Military-tactics-brought-to-occupied-West-Bank
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Military_tactics_brought_to_occupied_West_Bank)

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

content:
 
<p>

  B'tselem reports that *Israel has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/10/child-deaths-surge-amid-gazafication-of-west-bank-report-says">brought the military tactics</a> of its
war in Gaza to the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians face mass
forced displacements, a surge in airstrikes and a sharp rise in
attacks on children and other civilians.*
</p>
<p>
  I've <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-may-aug.html#7_August_2024_(Torture-camp_jails)">cited</a> here some of B'tselem's <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#17_November_2021_(Settler_violence)">reports</a> for many years.
</p>
</li>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Hispanic_US_citizen_arrested)
title: Hispanic US citizen arrested
uri: Hispanic-US-citizen-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Hispanic_US_citizen_arrested)
content:
 
<p>
Jensy Machado, a naturalized Hispanic US citizen from Virginia,
was pulled out of his car and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/10/trump-supporter-ice-detained">arrested by deportation thugs</a>.
He invited them to look at his driver's license, to prove his identity
and citizenship, but they declined to look at it.
</p>
<p>
Their behavior suggests they were bigots seeking an excuse to harass
some Hispanics.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Edtech companies recording and selling student behavior data
uri: Edtech-companies-recording-and-selling-student-behavior-data
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Edtech_companies_recording_and_selling_student_behavior_data)

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

content:
 
<p>

Edtech companies claim that they do not record everything each
student does and make a profile to rent out, but <a href="https://www.edweek.org/technology/most-tech-companies-profit-off-student-data-even-if-they-say-otherwise-report-finds/2023/07">some of them actually
    do it</a>.
</p>
<p>
  You can't trust a <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">nonfree program not to mistreat you</a> &mdash; the way to
protect your privacy from the nonfree program is not to let it get
data about you.
</p>
</li>

 


title: British tourist traveling from US to Canada
uri: British-tourist-traveling-from-US-to-Canada
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(British_tourist_traveling_from_US_to_Canada)

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

content:
 
<p>

Rebecca Burke, a British tourist, tried to go from the US to Canada,
but Canada did not allow her entry because of a matter of visa
conditions.  Canada told her to return to the US and reapply &mdash; but
the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/10/british-tourist-detained-us-authorities-10-days-visa-issue">US jailed her</a>
and she was not told why.
</p>
<p>
She wants to go home to the UK, but has no idea how long she will be
jailed before she is given a chance to tell that to a judge.
</p>
<p>
US immigration has a history of occasional nonsensical cruelty,
such as <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jan-apr.html#29%20April%202010%20(Win/lose%20for%20Peter%20Watts)">beating and jailing</a> science fiction writer Peter Watts.
</p>
<p>
I recommend his books because they are interesting,
but the reason I make a point of buying each book
is by way of apology for my country's conduct towards him.
</p>
</li>

 


title: How Republicans plan to cut off Planned Parenthood funds
uri: How-Republicans-plan-to-cut-off-Planned-Parenthood-funds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(How_Republicans_plan_to_cut_off_Planned_Parenthood_funds)

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

content:
 
<p>

How Republicans in Congress are trying to <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/1/12/14189500/defund-planned-parenthood-congress-paul-ryan-republicans">cut off funds for Planned
    Parenthood</a>.  The details are rather complicated.
</p>
</li>

 


title: Pardons to people attacking abortion clinics
uri: Pardons-to-people-attacking-abortion-clinics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Pardons_to_people_attacking_abortion_clinics)

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

content:
 
<p>

The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c">saboteur-in-chief</a> <a href="https://reproductiverights.org/trump-pardons-23-people-attacked-abortion-patients-clinics/">pardoned people convicted of attacking abortion
    clinics</a> or blocking patients from accessing them.
</p>
</li>

 


title: RFK Jr. trying to prove vaccines cause autism
uri: RFK-Jr-trying-to-prove-vaccines-cause-autism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(RFK_Jr._trying_to_prove_vaccines_cause_autism)

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

content:
 
<p>

  RFK jr. is <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/10/2309191/-RFK-Jr-aims-resources-at-wacky-pet-project-amid-measles-outbreaks?detail=emailaction">trying once again</a> to prove that a vaccine causes autism,
although there was never any honest evidence for this.
</p>
<p>
The supposed "evidence" linking the MMR vaccine (which prevents
measles as well as mumps and rubella) was dishonest: it came from a
paper later found to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud">fraudulent and false</a>.
  The Lancet retracted the paper and its author's medical license was canceled]
</p>
<p>
  RFK jr, is one of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#29_November_2024_(Corrupter_showing_us_how_he_intends_to_rule)">middle-finger appointees</a>, which the
wrecker's used to demonstrate that nobody was so unqualified and unfit
that Republicans would refuse to confirm him once nominated by the
wrecker.
</p>
</li>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Why_US_is_jailing_foreign_tourists)
title: Why US is jailing foreign tourists
uri: Why-US-is-jailing-foreign-tourists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#15_March_2025_(Why_US_is_jailing_foreign_tourists)
content:
 
<p>

The reason the US is jailing foreign tourists for weeks, when what it
really wants is for them to leave, is that the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/11/german-tourists-ordeal-reportedly-ending-returned-from-us-detention">default response to any
    violation of a rule is an overreaction</a>: to jail them.
</p>
<p>
It seems that deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are harming the US as well as the
unfortunate tourists who broke a rule, by being self-defeatingly
authoritarian toward them.
</p>
<p>
I can imagine various safe ways to give then a chance to leave soon on
their own power &mdash; perhaps while using an ankle bracelet to make sure
that they leave reasonably soon.
</p>
</li>

 


