Richard Stallman's Political Notes

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to investigate Paramount's takeover meant to control most news media.

US citizens: call on your senators to vote for the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would stop companies from stalling contract negotiations forever.

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act.

US citizens: file a comment calling on the Forest Service to preserve the Roadless Rule that protects much of our national forests from being cut down.

US citizens: call on the Senate to stop the permanent integration of American military tech with Israel.

US citizens: call on your state's Secretary of State to Refuse the wrecker's Voter-Data Grab.

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop the Department of Hostility and Suspicion from surveilling unions, churches, activists, and other peaceful political activism.

* Harvard study finds traffic fatalities increase by 15% on release dates [of major music albums] compared with similar days either side

*Finland halts deportation of Russian family who "risked everything" to oppose Ukraine invasion.* What shocks me is that Finnish intelligence acted unaware of the reasons why the Belovs deserved protection.

A suggestion for countries that wish to negotiate with the Taliban: insist on sending a delegation composed of women, and insist that the Taliban do likewise.

The record hot summer has caused a disastrous crop failure in Europe.

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to direct tariff refunds to consumers who paid them.

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to oppose SEC deregulation.

US citizens: sign up to be a poll worker for your city's election.

US citizens: call on your state officials to limit Orwellian monitoring systems in order to protect everyone's freedom.

Government secret agents have been persistently investigating the Sunrise Movement.

The wrecker's tax big cuts were not just for billionaires.

The case of journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias: *A journalist was injured while documenting government power, shot during an attempt to arrest him, prosecuted, repeatedly denied medical care — and then left in immigration detention, where he has continued…

Sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln say there is a grave shortage of food; some have lost 30 pounds.

The Deform UK party's latest deformation plan would throw hundreds of thousands of children into destitution, and many disabled people too.

The wrecker has decided to distance the US from South Korea and cozy up to Dictator Kim in North Korea.

*3M knew for more than 50 years that its [firefighting] products could harm humans, Australian government alleges in court documents.* These products are made with PFAS.

Eissa Hashemi and Maryam Tahmasebi, a married couple of professors who were permanent residents in the US, are in deportation prison because Hashemi's mother, Masoumeh Ebtekar, is a supporter of the regime and participated in the occupation of the US emba…

The bully's attack against Iran was a moral error and a grand-strategic mistake.

If Superman lived among us now, and decided it was his duty to defend Truth, Justice and the American Way from America's worst enemy, what sort of actions might be effective and inspirational to use?

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to vote against appointing Heidi Overton to head the FDA.

US citizens: call your congresscritter to vote to impeach budget director Russell Vought.

US citizens: call on Congress to fund and rebuild the FDA.

The Russian conquerors of Poland thought it amusing to imprison Polish general Kazimierz Moczarski of the Home Army in the same cell with the German SS general that commanded the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto.

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to reject the corrupter's pet projects and handouts to his billionaire barons, and put struggling American families before them.

US citizens: call on Tell your attorney general to investigate your local law enforcement agency’s abuse of Flock surveillance cameras, and prevent tracking anyone without a specific warrant.

US citizens: call your congresscritter and senators to impeach and remove RFK jr.

US citizens: call on the postal governors to rescind the plan to block election ballots.

US citizens: call on your state's Secretary of State to refuse to hand over the voter data that magats demand.

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to reject Republicans' perverse deal for veterans' medical treatment.

US citizens: call on state officials to stand up to Big Tech: pass a data center moratorium.

*Machines that kill without distinction, answerable to no one, leave no one safe

The persecutor's regime has placed sanctions on the president of the International Criminal Court, as an attempt to establish unilaterally an unheard-of supposed moral principle: absolute immunity for the officials of governments that reject the ICC.

Children in London have developed better lung capacity after the ultra-low emission zone reduced the amount of air pollution in most of London.

The US media frequently fall into the pernicious error of measuring the wealth of "Americans in general" by the arithmetic mean of individual wealth.

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The cyclosporidia outbreak should have been caught and stopped by a new scheme for tracking wholesale shipping of food, to stop diseases carried by food.

UK Prime Minister Burnham seems to disregard the gravity of climate disaster.

Some cities terminated their contracts with Flock Surveillance, under public pressure, but turned around and brought in another surveillance company.

More on the politics of the bully's military snub to South Korea.

Bernie Sanders: "Why are progressives winning across the United States?"

*Heatwaves and wildfires are not just scorching forests, they are adding to the tipping point risks in the world's vast permafrost regions, which contain three times more carbon than all the living vegetation on Earth.* This could negate human efforts to…

Robert Reich: most Americans are rejecting the corporate Democrats, and the rich people that they mainly serve.

The forces of ignorance have canceled scientific research into how racism affects whether people develop dementia.

Italian thugs killed authorized immigrant Abderrahim Fakir by holding him down while he was handcuffed.