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Bullying school board meetings

jeudi 28 octobre 2021 à 02:00

Funded right-wing groups are encouraging anti-maskers to bully school board meetings.

Military takeover

jeudi 28 octobre 2021 à 02:00

The military have taken over Sudan and arrested some or all of the civilian government.

Stop the Money Pipeline

jeudi 28 octobre 2021 à 02:00

I wish it were possible for me to support the campaign, Stop the Money Pipeline, which aims to get banks to stop investing in fossil fuels. I can't, because its web site depends on nonfree Javascript code to the point where I cannot ethically refer anyone to it.

I would like ask them to change this, but the site shows no way to contact them — no email address, no phone number, no postal address, nothing.

Can anyone tell me a way to reach them?

In the mean time, they make one concrete recommendation that I can state here: move your money (and organizations' money) out of Chase, Wells Fargo, Citi and Bank of America.

Members of congress collaborating with attackers

jeudi 28 octobre 2021 à 02:00

Rolling Stone says that participants in the attack on the Capitol told reporters (and the government) that they were in planning meetings with Republican members of Congress.

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez called for expulsion of any members of Congress that collaborated with the attack on the Capitol.

I agree, but I fear that Republicans lack sufficient patriotism to expel Republicans for trying to overthrow the government.

Tracking data

jeudi 28 octobre 2021 à 02:00

An FBI document explains how it gets tracking data from US phone companies.

The issue here is not whether phone companies should answer subpoenas. Rather, it is what data they accumulate.

To track everyone's movements this way is not merely unjust to each person tracked. It threatens good government by facilitating the identification of whistleblowers. It threatens democracy itself, by facilitating the identification of dissidents.

Therefore, I contend that phone companies should not be allowed to retain tracking information about any person without first receiving a specific court order.

As someone once told me, in what kind of state is the job of the police easy? In a police state.