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Hillary Clinton testified at congressional committee Hillary Clinton testified at a congressional committee hearing in which the questions were meant primarily as harassment and distraction. She had to repeat that she did not know Epstein, and was asked repeatedly about UFOs and about Pizzagate. Republicans imposed a rule against releasing photos, then Rep. Boebert (Republican) secretly took a photo and released it, violating that rule.
14.03.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bomb threats on Shen Yun performances Performances of Shen Yun are encountering bomb threats emanating from China. I watched a Shen Yun performance once in Paris with a French friend. The impression it produced on me was curious: it reproached the Chinese government as cruelly repressive (which indeed it is), and spread on such a thick layer of this teaching that I began to find it annoying, despite the fact that I agreed in advance with that reproach. I told this to my friend, and she had felt the same. "It preaches too much," she said. I still condemn China's repression and threats — like what the bully is trying to impose in the US — but I have no appetite to see another Shen Yun performance.
14.03.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Deportation thugs claimed to be city cops Deportation thugs falsely claimed to be city cops in order to enter a Columbia University dorm and seize an international student. Was this an instance of the crime of impersonating an officer? Can they be prosecuted and imprisoned for this?
14.03.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
(satire) Kash Patel partying with Nancy Guthrie's captors (satire) *Kash Patel Faces Backlash After Partying With Nancy Guthrie's Captors.*
14.03.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Taliban have banned music The Taliban have banned music, and have a campaign to destroy all the musical instruments in Afghanistan. Afghanistan's traditional musical styles are now threatened, as they can only be passed on outside the country. Islam has had a thread of such fanaticism for a thousand years, at least. Muslim fanatics, the Almohads, took over Morocco in the 12th century, then parts of Spain. The Wikipedia entry does not mention this, but they banned music too. If you want to listen to the example linked in the article, _please don't_ simply follow the link to Youtube! Use invidio.us or yt-dlp, preferably through a proxy so that it can't be tracked to you. Later in the article, there is a link for a different kind of music. I warn you, it is on Spotify. Out, out, damned Spotify!
14.03.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Germany abandoning laws on future fossil fuel use Germany is abandoning laws designed to decrease future fossil fuel use. This can only be called a surrender to planet roasters. The US and UK are doing similar things. The inevitable result is disaster.
14.03.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
German state fired head of Berlin film festival The German state has fired the head of the Berlin film festival, apparently for refusing to ban criticism of Israel there. She had opposed calls for the festival itself to take a specific stand, instead saying that artists presenting films there should be free to express their views. Apparently such freedom is now considered "antisemitic".
14.03.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Passport services in illegal West Bank settlements *US to offer passport services to citizens in illegal West Bank settlements.* Step the US moves towards legitimizing mass expulsion and annexation.
14.03.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
National Public Health Coalition Fired CDC workers have organized the National Public Health Coalition to advocate for public health, despite the wrecker's damage to the CDC.
14.03.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Urgent: Section 702 of PAT RIOT act How section 702 of the PAT RIOT act allows the US government to collect and search Americans' communications without warrants. Section 702 will expire soon unless renewed. Please phone your senators to call on let this section expire, by refusing to extend it. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. Please spread the word.
14.03.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Iran VS Israel plus USA Iran's government has a planned long-term strategy for winning the war. US officials didn't bother to think about one, assuming that resistance was impossible. Since the Iranian regime and the US regime are both cruel and repressive, it would be unjust for either of them to control Iran. But there is no evident way for Iran to avoid both of those outcomes. *Democrats must defund the fascist's] [Imperial war.*
13.03.2026 02:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Iran VS Israel plus USA Iran's government has a planned long-term strategy for winning the war. US officials didn't bother to think about one, assuming that resistance was impossible. Since the Iranian regime and the US regime are both cruel and repressive, it would be unjust for either of them to control Iran. But there is no evident way for Iran to avoid both of those outcomes. *Democrats must defund the fascist's] [Imperial war.*
13.03.2026 02:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Urgent: Investigate facial recognition US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the deportation thugs' mass surveillance and use of widespread face recognition.
13.03.2026 02:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Iran VS Israel plus USA Iran's government has a planned long-term strategy for winning the war. US officials didn't bother to think about one, assuming that resistance was impossible. Since the Iranian regime and the US regime are both cruel and repressive, it would be unjust for either of them to control Iran. But there is no evident way for Iran to avoid both of those outcomes. *Democrats must defund the fascist's] [Imperial war.*
13.03.2026 02:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Urgent: Investigate facial recognition US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the deportation thugs' mass surveillance and use of widespread face recognition.
13.03.2026 02:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cutting down endangered native forest in Australia A US mining company has been cutting down endangered native forest in Australia. The Australian government secretly made a deal to allow it to continue this, to placate the wrecker.
12.03.2026 02:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Manipulation to use Pretend Intelligence An influential PI company is manipulatively urging officials and voters to worry about being "left behind" if they don't embrace Pretend Intelligence. Therefore they should race to give PI companies tax breaks, waive environmental regulations for them, and teach students to disregard the danger of letting companies get your data and store it in cloudy systems.
12.03.2026 02:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Biometric identification company A company that does biometric identification (on behalf of LinkedIn) collects 12 kinds of biometrics and consults 6 kinds of government and commercial databases. Then farms out processing of face data to 17 other companies. Those companies are North America, so in practice they can ignore the EU's "data protection" regulations, and the US government can seize any and all of that data. This example shows the concrete meaning of dis-services operating in cloudy servers. Don't trust them! I never do. Of course, I would never ask to be identified on LinkedIn. I do not use LinkedIn at all, because it too is cloudy processing, not to mention the other unjust things it does to its users. But LinkedIn is just one example, and the broad conclusion applies to nearly any business that wants personal data from you.
12.03.2026 02:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Urgent: Stop Paramount's mega-media monopoly US citizens: call on state attorneys general to stop Paramount's mega-media monopoly. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
11.03.2026 08:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
High immigrant application fees, UK Non-privileged people permitted to into the UK but those whose permission is not permanent have to pay over USD 1500 per year on formalities to reapply for permission. This continues for ten years. This is not nominally a fee for residence, but it is tantamount to that. No wonder Starmer Labour, competing in harshness with right wing extremists, proposes to require extend that fee to 20 years.
10.03.2026 08:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
High immigrant application fees, UK Non-privileged people permitted to into the UK but those whose permission is not permanent have to pay over USD 1500 per year on formalities to reapply for permission. This continues for ten years. This is not nominally a fee for residence, but it is tantamount to that. No wonder Starmer Labour, competing in harshness with right wing extremists, proposes to require extend that fee to 20 years.
10.03.2026 08:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More air polluting allowed, US The wrecker's commitment to fossil fuel knows no bounds. Not only is he inviting fossil fuel power plants to roast the world, he is willing to let them poison people with mercury and other chemicals.
09.03.2026 08:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More air polluting allowed, US The wrecker's commitment to fossil fuel knows no bounds. Not only is he inviting fossil fuel power plants to roast the world, he is willing to let them poison people with mercury and other chemicals.
09.03.2026 08:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Unsafe to travel in US Karen Newton, Briton, went to the US with permission for tourism, with her husband. They were jailed for 6 weeks based on no reason she was ever told. They soon signed forms to agree to deportation, but instead of being sent home, they were kept in jail for weeks first, separated. She was sometimes kept in constant cold, without a bed. Eventually the deportation thugs stole their luggage. What she heard in prison was that a thug gets a bonus for each victim perse jails.
08.03.2026 20:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Unsafe to travel in US Karen Newton, Briton, went to the US with permission for tourism, with her husband. They were jailed for 6 weeks based on no reason she was ever told. They soon signed forms to agree to deportation, but instead of being sent home, they were kept in jail for weeks first, separated. She was sometimes kept in constant cold, without a bed. Eventually the deportation thugs stole their luggage. What she heard in prison was that the a thug gets a bonus for each victim perse jails.
08.03.2026 20:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Zohran Mamdani's comments on "globalize the intifada" I just saw Zohran Mamdani's comments on "globalize the intifada" from last October, and his stance had much in common with mine. I also recognize the tone of the criticism he received for discouraging that phrase. There are people whose attitude is, "If you reject my method of expressing disapproval of X, you're weak, and effectively a supporter of X." This reasoning is not valid.
07.03.2026 04:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Urgent: Repercussions of war in Middle East The war in the Middle East is having major repercussions, including strengthening ties between Russia and China. Robert Reich calls on Americans to phone their members of Congress in support of invoking Congress's power to stop the US intervention. There is no need to worry about how this might affect subsequent events in Iran, because nobody in the US government has a plan anyway. One more random shuffle won't make it any more random than it already is. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. Please spread the word.
07.03.2026 01:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
People that needed rescue after military attacked boats After the US military attacked three unarmed boats on Dec 30, 8 people jumped into the stormy and dangerous water, and needed immediate rescue. The US military waited 40 hours to send a plane to try to rescue them. It did not find anyone. No survivors have been rescued after any of these murder missions. The article speculates that this was intentional — that commanders intended the survivors to die. What is indisputable is that they did not make a competent attempt to rescue the survivors.
07.03.2026 01:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FBI investigating members of Extinction Rebellion The FBI is investigating members of Extinction Rebellion. This is an instance of how the wrecker aims to get things backwards. The FBI ought to investigate those who are contributing, knowingly, to the danger of extinction.
07.03.2026 01:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
US wants alliance with right-wing countries The US told Europe it still wants an alliance — but only with tyrannical, right-wing countries. The EU should avoid agreeing to this, and avoid being scared by the threats, while accepting the alliance as if it didn't have those conditions. This way it can play for time hoping the US kicks out these right-wing jerks, and use the time to prepare for the US to break off with them.
07.03.2026 01:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0