Richard Stallman's Political Notes

Urgent: Corrupter's censorship pressure

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:36:51 +0000

US citizens: call on Disney and ABC to resist the corrupter's censorship pressure.

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Urgent: Improve US power grids

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:36:51 +0000

US citizens: call on Congress to act to improve US power grids with more renewable generation and more battery storage.

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Urgent: Reject Digital ID

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:36:51 +0000

US citizens: call on your senators to reject Digital ID.

In general, my political views resemble Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, not Ron Paul. But we must also resist increased surveillance without a specific court order.

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Urgent: Count cost of climate inaction

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:36:51 +0000

US citizens: call on Congress to count the cost of climate inaction.

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Urgent: Pentagon journalist blacklist

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:36:51 +0000

US citizens: call on the Pentagon to end its journalist blacklist.

Urgent: Pass the American Family Act

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:36:50 +0000

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the American Family Act and expand the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit.

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Urgent: Stop IRS weaponizing IRS against nonprofits

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:36:50 +0000

US citizens: call on Congress to stop magats from weaponizing the IRS against nonprofits.

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Urgent: Pass the Stop Wall-Street Looting Act

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:36:50 +0000

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the Stop Wall-Street Looting Act Now!

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Here is the letter I sent:

To protect the US from private equity funds, we need to regulate them more — to treat them more like publicly traded corporations. The larger the amount of capital the fund wields, the more it should be regulated.

However, the Stop Wall Street Looting Act is a good start. I urge you to co-sponsor and pass that. It would help by

Holding private equity firms liable for the debts and legal judgments of companies they control

Protecting workers by prioritizing their wages and benefits in bankruptcy proceedings

Ending extractive financial practices that allow firms to loot companies for short-term gains

Increasing transparency and oversight of private equity activities

Sincerely,

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Urgent: Census Bureau plans to omit noncitizens from census

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:36:50 +0000

US citizens: call on the Census Bureau to cease and desist from plans to omit noncitizens from the census.

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Urgent: Preserve power plant pollution limits

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:36:50 +0000

US citizens: call on your state's attorney general to fight to preserve power plant pollution limits.

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Urgent: Keep Office for Civil Rights in Department of Education

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:36:50 +0000

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to keep the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education.

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War is erasing history

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:36:46 +0000

*Ukrainian cathedrals, Gaza’s archives, Iranian squares — modern war is systematically erasing human history [in places which are bombarded].*

Israel's bombardment of Gaza has destroyed many centuries-old buildings.

Trump Admin Directive

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:36:46 +0000

A magat proposal would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act by reinterpreting it to cover only intentional killing or damaging of specific, chosen members of an endangered species.

Accidental damage, such as when a ship kills a whale by unexpectedly colliding with it, would not count.

Why would one advocate this? Perhaps it reflects a desire to clean out all those pesky animals and plants that pop up unexpectedly.

Or perhaps they want to kill endangered species because that's would make their political enemies unhappy.

(satire) FBI Moves To Raise Murder Rate

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:36:46 +0000

(satire) *FBI Moves To Raise Murder Rate For First Time Since 2023.*

Trump bans several news outlets

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:36:45 +0000

The bully has banned some significant news media from the White House for defying his orders about what what they should say.

Equatorial Guinea detention

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:36:45 +0000

The bully deported people to tyrannical Equatorial Guinea who had no roots there. That was one injustice, and it led to another: two of them talked to the press about their mistreatment there, and the state tortured them as an example to gag the others.

Equatorial Guinea is so repressive that it is a crime to deport anyone there under any circumstances.

Fascists end times

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:36:45 +0000

"End Times Fascism" is the ideology of the billionaires whose plan is to cause the end of time for civilization on Earth in order to extract as much as possible for them to take away with them.

Intended Texas border wall

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:36:40 +0000

The intended Texas border wall, purely for completeness' sake, will extend over an area of cliffs and come damagingly close to ancient rock art.

I think it is an exaggeration to compare rock art to "books". To suppose that this rock art image has a precise message encoded in little details, as writing would have, has no factual basis that I know of.

Nonetheless, ancient rock art is precious, because it may convey a not-so-detailed message that would nonetheless be amazing to understand, if someday we can.

Israeli company accused of interfering in Colombia election

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:36:40 +0000

President Petro of Colombia accused the Israeli company Blackcore of interfering in Colombia's presidential election.

I am pretty sure that the US made some sort of vicious secret intervention, because the newly elected? president is a magat.

Finland progress towards eliminating homelessness

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:36:40 +0000

Finland made great progress towards eliminating homelessness by giving people houses which they could feel was home. Alas, right-wing government has cut some of the spending and is driving homelessness back up.

Supposed Intelligence safety

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:36:40 +0000

The companies that develop Supposed Intelligence (specifically, LLMs) want us to put them in charge of making the systems "safe", by giving them absolute control over what the systems will do (and what they won't do).

The systems are really dangerous, but we cannot trust the companies that develop them to protect us from them. Their interest is to mix more and more subjugation of the public into any protection of the public.

Historically, whenever companies get power over what people's computing facilities can do, they use it against us, building malicious functionalities, designed to benefit them, into the software they invite us to use.

President of Ecuador turning country into dictatorship

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:36:39 +0000

The president of Ecuador is turning the country into a dictatorship by banning parties that don't support him.

Urgent: Raise the Wage Act

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:42 +0000

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the Raise the Wage Act, to raise the national minimum wage.

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Urgent: Ban insider trading

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:41 +0000

US citizens: call on your state legislators to ban insider trading (including prediction bets) by elected and appointed officials, and government employees.

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Urgent: Protect birthright citizenship

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:41 +0000

US citizens: Protect birthright citizenship.

Urgent: Stop kicking sick people off Medicaid

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:41 +0000

US citizens: call on Dr. Oz to stop kicking sick people off Medicaid.

Urgent: News coverage for companies hiding wealth

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:41 +0000

US citizens: The corrupter's henchmen have facilitated the hiding of wealth by US companies, by nullifying the rule requiring to tell the government who owns them. Call on news media to cover this.

Urgent: Pass Green New Deal for Health

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:41 +0000

US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Green New Deal for Health.

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Urgent: Limit gouging by businesses

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:41 +0000

US citizens: call on the CFPB to limit gouging by businesses by continuing to publish consumers' complaints.

Urgent: magat's misleading analysis of census and voting

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:40 +0000

US citizens: call on Congress not to fall for the magats' misleading analysis of the census and voting.

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Urgent: Drilling near Grand Canyon

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:40 +0000

US citizens: call on Congress not to allow drilling near the Grand Canyon.

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Urgent: Stop destructive scanning of books

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:40 +0000

US citizens: call on the FTC to stop Supposed Intelligence companies from scanning books to destruction and hoarding the scans.

The law should require that if the book is in the public domain, its scanned text be published by the Library of Congress. If the book is still in principle copyrighted, the Library of Congress could publish an offer to pay the copyright holder a reasonable sum for permission to publish it for gratis download. If there is no response in a few months, it could release the scan anyway.

Urgent: Investigate Department of Hiding and Skulking's secret surveillance

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:40 +0000

US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the Department of Hiding and Skulking's secret surveillance.

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Urgent: Pass Bank Failure Accountability Act

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:40 +0000

US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Bank Failure Accountability Act.

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Urgent: Lawyer's for migrant children

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:40 +0000

US citizens: call on Congress to stop the persecutor from denying migrant children a lawyer's representation in proceedings to deport them.

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Urgent: Stop weakening Global Plastics Treaty

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:40 +0000

US citizens: call on Rubio to stop weakening the Global Plastics Treaty.

Urgent: Pro-Israel hawk in Middle East policy leadership role

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:39 +0000

US citizens: call on Speaker Jeffries to reverse his decision to appoint a pro-Israel hawk to a Middle East policy leadership role.

Urgent: Keep deportation thugs away from polling places

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:39 +0000

US citizens: call on the Department of Hostile Savagery to keep the deportation thugs away from our polling places.

A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Maine said he would invite deportation thugs to come to Maine's polling places to intimidate and perhaps terrorize voters. Citizens who are immigrants have the right to vote, but they may be scared away by deportation thugs anyway, knowing that those do not respect laws or court orders.

Urgent: Coverage of bully's attacks on journalists

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:39 +0000

US citizens: call on the media to stop covering the bully's attacks on journalists as outbursts and start covering them as deliberate, escalating attempts to use government power to silence the press.

Urgent: Reverse NOAA rollback of marine protections

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:39 +0000

US citizens: call on NOAA to reverse its rollback of marine protections.

Urgent: Call on Cornell University to stand by commitments to students

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:39 +0000

US citizens: call on Cornell University to stand by commitments it made to its students who were being persecuted by hateful officials.

Urgent: Flock surveillance cameras at Lowe's

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:39 +0000

US citizens: call on Lowe's to remove its Flock surveillance cameras.

Urgent: Green New Deal for Health

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:39 +0000

US citizens: support the proposed Green New Deal for Health.

Urgent: Data center pollution decisions

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:38 +0000

US citizens: call on the EPA not to exclude the public from data center pollution decisions.

Urgent: Pass People Over Poison Act

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:38 +0000

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop the corporate cancer loophole: Pass the People Over Poison Act.

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Urgent: Block private equity buying hospitals

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:38 +0000

US citizens: call on your state legislators to block private equity grabs from buying hospitals.

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Urgent: Corrupter arbitrarily meddling with federal grants

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:38 +0000

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to block the corrupter from arbitrarily meddling with federal grants.

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Urgent: Ban NDAs on plans about data centers

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:38 +0000

US citizens: call to ban NDAs about plans to build data centers.

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Urgent: Report on Israel's violence

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:38 +0000

US citizens: call on your senators to vote to report on Israel's violence and human rights abuses in the West Bank!

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Urgent: Stop wrecker demolishing the Kennedy Center

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:36:37 +0000

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop the wrecker from demolishing the Kennedy Center.

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Here's the letter I sent:

I urge quick action to protect the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from demolition by trumpet toadies.

First they wanted to put the corrupter's name on it. When a court blocked that, they threatened to demolish it. Both are ways of ruining it, thus proving that nothing clean is strong enough to stand against the corrupter.

Thus, more than a performance center is at stake. Congress must take this threat seriously and stop it from happening.

You can prohibit taxpayer dollars from financing demolition, but we all know that alone is likely not enough. Please do whatever it takes to protect it. You can change the powers of the board, who can be on it, or how big it is. You can even abolish the Kennedy Center board if needed.

Or you could ban complete or partial demolition or major building work.

Sincerely,