the Guardian
Andy Burnham apologises for past police LGBTQ+ discrimination
Greater Manchester mayor acknowledges ‘unacceptable discrimination’ after region’s police chief declined to apologise
Glossary
 The mayor of Manchester apologized to queer people for the persecution that the Manchester thug department systematically directed at them in the 1980s (and, I suspect, before and after that decade). Many other police forces in Britain have apologized.
the Guardian
The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather | Editorial
Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look at how the struggle to adapt t...
 Coping with the future of the climate disaster demands political honesty about extreme weather. Because it's not enough to cope with the current level of disaster. Even more important is to avoid making it worse.
Demand Progress
Investigate Trump’s corporate ballroom donors!
Trump and his far-right lackeys want to remake America to reflect MAGA’s authoritarian views.
 US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the corporations that have donated to the cheater's new ballroom. 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.
US citizens: phone your state legislators and call on them to reject digital state ID systems. Details may vary, but those systems will surely require people to run nonfree software to use them; in addition, they will enable government agencies to identify people more often. 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.
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Ars Technica
Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.
 ChatGPT appears to have led one user into a world of delusions, in which he murdered his mother then killed himself. It refuses to release the log of his conversations with ChatGPT to the court. Given the circumstances, the court ought to compel the company to hand over the full log. However, looking at the issue more generally, a system which insists on identifying each user is
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call for impeaching RFK Jr. 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.
the Guardian
Met police accused of targeting pro-Palestine protesters for stop and search
Big Brother Watch finds 40 of 47 uses of new power were at Gaza protest, with zero arrests suggesting ‘no justification’
 The cops of metropolitan London appear to be using new "stop and search" power to harass and intimidate protests on behalf of Palestinians' rights. The nominal purpose of this power is to catch people who are carrying knives. However, it appears that none of the protesters they searched had a knife.
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the Guardian
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
Glossary
 The magats plan to eliminate the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Its climate modeling demonstrates the danger of greenhouse gas emissions, so planet roasters want to put an end to honest climate modeling. When only fossil fuel companies do climate modeling, they will be able to conceal some
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Task & Purpose
Billboards aimed at troops ask 'is this what you signed up for?'
The signs went up in D.C. and near two North Carolina bases amid the Trump administration’s surge in domestic deployments.
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 Win Without War has put up billboards near some US military bases to remind troops of the laws that say they can and should refuse illegal orders. The article shows that the persecutor has renamed Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg, to bear once again the name of a Confederate general who fought to continue slavery. I suppose that shows the persecutor's
Glossary
The Brazen Cruelty of the Trump Regime
Its plan to warehouse immigrants has shades of Nazi concentration camps and America's shameful imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
 The persecutor's henchmen plan to store prisoners for deportation in warehouses, literally. Up to around 10,000 people in each. In effect, concentration camps. Warehouses are not designed to provide water, toilets or even air ventilation for so many people, let alone keep the temperature warm enough for people with little clothing.