the Guardian
‘They told me not to speak out’: the woman who took on China – and won her husband’s freedom
After fleeing Chinese repression, Uyghurs Idris and Zeynure Hasan thought their family would be safe. But Beijing’s growing influence led to Idri...
Glossary
 China is using Interpol to catch exiled dissidents. Many governments won't bother to check that someone is a dissident rather than a criminal, or may not even care, when under China's economic pressure. The most horrible thing about the persecutor is that he is making the US take after China.
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Gizmodo
Border Patrol Responds Like a Petulant Child to Controversy Over Its Antisemitic Video
The Trump regime exercises real power. Why are they so whiny about it?
Glossary
2025: May - August Political Notes
 The Department of Homeland Subjugation posted a video clip with blatantly antisemitic lyrics, in August. Extremist supporters of the wrecker began publicizing it with admiration, and recently the DHS deleted it, then absurdly denied that it was
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Ars Technica
Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google's hand.
How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
Free Software Is Even More Important Now - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
GNU Taler - Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Resources
A payment system that makes privacy-friendly online transactions fast and easy.
 Cloudflare is leading a campaign for websites to tell Google they do not permit using their pages to train a bullshit generator. This is to pressure Google Search (and other search engines) to stop displaying bullshit summaries instead of search
the Guardian
Top House Democrats accuse Trump of illegal scheme to pilfer $230m in taxpayer money
Lawmakers say Trump as president would decide whether Trump as claimant be paid for investigations into Trump as defendant
Glossary
 *Top House Democrats accuse [the corrupter] of illegal scheme to pilfer $230m in taxpayer money. Lawmakers say [the corrupter] as president would decide whether [the corrupter] as claimant be paid for investigations into [the corrupter] as defendant.
Tell Congress to Stop the Weaponization of the IRS
The Trump White House is turning the IRS into a political weapon — targeting liberal nonprofits, major Democratic donors, and critics of the admi...
 US citizens: call on your representative and senators to stop the magats' effort to weaponize the IRS - to persecute their political opponents by spurious investigations and accusations. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
2023: September - December Political Notes
 US citizens: phone your representative and senators and call on them to be on guard against any attempt to extend the wireless wiretapping authorization, section 702 of the PAT RIOT Act, and block it. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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Senators: Protect Safe Access to Mifepristone — Don’t Let Politics Override Science
Right now, the abortion pill Mifepristone is under renewed attack from the highest levels of government. Despite 25 years of FDA approval, experts ...
Online Letter Campaign, no JavaScript
 US citizens: call on senators to protect safe access to mifepristone — don’t let politics override science to impose religious extremism. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code-not trivial, but not hard. If you phone, please spread the