Richard Stallman

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Richard Stallman
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This is the Mastodon account for Richard Stallman. I founded GNU & the nostr:npub167r7xfkl07u5f4uraxagffpeun9dfd9urn46wzandym7q9s3wc2qy2p2re and with them launched the Free Software Movement. Please join or donate to the FSF: https://www.fsf.org I use this account to mirror the political notes from my web site, stallman.org. Read my linking policy: https://stallman.org/linkpolicy.html The views expressed here, as in stallman.org, are my personal views, not those of the Free Software Foundation or the GNU Project. #FSF #GNU #FreeSoftware Website: https://stallman.org Email: rms@gnu.org
the Guardian
US and UK military withdraw some personnel from Middle East amid Iranian threats
Tehran closes its airspace to almost all flights after threatening to strike US bases in Middle East if it carries out pledge to intervene in Iran
 After the imperious bully told Iran he would launch an attack if Iran executes protesters, the Iranian regime reacted just as I expected: by saying executions would start soon. The bully is cruel and unpredictable. The mullahs are cruel and rigid.
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the Guardian
Anti-Trump US reporter says she was offered job at ICE after ‘minimal vetting’
Slate journalist Laura Jedeed documented hiring process and said she got offer despite not completing paperwork
 Journalist Laura Jedeed applied for a job with the deportation thugs, expecting to write a story later about the process and how they rejected her for what their background investigation would reveal about her politics. But they did not bother to investigate - they accepted her even though she had not actually even filled out the forms. She is concerned that they may be accepting all sorts of violent
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the Guardian
Trump administration halts immigrant visa processing from 75 countries
The state department cites welfare use as it pauses visa processing for Brazil, Iran, Russia, Somalia and others
 The wrecker has halted immigration visa consideration for 75 countries, ostensibly because too large a fraction of immigrants from those countries end up needing some sort of public support. This is not a rational response to the problem. I was treated a couple of times by doctors that had immigrated from Albania - I am sure their income was adequate not to need welfare. By lumping everyone from each
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You could be next
This is personal.
 Robert Reich: *If agents of the federal government can murder a 37-year-old woman in broad daylight who, as videotapes show, was merely trying to get out of their way, they can murder you. Even if Trump and his vice president and his secretary of homeland security all claim, contrary to the videotapes, that Renee Macklin Good was trying to kill an agent who acted in self-defense, they could make up the same about you. Even if
The Intercept
Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland
Trump says Greenland is defended by dog sleds (true). But under royal decree, Denmark’s small military presence must put up a fight if attacked.
 Denmark has ordered its soldiers to fight any armed attack on Danish territory, including in Greenland. Denmark's army cannot militarily stop the US army from seizing Greenland. The point of this order seems to be to prevent the imperialist from sending his troops to seize Greenland and then pretending that the attack didn't start a war.
the Guardian
EPA to stop calculating money and lives saved by curbs on air pollution
Agency to focus rules for fine particulate matter and ozone only on cost to industry, aligning with Trump approach
 The EPA been ordered to give weight to the cost of pollution control but not to the cost of the human damage done by pollution, as a basis for relaxing the limits on soot pollution. The economic cost of a person's death is a callous way to judge the importance of saving a person's life. But ignoring it, as an excuse for allowing more toxic pollution, is even worse.