Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman's Political Notes -

Urgent: Stop march to war - 2026-01-20T10:37:32+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to stop the march to war — no attacks on Cuba, no escalation in Latin America, and no more US-driven violence in our hemisphere.

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Urgent: Resist attempts to freeze child care funds - 2026-01-20T10:37:31+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to resist the bully's attempts to freeze child care funds.

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Urgent: Subpoena Big Oil - 2026-01-20T10:37:31+00:00

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to subpoena Big Oil for its role in the bully's illegal war.

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Urgent: Protect Medicine for Veterans - 2026-01-20T10:37:31+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to Protect Medicine for Veterans — Strengthen the VA, Don't Cut It.

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Urgent: Voter personal information - 2026-01-20T10:37:30+00:00

US citizens: call on the Department of Justice to drop its demands for voters' personal information.

You know how will use it — for persecution, making eligible voters fear to vote.

Urgent: Condemn threats against Greenland - 2026-01-20T10:37:29+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to condemn threats against Greenland.

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Urgent: Stop funding deportation thugs - 2026-01-20T10:37:29+00:00

US citizens: write to your senators and rep to stop funding the deportation thugs until they cease their unjustified violence.

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Urgent: Investigate killings by deportation thugs - 2026-01-20T10:37:29+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to investigate all killings by the deportation thugs.

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Urgent: Billionaires Income Tax - 2026-01-20T10:37:29+00:00

US citizens: call on your representative and senators to pass the Billionaires Income Tax.

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Urgent: Push to impeach RFK Jr - 2026-01-20T10:37:29+00:00

US citizens: Push to impeach RFK Jr to defend public health.

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Urgent: Skyrocketing medical costs - 2026-01-20T10:37:28+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to hold down skyrocketing medical costs.

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Urgent: Stop Warner mega-merger - 2026-01-20T10:37:28+00:00

US citizens: call on the DOJ to stop the Warner Mega-Merger.

We should not allow large companies to get larger through mergers.

Urgent: Challenge RFK jr's attacks on vaccination - 2026-01-20T10:37:28+00:00

US citizens: call on news media to challenge RFK jr's attacks on vaccination.

Urgent: Cover bully's intimidation honestly - 2026-01-20T10:37:28+00:00

US citizens: call on the mass media to cover the bully's intimidation honestly, instead of pretending it is legitimate conduct for a president.

Urgent: Impeach the gnome - 2026-01-20T10:37:28+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to impeach the gnome.

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Urgent: Institutional investors - 2026-01-20T10:37:27+00:00

US citizens: call on Tell Trump to make good on his promise to curb institutional investors: Pass the Stop Wall Street Looting Act!

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Urgent: Refuse funds for deportation thugs - 2026-01-20T10:37:27+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to refuse funds for the deportation thugs unless it is accompanied by making them respect people's lives and human rights.

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Urgent: Apple and Google contracts with deportation thugs - 2026-01-20T10:37:26+00:00

US citizens: Call on Apple & Google CEOs to end your contracts with the deportation thugs.

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Urgent: EPA authority of energy efficiency of manufactured houses - 2026-01-20T10:37:26+00:00

US citizens: call on Tell Your Senators: Protect the EPA's authority over energy efficiency of manufactured houses.

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Urgent: Raytheon stock buybacks - 2026-01-20T10:37:26+00:00

US citizens: call on Raytheon's board to invest in improvements rather than buying back the company's stock.

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Urgent: Magats' attacks on education, housing and other programs - 2026-01-20T10:37:26+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to block the magats' attacks on congressionally approved education, housing, and other human needs programs.

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Urgent: Bring TJ Sabula back to work - 2026-01-20T10:37:25+00:00

US citizens: call on Ford to bring TJ Sabula back to work — don't punish workers for criticizing hateful visiting politicians.

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Urgent: Stop special business tax breaks - 2026-01-20T10:37:25+00:00

US citizens: call on your state governor to stop giving businesses special tax breaks on the supposition that their investment would do wonders for the state.

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I mentioned https://stallman.org/articles/states-union.html in my letter.

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Urgent: Data leakage at Social Security Administration - 2026-01-20T10:37:25+00:00

US citizens: call Senate Crapo to investigate the coverup of data leakage at the Social Security Administration.

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Smuggled tech in Iran - 2026-01-18T04:37:36+00:00

Iran is hunting down the Starlink connections that are still running, trying to eliminate all external communication.

People think that Iran is planning to sever its domestic internet entirely from the rest of the world.

It could be you next - 2026-01-18T04:37:36+00:00

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 Trump describes her as a “professional agitator” and his goons call her a “domestic terrorist,” they could say the same about you regardless of your political views or activism. If you have left-wing political views and are an activist, you’re in greater danger.

How can we believe what the FBI turns up in its investigation, when the FBI is working for Trump and is headed by one of his goons, and is investigating possible connections between Renee Good and groups that have been protesting Trump’s immigration enforcement?*

When a corrupt and dishonest president packs government agencies with his corrupt and dishonest henchmen, everything they say and everything they do becomes suspect.

As Reich put it,

We must commit to peacefully fighting this regime, to ending Republican control of Congress in 2026, and to sending this dangerous gang packing in 2028 — assuming we’re still free and alive by then.

Bipartisan war powers resolution - 2026-01-18T04:37:36+00:00

*Subject: Trump Bullies Flip-Flopping Senators Into Defeating Vote to Block Venezuela War.*

That was just barely enough to defeat the resolution.

Global survey - 2026-01-18T04:37:36+00:00

*[the bully] is making China – not America – great again, global survey suggests.*

Urgent: Prevent Big Oil from Destroying Chaco Canyon - 2026-01-18T04:37:35+00:00

US citizens: Call on Interior Secretary Burgum not to let Big Oil destroy Chaco Canyon.

Urgent: Call on Big Tech to cancel contracts - 2026-01-18T04:37:35+00:00

US citizens: call on Big Tech to cancel contracts with Israel's government.

Horses response to human sweat - 2026-01-18T04:37:35+00:00

An experiment demonstrates that horses respond to odor of human sweat differently depending on whether the human was feeling fear at the time of collection.

ICE agents intimidation - 2026-01-18T04:37:35+00:00

Deportation thugs on streets around Minneapolis have been observed on various occasions making slightly veiled threats to shoot protesters.

They have become a murderous criminal gang that shelters under a distortion of legal authority.

ICE job offer - 2026-01-18T04:37:35+00:00

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 criminals without bothering to check.

Mandated Danish Forces - 2026-01-18T04:37:34+00:00

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.

EPA pollution rules - 2026-01-18T04:37:34+00:00

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.

In defense of Greenland - 2026-01-18T04:37:34+00:00

How can Europe defend Greenland (and the rest of Europe) from the bully?

Imminent logging - 2026-01-18T04:37:34+00:00

A special company in New South Wales, Australia, is authorized to fell trees in areas that are a habitat for endangered native species (plants and animals). It is supposed to take care not to harm those species, but it seems to take insufficient care.

It is so prone to mistakes that I wonder who profits from them.

Immigrant visa processing - 2026-01-18T04:37:33+00:00

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 country together, the US shoots itself in the foot.

Fossil fuel phaseout - 2026-01-18T04:37:33+00:00

*1.5°C target likely to be passed by 2030.*

Iranian tensions - 2026-01-18T04:37:33+00:00

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.

Non-terrorist Palestinian speaker cancelled - 2026-01-14T10:37:27+00:00

The Adelaide festival canceled a speaking invitation to a non-terrorist Palestinian, saying that presenting her would be "culturally insensitive" after a shocking terrorist gun attack on Jews in Sydney.

She rebuked the idea that the mere presence of a Palestinian with political views is somehow offensive in a way that one can at most hint at.

Chilling effect on lawful protest - 2026-01-14T10:37:27+00:00

*Both Human Rights Watch and the cross-party law reform organization Justice say recent legislative changes have created a chilling effect on lawful protest and should be repealed. Their reports, simultaneously published on Thursday, also say that proposals for more curbs should be halted.*

Bully wants to impose old imperialist international chaos - 2026-01-14T10:37:26+00:00

What the bully wants to impose is not a "new world order" but a return to the same old imperialist international chaos.

One point in the article is a conceptual confusion:

Yet this is not an administration that wants to colonize; instead it demands compliance. The new bosses in Venezuela are the same old bosses, the same henchmen and yes-men, only now with the No 2 running the show. This isn’t “imperialism”, not a new US protectorate nor some southern principality for son-in-law Jared, but something much cheaper and less onerous to the Oval Office: rule by remote control.

That statement adopts too narrow a definition of "imperialism". US imperialism in the 20th century often operated by working with local strongmen who were, in all but name, vassal rulers. It was different from the kind of imperialism practiced by European countries before 1950, but they often switched over to this new kind with the colonies that they had given independence to.

Laws that attribute personhood to things which are not people - 2026-01-14T10:37:26+00:00

Robert Reich: we must eliminate laws that attribute personhood to things which are not people, and also the laws that treat some people as less than persons.

We can protect things like species, rivers and forests without falling into those practices.

Republican politicians in Minnesota - 2026-01-14T10:37:25+00:00

Republican politicians in Minnesota are stubborn magats; they continue to insist on the party lie that Renee Good attacked deportation thugs before one of them killed her.

Big investors buying single-family homes - 2026-01-14T10:37:25+00:00

*[The bullshitter said] he will ban big investors from buying single-family homes.*

If that were actually done, it would be a substantial good thing. Nowhere enough to compensate for undermining human rights, democracy, and the principle of impartial justice, but good nonetheless.

I don't think he will actually do it. Perhaps, he will drop that proposal when those companies give a few billions to his ballroom fund.

Indian government arrested climate defense activists - 2026-01-14T10:37:24+00:00

The Indian government arrested climate defense activists for campaigning for India to sign the fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty with support from foreign organizations.

Prohibition of foreign support for humanitarian organizations is a standard fascist policy nowadays, pioneered by Orbán in Hungary.

Proposing granting legal rights to all sorts of things - 2026-01-14T10:37:24+00:00

There is a fashion these days to propose granting legal rights to all sorts of things — even hypothetical intelligences that some companies predict they will develop any day now.

It is fun to speculate about what life would be like in a world with real artificial intelligences, but it is pure folly to suppose that today's bullshit generators are even remotely like that.

Pervasive monitoring of children - 2026-01-14T10:37:24+00:00

Medical professionals campaign against pervasive monitoring of children.

RFK diet advice - 2026-01-14T10:37:23+00:00

RFK jr has started repeating some diet advice that is mostly uncontroversial.