Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman's Political Notes -

Talk in Bern Switzerland - 2026-03-03T16:37:14+00:00

Richard Stallman will speak on March 11 in Bern, Switzerland, for the Guild42 group, at Berner Fachhochschule, Brückenstrasse 73, 3005 Bern

Title: Free/Libre Software and Freedom, touching on how they relate to machine learning

An explanation of the issues of justice and injustice in distribution and running of software, and in use of computing services and dis-services, with discussion of how this relates to machine learning, including both Artificial Intelligence and Pretend Intelligence.

Location: Brückenstrasse 73, CH-3012 Bern, Room: Aula

Time: 17:30

As usual, the event will have around an hour of presentation and around an hour of Q&A.

Urgent: Block construction of deportation prison-warehouses - 2026-03-03T16:37:14+00:00

US citizens: call on your state legislators to block construction of deportation prison-warehouses in your state.

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Urgent: Protect Vote by Mail - 2026-03-03T16:37:14+00:00

US citizens: call on Protect Vote by Mail. Tell Congress to act now! Demand the USPS Restore Real-Time Postmarks.

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Urgent: CBS political censorship - 2026-03-03T16:37:13+00:00

US citizens: call on CBS to stop engaging in political censorship to fawn at magat officials.

More information: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/21/cbs-trump-anderson-cooper-stephen-colbert-paramount

Urgent: Tel IEA Ignore Chris Wright's threats - 2026-03-03T16:37:13+00:00

Everyone: Tell the IEA: Ignore Chris Wright’s Threats, Follow the Science on Climate Change.

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Urgent: Campaign funds from Palantir - 2026-03-03T16:37:13+00:00

US citizens: call on your congressional officials not to accept campaign funds from Palantir.

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Urgent: Stop deportation thug use of Palantir's surveillance - 2026-03-03T16:37:13+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to stop the deportation thug department from using Palantir's massive surveillance system to track and target immigrants.

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Urgent: Stop CBS yielding to magat bullying - 2026-03-03T16:37:13+00:00

US citizens: call on CBS to stop yielding to magat bullying.

Urgent: block Nextstar-TEGNA merger - 2026-03-03T16:37:13+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress and the FCC to protect local news, by blocking the Nexstar-TEGNA merger.

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Urgent: Fight to impeach Bondi - 2026-03-03T16:37:12+00:00

US citizens: call on your congressional representatives to fight to impeach Bondi.

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Urgent: Stop next great recession - 2026-03-03T16:37:11+00:00

US citizens: call on your representatives and senators to take action to stop the next great recession!

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The wrecker's henchmen at the Securities and Exchange Commission are laying the groundwork to bring back one of the core financial products that led to millions of foreclosures during the 2008 crash — even as economic and climate conditions make its return all the more destabilizing. The SEC is intended to act as Wall Street’s top regulator, but they want to do the opposite of their job. Then the megabanks will "need" another big bailout, and Republicans will eagerly give them one. Please fight hard to prevent this big theft.

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Talk in Rotkreuz, Switzerland - 2026-03-01T10:46:30+00:00

Richard Stallman will give a talk in Rotkreuz, Switzerland, March 6th, 2026 at 17:00.

Talk in Rapperswil, Switzerland - 2026-03-01T10:46:30+00:00

Richard Stallman will give a talk in Rapperswil, Switzerland, March 9th, 2026 at 17:00.

Urgent: Repeal qualified immunity for federal officers - 2026-02-26T11:50:21+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to repeal qualified immunity for federal officers.

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Urgent: Tennessee Valley Authority coal plants - 2026-02-26T11:50:21+00:00

US citizens: call on the Tennessee Valley Authority to keep its promise to retire coal plants.

Urgent: News coverage of bully's action on Department of Justice - 2026-02-26T11:50:21+00:00

US citizens: call on major news organizations to cover the bully's action on the Department of Justice as a system of lobbying, revolving-door influence, and regulatory capture — examining financial ties, past clients, and enforcement outcomes.

Urgent: Qualified Immunity Abolition Act - 2026-02-26T11:50:21+00:00

US citizens: Call on Congress to pass the Qualified Immunity Abolition Act, to end qualified immunity for federal officers, including deportation thugs. This will give the victims of their violence a real chance of winning lawsuits about said violence.

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Veterans facing arrests over protests - 2026-02-26T11:50:21+00:00

From October: *Growing number of US veterans face arrest over protests [against deportation thugs].*

An ordinary perjurer lies about facts and expects there will be no proof that perse lied. These federal prosecutors did blatant blackwhiting about basic notions of right and wrong.

The epitome of an arrogant, dishonest bully punches you, then accuses you of "Hitting my fist with your face." Prosecutors did essentially that when they knocked over Briggs and then charged him with having "made physical contact with an agent's arm."

Teaching prosecutors to blackwhite on command is moral damage that many will not recover from. If we ever regain control, we will need to disbar them and replace them. Justice requires prosecutors who will prosecute thugs for documented attacks on protesters and other innocent people, not the thugs' victims.

With luck there will be former a pool of prosecutors who resigned rather than do such things, whom we could reappoint.

Microplastics in the wilderness - 2026-02-26T11:50:20+00:00

*Merrily we bring microplastics into the wilderness with our hiking shoes.*

Starmer's plans for prohibiting protests - 2026-02-26T11:50:20+00:00

Starmer's plans for prohibiting protests would have prohibited the creation of the Labour Party, if they had been in effect at that time.

Incomplete embryos cloned from adult humans - 2026-02-26T11:50:20+00:00

Scientists can create incomplete embryos cloned from an adult human. They lack the beginnings of a brain, but develop plenty of important parts that could, if they can develop far enough, be transplanted into that human to save per life.

Antibiotic resistance in disease bacteria - 2026-02-26T11:50:20+00:00

Antibiotic resistance in disease bacteria is reaching a tipping point leading to danger for everyone, but governments are still not addressing the danger strongly or systematically.

Australian tropical rainforest trees - 2026-02-26T11:50:20+00:00

*Australian tropical rainforest trees [have changed] from carbon sink to emissions source.*

Banning of Palestine Action is illegal - 2026-02-26T11:50:19+00:00

A court found the UK's banning of Palestine Action to be illegal because it was a major interference with the right to protest.

But this has not yet translated into the lifting of the ban.

Roses coated in a fine chemical cocktail - 2026-02-26T11:50:19+00:00

*Nothing says love like roses coated in a fine chemical cocktail.* Especially when many of the pesticides on it are banned in your country for reasons of toxicity.

Accusations of domestic violence against Australian thug - 2026-02-26T11:50:19+00:00

An Australian police force decided to disregard accusations of domestic violence against one of its thugs because he had already been fired. This left his wife still in danger from him.

inJustice Department persecuting because of political opinions - 2026-02-26T11:50:19+00:00

The inJustice Department keeps on persecuting people chosen solely because of their political opinions. Leakers keep on proving this by revealing the raw data that the department has.

New York City patients' data given to Palantir - 2026-02-26T11:50:19+00:00

New York City must stop giving patients' medical data to Palantir, since Palantir can't be trusted not to use it against them.

Bully returned to bullying Ukraine - 2026-02-26T11:50:18+00:00

The bully has returned to bullying Ukraine to offer Putin quasi-surrender.

This demonstrates once again that if he seems to have accepted some sort of reasonable compromise deal with you, he will break it later and demand servitude.

Palestine Action ruling - 2026-02-26T11:50:18+00:00

*The Palestine Action ruling vindicates the courageous – and shames the complicit.*

The ruling, if sustained by the appeals court, will put an end to the ban on the organization.

The article compares Palestine Action to the suffragettes and finds that their tactics were similar.

Retired British couple of activists for Palestine - 2026-02-26T11:50:17+00:00

A British bank closed the personal savings account of a retired British couple of activists for Palestine, and refuses to give them any justification for this. They believe it must be political repression.

T-Mobile to pass calls through powerful computer system - 2026-02-26T11:50:17+00:00

T-Mobile will implement the feature of passing everything said in a phone call to a powerful computer system.

The advertised feature is to translate between languages using "Artificial Intelligence", though it might really be mere Pretend Intelligence.

But if it can do that, with millions of conversations at once, what else can it do to everyone at once?

It can try to recognize you from your voice. It can convert your conversation into text, with a scattering of errors, and save that for Big Brother.

TSA precheck suspended - 2026-02-25T10:39:51+00:00

The bully is trying to focus self-important Americans' hostility on Democrats by shutting down two faster manners of going through airport security checkpoints, supposedly because of Democrats' refusal to fund the Department of Hatred and Sadism.

These two programs give preference to passengers who sign up and give their fingerprints. However, in the 2000s, the TSA would sometimes route some frequent fliers through the TSA Pre line even though we had not signed up. Apparently they didn't really need passengers' fingerprints to send them through the faster scan. So why demand fingerprints?

I suspect that was meant to teach Americans to be happy to be fingerprinted in exchange for saving some time.

The Democrats who criticize the government for halting these programs are being foolish and shallow. The bully is doing so many cruel, damaging and vindictive things; it is lacking a sense of proportion to complain about something that only causes a little more delay.

Sunday Thought - 2026-02-25T10:39:51+00:00

Robert Reich: the wrecker responds to setbacks with redoubled cruelty and stupid tantrums.

I paid no attention to what he said about pulling some thugs out of Minneapolis, because when he talks about making a concession, it is never a real concession.

Trump warns consequences - 2026-02-25T10:39:51+00:00

The obedience-trainer demands that Netflix remove someone from its board if it wants to be allowed to take over another large TV and movies company.

I recommend refusing to do business with Netflix, because of unjust aspects of its business.

Warner Bros Discovery does many of the same injustices. So I expect never to be a customer for either one, whether merged or not.

However, the merger of two such large companies will be harmful to the US and its people. Two such large companies should never be allowed to merge.

Targeted for deportation - 2026-02-25T10:39:50+00:00

*A Guardian analysis of government records has found that the vast majority – 77% – of people who entered deportation proceedings for the first time in 2025 had no criminal conviction.

This demonstrates solidly that what the bullshitter says about this is in fact bullshit.

US tariff policy ruling - 2026-02-25T10:39:50+00:00

The Supreme Court invalidated the bully's bogus excuse for arbitrarily raising tariffs, but his henchmen claim to have other excuses for the same increases. we will see what excuses they present in the next court case

Urgent: Drop charges against Georgia Fort and Don Lemon - 2026-03-01T10:46:23+00:00

US citizens: call on Attorney General Bondi to drop the charges against Georgia Fort and Don Lemon now.

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Urgent: End Big Tech tax breaks - 2026-02-24T11:09:05+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to end Big Tech tax breaks.

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Urgent No deportation thugs at our polls - 2026-02-24T11:09:05+00:00

US citizens: call on your state's Secretary of State: No deportation thugs at our polls.

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Urgent: Investigate why IRS gave personal data to DHS - 2026-02-24T11:09:04+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to investigate why the IRS gave taxpayers' personal data to the Department of Hatred and Sadism.

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Urgent: Bully's false picture denying cruelty of deportation thugs - 2026-02-24T11:09:02+00:00

US citizens: call on media to stop supporting the bully's false picture which denies the cruelty of sending deportation thugs, and soldiers, to occupy American cities.

Urgent: Stop cooperating with deportation thugs - 2026-02-24T11:09:01+00:00

US citizens: call on local and state officials to stop cooperating with the deportation thugs.

Urgent: Don't let deportation thugs weaponize Social Security - 2026-02-24T11:09:00+00:00

US citizens: call on the Social Security Administration not to let the deportation thugs weaponize Social Security.

Urgent: Stop corrupter getting money for bogus board of peace - 2026-02-24T11:09:00+00:00

US citizens: call on Congress to block the corrupter from getting government money for his bogus board of peace.

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Bully's henchmen demanding voter information from states - 2026-02-24T11:08:59+00:00

The bully's henchmen have demanded, from various states, databases with a lot of information about each registered voter, and sued some states that would not hand them over. A judge decided one suit in favor of Michigan's refusal.

Federal thugs raided race track - 2026-02-24T11:08:59+00:00

Federal thugs raided a race track with a warrant to arrest its owner for illegal gambling — but they violently seized and tied up all the spectators (including children) and wouldn't even let them go to toilet.

Now they are trying to sue over this outrageous conduct, but need to have recourse to a rather obscure legal argument to make it possible.

Google handing over surveillance camera footage - 2026-02-24T11:08:58+00:00

Google can hand over video footage from Pest surveillance cameras on subpoena even after it tells the "owner" it has "deleted" that footage.

States should prohibit remote transmission of "security" camera footage, so that anyone who wants to obtain it has to go to the camera and extract it physically.

Bully defends racist video - 2026-02-24T11:08:58+00:00

The bully continues to defend the racist video that portrayed Obama and his wife as apes. Worse than that, the video spread election disinformation lies that are aimed at undermining future elections.

Banned protests in New South Wales - 2026-02-24T11:08:57+00:00

The head of government of New South Wales banned a protest on behalf of Palestinians on the occasion of a visit by the President of Israel. Thugs attacked would-be protesters, who accused them of crimes. Now he is trying to prevent those accusations from being investigated.

All around the world we see efforts to equate the protesting of Israel's war crimes with antisemitism. That is so evidently absurd that I don't understand why anyone takes it seriously.