US citizens: Tell the EPA to protect clean water from corporate greed: reject proposed weakening in local approval for development that can affect water supply.

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US citizens: Tell your governor, no tax breaks for Big Tech data centers.

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Here's the text of the letter I sent.

I’m writing as your constituent, and as recipient of two awards from the ACM for programs I have shared with the public in freedom, to urge you to reject efforts in our state to provide Big Tech with tax breaks to build data centers. I’m concerned about the harms that data centers can do locally, including siphoning our water, using up our land, creating noise and light pollution, and hiking our electric bills. I’m also concerned that providing tax breaks to giant Big Tech corporations will deprive our schools and local budgets of their already insufficient funds. I'm also concerned that these data centers will mostly operate Pretend Intelligence (PI) -- software that *tries to* imitate what an intelligent entity would say, but without really understanding the words it plays with. The use of these digital dis-services does society harm. We should never allow business to play one state against another by making states compete to offer them the biggest tax break, because that perverse competition harms *all* the states for the benefit of business owners. So please reject efforts to give Big Tech (or *any* business) specific tax breaks to operate in our state. The states should form a union and bargain collectively with these businesses. The states could call their union the United States of America. Wouldn't that be a good thing to have?

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US citizens: Call on the media to report loud and clear on the amazingly unusual refusals by grand juries to indict people accused of bogus political "crimes".

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US citizens: call on state officials to protect your state from the spread of measles.

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Japanese fossil fuel companies invest in Australian fossil fuel extractors, and they appear to have lobbied Australia to prolong fossil fuel extraction.

This may be part of why the Australian government has neglected its responsibility to help save civilization from global heating.

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Global heating is starting to melt the rapidly heating Arctic permafrost, and this is releasing large quantities of methane at an accelerating rate.

This could lead to a tipping point into much faster heating.

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Australian thugs attacked protesters who refused to remain passive in the face of a visit by the President of Israel, who is responsible for tens of millions of Palestinian civilians' killings.

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*Britons' right to protest is under threat like never before. If you value it, speak up now.*

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The Iranian regime is becoming ever more fanatic, arresting important politicians close to the "reformist" official prime minister.

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Gallup polling announces it will cease its 88-year-old practice of tracking the approval ratings of the president.

Some suspect this is because the current president — the bully — is threatening to sue Gallup if it continues to report on how many people detest him.

I would compare this to his sabotaging of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They add up to a practice of trying to deny the public information that makes him look bad.

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*As Congress debated the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, civil rights advocates argued that immigration enforcement would be distorted — and weaponized — by its merger with the national security state.*

*In response to such concerns, Congress created an unusually far-reaching internal watchdog office for Homeland Security and its various arms, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): The Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.*

The wrecker, cognizant of the danger that that office was meant to prevent, has reduced the office to a skeleton crew.

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*House Republicans make rare, albeit symbolic, rebuke of [the bully] over Canada tariffs.*

Congress could cancel those tariffs if it wants to. It could do that by putting a clause limiting tariffs into a bill that the bully would find damaging to veto.

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* New evidence shows Gregory Bovino hailed [the deportation thug] who fired at Marimar Martinez five times in her car*. The thugs tried to frame her, too.

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Does a statistical survey about death of young children in England demonstrate a problem in their medical treatment?

This result suggests that consanguinity is leading to the birth of children with doubled harmful recessive genes — which is what we expect it to do, more or less. But in order to be sure of this conclusion, we need to know what fraction of children born have consanguineous parents. If that too is 7%, it would imply that those children face no greater danger of early death than other children. If that is less than 7%, it would imply that they do face a greater danger of early death.

If the risk is indeed higher for children of consanguineous parents, the next crucial question is how big a problem this is. What fraction of children of consanguineous couples in England die young? What fraction of children born in England die young? If that is a very small fraction, this problem affects few children.

Another question remains: supposing that this problem is substantial, how big is it compared with the other threats to the health of children in England?

And another one is, supposing that this problem causes a big danger to the children of consanguineous parents in England, is there an effective way to reduce that danger?

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The House of Representatives passed a bill to block a substantial fraction of adult US citizens from voting.

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Reportedly drug gangs in Mexico have obtained newer and more powerful arms than the Mexican government can get, including drones.

They may be a real threat to Americans, but it is minuscule compared with the threat to Americans from the deportation thugs. Let's not let the secondary threat distract us from the primary threat.

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Grand juries almost never deny prosecutors the indictments they ask for. But several grand juries have recently refused to authorize bogus indictments meant for political persecution.

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