Saturday, July 2nd, 2022

Time	Event
4:03a	Urgent: Call on these companies to stop funding attacks on abortion rights US citizens: call on these companies to stop funding attacks on abortion rights: Amazon, Google, AT&T, Citi, Coca-Cola, CVS, Walmart, Verizon, GM, Comcast, Walgreens, and T-Mobile. (Comment on this)
4:03a	So many Big Brothers Rebecca Solnit: *A planet in peril and so many Big Brothers: George Orwell would have been shocked.* I hope some one can inform Solnit that some of us do not "opt in" to this surveillance and manipulation. (Comment on this)
4:03a	Poor countries' unpayable debt should be forgiven George Monbiot: rich countries should forgive poor countries' unpayable debt, so those can spend money on conservation and education rather than debt service. Perhaps this should be conditional the beneficiary countries' cutting down the extraction of fossil fuels. (Comment on this)
4:03a	Free-range farming and animal-borne pandemics *Spread of "free-range" farming may raise risk of animal-borne pandemics.* (Comment on this)
4:03a	Democratic PACs running Republican ads Democratic PACs are running ads to help extremist Republicans win primaries, in the hope that they will be easy to defeat in the general election. Aside from the fact that this is like betting double-or-nothing, which is risky, it's also insincere. (Comment on this)
4:03a	Musk wants to fire salaried workers Musk said he plans to fire many salaried Tesla workers and hire more hourly workers. In other words, he wants a more precarious work force. He also seems to plan to hire other salaried workers later this year to replace those he is firing now. You'd think he could afford to keep those workers on for the few months in between. Or is this really a fire-and-rehire scheme to knock wages down? Musk has a pattern of covering up nasty actions with distraction publicity. (Comment on this)
4:03a	Clarence Thomas wants to overturn freedom of the press ruling *Does Justice Clarence Thomas want to overturn a landmark freedom of the press ruling?* The plutocrats that Republicans (and many Democrats) work for would sue newspapers over and over until they crack. (Comment on this)
4:03a	Australia makes serious decarbonization plan Australia is making a serious decarbonization plan for electricity. I don't think it aims to do enough before 2030, though. Also, there are other sectors that need to be decarbonized. (Comment on this)
4:03a	Imaginary anonymous note from right-wing Supreme Court justice *An [Imaginary] Anonymous Note to Liberals From a Right-Wing Supreme Court Justice.* (Comment on this)
4:03a	War on drugs prolonged civil war *War on drugs prolonged Colombia’s decades-long civil war, landmark report finds.* The leftist guerrilla movements started fighting against the inequality of Colombia, but over the decades turned to drugs for financing and got sucked into that. (Comment on this)
4:03a	Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony A summary of key points in Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony. *"Hutchinson's testimony of the deeply detailed plans of January 6 and the inaction of those in the White House in response to the violence show just how close we came to a coup."* (Comment on this)
4:03a	Attacking abortion rights by taking over supreme courts In Poland, as in the US, right-wing Christians attacked abortion rights by taking over the country's supreme court. (Comment on this)
4:03a	Bogus carbon offset scheme recognized Australia's new government has recognized that its carbon offset scheme is bogus. That is true elsewhere, too. I hope other governments will recognize it. (Comment on this)
4:03a	Fossil-fuel car sales will stop in EU by 2035 The EU countries agreed on a law to stop sale of new fossil-fuel cars by 2035. Avoiding global climate disaster requires much more than this, but at least it's a step forward. Other major economies (such as the US) have not done even this much. (Comment on this)
4:03a	Republican party's support The Republican party is supported by a coalition of single-issue voters for various issues, but it works for the plutocrats, and uses cruelty to make its supporters stop thinking. (Comment on this)
8:02p	Labour party rejecting candidates it considers leftist The Labour Party seems to be rejecting candidates for Parliament that it considers leftist. Now that Labour fails to oppose plutocracy hard, striking workers provide Britain's opposition. (Comment on this)
8:02p	Anti-abortion crusade's next goal The anti-abortion crusade's next goal is to impose a ban on abortion on all Americans. Many of them are willing to do this by hook or by crook. (Comment on this)
8:02p	Putin forces threatening teachers The Putin forces are threatening teachers in occupied Ukraine with firing, eviction, and possible imprisonment or violence unless they agree to teach Putin's censored curriculum. If they do agree, they may be punished by Ukraine in the future. I agree that Ukraine should not punish civilians who collaborated under duress. But I wonder if there is any way for teachers (and others unwillingly under Putin's rule) to get out. Certainly, Ukraine should try harder to make sure all teachers to leave areas that may soon fall to the Putin forces. (Comment on this)
8:02p	Palestinian Authority routinely tortures [prisoners] Human Rights Watch: *Palestinian Authority routinely tortures [prisoners].* (Comment on this)
8:02p	New York gun permit law New York State is drawing up a new gun permit law, to replace the one that the Supreme Court overturned. (Comment on this)
8:02p	Weaponized apps *Google Maps or a random game on your phone could just as easily be weaponized against someone as a menstrual tracking app.* To keep people safe, we must reject the practice of designing programs to send data anywhere off your machine, except on your explicit request. (Comment on this)
8:02p	Thugs coerce asylum seekers into pushing migrants back to Turkey *Greek [thugs] coerce asylum seekers into pushing [actually, rowing] fellow migrants back to Turkey.* And the thugs beat those up before before having them pushed back. The refugees are told they will be charged as smugglers if they refuse to help row the others back. (Comment on this)
8:02p	Colombia and President Petro The political situation in Colombia, and President Petro's prospects for changing it. (Comment on this)
8:02p	Striking subcontracted non-medical workers Subcontracted non-medical workers in British hospitals are now striking. Subcontracting has been one aspect of the general Tory pressure on the NHS. (Comment on this)
8:02p	EU wants commercial services to scan all communications The EU is considering a sweeping requirement for all commercial services for users to communicate or post anything to scan all communications. The stated purpose is to detect child sexual abuse, but since this is a tool for Chinese-style repression, it hardly matters what purpose is stated. (Comment on this)
8:02p	Congress and Supreme Court If Congress legislates to legalize abortion, it will not be straightforward to stop the fanatical Justices from finding an excuse to overturn that law. According to the writer, the Court of Chaos has already abolished most of the possible bases for Congress to establish any sort of right. It is now easier to prohibit something nationwide than to make it lawful nationwide. Here's a plan that would do the job — because it includes expanding the Supreme Court. That would make possible reversing the damage, not just the immediate decision overturning Roe v Wade, but the deeper levels too. (Comment on this)
8:02p	Conviction appealed since it was based on Google search A defendant has appealed a conviction because it was based on ordering Google to reveal which people had done a particular kind of search. Fanatical Christian officials could do this to find women who might have got abortions. (Comment on this)
8:02p	(Satire) Six provinces ruled by conservative justices (satire) *Supreme Court Casually Mentions Nation Now Divided Into Six Provinces Ruled By Conservative Justices.* (Comment on this)
8:02p	Proud Boys designated as terrorists in New Zealand New Zealand has designated the Proud Boys as a terrorist group. It seems to fit that description, but these decisions should be made by a trial, not arbitrarily. (Comment on this)
8:02p	Unreal cost claims to sidetrack renewable energy and promote nuclear Planet roasters continue making totally unreal claims about energy costs to try to sidetrack renewable generation and promote nuclear power. (Comment on this)

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