Friday, April 14th, 2023

Time	Event
10:02a	Supermajorities enable crushing democracy Supermajorities enable parties to crush democracy, as Republican parties are doing now in several states. But these supermajorities did not happen naturally. They result from Republican measures to rig elections — voter suppression and gerrymandering. (Comment on this)
11:32a	Israelis see Netanyahu as security threat Israelis are coming to regard Prime Minister Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition as a security threat. (Comment on this)
6:48p	Los Angeles suing journalist Los Angeles released information to journalist Ben Camacho for a public records request. Now the city is suing him for publishing it. (Comment on this)
6:48p	DeMentis efforts to remove black representative Governor DeMentis went to enormous lengths to eliminate the state's one black congressional representative, by gerrymandering and intimidation of voters at many levels. (Comment on this)
6:48p	Australia eliminated use of private debt collectors The Australian government has eliminated use of private debt collectors to prevent repetitious of cruel abuses set up by the previous right-wing government by means of them. (Comment on this)
6:48p	Extraction of methane for fuel The Group of 7 wealthiest countries are converging on a policy of increasing extraction of methane for fuel. This will speed up climate disaster. Activists are calling on Biden to stop this. Biden is not the most steadfast and reliable of champions for climate defense. The sad thing is that there is no one else to appeal to. (Comment on this)
6:48p	Rules on fossil fuel consumption of future vehicles Biden's new rules for fossil fuel consumption of future cars and trucks are inadequate to prevent them from causing climate disaster. (Comment on this)
6:48p	Members of US Congress call for dropping charges against Assange Some members of the US Congress called on Attorney General Garland to drop charges against Julian Assange. They were led by Rep. Rashida Tlaib. (Comment on this)
6:48p	Affordability of Social Security Expansion *Report Shows Social Security Expansion is Affordable.* (Comment on this)
6:48p	Benjamin Ferencz Benjamin Ferencz was one of the prosecutors in the Nuremberg war crimes trials, after investigating Nazi concentration camps in the US Army. His obituaries do not mention that he called for prosecution of Dubya and some of his ministers. (Comment on this)
6:48p	Governor DeMentis worked at Guantanamo Governor DeMentis worked at Guantanamo prison, and was given the task of interviewing prisoners who were going to be force-fed. DeMentis still claims that the prisoners they tortured were "terrorists", though hardly any of them can be connected to terrorism. (Comment on this)
6:48p	Climate emergency crisis *Climate emergency is the biggest health crisis of our time — bigger than Covid.* (Comment on this)
6:48p	Republican billionaire trying to buy elections A billionaire Republican hedge-fund founder tries to buy elections, and perhaps has succeeded. He did succeed in buying the naming rights of Harvard's general graduate school. I expect the students and faculty will have their say now, and I hope their condemnation of that Republican will live longer than he does. When the MIT AI Lab moved to the Stata Center, and I discovered that one of the two towers was named Bill Gates, I urged people to refuse to call it by that name. I suggested Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul, but people settled on the innocuous "D Tower" and "G Tower". I also made a practice of formally saluting the sign that says "Bill Gates", near the outside door of the G tower, with my middle finger. Methods like this can certainly be used against another billionaire donor who has harmed people's freedom. (Comment on this)
6:48p	Rutgers faculty on strike Rutgers faculty are on strike to call for a raise for all the kinds of teachers at the school. (Comment on this)
6:48p	Security cameras in Ukraine Coffee shops in Ukraine have "security cameras" that should better be called "insecurity cameras", because Russian crackers broke their security in order to snoop on Ukrainian convoys. Any store that takes pictures of its customers and puts them on a network in real time is making its customers vulnerable. (Comment on this)
6:48p	Manhattan DA sues Republican Jim Jordan *Manhattan DA who indicted Trump sues Republican Jim Jordan over interference in case.* The interference consists of demanding to subpoena one of the DA's investigators, trying to find something to accuse him of. I don't understand the legal issues enough to know whether there was any actual wrongdoing, but in general no one is more likely to lie than a Republican official. (Comment on this)
6:48p	Daniel Ellsberg campaigning for peace and disarmament Daniel Ellsberg is dying, but he won't let that hold him back from campaigning for peace and disarmament. (Comment on this)
6:48p	Urgent: Protect access to Mifepristone US citizens: call on the FDA to use emergency powers to protect access to Mifepristone. (Comment on this)

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