Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023

Time	Event
11:46a	Deregulation worsened "too big to fail", banks *Warren Says First Republic Collapse Shows Deregulation Boosted 'Too Big to Fail' Banks.* (Comment on this)
11:46a	Policy changes favor the rich, EU A survey of policy changes in European countries and which groups of people like or dislike them. In general, changes are more likely to be liked by the rich than by other people. (Comment on this)
11:46a	Thousands will rage, UK The Tories are not very good at carrying through a plan to the end. But they are already planning repression against anyone enraged about being arbitrarily disenfranchised through voter ID cards. (Comment on this)
11:46a	Radical right paranoid style world *Tucker Carlson has lost his job — but the far right has won the BATTLE for the mainstream.* (Comment on this)
11:46a	Ban on symbols, salute, AU Australia's government is considering making the Nazi salute illegal. Prohibiting expressions of hateful views will not stop people from communicating them, but it will undermine the defense of freedom of speech. (Comment on this)
11:46a	Urgent: Stop paying extra to carry Faux News In the US: call on cable companies to stop paying extra to carry Faux News. A previous petition called on cable companies to remove Faux from their standard list of channels. I signed that, but it doesn't affect me personally. Cable companies use DRM, and monitor what the user watches. For those reasons, I refuse to be a cable subscriber. (Comment on this)
11:46a	Urgent: Stop collecting abortion seeker data Everyone: call on Google to stop collecting search and location data for abortion seekers. Google's collection of such data about users is an injustice regardless of what they are searching for. There is a proxy called LibreX which accesses Google search for you, but you can connect to it via Tor and not run the JS code it sends. (Comment on this)
11:46a	Urgent: Call on Feinstein to resign US citizens: call on Senator Feinstein to resign. I have been disappointed with Feinstein for years because she is a so-called "centrist" (that is, plutocratist) Democrat. However. the reason there is a campaign for her to resign now is that her illness and consequent inability to vote in the senate is blocking Biden's judicial appointments. If she resigns, the governor of California will appoint another Democrat who will be physically well and able to vote. (Comment on this)

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