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Tuesday, January 30th, 2024

    Time Event
    9:19a
    Russian cyberwar camp, DE

    *Germany unearths pro-Russia disinformation campaign on [Ex-Twitter].* The campaign operated 50,000 fake accounts.

    Anyone supporting Putin, who is known for repression inside Russia's borders and wars of conquest outside them, is probably either an intentional disinformationist, or someone persuaded by intentional disinformationists.

    9:19a
    Methane greenwashing warning

    Propane companies are presenting that carbon-containing fuel as "renewable" based on a chain of exaggerations.

    You can use it, if you are pro-pain, but that would not avoid the impending destruction of civilization due to global heating effects.

    9:19a
    Urgent: Stop fake clinics' dooH niboR

    US citizens: call on Congress not to give government subsidy to phony abortion clinics.

    If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

    10:34p
    China censorship on Hugo awards

    The 2023 World Science Fiction Convention was held in China, and it is clear that China imposed censorship on the Hugo awards.

    The WSFS should either separate the Hugo awards from the Worldcon when the Worldcon is held in a country that imposes political censorship, or make a rule to exclude those countries from holding the Worldcon.

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    10:34p
    FBI search of deposit boxes

    The FBI searched many people's deposit boxes in a single massive operation, and seized valuables found. An appeals court ruled that this was unconstitutional.

    When the FBI applied to a lower court for a warrant, before the massive search, it misled the court about what it planned to do.

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    10:34p
    Stop arms transfers to Israel

    *16 … humanitarian and human rights organizations call to stop arms transfers to Israel [and to] Palestinian armed groups.*

    They include Amnesty International, Oxfam and Save the Children, among others.

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    10:34p
    Urgent: Right to seek asylum

    US citizens: call on Congress not to add permanent restrictions to the right to seek asylum.

    A permanent concession is too high a price to pay for a temporary benefit.

    If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

    </li>
    10:34p
    Urgent: Military supplies to Israel

    US citizens: call on Congress to condition further military supplies for Israel on respecting the human rights of Palestinians.

    If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

    </li>
    10:34p
    Urgent: Stop big pharma from increasing price of prescription drugs

    US citizens: call on Biden to stop Big Pharma from jacking up the price of prescription drugs.

    </li>
    10:34p
    Urgent: Expand Social Security

    US citizens: call on Biden and Congress to Expand Social Security.

    If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

    </li>
    10:34p
    Urgent: Stop inviting election deniers on the air

    If you watch US TV news networks: call on them to stop inviting election deniers on the air.

    </li>
    10:34p
    Urgent: End Child Poverty Act

    US citizens: support the End Child Poverty Act.

    </li>
    10:34p
    Urgent: End death penalty

    US citizens: call for ending the death penalty.

    Note that the wrecker wants to expand use of the death penalty. It might seem appropriate, poetic justice even, to compromise by authorizing the death penalty only for those convicted of trying to overthrow democratic government, but I think that that would be harmful in the long term — it would be responding to hatred with more hatred.

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