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Tuesday, June 4th, 2024

    Time Event
    4:46a
    Urgent: Investigate Ted Cruz

    US citizens: call on the DOJ to investigate Ted Cruz for apparent campaign finance violations

    4:46a
    Urgent: Election integrity online

    US citizens: call on Discussion and comment platforms to protect election integrity.

    The petition misuses the term "AI".

    4:46a
    Free-speech, voter suppression, KS

    *Kansas supreme court rules state constitution does not provide the right to vote.*

    4:46a
    Voter-ID law fiasco, UK

    The UK Liberal Democrats call for abolishing the right-wing voter-ID law. I wonder whether Starmer will support this.

    4:46a
    Urgent: Divest from war industry

    Everyone: call on Universities to divest from the war industry.

    4:46a
    US cease-fire plan, ISR

    Netanyahu obdurately rejects Biden's cease-fire plan and insists on fighting HAMAS until it is totally destroyed.

    Destroying an underground resistance movement, even one without tunnels, is generally nearly impossible as long as it can recruit from the population. So this decision implies an intention to keep killing Palestinians until there is hardly anyone left in Gaza to recruit.

    Let's not lose sight of where we want to end up.

    4:46a
    Officials threaten journalists, ISR

    *Israeli journalist describes threats [by Israeli officials] over reporting on spy chief and ICC.*

    Military censorship of news reporting is standard practice in Israel. In Israel's first three decades, it feared invasion at any time by Arab armies, and was always partly on a war footing. But that has changed. In the 21st century, the threat of political embarrassment became the focus of press censorship.

    In 2011, Israel's leading investigative journalist was prosecuted and silenced.

    4:46a
    Guantanamo prosecutorial misconduct

    Guantanamo prosecutors are trying to use one prisoner's confession under torture as evidence against another prisoner. They failed to inform the defendant's lawyers about the torture, in effect passing it off as a sincere confession.

    4:46a
    Coca Cola publicity

    Coca Cola publicity usually shows the old-style reusable glass bottles that in reality it uses for only 10% of sales.

    4:46a
    Urgent: Human rights to utilities

    US citizens: support the Resolution Recognizing the Human Right to Utilities.

    4:46a
    Urgent: Billionaire Minimum Income Tax

    US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax to limit the political power of America's richest families.

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

    4:46a
    Urgent: Biden's IRS budget

    US citizens: call on Congress to pass Biden's budget for the IRS.

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

    4:46a
    Cory Doctorow on Biden polity

    Cory Doctorow conjectures why Biden doesn't talk much about the good things he has done — it is to avoid alienating his plutocratist supporters.

    4:46a
    Samsung attacks repair process

    *Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to [report] Customer Data, and Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts — Leaked Contract Shows.* Furthermore, the nominally independent repair shop is then required to "disassemble" the phone which was repaired with truly independent parts.

    All of those practices ought to be forbidden by law.

    It is perverse to refer to systematic surveillance as "sharing" of the data that is collected. Please join me in reserving the word "sharing" to refer to voluntary cooperation.

    4:46a
    Post office as foreign owned, UK

    Britain's post office, privatized by Tories a decade ago, is now threatened with a leveraged buyout by a foreign billionaire.

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