Saturday, January 18th, 2025

Time	Event
4:36a	Trump Silicon Valley The major tech CEOs are eager to become vassals of the man who would be king of the United States. Like Russian oligarchs, they may make billions with his approval, but they will be required to uphold his dominion over us. (Comment on this)
4:36a	Mark Zuckerberg Zuckerberg once apologized for feeding Americans Russian disinformation. Now, kneeling to the corrupter, he calls that part of Facebook's mission. (Comment on this)
4:36a	Cecilia Sala Iran's arrest of visiting Italian journalist Cecilia Sala seems to have been a response to Italy's arrest of an Iranian accused of making a drone attack on a US base in Jordan. It seems that Italy made a deal with Iran to release both of them in order to rescue Ms Sala. Iran seems to be using China's method for getting its agents out of jail: arrest hostages to exchange for them. (Comment on this)
4:36a	UK "internet safety" The UK's "internet safety" law makes operating a specialized noncontroversial nonsexual conversation forum dangerously unsafe. One site that supports hundreds of them is closing them all. The way the word "content" is used in that article, as if it were a kind of substance or commodity, fills me with disgust every time I see it. If the issue were not pressing, I would feel like not linking to that article. (Comment on this)
4:36a	Protest effectiveness What science concludes about making protests more or less effective. (Comment on this)
4:36a	Nauru The recent UN human rights ruling affirms the principle that Australia bears full responsibility for the offshore immigration prison it established with the help of Nauru, and for the harm that it does to the prisoners. (Comment on this)
4:36a	Fascists want your attention The magats seek to crush America's spirit of civil solidarity, and uses disasters as an opportunity. Here's an example. The muskrat seeks to drown out serious discussion of policy issues by screaming distraction so loud that most journalists won't disregard it. *[The fascist leaders] crave your attention. Don’t give it to them.* Denounce them once in a while for this, then go back to concentrating on the issues that really matter. (Comment on this)
4:36a	Resist billionaire class *To resist the climate crisis, we must resist the billionaire class.* (Comment on this)
4:36a	Trump vs. National Climate Assessment The saboteur-in-chief's supporters are trying to give the right-wing global heating denialists power over the National Climate Assessment, hitherto directed and made by climate scientists. (Comment on this)
4:36a	United Hellth denials United Hellth pursues denial of coverage so assiduously that its agent phoned a surgeon to argue an operation was not necessary, just as she was in the process of performing it. (Comment on this)
4:36a	DoJ vs. Voting Rights Act Experts warn that the fascist leader could direct DoJ officials to scale back enforcement of Voting Rights Act. (Comment on this)
4:36a	Israel raids refugee camp with ambulance *Israel admits soldiers used ambulance in raid on refugee camp.* Disguising soldiers as medical personnel is a heinous crime because it risks raising suspicion against real medical personnel. Remember when the US disguised agents as polio vaccinators to search for Osama bin Laden? The backlash against that spurred rejection of polio vaccination in part of Pakistan. Twenty years later, that part of Pakistan is the only region where the vaccination campaign has not been completed. (Comment on this)

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