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Saturday, May 17th, 2025

    Time Event
    2:37a
    Qatar jet woes

    *Poor [president]: you can't even accept a luxury jet from Qatar without being called corrupt these days.*

    2:37a
    Environmental Protection Agency dishonesty

    How the corrupter's henchmen running the EPA are systematically corrupting it.

    2:37a
    Urgent: Waiting for wellbeing promises

    US citizens: Call on Congress to implement for real the promise of wellbeing that the cheater falsely made to Americans.

    2:37a
    Food status in Gaza

    *Food security experts warn Gaza at ‘critical risk of famine’ amid Israeli blockade.*

    2:37a
    Urgent: Save noncompete-agreements rule

    US citizens: call on the FTC to maintain its ban on noncompete agreements. Noncompete agreements restrict a worker who has quit or been fired from getting another job in the same field.

    Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code. (See https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for why to avoid running it.)

    First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScrupt in your browser or are using the LibreJS plug-in.

    I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work without JavaScript!"

    They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.

    To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the right side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter.

    Then click the "START WRITING" button. That will take you to a page that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it doesn't function perversely by running that nonfree code, you can enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.) You can finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's address bar, as follows:

    First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'. Then tell the browser to visit that URL. This should give you a version of the page that works without JavaScript. Edit the subject and body of your letter. Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.

    This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender. Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is a small effort for the result of supporting the campaign without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious) software.

    2:37a
    Federal Trade Commission Act, section 5

    Republicans are working to repeal part of the Federal Trade Commission Act that makes it illegal for companies to cheat you.

    2:37a
    Urgent: Protect National Institutes of Health

    US citizens: call on Congress to Protect NIH Funding for Lifesaving Research.

    2:37a
    Urgent: The tax-exemption vulnerability

    US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 202-688-0628 to oppose the Republican bill that would allow certain officials to cancel the tax exemption of any tax-exempt organization.

    Here's what Free Press Action recommends saying:

    Hello! My name is [first name]. I'm a constituent and am calling to ask Rep. [congresscritter] to oppose language in the budget-reconciliation legislation that would empower the Secretary of the Treasury to target nonprofits' tax-exempt status.

    This dangerous language lacks adequate safeguards against abuse, violates due process and would hand unchecked power to the administration to politically target nonprofits.

    Reject executive overreach no matter what form it takes.

    2:37a
    Tax exemption as a weapon

    The House bill to cut taxes on the rich includes a rider that would allow arbitrary removal of any organization's tax exemption.

    I hope the Democrats have the courage to filibuster the whole thing.

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