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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025

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    2:38p
    Hungry civilians gunned down, Gaza

    *Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says.*

    2:38p
    Revenge on Harvard

    *[The persecutor]’s revenge spree on Harvard echoes well beyond education. Attacks on the university make clear that [his henchmen's] administration will wield its power against anyone who incurs its displeasure

    2:38p
    Feeding the troll

    Robert Reich: the corrupter is still a threat, but we can see that the tide is turning against him.

    2:38p
    Urgent: Explicit tariff taxes

    US citizens: call on several major US stores to state on product labels how much of the price is due to the bully's tariff decrees.

    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.)

    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.

    2:38p
    DOGe employees in COI as privateers

    *[DOPE] employees hold stock in firms set to benefit from cuts, Democrats allege.*

    When officials know they won't be prosecuted for corruption, they often turn to corruption. The DOPE's slogan could be "Corruption Я Us." I wonder if the corrupter will ask Putin for official Russian permission to use the letter Я.

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