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US citizens: call on Biden to end the gouging of private Medicare Advantage insurance plans. If you phone, please spread the word! White House: +1-202-456-1111 and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213
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US citizens: support the EPA's plan to charge companies for excess methane emissions. If you have disabled the page's JavaScript, you may get a blank response after signing. That does not mean anything is wrong; your signature has probably been sent in properly. The blank screen has text that is rendered invisible by CSS; if your browser gives you a way …
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US citizens: call on the Fish and Wildlife Service to protect monarch butterflies.
the Guardian
After this week’s Julian Assange court hearing, this is clear: extradition would amount to a death sentence | Duncan Campbell
Lawyers posed the pivotal question: how can exposing crime and torture be worse than committing them, says former Guardian crime correspondent Dunc...
the Guardian
Ross and Rachel for the TikTok age: how Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s romance captured the world
She’s just won best album at the Grammys; he may well win the Super Bowl. Is their romance a political conspiracy, money-making enterprise or jus...
[2/2] … 2021. He is a narcissist, and he gets pleasure when anyone says his name. I've decided not to give him any that pleasure. That's the first step in fighting him -- but not the last, or course.
The Onion
Horse Without Health Insurance Unable To Afford Being Shot In The Head
LOUISVILLE, KY—Facing a financial dilemma after breaking his leg, a local horse who didn’t have health insurance was reportedly unable to affor...
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Israeli intelligence had copious information about HAMAS's plans for the attack, but dismissed it all as an impossible fantasy. This has no effect on moral questions. Not on judging the war crimes …
the Guardian
Hamas drew detailed attack plans for years with help of spies, documents suggest
Sheer scale of information seized from fighters exposes Israeli military’s failure to spot signs
2009: January - April Political Notes - Richard Stallman
2014: November - February Political Notes - Richard Stallman
the Guardian
‘Apocalyptic’ conditions in southern Gaza blocking aid, top UN official says
Martin Griffiths says continuing offensive has ended any possibility of meaningful humanitarian operations
the Guardian
French parliament backs proposal to ban vapes
National assembly votes unanimously for move to outlaw single-use e-cigarettes, or ‘puffs’
the Guardian
Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil
Climate scientists say fossil fuel use needs to fall rapidly – but oil-rich kingdom is working to drive up demand
the Guardian
EU agrees to ban exports of waste plastic to poor countries
Rules, still subject to formal approval, stop exports to non-OECD countries and limit them elsewhere
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400 or so people came to Atlanta for a nonviolent protest against Cop City. They held a nonviolence training first. They brought gas masks because they expected the thugs to attack them with violence. That's exactly what the thugs did. They started attacking as soon as the protesters came close. The thugs also attacked press. The thug department seems to be run by Putin. Is it …
the Guardian
Atlanta police condemned for heavy-handed action at Cop City protest
Officers used flash-bang grenades, teargas canisters, tanks and snipers and accused participants of ‘terrorism’
US citizens: call on Congress to reject GOP attempts to cut IRS funding. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Australia is putting its counterpart to Chelsea Manning on trial for leaking secret information about Australian soldiers' covered-up war crimes in Afghanistan: 
the Guardian
Whistleblower David McBride declares ‘today I serve my country’ as trial starts over alleged leaking of war crime documents
Former military lawyer addresses supporters outside ACT court before trial over allegations he leaked material regarding war crimes in Afghanistan
Why taxing inheritance is vital for a good society: 
the Guardian
Passing on great wealth to our children spells the end of society. Just ask Aristotle | Will Hutton
If, as speculated, the PM scraps inheritance tax, the stench of money will just grow stronger
Swiss glaciers lose 10% of their volume in two years: 
This effect is not in itself a disaster, but it is a sign that disasters will be coming rapidly from now on.
the Guardian
Swiss glaciers lose 10% of their volume in two years
Volume lost during hot summers of 2022 and 2023 equal to total depletion between 1960 and 1990, says report
Due to global heating effects, Europe's olive oil harvest has been badly damaged and its own production is exhausted for this year: 
the Guardian
Europe’s olive oil supply running out after drought – and the odd hailstorm
Heatwaves around Mediterranean have damaged harvests and forced producers to import from South America
A UK thinktank published a report overestimating the cost of achieving "net zero" which was "full of errors that even a schoolboy would be embarrassed about." This should have been no surprise given that the thinktank — or should we call it a "drunktank" — hired a global heating denialist to prepare the report: 
The article refers to him as a "climate skeptic", but that PR term is used to excuse climate denialism.
the Guardian
How a thinktank got the cost of net zero for the UK wildly wrong
Civitas’s deeply flawed report was timed to follow the PM’s speech in which he called for an honest approach to the issue
US citizens: call on the EPA to adopt a stronger limit for pollution from trucks.
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