Notices by Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/trump-denies-aid-arkansas-tornados

*[The wrecker] denies aid for Arkansas after storms that killed more than 40 people.*

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/us-university-presidents-trump-administration

*Over 100 US university presidents sign letter decrying Trump administration.*

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/24/global-covid-vaccine-data-nework-safety-doge-funding-cuts
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker

*The largest ever global study into the safety of Covid-19 vaccines has been terminated just 13 months shy of completion, after becoming caught up in the wrecker's sweeping funding cuts. Anti-vaxxers such as RFK will find this very helpful.

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/23/whitney-plantation-museum-trump-funding

*[The persecuter] cuts federal grants to a plantation museum focused on reality of slavery.* Removing the moral stigma that racism has and deserves to have is one of his goals.

https://www.whatissection230.org/
https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content

Why Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act must be defended. I agree with the article's position but I am revulsed by its use of the word "content" to refer to what people write, or what people say.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/23/coral-reef-bleaching-worst-global-event-on-record

*Coral reefs have a high concentration of biodiversity that supports about a third of all marine species and 109 billion people.* They are having the worst bleaching event ever before recorded, because they are hotter now than was ever before recorded.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today

Harvard is suing the US misgovernment calling on judges to rule in favor of academic freedom.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/22/putin-ready-for-direct-talks-with-ukraine-spokesperson-says

Putin has agreed to have direct discussions with Ukraine about a hypothetical peace deal. This is a gesture which doesn't commit Putin to anything. It has no significant progress.

[2/2] superfluous precautions accordingly; to convince the public that someone is a monster, be superfluously cruel to person.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/mahmoud-khalil-ice-noor-abdalla-birth

"ICE" stands for "not nice", using a double negative. It refused to allow Mahmoud Khalil to join is wife as she gave birth, rejecting several ways that would have been lawful and reasonable. I speculate this is part of a standard tactic used by many brutal-minded "law enforcers" in various countries: to convince the public that someone is very dangerous, pretend perse is very dangerous and take

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/25/australia-university-student-life

The virtual classes common in many colleges leads to isolating loneliness with no chance to meet people and converse. This is the consequence of using software which (though the users don't recognize this) is based on nonfree software that subjugates them.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/25/it-shapes-the-whole-experience-what-happens-when-you-build-a-city-from-wood

Building a city out of wood, but not with the old methods, eliminates a lot of the CO2 emissions and makes building a lot faster.

[2/2] terrorists.)

[1/2] https://theintercept.com/2025/04/24/barnard-college-gaza-protests-bomb-threat/

A bomb threat was announced against protesters at Columbia University protesting on behalf of Palestinians. Columbia's public response presented the protesters as possible culprits rather than as the targets. (Barnard College is part of Columbia University, and it seems the school thugs are using the bomb threat as an excuse to use more force against the protesters while trying to cast them as

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/18/capital-one-discover-financial-merger
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#26_December_2024_(Nisan_as_Honda_as_Mitsubishi)

Non-regulators appointed by the saboteur in chief have approved the merger of Discover Financial and Capital One, two enormous financial companies. Lina Khan would have prevented this.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/trump-proof-citizenship-vote-blocked
https://act.pfaw.org/sign/senate-reject-save-act/

A court order has blocked the persecutor's attempt to impose voter-id nationally. Republicans are trying to do the same thing with legislation. That might be upheld by courts, and it would do the same harm.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/federal-judge-blocks-musk-consumer-agency

*Federal judge blocks [muskrat's] effort to shutter [Consumer Financial Protection Board].*

https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-bringing-back-extinct-species/

(satire) *Pros And Cons Of Bringing Back Extinct Species.*

[2/2] climate disasters are survivable. But that won't apply if climate disaster reaches the stage at which globalized industrial production collapses, each region is reduced to what it can produce locally, the level of technology is sinking, and most humans die.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/19/climatologist-friederike-otto-the-more-unequal-the-society-is-the-more-severe-the-climate-disaster

For the present stage of climate disaster, "The more unequal the society is, the more severe the climate disaster". That is plausible in the short term, while the disasters are within what society can cope with if it is well organized to do so. Thus, the people who are truly crushed are the poor. Make fewer people poor, and the local