Notices by Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz), page 2

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/11/trump-administration-scientists-rules

* New [magat] rules would undermine longstanding research practices. It's death by a thousand cuts.*

[2/2] because no one wants to spend money to do anything about that. Prisons can be overhot by intention.

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/texas-crisis-brutal-heat-prison-cells
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2026-may-aug.html#29_June_2026_(Extreme_heat_will_double_US_hospitalizations)

Due to global heating, Texas prison cells meant to make prisoners suffer now can kill them. The deadliness of global heat is not limited to prisons, but overhot places outside prison where people live and work are generally overhot

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/11/justice-department-subpoenas-new-york-times-air-force-one

The New York Times reported on apparent flaws in the plane that Qatar gave the corrupter. Now the government is demanding they identify their sources, saying it wants to prosecute them.

https://theonion.com/national-opera-lays-off-200-phantoms/

(satire) *National Opera Lays Off 200 Phantoms.*

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/epa-rollback-endangered-habitats-logging-mining

The wrecker's henchmen just adopted a narrow standard of "harm" for the Endangered Species Act, in order to enable business activities that risk wiping out endangered species.

[2/3] deport (even illegally). It attracts less public attention now, because his henchmen have pulled back from the practice of operating with blatant crueity in Democratic cities to overawe and terrify. That backfired against them in several cities, including Minneapolis and Los Angeles, with the effect of galvanizing Americans against him. So now their plan is to collect ever-more surveillance data so they can find lots of unauthorized immigrants, as well as many authorized immigrants

[1/3] https://web.archive.org/web/20260709112633/https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ice-is-even-worse
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#17_January_2026_(ice_minneapolis_protests_renee_good)
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#18_January_2026_(Keith_Porter_shot_by_deportation_thug_for_celebratory_shot)
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#28_March_2026_(ICE_to_TSA_positions)

The persecutor has increased, not decreased, the hunt for people to

[3/3] that they can falsely accuse of being unauthorized, or target for fabricated accusations of political crime.

https://theonion.com/usda-fills-key-advisory-role-with-prominent-chewing-skeptic/

(satire) *USDA Fills Key Advisory Role With Prominent Chewing Skeptic.*

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/08/graham-platner-maine-senate-campaign
https://theintercept.com/2026/07/08/graham-platner-maine-democrats-senate-replacement/
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#plutocratist

Graham Platner has dropped out of the election for senator from Maine, after an accusation of rape. Now there is the question of how to choose another candidate. The word "rape" clearly states the gravity of the crime he is accused of. Why, I wonder, do so many

[2/2] journalists seek to substitute the vague term "sexual assault", which could mean anything from stealing a kiss to rape. Such vagueness is bad for justice. I hope that "moderate" (plutocratist) Democrats won't succeed in imposing one of themselves, since that replacement would fail to fight for the non-rich.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/10/visualised-how-conflict-aid-cuts-and-health-worker-attacks-are-helping-ebola-spread-in-drc

The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo is continuing to spread. Several factors are causing this, one being the monster's cancellation of US public health aid.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/11/the-13-biggest-myths-about-heatwaves-and-how-to-bust-them

Refuting the myths that people use to deny the danger of global heating.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/texas-man-ice-immigration

Witnesses say that the deportation thugs are making false statements to protect the one of them who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo dead. This is a repeated pattern, and presents a reason to suspect that their refusal to use body cameras and other cameras is specifically intended to help them protect each other from valid criminal accusations.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/09/us-chemical-accidents-trump

*US chemical accidents rising as [persecutor] rolls back protections, report finds.*

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/06/detained-gaza-doctor-almost-unrecognisable-injuries-israeli-jail-hussam-abu-safiya

Hussam Abu Safiya, *one of Gaza's most prominent doctors is almost unrecognisable because of severe injuries inflicted in Israeli [prison], his lawyer has said, and faces "tangible danger to his life" after being held for 18 months without charge or trial.*

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/12/why-do-free-speech-debates-make-us-so-angry

Analyzing arguments people cite on the issue of free speech.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-ban

Mamdani is working on a New York City rule aimed at banning hidden junk fees and at requiring that cancelling subscriptions be easy.

[2/2] cover them.