Notices by Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz), page 4

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/07/donald-trump-usaid-shutdown-impact-china-relationship-funding
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker

The wrecker's destruction of USAID and cutoff of most nonmilitary foreign aid has probably increased China's global influence. I don't think the wrecker cares about this as much as he cares about his own power.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/trump-climate-change-federal-websites
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bullshitter

*Scientists brace "for the worst" as [<a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter] purges climate mentions from websites ... [P]ulling references online "won’t make crisis stop" [impacting] Americans’ lives, say experts.*

[2/2] heating, an amount which scientists expect to cause massive worldwide disaster. Thousands of Jor-Els, with detailed predictions, and still they cannot convince the political leaders to take the necessary action to avoid climate catastrophe.

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/04/climate-change-target-of-2c-is-dead-says-renowned-climate-scientist

James Hanson says that <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating is going faster than predicted, showing that human-caused greenhouse gases have a bigger effect than was assumed in modeling. (Other climate scientists disagree.) He concludes that it is impossible now to avoid 2°C of

[6/6] pay the price. He's stealing your most sensitive data while threatening basic social services. It's far past time for our elected officials to protect us from this monstrous coup. In solidarity, All of us at Free Press Action

[5/6] I'm a constituent and am calling to ask Sen. [Senator] to stop Elon Musk’s unelected takeover of the federal government. I urge you to vote "no" on all nominees and halt the Senate’s business while this power grab is underway, until the separation of powers is restored and you have answers. Stop Elon Musk’s coup immediately. ------------------- Elon and his loyalists are running roughshod over the Constitution and our public servants — and everyday people like you will be the ones who

[4/6] This is a clear authoritarian power grab from a man who twice gave an apparent Nazi salute to cheers from an adoring inaugural crowd. No one elected this man. And yet he won’t take no for an answer. Elon is conducting a coup before our eyes and members of the Senate have an obligation to do everything in their power to stop him. Please call your senators at 202-688-0628 before it's too late. Here’s a sample script to get you started: ------------------- Hello! My name is [First Name].

[3/6] dangerous plans. Free Press Action has sounded the alarm on Elon Musk for years: From reinstating thousands of neo-Nazis and other extremists on Twitter to gutting the platform’s content moderation rules to helping repressive regimes silence dissidents, Musk has a pattern of spreading hate and harassing critics. But now that he’s spent nearly $300 million to elect Trump — successfully buying his way into the highest echelon of the federal government — he is more dangerous than ever.

[2/6] Social Security and Medicare database and will exploit that access for the next step in their horrific autocratic scheme. Via his unconstrained "Department of Government Efficiency", Musk is blitzing major agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Treasury, and the Departments of Education and Labor. He's forcing out civil servants with actual expertise to make room for his handpicked legion, literally reshaping our government to fit his deranged and

[1/6] US citizens: phone our senators and call on them to stop Elon Musk's Coup. Call 202-688-0628. Free Press Action posted his campaign but did not include a URL for it, so I a copying the text here. Members of Free Press Action took part in protests across the nation’s capital this week as Elon Musk and his squad of sycophantic tech bros abruptly shuttered federal agencies. The richest man on the planet — and what we can only describe as the Elon Youth — invaded the Treasury Department’s

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/politics/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-system/index.html

*[Musk rats] sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending, emails show.

[2/2] wrecking crew make a monkey out of him, by rejecting the claim that although a payment shutdown order had been "rescinded", the shutdown was still in effect. This will eventually come to the Supreme Court, dominated by right-wing extremists. Will they choose between loyalty to their country and its freedom? Or obedience to their master?

[1/2] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/fbi-employees-tuesday/index.html
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://stallman.org/archives/current.html#1_February_2025_(Funding_freeze_blocked_by_courts)

*FBI turns over details of 5,000 employees who worked on January 6 cases to [corrupted] Justice Department, as agents sue* to stop <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker from having them fired. We have seen at least one judge refuse to let the

[2/2] in the example of the Trance Pacific Partnership The article presumes that the US remained a moral force until the start of this year, On some issues it was, while on others it was not.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/in-this-trump-era-of-shakedown-diplomacy-everything-has-a-price
https://stallman.org/business-supremacy-treaties.html
https://stallman.org/trance-pacific-partnership.html

*In this ... era of shakedown diplomacy, everything has a price.* The article describes how bullying as diplomacy can backfire. Alas, he equates "countries making and keeping agreements" with "acting in ways that help everyone", but they are sometimes in conflict, as

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#musk
https://www.levernews.com/trump-purges-inspectors-general-investigating-musks-businesses/

Several of the inspectors general that the wrecker fired worked at agencies that were, or had been, investigating the muskrat's government contracts.

[2/2] bullshitter must have told his fanatical followers to aim to wipe the possibility of making national decisions based on the truth. This ranges from barring publication of the truth in some areas, shutting agencies' eyes to the facts in others, and publishing a flood of distraction in this instance.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/ice-us-immigration-deportations-google
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bullshitter
https://stallman.org/archives/current.html#31_January_2025_(Labor_Relations_Board_deactivated,_US)
https://stallman.org/archives/current.html#8_February_2025_(Large_TB_outbreak_hamstrung,_KS)

*Thousands of [old] press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results on [Google], all updated with a timestamp from after [Jan 20].* The

[2/2] remove) remaining in the residence would be stolen. This is a sign of the bully's vindictiveness, but it is part of a system with a dangerous practical purpose: to scare everyone in US employment, whether civil or military, into eager compliance with the ruling party's ideology.

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#magat
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/linda-fagan-us-coast-guard-eviction-trump-b2693472.html
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully

A few days after firing the commander of the US Coast Guard, magats abruptly ordered her to leave her official residence with three hours notice and leave the door unlocked. This meant, in effect, exposing her to the risk that her own property (which she had been given no chance to