Notices by Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#s-i-c
https://theonion.com/trump-unsure-what-department-he-has-to-cut-to-make-jd-vance-go-away/

(satire) *[The saboteur-in-chief] Unsure What Department He Has To Cut To Make JD Vance Go Away.*

[6/6] computer to unjust (and potentially malicious) software.

[5/6] 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

[2/6] admitted it on FOX News, practically waving the deal in our faces: "If he doesn’t come through ... I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying, ‘Where the hell is the agreement we came to?’" 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 JavaScript in your browser or are using the LibreJS plug-in. I have done the

[3/6] 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

[4/6] 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 should enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript before going there.) 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

[1/6] https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fire-mayor-adams/?nowrapper=true
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#nightmayor
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#corrupter

US citizens: call on New York governor Hochul to remove NYC night-mayor Adams for his deal to escape federal corruption charges. The National Campaign for Justice mailed out this: It's a corrupt quid pro quo, and New Yorkers are the bargaining chip. This isn't speculation. [The corrupter]'s ICE henchman Tom Homan basically

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/17/the-new-world-order-is-exactly-what-it-looks-like-are-we-too-frozen-with-fear-to-name-itk

Rejecting the superstition that if we refuse to call it "fascism" that will somehow restrain the regime from going all the way there.

https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protect-cfpb-musk-attacks/?t=1003
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#musk

US citizens: call on Congress to protect the CFPB from sabotage by the muskrat's dog(e)s.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/17/a-great-shock-julianne-moores-childrens-book-under-review-by-trump-administration

The right-wing-controlled Pentagon is imposing right-wing censorship on the libraries of the schools for military personnel.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/trump-musk-government-cost-cutting-coup

*In slashing staff and disabling entire agencies the administration is lacerating the structures of US democracy.*

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/16/2304113/-I-am-a-Jew-Who-Won-t-Visit-Israel?_=2025-02-16T07:08:58.000-08:00

Alan Singer describes the history over time of his relationship with Israel, developing from intense support to moral reproach.

[3/4] European governments must ensure their weapons production does not depend significantly on US industry. They could be cut off by sanctions at any time. Europe must cease buying US weapons systems that depend on US spare parts, US maintenance, or software that Europe cannot maintain and change. NATO no longer makes sense with the US as a member, so perhaps the other members of NATO should construct a new alliance without the US. That could be a framework to facilitate joint defense of

[4/4] Greenland, for instance. With luck, that would deter the wrecker from actually invading Greenland.

[2/4] attack crucial human rights, and to promote his allies in Europe - European far-right extremists-Nazis - and encourage them to seize repressive power there as the Trusk regime is doing in the US. European anti-Nazis need to be bold, not hesitate and rely on measures that aim only to oppose them. Since the US appreciates Putin more than Europe, and is as likely to behave like Europe's enemy than like Europe's friend, Europe urgently needs to re-arm. The lesson from this is that

[1/4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/jd-vance-decried-as-extremist-over-attack-on-uk-abortion-clinic-safe-zones
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/jd-vance-munich-speech-laid-bare-collapse-transatlantic-alliance-us-europe
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/16/europeans-are-right-to-be-angry-with-donald-trump-but-they-should-also-be-furious-with-themselves
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker

Vance distorted edge-cases of European laws to

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-admits-that-the-linux-topic-crackdown-was-in-error-and-has-been-fixed

Facebook says that blocking posts about Linux or "Linux" was an unintentional error.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/17/donald-trump-us-corruption-kleptocracy-britain-corruption-law-oligarchs
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#corrupter

For decades the US has been systematically trying to curb global corruption, but the corrupter has eliminated many of the programs that contributed to the campaign. It looks like the US government has flipped to the pro-corruption side.

[2/2] mistakes in its haste. But usually they don't care, and say nothing. What is newsworthy this time is that they care enough to try to undo it.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-administration-nuclear-arsenal-worker-firings
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker

The wrecker's agents fired some of the workers that maintain security for US nuclear weapons. Then it realized that this was stupid, but it can't figure out how to reach them to offer them their jobs back. If you do things without careful thought, you are likely to make mistakes. I am sure the wrecker's destruction workers have made many