Notices by Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz), page 6

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/05/session-encrypted-messaging-app-developer-moves-out-of-australia-police-visit-switzerland
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_June_2017_(Public_cool_with_backdoors)

An Australian developer of encrypted messaging software has moved to Switzerland to escape the hostility of Australian laws, including the law that allows the state to order employees to install backdoors in servers and in released software.

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/07/trump-blank-check-netanyahu-war-iran-panetta

*[The wrecker] will give Israel ‘blank check’ which may mean all-out war with Iran, says ex-CIA chief.* If that happens, it could become a nuclear war if one side starts to lose.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/06/palestinians-will-not-be-allowed-to-return-to-homes-in-northern-gaza-says-idf

Netanyahu announced the ethnic cleansing of North Gaza. I must suspect that South Gaza will follow, but this is itself an enormous war crime. Biden can redeem himself morally by voting for a Security Council resolution to order Israel to take this back, and calling for sanctions otherwise.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/16/election-alabama-voting-rolls-registration

*US judge bars Alabama from purging thousands of voters before election.*

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bullshitter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/08/trump-administration-project-2025

When the bullshitter said Project 2025 had nothing to do with him or his plans, we suspected he was lying as usual. Now there is evidence of this.

https://theonion.com/america-defeats-america/

(satire) *America defeated America at the ballot box.*

[2/2] governments.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/american-press-trump

Ways that the wrecker could preside over the effective elimination of the free press in the US. One of many ways would be to follow Biden's beginning by prosecuting publishers of leaks. A couple of years from now, serious journalism about what the US government is doing may have been forced into exile, much as serious journalism about what the Russian government, Chinese government. and many other repressive

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-lesson

Robert Reich describes the misguided "lessons" that plutocratists want the Democrats to learn from Harris's defeat.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/07/yoav-gallant-israel-army-nothing-left-to-do-in-gaza

Netanyahu dismissed his war minister, Yoav Gallant, who then said there is no "security reason" to continue the fighting in Gaza. He accuses Netanyahu for rejecting a deal of hostages for peace for invalid reasons.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/07/california-resistance-state-trump-federal-government

California has already prepared to resist some forms of attack and reprisal that the bully could apply arbitrarily.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/05/far-right-election-trump-harris

Right wing extremists aimed to sow so much chaos that the election would fail, and they could start an uprising to make the election irrelevant. They failed this time, it seems, but perhaps since the wrecker won they decided it was time to relax.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/08/trump-healthcare-coverage-threatened

*Incoming Trump presidency threatens millions of Americans’ [medical insurance].*

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2024/oct/27/trump-press-freedom-stakes

The wrecker's threat to freedom of speech and journalism in the US.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/08/trump-mass-deportation-plan

The wrecker says he will deport all unauthorized immigrants and threatens to punish states that resist. This must be part of the reason California is allocating funds to cope with that punishment. If the wrecker goes ahead with this plan, then he will have to replace them with authorized immigrants, or convince millions of Americans to do the job. For that, he would have to give those workers a big raise.

[2/2] has a responsibility is to correct it, rather than disclaim responsibility.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/09/blind-woman-denied-benefits-because-she-attended-dwp-interview-with-help-of-mother
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#16_June_2022_(Tory_government_undermined_supervision_of_state_activities)

Sending letters to blind people who cannot read them is one of many forms of idiotic careless contempt that the UK government shows to the handicapped. I think this attitude was instilled by the Tory government's attitude. but Labour

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/07/plastic-pollution-is-changing-entire-earth-system-scientists-find

*[Plastic] pollution is affecting the climate, biodiversity, ecosystems, ocean acidification and human health, according to analysis.*

https://www.stallman.org/glossary.html#trump
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/trump-voters-revolution-politics-right
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/democrats-hope-vibes-action

*[The wrecker's] voters want a revolution. It’s time for progressives to offer their own.* *Democrats must offer more than just hope.*

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/09/authoritarians-like-trump-love-fear-defeatism-surrender-do-not-give-them-what-they-want

Rebecca Solnit: *Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want.* One important point is distinguishing hope from optimism.