https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/19/trump-administration-healthcare-for-kids
Just as some right-wing ideologues try to compel American women to have more babies, others strive to ensure that more of them die young or develop lasting handicaps, by dismantling the medical system that systematically protects them.
A schoolteacher's documentary shows Putin's elementary school political propaganda system at work. Can you identify similar propaganda in your own country?
[3/3] billionaire influence took over, especially under Bill Clinton and his successors. Progressives are now bringing the Democratic Party back to the views of most Democrats.
[1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/centrist-democrats-democratic-socialists-backlash
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Political_alignment)
Progressive Democrats have had great success in recent Democratic primaries, defeating "centrist" corporate Democrats including some incumbents. The "centrists" now accuse the progressives of trying to "take over" the Democratic Party, saying they should start their own party. The term "centrist" is a
[2/3] distortion of the facts. It claims, falsely, that their views reflect the mainstream of Americans' thought. In fact, many of the progressive ideas that those Democrats reject have the support of more than 70% of Americans. The accusation that progressives are outsiders trying to "take over" the Democratic Party is absurd. The Democratic Party that governed the US in the 1930s and 1960s championed most of these progressive causes. (We called them "Liberal".) Then corporate and
[2/2] Afghan men will deserve it too.
The European Union, under pressure from right-wing immigrant-haters, is negotiating with the Taliban about returning refugees to Afghanistan. This threatens to aid the Taliban in carrying out their policies of oppression. Every woman in Afghanistan is oppressed; many men are, too. The EU should give asylum to every Afghan women who can reach there, and many
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://theonion.com/trump-indicates-desire-for-speedy-end-to-world/
(satire) *[The wrecker] Indicates Desire For Speedy End To World.*
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/california-professor-gaza-protest-reinstated
California State University fired a tenured professor for supporting student protesters who were opposing Israel's atrocities in Gaza. Arbitrators ordered the university to reinstate her with back pay.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/27/screen-time-damage-under-twos-development-study
*Screen time can damage under-twos’ development, landmark study suggests.*
User-tracking software has been installed recently in many US government web sites.
*British foreign correspondents could be at risk of prosecution if they use sources within state-backed groups in countries such as Iran, under national security legislation being rushed through parliament.*
[2/3] basement. There had traditionally been two competing manufacturers, but the government had allowed them to merge, so there was only one. That merger should have been blocked to maintain competition in that small field. Often the US appears to have a lot more competition than it really has. The supermarket company Albertsons uses all these names: Acme Markets, Albertsons, Carrs-Safeway, Haggen, Jewel-Osco, Kings, Pavilions, Plated, Randalls, Safeway, Shaw's and Star Market, Tom Thumb,
[1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/elizabeth-warren-trump-mergers
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
Senator Warren calls for reversing some of the many large mergers that have subjected the US to drastic industrial concentration. Even before the wrecker became president again, the US had a lot less business competition than it did a few decades ago. Several years ago I needed a new condensation pump to pump the air conditioner's water condensation out of the
[3/3] United Supermarkets, Vons.
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug
https://theintercept.com/2026/07/01/ice-court-order-arrests/
The deportation thugs disobeyed a federal court order not to arrest immigrants in immigration courts. This puts the US constitution in danger.
An additional threat to bees is that hot weather diminishes their fertility.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/01/andrew-dodd-matthew-ricketson-getting-murdoch-book-bullying-factory
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#faux
A book describes the method of invalid and scurrilous attacks that Murdoch organizations, including Faux News, use for character assassination against people they consider enemies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/pentagon-military-recruits-flu-vaccine-outbreak
An outbreak of flu leads to an outbreak of reason: *Pentagon restores mandatory flu [vaccine] shots for all recruits.*
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/02/china-ethnic-unity-law-denounced-rights-groups
China is adopting an "ethnic unity" law which it could use to put anyone in the world on "trial" for making statements that go against China's ideology. Anyone it can get its hands on, that means.