Environment
Chile's Atacama Desert has become a fast fashion dumping ground
Clothing from many of the world’s favorite brands lies in discarded heaps in Chile’s Atacama Desert. How it got there tells the story of modern...
 Enormous quantities of used clothing are sent to Chile through the port of Iquique. Those not resold get dumped in the Atacama desert, where the synthetics do not degrade. Instead they catch fire and spread pollution.
What Happens When Private Equity Takes Over an Emergency Room
One in four ERs are now staffed by private equity-based firms. The waits are longer, the bills are higher, and ER doctors are being replaced by con...
 Boeing-style management, coming soon to an emergency room near you.
SIGN ON: Support Biden and Democrats who want to protect Social Security from cuts by making billionaires pay their fair share.
Donald Trump just told CNBC that he is willing to cut Social Security – just four days after President Biden pledged in his State of the Union to...
 https://stallman.orgtel:+12022243121 US citizens: call on Congress to make the rich pay the same tax rate for social security as other working Americans. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
the Guardian
Meet the Israeli Rabbi and survivor of 7 October attack now in Australia to campaign for peace
Rabbis for Human Rights director Avi Dabush sees a ceasefire as consistent with values of peace and human rights
Let Benevolence Shine
 Rabbi Avi Dabush hid his family from HAMAS on Oct 7. Now he campaigns internationally for peace in Gaza. Let's not lose sight of where we want to end up.
Glossary
 https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/biden-administration-finalizes-weak-endangered-species-rules The Biden administration corrected 7 of the 31 blows that the wrecker, when president, struck against endangered species protection in the US.
[2/2] … willpower to reject it, along with other similar unjust disservices. ‡ For the issues of surveillance and the antisocializing contract, see GNU philosophy. That page is about ebooks, but streaming disservices typically do the same things.
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the Guardian
Jon Stewart says Apple told him not to interview FTC chair Lina Khan
Late-night host reveals Apple advised not to invite tech regulator on his Apple TV+ show and podcast the Problem with Jon Stewart
We oppose DRM. | Defective by Design
E-Books: Freedom Or Copyright - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
 Apple told podcast host Jon Stewart not to interview Lina Khan, Biden's antitrust crusader. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I expect that Apple attacks viewers' freedom with every episode of Apple TV.   I expect that "TV+" signifies "TV+DRM+surveillance+NDA", ‡ and now "+censorship" as well. Please summon your …
Tell Congress: End rampant corporate tax dodging; rein in excessive executive pay
When Donald Trump and congressional Republicans passed a tax scam that handed trillions of dollars in tax breaks to the rich and corporations, they...
 https://stallman.orgtel:+12022243121 US citizens: call on Congress to increase taxes on corporations in these several ways. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Inquirer.com
How media’s money woes threaten democracy | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what Donald Trump’s Wall Street windfall says about modern capitalism.
 As the main remaining US newspapers become paywalled (and therefore off limits to me), disinformation "news" sites are springing up which are gratis.
[2/2] … apparently not realizing that Putin would retaliate with nuclear weapons and wipe out civilization and maybe extinguish humanity. Republicans' speeches are not meant as serious policy proposals; they are only meant to stir up hatred they can use. Let's not lose sight of where we want to end up.