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Boss of US firm given £4bn in UK Covid contracts accused of squandering millions on jets and properties https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/17/boss-us-firm-uk-covid-contracts-accused-squ…

A record-breaking drought, fueled by the El Niño weather pattern, has caused widespread crop failure and national emergency declarations in Zambia, Malawi, and Zimbabwe.
Without harvests of maize, the staple food, millions in the region are facing a severe hunger crisis.
Some communities are eating grass to survive, while 17 Malawians were hospitalized after eating poisonous tubers in desperate hunger.
The region can scarcely handle the current reality, yet there are serio…

How an El Niño-Driven Drought Brought Hunger to Southern Africa
A record-breaking drought, fueled by the El Niño weather pattern, has caused widespread crop failure and national emergency declarations in Zambia, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. Without harvests of maize, the staple food, millions in the region are facing a severe hunger crisis.

Mystery fundraising firm takes in millions from the Trump campaign (Matt Dixon/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/mystery-fundraising-firm-takes-millions-trump-campaign-rcna156755
http://www.memeorandum.com/240617/p53#a240617p53

Blog of the APA || Black Feminist Theory and Praxis: An interview with Dr. Desireé Melonas
https://blog.apaonline.org/2024/06/18/black-feminist-theory-and-praxis-an-interview-with-dr-desiree-melonas/

Sorry, that wouldn’t be the psychopaths destroying humanity’s future industry by chance, would it? https://mastodon.world/@davidho/112626873670066685

Marlene Engelhorn inherited millions of € as heir to one of the founders of BASF. But instead of doing the business-as-usual-‘philanthropy' that the rich typically love she organised a representative citizen's assembly to decide how to get distribute the money.
https://www.dw.com/en/austria-citizens-group-decides-fate-of-heiress-fortune/a-69396454

Het NSC van #PieterOmtzigt is definitief toegetreden tot de RFF (racisme & fascisme fanclub). "Kom niet aan onze Bosma!"
#EigenFascistenEerst

Notre infrastructure #email, malgré plus de 8 millions de mails envoyés par mois (oui oui, 271 000 mails en moyenne par jour !) continue d’être régulièrement boudée par certains acteurs (oui, c’est vous qu’on regarde Orange, La Poste et SFR !). À tel point qu’après une lutte de plusieurs mois qui nous aura demandé autant d’énergie que de paracétamol, nous avons dû nous résoudre, Š contrecœur, Š utilise…

Dégooglisons Internet fête ses 10 ans : mises à jour et nouveaux services
Pétitions, Tableau blanc, Tricount-like, etc... De nouveaux services Framasoft sont en préparation, et des services existants sont en rénovation. On vous dit tout, et notamment pourquoi nous avons besoin de vous. Cet article étant particulièrement long, on vous en propose ici un court résumé. Il y a 10 ans, l'association Framasoft annonçait sa campagne «...

Each year, people and companies contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to tax-exempt political organizations in an effort to influence elections nationwide.
These organizations, commonly known as #527s after a section of the tax code,
can raise unlimited sums for political spending.
Today, ProPublica is releasing a database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more ea…

Introducing ProPublica’s 527 Explorer
Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.

In September 2020, the Federal Trade Commission joined regulators in four states
to sue four men behind a notorious telemarketing company called Outreach Calling.
The FTC alleged that the company, which it described as a
“sprawling fundraising operation,” had raised millions on the promise of helping the needy
— cancer patients, veterans, firefighters
— but instead used the money to line its pockets.
The case was meant to put fundraisers on notice.
…

How a Network of Nonprofits Enriches Fundraisers While Spending Almost Nothing on Its Stated Causes
ProPublica identified a group of connected political nonprofits — with names like American Breast Cancer Coalition and National Coalition for Disabled Veterans — that appear to be funneling more than 90% of donations to fundraisers.