100 clergy members arrested at Minneapolis airport amid protests over ICE immigration surge – live
Labor unions and progressive organizations have called on workers across the state to stay home in an ‘economic blackout
We’re getting an update that 100 clergy members were arrested while protesting federal immigration enforcement outside Minneapolis-St Paul international airport today.
They were arrested by members of the airport staff and local law enforcement, according t…

Exclusive: Resignations Continue at Heritage Foundation amid Frustrations with Leadership (Audrey Fahlberg/National Review)
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusive-more-staffing-resignations-at-heritage-foundation-amid-continued-frustrations-with-organizations-leadership/amp/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p40#a251222p40

How AI can work across scales, from individuals to organizations to economies, like steel and the steam engine before it, as AI arrives as "infinite minds" (Ivan Zhao/@ivanhzhao)
https://x.com/ivanhzhao/status/2003192654545539400

Ivan Zhao (@ivanhzhao) on X
Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

Sources: Giants exec Abrams leaves after 27 years https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47688708/giants-senior-executive-kevin-abrams-leaving-27-years-sources-say

OpenAI launches the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, which offers journalists AI training, open-source projects, and practical use cases (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/openai-academy-for-news-organizations

"Conservation Groups Push for Fossil-Free Forest Zones at COP30"
#COP30 #Environment
https://h…

Conservation Groups Push for Fossil-Free Forest Zones at COP30 | Happy Eco News
More than 70 organizations at COP 30 called for the establishment of fossil-free forest zones to protect tropical forests and Indigenous territories from oil and gas development.

#OpenTelemetry Project Publishes “Demystifying OpenTelemetry” Guide to Broaden Observability Adoption
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/02/opentelemetry-observability/

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 5793 nodes and 45266 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The UK's NCSC is warning of persistent targeting of UK organizations by Russian hacktivist groups
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/ncsc-issues-warning-over-hacktivist-groups-disrupting-uk-organisations-online-services<…

NCSC issues warning over hacktivist groups disrupting UK organisations and online services
Russian‑aligned hacktivist groups continue to target UK organisations with disruptive cyber attacks

76% of civil society organizations in Ukraine continue working despite resource shortages, new study finds: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/07/of-civil-society-organizations-in.html

The Pentagon plans to cut its participation in elements of NATO’s force structure
and a range of the alliance’s advisory groups,
-- the latest sign of the Trump administration’s drive to scale back the U.S. military presence in Europe,
according to multiple officials familiar with the matter.

The impending move will affect about 200 military personnel
and diminish U.S. involvement in nearly 30 NATO organizations,
including its "Centers of Excellence&…

Pentagon moves to cut U.S. participation in some NATO advisory groups
The planned exit marks the Trump administration’s latest move to scale back Washington’s military investment in Europe’s defense.

Went on LinkedIn (was checking my profile to trim it down some more) and saw an ICE ad, so I did the only proper thing;
(I did check the comments real quick and they were 🔥 - huge ratio of anti-ICE comments. On. LinkedIn.)

Texas did this; likely a signal to the feds to follow suit.
Florida labels Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/09/florida-desantis-muslim-brotherhood-cair-terrorist-organizations

We need id for vulnerabilities on online services. Documenting is critical.
#cybersecurity #vulnerability

Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails
Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116083589029041168
Nobody gives a shit anymore about anything.
It’s fine to post absolute tripe like this on a corporate website.
It’s fine to post quotes that were never said in a newspaper.
It’s fine to reference science that doesn’t exist in scientific papers.
It’s fine to commit code that was never checked to software.
It’s fine to post music that no one made.
It’s fine to share videos of things that never happened.
It’s fine to steal, lie and scam people.
All of this is hyped and cheered on by governments, organizations, businesses and individuals.
What in the fucking fuck is wrong with everybody?

By partnering with betting markets, news organizations undercut themselves by effectively endorsing competitors and opening audiences up to ripoffs by insiders (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/business/881967/polymarket-kalshi-journa…

Prop bet
Polymarket and Kalshi have made a series of deals with Dow Jones, CNN, CNBC and other news outlets.

A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.
— by @…
🤦

A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.

Blocking the work of MSF is absolutely depraved. Israel continues to fumble its way out of the community of civilized nations.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93…

Israel to halt operations of several humanitarian groups in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday that the organizations that will be banned on Jan. 1 did not meet its new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF by its French acronym, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with H…

Something about #PamBondi's #DOJ - The #Epstein "redactions" followed by this. It's almost like #HumanTrafficing

Something about #PamBondi's #DOJ - The #Epstein "redactions" followed by this. It's almost like #HumanTrafficing

From The Energy Mix
U.S. Exits UN Climate Bodies, 66 International Organizations
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are among the 66 international organizations the United States is exiting under an executive order signed Wednesday by Donald Trump.
A White House memorandum said the withdrawal affects organizations and treaties that are “contrary to the interests of the United States.”

Seems the FBI is not yet ready to take in surrendering forces from fictional terrorist organizations. No word on whether or not they could take surrendering Nazgul, Decepticons or Cobra from GI Joe either.
#USpol #antifacsist

Canadian government introduces groundbreaking legislation to ban cosmetics animal testing and trade #AnimalRights

Canadian government introduces groundbreaking legislation to ban cosmetics animal testing and trade
Animal protection organizations and cosmetics industry applaud tabling of landmark legislation

Seems like the funeral industry in Korea has failed to meet its cybersecurity requirements. Gotta wonder if this is true everywhere. (not that most organizations aren't bad at cyber -- they are -- but haven't read much about the funeral industry).
Exclusive: Funeral Industry Faces Security Gaps as Top Firms Lack Key Certifications

Exclusive: Funeral Industry Faces Security Gaps as Top Firms Lack Key Certifications
Exclusive: Funeral Industry Faces Security Gaps as Top Firms Lack Key Certifications Despite managing sensitive data of millions, funeral companies remain exempt from information security regulations, raising concerns over data protection and ransomware risks

Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. The goal is to give you "just the browser" and nothing else, using hidden settings in web browsers intended for companies and other organizations.
https://justthebrowser.com/

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

Dozens of unions, community and faith organizations are calling on every Minnesotan to take a stand on January 23rd.
The ICE “surge” that cost the life of Renee Nicole Good is violating the Constitutional and human rights of Americans and our neighbors.
On January 23rd there will be a unified, statewide pause in economic activity.
We are demanding:
🔸ICE must leave Minnesota now.
🔸The officer who killed Good must be held legally accountable.
🔸No additiona…

The genocide continues.
#israel #genocide #Palestine @…

Eleven organizations just won a combined $5.9M for solutions that are actually changing lives.
The 2026 Zayed Sustainability Prize winners are tackling everything from AI diagnostics to eco-brick production. Since 2008, this prize has impacted over 411 million people through innovations in health, water, energy, and climate action.

Zayed Sustainability Prize Honours Global Pioneers Advancing Progress - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. US$5.9M awarded to 11 organisations and high schools from the UAE, Brazil, Canada, Nepal, Switzerland, Uganda and across six sustainability categories From AI-enabled diagnostics to Cooling-as-a-Service, this year’s winners deliver locally adapted innovations that empower millions In 18 years, the ... [continued]

Doea anyone know of any organizations in the greater Seattle area working to eliminate, or at least oppose the further proliferation of, unnecessary urban lighting? One of my favorite places to go in the city at night is now full of street lights. The whole reason I loved it is that it was *dark* and you could look out across the water without glare everywhere.
Not every beachfront bike path needs to be lit up like a sports stadium. It's a waste of electricity, contributes to light…

Adobe pledges ~$10M in grants and product donations in 2026 to support filmmakers, including funding creators directly for the first time (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

Adobe Pledges $10M to Film and TV Fund, Partners With Amelia Dimoldenberg
The software company is launching new partnerships with organizations including Dimoldenberg's Dimz Inc. Academy and Rideback RISE.

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

Researchers track dozens of organizations affected by React2Shell compromises tied to China’s MSS https://therecord.media/researchers-track-dozens-react2shell-vuln

"Scaling ORCID Adoption: Technical and Organizational Approaches Within a Research Organization"
#ORCID iD use…

Following federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.

Hi, #Anarchism! 🚩🏴
I want to grow my RSS feed and get more variety in what I read. What sources do you all check out regularly? That could be news outlets, journalists, organizations, unions, blogs, or individual creators.
Please share your favorite anarchist, socialist, or syndicalist-leaning websites in the comments. I’d really like to see what everyone else is reading and may…

Leonora Camner, Liz Barry will speak on 'Breaking Governance Capture: How Sortition Can Transform Organizations' as part of our Open Government track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
-- Adam Scharpf & Christian Gläßel
https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publications/refereed-articl…

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina

Demystifying #OpenTelemetry: Why You Shouldn’t Fear #Observability in Traditional Environments
https://ope…

"According to the report, the spearphishing emails relied on links that appeared trustworthy because they passed through legitimate online advertising and click-tracking systems commonly used to track user engagement."
North Korea-linked hackers pose as human rights activists, report says
<…

North Korea-linked hackers pose as human rights activists, report says - UPI.com
North Korea-linked hackers are using emails that impersonate human rights organizations and financial institutions in phishing attacks, according to a report released Monday.

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-international-organizations-conventions-and-treaties-that-are-contrary-to-the-interests-of-the-united-states/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p153#a260107p153

can’t wait for ai bros to argue that csam laws are holding agi back https://www.404media.co/a-developer-accidentally-found-csam-in-ai-data-google-banned-him-for-it/

A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.

On stage now @mathewlowry.bsky.social talking through additional tooling of custom feeds to collaborate on sharing content across organizations.
#EuroSkyLive https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post

The US withdrawing from many organisations including GFCE (Global Forum on Cyber Expertise) doesn’t look promising about their commitment to cybersecurity.
#us #cybersecurity

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

Immigrant justice lawyers representing 13 plaintiffs sued to overturn the first Trump administration's asylum ban in "Noem vs. Al Otro Lado"
The lawsuit was filed in July 2017 by Al Otro Lado, along with the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, the American Immigration Council, and other organizations located near the border.
“Customs and Border Protection officers would confront people literally standing at the line and obstruct them from coming in,” said Melissa…

US Is Legally Obligated to Provide Asylum. SCOTUS May Help Trump End It Anyway.
The federal government is appealing a case from Trump’s first term to reinstate an asylum ban at the southern border.

This CSO letter submitted today has a single #China/#HongKong entity, China Labour Bulletin.
Which self-dissolved in mid-2025...
https://foejapan.org/en/issue/20251205/27117/

Call for the Suspension of Irresponsible Nickel Development in Palawan, the Philippines — More Than a Decade Without Effective Environmental Measures, Leaving Community Rights at Risk — International Petition (8,411 Signatories from 36 Countries; 90 Organizations from 40 Countries) Submitted to Sumitomo Metal Mining | Friends of the Earth Japan
Ahead of Human Rights Day on December 10, an international petition calling for the suspe...

An interview with security expert Runa Sandvik on the FBI search of a WaPo reporter's home and seizure of devices, and how journalists should reassess security (Maddy Crowell/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/ha…

The home of Hannah Natanson, a Washington Post reporter, was searched by the FBI. Her devices were seized. Runa Sandvik, whose life’s work is protecting journalists’ digital security, assesses the damage—and what news organizations need to know.
The home of Hannah Natanson, a Washington Post reporter, was searched by the FBI. Her devices were seized. Runa Sandvik, whose life’s work is protecting journalists’ digital security, assesses the damage—and what news organizations need to know.

Trump pulls US from global groups including UN climate change agencies
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/08/trump-withdraws-international-organizations-un-climate

Today in #AbolishStateDOTs news..
#NYC #CrossBronxExpressway

It's finally Friday, so before you stop working for the week, check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Trump cuts off US access to organizations seeking to strengthen cybersecurity,
--Prisoner swap sends alleged ransomware payment negotiator back to Russia,
--CISA retires ten emergency directives at once,
--Cambodian cybercrime kingpin extradited to China,
--Fugitive wanted for Desjardins br…

Trump ends US participation in organizations devoted to stronger cybersecurity
Prisoner swap sends alleged ransomware payment negotiator back to Russia, CISA retires ten emergency directives at once, Cambodian cybercrime kingpin extradited to China, Fugitive wanted for Desjardins breach arrested in Spain, Trans activists hacked Free Speech Union, much more

I would like to go on record to say that I don't hate LLMs. That would be like disowning maths.
I hate how people sell it with promises that are simply lies and urging people to use it for things that it is unsuitable for, with the commercial LLMs how they train models on stolen data, how users talk themselves into believing they're talking to a human or something human-like while deskilling themselves, how institutions and organizations shoehorn it into every fucking thing, the way it is usurping computing resources and increasing prices for personal computing, how the big companies underhandedly continuously threaten everyone with "if we don't invest enough the Terminators will get us" and how it is used for very obvious large-scale financial fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When people can’t tell what’s real, it can blur their understanding of animal behavior, welfare, and conservation needs. It can also divert attention – and support – away from organizations doing the real work to protect wildlife.
https://scz.org/blog/the-reality-of-ai-animal-content

"AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Nature

AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects | Happy Eco News
AI for nature restoration tools are transforming environmental protection as companies deploy sensors, predictive models, and machine learning systems. Nearly 350 cities use AI to map tree coverage and combat heat, while organizations monitor wildlife and detect wildfires.

Israel on Tuesday said it had
💥suspended more than two dozen humanitarian organizations,
including "Doctors Without Borders" and CARE,
from operating in the Gaza Strip
for failing to comply with new registration rules.
Israel says the rules are aimed at preventing Hamas and other militant groups from infiltrating the aid organizations.
But the organizations say the rules are arbitrary and warned that the new ban would harm a civilian population d…

Israel to halt operations of several humanitarian groups in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday that the organizations that will be banned on Jan. 1 did not meet its new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF by its French acronym, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with H…

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 1429 nodes and 32876 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

TTP: Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store host dozens of apps linked to US-sanctioned foreign companies; Google removed 17 apps and Apple removed 35 (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Blacklisted foreign companies persist in app stores, defying U.S. sanctions
U.S. tech giants Apple and Google are hosting apps from blacklisted foreign organizations, defying Treasury Department sanctions.

Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-bug-causes-copilot-to-summarize-confidential-emails/

Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails
Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information.

10 Best Free Blue Team Tools in 2026
Organizations assess their cybersecurity posture and safeguard network infrastructure by deploying experts for comprehensive security evaluations.
🧑‍💻 https://cybersecuritynews.com/blue-team-tools/

10 Best Open-Source Blue Team Tools - 2026
Blue Team Tools: 1. Wazuh – SIEM & XDR 2. Wireshark 3. ClamAV 4. Snort 5. Nikto 6. OpenVAS 7. Yara 8. Sigma | SIEM Signatures 9. Nmap

Trump withdraws from global groups on climate and more in sweeping move (Amy Harder/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/08/trump-withdraws-international-organizations-un-climate
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p161#a260107p161

Human Rights groups warn an immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss has reached a “breaking point”
Human rights experts are sounding the alarm about living conditions at the immigration detention camp that houses hundreds of people.
“Fort Bliss is a human and civil rights disaster,”
said Eunice Cho Senior Counsel for the American Civil Liberty Union’s prison program.
The ACLU and other organizations allege physical abuse,
unsanitary conditions and medical negle…

Human Rights groups warn immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss reaching “breaking point”
Human Rights groups are calling the immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss a human and civil rights disaster. They demand the federal government shut down the tent facility and warn living conditions are putting hundreds of people held there at risk.

BRICKSTORM Backdoor
"The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) analyzed eight BRICKSTORM samples obtained from victim organizations. BRICKSTORM is a custom Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) Go-based backdoor. "
MISP standard and STIX files available at the following location:
🔗 https://cti-tra…

When the working class organizes on the basis of solidarity and direct action, workers and communities can collectively manage and control the means of production, while federations of workers and local communities coordinate production and social life through mutual aid and federalist principles, without bosses or the state.
In an era marked by automation, precarity, and deepening inequality, the struggle for workers’ self-management, economic democracy, and social liberation remains …

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 1429 nodes and 32876 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The New York Times, AP, RCFP, and other media organizations back an effort to block a new Texas law requiring app stores to verify users' ages (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/411151/new-yor…

New York Times, AP, Others Ask Court To Block Texas Law Restricting App Downloads
"The Act renders wide swaths of speech at the very heart of the First Amendment's protection presumptively off limits to minors when accessed through apps -- a critical channel of distribution for news organizations," news organizations argue in a proposed friend-of-the-court brief filed Wednesday with U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman in Austin.

West Coast Health Alliance,
WA Dept of Health,
and Leading National Medical Organizations
Continue to Recommend Hepatitis B Vaccination for Newborns
WCHA disagrees with CDC’s Advisory Committee’s change to decades-long vaccine recommendation
that has reduced pediatric hepatitis B infections by 99 percent

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Heroku says it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model", as it focuses on "helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI" (Nitin T Bhat/Heroku)
https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

An Update on Heroku
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Her…

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Gathered Intel On 1,000 Journalists, Politicians, Religious Organizations On Flimsy Grounds (Ryan Lovelace/Racket News)
https://www.racket.news/p/exclusive-fbi-gathered-intel-on-1000
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p110#a260212p110

The Public Media Bridge Fund awards $26M across 74 organizations that operate more than 180 public radio and TV stations (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2025/12/public-media-bridge-fund-announces-initial-round-of-grants/

Public Media Bridge Fund announces initial round of grants
The fund will provide $26 million to 74 public media organizations.

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 320 nodes and 2369 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

GCVE-BCP-02 Published - Version 1.3 (2025-12-09)

We’re pleased to announce the publication of GCVE-BCP-02 – Practical Guide to Vulnerability Handling and Disclosure, now available in its version 1.3.
This Best Current Practice document provides actionable guidance for organisations, researchers, and GCVE Numbering Authorities (GNAs) on managing and disclosing vulnerabilities effectively, both within the GCVE ecosystem and beyond

Designation of Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/designation-of-certain-muslim-brotherhood-chapters-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations-and-specially-designated-global-terrorists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p103#a251124p103

Polymarket agrees to its first media partnership to supply Dow Jones outlets, including the WSJ and Barron's, with real-time prediction market trading data (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Polymarket to Distribute Prediction Data to Dow Jones Outlets
Polymarket will supply Dow Jones with trading data under a new partnership, the latest in a string of deals between exchanges and media organizations that are putting prediction markets in front of a broader audience.

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

A leaked memo by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi
directs the Justice Department and FBI to ❌compile a list of groups that may be labeled
“domestic terrorism” organizations
- based on political views related to immigration, gender and U.S. policy.
The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein,
who joins us to discuss how it expands on Donald Trump’s "NSPM-7 directive" following the assassination of Charlie Kirk,
--…

“Domestic Terrorism”: Leaked DOJ Memo Targets “Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity”
A leaked memo by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directs the Justice Department and FBI to compile a list of groups that may be labeled “domestic terrorism” organizations based on political views related to immigration, gender and U.S. policy. The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, who joins us to discuss how it expands on President Donald Trump’s NSPM-7 directive following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which ordered a national strategy to inv…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Begins Process to Designate Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-begins-process-to-designate-certain-muslim-brotherhood-chapters-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations-and-specially-designated-global-terrorists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p102#a251124p102

Sources: NYT and WaPo learned of the Venezuela raid soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/03/2026/new-york-times-w…

News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 165 nodes and 726 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Palo Alto Networks: an Asian cyber-espionage group broke into systems belonging to 70 critical infrastructure organizations and governments in 37 countries (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2…

❌Mobile Fortify,
the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters,
is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike.
That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights organizations are
🔥demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
shut down the use of Mobile Fortify,
release the agency's privacy anal…

Rights Organizations Demand Halt to Mobile Fortify, ICE's Handheld Face Recognition Program
Mobile Fortify, the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters, is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike. That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and...

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 5524 nodes and 94219 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Local non-governmental organizations who organize and help survivors on the worst day of their lives are the backbone of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery in California.
By joining together and creating a "Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters" ( #VOAD ) group,
they start to take steps to communicating, cooperating, collaborating and coordinating future response and rec…

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
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Analysis: news organizations' open-source activity has fallen from a peak of 2,092 new public GitHub repositories in 2016 to 396 in 2025, an ~80% decline (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalism-lost-its-culture-of-sharin…

Journalism lost its culture of sharing. Here’s how we rebuild it
The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed.

Ventura County Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster ( #VCVOAD )
is a collaborative of nearly 50 local non-profit agencies,
faith-based organizations,
volunteer groups,
public institutions,
and private entities
dedicated to improving outcomes for people affected by disasters.
VC-VOAD helps communities respond to and recover from major disasters guided by our f…

About | Ventura County VOAD

Trump announces U.S. will leave dozens of international organizations (Adam Taylor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/07/trump-rubio-united-nations-withdrawal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p16#a260108p16

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 3862 nodes and 87324 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans
it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress "American viewpoints".
The Europeans, characterized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations,
fell afoul of a new visa policy announced in May to restrict the entry of foreigners deemed responsible for censorship of protected speech in the United States. …

US bars five Europeans accused of censoring Americans
The State Department is barring five Europeans it accuses of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterized them as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations. The five Europeans include the leaders of organizations that address digital hate and a former EU commissioner who clashed with tech billionaire Elon Musk over broadcasting an online interview with Donald Trump. Rubio’s …

A look at the visual investigations of the Minneapolis ICE shooting by The NYT, WaPo, and Bellingcat, and how they helped people trying to make sense of events (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/…

When just showing the video isn’t enough: Minneapolis shooting puts news organizations to the test
When everyone has seen the same videos, what service do news sites provide?

In the mid-20th century,
Mary Cardwell Dawson
broke barriers for Black musicians and performers
as a vocal proponent of musical education
and the founder of the National Negro Opera Company(NNOC),
one of the first professional organizations of its kind in the United States.
Dawson’s multi-decade career eventually led her to the White House,
where first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was so impressed by her efforts that she wrote a personal check in support o…

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
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It’s not enough to just express our outrage about ICE’s horrific killing of Renee Nicole Good.
We must also demand that our elected officials act.
Join a local event this weekend to say
👉ICE Out For Good:
https://www.mobilize.us/?tag_ids=29132

Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Mobilize
Create change in your community. Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, and fundraisers in your local area, organized by charities, campaigns, political organizations, grassroots groups, and other volunteers! Together, we'll help make the world more just, inclusive, and democratic.

Photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested in November while documenting a protest in Miami, Florida.
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges
— and this week the prosecutor agreed❗️
The following statement can be attributed to Adam Rose, deputy director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“I hope law enforcement officers take this to heart: Swearing an oath to protect the community means protecting everyone — including pre…

Florida prosecutor agrees: Photography is not a crime
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges — the prosecutor agreed

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

FBI Is Offering a “Bounty” for Reporting “Anti-Trump Thought”
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/8/ken_klippenstein_fbi_domestic_terrorism_nspm7

“Domestic Terrorism”: Leaked DOJ Memo Targets “Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity”
A leaked memo by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directs the Justice Department and FBI to compile a list of groups that may be labeled “domestic terrorism” organizations based on political views related to immigration, gender and U.S. policy. The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, who joins us to discuss how it expands on President Donald Trump’s NSPM-7 directive following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which ordered a national strategy to inv…

Trump on Wednesday (January 7, 2026) signed an executive order suspending U.S. support for 66 organisations, agencies and commissions
following his instructions for his administration to review participation in and funding for all international organisations,
including those affiliated with the United Nations.
Most of the targets are UN-related agencies, commissions and advisory panels that focus on climate, labour and other issues that the Trump administration has categori…

U.S. to exit 66 international organisations as Trump further retreats from global cooperation
The U.S. plans to withdraw from 66 international organizations, primarily UN-related, under Trump's administration, emphasizing national interests.

A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups
has demanded a national moratorium
on new datacenters in the US,
the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry
that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis.
The green groups, including
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch and dozens of local organizations,
have urged members of Congress to halt the pro…

Trump’s administration is freezing more than $10bn in federal childcare and family assistance funds to
California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York,
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said,
citing what it called concerns about fraud and misuse.
The Trump administration has threatened federal funding cuts to organizations and states over a number of issues since taking office
– ranging from alleged fraud in programs of states governed by…