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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said on Sunday that
the United States has revoked the visa for British journalist
Sami Hamdi,
alleging that he has supported terrorism and worked to
"undermine American national security."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) confirmed that Hamdi has not been deported but remains in custody,
and lawyers for the advocacy group are "working to address this injusti…

DHS Revokes Visa for British Journalist Accused of Supporting Terrorism
British Journalist Sam Hamdi has been accused of supporting terrorism and remains in custody as the U.S. looks to deport him.

It's official.
The Honduran president-elect is an imperialist stooge.
"Secretary Rubio commended President-Elect Asfura for his advocacy of US strategic objectives.."
Marco Rubio congratulates Honduran President-elect Nasry Asfura | Elections News | Al Jazeera

Marco Rubio congratulates Honduran President-elect Nasry Asfura
Washington’s top diplomat says he thanked Asfura, who was backed by Trump, for ‘advocacy of US strategic objectives’.

WTF Is Going On? - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy
'In this video, we walk through the anti-consumer AI circlejerk contributing to what we think is an "AI bubble."'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3JfOxx6Hh4

Chuckling about "Coinbase" teaching people how to <checks notes> "detect & avoid scams". 🤨
☑️ Coinbase Institute: Detecting and Avoiding Scams
https://www.coinbase.com/public-policy/advocacy/documents/detecting-and-avo…

How leaders of the MAHA movement benefit from anti-science advocacy and promise profits to industry | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/how-leaders-of-the-maha-movement-benefit-from-anti-science-advocacy-and-promise-profits-to-industry

AI Deregulation & Corruption: Companies Now Have Too Many GPUs - GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnlgwyVahCY

To what extent is this on the radar of #EV advocacy groups in the US? I certainly wasn't conscious of the potential barriers until reading this article.

To what extent is this on the radar of #EV advocacy groups in the US? I certainly wasn't conscious of the potential barriers until reading this article.

Donald Trump followed through on his threats to sue the BBC over its editing of his remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, for a documentary.
The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“If any ordinary person filed as many frivolous multibillion-dollar lawsuits as Donald Trump, they’d be sanctioned and placed on a restricted filers list.
By my count, Trump has demanded at least $65 billion in damages from media outlets i…

Trump’s BBC lawsuit is nonsense, like his others
His frivolous damages theory concedes that Trump views the presidency as a for-profit venture

Sources: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cuts ties with FWD.us, an immigration advocacy group founded by Mark Zuckerberg, eliminating FWD.us' main funding source (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

UK privacy regulator has seen ‘collapse in enforcement activity,’ rights coalition says https://therecord.media/privacy-regulator-ico-collapse

Microsoft’s aiding of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians exposes company and its leadership to legal liability
https://glanlaw.org/news/microsofts-aiding-o…

Raheem Mostert turns personal health scare into lifesaving advocacy for skin cancer screenings and early detection https://www.raiders.com/news/raheem-mostert-turns-personal-health-scare-into-lifesaving…

Projection, and they think because they do, everyone else does: "The reason that Republicans always say Democrats cheated when they win is because it’s what they do: At the time he was indicted, Smith was strategic director of Turning Point Action, Turning Point USA’s advocacy arm. "
Always Projection – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2025/11/23/always-projection/

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

#Zuckerberg fiscally abandons FWD.us the pro #immigration initiative he founded a decade ago, leaving non profit advocacy group without its major #philanthropist backing source, as has been done to other charitable effort…

Sabotage of climate action is systemic, not the result of individual actors.
Free download of ebook.
H/t @…
Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network
https://

Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network
Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

"Oil Field Restoration and Grassroots Action Transforms Former Oil Site"
#Environment #Restoration
https://ha…

Oil Field Restoration and Grassroots Action Transforms Former Oil Site | Happy Eco News
Oil field restoration by Friends of Coyote Hills transforms former Chevron land into preserved habitat through two decades of grassroots organizing and community advocacy in Orange County.

Chinese toymaker FoloToy suspends sales of its GPT-4o-powered teddy bear, after researchers found the toy gave kids harmful responses, including sexual content (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/ai_toys_fmatches_knives_kink/

Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects
: Consumer advocacy researchers at PIRG tested four AI toys, and none of them passed muster

Raheem Mostert turns personal health scare into lifesaving advocacy for skin cancer screenings and early detection https://www.raiders.com/news/raheem-mostert-turns-personal-health-scare-into-lifesaving…

I went on a little bike ride after lunch at work today to check out the missing bridge from the flood back in August and got approached by a woman who wanted to ask me some questions...
Local TV reporter, had a camera operator with her, so I put on a lav and talked about the (missing) bridge for a few minutes...
I stood with my bike and had my helmet on during the interview and talked about biking to work so I hope I leveled up on my bike advocacy journey.

When you are a windows hacker, every October 14, 2025 is Xmas!
https://prospect.org/power/2025-10-02-microsoft-abandoning-windows-10-hackers-celebrating/

Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.
The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.

#Mark #Zuckerberg’s decision to cut off funding to the pro‑immigration group FWD.us
marks a sharp turn away from the high-profile social advocacy that once defined his philanthropy...
even as #MacKenzie

Billionaire philanthropy’s growing divide: Mark Zuckerberg stops funding immigration reform as MacKenzie Scott doubles down on DEI
Two models for tech wealth are emerging, as notable billionaire donors reveal their priorities.

This would make it dramatically more difficult to fund both affordable housing and transit in California. The Howard Jarvis people want to pull up the drawbridge and make us an even more exclusionary, car-dependent and on-fire state. https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/10

President Trump’s Attack on Somalis Comes Close to Advocacy of Ethnic Cleansing | Austin Sarat | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia
https://verdict.justia.com/2025/12/05/president-trumps-attack-on-somalis-comes-close-to-advocacy-of-ethnic-cleansing

#RIP Jane Goodall.
https://apnews.com/article/jane-goodall-obit-78698397851bc7634717206f7eba07b2

Jane Goodall, pioneering conservationist and primatologist, dies at 91
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91. The Jane Goodall Institute announced her death Wednesday, saying she died of natural causes while in California on a U.S. speaking tour. Goodall is best remembered for living among chimpanzees in Africa decades ago and documenting the animals using tools and doing other activities previously believed to be exclusive to humans. She also note…

Microsoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to resolve claims it denied discounts to conservative religious nonprofits; OpenAI and Asana also made deals (Jeff Green/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Suddenly all these fucking bullshit Zionist groups are finding out what it means to get into bed with fucking white supremacists like fucking Musk. You can't negotiate with these people.
#freepalestine #fuckmusk

Becoming such a bike advocacy nerd I now know the names/designations of certain bridges. Watching the planned replacement of B-40-998 and B-40-
999 very closely! (Might even go to a meeting about them.)

MINORITIES NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS REJECTION OF GREED ADVOCACY OF THE SOCIETAL WHOLE TRUE DEMOCRACY OMG WHAT ARE WE TO DO
#ReleasetheEpsteinfiles
✅ MAGA Melts Down Over Mamdani’s Mayoral Victory: “New York City Has Fallen” | Vanity Fair

MAGA Melts Down Over Mamdani’s Mayoral Victory: “New York City Has Fallen”
The right-wing decries the “major Islam problem in America” as Trump himself vows to retaliate against New York City. The incoming mayor’s response: “To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”

Climate justice took center stage at Pre-COP30 as African and Global South advocates made their case clear: adaptation finance isn't charity—it's survival.
CSOs pushed for locally-rooted indicators in the Global Goal on Adaptation, fair compensation for communities displaced by green projects, and recognition of food sovereignty in climate policy.
h…

Please sign this petition
I'm a chemist. As a grad student I was a TA and a tutor. I taught college chemistry classes.
That's teaching a subject, not communicating about a technical issue (yes, these really are different skills)
And climate change advocacy has highlighted how difficult communicating is.
I wish this proposal had been enacted when I was a student.
Please sign.

Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-economic-research-team-ai-jobs/

OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.

The Dallas shooting appears to provide Trump the perfect pretext to start silencing wholly lawful advocacy groups
—for inciting “violence and terrorism.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/200976/trump-texas-ice-shooting-crackdown

Trump’s Eruption of Rage at Texas ICE Shooting Hints at a Darker Story
To Trumpworld, the Dallas shooting appears to provide the perfect pretext to start silencing wholly lawful advocacy groups—for inciting “violence and terrorism.”

A judge has ruled that, for now,
asylum seekers are not required to pay an annual fee for each year their application is pending.
The ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP.)
The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, which became law on July 4, 2025,
instituted a new fee system for people in the immigration system,
including asylum seekers.
The legislation requires that they pay a $100 filing fee and an Annual A…

Judge Rules Asylum Seekers Do Not Have to Pay Annual Fee, For Now
The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill instituted a new fee system for people in the immigration system, including asylum seekers.

Las Vegas Raiders honor Intermountain Children’s Health through My Cause My Cleats initiative https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-honor-intermountain-children-s-health-through-my-cause-my-cleats-initiative…

Las Vegas Raiders honor Intermountain Children’s Health through My Cause My Cleats initiative https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-honor-intermountain-children-s-health-through-my-cause-my-cleats-initiative…