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Open Web Advocacy: Apple bremst immer noch externe Browser-Engines aus
Apple muss im Rahmen des Digital Market Act eigentlich das iPhone für fremde Browser-Engines öffnen. Das sei aber quasi unmöglich, so Open Web Advocacy.

"Ohio Bill Would Require Watermarks on AI Imagery"
How exactly does a state enforce this? 🤔 "...it could place restrictions on a consumer's legal uses of a product, or it could place restrictions on what type of functions a producer's product can actually produce."
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From The Energy Mix via The Canadian Press
Cenovus, Enbridge Misled Investors, Greenwashing Complaint Alleges
A shareholder advocacy group has filed a greenwashing complaint with Alberta’s securities watchdog alleging Cenovus Inc., one of Canada’s biggest oilsands producers, and Enbridge Inc., the country’s biggest crude pipeline operator, have misled investors in their environmental disclosures.

Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/republicans-push-fbi-to-designate

Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism. Inside The Project 2025 Organization's Proposal.
On Thursday evening, news emerged that individuals within and outside of Trump administration were pushing to cast trans activists as domestic terrorists. Then, Project 2025 dropped its proposal.

August 22, 2025 4:30-6:00 - Columbia Heights Plaza, Washington, DC: Prayer Vigil (to end the occupation)
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#resist #WashingtonDC #DC

exposure, highlighting importance of #ConsumerRights and #RightToRepair advocacy
https…

Progress! Mexico becomes latest country to ban marine mammal performances https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/mexico-becomes-latest-country-to-ban-marine-mammal-performances?utm_source=Mastodon

Progress! Mexico becomes latest country to ban marine mammal performances — Species Unite
In a step forward to animal protection, lawmakers voted unanimously to ban marine mammal breeding, performances, and concrete tanks following years of advocacy.

Zohran Mamdani shared 'sick' video mocking Hannukah and 'cosplaying Jews,' advocacy group charges (Shane Galvin/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/us-news/mamdani-shared-sick-video-mocking-hannukah-advocacy-group/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p24#a250706p24

Situation: There are 13 different bike, transit, and safe streets advocacy groups in SF.
“13?! This is ridiculous! We should make a single group that covers everyone’s priorities!”
Situation: There are 14 different bike, transit, and safe streets advocacy groups in SF.

Mother Jones gets this right. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/charlie-kirk-legacy-ezra-klein-2020-election-trump-turning-point/
«Kirk’s advocacy of vigorous debate ought not be separated from wh…

No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.

“This idea that you can just say things that aren’t true, and then it doesn’t matter to your followers and to a lot of other people ... that seems to me a new thing,”
Trump uses memes and jokes more than argument and advocacy to signal his preferences,
https://apn…

How Donald Trump is weaponizing the government in his second term
President Donald Trump has been using his second term to amass and wield unprecedented power. His supporters, who once criticized government overreach, now back his actions. Trump has targeted universities, media companies, and individuals he dislikes, using executive orders and other means to push his agendas and grievances. Trump has threatened or acted against various entities. He's blocked stadium plans, revoked security clearances and dropped corruption charges for political leverage, amon…

Biden judge halts 'surprising' illegal alien minor repatriation plan after advocacy groups sue (Jasmine Baehr/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-judge-halts-surprising-illegal-alien-minor-repatriation-plan-after-advocacy-groups-sue
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p112#a250831p112

"South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos"
#SouthAfrica #Pesticides

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

Advocacy for Physics and for Physicists: Results of an Informal Survey of American Physical Society Members in 2025
Michael B. Bennett (for the Physics Advocacy Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24043

Advocacy for Physics and for Physicists: Results of an Informal Survey of American Physical Society Members in 2025
In the wake of a rash of executive orders and administrative actions aimed at shaping the scale, scope, and focus of the scientific enterprise in the United States during the second Trump Presidency, we have undertaken a survey of members of the American Physical Society, the country's pre-eminent physics professional society to investigate their needs, interests, and priorities, and how their interests may differ from organizational leadership's priorities. This report provides detail on the c…

Farm Sanctuary fights the disastrous effects of animal agriculture on animals, the environment, social justice, and public health through rescue, education, and advocacy. #AnimalRights

We Envision a World Where Sanctuary Replaces Exploitation | Farm Sanctuary
Farm Sanctuary is a nonprofit pursuing bold solutions to end animal agriculture and foster compassionate vegan living.

"Deadbots", AI avatars of the deceased, are used for advocacy and emotional connection, but their potential commercial use raises ethical and legal concerns (Chloe Veltman/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5508355/ai-dead-people-ch…

Where Macron’s Ukraine rhetoric falls short of action: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/where-macrons-ukraine-rhetoric-falls.html

Today's episode of #DemocracyNow is important. #MsRachel, heralded as a modern Mr. Rogers, has opened millions of apolitical eyes to the tragedy in #Gaza. If you can spare an hour, you won't regre…

YouTube Star Ms. Rachel on Her Gaza Advocacy: “My Deep Care for Children Doesn’t Stop at Any Border”
We speak with Rachel Griffin Accurso, the educator known to millions around the world as Ms. Rachel, who has become a leading advocate for children in Gaza. Her YouTube channel for young children became wildly popular during the COVID-19 pandemic and today has more than 16 million subscribers. Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, Accurso has used her social media reach to speak out for Palestinian children facing hunger, disease, injury and death. She has been hailed as the heir to Mister…

Conservatives love to claim #liberal advocacy for immigration is a radical leftist policy.

Immigration has always been an American value: #Conservatives are the ones radicalized & don’t even realize it.
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Advocacy works, if done right. Find out how investigations by WorkerRights Consortium led to a joint effort along the supply chain to eliminate gender-based violence in Indonesia’s garment factories – more in my feature with TriplePundit.
https://www.triplepundi…

glad to see so many of you turn out for transit at the state building in SF today!
and Gavin Newsom... bro... you messed up so bad, frickin' Catherine Stefani is calling you out! this loan was supposed to be a done deal. sign the paperwork!
(Stefani is a relatively conservative westside assemblywoman who was the only one of 11 supervisors not to endorse last year's Prop L to tax Uber/Waymo to fund Muni. even she's had it w/ Newsom on this)

Actual content creators trapped into Google's #enshittification ecosystem. I'll be very happy when they start using #PeerTube.
Unhinged Rant About YouTube Getting Worse - GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy

The challenge of HEPA filters in the classrooms.
h/t @…
source: https://xcancel.com/kadamssl/status/1938267359233429683#m

Media Matters sues the FTC, says its inquiry into advertiser boycotts of X is part of a "campaign of retribution" by the Trump administration and Elon Musk (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/technology/media-matters-ftc-lawsu…

Media Matters Sues F.T.C. Over Advertising Investigation
The liberal advocacy organization said in a lawsuit that the Federal Trade Commission’s inquiry into boycotts with other advertising groups was “retribution.”

Soundtoys Donating 100% Of Sales On June 25 & 26 To Supporting LGBTQIA Civil Rights https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/06/25/soundtoys-donating-100-of-sales-on-june-25-26-to-supporting-lgbtqia-civi…

Soundtoys Donating 100% Of Sales On June 25 & 26 To Supporting LGBTQIA+ Civil Rights
Customers who purchase any Soundtoys plug-in, bundle, or upgrade during the campaign period will help support Lambda Legal’s legal advocacy, public policy work, and impact litigation efforts across…

Who the fuck cares?? 🤷‍♀️
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/26/can-ais-suffer-big-tech-and-users-grapple-with-one-of-most-unsettling-questions-of-our-times

"An AI is a fundamentally different thing than the intelligence of a person. To think otherwise is like mistaking an aeroplane for a bird."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

OSHA proposes new rule to protect workers from heat stress, emphasizing the need for water, shade, and breaks during heat waves. Labor unions and advocates push for federal heat standards to safeguard outdoor workers. #climatechange #climatesolutions

A long-awaited rule to protect workers from heat stress moves forward, even under Trump
While labor experts say the regulation is progressing quickly, advocacy groups wonder what has taken so long

A May 22 move by the Supreme Court may signal the end of the NLRB’s independence, say labor leaders,
and transform the agency into an extension of the White House.
In turn, they warn, Donald Trump could use the board to reward friends and punish enemies. 
“It’s time to ring the alarm bell across the labor movement,”
said Jody Calemine, the director of advocacy at the AFL-CIO, the national union federation representing nearly 15 million workers across the country. 

‘It’s Time to Ring the Alarm Bell’
Labor leaders say a May Supreme Court decision could turn the agency that protects workers into a rubber stamp for President Trump.

The largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in the United States
is calling on U.S. lawmakers to follow in the footsteps of Sens. Jeff Merkley and Chris Van Hollen,
who on Saturday shared a video about their unsuccessful attempts to visit — or even just fly over — the Gaza Strip during Israel’s ongoing assault.
“Sens. Van Hollen and Merkley have taken a bold and necessary step
by confronting the Israeli-manufactured and U.S.-backed humanitarian calamity in Gaza…

CAIR Presses Congress to Confront Gaza Catastrophe After Senators Blocked From Entry
After senators were blocked from Gaza, CAIR says Congress can’t look away.

Soundtoys Donating 100% Of Sales On June 25 & 26 To Supporting LGBTQIA Civil Rights https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/06

Soundtoys Donating 100% Of Sales On June 25 & 26 To Supporting LGBTQIA+ Civil Rights
Customers who purchase any Soundtoys plug-in, bundle, or upgrade during the campaign period will help support Lambda Legal’s legal advocacy, public policy work, and impact litigation efforts across…

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/south-africa-to-ban-highly-toxic-pesticide-terbufos/

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

Finding joy in climate action: Vermont Green soccer team and Alabama influencer lead the way in eco-friendly initiatives and advocacy for biodiversity. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

An Ode to Joy, in Climate Action
Climate change is often unrelentingly grim. But some activists argue that joyful climate action can change minds.

Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, has enjoyed rare access and promotion from the Trump administration.
“Clearly we’re dealing with an administration that’s far more focused on narratives than truth,
and this conduct is consistent with that,”
said Seth Stern, director of advocacy for the Freedom of the Press Foundation,
a First Amendment nonprofit.
“It is awful that real journalists who attempt to report real news and feel constrained by the pursuit of trut…

Benny Johnson Was Fired for Plagiarism. At the White House, He’s Embraced.
Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, has enjoyed rare access and promotion from the Trump administration.

Stand-your-ground laws,
which are in effect in more than half of U.S. states,
are associated with higher homicide rates,
increased racial disparities in legal outcomes,
and broader public costs,
according to a report from Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control research and advocacy group.
Stand-your-ground or shoot first laws remove the legal duty to retreat before using deadly force in a self-defense situation.
These laws evolved from the centuries…

The Dangers of Shooting First: "Stand Your Ground" Laws Are a License to Kill
Shoot First laws, also known as Stand Your Ground laws, allow a person to use deadly force in a confrontation without any duty to retreat.