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A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~$170M to safety initiatives (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/jaan-tallinn-a

I donated again to ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/about/
"Mission: To expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting …

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RIP Dolly. Our family just went to Dollywood *three weeks ago* and we got a little first-hand taste of the impact she’s had on the world.
332M books donated through her Imagination Library: https://imaginationlibrary.com/

Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025,
including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
https://www.wired.com/story/diarrhea-outbr

Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.

New study shows at least a quarter of NFL players who died from 2016-2021 had CTE https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7537724/2026/08/25/study-cte-nfl-players/

I donated again to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Due to the dire threats to the USA from the current administration and the Republican party I am donating as much as I spend on myself to charity this year.
https://www.splcenter.org/
We still have so much racism and injustice in the USA. Organizations…

SPLC | Apathy Is Not An Option
The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to creating a world where Black and Brown communities are represented and respected by our democracy.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses have partly eased their longstanding prohibition on the medical use of donated blood, allowing members to receive products derived from blood but maintaining a ban on transfusions of whole blood.
https://apnews.com/article/jehovahs-wi…

OpenAI employees donated a combined $215K to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC seeking stricter AI rules and opposing Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-employees-donations-guardrails-…

OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss
OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman.

Tattoo ink doesn’t stay in your skin, and when it moves into the body, it often causes harm #health

Tattoo ink doesn’t stay in your skin, and when it moves into the body, it often causes harm
Scientists in Germany used high-powered X-rays to scan tissue samples from four donated bodies to see where tattoo ink goes after it enters the skin.

The Trump administration issued subpoenas to several NYT reporters after the outlet reported on security concerns involving the new Qatari-donated Air Force One (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”

I am seeing reports of a small number of #GazaVerified accounts hounding people who have donated in the past with posts at the rate of “one every few minutes”.
This has to stop.
If you’re doing this, your servers will suspend your accounts and we will not step in to help nor will we reverify a new account.
This is harming everyone on

Erling Haaland is a legend: "Books give so many more people the chance to dream big, see new possibilities and find their own path."
(Slightly old news) Footballer donates ancient Viking book to Norway - BBC Newsround https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/cq8wqwkdj98o

Erling Haaland: Footballer donates ancient Viking book to Norway
Man City's 'goal-machine' Haaland has donated an ancient Viking book to his hometown in Norway.

Spam from Wikipedia: "Steve, you're one of Wikipedia's rarest supporters!"
Me, thinking, "Technically correct, since in twenty years I've only donated once."

The plague stalking pro football
Apple News, The Week, Health & Science
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“The plague stalking pro football”
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https://apple.news/AsYtB6G95RDOnrsx0CMI1NA
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This story buries the lede that the three biggest donors to the SF Democratic Party are, literally, Republican donors.
1. Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, whose top backer is William Oberndorf, a "Republican mega-donor" according to April 2024 Mission Local coverage;
2. Chris Larsen, who co-founded Ripple, which donated to Trump's White House ballroom per CNN;
3. SF Believes, funded by "MAGA WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum"
The SF Democratic Par…

San Francisco Democrats are richest local party, per capita, in California
San Francisco Dems have raised about $850,000 so far this year, the highest per-capita fundraising of any local party in the state.

Visited FENIX yesterday. Rotterdam and about migration. The building is very impressive, I mean, not just nice, really worth visiting a few times. The photo exhibition is well presented and striking and moving at the same time. The other collections likewise. The hall with lots of suitcases, donated by migrants, include their stories. Hard to ignore! #FENIX

'Explosive Diarrhea': Company Tied to Outbreak Donated to Trump as He Delayed Food Safety Rule (Prem Thakker/Zeteo)
https://zeteo.com/p/taylor-farms-trump-donations-explosive-diarrhea
http://www.memeorandum.com/260723/p132#a260723p132

It was a holiday party at a crypto titan’s estate in Marin County, and Sergey Brin had a bone to pick with Gavin Newsom.
Mr. Brin, a Google co-founder and one of the world’s richest people, is a longtime friend of Mr. Newsom, the California governor.
Both men attended each other’s weddings.
But now Mr. Brin pulled Mr. Newsom aside to a different part of the property for a serious talk.
Mr. Brin told Mr. Newsom that he could not stand the state’s proposed billionaire …

Sergey Brin Moves to the Right, With a ‘MAGA Girlfriend’ by His Side
After once backing liberal causes, the Google co-founder has praised President Trump, donated to Republicans and spent $57 million to try to block a California billionaire tax.

Filing: Sergey Brin donated an additional $20M to Building a Better California, which fights California's wealth tax, bringing his total contributions to $102M (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I donated again to Partners in Health
https://www.pih.org/our-mission
"By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in n…

Mission
Our mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care.

Wealthy Republicans on the west coast
received an emailed invitation in July
to an upcoming fundraiser titled
“Keep the Senate”.
The email, obtained by the Guardian, described the event as a
“private roundtable and dinner with the National Republican Senatorial Committee”
where donors can pledge $50,000 for seats at the head table,
and mingle with legislative heavy hitters from Capitol Hill
including the Senator majority leader, John Thune, an…

Exclusive: Emails reveal Palmer Luckey’s political fundraising as his company wins sole-source contracts
Co-founder of defense firm Anduril has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce donate $26 million to several charities ahead of wedding https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7417816/2026/07/02/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-donations-charities-nyc-wedding/

Prison Firm Donated to Trump's PAC After ICE Gave It $165 Million a Year in Contracts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/geo-group-maga-inc-donations-ice-contracts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7FA.MlZw.5BoFyLBCiT7-&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260821/p99#a260821p99

I donated again to Develop Africa to support students in Sierra Leone. This time to help fund a new solar system for their main office computer training center
https://www.developafrica.org/about-develop-africa
"we provide education, child sponsorship, leadership d…

#Mullvad's Co-CEO donated loads of money to the far-right Örebropartiet to get them into the national parliament.
They would need about 24000 votes in today's election (~12% in Örebro län). So far, they got 3359 (5.2%) with 77 of 217 voting districts counted.
#Sweden
https://www.etc.se/inrikes/foelj-valet-2026-minut-foer-minut?commentID=f1efe540-8e2b-430e-9325-f07f1be3b8e6

Donald Trump has pardoned yet another person who has made significant donations to his past campaigns and to Republican Party causes,
casting more doubts upon the legitimacy of his use of the constitutionally unchecked power.
Adam Kidan, a key figure involved in the Jack Abramoff fraud and lobbying scandal,
served a prison sentence of around two and a half years in the mid-2000s.
A supporter of Republican causes, he has donated millions of dollars to GOP campaigns ov…

Trump Pardons Mega-Donor Days After They Contributed to GOP Candidate in Hotly Contested House District
Trump issued the pardon to Adam Kidan, a key player in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal that was exposed in the 2000s.

I have donated to Complexly #Complexly is a nonprofit that produces shows like Crash Course, SciShow, Eons, Ask Hank Anything, Bizarre Beasts, Study Hall, and more.  Providing great content for f…

Complexly.org - New structure. Same mission. Bigger impact.
Complexly is a nonprofit dedicated to helping you understand your world, supported by a community that believes good information is worth it.

Visited FENIX yesterday. Rotterdam and about migration. The building is very impressive, I mean, not just nice, really worth visiting a few times. The photo exhibition is well presented and striking and moving at the same time. The other collections likewise. The hall with lots of suitcases, donated by migrants, include their stories. Hard to ignore! #FENIX