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ActBlue, a payment platform for online donations, is increasing its investments in left-leaning media and content creators through grant-like sponsorships (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/21/2025/actblue-quietly-sponsors-p…

Exclusive: ActBlue quietly sponsors progressive content creators
The Democratic fundraising platform has offered its support to a major podcaster as he seeks to build a podcast network.

The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
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With YIMBYs like this, who needs NIMBYs?
*yes, SF YIMBY endorsed the two sponsors of this ordinance, Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-soma-store-ban-drug-crime-deterrence/

S.F. supervisors vote to expand late-night store ban to parts of SoMa  
Board of Supervisors committee elevated a proposed store-closure ordinance, following public support from some community stakeholders

DAE see lower-than-expected GitHub Sponsors payouts? (link is to the official but application-required maintainer community https://maintainers.github.com/ so you might not have access)

ICE got rebranded as Gestapo and now hunts Black and poor workers for the crime of existing while the rich toast their cruelty and call it law, and these Nazi strut around thinking a badge makes their violence patriotic.
Welcome back Nazi Germany, this time with Wi‑Fi and corporate fascist sponsors.
#ICE #USA

The main portal about sponsors and supporters of the aggression
https://war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/
Een vrij kort, maar ongetwijfeld belangrijk deel van Nederlandse onderdelen die hun weg vinden naar Rusland...
Via @…

Digital asset treasuries increasingly rely on in-kind contributions, with sponsors using their own crypto instead of cash, shifting risk to retail investors (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

NSF supported Summit on #Graphite, University of Peradeniya, April 27-May 1, 2026 #geology #SriLanka ⚒️🧪

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@… hi, you probably already know, it seems that all sponsors' logos are missing from <https://www.python.org/psf/sponsors/>.
(Compare with <

I just sponsored the #junit team. Go sponsor your #opensource dependencies!
https://github.com/sponsors/junit-team

"Permitting Parking in Driveways" is at Monday's SFBOS land use committee.
I plan to comment against this. It seems to allow driveways to be unlimited width and to remain even after garages are converted to ADUs. This is nakedly an inducement to more driving at the expense of green space, stormwater drainage, active transportation, and public transit.

Not sure what to make of this survey given its sponsors, but it's true that water management in the UK is a mess. We have no clue who's using what. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/30/water-shortages-could-derai…

Water shortages could derail UK’s net zero plans, study finds
Tensions grow after research in England finds there may not be enough water for planned carbon capture and hydrogen projects

RE: https://retro.pizza/@SKleefeld/115697051330750103
Longread van Matt Gurney over onlangs gehouden Halifax International Security Forum*
Het laat heel indringend zien hoe de verhouding met de VS veranderd is en hoe de VS waarschijnlijk niet in staat is om de verandering snel ongedaan te maken. -zelfs al zou de VS dat over een paar jaar willen-
* 'Funded by NATO, the Canadian government and private-sector sponsors, the event is a major part of Canada’s “soft power” offering to our allies — we host the big party and show everybody a good time.'

This is so much more of a shitshow than even I realized. Alan Wong was making major amendments and sending them to his prospective co-sponsors in literally the last *hour* before the deadline.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-great-highway-ballot-measure-…

Roadkill: S.F. measure to reintroduce cars to Great Highway ‘crashes and burns’
San Francisco requires only four supervisors to put a ballot measure before voters. That low bar was too high for Supervisor Alan Wong.

As a response to the ever-increasing enshittification of Firefox through AI, I just became a recurring sponsor for the @… project. We desperately need a viable alternative built for the future.
#firefox #servo #FOSS #AI

Sources: Vox Media's board has discussed spinning off its podcast network due to active interest; Penske may be interested in Vox's digital publishing assets (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/vox-media-explores-sale-podcast-publishing…

Scoop: Vox Media board has discussed spinning out podcast network
Vox Media has received active interest in its podcast network from strategic and financial sponsors.

I'm now a silver sponsor of #Mastodon and if you can afford it you should become one too! They even put your picture on this page!
https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

Join us for the 6th Annual 'Rethinking Thanksgiving' webinar!
Date: Sunday, Nov 23 at 4pm ET / 1pm PT
Theme: "Colonialism is the Problem, Solidarity is the Answer"
Register: tinyurl.com/2025rethinking
ASL, Spanish Interpretation and live captions in English.
This is a free event. It is a fundraiser and donations will be accepted. The event will be recorded, so if you cannot attend live, register and the recording will be sent to you.
Join us to challenge the legacy of the ‘thanksgiving’ holiday. We will discuss how to collectively work together to confront colonialism and defend Mother Earth.
¡Únase a nosotros en el Sexto Webinario Anual ‘Repensando el Día de Acción de Gracias’!
Fecha: domingo, 23 de noviembre, a las 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT.
Tema: “El Colonialismo es el Problema, la Solidaridad es la Respuesta”.
Inscríbase: tinyurl.com/2025rethinking.
Interpretación en lengua de señas americana (ASL) y español, y subtítulos en vivo en inglés.
Este es un evento gratuito. Se trata de una recaudación de fondos y se aceptaršn donaciones. El evento se grabarš, por lo que si no puede asistir en directo, inscríbase y se le enviarš la grabación.
Únase a nosotros para cuestionar el legado de la festividad de “Acción de Gracias”. Dialogaremos de cómo trabajar juntos colectivamente para hacer frente al colonialismo y defender la Madre Tierra.
Sponsors/Patrocinadores: Tonatierra; Indigenous Solidarity Network; Catalyst Project; Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ); American Indian Law Alliance; Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) Action; Honor the Earth; 350.org; Spirit of Mandela, Christians for a Free Palestine; Sudan Solidarity Collective; Anticolonial Arrivants; Land Justice Futures; Westchester for Palestine.

📝 Join us for the 6th Annual 'Rethinking Thanksgiving' webinar!
Date: Sunday, Nov 23 at 4pm ET / 1pm PT
Theme: "Colonialism is the Problem, Solidarity is the Answer"
Register: tinyurl.com/2025rethinking
ASL, Spanish Interpretation and live captions in English.
This is a free event. It is a fundraiser and donations will be accepted. The event will be recorded, so if you cannot attend live, register and the recording will be sent to you.
Join us to challenge the legacy of the ‘thanksgiving’ holiday. We will discuss how to collectively work together to confront colonialism and defend Mother Earth.
¡Únase a nosotros en el Sexto Webinario Anual ‘Repensando el Día de Acción de Gracias’!
Fecha: domingo, 23 de noviembre, a las 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT.
Tema: “El Colonialismo es el Problema, la Solidaridad es la Respuesta”.
Inscríbase: tinyurl.com/2025rethinking.
Interpretación en lengua de señas americana (ASL) y español, y subtítulos en vivo en inglés.
Este es un evento gratuito. Se trata de una recaudación de fondos y se aceptaršn donaciones. El evento se grabarš, por lo que si no puede asistir en directo, inscríbase y se le enviarš la grabación.
Únase a nosotros para cuestionar el legado de la festividad de “Acción de Gracias”. Dialogaremos de cómo trabajar juntos colectivamente para hacer frente al colonialismo y defender la Madre Tierra.
Sponsors/Patrocinadores: Tonatierra; Indigenous Solidarity Network; Catalyst Project; Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ); American Indian Law Alliance; Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) Action; Honor the Earth; 350.org; Spirit of Mandela, Christians for a Free Palestine; Sudan Solidarity Collective; Anticolonial Arrivants; Land Justice Futures; Westchester for Palestine.
!rethinking thanksgiving flyer (https://cdn.some.pics/adjb/690fbe4acd06c.jpg)