stephen m 🍞🌹🇵🇸Great tool released by #LittleSis on researching the interconnection of ICE! Very much worth the read and action to take
#ICE #NOICE https://littlesis.org/news/six-steps-for-researching-the-corporate-enablers-of-ice/
DevijandLucy came over to ask for a bath, Lemon was happy to oblige 😍
#LemonTheCat #LucyGoosey #CatsOfMastodon #kittensofmastodon #cats #kittens #petsofmastodon #pets #bigsis #littlesis #sisters #love #sweet #cute #bathtime
Doug Grinbergs@wikidata please work with groups / programs like Public Accountability Initiative (PAI) #LittleSis platform to make #Wikidata data entry possible for mere humans (rather than just ontology / knowledge graph computer science PhDs 😕)
New update: this little nugget's siblings have been picked up by my sister in law. The nugget did not even seem to notice and doesn't seem bothered at all so far (meanwhile I was crying my eyes out because I felt so bad separating them).
Lemon wants to state for the record that she did not consent to this and she is NOT okay with having this terrifying baby in her house.
#CatsOfMastodon #kittensofmastodon #cats #pets #kittens #cute #scaredycat #dangerousbaby #seriousthreat #bigsis #littlesis
@wikidata how to make #Wikidata contribution data entry suck less, accessible to mere mortals, like via #LittleSis, play nice w/ #Ballotpedia, #OpenCorporates, similar high-value platforms - not just for ontology geeks, programmer types, PhDs? (Analog: AppleScript, the read-only language.😕) Have chat w/ ChatGPT, Perplexity re: how to make Wikidata suck less, have awesome UI UX, make edits bi-directional, reduce / eliminate duplicated effort w/WD, Wikipedia, STOP WASTING OUR VALUABLE TIME🤘🖖✌️
@rbreich I like your fine artwork👍🤘 but do you know about #LittleSis #Olligrapher for mapping entities, connections?
@nicolesandler
NSS fans, check out rabid #Federalist Leonard Leo on Wikipedia, #LittleSis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Leo
https://littlesis.org/person/171815-Leonard_Leo
LittleSis FedSoc connections map: https://littlesis.org/oligrapher/7703-federalist-society-ginni-thomas-cnp-and-white-christian-nationalism
#LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety
#ProPublica Trump Town has database of chump admin govt positions incl Mark Paoletta
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-town/staffers/mark-r-paoletta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Paoletta
DoomsdaysCWFrom 2020: How #Target, #Google, #BankOfAmerica and #Microsoft quietly fund police through private donations
More than 25 large #corporations in the past three years have contributed funding to private #PoliceFoundations, new report says
by Kari Paul
Thu 18 Jun 2020
"The #HoustonPolice foundation has purchased for the local police department a variety of equipment, including #SWAT equipment, sound equipment and dogs for the K-9 unit, according to the report. The #PhiladelphiaPolice foundation purchased for its police force #LongGuns, #drones and #BallisticHelmets, and the #AtlantaPolice foundation helped fund a major #surveillance network of over 12,000 cameras.
"In addition to weaponry, foundation funding can also go toward specialized training and support programs that complement the department’s policing strategies, according to one police foundation.
“'Not a lot of people are aware of this public-private partnership where corporations and wealthy donors are able to siphon money into police forces with little to no oversight,' said Gin Armstrong, a senior research analyst at #LittleSis.
"A variety of companies – including financial institutions, technology companies, retailers, local universities and sports teams, provide funding to police foundations. Donations may be, in part, to curry favor with a force that exists primarily to protect property and #capital, the report said."
#CivilRights #ACAB #StopCopCity #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #DigitalFreeSpeech #CivilLiberties #CorporateColonialism #SilencingDissent #Fascism
Chuck DarwinPittsburgh in ‘extreme embrace’ with fossil fuel lobbyists, research finds
Dozens of governmental, educational, cultural and environmental organizations across the city of Pittsburgh have hired lobbying firms who work with planet-heating fossil fuel companies, new research shows.
The Pennsylvania city has almost entirely divested its pension funds from fossil fuels and plans to dramatically cut its planet-heating pollution. -- Yet in 2023, it employed lobbyists who also worked for ExxonMobil and seven other fossil fuel companies.
‘Double agents’: fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis
Both the school district of Pittsburgh and the Port of Pittsburgh Commission this year hired a lobbying firm which also works for 16 fossil fuel firms, including one tied to the Koch brothers.
And Pittsburgh cultural institutions such as the research-focused Carnegie Institute, the Frick Art and Historical Center, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and the Pittsburgh Symphony have also employed fossil fuel lobbyists, as have the conservation group Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and the Pittsburgh Foundation, which funds climate advocacy.
All told, Pittsburgh has engaged in a more “extreme embrace” of fossil fuel lobbyists than any other large US city, according to the new research from "F Minus", a database of state-level lobbying disclosures released this year, and "LittleSis", a research database project created by the non-profit corporate and government accountability watchdog Public Accountability Initiative.
“For these lobbying firms, representing prestigious clients in the arts, education and philanthropy does wonders for their image,” said James Browning, executive director of F Minus.
“Instead of being the villains on climate, suddenly they’re heroes for children, for local conservation efforts, and for all kinds of good causes even though they’re also working for fossil fuel companies.”
Earlier this year F Minus published a database that showed that 1,500 lobbyists across the US work on behalf of fossil fuel companies while also representing hundreds of cities, universities, technology companies and environmental groups.
#pittsburgh #fminus #littlesis #climategreenwashing #fossilfuel #FossilLobby #lobby
PSA: #LittleSis is a #crowdsourced #database of entities - people and groups - and their financial, political, familial, social connections, e.g. #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety https://littlesis.org/search?q=Leonard+Leo+federalist
Data can be presented in lists and maps.
Data can be presented in lists and maps.