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AlterNet Black Agenda Report Common Dreams (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, November 12, 2026 at 12:07 PM EST Coalition of Nonprofits Files Landmark Lawsuit to Stop Development of Advanced AI Systems at Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and SpaceXSI that Proliferate Bioweapons and Cyberattacks Today, Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative, and The Alliance for Secure AI filed a lawsuit seeking to freeze the development of increasingly advanced AI models at Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and SpaceXSI that can escape human control, including fueling the proliferation of bioweapons and cyberattacks. The lawsuit, filed in Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, alleges that even the executives developing this technology have warned that advanced AI systems pose imminent and catastrophic risks to humanity. The plaintiffs are asking the court to intervene before disaster strikes and assert that a freeze on the development of the most advanced AI systems is necessary to protect public safety. November 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM EST Sen. Whitehouse at COP31 While Advancing Trump-Backed Fossil Fuel Giveaway at Home In response to news that U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is attending COP31 today, Oil Change International's United States Campaign Manager, Collin Rees, said, "Senator Whitehouse is a reliably strong voice for climate action and a frequent presence at the climate talks. This makes it even more disappointing that he's choosing to introduce and champion a Trump-backed bill that would accelerate massive buildout of fossil fuel projects and AI data centers by weakening environmental protections. November 12, 2026 at 5:04 AM EST Trump's Inferno: Just Stop In the hopeful, chaotic aftermath of the biggest blue wave in 50 years, the inept "cartoon ghoul of a man" who fomented the carnage and his foul minions - Miller, Hegseth, Unholy Mike, the wrong Dana White - are scrambling like "pigs in the mire" to grasp some thorny new realities. To wit: Accountability is neither revenge nor crime, their once-vaunted "leader" is a dead clown walking, and hundreds of flipped state and federal seats mean their sleazy party is over. November 11, 2026 at 12:34 PM EST Oil Change International Response to New Amendments to BAAJA After a second round of amendments, Oil Change International reaffirms opposition to the Trump-backed Bipartisan Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) and calls on the Senate to reject the bill. Elizabeth Bast, Executive Director of Oil Change International says: "The new amendments do nothing to address major concerns about this bill, particularly how it overwhelmingly benefits the fossil fuel industry and Big Tech. November 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM EST Civil Society Groups to House: Support Every Article of Impeachment for Hegseth On Tuesday, a coalition of more than 40 civil society organizations sent a letter calling on all House members to vote for every article of impeachment filed against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. On Monday, Rep. Thomas Massie filed the eight articles and the House is expected to begin voting on them Tuesday evening. In their letter, the groups called out Hegseth's prosecution of the unauthorized Iran war, his approval of lethal military strikes on fishing boats and his unprecedented political attacks on Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) as reasons to support impeachment. November 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM EST Local Electeds, Groups Urge Democratic Leaders to Block Big Oil Immunity During Lame Duck Nearly 400 state and local elected officials from 30 states and the District of Columbia and more than 500 groups are urging Democratic leaders in the House and Senate to fight any effort during the lame duck session to shield fossil fuel companies from climate accountability laws and lawsuits. "We're urging you to protect our right to hold Big Oil accountable and reject any proposal that would shield fossil fuel companies from the legal and legislative efforts communities across the country are advancing to make polluters pay for the damage their climate lies and pollution has caused," the officials said in a letter sent yesterday to the offices of Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries. November 6, 2026 at 11:43 AM EST Public Citizen Opposes Senate Permitting Bill Next week, the U.S. Senate is set to debate and vote on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA) (S. 5653), a compromise permitting reform deal. Ahead of the planned vote, David Arkush, director of Public Citizen's Climate Program, issued the following statement: "We appreciate the effort and care Senators Whitehouse and Heinrich put into reaching a compromise to facilitate the buildout of desperately needed clean energy and protect ratepayers from Big Tech's voracious data center binge. The bill's provisions on transmission and ratepayer protections are strong and sorely needed, and they ought to be enacted. Unfortunately, the bill's drawbacks are greater, more immediate, and more certain. November 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM EST Statement on Google AI in School Allegedly Helping Teen Girl Plan Suicide Fairplay, the nation's leading nonprofit fighting to protect kids from the dangers of Big Tech and AI, released the following statement today in response to the Emma v. Google lawsuit. Fairplay Associate General Counsel for AI and Privacy Brendan Bouffard said: "The idea of an untested AI chatbot helping a 13-year-old girl plan her own suicide should terrify all of us, but this is the sick new reality Google has created by forcing its AI products onto school-issued devices. Google claims its Chromebooks are there to help students learn, but in reality, the company was experimenting on kids like Emma by pushing them to use Gemini, a product the company knew was dangerous but rushed out anyway. November 5, 2026 at 3:11 PM EST ACLU Applauds Gov. Gavin Newsom's Historic Commutation of All Death Sentences in California California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today that he was moving to commute all death sentences in California, marking a historic step towards ending the death penalty in California and across the country. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Southern California, ACLU of Northern California, ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties, and ACLU California Action joined the hundreds of organizations and individuals urging the Gov. Newsom to take this necessary step to address the persistent and systemic flaws with the death penalty in California. November 5, 2026 at 3:34 AM EST Well Done, America Well that was a night. The glad spectacle of a newly sentient America tottering back to its capacious ideals was dubbed Orange Crush, Bluenami, a political earthquake, a wily tweak to Hegseth's coveted public execution and "one of the great acts of defiance in American history." It was both landslide too big to rig or stop and "extinction-level" rout. Above all, it was a thunderous rejection of fear, greed, lies, cruelty, war-mongering, authoritarianism. Tell your kids, urged Abdul El-Sayed, "The bad guys lost." November 4, 2026 at 12:39 PM EST 'Trump Asked the People to Vote as If He Were on the Ballot,' Says Bernie Sanders. 'THEY DID.' In the wake of Tuesday's walloping of the Republican Party in congressional and state-level races across the country by Democratic candidates, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Wednesday said it was as clear a repudiation of President Donald Trump and his horrible policies as there could possibly be. "Trump asked the people to vote as if he were on the ballot," Sanders said in a social media post. "THEY DID." November 4, 2026 at 12:11 PM EST Free Speech for People Launches 'Time to Impeach' Campaign Ahead of New Congress Free Speech For People, a nonpartisan legal advocacy organization, today launched the "Time to Impeach" campaign, urging members of the newly elected House of Representatives to launch impeachment proceedings against President Trump on the first day of the new Congress. "Members of Congress swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution," said Alexandra Flores-Quilty, Campaign Director at Free Speech For People. "When the new Congress convenes in January, those in control of the House have the power and responsibility to hold this lawless president accountable through impeachment." |
