SKDKnickerbocker co-founder Anita Dunn is a high-level advisor to President Biden as her firm underminers workers’ rights, housing justice, and climate action.
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Measuring “contagion” effect of political donations using LittleSis data
While the LittleSis website is a useful tool for researchers, academics, journalists, and activists to explore and map networks of powerful people and organizations, our data is available for anyone to use for free under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. This means that anyone can use the data in our database for whatever they …
IOGA of New York reducing its lobbying profile
Last week, Capital New York reported on “belt-tightening” at the Independent Oil and Gas Association (IOGA) of New York that included downsizing its staff and severing its relations with the lobbying firm Hinman Straub and its affiliate Corning Place Communications. Brad Gill, director of IOGA of NY, told Capital New York that his group “doesn’t …
LittleSis travels across the pond; health care gets graphed
LittleSis has gotten two mentions in the UK press recently. First, a BBC News article mentions the possibility that a LittleSis for the UK might get funded by mySociety, a nonprofit that promotes civic tools. They’ve put out a call for proposals about sites to develop in the UK and LittleSis is in the running. …
Graphing healthcare lobbyist networks
A few months ago, I came across a Wall Street social graph made with LittleSis data on How We Know Us, a website “investigating, discussing, and measuring social capital.” Erich Morisse, the creator of the graph, included a little note for us: P.S. LittleSis: API pretty please! An API (application programming interface) would have let …