Steve Sampson

More of this, please.

Spinone Italiano!

The Grifted Age Move over Gilded Age. In the 21st century, hucksters and swindlers are exploiting mass stupidity and conspiratorial thinking—and getting filthy rich in the process. Why is this happening?

I wrote about Trumpian culture, the Liver King, scams, frauds, corruption—and the new structural economic and political incentives that have caused us to enter a new era of inequality dominated by hucksters, which I call: The Grifted Age. www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-grifte...

This is sickening on so many levels. The willingness to lie and the staggering incompetence are really just the tip of the iceberg.

Agreed. And something similar goes for people responding to "that's immoral" with "well, what do you expect?" We should all expect (and receive) basic morality from our fellow humans. We can't stop expecting (and receiving) it now or we're giving up the game.

The algorithms are attention-sucking vampires.

YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett Crockett Calls Out COWARD Musk

Last week, Elon Musk's staff illegally breached the U.S. Treasury payment system and gained access to millions of Americans' personal data.

We're calling out Elon Musk to put on his big boy pants and answer some questions from the Oversight Committee.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvv-...

Same was true in Poland

You ARE being listened to ... but only by a portion of the "insularizing" left. I'm not suggesting you're to blame for that. Just that it's part of the current media reality that the left needs to figure out how to manage better.

We've seen enough democratic backsliding already, methinks.

What Bert said ...

The big grift is on, baby.

It's on and on and on.

Yup ... the big grift is on, baby!

Yup .. the big grift is on, baby!

Ways to respond to Trump’s anti-immigrant policies | Inside Philanthropy Learn more with IP about how philanthropy can help vulnerable immigrant and refugee populations as the Trump administration targets them.

As immigrant communities face attacks, philanthropy can help.
Inside Philanthropy shares strategies for funders to stand with vulnerable populations.

📖 Read more: www.insidephilanthropy.com/ho...

#Philanthropy #ImmigrantRights #SocialImpact #Advocacy #CommunitySupport

How our online lives shape our lives in community (or lack thereof) A Q&A with Soren Duggan on the media-community feedback loop, the individualistic online lives of men, and making “progress” against these forces

How our online lives shape our lives in community (or lack thereof)
open.substack.com/pub/connecti...

This could happen! Think big and bold! Step 1: The Post buys Amazon ... Oh, wait ... never mind

You can't make this sht [sic] up ...

What she said ...

"Just humans helping humans" is what everything should be all about, really.

Not funny.

ERNOP: Connecting Philanthropy Academia & Practice #8 - Why Philanthropy Matters

The Philanthropisms podcast is back after a short festive break, with the 8th in our partnership series with ERNOP, where we hear from academics whose work is featured in the latest batch of practitioner-focused ERNOP research notes:
whyphilanthropymatters.com/podcast/erno...

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

Just a quick reminder that any prolonged government shutdown will disproportionately affect poor people--potentially by meaning they can't get the food, shelter, or healthcare they need. And this is not okay.

Here's some of that good news you never hear about ...

Funny!

Funny! Also, not funny!

Charity should NOT be optimized, for a variety of reasons. But this piece gets a great deal wrong and reveals how poorly the general public understands the philanthropic sector.

45 years ago today, global public health enjoyed a very good moment.