Mari Botta

For now, it seems that the only substantive similarity between this shooting and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, besides that they both took place at universities, is just how quickly MAGA has moved to exploit violence for its own political purposes. trib.al/bqiuI82

Calling for Fair Visibility for All on LinkedIn Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

LinkedIn has a bias problem. Sign this petition c.org/zzWpqnt7cM

Si vs Nature

🌞 On my walk, I was thinking about how nature “refreshes” my brain like nothing

1️⃣ Nature improves working memory.
2️⃣ 20 minutes outdoors lowers cortisol by ~20% = better decisions
3️⃣ Creativity increases 50–60% after time in nature
4️⃣ Nature reduces cognitive fatigue
Get outside and help your brain

🧏‍♂️ Most underestimated leadership skill?
Listening — not talking.

Often founders default to "talking" mode not "hearing".

Listening leads to
👉 Clearer decisions.
👉 Uncover real problems instead of guessing.
👉 Build team trust.

The founder who listens gains the advantage.

#Startups #FractionalCMO

You think you have a marketing problem.
➡️ 90% it’s a clarity problem that erodes trust
🍥 When clarity drops, trust drops
🍥 When trust drops, growth stalls.
🍥 Wasted time comes from a lack of clarity.

#Founders #Leadership #GoToMarket #Clarity #MarketingLeadership

In my first career, I produced global ad campaigns and was the Executive Producer on network launches in LATAM.
Today, as a Fractional CMO I draw on the same leadership lessons.

Need some marketing leadership on your team? Message me

#startupCMO #FractionalCMO #Startups #Strategy #Entrepreneurship

When your work helps connect entire communities, the results hit differently.

As Fractional CMO for Uplink Internet, I helped transform the brand’s voice, campaigns, and customer connections — driving real growth and deeper community impact.

#FractionalCMO #MarketingLeadership #CommunityImpact

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This right here......

It’s borderline criminal.

Trump and Musk’s Plan to Destroy Social Security Started Tuesday Night It starts with cutting staff at the Social Security Administration. That will sow confusion. Then it builds from there.

Supported by billionaires like Musk, President Trump has laid the groundwork for the biggest heist in American history—the rapid destruction of Social Security, disguised as “reform.”

Because how dare Americans ask the morbidly rich to help support the middle class!

What better way to combat antisemitism than by stripping funds from a university with the highest percentages of Jewish undergraduates of any school in the Ivy League?

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

Si lunging further into ignorance

Goldman on Trump trying to dismantle Dept of Ed through an executive order: "Just the fact that this is what he's doing shows his disdain for the American people, shows his disdain for public education, shows his disdain for special programs that are essential for so many Americans to use & learn."

Trump Administration Live Updates: Order to Close Education Dept. Would Push Limit of Executive

NO. It would be illegal. The Department was created by Congress. He can’t close it unilaterally. Speak plainly.

Disbanding the Dept of Education

Cannot be done without an act of Congress

Keep Reposting

DOGE scrubbed a long-dead contract from its site—the same place it’s been posting phony “receipts” to fake success.

Do they not understand how government works, or are they lying to the public?

My opinion: These aren’t mistakes. They’re trying to dupe us.

So the USA ranks #13 amongst developed nations for education and the answer is to destroy the Dept of Education instead of reform? Captain chaos wants to make sure the population plunges into ignorance - it’s starting to feel like the Dark Ages! #darkages #uschaos #usdeptofeducation

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."

Salary: $120K-$140K
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Come join us!

SpaceX rocket explodes, causing some flight delays.

Elmo shits in our skies and nothing stops him.

It is a total waste of tax dollars, shut it down.

Another adult man bully throwing a temper tantrum. How much of this can we take? I’ve had my fill.

If you have to resort to playground bullying as an adult that says a lot about your lack f intellectual capacity.

It's Me Maria Botta A Global Explorer, Storyteller & Fractional CMO on the Move

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RIP… D.E.I. with Ruha Benjamin [VIDEO] What Now? with Trevor Noah · Episode

Great interview with Dr Ruha Benjamin. Her ideas around fostering imagination and the idea of “home”.
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Trump’s Purge Hits Nuclear Weapons Agency—Setting Off National Crisis The Trump administration fired hundreds of employees at perhaps the one agency where stability is needed most.

Hundreds of employees at the 1,800-person National Nuclear Security Administration were fired on Thursday. Many of them described the situation as a “national security crisis.”

Elon Musk’s DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked The DOGE.gov website is such a coding disaster that pretty much anyone can take over.

Two coders have already infiltrated the DOGE website and left their own messages on it at the time of 404’s reporting on Thursday evening: “THis is a joke of a .gov site,” said one, and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro” said another.

You have to be some kind of dumb to support the firings at the department's National Nuclear Security Administration, which manages the U.S. nuclear weapons fleet and works to secure radiological materials around the world. Who is minding the store?

On Ukraine, Europe must step into the void | Virgin

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.