Lisen Stromberg

No, Women Didn’t Ruin the Workplace. We just demand it be fixed. Join me for my thoughts on all things midlife, bravery, motherhood, tech, and more.

“Did Women Ruin the Workplace?”
No, shareholder capitalism did. It “built a culture that treats workers like machines, not human beings with bodies, families, and limits…”
Reshma Saujani on the idiotic New York Times headline everyone is talking about:

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Out of curiosity, is there such a thing as Conservative Feminism?

For much of my career I have focused on helping leaders be, well, better leaders. I coach them to understand that one of the keys of great leadership is listening.

Now, I realize listening is also a key to a great democracy.

What a great read. Thanks @karaswisher.bsky.social for sharing

This: “while Americans today have more opportunities than ever to speak, they have fewer opportunities than ever to be truly heard.”

Listening is a lost art. Something all of us could learn to do more of.

Even in Utah! 🎉🎉🎉

This is the teacher federal agents grabbed yesterday at Rayito De Sol daycare in front of children. Attorneys for Diana Santillana have filed a petition in federal court to have her freed from ICE custody.

She does, but this looks like a Colbert mash up. Still brilliantly done though

Absolutely heart breaking. He speaks for so many including the son of one of my close friends who worries every day what will happen to his parents - hard working, tax paying immigrants who, like my ancestors, believed in the American dream and wanted more for their children.
We must do better!

Nancy Pelosi announces she will not seek reelection to Congress after nearly 40 years in Washington | CNN Politics Nancy Pelosi, the first and only female speaker of the US House of Representatives and one of the most powerful figures in Democratic politics for decades, has announced she will not seek reelection.

Thank you for your service, Nancy! You trail-blazed and fought for what is right.
Now - finally - a new generation of leaders can arise. Ladies - who’s in?

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

Every race. It’s basically been every race.

Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.

Just everything.

More good news!

God is speaking…

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

Follow AP for live updates.

N.Y.C. Mayor Live Updates: ‘The Future Is in Our Hands,’ Mamdani Says as He Celebrates Victory

“Hope is alive”
Yes!!!

N.Y.C. Mayor Live Updates: ‘The Future Is in Our Hands,’ Mamdani Says as He Celebrates Victory www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Thank you for the fact checks. The journalist failed miserably in her job which is why you had to do the fact checking in the first place. 🙄

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Lisen Stromberg (@lisenstromberg) One year ago tomorrow, my father passed. Anderson Cooper’s podcast, All There Is, helped me navigate so many complex feelings. I will be forever grateful to him. This interview of Cooper with @Rebecca...

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The New Versailles

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

Exceptional piece, even by her usual high standards.

😂😂😏

You know you’re doing it right when a @crazybitch24.bsky.social
starts following you
😉

“The Tax on Being a Girl”?

Trump cuts foreign aid, a few months later girls are no longer getting educated and are being forced to marry. Ends decades of effort to advance women and girls abroad.

US women: Don’t just think it’s a “there” problem. It can - is - happening here too.

Eline Van Der Velden, Founder Of AI Indie Particle6, Launches AI Talent Studio Xicoia For “Hyperreal Digital Stars” Eline Van Der Velden is launching AI Talent studio Xicoia to create, manage and monetize a new generation of hyperreal digital stars.

“Synthetic actors” “hyper real digital stars” 🤯

We are seconds away from never being able to trust what is real.

Oh, right, we’re already there 😩

Raping and kidnapping young girls is unhinged and beyond imagination.

That’s why the powerful men who are in the files are doing everything they can to protect their identities.

I’m sorry for your loss. 😢 In my experience 10 years can feel like 10 days - grief is so complex. I’m glad she was well cared for . And, yes, the corruption is shocking - An abuse of our tax dollars at the most painful moment in a family’s life.

What the USA thinks it's #1 in (and its actual rankings):
Life Expectancy: 46th
FreePress: 42nd
Healthcare: 30th
Education: 26th
Happiness: 23rd
Freedom: 17th
What the USA is #1 in:
Military Spending
Number of Billionaires
Incarceration
Bankruptcy filings
Medical debt
Gun deaths

When things appear dire, when we think we don’t have a voice or that the tide has shifted so dramatically we can’t right-size our country and democracy, let’s remember that WE brought Jimmy Kimmel back. And, let us never forget ourvoices and choices and actions matter.

I’m so sorry for your loss, but heart full that you, too, received their good care.

“As long as we obey, everything will be okay”

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