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I has started to look at a NESN 360 subscription just last week. No more. (I haven't followed the Red Sox since the Mookie Betts trade , although I was a diehard fan before that.) I find it nearly impossible to root for a team's success when it's so clear that ownership is not doing the same.

I keep wondering when our elected officials will finally decide that this is an emergency. Would planning on kidnapping U.S. citizens whose views the administration doesn't agree with qualify, perhaps?

Link to my most recent academic article: "Cultivating Earth-Shaped Leadership: Ecological Imagination in Organizations." It was the result of a cross-sector, research collaborative where leaders asked "How would organizations act differently today if they embodied an ecological imagination?"

The world is falling apart
So turn off your screen
Bluebirds are flying outside

(Photo by @mellanella.bsky.social, from our yard.)

Can you see the coup yet?

One of my most respected friends (citing that verse in part) says that our default assumption should be that every billionaire is a sociopath. I haven't seen much to prove him wrong.

After some research, the cartoon is from Michael Leunig: www.leunig.com.au

Any "solution" that preserves our current way of life cannot, by its definition, be a "solution". We need to fundamental reshape what it means to live a meaningful life, to relate to one another, and to relate to our planet. Unless that happens, all roads leads back to the same catastrophic place.

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This is the DOGE website right now. (I took a screen capture to share, because I couldn't actually believe it.) These fascists are malicious, corrupt, AND incompetent.

Check it out for yourself until they fix their gigantic self-own:

doge.gov/workforce?or...

This includes my family and my children.

They're neither corrupt NOR subtle, which feels like an insult to my integrity and my intelligence.

Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab. Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.

This @vox.com article is a highly measured comparison between the United States (a democracy(?)) and Belarus (an ex-democracy). Bottom line: It's not guaranteed that everything will turn out all right - and we're not used to that idea, living in the most powerful nation in the world.

I admit, watching two Trump enablers deliver an anti-hate commercial came across as too obviously ironic to be credible.

We practice Sabbath every Friday, and I'm pretty sure it's the only thing that allows the rest of our lives to make sense.

[Shared with permission] So proud of my wife, @mellanella.bsky.social, who has been calling her elected reps every day this week using @5calls.org about the Musk coup. She HATES talking on the phone with a flaming passion, but she loves her democracy more. If she can call, then so you can you.

These are pretty much the perfect blend of moral clarity, righteous indignation, and snark.

Fighting the Putsch Democrats need to throw every possible wrench into the plans of Trump, Musk, and their GOP cultists in Congress

A fantastic article from @normornstein.bsky.social about the gravity of our situation and the numerous tools that our representatives have to slow down this coup.

Read this article and then call your Senator with a few suggestions.

contrarian.substack.com/p/fighting-t...

I'm delighted to discover which of our elected representatives understand the gravity of the situation. Big thanks to @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and others for getting in the fight.

Could it be possible that in this regard, the Mavs took the easy way out? Lots of people take a long time to grow up and being a celebrated insanely rich young man probably doesn't help the process. Luka wouldn't be the first athlete who starts to mature later in his twenties, rather than earlier.

Have you called your elected representatives yet? I know that many of us feel generationally incapable of talking on the phone, but @5calls.org has contact information and a short script you can read. It took me six minutes to make three calls yesterday and democracy is worth a little discomfort.

Props to @sawyerhackett.bsky.social and so many others on this platform for pointing out the obvious - these actions are plainly illegal. I'm paying attention right now to those who are naming reality and those who are attempting to disguise it in the name of being "balanced."

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