David Witzel

How to tell stories that motivate action despite the downer of climate change - make it funny
#nycclimateweek

Well done @politico.com, I chuckled -
"So — how long before Planet K2-18b gets slapped with a 10 percent tariff?"

Yo, @axios.com the objection is to “kidnapping”. Don’t polish the orange turd

I confess, I didn't think @harvard.edu would stand up. So glad they did!

"No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue"

Alright @pjmanney.bsky.social, did you have anything to do with this?

g.co/kgs/i94Ueo8

So @realbillmaher.bsky.social decides to have dinner with Hitler (this is too obvious) and declares he was really a lovely host, laughed at my jokes, showed me his art. Very different from the way he is as der Führer. If people only learned to talk with each other like we did…

He's going to bankrupt another casino

New Law Requiring Businesses to Report Who Owns Them Is Put on Hold Again An appeals court restored an injunction on the Corporate Transparency Act, which aims to unmask shell companies but is seen as onerous by business groups.

I recently completed reporting for several LLCs. It was quick and easy. The reason the business community doesn't want the law isn't because it is "onerous". It is because it makes shell companies less effective at obscuring ownership.
www.wsj.com/articles/new...

Careful, that dog will hump your leg, bark at the neighbors, crap on the carpet and steal from your plate

Breaking up the Deadly Organ Transplant Monopoly with Donna Cryer — The Other 80

It’s pretty incredible that something as profoundly important as the organ transplant system is so f***ed up

It took almost 20 years of advocacy by people like Donna Cryer to pass reforms

Listen to her story and weep

www.theother80.com/breaking-up-...

That’s a big cut @politico.com!

Imagine what big patients coulda done!

<rim shot>

Quite the sausage fest

2014: the movie Idiocracy is basically a documentary

2024: the movie Idiocracy is a beautiful and aspirational look at a future brighter than our own. a tantalizing glimpse into a better world that has already slipped from our fingertips.

Inconvenient truth for those who are railing on federal employee bloat - federal employment has not grown since 1950s

YouTube video by Long Now Foundation What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History | Roman Krznaric & Kate Raworth

or, more accurately, the video is recorded but Kate & Roman are live in the chat - www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfUO...

Roman Krznaric & Kate Raworth What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History

Listening to @romankrznaric.bsky.social & @kateraworth.bsky.social talking Doughnut Economics on Long Now (live now) - longnow.org/ideas/what-d...

“What we’re fighting for has been very unclear”

Marshall Ganz part 2: at Drake’s Dealership in Oakland. Preaching hope - the domain of possibility. It’s about creativity

Ganz: “Ask questions AND listen to the answers” learned to be a learner

Hanging with the Teamster’s in Oakland listening to Marshall Ganz about “People, Power, Change”