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It's Time to Release the Epstein Files. People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.
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Jeffrey Epstein survivors say they haven't had any contact with the DOJ
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
Makes me stop for a moment when people talk social impact or wanting to change the world. How about positive social impact, better change in the world and make the world a better place? Hopefully more focused words make for more accountability and change for the better.
Xi, Putin & Kim show solidarity at a massive anti west military parade and Trump has the DoD blowup a speed boat. The squeaky tank president needs a permanent vacation. Time for real leadership in the US.
Depending on where he lives many cities have community coffee roasting he can rent the machines by the hour.
It’s a great first step. Then help with other support & transition services to help beyond that.
This is a warning. Russia, weakened by war, is anchored to Beijing, & China gains a partner willing to destabilize the West where possible, from Ukraine to the Arctic to cyberspace. They are building alternative systems that risk fragmenting global stability. It is a long game to rewrite world order
I miss the old brand #CDC
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Let’s turn those silent screams into open collective & cooperative dialogues and reclaim and rebuild a better world from the ground up.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Fuck I love this guy. He's a breath of fresh air. #Resist
Help a neighbor, build outward from there.
Spread a little chaos
Saw the show the second evening and very much agree with your POV. Not just a show, but an incredible and very special live experience.
Had the privilege of seeing Nick Cave perform a solo show at the Ancient Theatre of Philippopolis, a Roman amphitheatre in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Over two and a half hours and one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to. Every song he writes has intent and means something to him and the audience. Wonderful 😍
All in.
This really should be an AI driven music video. Pretty sure it’d go viral. Actually, many of these tunes would.
There’s a lotta people on lists.
Hello Dr Bain, I’ve built a few companies since 1989, all cashflow positive in 90 days or less. Some would be considered social enterprises (Maker Faire Africa, Pitch Black, Arts Marketing Association, others). We might have an interesting chat about sales, marketing, funding bids, etc
Can you please expand on this a bit? I think a community of 20-200 ADUs would do extremely well.
And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.
I pulled together the initial reactions on FB from the other three Sabbath members for a post elsewhere, and read as a whole...damn, you just feel it all over again.
All legit mainstream media should stand up and not attend as well, in solidarity.
I think one way Enspiral works is a group of people decide they want to work together (could be 5 people in 5 countries) they come to an overall agreement and make it happen, sharing revenue. Every path has its challenges, tho to your original point, working w/ people you like & want to work with
And of course, there’s no way to raise money on that, so it would need to take paying customers. Or, the team working to build something others would buy. And all the team paid openly and equally. If you look at Enspiral there are some things there that could offer a direction.
Starting small is great. I’ve built a few small companies over time. What would the smallest number of creators would it take to build a game? Could 3-5 people make it work? Personally, I’d not make it a co-op, loaded word. I’d also not create a legal entity but an openly written digital agreement.
was walking around running errands with my wife yesterday afternoon and four things stood out. 1. single lane roads were louder here than EU 2. loads of motorists w/ phones in faces 3. heavily tinted windows everywhere (WA is not AZ) 4. drivers did not yield for pedestrians in crosswalks
I think there is no one single answer. A top down strike is a good path lever. New democratic business entities are other levers. New ideas into action will creative positive social impact & change, from neighborhoods to nations
A sustained general strike could help. I think AI and Corp greed is going to shed a massive amount of jobs in the next few years. If out of that new startup business models cooperatives, collectives & beyond are built & take hold, that might cause a shift. Hard to fight power, greed & complacency.
The triple threat of bad gov, AI & corporate greed likely can only be changed from the bottom up. We the people do have the power, but we really have to build the new things.
Check out Enspiral in New Zealand too
What would it take to make that happen?
Hope in a Hopeless World youtu.be/dEmYBRpIcnQ?...
Agreed. I think also understanding the real meaning of enough too. Enjoying more simplicity & living in a mindset of meaning & purpose. .
The Trump administration will give deportation officials personal data, including addresses and ethnicities, of the nation's 79 million Medicaid recipients. cnn.it/4lE9UFh
Congratulations and hope you post more work stuff on here. People want to see, it’s good to openly share and you’re doing important work worth sharing.
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
How to Break the Grip: Resisting Authoritarianism from Below Why Real Resistance Begins Where We Live, Not in the Halls of Power By James B. Greenberg
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
Thnx, me too ;- ) Next step is to get a NewCo up & rolling & run things openly, operations & finance, etc
No website but happy to share the Google doc link Beyond the first two pages it’s just notes & ideas at this stage I’ve just shared it w/ a couple dozen founder friends so far At this juncture I need to build new company #1 to show the model noodling dot org redirects to the Google doc
Philco baby
Building new small things and dropping them into a structure like this sounds intriguing to me over the next couple decades (if I’m so lucky) I don’t golf, garden or whittle (happy for those that do) & told my wife 42 years ago I’d never retire Want to keep building ideas into interesting things
Mondragon & Enspiral are the closest things to what I envision so far, with parts of idealab (an old client) & Ashoka & Acumen built it. Positive social impact meets growing new companies w/ good margins where people can earn a fair & equally paid living & do transparent good in the world too.
Ha. Well, it wasn’t verbose imo & I appreciate your thoughtful response. After building a number of small companies since 1989 I’m noodling a new business model that involves the best of breed of business models I appreciate & can build & hand off inside the new model to the staff/members.
Thank you for sharing so much & again I’m so sorry to hear about your health situation. It’s always so discouraging when good things collapse for whatever reason they end up collapsing. I hope you have found meaning & purpose in what you have been doing & building since then.
It's not 3D chess, it's stage 5 Alzheimer’s
I hope you are better now, I can’t imagine starting a company and then getting that ill. I’d love to learn more about the cooperative launched out of that, is there an article or anything online?
Indeed. As I’m contemplating what new company to start & how it can truly, openly & measurably make the world a better place I’m digging deep into learning about Mondragon, Enspiral & better forms of business. It is possible. It is out there. It is being done & it can be done even better.
It will likely end in a USA government crypto rug pull event
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I’d add public benefit corporations, b-corps and social enterprises
Will add Enspiral to your list of large working cooperative of cooperatives, similar to Mondragon.
Now, shall we compare it to capitalism? Name one capitalist society that exists without poverty, without alienation, without exploitation? Go on. Name one.
Hey @nichopops.bsky.social I know you’re into to different types of food distribution, here’s something you might enjoy coshop.nz/nz
As the saying goes: no margin, no mission. It is such a challenge when social entrepreneurs need to focus on the two things and startup founders, just the money. Traditional startup founders also have a simple metric, money. Making the world a better place is a more fluid metric. Onward.
No human is a lost cause, just sometimes lost. I know quite a few people previously incarcerated or homeless that felt lost. Many have found away or are still looking.
Nothing. But engaged membership helps. Mondragon has been around 70 years and has over 60,000 members w/ over 200 connected organizations.
Misspelled, make that Enspiral
Building a federation of small local news cooperatives along the lines of Mondragon or Inspiral business models would be interesting.
Documentary on cooperatives, looks very well done based on seeing the start. Will watch when I’ve got the 90 minutes. Thnx for sharing.
Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Listening to Steve Coogan on #Today talking about cooperatives, and reminded of how many food co-ops I came across in France when researching Amuse Bouche. They can be so important for communities, as i wrote here: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Climate solutions remain center stage at 2025 #AIforGood despite recent regulatory setbacks. Leaders address AI's dual role: fighting climate change while managing its own footprint. #SDGs #ClimateAction See more about the 2025 Global Summit: medium.com/startingupgo...
Here is the Spotify link to listen to the new Hounds song about the so-called OBBB. The next post in this thread has the Apple Music link in the event you want to buy it. You can preview “Cowards Get Nothing” by clicking below. COUNTERATTACK: HOUNDS BEST PROTEST SONGS (the album) is out tomorrow.
Was in a record store in Eugene, Oregon early 1980s. Two young girls holding a new Paul McCartney & Wings LP when one said to the other, “did you know he was in another band?”
16 years ago, I found myself in the back garden of a couple I'd just met, as they showed me their pillow fighting arena. The lesson they taught me about games - especially competitive ones - has stayed with me ever since, but I forgot to mention it in interviews when asked if competition is bad. So:
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
💸💱 An inspirational and profound speech on The Illusion of Money by Alan Watts “And uh, forget the money. Because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life wasting your time.” – Alan Watts (1915 – 1973) youtu.be/IE2g3aePZAY?...
Wes Craven always has the wildest plot lines for his movies
Good for Dr Bronner’s for standing up for what they believe in and being transparent about their pov.
Looks like a great report, thnx for sharing
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...
One of JK Rowling's TERF friends was just arrested for assaulting a pregnant woman and a 10 year old child. She threatened to post pictures of them on Facebook calling them pedophiles for being at a LGBTQ event. We told you this would happen.
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Noticed you quit Amazon. That’s part of the answer, focused & purposeful consumerism. B-corps, cooperatives, collectives and social enterprises.
Corporate consolidation, trade wars, less farm workers. None of these making things better for families in America.
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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social (cont) - Local, pooled procurement and shared warehousing • Form buying cooperatives with small independent grocers, farmers and urban farms so volume discounts flow to all participants—public and private.
When many people hear cooperatives, collectives, mutuals, ESOPs, worker owned enterprises they think socialism, communism or marxism. It's a branding problem quite often. (and now driven in the US by some folks combatting things "they" determine as "woke")
The Pastry Project, a social enterprise offering free baking/pastry training to those with barriers entering the industry, will open its Pioneer Square (165 S Main St) soft serve window for the summer today at 3 p.m., and the first 100 visitors get a free mini sandcastle sammie.
Now feels like a good time to remind people that we are an Audible alternative—every time you buy an audiobook with us, you support your indie. Oh, & we're an employee-owned, Social Purpose Corporation—meaning we make decisions that benefit our mission, even if they go against our financial goals 🩷
Been building small startups since 1989 (13 to date) & noodling on a new biz model that's part: startup studio, b-corp, cooperative, ESOP, TBL, collective, social enterprise, incubator, accelerator). A very Frankenstein amalgamation, for sure.
Whole lotta people looking up democratic socialism today en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democra...
ESOPs are sometimes a more balanced option regarding good wages for workers and fair prices for consumers. See Winco groceries and Bobs Red Mill for CPG
Iran has not received any ceasefire proposal and sees no reason for one, a senior Iranian official told CNN.
The roots of this principle lie in the Rochdale pioneers’ radical inclusivity—unusual for the 1840s, they admitted women and people of all social classes as equal members.
Even our senior federal government has become gig economy work. Another victim of AI
Jeremiah was
Office holiday wish tree buying new unwrapped items for children survivors of domestic violence
Rebuilding democracy, very good article too here jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/between-st...
Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?