What a convenient way to avoid bankruptcy plus cancel contracts, with unions, service providers and artists.

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

Gonna beg media not to just repeat Trump's obviously bullshit framing in the headlines. Tell readers the truth in the headlines. Alternatives: "With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely" "Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"

The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

"Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi... #ICE #CBP #corruption

Whenever possible, avoid squaring the circle of a room set design. Here's what to do when you can't use circular seating layouts. www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev... #meetings #EventDesign #RoomSetDesign #CircleSeating #CurvedRowSeating #eventprofs

Wilson [Musk's daughter] corroborated her father’s location as being in Saint Barthélemy over the 2013 holiday, and blasted Musk for his attempts to frame his emails to Epstein as “out of context.” www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-26... #Epstein #Musk

An independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25 of "The Routledge Handbook of Business Events". www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev... #CaseStudy #EventDesign #ConferencesThatWork #BusinessEvents #events #Eventprofs

Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and now wants $10 billion because a leaker pointed that out www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

They’re going to come after Pro Publica and its journalists now

Troublemaker is my middle name.

Don't waste valuable meeting time with lectures! Social production is the way to maximize learning that leads to significant, valuable, long-term change. www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev... #meetings #EventDesign #lecturing #presentations #SocialProduction #practice #BehaviorChange

Integrating participation into conference sessions to improve learning and connection. Simon Waddell interviews me at EIBTM 2012. www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/in... #meetings #participation #learning #connection #improvement #interview #events #eventprofs

A federal appellate judge has thrown out an ethics complaint that Justice Department officials lodged against Judge James E. Boasberg. The complaint followed backlash from Trump over Boasberg’s effort to halt the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security facility in El Salvador.

Such blatant corruption — which the media will, of course, totally ignore.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

I'm Torn About Technology. New tech isn't the only way to improve events—we can use different human process to improve learning & connection. www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/pr... #meetings #technology #EventTech #ARS #voting #events #eventprofs

I feel seen

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

"To add insult to the injury, you then subsequently, with tears in your eyes, implore me to please delete the emails regarding your STD, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda, and the description of your penis." www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

This was a bribe. UAE royals gave the Trump family $500 million, and Trump, in his presidential capacity, gave them access to tightly guarded American AI chips. The most powerful person on the planet, also happens to be the most shamelessly corrupt.

This morning, federal agents staged at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center lot and began to throw chemical irritants at observers. They also kidnapped an observer. Our parks are meant for our children, youth, and neighbors. They should never be militarized zones meant to separate families. 1/

JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

Stop calling us names or we'll keep killing you.

The co-author of "How Democracies Die" says the guys who own the media platforms — Musk, Zuckerberg, Ellison, Bezos, Cook — led the way. "Their capitulation empowered the Trump administration to do much more than it might have otherwise, to reach further and eventually overreach.” Via @status.news

I’ve been thinking more about this nonsense and what it means. I don’t think it’s a flex — a performative expression of power and intimidation — like the advertisements for ICE positions. Too obscure and lacking in flair. Instead I think it likely reflects real internal problems. /1

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Gregg Carlstrom of The Economist said, "To call this the most corrupt administration in American history doesn't really do it justice, because no prior president, Republican or Democrat, would have even conceived of a grift on this scale." www.rawstory.com/trump-sheikh... #trump #corruption

Post-It Plus makes categorizing and analysis of sticky notes post-session just about as simple as possible—and the price is right! www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/te... #meetings #GroupWork #Post-ItPlus #stickynotes #tool #app #eventprofs

Here are four unquestioned assumptions that lay at the heart of a traditional conference format www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/un... #meetings #EventDesign #assumptions #TraditionalConference #eventprofs

Why conferences still expect presenters to work for free—and why compensating presenters is a labor and cultural issue, not a budget problem. #CallForProposals #RequestForProposals #UnpaidLabor #SpeakerCompensation #post www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev...

Too many events still use child-based pedagogical instead of adult-centered andragogical modalities. Concentrate on the latter. www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/le... #meetings #events #EventDesign #learning #andragogy #pedagogy #eventprofs

The senators had argued Blanche’s shutdown of crypto investigations would help support drug trafficking, child exploitation and scams. Now, they say their fears have been realized: Illicit crypto activities surged in 2025, a study found.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.

Ocean Beach this morning… just wow!!

Can meetings where no one says a word exhibit significantly different interpersonal dynamics? After my third silent meditation retreat, I say: Yes they can! www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev... #meetings #EventDesign #SilentRetreat #meditation #InterpersonalDynamics #eventprofs

A core claim of facial analysis technology — that it can reliably measure attendee emotions at events — is seriously flawed. www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/te... #eventprofs #FacialRecognition #privacy #FacialAnalysis #EventTech #events

Here are Jerry Weinberg's ten laws of trust from his fantastic book "The Secrets of Consulting", published 40 years ago and still in print www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/un... #consulting #trust #laws #SecretsOfConsulting #JerryWeinberg #wisdom

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Why conferences still expect presenters to work for free—and why compensating presenters is a labor and cultural issue, not a budget problem. #CallForProposals #RequestForProposals #UnpaidLabor #SpeakerCompensation www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev...

More cracks in the #AI #bubble… finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidias...

I love bringing people together and am also comfortable by myself. My neutral MBTI extravert introvert score hides both aspects of who I am. www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/li... #LifeLessons #MBTI #extravert #introvert #strengths #weaknesses