With Elon Musk running 70 companies at the same time, while managing to tweet badly at all hours of the day and night. With Marco Rubio and Bill Pulte doing 10 jobs each, I am starting to doubt how important CEOs actually are.

If the corporate media didn't control the media this story would have gotten much bigger play.

Does raising the minimum wage cause inflation? (No.) Is the minimum wage an effective way to fight poverty? (Yes.) Our new FAQ debunks myths around raising the minimum wage 👉 www.epi.org/publication/...

Useful backgroun piece on GEO Group by @billalrahman.bsky.social. This connects with what I posted yesterday on GEO comp. If you own an index fund w BlackRock or Vanguard you may be one of the owners of GEO Group & you should take boring but important action. www.newsweek.com/who-owns-geo...

One of the wildest things about Kavanaugh's now-notorious quote is that there was ample evidence *on the record before the court* that this was untrue, yet he stated it as an undisputed statement of fact. Did he bother to read the record before writing his opinion?

Yesterday was the Mr's 50th birthday, so I bought him a 3D printer which he is immediately using to make our cat hate him forever.

When I was a child I occasionally dumped all my toys on the floor. I enjoyed sorting out Barbie shoes, doll clothes, art supplies, whatever into appropriate containers. I'd get bored half- way but my parents made me stay with it. The only way out is through. Sometimes it sucks to be a grown-up.

Woke up earlier than I wanted to or needed to and "tried to go back to sleep" for a while but then decided I'd just get up and garden before work. That shifted my mood immensely.

A memory from a few years back. We had stopped at McDonald’s on the way home from baseball & my son asked the person taking the order, “What’s in a Big Mac?” I’d been training for that moment since childhood. The were both a bit surprised by the alacrity with which I answered.

“HHS sent nearly $33 million to the DRC in foreign aid in FY2024. That number fell to less than $10 million in 2025. USAID sent some $67 million in foreign aid to the DRC in the final 3 months of 2025, down from $715 million in fiscal 2025 and nearly $1.2 billion in fiscal 2024.”

Why I remain passionate about what I do, even as I grow cynical.

I wonder if Pelley is on BlueSky. I couldn't find him and I want to follow him for the rest of my life.

I don't care what amazing evolutions you see in software automation, if the people in charge of its application and trajectory are vacuous unethical shitweasels rushing to create a future that cuts corners, undermines labor, and guts regulatory accountability, everyone is going to have a bad time

I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service.

Last year 98% of shareholders at GEO Group, owner/operator of Delaney Hall supported the company's exec comp proposal. This year less than 72% did. Here's a quick thread on what I read in the proxy statement:

Also from GeoGroup's proxy statement: "The Corporate Secretary will forward to the directors all communications that, in the Corporate Secretary’s judgment, are appropriate for consideration by the directors." Address is: Corporate Secretary at 4955 Technology Way, Boca Raton, FL 33431.

Do you own shares in the GEO Group, the corporation that owns & runs so many detention centers? You very well might. A look at the proxy statement shows that the two largest shareholders are Blackrock (15%) and Vanguard (10%). If you have an index fund w either of those companies consider action

Here's a great sentence: "The vigor of the attack is in inverse proportion to the quality of the rebuttal." Michael Garland of the NYC Office of the Comptroller wrote it about Exxon in a corporate gov publication, but it applies to so any situation in 2026

"Shareholder rights are not a partisan issue. They are a property right." Great piece by @asyousow.bsky.social Andy Behar, impactalpha.com/the-sec-is-d...

Every time Meta pulls this clown shit I hope more people buy her book. I bought it last year when it came out, but admit that I have not read it yet. Will remedy that this summer.

Everyone needs to read this. I understand both sides of the "it's blocked by a paywall." Since we aren't getting the Post anymore I subscribed to the Philly Inquirer (in part b/c Bunch) & we support the Guardian.

This answer alone should destroy this administration. This conversation is essentially: “people are hurting.” “ceos are fine.”

Heard an amazing sermon today on "A Prophet in a Time of Distress" based on 1 Kings 22:1-38. If you are so inclined to read the passage. I'm curious as to whether the analogies are as clear without someone drawing them out a bit.

Playing Redactle, a wikipedia-based game, I often keep guessing words to fill in as many as I can. I like the way knowledge unfolds slowly. A sentence from today: "The emperor's inconsistent and often unpredictable decisions contributed to the tensions that culminated in the outbreak of the war"

I've been struck lately by how many novels feature dying or dead sisters, probably b/c my sister has cancer. Today I read. "After Life" by Gayle Forman & it was great, great characters & observations & also well-plotted. Sort of like a much shorter Liane Moriarty. Highly recommend.

Shrey spelling 32 words in 90 seconds to win the Spelling Bee is the new greatest athletic accomplishment of 2026. I don’t even know how he said the letters that fast. Got a “Holy Mackerel” out of @minakimes.bsky.social

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Hey @barenakedladies.com I saw you on a list of bands performing at Trump's state fair. I have to believe that that is not true, but please reassure me. Thanks.

As I was reading Josephine Tey I found myself wondering, "How long will it be before the trend is to read older books because we don't need to suspect any AI?" And then I realized that was part of why I was reading this one, so the answer is now. I like thinking how clever an author was.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Started following Dickerson after seeing him on Colbert & he's great. Describes how founders would feel about Trump's handing of 250th. "Like toasting the founder of a temperance union with Jell‑O shots."

This is one of my favorite parks. It was under construction last time I was there so I'm happy to see this photo. Fun trivia facts: the park has there are three statues: Joan of Arc, Dante & James Buchanan. Also, the actual VonTrapp family did an outdoor concert there in the 1950s.

After work I took an old Josephine Tey paperback outside & read until it got dark. The smell of old books is one of my favorite smells (dry old books, obviously not mildew). Transports me to my grandmother attic.

My husband this morning: "I ain't nothing but tired." All over DC today there are people making the same joke. Springsteen was worth it though.

Gonna tell future generations this is America 250.

nine named acts for the “national state fair” (one of whom has withdrawn). the last nine music acts on the late show: mccartney, costello, springsteen, the strokes, a sondheim number w/ pieters/jackson/wilson/ashford/platt, stapleton, foo fighters, stipe, raye

Just called my 92-year-old mother to tell her I got home safely from the Bruce Springsteen concert. Grateful.

I'm probably not the first person to say this, but Ticketmaster is horrific.

This is textbook racism. As in, this is an example that an elementary teacher might use to explain racism to a child: "If someone says all members of a particular race are stupid, that's racism, kids." Any news outlets that uses any word for this except racism is not reporting the truth.

Tomorrow the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility is holding a call to launch our statement and report. If you are an investor who wants to attend, please send me a DM and I'll see if I can get you the registration link. www.iccr.org/iccr-issues-...

"Dr. Spencer is an emergency MD who contracted Ebola in 2014 after treating patients in Guinea. He was in the ICU at Bellevue Hospital in NY City for 19 days. Leaving Americans in Africa rather than bringing them home is “a dramatic abdication of what we owe our own,” Dr. Spencer said."

Just bought tickets to see Bruce tomorrow night & I'm so excited. The first band I saw was U2 in the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago & the tickets were $14. Haven't gone to many large concerts lately & you can guess how old I am by how much I paid to see Bono.

Would love to see this break some repost records

Wow! An astonishing 68% of Fisher Scientific's shareholders voted againsts the advisory vote on compensation. The total comp for the CEO was $79.9M & included a stock award of $65M. I'm sure the company argued that the award wouldn't be worth that much, but shareholders still thought it too much.

Ah, but they can't kill off books, and wily, creative, human intelligence. Those of us who are well-read, have built trusted relationships with other experts, will not let them succeed. (Okay, not it is feeling like a caper. That's kind of cool.)

It speaks so badly of our attention economy that John Fetterman is the topic of endless conversation for being an unhinged jerk, while Andy Kim from right next door gets such little hype for being a decent human being

The largest vote against compensation I've seen so far this season at S&P 500 companies was at Citigoup, where the CEO's total comp was over $95.8M. Nearly 40% of shareholders voted against it, a strong rebuke when 95+ support is typical. Could we be reaching a time when shareholders say "too much."

This must end. Abolish ICE and free them all.

An encyclical quote I like: "Instead of waiting for the benefits of growth to reach the poor “eventually,” decisions need to be taken to ensure that growth becomes inclusive from the outset. "