Jeff AtwoodCommunity, like democracy, is messy, slow, and complicated. Dictatorships are far easier, the trains always run on time, but... unsustainable in every way. You have to be willing to do the hard work.
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Charlotte ClymerMy advice to Target and every other company ahead of Pride Month: it is bad business to give into bigots.
https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-target-needs-to-understand
What Target Needs to Understand
Listen now (8 min) | Bigots are starving for outrage.
Jeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱With the news that Musk has apparently selected a woman to take over for him as Twitter’s CEO, I am reminded of the “glass cliff” phenomenon:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/women-often-put-charge-failing-companies
When/if Twitter ultimately goes under, remember that Musk created the conditions for it to do so.
Noah ShachtmanPowerful op-ed from CNN contributor and former Capitol cop Michael Fanone:
Dan KennedyCNN is making a big mistake by providing a solo platform to Trump. Here’s what I said on @gbhnews’s “Talking Politics.” https://twitter.com/gbhnews/status/1655216039561494529?s=46&t=S8xlJZVh6psh1kd9JJQY9Q
"The only person with the kind of peerless charm and warmth that could have saved the British Monarchy, without need of a global event and embossed invitation, was killed in a Paris tunnel more than 25 years ago."
https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-one-thing-hell-never-be
The One Thing He'll Never Be
Listen now (8 min) | An entertainer.
Walker BragmanThe Supreme Court’s Heller decision came down in June 2008.
Written by Antonin Scalia, the ruling held that the Second Amendment guaranteed an individual right to own firearms.
It has been used to gut efforts at gun control since.
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Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
Some career news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically reduced the company’s workforce.
I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting.
But this time, alone.
Technology ConnectionsOne of the reasons Trader Joe's is successful is that they limit choices.
Do you really need to have two dozen varieties of peanut butter? Probably not. So they just stock a few. Gets people in-and-out very quickly, makes the stores smaller, and it's a very enjoyable experience for many despite being objectively quite limited.
Choice-overload is a real thing, and I think those steering this ship need to sit with that for a while.