Bob Osmond (he/him)
@bobosmosis.bsky.social
CEO, FWD STRATEGIES. Exec + Leadership Coach (ACC, CPC, ELI-MP, CDE). Brand + PR Strategy. Presentation + Media Trainer. Canuck (Never51) + Dual U.S. Citizen + New Yorker. Democracy + Global Rules-based Order Fan. https://substack.com/@bobatfwd
A perpetual waste of time and resources by a petulant child: Charges to Be Dropped Against Former Olympian in Reflecting Pool Case www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Charges to Be Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool
President Trump had repeatedly accused vandals of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. On Friday, federal prosecutors acknowledged it was “the result of flawed installation.”
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The promise of New York City is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: this place would welcome anyone seeking refuge or a better life.
Here and elsewhere, it’s worth remembering Rumi's three gates of speech. Gate 1: Is it true? Gate 2: Is it necessary? Gate 3: Is it kind? Even if you make it past gates 1 and 2, gate 3 calls us to compassion. And scroling on remains an option.
Do you take the stairs or the escalator? Does anyone care?
Filtered thoughts about when to use AI
What meeting culture reminded me about intentional choices
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Have been a member of the @whca.bsky.social almost continuously since the 1990s. Our mission is to defend the First Amendment rights of White House correspondents to report on the president without fear or favor. Unfortunately last night did not advance that cause. Time to rethink the dinner.
Ro! Ro! – Norway's World Cup team "rows" with 90,000 people outside Royal Palace in Oslo tv.vg.no/video/383250...
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In sweeping attack on elections, Trump fires leadership of key federal voting assistance commission
The dismissals leave the elections assistance agency without leadership just months before the upcoming 2026 midterms.
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There’s an expression in my coaching discipline: “how you do one thing is how you do everything.” It’s the clearest statement I’ve ever heard of what integrity means. Perhaps impossible to achieve, but worth striving for.
This ad placement on the Times’ site is perfection.
man trump's fourth of july festivities were a huge clusterfuck www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEf...
Of Course President Trump's Fourth of July Party Was a Huge Failure
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Trump signed a stipulation: lose at the Supreme Court, pay Carroll immediately. He lost Monday. He still hasn't paid. His lawyers called asking for more time anyway. Robbie Kaplan's response to the judge is the kind of clean, precise lawyering worth reading in full. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Women Who Told Trump "No"
When Donald Trump appealed the $5 million dollars the jury awarded to E.
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Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building antenna. They are holding a banner that reads: “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace”
Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.
About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.
I would read letters like Emily’s every night in the White House. They were powerful reminders of why the work we did mattered, and who we were fighting for.
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
Every vote is an expression of gratitude for those who have sacrificed everything, and a reminder that we can choose our future. #IVoted #NYPolitics
The crazy thing is that for most of my life I would go ten, fifteen, sometimes even thirty minutes at a time without thinking about the Reflecting Pool.
When defining the American dream “just 3 percent envisioned opportunity for all.”https://wapo.st/4vbJgIu
Belief that anyone can achieve the American Dream is fading, poll finds
Most people are still confident they have upward mobility, but fewer than half say everyone in the country can reach their ideal.
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A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually
It’s depressing that, 55 years later, this record still has urgency about the same problems. Racism. Poverty. Climate Change. Massive failures of leadership and action.
🔥 SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov: “This war in Iran is the worst foreign policy blunder since Iraq. And just like the Iraq war, it’s a war built on lies. The ‘America first’ President who said he would end foreign wars, now he says all we can afford is war.”
Billionaire Knicks owner, James Dolan, cancelled the NBA finals watch party outside Madison Square Garden last night, for game 4. So mayor of New York fuck'n City turned the whole city into one gigantic watch party! Watch the reaction from real Knicks fans.
To be clear, New Yorkers cheered the anthem and booed the cheetoh. #Knicks #NBAFinals
