Kitty Wooley
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The Senior Fellows and Friends network improves government one person at a time by fostering tacit knowledge transfer in the room and mission-aligned boundary spanning at work.
Pentagon 9/11 survivor Kevin Shaeffer reflects on his escape: 'I had to fight' www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Pentagon 9/11 survivor Kevin Shaeffer reflects on his escape: 'I had to fight'
On 9/11, retired Navy Lt. Kevin Shaeffer was one of the few people in the Pentagon's Navy Command Center to survive the attack. Geoff Bennett spoke with Shaeffer about what he experienced on that day ...
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Headline in Fortune today: “Trump’s first term had real stimulus checks. His second has promised ones tied to problems he started” fortune.com/2026/09/10/t...
Trump's first term had real stimulus checks. His second has promised ones tied to problems he started | Fortune
The $5,000 pledge follows a DOGE dividend that failed and a tariff rebate that never arrived, both stemming from policies Trump created himself.
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Down in the Polls, Republicans Embrace a Familiar Tool: Fear www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
Down in the Polls, Republicans Embrace a Familiar Tool: Fear (Gift Article)
At an unusual midterm gathering, President Trump and his allies painted Democrats as dangerously un-American.
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#Motivation "When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it." - Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady of the United States
ICE is arming agents with shock gloves. What are the rules? wapo.st/4gJyhkR
Opinion | ICE is arming agents with shock gloves. What are the rules?
New high-voltage gear risks expanding police force without strict guardrails.
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'Total chaos.' How PBS News crews filmed the Pentagon on 9/11 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
'Total chaos.' How PBS News crews filmed the Pentagon on 9/11
On Sept. 11, 2001, when a hijacked plane struck the Pentagon, two WETA camera men and a NewsHour with Jim Lehrer intern rushed to the scene. As the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks approaches, t...
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This commencement address was written by Ursula LeGuin’s son Theo a couple of years ago. www.theoactually.com/your-desire-...
Your Desire Path (2024) — theoactually
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Interested in ideas for achieving 2 outcomes of facilitated or #participatorymodelling ie cognitive change & consensus forming? Revisit the great 2023 i2Insights contribution and discussion by Vincent de Gooyert at i2insights.org/2023/05/23/i...
Improving facilitated modelling
By Vincent de Gooyert Here I explore two outcomes of facilitated modelling – cognitive change and consensus forming – and ask: how can achieving those outcomes be improved? But first, what is facil…
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“That secrecy has created a culture of fear and anxiety in the agency” www.notus.org/agencies/tru... Now think about your own life: Do you do your best work in a climate of fear and anxiety? This way of leading is toxic.
Trump Is Quietly Planning to Majorly Change How National Parks Are Run
All Interior Department bureaus are considering major shake-ups under an edict from leadership.
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The heat has broken and there’s a refreshing breeze. Lovely.
WATCH: NTSB holds initial briefing on Amazon Air crash at Miami International Airport www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
WATCH: NTSB holds initial briefing on Amazon Air crash at Miami International Airport
The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off a runway at Miami International Airport were all inside a van carrying seven people from a cleaning company, and an SUV hit outside of airport p...
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What went wrong before an Amazon cargo jet barreled off the runway in Miami www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
What went wrong before an Amazon cargo jet barreled off the runway in Miami
Federal officials are investigating why an Amazon cargo jet overran a runway at Miami International Airport, striking two vehicles and killing five people. Video posted to social media shows the Boein...
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Interested in the two key capacities for transdisciplinary learning: #KnowledgeIntegration and #ActionableKnowledge? Check out this week’s great i2Insights contribution by Gemma O’Sullivan at i2insights.org/2026/09/08/t...
Transdisciplinary learning as U-shaped learning
By Gemma O’Sullivan. What is involved in transdisciplinary learning? The transdisciplinary learning process can be seen as the development of two capacities: knowledge integration and actionable kn…
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The Gaps You Can’t See on the Screen www.sententiagamification.com/blog/why-low...
Why Low-Fidelity Prototypes Improve eLearning Design
Discover how low-fidelity prototypes and concept boards reveal design gaps, improve thinking, and strengthen asynchronous eLearning before development begins.
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‘Black boxes’ on lobster boats set a dangerous precedent for America wapo.st/4xezwNZ
Opinion | ‘Black boxes’ on lobster boats set a dangerous precedent for America
The government is tracking every federally permitted lobsterman from Maine to Virginia.
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Why the United States Can’t Quit Its Wars www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u... “The country’s longest war came to an end exactly five years ago. Today it offers lessons for policymakers seeking to avoid an endless war in Iran.”
Why the United States Can’t Quit Its Wars (Gift Article)
The country’s longest war came to an end exactly five years ago. Today it offers lessons for policymakers seeking to avoid an endless war in Iran.
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The behind-the-scenes effort to contain the nation’s worst ongoing measles outbreak wapo.st/4ha2Ccj
The behind-the-scenes effort to contain the nation’s worst ongoing measles outbreak
Public health workers are relying on word-of-mouth immunization clinics to fight the state’s growing outbreak.
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New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement www.propublica.org/article/mail...
New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
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A “housing village” within walking distance of a Connecticut early childhood education center is the first of its kind in the nation. reasonstobecheerful.world/affordable-c...
One Way to Keep Childcare Affordable? Give Staff Free Housing
A “housing village” within walking distance of a Connecticut early childhood education center is the first of its kind in the nation.
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New evidence shows Boulder climate lab was dismantled in act of political reprisal, lawsuit alleges coloradosun.com/2026/09/02/d...
New evidence shows Boulder climate lab was dismantled in act of political reprisal, lawsuit alleges
New evidence shows pure politics was behind the Trump administration's threat to dismantle Boulder's NCAR climate lab, a lawsuit says
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How much do college players really get paid? Schools don’t want you to know — but you should www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...
How much do college players really get paid? Schools don’t want you to know — but you should (Gift Article)
Out of 70 schools The Athletic requested payrolls and budgets from, only one provided the information.
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Whistleblower warns USPS rushing new system that could jeopardize mail-in ballots www.pbs.org/newshour/sho... “This new system would inject the federal government into the voting process of every city, town, village, and hamlet in the United States.”
Whistleblower warns USPS rushing new system that could jeopardize mail-in ballots
With just days until the first ballots are set to be mailed to voters, a whistleblower inside the U.S. Postal Service is warning that a new delivery system could disrupt the handling of election mail ...
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Interested in guidance for how your academic writing can comprehensively reject inaccurate and damaging colonial tropes and #RacistStereotypes? Find out more in the great 2023 i2Insights contribution by kate harriden at i2insights.org/2023/05/02/d...
Decolonising your writing
By kate harriden As an Indigenous person, it is draining, infuriating and tedious to consistently encounter recently written academic material that invokes, seemingly uncritically, colonial tropes.…
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Nearly 3,150 Labor employees seeking disability accommodations impacted by data leak, internal memo says www.govexec.com/management/2... via @govexec.bsky.social
Nearly 3,150 Labor employees seeking disability accommodations impacted by data leak, internal memo says
A recently disclosed data leak impacts employees who have submitted reasonable accommodation requests since October 2023.
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Federal management is at a crossroads. Can good government leaders seize the opportunity? | Federal News Network
We decided to stop waiting for permission and start telling the stories of federal leaders…so we could get to real, sustainable solutions," April Harding said.
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mailchi.mp/louisepenny/... “Those who know how crazy he is, who know that a trade war with Canada is a zero-sum game, that American businesses and individuals will also be hurt. And yet they encourage and enable the madman? They knowingly choose the side of the insane? History will not be kind.”
September newsletter
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Each violation of international law emboldens others. In our latest newsletter, Ernesto Zedillo explores how the international rule of law benefits us in our everyday lives, and why we must act now to protect it. Read here: theelders.org/news/each-vi...
A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o... “We should be choosing those decision makers more carefully than ever — just when electorates seem less inclined to do so.”
Opinion | A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready. (Gift Article)
We must be honest about the seriousness of the situation we’re in.
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