Lina Srivastava

@linasrivastava.bsky.social

Founder, Center for Transformational Change. Strategist, producer, writer, traveler. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/LinaSrivastava/ https://linasrivastava.com https://transformationalchange.co She/her.

A succinct verdict on the persecution of the poor young academic who just died by suicide. Plagiarism is common. Persecution of the kind he endured is uncommon, aka selectively applied. The reason why he was targeted seems as clear as it is ugly.

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 3d ago

The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.

Wasn't this a controversial "radical Left" position like 6 months ago? Make no mistake: Progressives did this. This is their win. Celebrate. You deserve it. Then keep fighting for Supreme Court reform, abolishing the filibuster, and Medicare for All.

Michael Kapp@michaelkapp.com · 3d ago

BREAKING: the Democratic National Committee just unanimously approved a resolution calling for the abolition of ICE! After terrorizing our friends, families, and neighbors, ICE has no place in our nation. I'm grateful @democrats.org agreed. Now we're onto the hard work to make that happen!

It's honestly so crazy to me that we're facing a technological revolution that could displace millions of jobs in the middle of a housing affordability crisis and every day we talk about whether a trans woman is playing sports or if someone has a non-Anglo name.

The adage "the cruelty is the point" is overused but always completely apt with this administration's policies. The question of where that millions of dollars could have gone to help people thrive instead of suffer is overused, but has to be asked over and over. In every way, this is so twisted.

404 Media@404media.co · 6d ago

NEW: ICE plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on buying specialized gloves that pulse with electrical energy, which make it easier for agents to subdue people. 404 Media read the manual that says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.”

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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"the social sector’s intelligentsia" is in a "conversation about what all this new wealth will mean for philanthropy. This is the right conversation for the moment, but it is grounded in the flawed assumption that wealthy people will engage in the public good" www.proximate.press/latest-stori...

Is the Era of Foundation Dominance Coming to a Close?

Philanthropic Beltway discourse centers foundations. But money is increasingly flowing elsewhere

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