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The V-formation maps cleanly to how we think about leadership: someone sets direction, others align behind. But the murmuration model — distributed, adaptive, leaderless — might be closer to how real teams work. https://www.poppastring.com/blog/leadership-from-birds
The State Leadership Initiative (SLI),
is a policy-focused organization that investigates and counters the influence of progressive ideologies
—specifically Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards
and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies
—within state-level bureaucracies and government,
particularly in conservative "red" states.
🔸Focus on Policy Influence: SLI investigates how national associations and "shadow gov…
As experts warn about cyberattacks from Iran on the US, CISA is operating under a partial government shutdown and dealing with leadership changes (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/iran-cisa-cybersecurity-war-threat.html
This is the kind of shit the “Democratic Leadership" keeps pulling. Shapiro, Newsom, Fedderman, Clintons, Summers, Obama. They are all neo-liberals who also work for the billionaires too. We need to elect folks like Krasner, AOC, Sanders, etc who actually work for citizens.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/larry-krasner-josh-shapiro-philadelphia-ice-agents-rhetoric-20260202.html
Rep. Lofgren to Noem:
You know there's an old adage that states there are no bad dogs, just bad owners.
One of the questions we have is,
are there bad agencies or just bad leadership?
https://bsky.app/profile/rachelbitecofer.bsky.social/post/3mg…
Pet peeve: Corporats leadership who use “align” to mean “I’m going to talk, and you’re going to listen”.
"Every system has exactly one constraint. One bottleneck. The throughput of your entire system is determined by the throughput of that bottleneck. Nothing else matters until you fix the bottleneck.
That's the part most people get. Here's the part they don't, and it's the part that should scare you:
When you optimise a step that is not the bottleneck, you don't get a faster system. You get a more broken one."
Tillis to Noem:
"A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years.
You decided to kill that dog because you hadn't invested the appropriate training,
then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ...
Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"
You should have seen this coming. Once you start excluding, the in-group tends to shrink.
Pentagon Good Friday Service Excluding Catholics Sparks Religious Bias Concerns Amid Broader Criticism Over Leadership Purge https://ground.news/article/huffposts-attempt-to-create-a-good-friday-outrage-cycle-about-pete-hegseth-is-bad-even-for-them
In all seriousness, there are a ton of possible scenarios. The Iranian regime is weaker than it has ever been. I deeply hope for the liberation of Iranian people, especially oppressed minorities. Meanwhile, the US is lead by the most incompetent leadership ever (which is really saying a lot).
The Kurds, who could be the keystone ground forces needed to collapse the regime have been betrayed by the US so many times that they may not rise up (correctly) predicting that the US will stab them in the back at the fist chance.
But they are also a highly oppressed group in Iran, and may well take this opportunity. I don't know enough about this region to make any kind of reasonable prediction.
There are a huge number of unknowns, which is really *not* what anyone wants when starting a conflict.
To Iranian people, I wish you freedom and self-determination against all actors. To the US military, I wish you the best of luck getting your whole behive-dick situation.
ISM and YDS alumni Alexandra Barylski and Samuel Loncar are reshaping public scholarship through their leadership of Marginalia Review of Books.
https://ism.yale.edu/posts/2026-01-28-building-a-global-home-for-ideas-yal…
The Leadership Advantage Nobody Talks About: Being Into Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JeKkiizg4E
“Nuclear talks with the United States are scheduled to be held in Muscat on about 10am Friday,” wrote the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi.
“I’m grateful to our Omani brothers for making all necessary arrangements.”
US officials also indicated the talks in Oman will go forward.
They will take place amid a massive buildup of US naval and airpower in the region and appear to be a last chance for Tehran to avert a US strike against the country’s leadership and nuclear …
Maybe one of the more surprising things about the current live coding waves is how queer-lead it has become. I wouldn't have said it was ever particularly masculine/macho, but live coding was very cis male-dominated and hetronormative in the early days. Now as far as I know all the people blowing up on tiktok and instagram are LGBQT, and the most active live coding software and community platforms for music and visuals include LGBQT people leading core development (I say leadership here …
Frontier AI labs' policies around military use of their AI tools are incoherent, vague, and often prone to change, allowing leadership to preserve "optionality" (Sarah Shoker/fishbowlification)
https://sarahshoker.substack.com/p/a-few-observations-on-ai-co…
30.000 people laid off...to build datacenters...
"The layoffs are directly tied to Oracle’s aggressive and debt-heavy expansion into artificial intelligence infrastructure. According to analysis from TD Cowen, the job cuts are expected to free up between $8 billion and $10 billion in cash flow — money the company urgently needs to fund a massive buildout of AI data centers."
Alec Watson clearly explains the vast benefits of solar and batteries over any other energy source. At the end, at timestamp 1:16:38, he also goes into a powerful, emotional speech on how the political leadership of the United States is embracing fascism.
I recommend the whole episode, but if you judge that you don’t have time, watch the final 15 minutes (from the provided timestamp). And then watch the whole thing. 😉
After many years as a staunch fence-sitter/political neutral, I voted in two previous political leadership races. The first was the 2020 Green leadership race. I was excited to support a candidate, and was then horrified to find out he was a Russian propagandist claiming to be a ‘anti-imperialist’. You can figure out who that is on your own lol. Have fun :)
The second leadership race I participated in was the BC NDP race that pitted David Eby against Anjali Appadurai.
She was treated horribly, and I would say with fear, by the BC NDP leadership. She could have been a sea change in real social progressive leadership in BC and Canada but was pushed out.
She's working for Avi Lewis’ campaign.
From 350.org
Today, we're releasing a report card that lays out where the federal NDP leadership candidates land on our key climate action demands.
The good news is that each of the 5 leadership candidates expressed enthusiastic support for 4 out of 5 of our demands.
Rob Ashton did not highlight the need to get off of fossil fuels at all.
RE: #UKRI funding for UK #research. "Change leadership", eh?
#AcademicChatter
I will be speaking on Sunday at BSides on "Power Dynamics in Security Leadership: a legato leitmotif lullaby on leading lightly and luminously"
Sunday 4:25pm, AMC Theatre 12
#BSidesSF
Through his new book and his leadership of the National Baptist Convention, USA, the Rev. Dr. Boise Kimber '18 S.T.M. attempts to “chart a future where not only is the stained-glass ceiling shattered, but also the brick wall of resistance is dismantled.”
From this article by Adelle Banks at Religion News Service.
I really should be sleeping, but I'm a little fired up by @… 's NDP Party Leadership acceptance speech. As @… shared: great speech.
There's important work to be done in Canada. This must be the time. Carney was a necessary step, bu…
Seriously, my freelancing has shown me the inner workings of a •lot• of different companies, I’ve heard a lot of corporatespeak in my day, and…this letter from a bunch of Minnesota CEOs —
❝we are calling for an immediate deescalation of tensions❞
❝state, local and federal officials to work together❞
❝find real solutions❞
— is some of the most hollow, tone-deaf, embarrassing, Bristol Type 7 dribble I’ve ever heard from corporate leadership.
https://www.mnchamber.com/blog/open-letter-more-60-ceos-minnesota-based-companies
"Librarian Leadership in the Age of AI"
https://doi.org/10.5860/ital.v45i1.17659
"Librarians have managed and lived through many seismic shifts brought by technology. How should librarian leaders approach the coming anticipated AI workforce disruption?"
The US succeeds at regime change in Iran as Khamenei replaces Khamenei.
165 dead schoolgirls is sometimes the price you have to pay for such things.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/3/8/who-is-mojtaba-khamenei-a-conte…
Donald Trump won AZ-06 by less than one point in 2024
– and I need your help to flip this seat blue.
It’s Jo Mendoza reaching out.
I know polling can be confusing. Everyone wants to convince you that their race is the most important for you to support,
and it can be hard to figure out which are actually the most critical.
So let’s talk about what the data says about my race:
There’s only been one poll so far, but it shows me beating my MAGA opponent by onl…
Amplify Our Voices: Conversations From Regional Australia
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Opinion | Mamdani’s Long Hours Are What Millennial Leadership Looks Like - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/zohran-mamdani-work-gen-z-millennial.html
Donald Trump says he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center performing arts venue for two years starting in July for construction.
Trump’s announcement on social media Sunday night follows a wave of cancellations since Trump ousted the previous leadership and added his name to the building.
The proposal, he said, is subject to approval by the board of the Kennedy Center, which has been stocked with his hand-picked allies.
Leading performing arts groups have pulled ou…
My message to Senators:
❝The correct amount of funding for not just ICE but the •entire Department of Homeland Security• is zero. ZERO. You heard me: the entire agency. Under current leadership, it is off the rails. It is dangerous. It it a menace.
“More training” is a pathetic non-answer; that just means more money. These murderers are trained; they are just monsters. Don’t say “better oversight.” Don’t say “more reforms.” Pull the rug. Switch it off. • Shut • it • down • NOW •
If you have to shut down every airport in the country because the TSA budget is in there too, then you shut down every damned airport in the country. If you have to shut down the federal government again, you shut it down. Your inaction is sleepwalking the country into civil war. SHUT. IT. DOWN.❞
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“Of all the possible Middle East scenarios, 🔥the current state of play is one of the worst for the global economy,”
says the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s head of global economics, Joseph Capurso.
He added: 💥“We expect the situation to escalate before it de-escalates.
“Iran’s leadership and military capabilities have been significantly degraded.
However, what is unknown is their intent and capability to block the
Canceled contracts, a failed polygraph and personal disputes: Inside the turbulent tenure of Noem's former cyber czar (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/28/cisa-cyber-leadership-madhu-gottumukkala-00804515
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p22#a260228p22
Say Again By The Cultural Brokers
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Leaked memo: Meta's Reality Labs is reorganizing staff into AI-native "pods" focused on specific outcomes, flattening the organization's leadership structure (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/metas-real
I 100% support NDP Leadership candidate @…’s full statement. This is what progressive leadership should be saying in Canada. And it starts with:
“The US and Israel have launched an illegal act of war….”
#canada #canpoli #cdnpoli #ndp
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From polling and special elections over the past year, we’ve seen two important trends:
Democrats are strongly over-performing in general elections (to the tune of 10-15 points),
and Democratic leadership is incredibly unpopular, even among Democratic voters.
This combination means that there will be a lot of support
— in enthusiasm, money, and votes
— for primary challenges to Democratic incumbents,
and the usual Democratic fretting about electability …
“This workforce has been fundamentally traumatized in the way that this leadership team said that they intended to do at the outset,”
Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service’s CEO, told Government Executive.
“That’s not good for anyone. It’s bad for the workforce, it’s fundamentally bad for the American people, and it will lead to us to be less safe, healthy and prosperous as a society.
The things that we want and need from government are not what we’ll get.”
The su…
"We’re not just talking about potential spikes in food prices …
but also potentially key shortages in the commodities that are necessary to produce food, like fertilizers,”
says Adam Hanieh, director of the SOAS Middle East Institute at the University of London.
“Many of the countries that are going to be most potentially impacted by this are already in conditions of famine or near famine.”
Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela
— experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts,
a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview Friday.
Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Absolute Resolve were carried out by the joint force in June 2025 and January 2026, respectively.
Pentagon leadership have touted the rai…
After a wet January and February, Carrizo Plain National Monument has entered superbloom
The mountain ranges have been flowering for weeks.
The valley floor has begun to follow.
And if the weather holds,
the display could stretch into early April.
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