2026-01-20 13:56:40
Bills leadership roundtable: How coaching and front office changes will impact the team's future https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6984517/2026/01/20/nfl-bills-coach-leadership-gm-changes-future/
Bills leadership roundtable: How coaching and front office changes will impact the team's future https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6984517/2026/01/20/nfl-bills-coach-leadership-gm-changes-future/
Trump is showing the world the U.S. is 'back,' Scott Bessent tells CNBC as Greenland tensions ratchet up (Lucy Handley/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/trump-greenland-bessent-leadership-denmark-davos.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p42#a260120p42
Q&A with Blizzard President Johanna Faries on company staff bonus transparency, working under Xbox leadership, restoring the NetEase partnership, and more (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
Disney's incoming president Dana Walden unveils new Disney Entertainment leadership, including elevating Debra OConnell as chairman of Entertainment TV (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/dana-walden-disney-entertain…
When a company moves its headquarters, it's making a statement
— whether leadership spells it out or not.
That's the case with #Palantir's surprise announcement Tuesday
that it has relocated its home base to Florida from Colorado.
The defense-tech contractor disclosed the change in a one-sentence press release citing a new address just outside Miami.
Palantir, le…
Kyiv's mismanaged winter: Energy crisis, icy streets expose city leadership failures: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/kyivs-mismanaged-winter-energy-crisis.html
Every one of the NDP leadership debates to date, even the catastrophic French-language debate last fall, have made me think that if more us gave the party a chance, we might just be alright.
the future is not a countdown — #climate
I think I need to put into my talk this line that keeps running through my head
So many leaders want people to trust them, which is exactly backwards
In organizations, positions are typically appointed through the hierarchy and authority of the organization. However, like trust, "leadership" is earned: slowly built and quickly lost.
Asking how to earn trust means admitting you have failed, and more importantly means committing to a change. If you don't uphold…
It's "important that she spell out exactly how a Rayner leadership would differ from Starmer on Gaza, on public ownership, Treasury rules, house-building, military spending and more."
Left must put pressure on Rayner | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/articl
What @… says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:
- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)
- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?
- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.
- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)
- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.
So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393
RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/116260028658995411
If this is the decision making process on your project, it means your project is fucked.
Yes, I have suffered through those projects. They mean project leadership is incompetent. I…
Ähnlichkeiten mit dem Challenger-Unglück liegen auf der Hand.
NASA Chief Classifies Starliner Flight As 'Type A' Mishap, Says Agency Made Mistakes - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/0…
Friday Links 26-10
The podcast about culture is great, so is the one with the creator of Kotlin.
@…'s techno set is pretty great too.
https://christof.damian.net/2026…
"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?"
Backbone test.
(They have the votes; do they have the spine? Pressure from us helps strengthen theirs.)
"Senate Democrats alone can halt funding for ICE. So far, the Democratic leadership has not stepped up. Only enormous pressure from their constituents will force them to show any backbone."
The Avi Lewis AMA on Reddit this afternoon was interesting. He didn't answer my question, and I'll eventually get over it, but he was swinging for the fences with his ideas. His responses would resonate I think with MastoCanucks as they pretty much call for the government to get more involved in providing real solutions. Including building 1M public homes, tackling U.S. ownership of our media, getting rid of FPTP with electoral reform, guaranteed income programs, publicly owned options for major business categories (banks, grocery, phones, etc). Those big ideas could wake up and excite voters while at the same time facing huge opposition from big businesses and wealthy Canadians who would face a new wealth tax.
I hope he wins the leadership. At the very least he'll push the Liberals to be bolder, and maybe even lead a minority government that could bring some of his ideas to fruition.
#CanPoli #NDP
https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/s/fwKRmDPSvd
We need our military leaders to show their moral courage | Cognoscenti https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2026/01/20/minneapolis-ice-insurrection-act-trump-amerian-soldiers-andrew-carleen?linkId=900232191 …
Exclusive: Justice Department leadership pushed FBI to investigate campaign contributions to Minnesota officials (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/20/politics/justice-department-presses-fbi-investigate-minnesota-democrats
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p114#a260120p114
Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza deleted every app but LinkedIn — and it might explain everything https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6980686/2026/01/19/fernando-mendoza-bio-wiki/
NSA cyber directorate gets new acting leadership
https://therecord.media/nsa-cyber-directorate-new-acting-leadership
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.
RE: #avilewis ) see a bump in those
This is how superficial one needs to get to justify an argument of US global supremacy. Arthur Herman and WSJ deliberately choose to ignore Taiwan's unmatched leadership in superconductors and China's in energy. Instead, they turn to Soviet-style resources and headcount arguments. Apparently there is a force driving them to sacrifice whatever authority they might still have.
"China remains formidable. But from Europe and the Middle East to South America and Southeast Asia, …
Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza deleted every app but LinkedIn — and it might explain everything https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6980686/2026/01/19/fernando-mendoza-bio-wiki/
reminder that no matter how funny that translator may be, generative AI is still awful and immoral and Kagi kinda sucks balls too[1]. thank you for your attention
1. https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
Trump to POLITICO: 'It's time to look for new leadership in Iran' (Sophia Cai/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/17/trump-to-politico-its-time-to-look-for-new-leadership-in-iran-00735528
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p26#a260117p26
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 Leader's Handbook Study Series
https://www.in2in.org/shop/p/the-leadership-handbook-study-series
In his forward to the Leader’s Handbook Ackoff offers a format to study the book which we will follow in these sessions:
“I suggest a small group …
We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I’m gonna throw up.
Support
So we’ve been using an AI agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it.
I just found out it’s been hallucinating numbers this entire time.
Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn’t exist. Our CFO showed the board …
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…
Progressive lawmakers are demanding that the Democrats use the upcoming government funding deadline to reduce DHS’s ability to wreak further havoc.
“I just don’t understand how we provide votes for a bill that funds the extent of the depravity,”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told CNN Thursday.
#DefundICE #Make5Calls
Comics platform GlobalComix raised $13M, following a $6.5M raise in 2023, and acquires digital manga platform INKR, adding 200K volumes of Asian comics (Rob Salkowitz/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/
Palantir moves its HQ from Denver to Miami, as the city's leadership aims to turn it into the next Silicon Valley, with backing of billionaires like Ken Griffin (Pierre Paulden/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-…
Starbuck Sargent
A deep-dive construction and business podcast featuring global industry insights, civil construction strategies, earthmoving operations, heavy machinery talk, leadership development, and contractor success stories...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.c…
"‘Weakening climate leadership’: Is the EU’s 2040 emissions target ambitious enough?"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Climate
Check out my latest article - "Liberatory Leadership: how to lead without authority"
https://www.brichapman.com/p/liberatory-leadership-how-to-lead?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn
It's fascinating that Apple's leadership now doesn't include design or product people https://www.apple.com/leadership/
MLA 27 - Medieval Studies, Leadership, and Public Humanities Advocacy https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/08/mla-27-medieval-studies-leadership-and-public-humanities-advocacy
Trump appears to careen between two opposing visions for victory in Iran:
He has demanded Tehran’s “unconditional surrender”
and also has signaled that he might abruptly declare victory and leave.
Neither scenario is likely to end this war, because neither reflects any real understanding of the adversary.
Washington appears to have begun the conflict on the assumption that sustained military pressure would either collapse the Iranian regime or force its leadership to…
Absolutely normal behaviour that a foreign government with a head of state being accused of war crimes is... inviting local city councillors and paying for their trip
https://www.
Radoslaw Sikorski, vice-premier ministre de Pologne : « Le défi de l’UE consiste Š traduire son poids économique en influence et en leadership mondiaux »
https://www.
An interview with Semafor's Justin Smith on growing its events business around tentpoles and how DC-focused media benefits from the corporate affairs market (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/semafor-ju…
Memo: Satya Nadella says ex-Snap executive Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot for commercial and consumer clients; Mustafa Suleyman will focus on new AI models (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/microsoft-copilot-ai-suleyman.html
Israel Is Hunting Down Iranian Regime Members in Their Hideouts, One by One (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran-leadership-528c6114?st=YoQu1w
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p29#a260318p29
Zelensky orders 'purges' at Ukraine’s Security Service amid anti-corruption probe and leadership shake-up: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/zelensky-orders-purges-at-ukraines.html
I’m almost done reading Careless People. And here I thought I couldn’t think less of Meta leadership than I already did. Silly me.
Just published 🚀: Leadership from Birds
#leadership
https://ground.news/article/democrat-files-articles-of-impeachment-against-noem_be631a
We need to go after House Dem 'leadership' to take a goddamn stand, holy shit.
3 lessons from Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6980686/2026/01/19/3-things-anyone-can-learn-from-indiana-qb-fernando-mendozas-stoic-mindset/
Sorry, Peter Griffin (being interviewed on RNZ by Kathryn Ryan on NineToNoon right now), you're way way too uncritical of US BigTech & (especially) Microsoft's leadership... that you're visiting them in the US is also suspicious.
Opinion: The events of 2025 exposed the enemy within our own borders - El Paso Matters https://elpasomatters.org/2025/12/29/opinion-2025-america-democracy-moral-collapse/
3 lessons from Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6980686/2026/01/19/3-things-anyone-can-learn-from-indiana-qb-fernando-mendozas-stoic-mindset/
On The Mic...WIT Shaz - Women In Tech Leadership: The Upsides
Dedicated to inspiring and empowering more women in tech to enter into and remain in C-suite, Exec and leadership roles and to encourage this we need to be talking more about the upsides of being in tech leadership roles...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://…
It was hard to leave my teams and the small Cloud Security org that I grew, but days like this are why it was worth it
After 5 years at Netflix, I've sorely needed time off to recover. I'm deeply proud of the work that Netflix Cloud Security did, and I will miss them
In a few months, I will be looking for a security leadership role at an organization that aligns with my values
Meanwhile, I'm glad to finally feel calm, safe, and secure
You.com appoints Saahil Jain as new CTO after co-founder Bryan McCann left to Anthropic; You.com, which began in consumer search, is targeting enterprise more (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/ai-st…
N.I.H. Director Will Temporarily Run C.D.C. in Leadership Shake-Up (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/politics/bhattacharya-kennedy-cdc-director.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p79#a260218p79
Friday Links 26-02
This week I enjoyed the podcast about Godbolt’s Rule and the one with Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
You might notice more podcasts this week. Something went wrong with my link collection system recently.
I am also moving the blog … more things will go wrong.
https://christof.damian…
Iran's leadership DESTROYED "IN ABOUT AN HOUR": Trump SHOCKS with Middle East operation details: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/irans-leadership-destroyed-ampquotin-about.html
On Saturday, former Trump administration official and radical Christian nationalist
William Wolfe delivered a speech at Bethel Church in Petersburg, West Virginia, entitled
"Five Popular Lies About Faith & Politics."
Wolfe, who now runs the Center For Baptist Leadership
and has become an increasingly fanatical anti-immigrant activist,
openly admitted that the goal of Christian nationalists is to
👉gain political power and
💥impose their m…
MLA 27 - Medieval Studies, Leadership, and Public Humanities Advocacy https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/08/mla-27-medieval-studies-leadership-and-public-humanities-advocacy
Lenore Taylor, editor of Guardian Australia, is leaving the outlet after 13 years in senior roles and 10 years as editor; David Munk will serve as acting editor (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb
Arthur Blank addresses regime change, aims for 'leadership' that gets Falcons to 'next level' https://www.nfl.com/news/arthur-blank-addresses-regime-change-aims-for-leadership-that-gets-falcons-to-next-level
Internal memo: Hark, the new AI lab from Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, backed by $100M of his own capital, has hired 30 engineers from Apple, Meta, and others (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/hark-hires-leadership-apple-meta
RFK Jr. shakes up leadership team (Shawn Zeller/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/rfk-jr-shakes-up-leadership-team-00779554
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p115#a260212p115
One Experienced Veteran Raiders Should Consider Adding https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-experienced-veteran-should-consider-adding
For a long time, I thought activism had to mean constant urgency, burnout, and despair. But what if there’s another way—one rooted in love, not just resistance?
I started this Substack to explore activism that nourishes instead of depletes. You’re welcome here. 💖 https://substack.com/@bricchapman
Cuba's latest blackout underscores its deepening economic crisis as Rubio calls for new leadership (Milexsy Duršn/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-power-outage-electricity-trump-28db6c460ed84df539a574bed16a819d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p63#a260317p63
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.
https://www.
Raiders Mailbag: Answering Your Questions After Week 1 of Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/gm-report/las-vegas-mailbag-answering-your-questions-week-1-free-agency-john-spytek
Tension builds ahead of NFLPA leadership vote https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48179641/jc-tretter-nflpa-executive-director-vote-election
The Department of Defense on Thursday announced it would ⚠️overhaul the military newspaper "Stars and Stripes",
👉including no longer circulating reporting from wire services like The Associated Press.
While part of the Pentagon’s Defense Media Activity,
it has long had editorial independence from the Department of Defense leadership
and is
✅ “congressionally mandated to be governed by First Amendment principles,”
according to the paper.
Th…
It’s Justin Pearson,
Democrat running for Congress in TN-09.
𝘕𝘖𝘛𝘜𝘚 named our race as one of the 2026 primaries to watch — and they’re right:
our race is already drawing 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 of national attention.
I’m running for Congress because Memphis and TN-09 deserve leadership that stays close to its People,
speaks the truth,
and fights like our families’ lives depend on it — because they do.
If you believe in leadership that’s rooted in the People, I’m hoping…
A group of five journalists reboots Gourmet as a worker-owned newsletter, after discovering that Condé Nast had let its trademark on the name lapse in 2021 (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/business/media/gourmet-magazine-new…
Trump's leadership restores US influence in Latin America (Peter Laffin/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/4447336/trump-leadership-restores-us-influence-latin-america/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p55#a260206p55
Several Republican lawmakers are ramping up anti-Muslim comments
and facing little to no response from their leadership.
"Muslims don't belong in American society," Rep. Andy Ogles posted on Monday. "Pluralism is a lie."
The Tennessee Republican, whose seat is in a safe red district,
has previously expressed support for banning immigration from Muslim-majority countries
and said in a speech last year that "America is and must always b…
David Letterman calls CBS News a "wreck", and says its integrity "has been trampled on, pissed on, and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over" (Anna Betts/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/12/david-lett…
Axiamatic, which offers an "agentic control plane" to manage large-scale enterprise transformations, emerges from stealth with $54M from Greylock and Bessemer (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/11/ex…
I drank beers with Mike Vrabel the week before the Super Bowl. This is what I learned https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7021513/2026/02/05/mike-vrabel-patriots-coach-super-bowl-leadership/
LEADERS JEFFRIES AND SCHUMER DELIVER URGENT ICE REFORM DEMANDS TO REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP (Chuck Schumer/Congressman Hakeem Jeffries)
https://jeffries.house.gov/2026/02/04/leaders-jeffries-and-schumer-deliver-urgent-ice-reform-demands-to-republican-leadership/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p34#a260205p34
Mike Vrabel's leadership got the Patriots to the Super Bowl, but it wasn’t enough to win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7032318/2026/02/09/mike-vrabel-patriots-seahawks-super-bowl-60/
TRANSCRIPT: Leader Schumer, Leader Jeffries, And Democratic Leadership Call For Oversight And Accountability To End The Violence And Rein In ICE (The Senate Democratic Caucus)
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/transcript-leader-schumer-leader-jeffries-and-democratic-leadership-call-for-oversight-and-accountability-to-end-the-violence-and-rein-in-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p84#a260205p84
More than Donald Trump,
more than Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem,
more than anyone in ICE’s leadership,
J. D. Vance has made himself the lead defender of the killing in Minnesota.
The day after the shooting, Vance announced a new administration effort to prosecute welfare fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere.
Vance’s message started hot and got hotter.
He blamed immigrants in general
—and Somali immigrants in particular
—for ch…
House GOP leadership silent as more members post anti-Muslim statements (Barbara Sprunt/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/14/g-s1-113667/republicans-sharia-law-andy-ogles-mike-johnson
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p51#a260314p51
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…
Trump says Iran's succession bench wiped out as Israeli strike hits leadership deliberations (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-irans-succession-bench-wiped-out-israeli-strike-hits-leadership-deliberations
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p107#a260303p107
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…
Search for: -- Thanks to the leadership and vision of President Donald J. Trump ... (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/maritimemight/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260214/p1#a260214p1
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"
Exclusive: Grenell expected to shift out of Kennedy Center leadership on Monday (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/13/grenell-kennedy-center-president-renovation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p98#a260313p98
Pam Bondi lashes out as lawmakers press her on Epstein, cases against Trump foes
Attorney General Pam Bondi combatively defended her leadership at the Justice Department to House lawmakers on Wednesday
amid sharp criticism that she botched the release of the Epstein files and has wielded the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency to heed Donald Trump’s calls to prosecute his political foes.
In exchange after exchange,
Bondi lobbed brash insults when Democrat…
Amy Klobuchar's governor run sets up Senate leadership shakeup (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/29/congress/amy-klobuchar-senate-leadership-00755417
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p150#a260129p150