Tootfinder

Police chiefs failed to tackle racism due to lack of leadership, watchdog finds | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/01/police-chiefs-failed-to-tackle-racism-due-to-lack-of-leadership-watchdog-fi…

'Divided us with a smile': GOP groaning over Mike Johnson reaches a fever pitch (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/01/mike-johnson-leadership-complaints-00902390
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p12#a260501p12

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…

Leadership Matters
Join Prime Ministers, CEOs, and industry pioneers as they reveal their personal struggles and leadership triumphs...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/leadership-matters/

Field staff at the federal agency that enforces civil rights laws in the workplace
say they are under intense pressure from leadership to bring in cases that fit the Trump administration’s priorities,
i.e. charges of discrimination against white men and charges of antisemitism on college campuses.
That pressure has led investigators and lawyers at the agency,
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
to focus its thin resources on pursuing and fast-tracking c…

EEOC Is Prioritizing Job Discrimination Cases That Match Trump’s Agenda
Field staff at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission say they are being pressured to bring politically charged cases, even with little evidence.

After all the bad reporting on the power outage in Caracas, I'm reluctant to post this, but here it is.
Israel plunges Iran into darkness with largest cyberattack in history during attack against Iran
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-888271

Israel performs largest cyberattack in history against Iran | The Jerusalem Post
Critical infrastructure, official news sites, and security communications systems reportedly stopped functioning, leaving the leadership in a communications blackout at home and abroad.

I'm a humanities scholar. I got into this racket to read and write and every once in a while geek out with other loners. FFS, the goal was never "leadership opportunities."

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 …

The US under the leadership of Darth #Trump has lost the war against Iran; worse still, it has also lost its sphere of influence in the Middle East; just as, due to its naive friendship with #Putin, it is in the process of completely squandering its sphere of influence in Europe and NATO.
In the end, the

Wow, Pepsi signed-off on "Heil Hitler"? That's some bold corporate synergy.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/31/wireless-festival-london-kanye-west-ye-to-headline-jewish

Sadiq Khan and Jewish Leadership Council condemn Wireless festival for Kanye West headline booking
Ye, who has called himself a Nazi, released a song called Heil Hitler and sold T-shirts bearing swastikas, is confirmed to play three nights at the London festival

What are the Las Vegas Raiders looking for in a franchise QB? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/what-are-the-las-vegas-raiders-looking-for-in-a-franchise-qb-3713507/

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…

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."

Oracle slashes 30,000 jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email
Oracle began laying off up to 30,000 employees globally, notifying them via a 6 a.m. email from "Oracle Leadership" with no prior warning from HR or managers.

@… I think the question remains: Have the needs of GitHub and MS leadership aligned?
I fear not.

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

“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

I largely dismiss claims like this from NYT:
https://bsky.app/profile/nytimespr.bsky.social/post/3mi2n44glbk2y
…given reporting showing its leadership has pushed an anti-trans agenda:
“'A Directive From Above': Former NYT Editor Lays Out How Th…

NYTimes Communications (@nytimespr.bsky.social)
The New York Times’s body of reporting on the American Medical Association’s stance on gender-related care for minors is accurate and factual, and remains so despite the recent statement from the Chair of the A.M.A. Board, which contradicts the A.M.A.’s own statements. https://www.nytco.com/press/fact-checking-claims-about-our-american-medical-association-coverage/

This makes me think about the ‘good old days’ of Mini MSFT. We need a new MiniMSFT. Maybe a MacroMSFT? MicroMSFT? Someone to spill the corporate gossip with insights and conjecture.
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/mary-jo-foley-what-the-heck-is-goin…

Mary Jo Foley: What the heck is going on with Microsoft lately?
In her debut column for GeekWire, longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley digs into the recent wave of reorgs, hiring freezes, and leadership shakeups in Redmond, and asks whether it's business as usual or something bigger.

An internal BBC survey: 34% of workers said they had confidence in the executive leadership, down from 46% in 2025; 43% were "excited" about the BBC's future (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/bbc-staff-confidence…

BBC Staff Confidence In Leadership Plummets After Trump & Gaza Crises
BBC staff confidence in leadership has taken a significant hit after a string of editorial scandals in 2025, including the bust-up with Donald Trump.

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…

Pollinators of Privilege — https://www.brichapman.com/p/pollinators-of-privilege?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

Privilege as Pollination: Rethinking Power, Responsibility, and Leadership
Privilege isn’t a problem to erase—it’s a resource to redistribute. This essay explores how to turn privilege into pollination, and power into connection.

Reza Pahlavi of 2026 Iran seems to have the energy of Ahmed Chalabi of 2003 Iraq.
An American puppet who turns out to be a dud on deployment.
#Iran #succession #leadership #puppet

Cowboys CB has blunt message for anyone saying Dak Prescott isn't top 5 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-josh-butler-dak-prescott-top-5/dfac900cc7083900a1d6ac20

https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/04/california-democrats-governor-leadership/

Democrats need a savior in the California governor’s race. Don’t ask Pelosi or Newsom
Even with Rep. Eric Swalwell’s downfall, California Democrats face a glut of gubernatorial options. Party heavyweights won’t save the day.

Fernando Mendoza Gets Blunt About Pro Day With Raiders Watching https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/fernando-mendoza-gets-blunt-pro-day/

Secretary of State, National Security Advisor Secretary of Defense, Vice President, Attorney General and President of the United States mere hours after what no one could say wasn’t a decapitation strike on the US (attack meant to remove the leadership of a country all at once) are optionally all within 20 feet of each other during a war because the US Secret Service is inexplicably behaving as if the threat has passed.
Because they planned it? Or they’re horrifyingly reckless?
…

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

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

BSidesSF 2026: 📙 Power Dynamics in Security Leadership:...
View more about this event at BSidesSF 2026

I hadn't heard of the winner of the #Utah #UT01 congressional district before. I went to his website, read his positions, and I get it. Why comprise on anything in the Democratic district we actually live in (instead of what we'd so long been gerrymandered into)?

Liban Mohamed for Congress | Utah's 1st Congressional District
It's time for a new generation of leadership in Utah. Join Liban Mohamed's grassroots campaign for Congress. Build by the community, for the community.

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

Commanders confident in LB core if Wagner gone https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48335134/commanders-confident-lb-core-vet-bobby-wagner-leaves

“Rapid change isn’t just occurring in #Ukraine. Other developments across the western alliance show that European nations are working with shocking speed to free themselves from dependence on America. […]
"Our allies are increasing their #defense budgets and decreasing their dependence on American

Opinion | Ukraine Has Picked Up the Torch America Dropped
The world is looking to Volodymyr Zelensky for leadership.

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

"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?"

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…

Dana Walden Unveils Her Disney Entertainment Leadership Team Spanning Film, TV, Streaming & Games; Debra OConnell Upped To DET Chairman
Dana Walden Unveils Her Disney Entertainment Leadership Team Spanning Film, TV, Streaming & Games; Debra OConnell Upped To DET Chairman

Amplify Our Voices: Conversations From Regional Australia
Recorded in the Clarence Valley, bringing real stories into the light. We explore leadership, equality, business, culture and the structural forces shaping women's lives in regional communities...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.

GOP senators losing confidence in Hegseth amid Pentagon turmoil (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5848160-senate-republicans-doubt-hegseth-leadership/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p95#a260427p95

A change in #UEFI leadership:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dongweimba_i-would-like-to-extend-my-sincere-gratitude-activity-7…

I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to Mark Doran for his exceptional service as President of the UEFI Forum since 2005. For more than two decades, Mark has provided steady leadership, deep… | Dong Wei, MBA | 21 comments
I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to Mark Doran for his exceptional service as President of the UEFI Forum since 2005. For more than two decades, Mark has provided steady leadership, deep technical insight, and unwavering dedication to the Forum’s mission. His contributions have left an enduring mark on the firmware industry and the UEFI community. I have had the privilege of serving as Vice President of the UEFI Forum, working closely with Mark, the Board of Directors, and our mem…

#LLM tools let you write code faster, but LOCs has NEVER been the bottleneck to value. The bottleneck is organizational coherence.
Instead of working towards that alignment, we are encouraged to "just #AI it." The result? AI makes everyone work MORE, with no real productivity gains.
Te…

Research is leadership, and code can help (but only in the right places)
Code was never the blocker in delivering customer value — and the easier writing code becomes, the more it distracts from the work we must do to unblock productivity.

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…

Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader amid war?
Mojtaba Khamenei has succeeded his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated in joint US-Israel attacks.

Ukraine Update: Russia continues to commit warcrimes and ferocious assaults on Ukraine.
Ukraine defies the behemoth, and continues to weaken Russia.
As global order falls apart, Ukraine's leadership and military capability are enviable.
For Americans resisting the Trump regime, there are lessons being taught.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall:

Drone War in Overdrive: Ukraine’s Extraordinary Response to Russia’s Largest Attack
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Friday Links 26-13
I caught up with my YouTube, two good videos from NotJustBikes about cars and oil being bad.
I really liked all the links in leadership this week, all highly recommended.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/04/friday-links-26-13.html

We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I’m gonna throw up.
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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 …

Doug Wilson, Christ Church senior pastor and Christian nationalist movement leader, believes:
▫️ women shouldn't vote individually
▫️ supports repealing the 19th Amendment
▫️ says the Bible prohibits women from church or government leadership
He has hundreds of churches nationally. They are actively taking over towns. His highest level connection to this administration is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

the way of the Shambhala Warrior — #philosophy

The Shambhala Warriors: Leadership, Attention, and Compassion in an Uncertain Future
In an age of crisis and distraction, true leadership begins with clarity, compassion, and attention. Drawing on the Shambhala Warrior prophecy, this essay explores how wisdom, adaptability, and focus can guide us through uncertainty toward a regenerative future.

Mailbag: Downs’ high expectations a worry? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-downs-high-expectations-a-worry

Joel Webbon says God punishes rebellious nations by putting women in political leadership
because "nothing hurts more."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/joel-webbon-says-women-political-leadership-sign-gods-judgm…

Joel Webbon Says Women in Political Leadership is Sign of God's Judgment
Joel Webbon says God punishes rebellious nations by putting women in political leadership because "nothing hurts more."

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

Inside Meta's push to turn employees into "AI builders" and reorganize teams around small pods
Meta Reality Labs is reorganizing to be 'AI-native,' forming pods of 'AI builders.' The change aims to boost productivity at Meta.

One of the best detailed descriptions of cybersecurity program essentials I’ve seen. From JP Morgan’s #cybersecurity team
https://www.j…

Fortifying the enterprise: 10 actions to take now for AI-ready cyber resilience
By the JPMorganChase Global Technology Leadership Team

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

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…

"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.”

Crude Capitalism: Trump’s War on Iran Disrupts Global Systems, from Agriculture to Oil to Shipping
The U.S. is threatening to intensify its bombardment of Iran as the country’s leadership rejects a 15-point U.S. proposal to end the war. Iran has issued a number of demands, including recognition of its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. Since the war began, Iran has largely blocked ships from passing through the critical strait, causing a global crisis as the prices of oil, natural gas and fertilizer soar. “We’re not just talking about potential spikes in food prices … but also po…

Cowboys' great Darren Woodson on Caleb Downs: 'Yes Sirrr!' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48590115/nfl-dallas-cowboys-2026-draft-caleb-downs-darren-woodson

Sean Plankey pulled his CISA nomination after more than a year of Senate limbo.
Behind the delay: unexplained resistance, disputed allegations, and a cybersecurity agency drifting without confirmed leadership during the Iran war.
Check out my latest CSO piece.
https://www.

The curious case of Sean Plankey’s derailed CISA nomination
Sean Plankey backed out of his CISA director nomination, but why he faced resistance is not a straightforward story.

Say Again By The Cultural Brokers
Amplifying leadership, purpose and impact through stories of the leaders shaping Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/say-again/

Mailbag: Downs’ high expectations a worry? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-downs-high-expectations-a-worry

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

Liberatory Leadership: how to lead without authority
What business leaders can learn from activists about leadership without authority

'Jarring disconnect': Maine voters at odds with Democratic leadership in high-stakes Senate primary (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/-jarring-disconnect-maine-voters-at-odds-with-democratic-leadership-in-high-stakes-senate-primary-261737541537
http://www.memeorandum.com/260420/p157#a260420p157

Christine Fréchette is Quebec’s next premier after winning CAQ leadership
Fréchette beats out Bernard Drainville to become leader of the governing party
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-new-premier-leadership-race-caq-9.7157880

Quebec to get new premier today as CAQ leadership race concludes | CBC News
The leadership race to replace outgoing Quebec Premier François Legault concludes Sunday and the results are set to be announced in Drummondville, Que., in the afternoon.

Friday Links 26-12
Two weeks of links. A lot of AI related articles again. I liked the paper about using chatbots in leadership, and the one about the YAML of the mind.
If you want a podcast, check out the one about night trains.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/04/fri…

Fernando Mendoza: 'Leadership is earned, not given' https://www.raiders.com/video/fernando-mendoza-2026-nfl-draft-las-vegas-arrival

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.

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

"Society functions like a hive, where no single actor directs the whole, yet a coherent pattern emerges from the interaction of countless parts."
"This does not mean that leadership, institutions, or strategy are irrelevant. It means that they are not sufficient to explain historical outcomes on their own."
"History…It is made in the accumulated choices of ordinary people, acting within the constraints and possibilities of their own lived realities.&quo…

The Tolstoy guide to history that Trump and Netanyahu didn’t read
How do you bomb a country “without mercy”—and end up strengthening it? When US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that Washington would show “no quarter, no mercy for our enemies,” the message…

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

Tomlin: Exit partly rooted in recent playoff woes https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48604669/mike-tomlin-talks-steelers-exit-new-analyst-role-nbc

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/116455932062162433
“It’s hard for an agency to go this long without confirmed leadership,” Michael Daniel, president and CEO of the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), told CSO. “That’s not a good place for the country…

Health In Focus Podcast
Discover the latest interviews, thought leadership and analysis in health and policy...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/health-in-focus/

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-…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Space Force’s role in Iran, Venezuela raids fueling push for more resources
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.

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

The Great Migration — #mentalhealth

Trust and the Flock: What Geese Teach Us About Collective Leadership and Sustainable Action
Inspired by the migration of geese, this essay explores trust, connection, and distributed leadership in times of change. Sustainable impact doesn’t come from doing everything—it comes from knowing your place in the flock and leading together with purpose.

Friday Links 26-14
A bit of a mixed bag today. Good reads are the Agents and the Era of Overproduction and AI reshaping values at Enode blog posts.
Podcast-wise, give Driverless World and the Pedro Sšnchez episode a listen.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/04/friday-li…

Andrew Luck and Bruce Arians weren’t expected to win together. Here’s how they did anyway https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7195812/2026/04/15/andrew-luck-bruce-arians-leadership-colts/

A remarkable thing has happened on the world’s battlefields. Ukraine
— a nation that was supposed to dissolve within days of a Russian invasion
— has fought Russia to a stalemate,
revolutionizing land warfare in the process.
It has become an indispensable security partner in the western alliance, including in the war against Iran.
Now, Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, is taking the next step,
one that would have been unthinkable even as recently a…

Opinion | Ukraine Has Picked Up the Torch America Dropped
The world is looking to Volodymyr Zelensky for leadership.

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://…

“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…

Defense workers' morale has plunged under Trump, survey finds
Only 9% of Army civilians found Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leadership motivating.

Calls to Impeach Trump Collide With Reluctant Democratic Leadership (Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/04/09/calls-to-impeach-trump-collide-with-reluctant-democratic-leadership/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p36#a260410p36

At his Raiders introduction, Fernando Mendoza says: 'I still need to earn it' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7226752/2026/04/24/fernando-mendoza-las-vegas-raiders-introduction/

Fourteen months after
Robert F Kennedy Jr was sworn in
as US health secretary,
the country’s prime public health agency over which he presides
is in a state of disarray.
Eighty per cent of the top director positions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stand vacant,
with no permanent leader to drive policies affecting the health of millions of Americans.
No one is in place to coordinate the agency’s day-to-day work fighting infecti…

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

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

The Latest Blows to Iran's Leadership (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/world/middleeast/killings-iran-leadership.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p72#a260406p72

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.

Carrizo Plain in Superbloom as BLM Leadership Change Looms
Winter rains bring an early start to wildflower season at the national monument amid renewed federal debate over public lands.

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

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

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…

White House is expected to shake up more leadership roles at Justice Department, sources say (Sarah N. Lynch/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-shake-up-more-leadership-roles-justice-department/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260404/p51#a260404p51

One of the main areas of pushback that Republican leadership in Congress has faced in trying to pass an extension of "section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (Fisa) is push to keep the bill “clean”,
-- despite GOP hardliners insisting that reforms and additions are needed.
Some members of the conference, like Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, have said that
if Donald Trump’s sweeping voter ID bill ends up falling off th…

Trump extends ceasefire indefinitely as Iran says it won’t join talks now
Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he would extend a ceasefire with Iran
hours before it was due to expire,
pledging to refrain from attacks until discussions with Tehran “are concluded, one way or the other.”

Trump said Iran’s leadership was “seriously fractured” and needed to “come up with a unified proposal.”

Trump made the announcement of an indefinite ceasefire as talks scheduled t…

Trump extends ceasefire indefinitely as Iran says it won’t join talks now
The announcement came as talks set to take place between U.S. and Iranian delegations in Pakistani were postponed amid uncertainty about the broad strokes of a deal.

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

Canada’s left-leaning
New Democratic Party (NDP)
has elected a new leader,
someone whose campaign drew comparisons to the politics and style of U.S. figures like
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani.
On March 29, the NDP elected
Avi Lewis on the first round of balloting
with 55 percent of the vote in his first successful political campaign.
The NDP was decimated in the April 2025 federal election.
Former leader Jag…

In Echoes of Corbyn, Insurgent Candidate Wins Canadian Party Leadership
Avi Lewis now leads the New Democratic Party after a campaign reminiscent of left-leaning politicians in the US and UK.

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

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…

Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social)
New pro-Trump group, the State Leadership Initiative (SLI), is “writing the blueprint for dismantling bureaucracy in every red state.” Nate Fischer—a founder of New Founding, which is backed by DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen—is an SLI co-founder. The board includes Heritage president Kevin Roberts. 1/ https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/19/meet-the-group-writing-the-blueprint-for-dismantling-bureaucracy-in-every-red-state/

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…

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