The Trump Administration Has Fired Pentagon Staff Working To Prevent Civilian Casualties
…employees at the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Reduction office at the Pentagon were informed Monday that their office will be closed, as will the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, and all positions … that offer advice on limiting the risk to civilians during airstrikes.
This administration is villainous.
Trump-Zelensky Meeting Implodes, Threatening Hopes for Peace
POTUS & V-POTUS are bullies. They disrespected President Zelenskyy and embarrassed the United States today.
The damage they are doing (both domestically and internationally) will take generations to repair.
Musk Tells Government Workers to Detail Their Workweek or Face Termination
It is mind-boggling to me that anyone who has paid any attention to Twitter after October 2022 would say: We should do that to the federal government!
Finished reading: Hope by Pope Francis 📚
Had to add a new readwise.io tag.
#🦇💩🤬🦆
How the world is reeling from Trump’s aid freeze
“The first thought that came to my mind was that whoever made this decision has no compassion at all” - Saw Tha Ker
Finished reading: Thinking through Writing by John Kaag & Jonathan van Belle 📚
New #Vatican document on #ArticificialIntelligence just dropped.
St. Louis students will study the Holocaust through the music of one of its victims
On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, please consider listening to this piece from St. Louis Public Radio. It’s a story sharing an education program (designed in part by my wife) that brings to life music by Pavel Haas. Haas was an accomplished composer–and a Jew–who was featured in an infamous Nazi propaganda film. While murdered at Auschwitz, his music continues to inspire us today.
Finished reading: Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer 📚
This book is a must read for those who want to know how the current #immigration crisis in the United States came to be.
Spoiler alert: In many ways, the U.S. is living with the results of its own actions.