“Instead of celebrating a milestone for their country, MAGA influencers spent the day viciously attacking the new pope… This wasn’t a mere critique of Pope Leo’s policies—it was a full-scale assault… The MAGA cult, as it’s increasingly called, revealed its true colors… For a movement that often cloaks itself in “Christian values,” the hypocrisy is staggering.”
—Dean Blundell
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/magas-unholy-war-on-pope-leo-xiv
#maga #leoxiv #values

Kellan Elliott-McCrea (then CTO of Etsy): Great women engineers aren't looking for a job, and there is a decent chance your company sucks

http://slideshare.net/kellan/more-women-in-engineering-something-that-actually-worked-14630106 by @kellan

The #Ethics of #GeneEditing:
Navigating #Humanist #Values in #Biotechnology

https://thehumanist.com/commentary/the-ethics-of-gene-editing-navigating-humanist-values-in-biotechnology

If Trump's budget cuts are passed by Congress: “You’d be looking at millions of people out on the street virtually overnight”:
https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/05/trump-budget-proposal-ca/
But there would be more money for tax cuts for billionaires.
#housing #values #cruelty #politics

#FedericoAntin #ThePositiveGhetto #NFTs

#ThePowerOfThree

In #ThePositiveGhetto #SenseOfCommunity Is #Power

https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0xd63fa7f757ddcf50ab78751bdefa4fdbfd67ea52/29/

"Federal Arts Officials Resign After White House Pulls Grants":
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/05/us/trump-news
#Trump #greed #politics #values

I learned a lot of lessons over 10 years working for venture-backed startups – a big one was that if you can't put your customers first, you risk losing the core value of what you're building, and your own values

Last night's 60 Minutes segment on law firms / the legal industry is a powerful reminder of that lesson: https://www.cbsnews.com/60-minutes/

"John Oliver delivered a searing critique of what he described as some Democrats’ indifference to the 'breathtakingly #cruel' #immigration actions taking place under Pres. Donald Trump’s administration":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-oliver-donald-trump-democrats-move_n_68186d50e4b0e811371e5cfe #politics #values

Scott Hechinger: "Trump ended funding for proven violence intervention programs throughout the country, mental health and substance use supports to prevent people from acting outside the law, and resources for survivors of crime. This Administration supports violence."
#danger #values #politics

James Surowiecki: "Trump doing a Stalin-style #military parade on Trump's birthday is yet another of this administration's repulsively un-American ideas."
#values #waste #politics

A quotation from Thoreau

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable, — of a bad one, to make it less valuable. We can afford that railroad, and all merely material stock, should lose some of its value, for that only compels us to live more simply and economically; but suppose that the value of life itself should be diminished!

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1854-07-04), “Slavery in Massachusetts,” Anti-Slavery Celebration, Framingham, Massachusetts

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

It is good that Doug Emhoff was fired from the Holocaust Museum board because he failed to do his job. The Holocaust Museum denounces a genocide that happened in the 1940s, but Doug Emhoff was and is immorally silent about the genocide that has happened for more than one year in Gaza.
#politics #values #NeverAgain

"Promotion of American First Amendment values has played a valuable part of U.S. public and cultural diplomacy in winning friends and supporting democracy globally."

But Trump ended this because Putin wanted it stopped and Trump is #PutinsPuppet.

"Now we need to work more than ever at home and abroad to preserve freedom of the press and all the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment rights." This article explains why:
https://www.citizen-times.com/story/opinion/2025/04/27/opinion-us-diplomacys-valuable-role-promoting-press-freedom-threatened/83232275007/
#politics #values #FreedomOfThePress

Jasmine Crockett DROPS TRUTH BOMB on Public Figures’ Values!

Explore the values of public figures in this engaging panel discussion! Join us as Jasmine Crockett tackles the question of accountability for spouses of elected officials. Witness her sharp insights and thought-provoking perspective on public expectations. #PublicValues #EthicsInPolitics #PublicFigures #JasmineCrockett #PoliticalDebate #Ethics #Accountability #ElectedOfficials #Values #PublicOpinion…

https://worldtravelsyt.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/jasmine-crockett-drops-truth-bomb-on-public-figures-values/