ZeroCarbonMA, Resilient Coders, Our Generation Speaks. Former CEO of Brightcove. Leadership at Adobe and at Macromedia------ LinkedIn: https://xitter.cf/t.co/SNe8VAgfZV
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David Mendels retweeted
Last week @AgendaHero launched Dates. Today, The Intelligence featured us as "The smarter, saner way to share schedules and events," writing that "It actually makes your life easier."
You should try it. You will love it. theintelligence.com/43829/sh…
“AI should make you more ambitious, not less.” (*Some* of the doomerism is warranted, this is the right mindset right now I think.)
David Mendels retweeted
NEW: An appeals court concluded that Trump misused his emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs on U.S. trading partners, casting a cloud over the trade deals he’s been making. SCOTUS is next.
w/ @tradereporter @joshgerstein @drdesrochers
politico.com/news/2025/08/29…
David Mendels retweeted
Let's be real: if Republicans pass the House budget bill as is, it will murder the US nuclear industry, ruin our chances of winning the AI race (by constraining power supply), concede the global auto sector to China, and vaporize about half a trillion dollars of US manufacturing investment. All while raising energy costs for US households and businesses. As a patriotic American, I say: 🤬that!
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The Volts podcast with David Roberts tackles the question of why housing & urban land use is central to climate policy. This issue is relevant to Brookline, where folks focused on climate action seem to be split on the topic of housing. Listen below! buff.ly/XEto0dn
David Mendels retweeted
Another Trump term would bring national weakness, more years of unrest, and rule by the worst people.
Meanwhile, Harris has steered her party toward patriotism and optimism, and will continue Biden's competent economic stewardship.
So vote for Harris!
noahpinion.blog/p/four-reaso…
David Mendels retweeted
War in Afghanistan the whole Trump presidency.
Bombed a new state (Syria).
First killed foreign general since WWII (Iran).
Kissing up to Putin led to Ukraine, kissing up to Bibi led to Gaza, kissing up to Kim normalized nuclear proliferation.
How does anyone buy Trump "peace" BS.
David Mendels retweeted
It’s increasingly clear that the single best way to get a voter to support Kamala Harris is to have them work in Donald Trump’s White House.
David Mendels retweeted
Remarkable epilogue to Bob Woodward's WAR, out today: He says "many of the news-making scenes in my prior books are stories of failures, mismanagement, dishonesty and the corruption of executive power," but in the Biden White House he found "steady and purposeful leadership."
David Mendels retweeted
Harris' economic policy agenda is basically:
* trying to lower costs for a bunch of stuff via antitrust and deregulation
* industrial policy, with support for working-class career paths
* support for startups and small businesses
I like it.
noahpinion.blog/p/lets-evalu…
David Mendels retweeted
The Kamala Harris platform is out. And it reads like a startup economy manifesto. This is fantastic. kamalaharris.com/issues/
David Mendels retweeted
The Biden administration took decisive action to revitalize America's manufacturing industries and preserve our technological edge over China.
These policies haven't completely succeeded yet, but they look like they're on track to succeed.
noahpinion.blog/p/biden-did-…
I am excited about the new generation of Dem leaders that are coming to the fore to replace our bipartisan gerontocracy: Gretchen Whitmer, Andy Beshear, Roy Cooper, Josh Shapiro, Pete Buttiegieg, Raphael Warnock (and more!). And excited to support @KamalaHarris LFG
David Mendels retweeted
Ami Ayalon, former head of Shin Bet, interviewed on @BBCr4today:
"The only way to defeat an idea is to present a better idea, and that is to present a political horizon for Israelis and Palestinians. Hamas’ popularity is rising, but the minute Palestinians will believe in a political horizon, their freedom, they will not support Hamas. The Palestinians are here to stay and we are here to stay, so we have to divide this piece of land. "
David Mendels retweeted
“If we shall not end the occupation, we shall not have security,” warns Ami Ayalon, former head of Shin Bet, “and if we shall not end this occupation, we shall not have democracy.”
In an extraordinarily candid interview, Israel’s former internal security chief condemns what he calls Prime Minister Netanyahu’s “toxic leadership,” and argues that as the war continues, “we are losing our identity as people, as Jews, and as human beings.”
Watch our full conversation here.
David Mendels retweeted
3. Not sending one ton bombs to Israel for Rafah does not create an existential threat to Israel. It's pure demagoguery to suggest otherwise, and also implies that the IDF is so incompetent that it can't go after four Hamas battalions without completely annihilating everything
David Mendels retweeted
It really was the IRA that turned me around on Biden. I spent so much time yelling at him for not getting it done and then... he got it done. Not cleanly, not quite how I would have liked, but it GOT PASSED. I had to admit I was wrong and they'd pulled it off. It earned respect.