Futures thinking all day long @iftfhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mvk64uupxs23A New Book Seeks to Shame the Elites Who Caved to Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/opinion/institutions-power-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BVE.Ga4S.HG6trcUfozKf shocking to see how powerful people are willing to sell out just for money. More understandable in totalitarian states where people’s lives are at risk. these guys are afraid to lose a comma on their income stmt15 Sep 2026 08:06 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvk64uupxs23https://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mudgcpguns2xDeleted @googlemaps. quislings 🤮 [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Aug 2026 22:18 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mudgcpguns2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mucxlyj3as2lhttps://odesatothefuture.substack.com/p/our-outputs-are-not-us?r=2i5os2&utm_medium=ios AI companies are creating a world in which agents are trained on archives and missing the repertoires.30 Aug 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucxlyj3as2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3msgpm34zhc2qDeleting @uber app. Every woman and man who finds the company's behavior appalling should do the same. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/business/uber-sexual-assault-lawsuits.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3VA.ViSH.zUU5ygwBF4s0&smid=bs-share06 Aug 2026 18:52 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3msgpm34zhc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mjd3uu6e5c26We can do this too!!! https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/12/hungary-election-latest-results-viktor-orban-peter-magyar-fidesz-tisza-russia-europe-live-news-updates12 Apr 2026 19:34 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjd3uu6e5c26https://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mh5hbtgpf22p"You lose your country with multiple small acts of complicity!" [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Mar 2026 02:52 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh5hbtgpf22phttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mh2t3kma522i"Bullshit is the glue that binds this country together." Never missed George Carlin more than right now!15 Mar 2026 01:45 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh2t3kma522ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mgpwfsrxf224These people were making decisions about grant cancellations!!! https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVtUHcNjTTM/ A grant to study Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory" bc it's gender-based & about "Jewish culture." Ignorance + power= evil. #NEH #doge #justinfoxdeposition10 Mar 2026 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpwfsrxf224https://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mfptlwpnj227How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/how-california-can-neuter-citizens?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web25 Feb 2026 23:30 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfptlwpnj227https://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3me7s7wxyrc24Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/white-supremacy-trump-administration-social-media.html?smid=bs-share Thank you @nytimes.com for openly calling out the overt and brazen racism of this administration. We need more media to do this!06 Feb 2026 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3me7s7wxyrc24https://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mdhpkmszvc2lhttps://www.euronews.com/next/2026/01/27/france-to-ditch-us-platforms-microsoft-teams-zoom-for-sovereign-platform-amid-security-con28 Jan 2026 07:06 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdhpkmszvc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mdgmziu6oc23In the meantime, US is experiencing demographic changes that undermine its future: historically low fertility rates (1.6 per woman, well below the 2.1 replacement rate) and net negative migration. Shooting itself in the foot. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/population-growth-slows.html27 Jan 2026 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdgmziu6oc23https://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3md7mg3jae22gState Terror Has Arrived https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion/state-terror-has-arrived.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share M. Gessen knows what she’s talking about.25 Jan 2026 01:48 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3md7mg3jae22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mcdvpn4axc22‘Like a Military Occupation’: Clashes Rise With Federal Agents in Minneapolis https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/ice-videos-minnesota-trump-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share these photos are from an American city!!! We need to stop this now! Where is our democratic leadership?!14 Jan 2026 01:20 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcdvpn4axc22https://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mc6qfdhr5s2fIncludes a great quote from Chekhov: the work of art doesn't have to solve a problem, it just has to formulate it correctly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGWCqgIyrbM. Applying to futures work: foresight doesn't have to provide predictions, it has to formulate good insights.12 Jan 2026 00:02 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc6qfdhr5s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mc3n5sckkc2nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/opinion/attention-world-war-2-technology-nazis.html “True attention cannot be measured by a machine. The fullness of our authentic human attention, shared with others, is the power with which we make the world.”10 Jan 2026 18:26 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc3n5sckkc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mbwbq54krc2phttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/further-back-to-the-future-neoroyalism-the-trump-administration-and-the-emerging-international-system/ABB12906CA345BBCA5049B544363D391 neo-royalist order centers on an international system structured by a small group of hyper elites (cliques). Such cliques seek to legitimize their authority through appeals to their exceptionalism in order to generate durable status hierarchy #backtothefuture08 Jan 2026 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbwbq54krc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mbovsv24gc22www.kyivpost.com/post/67441 Are we really back to the Monroe doctrine?! Welcome to 1826! https://www.kyivpost.com/post/6744105 Jan 2026 16:56 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbovsv24gc22https://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3mamrxkwkks2dThis must be watched! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Dec 2025 03:17 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mamrxkwkks2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3m6k5od5lgk2xTestifying during Army-McCarthy hearings, Joseph Nye Welch chief counsel for the US Army, asked McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" This was a turning in media and public opinion of McCarthyism. Will attack on Mark Kelly and other democrats be such a moment?26 Nov 2025 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6k5od5lgk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3m6cwgwkyy22xHow the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/opinion/meaning-epstein-emails.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U8.DuuP.xrIL5I73w3WY&smid=nytcore-ios-share “Shaming the public as rubes for succumbing to conspiracy theories misses what people are trying to tell us: They no longer feel included in the work of choosing their future.” Spot on!23 Nov 2025 18:20 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6cwgwkyy22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3m5jmbwspns2mAs if the right-wing manosphere weren't enough, we now see the rise of the "mainstream manosphere." https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-did-men-do-to-deserve-this Ross Douhat of course has the answer: it's extreme feminism 🥲13 Nov 2025 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5jmbwspns2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3m3ltwd7zwc26Some people still have integrity and conscience. We need more like them! [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Oct 2025 03:13 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ltwd7zwc26https://bsky.app/profile/mgorbis.bsky.social/post/3lzlniaeirc26About 1 million people watched Jimmy Kimmel last night on TV. As of this morning more than 9 million watched it on YouTube. Clearest proof of traditional media dying.24 Sep 2025 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:ditpxhnoftmff4rmxh23trqy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzlniaeirc26