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Flourishing futures, together. Meld Studio: Design research, strategy, facilitation, & teaching fmr Meta, New_Public, Dalberg 📍www.melaniekahl.com 💌 melaniekahl.substack.com 📸 bio.site/melaniekahl "to see small beginnings is clearness of sight"

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This year is the 150th anniversary of Carmen. The @detroitsymphony.bsky.social is putting on a show— and they are live streaming it Sunday at 3pm. 🎭🎶 Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=83CV... (Bonus: My twin-in-law, Claire, is in the chorus.)

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Neighbors helping neighbors. Who doesn’t need a giant cake to pop out of? Less facisim, more joy.

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💯 I’ve always wanted to burst the bubble. If I was a foundation, I’d fund relational cross pollination: Imagine if every professional conference reserved: 10% seats for other professions 10% seats for students 10% for everyday folks & enthusiasts 70/30 Rule? Open to critique on ratios.

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Amen. Canada and Europe are eyeing them. Even if you start with a temporary program while you get things sorted.

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We’re all about to get really good at systems thinking in real time… …as our systems crumble around us.

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A request for someone to build a spam-bot to crash this website: defendinged.org/join-the-mov... The founder is worried that schools are “smuggling” in DEI by calling it “belonging:” www.instagram.com/share/BALAXM...

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An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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This auction house really picked the wrong person to try to screw over… ✅ Better Business Bureau on two addresses ✅ Platform reporting ✅ Bank fraud reporting Don’t mess with me and my Anni Albers lithograph dreams.

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Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area

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I may not be Lutheran anymore, but do not f* with my people. And you know WHY these payments largely go to faith organizations?! They are filling the GAP. The government largely stops supporting refugees/asylees directly after 90 days from resettlement. 90 DAYS.

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There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

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Action: ☎️Add your reps #s to your phones. 👉🏻Reduce your friction to action. 💬Get comfortable with basic script: ⚠️“I’m calling about __, Please do , It matters to/impacts me bc _.” Or ✅“Thank you for _____, hold the line.)

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Preach.

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This by Dan Savage is I think important to keep top of mind. It speaks to the point I made earlier that bad news is never the only news.

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Just look at these fantastic spaces in brand-new libraries opened across the Brooklyn, NY, and Queens library systems last year (Sunset Park, Inwood, Far Rockaway)

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