Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged)

Engaging, productive (whole group) experiences, leading to new, more impactful ways of thinking about and accomplishing work. #OpenLeadership @WPI '81 Physics

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

“Gotta get down to it. Soldiers are gunning us down.”

Neil Young - Ohio [Live At Massey Hall 1971] (Video) https://t.co/R5T1GZsODb via @YouTube

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

BTW, never speak a relevant form number to the automated attendant. That ALWAYS results in being connected to humans who can only mail out blank forms. They tipped me off: keep repeating “individual account issues” until someday you get added to a queue to speak to an agent.

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

Day 3 - #MAGA #IRS once again has no one to take my call (except the people that mail out blank forms)!

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

“Unusually high” (meaning, normal) “call volumes” are the justification,… yet again.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

@realDonaldTrump, will you help with a side-effect of your #MASA (#MakeAmericaSuckAgain) initiative. The IRS no longer has the capacity to take calls from individual taxpayers. Every time I call about an estate filing your IRS has failed to answer, they say, “try back tomorrow.”

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

@Pontifex I appreciate you so much, sir! Your light shines bright in what can sometimes seem a dark world.

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

My concern exactly. Power (agency) has, already, migrated to the citizenry. Only question is how much violence we must endure until Love finds its way to the fore.

[Mel Conway @conways_law]

We have a choice:
Continue to believe that what we’re doing is preparing to win an election in the Fall, or
Work to understand, and then oppose, a movement in our midst that is preparing to ensure that we won’t have a transfer of power in the Fall.
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[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

"I do not wish to speak this evening of 'welcoming,' but of recognition and full integration. Welcoming presupposes that someone arrives from the outside and is allowed in out of the generosity of others. But as the baptized, no one is a guest in this church."

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

An extraordinary address from Bishop Vincenzo Viva, Bishop of Albano, Italy, to a group of LGBTQ Catholics this week. (In English, with a link to the original Italian)
https://t.co/ufZQJTQmSt

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

@BellaRo36233586 @Pontifex You realize Jesus was a leftist activist; right?

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

@DrShayPhD @Pontifex He acts and sounds like Jesus.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The rapid technological evolution we are witnessing has accelerated speculative behavior in search of raw materials. This shift seems to overshadow fundamental imperatives such as the safeguarding of creation, the rights of local communities, the dignity of labor, and the protection of public health. I thus renew the appeal of Pope Francis, who passed away exactly one year ago: “Today we also have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills.”

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

@AOC, @SenSanders, will you, as leaders of our party, read this, too? I think you’ll find it well worth your time. Thank you!

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

@RepMcGovern, @SenWarren, @SenMarkey, @chelliepingree, will you give Mel’s proposal a read? He has a deep understanding of human systems (like our threatened democracy), and his proposal makes excellent sense. Timely and actionable. Also, how can I help?

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

@RepMcGovern, @SenWarren, @SenMarkey, @chelliepingree, will you give Mel’s proposal a read? He has a deep understanding of human systems (like our threatened democracy), and his proposal makes excellent sense. Timely and actionable. Also, how can I help?

[Mel Conway @conways_law]

The Congressional leadership of the Democratic Party is not up to its current task. This is more than a shame; it’s dangerous.
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[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

@WordHandedDown @JamesMartinSJ What harms children is insulating them from displays of Christlike mercy. Christ excluded no one. He was only saddened that some (Pharisees) were so self-righteous that they couldn’t find the humility to accept his mercy.

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

Sad that my church, the Catholic Church, sometimes fails to follow #Jesus’ example of merciful inclusion.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Not surprisingly, these court cases often center on same-sex parents, that is, not parents who are divorced, or divorced and remarried, or have children out of wedlock, or aren't in comformity with Catholic teachings in many other ways. What about, e.g., denying an education to a child of a parent who committed white-collar crime? Or the child of a parent who is not paying a just wage? It's the selectivity of these cases that many LGBTQ people notice. Moreover, a child should not be denied an education for any perceived failings of the parents. If Catholic schools provided education only to the children of sinless parents whose lives were 100% in conformity with church teachings, the classrooms would be empty. https://t.co/yxShF9POUg

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Not surprisingly, these court cases often center on same-sex parents, that is, not parents who are divorced, or divorced and remarried, or have children out of wedlock, or aren't in comformity with Catholic teachings in many other ways. What about, e.g., denying an education to a child of a parent who committed white-collar crime? Or the child of a parent who is not paying a just wage? It's the selectivity of these cases that many LGBTQ people notice. Moreover, a child should not be denied an education for any perceived failings of the parents. If Catholic schools provided education only to the children of sinless parents whose lives were 100% in conformity with church teachings, the classrooms would be empty. https://t.co/yxShF9POUg

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

@lesdeuxbernois @JamesMartinSJ The ONLY evidence that one believes in Jesus is one’s care for neighbor (in other words, behaving like Jesus).

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us reject the logic of violence and war, and embrace peace founded on love and justice—an unarmed peace, not based on fear, threats or weapons. This peace is disarming, because it is capable of resolving conflicts, opening hearts, and generating trust, empathy, and hope. I strongly reiterate: The world thirsts for #Peace! Enough of war and all the pain it causes through death, destruction, and exile! #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

[Marc Trudeau (he/him/white/privileged) @MarcTrudeauLB]

Acts 4:32

The whole group of believers was united, heart and soul; no one claimed for his own use anything that he had, as everything they owned was held in common.

— Christianity? Communism? Democracy? Love?