alexander josephson

Co-Founder of PARTISANS We are an award winning architecture and design studio working around the world. Making the world a better more just place to live.

[alexander josephson @archist]

@alexbozikovic @torontolibrary We are working on a spectacular project downtown in an at need area. TPL passed on a small local library, instead of thinking, wow we could have a daycare privately funded beside a new PARTISANS designed library decided to pass. TPL can still look again.

[alexander josephson @archist]

@alexbozikovic Same thing happened on elm street over a heritage designation put together by someone who lives on the opposite side of the city. We are destined for more of the mediocrity.

[alexander josephson @archist]

@LinusEkenstam Yep

[alexander josephson @archist]

@alexbozikovic @BuffaloAKG @oma Gotta go too. Can’t wait

[alexander josephson @archist]

@NeriOxman @MIT It’s a shame that they now target you. Nevertheless, we have your back no matter what. Support you and @BillAckman

[alexander josephson @archist]

@TalktoARYZE Who do you think makes best system?

[alexander josephson @archist]

@CityPlanTO Why are you so obsessed with the totally abstract swoops that never actually are apparent to anyone except in a plane?

[alexander josephson @archist]

@deicivitas @BillAckman @Burt642 @Harvard Why on earth is a Canadian minister in our government weighing in here? Are you as daft as Trudeau? Have you no sense of propriety?

[alexander josephson @archist]

@BillAckman @Harvard Is it true that Obama is secretly lobbying the board to keep her?

[alexander josephson @archist]

@alexbozikovic Who gets the money????? Where does it go? You realize that this is the equivalent of building about 1000 condos right? It’s a drop in the pond.

[alexander josephson @archist]

@BillAckman @Harvard I feel like we are in the twilight zone. She’s invincible…

[alexander josephson @archist]

Ackman on a roll

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Imagine the following:

You're a man who serves as Chairman of the Board of a large University who led the search for the recently hired president.

Your wife runs a non-profit in the DEI space. She is the only full-time employee of the organization, serving as Founder, CEO, and CFO. You serve as Treasurer.

The non-profit ostensibly sells two principal products in the DEI space:

1. "Evidence-based 'how-to-guides' and

2. "The most comprehensive intersectional analytics platform of its kind..."

but the non-profit has no revenues.

It relies entirely on contributions to fund its operations, which principally consist of your wife's salary and some other ancillary overhead.

There have been only two contributors to the non-profit, the University whose board you chair, which has contributed:

2018 $100,000
2019 $300,000
2020 $150,000
2021 $600,000
2022 $789,000

and a donor advised fund (DAF) affiliated with you which has contributed:

2018 $0
2019 $0
2020 $0
2021 $10,000
2022 $20,000

Doesn't this seem very strange?

What if the University was @MIT?

What if the Chairman was Mark Gorenberg?

What if the non-profit is https://t.co/6XEtf7DgO4?

Why are there so many conflicts/scandals concerning DEI organizations?

All of the above can be found in MIT's and https://t.co/4dOX2C32hc's IRS Form 990s which are available and summarized here:

https://t.co/a7T7aOd0cM

[Ed Leon Klinger @edleonklinger]

Extraordinary video in which a Jewish student highlights the extent of antisemitism on campus at @MIT. Elite universities and their DEI bureaucracies have failed us.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A bipartisan demand from @EliseStefanik and @RepMoskowitz for the removal of Presidents Gay, Magill, and Kornbluth.

Consider the severe reputational damage the three continue to inflict on our most important American institutions of higher learning for each hour they continue to serve in their respective roles.

Their brief tenures in office need to end now. Look how much damage each has done in only six to 18 months.

This moment in history creates an opportunity for a complete reboot of the philosophies, ideologies, politics, bureaucracy, and restrictions on free speech that led to the current situation.

This is not just about antisemitism. The problem is much deeper and more entrenched. Antisemitism is the canary in the coal mine who dies as the light of democracy is at risk of being snuffed out.

And it is not just about the universities. DEI and the related politics, violations of basic American principles, and the restrictions on free speech and expression have invaded our government institutions, non-profits, and Corporate America under the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

These words have been weaponized to achieve power and political objectives for certain favored groups at the expense of others. There is nothing fair, inclusive, or diverse about this movement.

Similar movements have succeeded in other countries many times over a long history.

The United States has been a refuge for those who have fled once democratic regimes that were taken over by these movements.

If we don’t work to preserve our democracy, be forewarned, there will be no other place to go.

[alexander josephson @archist]

@NovakovicTO @AzureMagazine Bravo. Speak truth to power.

[alexander josephson @archist]

@alexbozikovic Is there a single thing our government let alone Ottawa can do right? Anywhere?

[alexander josephson @archist]

@PasternakTO @CIJAinfo @CanadianFSWC @bnaibrithcanada Children shouldn’t be used as pawns in the millennia old racist rant against Jews. Jews are the indigenous people to Israel. Shame to us all for staying silent.

[alexander josephson @archist]

@alexbozikovic What does this mean?

[alexander josephson @archist]

@GreggLintern @CityPlanTO Extrapolate to 300 for the year, that’s ~ 1200 new homes. Not bad. If that grew to 1000 app’s that means an extra ~ 4000/year We need ten policy actions at that scale EG; As of right 14 stories on any major avenue, not 6. & Remove the red tape.

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

The hate rallies celebrating the kidnapping and slaughtering of innocent Israeli people by terrorists are reprehensible and disgusting. They have no place in Ontario. Now more than ever, we stand with Israel and affirm its right to defend itself and its people.