Benjamin Mahnke

Longtime nonprofit COO, CFO. Co-founder of Faculty at He/him/his. Opinions are my own, not any employer

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@CharlesPPierce Mr. Pierce, I'm a great admirer of your writing. So, it's with respect that I mention that you're not watching the Thurs night game-- which is Dallas|Giants on Fox/Amazon-- and instead watching a replay from last Sunday

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@davidaxelrod @JeffreyGoldberg @VanJones68 @BarackObama Not to nitpick, but being Black and Jewish are not differentiating descriptions. There are lots of Black Jews, both in the US and around the world.

[Ed Markey @EdMarkey]

The bosses may tell you where to sit, but no one tells you where to stand.

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@ElectProject Important context: the # of votes for Kelly (~800K) was only ~17% of the voting-eligible population in Wisconsin (~4.7M)

So, about three-in-twenty people in Wisconsin supported this guy to fair adjudicate the laws

Don't let MAGA fool you into thinking there are many of them

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@100isNow We should do this on Mass Ave in Boston

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@SobaFett @KatLaRonde I nominate for the official "Ten Miles West of Boston" location the Bruegger's Bagels in Auburndale

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@cbouzy Given that such a large group of people disagree about political ads, would second the motion to define a time period (e.g. # months) to revisit and solicit input on (a) how is this working? + (b) should we change course?

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

A really compelling piece by @MauriceWFP about what's going on inside a lot of nonprofit organizations and a vision of what something better for all of us might look like https://t.co/UOM3UtVg35. Tagging @InstituteNP

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

Lots of ambitious people can only bring themselves to go one way on a chain of command -> up. Having led, their ego won't let them follow. @SpeakerPelosi has been one of greatest legislative leaders of living memory and is now role-modeling how to make room for others

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@clapifyoulikeme Or: Sununu is a moderate who is popular with many moderate GOP voters; Bolduc is a MAGA conservative who is unpopular with many moderate GOP voters

[MA Voter Table @MAVoterTable]

TODAY is the voter registration deadline in Massachusetts! If you moved since the last time you voted, you need to re-register!

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@arneduncan Agreeing with your pt & making it a different way --> The current GOP police their own on two mandatory issues: (i) support for Trump, (ii) tax cuts for the rich. On everything else anything goes

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@cmclymer Charlotte, you were just downstairs from my office! If only I'd known I would have come down and said "hi". While you're in town can I strongly recommend https://t.co/8XwoYRvcWe and https://t.co/FF4Y8Ng76q...

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

Research consistently suggests around a quarter to a third of humans are strongly predisposed to authoritarian leaders. We defeat the candidates these voters prefer by out-organizing and out-mobilizing the rest of the country. The biggest non-fascist tent possible + turnout

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@mroth78 God bless Henry Abelove

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@StevenColon1 Great news-- congratulations!

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@SpencerGuard Not my area of experience/profession, so submitted with humility: If RUS army has culminated their advance, then the cost/benefit to UKR of holding Azovstal maybe changes. That is: *if* holding Azovstal hastened culmination *and* also is low value to UKR's plans going forward

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@bill_easterly @FofackHippolyte @BrookingsGlobal Should have added: this is an interesting and worthy topic and I appreciate whoever made this data viz doing so; and your sharing it. My earlier feedback comes from a place of "would love to learn more"

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@bill_easterly @FofackHippolyte @BrookingsGlobal Please convey to whoever made this data visualization that it would benefit from (a) way more contrast in the color palette or (b) different shapes for each country. Way too hard now to tell the difference between China & Germany; USA & UAE; etc.

[Benjamin Mahnke @ben_mahnke]

@MarkHertling Mark, thank you for this and your other thoughts/explanations. Out of curiosity, do you know if there is a higher-quality copy of the text of Roosevelt's letter to Eisenhower somewhere online? My old eyes can't read this version