Marcia Stepanek

Journalist, author, speaker, Columbia faculty, focused on how digital voices/crowds interact with traditional power

[Marcia Stepanek @CauseGlobal]

A recent piece about how AI requires behavior change, reviewing a provocative keynote by Futurist Ian Beacraft, CEO of Signal & Cipher at SxSW2025

https://t.co/GUPaU3Q4d2

[LION Publishers @LIONPubs]

What a gorgeous day to be in Chicago! Here’s the view from our Independent News Sustainability Summit ☀️☀️☀️

[Marcia Stepanek @CauseGlobal]

PanelPicker | SXSW Conference & Festivals https://t.co/pbhrFit01b

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In newly leaked footage, JD Vance personally thanks the leaders of Project 2025 for their work to ban abortion across the entire country and cut Social Security. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Kamala for President.

[Marcia Stepanek @CauseGlobal]

Companies, causes and campaigns track GenZ behavior obsessively—but aren't inviting much of their input as employees, says GenZ in a new DoSomething Strategic survey https://t.co/vLy6CRfl0h
#genzs #GenZEngaging #GeneralElection2024 #genzpower

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: After nearly a week of bashing Democrats, the media is finally acknowledging that it is in fact Republicans who should be ashamed of their candidate for President. Retweet so all Americans see this indictment of Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

As we commemorate the 4th of July in a nation where democracy is buckling under an attack from the inside, I have chosen to remind myself that for the last five years of traveling nonstop across the country to talk about the 1619 Project, I have met Americans from every walk of life who have been so kind, so generous, so willing to learn and discuss and sit in the discomfort of the truths of this nation’s founding and what it was built on, and who believe that in confronting that truth, we can build the nation of our highest ideals.

A woman I met in Connecticut gave me this brooch she was wearing when I admired it and when I said no, just tell me where to purchase it, told me, “My spirit is telling me to give this to you.” This man in Easton, Maryland, proudly asked me to autograph his 1619 jersey and has put his own money and resources towards building a rec center and educational facility for the Black youth of his town. And this kind stranger sent me a note, worried about how tired I looked on a television program and encouraged me to take care of myself.

THIS is the America I choose to remember today. THIS I believe is the majority. THESE are the people we must gather to fight to build a country that we all deserve. This is the beauty of our multiracial democracy, of our country, the potential never fully realized. This is the America that we must fight for today.

[Marcia Stepanek @CauseGlobal]

Cicada ravioli, anyone? As trillions of red-eyed cicadas emerge across the Midwest this week, they're also emerging as the future of food, along with the restaurants daring to serve them.
#newrules #climate #food
https://t.co/lKfbAJgCev

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

I don’t say it often, but everyone should watch this video in its entirety.

The use of 'brave' as an adjective has become almost disposable these days, overused to the point of meaninglessness.

However, this video—filmed within 48 hours of learning that one of her greatest nightmares had become a reality—demonstrates remarkable bravery by Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Alexei Navalny.

The power and clarity of her message and the decision to put herself directly in the crosshairs of Vladimir Putin and his security services is an example of extraordinary sacrifice.

Россия будет свободной!

[Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]

Why is no one making the connection between Trump’s plan to attack Mexico and his support for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? Doesn’t he need to destroy the rules-based international order that protects national sovereignty in order to make his Mexico plan work?

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

“Trump’s claim of total executive immunity isn’t just unconstitutional; it is anti-constitutional and incompatible with the rule of law. A president with that kind of power is no longer a president but a king,” @jbouie writes.

Read: https://t.co/FPIY0S15AH

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

Folks, big @latimes news: Today we're launching Climate California, a new section focused on climate change, the natural world, health and science.

As part of this, I'm becoming The Times' first-ever climate columnist. More details here: https://t.co/UyTvGb6cmD

[Ashley V. Gantt @Gantt4Florida]

Mood.

[Marcia Stepanek @CauseGlobal]

Great to see yet another independent new media publication begin to publish! Time is right. https://t.co/X5cX6HGSdZ

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Hatred is not a mental illness