Lee Shupp

Exploring the intersection of foresight, innovation, and design

[Lee Shupp @leeshupp]

I'm boycotting Twitter, and you should too. I highly encourage advertisers to pull ads. The Head Twit's behavior is reprehensible, and he doesn't deserve a dime.

[Lee Shupp @leeshupp]

Just to provide balance to the Head Twit, I suggest that folks vote for Democratic candidates to support a functioning democracy, sane and scientific thinking, and a woman's right to choose.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

1923: Hitler’s coup failed. No real consequences, no changes. 10 years later, he and his co-conspirators took over Germany.

2021: Trump’s coup failed. No real consequences, no changes. 20 months later, he is holding hate rallies and his co-conspirators are still in Congress.

[Lee Shupp @leeshupp]

Word.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

Donald Trump scammed 9,000 students out of $42 million in the illegal unlicensed “Trump University” — tricking them into putting the “tuition” on their credit cards.

But sure, let’s hear from the Trumps and their cronies about universities and student debt.

[Lee Shupp @leeshupp]

Hope Center survey: 39 percent of students at two-year colleges and 29 percent of students at four-year colleges experience food insecurity. Just to put that $10k loan relief in perspective.

[Lee Shupp @leeshupp]

Venus

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Serious question: how does American democracy survive when in times of controversy or crisis you have 100s, if not 1000s, of public figures willing to publicly and repeatedly lie about basic demonstrable facts; and carry on lying even after they’re confronted with those facts? 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Dreamweasel @Dreamweasel]

If the FBI can raid the home of a twice-impeached former President with ties to the Kremlin who took boxes of classified data from the White House & led an insurrection to disrupt the certification of his duly elected successor, just imagine what kind of precedent that might set

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Average list price for a unit of insulin:

Australia: $6.94
UK: $7.52
France: $9.08
Germany: $11
Canada: $12
Japan: $14.40

US: $98.70

Yesterday, a majority of Senate Republicans voted against a cap on insulin prices for millions of Americans.

Remember this in November.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Average list price for a unit of insulin:

Australia: $6.94
UK: $7.52
France: $9.08
Germany: $11
Canada: $12
Japan: $14.40
United States $98.70

This is what happens when Big Pharma buys off a country’s political system.

None of this is acceptable. It has to change.

[Lee Shupp @leeshupp]

Today's futures factoid: next year, India will surpass China as the country with the most people: 1.4 billion. Global population will hit 8 billion people this coming November.

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Retweet if you believe we need a nationwide ban on assault weapons.

[Lee Shupp @leeshupp]

Well said @SteveKerr

[Lee Shupp @leeshupp]

Don't do it, Twitter! #notomusk

[𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐧 @DavidBrin]

Astronomers caught a 2020 supernova in the act way earlier than ever and the data will be powerfully revelatory. “This is a different situation, because we really know what’s going on and we actually see the death in real time.”
https://t.co/5XKKA3d1Sk

[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

The filibuster is not in the Constitution — but the right to vote is. Our democracy will pay the price if we keep sacrificing voting rights at the altar of the filibuster.

[Lee Shupp @leeshupp]

Think of the difference we would see in the USA...

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

In the 20 years since 9/11, the United States spent $8,000,000,000,000+ on war. Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, and education?

[Lee Shupp @leeshupp]

From today's Economist: word of the week: Zukunftsfähigkeit (noun): a German word meaning the ability to face the future.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

What a difference a year makes

[Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BillPascrell]

This week the Supreme Court destroyed Roe v. Wade in the dead of night and hoped you wouldn’t notice. Notice. Spread the word.