Rachel Happe
@rhappe.bsky.social
I enjoy the absurdity of humanity. Perfect is boring. Things to say about communities, tech, culture, leadership, L&D, and social dynamics.
Writing a book titled Control Is for Amateurs.
Founder of Engaged Organizations. Prior, The Community Roundtable.
Writing a book titled Control Is for Amateurs.
Founder of Engaged Organizations. Prior, The Community Roundtable.
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Rachel Happe
@rhappe.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Here are some great people to follow if you are interested in #FutureOfWork discussions.
Note: includes many perspectives including HR, tech, L&D, media, politics, economics, & other humanities.
go.bsky.app/DD7KR1k
Note: includes many perspectives including HR, tech, L&D, media, politics, economics, & other humanities.
go.bsky.app/DD7KR1k
Has anyone seen the Epstein files?
Still waiting...
Still waiting...
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Has anyone seen the Epstein files?
Still waiting...
Still waiting...
Hmm… maybe investment in public journalism was a good idea.
So much for that.
So much for that.
Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hmm… maybe investment in public journalism was a good idea.
So much for that.
So much for that.
🤣🤣🤣
The bumper says 'rugged working man'.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🤣🤣🤣
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
English friends: please help save the BBC - it’s one of the few ways I check out these days.
The Brits do crime and mystery so much better than we do on this side of the pond!
The Brits do crime and mystery so much better than we do on this side of the pond!
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
English friends: please help save the BBC - it’s one of the few ways I check out these days.
The Brits do crime and mystery so much better than we do on this side of the pond!
The Brits do crime and mystery so much better than we do on this side of the pond!
I just read Sen Hassan’s post about passing the budget and it makes me wonder if one goal is simply to get are Johnson to call the House into session by removing the budget debate.
The government is so dysfunctional.
Reminds me of someone saying that silence in a partnership is toxic/controlling.
The government is so dysfunctional.
Reminds me of someone saying that silence in a partnership is toxic/controlling.
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I just read Sen Hassan’s post about passing the budget and it makes me wonder if one goal is simply to get are Johnson to call the House into session by removing the budget debate.
The government is so dysfunctional.
Reminds me of someone saying that silence in a partnership is toxic/controlling.
The government is so dysfunctional.
Reminds me of someone saying that silence in a partnership is toxic/controlling.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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I'm not happy about what Democrats are doing. But one argument for it is that they are not dealing with a normal negotiating partner but rather someone with no understanding that his position is unpopular and who is willing to inflict pain on ordinary people in order to win.
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I'm not happy about what Democrats are doing. But one argument for it is that they are not dealing with a normal negotiating partner but rather someone with no understanding that his position is unpopular and who is willing to inflict pain on ordinary people in order to win.
Shameful
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Shameful
Uggg
This is just deflection of responsibility and an end run around Johnson because he apparently has no interest in his own pride and agency, just a Trump tool.
This is just deflection of responsibility and an end run around Johnson because he apparently has no interest in his own pride and agency, just a Trump tool.
Should be pretty clear that without House commitment on a vote on ACA extensions, it is purely symbolic as part of the Senate deal
Q: Will you assure House Democrats they'll get a vote on ACA subsidies by a date certain?
MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.
MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Uggg
This is just deflection of responsibility and an end run around Johnson because he apparently has no interest in his own pride and agency, just a Trump tool.
This is just deflection of responsibility and an end run around Johnson because he apparently has no interest in his own pride and agency, just a Trump tool.
Brilliant interrogation of power, vision, and shame - and how Mamdani used it to reframe and reset what society and government can look like.
We use the Overton Window to describe this shift politically but it is much more deeply rooted in identity and cultural norms.
We use the Overton Window to describe this shift politically but it is much more deeply rooted in identity and cultural norms.
Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something
Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
www.the-reframe.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Brilliant interrogation of power, vision, and shame - and how Mamdani used it to reframe and reset what society and government can look like.
We use the Overton Window to describe this shift politically but it is much more deeply rooted in identity and cultural norms.
We use the Overton Window to describe this shift politically but it is much more deeply rooted in identity and cultural norms.
News we can all use 😀
Otters with hats again, for no reason other than otters in hats!
November 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
News we can all use 😀
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Glad to hear a governor say this so directly.
“All this anti-woke” stuff is just anti-Black. Period. Full stop.”
Our Gov. Bruce Wayne is correct. @governor.ca.gov
Our Gov. Bruce Wayne is correct. @governor.ca.gov
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Glad to hear a governor say this so directly.
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They do not have a plan, they’ve never had a plan. They’ve also never had the votes to repeal the ACA which is *OVERWHELMINGLY* popular, nor have they been able to get the Supreme Court to overturn it, so instead they’ve just shut down the entire government to try forcing Dems to stop funding it.
November 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
They do not have a plan, they’ve never had a plan. They’ve also never had the votes to repeal the ACA which is *OVERWHELMINGLY* popular, nor have they been able to get the Supreme Court to overturn it, so instead they’ve just shut down the entire government to try forcing Dems to stop funding it.
AI is really something.
And if we don’t reign in the people who currently control it, the risks are…. immense.
And if we don’t reign in the people who currently control it, the risks are…. immense.
‘Al could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
AI is really something.
And if we don’t reign in the people who currently control it, the risks are…. immense.
And if we don’t reign in the people who currently control it, the risks are…. immense.
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To him, defunding SNAP is about creating a bargaining tool and punishing Democrats.
It’s about him.
The human suffering simply doesn’t matter.
It’s about him.
The human suffering simply doesn’t matter.
I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
To him, defunding SNAP is about creating a bargaining tool and punishing Democrats.
It’s about him.
The human suffering simply doesn’t matter.
It’s about him.
The human suffering simply doesn’t matter.
History has its eyes on us.
Continue to resist - and continue recording the crimes; Madam Dufarge’s knitting needles have become your phone’s camera. If we don’t hold those accountable, the risk only grows.
Continue to resist - and continue recording the crimes; Madam Dufarge’s knitting needles have become your phone’s camera. If we don’t hold those accountable, the risk only grows.
Today is the 102nd anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch, when Hitler made his first attempt to seize power in Germany – and therefore also the 86th anniversary of someone trying but sadly failing to assassinate him
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
History has its eyes on us.
Continue to resist - and continue recording the crimes; Madam Dufarge’s knitting needles have become your phone’s camera. If we don’t hold those accountable, the risk only grows.
Continue to resist - and continue recording the crimes; Madam Dufarge’s knitting needles have become your phone’s camera. If we don’t hold those accountable, the risk only grows.
Crossing Cornell off the list of my daughter’s potential schools list - despite there being so few schools with equestrian programs in the northeast.
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Crossing Cornell off the list of my daughter’s potential schools list - despite there being so few schools with equestrian programs in the northeast.
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This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court
They are dialed in and paying attention.
As have Black Americans been for a long time.
As have Black Americans been for a long time.
Young women voters under the age of 29 logged soaring support for Democrats in races across the country, cementing them as the most Democratic voting group in the country by age and gender. https://bit.ly/3LAHNcN
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
They are dialed in and paying attention.
As have Black Americans been for a long time.
As have Black Americans been for a long time.
One of the all time funniest displays of political buffoonery.
Five yrs ago today in my role as head of Voter Protection for Biden-Harris in Phila, at right about this moment, I was reaching out to our team to figure out who could sneak into a hastily-called press conference by Rudy Giuliani at the Four Seasons Hotel ... and then, what, it's going to be where??
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
One of the all time funniest displays of political buffoonery.
The richest Americans don’t fly commercial - they use private planes and air services.
Turns out they are 12% of air traffic. Abigail Disney suggests that instead of grounding 10% of commercial flights, ground private jets.
100% agree - they consume more air traffic control resources per person.
Turns out they are 12% of air traffic. Abigail Disney suggests that instead of grounding 10% of commercial flights, ground private jets.
100% agree - they consume more air traffic control resources per person.
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The richest Americans don’t fly commercial - they use private planes and air services.
Turns out they are 12% of air traffic. Abigail Disney suggests that instead of grounding 10% of commercial flights, ground private jets.
100% agree - they consume more air traffic control resources per person.
Turns out they are 12% of air traffic. Abigail Disney suggests that instead of grounding 10% of commercial flights, ground private jets.
100% agree - they consume more air traffic control resources per person.
This hurts my soul
ICE is evil and that it hires people capable of this tells me everything I need to know.
ICE is evil and that it hires people capable of this tells me everything I need to know.
“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”
November 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This hurts my soul
ICE is evil and that it hires people capable of this tells me everything I need to know.
ICE is evil and that it hires people capable of this tells me everything I need to know.
