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
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I cannot express how much I hope that what ultimately brings these motherfuckers down are the women who survived them as children.
February 11, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I cannot express how much I hope that what ultimately brings these motherfuckers down are the women who survived them as children.
This is a form of surveillance
They're not stopping at your birth certificate. SAVE 2.0 would END online voter registration in, KILL mail-in registration, and STOP voter registration drives.
It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote.
Call your MoC (202) 224-3121 and tell them #StopTheSaveAct
social.demcast.com/s/TxRgzkPM
It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote.
Call your MoC (202) 224-3121 and tell them #StopTheSaveAct
social.demcast.com/s/TxRgzkPM
February 11, 2026 at 12:22 AM
This is a form of surveillance
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When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.
seen in my neighborhood in south Minneapolis
February 10, 2026 at 11:56 PM
When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.
So, blindingly inefficient use of our taxes, among all its other abuses… while the deficit keeps on growing.
All plundered by private contractors and friends of the President.
All plundered by private contractors and friends of the President.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:49 PM
So, blindingly inefficient use of our taxes, among all its other abuses… while the deficit keeps on growing.
All plundered by private contractors and friends of the President.
All plundered by private contractors and friends of the President.
While we are burning things to the ground and putting people in jail, do the same for ICE, its lawless agents, and its concentration camps.
Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school
A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...
www.nbcnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:37 PM
While we are burning things to the ground and putting people in jail, do the same for ICE, its lawless agents, and its concentration camps.
Burn this whole depraved network to the ground. Scorch the earth.
Put all the men and enablers in jail, make all the properties available to be burned to the ground by his victims, after evidence is removed.
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/b...
Put all the men and enablers in jail, make all the properties available to be burned to the ground by his victims, after evidence is removed.
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/b...
Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Burn this whole depraved network to the ground. Scorch the earth.
Put all the men and enablers in jail, make all the properties available to be burned to the ground by his victims, after evidence is removed.
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/b...
Put all the men and enablers in jail, make all the properties available to be burned to the ground by his victims, after evidence is removed.
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/b...
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"...we found that employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day..."
You don't say?!
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
You don't say?!
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
hbr.org
February 10, 2026 at 10:06 PM
"...we found that employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day..."
You don't say?!
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
You don't say?!
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
And oh look, it looks like Epstein may have been paying tuition for the four children of the former governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
I wonder why he would do that? 😒
I wonder why he would do that? 😒
February 10, 2026 at 9:47 PM
And oh look, it looks like Epstein may have been paying tuition for the four children of the former governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
I wonder why he would do that? 😒
I wonder why he would do that? 😒
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We are doing our best to keep up with rent needs at our neighborhood school, but the needs are growing by the day.
We received $10,000 more in rent requests just this morning (all for overdue February rent).
Donate if you can and please share with your people!
gofund.me/51551927d
We received $10,000 more in rent requests just this morning (all for overdue February rent).
Donate if you can and please share with your people!
gofund.me/51551927d
February 10, 2026 at 7:59 PM
We are doing our best to keep up with rent needs at our neighborhood school, but the needs are growing by the day.
We received $10,000 more in rent requests just this morning (all for overdue February rent).
Donate if you can and please share with your people!
gofund.me/51551927d
We received $10,000 more in rent requests just this morning (all for overdue February rent).
Donate if you can and please share with your people!
gofund.me/51551927d
Mamdani is just a few weeks in and matter-of-factly just shoving the Overton window over by orders of magnitude.
Normalizing protecting citizens. Weird.
Normalizing protecting citizens. Weird.
New York City: The time has arrived. Finally, a chance to tell the city EXACTLY what your landlord’s been getting away with. NYC’s first Rental Ripoff Hearings are happening in all five boroughs, and we want to hear from you. Real New Yorkers. Real stories. Real policy changes.
February 10, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Mamdani is just a few weeks in and matter-of-factly just shoving the Overton window over by orders of magnitude.
Normalizing protecting citizens. Weird.
Normalizing protecting citizens. Weird.
A man with a reputation for getting around...
February 10, 2026 at 8:48 PM
A man with a reputation for getting around...
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We should not normalize smashing in people's car windows. That alone is a civil rights violation!
Federal agents abducted two people in Uptown, Minneapolis this morning at 6:45am. Boxed in their car in the middle of a major commercial street (Lagoon) and smashed out their window.
February 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM
We should not normalize smashing in people's car windows. That alone is a civil rights violation!
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Thune’s plan has been obvious - drag this out as long as possible to put distance between the Pretti/Good murders and the final vote on DHS funding, hoping that the American public moves on. Senate Dems will never have more leverage for ICE reforms than they do right now.
February 10, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Thune’s plan has been obvious - drag this out as long as possible to put distance between the Pretti/Good murders and the final vote on DHS funding, hoping that the American public moves on. Senate Dems will never have more leverage for ICE reforms than they do right now.
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The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs.
This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless."
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless."
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
February 10, 2026 at 2:41 PM
The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs.
This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless."
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless."
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
More fire
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McIver: Do you consider yourself a religious man?
Lyons: Yes
McIver: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? Do you think you’re going to hell?
Lyons: Yes
McIver: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? Do you think you’re going to hell?
February 10, 2026 at 6:50 PM
More fire
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More of this in Congress and the press please.
More of this in Congress and the press please.
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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More of this in Congress and the press please.
More of this in Congress and the press please.
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What happened to Rasmussen? 👀
February 10, 2026 at 2:45 PM
What happened to Rasmussen? 👀
Did Epstein try to keep one?!?
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"We left with all my children" implies there is an alternative, which is so horrifying I've never even considered it.
VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island?
LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children
LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children
February 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Did Epstein try to keep one?!?
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This is a universal truth that is getting harder to act on in many tech companies because talking to customers - really talking to them - is expensive to do and generates uncomfortable, inconvenient, or expensive-to-address truths.
No metric improves product decisions. You do that by talking to your customers.
What does improve product decisions is empathy, feedback, and understanding the market.
What does improve product decisions is empathy, feedback, and understanding the market.
February 10, 2026 at 3:15 PM
This is a universal truth that is getting harder to act on in many tech companies because talking to customers - really talking to them - is expensive to do and generates uncomfortable, inconvenient, or expensive-to-address truths.
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The temperature goes up every day on this
It's just a matter of time
"Massie said he was prepared to begin reading off the names of Epstein’s clients on the House floor, provided the victims “believe that the best way to get justice is to force the DOJ to release these names.”
It's just a matter of time
"Massie said he was prepared to begin reading off the names of Epstein’s clients on the House floor, provided the victims “believe that the best way to get justice is to force the DOJ to release these names.”
Massie Threatens to Go 'Nuclear' and Reveal Epstein Client Names If Bondi Won't Unredact Them | Common Dreams
Massie Plots 'Nuclear Option' for Epstein File Release
www.commondreams.org
February 10, 2026 at 3:03 PM
The temperature goes up every day on this
It's just a matter of time
"Massie said he was prepared to begin reading off the names of Epstein’s clients on the House floor, provided the victims “believe that the best way to get justice is to force the DOJ to release these names.”
It's just a matter of time
"Massie said he was prepared to begin reading off the names of Epstein’s clients on the House floor, provided the victims “believe that the best way to get justice is to force the DOJ to release these names.”
Culture is changing; that is what is triggering such huge social/political friction.
As cultural values shift further away from how the economy recognizes and accounts for value, that friction will continue to increase until we adjust accounting and business models.
As cultural values shift further away from how the economy recognizes and accounts for value, that friction will continue to increase until we adjust accounting and business models.
Loud boys at computers, and me walking toward them to ask them to lower their voices.
Then, I hear the loudest say, "That's just your internalized homophobia, dude. Why does it bother you?" followed by silence followed by "Why does it bother you?"
I spun on my heel and walked away.
Then, I hear the loudest say, "That's just your internalized homophobia, dude. Why does it bother you?" followed by silence followed by "Why does it bother you?"
I spun on my heel and walked away.
February 10, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Culture is changing; that is what is triggering such huge social/political friction.
As cultural values shift further away from how the economy recognizes and accounts for value, that friction will continue to increase until we adjust accounting and business models.
As cultural values shift further away from how the economy recognizes and accounts for value, that friction will continue to increase until we adjust accounting and business models.
Every American should read this as a primer about Puerto Rico and the U.S. and its exploitative relationship.
It’s embarrassing. Puerto Rico should be a state but, at a minimum, Puerto Ricans should be franchised with voting rights.
It’s embarrassing. Puerto Rico should be a state but, at a minimum, Puerto Ricans should be franchised with voting rights.
February 10, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Every American should read this as a primer about Puerto Rico and the U.S. and its exploitative relationship.
It’s embarrassing. Puerto Rico should be a state but, at a minimum, Puerto Ricans should be franchised with voting rights.
It’s embarrassing. Puerto Rico should be a state but, at a minimum, Puerto Ricans should be franchised with voting rights.
Things are getting spicy.
Bring it. Wipe the floor with them all.
Bring it. Wipe the floor with them all.
February 10, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Things are getting spicy.
Bring it. Wipe the floor with them all.
Bring it. Wipe the floor with them all.
WTF Congress?
Why is the President still President?
This does not end well for anyone.
Why is the President still President?
This does not end well for anyone.
We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific, With One Survivor
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
WTF Congress?
Why is the President still President?
This does not end well for anyone.
Why is the President still President?
This does not end well for anyone.