Caterina Bulgarella
ccb-blue.bsky.social
Caterina Bulgarella
@ccb-blue.bsky.social
Still believing in ethics, leadership, purpose, democracy, inclusion, fairness, cooperation, and all the other riches humanness has to offer. No matter what they say or do.
The reputation of an entire country changed forever by two naked kings’ sheer inability to care for others.

#USAID

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/w...
Trump and Musk Bring Vast Aid Machinery to a Halt in Africa
The collapse of U.S.A.I.D. at the hands of President Trump and Elon Musk is already leaving gaping holes in vital health care and other services that millions of Africans rely on for their survival.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“I’ve said before, and I’ll say it again: no one is above the law,” she wrote.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...

#doge #elonmusk
Judge Halts DOGE Access to Treasury Payment Systems
The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Musk’s evisceration of Twitter (layoffs etc) showed how chaos can turn a system designed for a certain purpose (open convos) into its opposite (personal influence etc).

Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE efforts dallying with the US payment system remind of that very playbook.

#elonmusk #trump #DOGE
Fed source to me: “It’s like a bank heist and the bank is America. Not really being hyperbolic to say control of those systems would allow an extremely fast collapse of the economy. Imagine it’s a plumbing system and someone takes a sledgehammer to the central pipe.”
Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system
A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
While adding to a growing pattern of violence against leaders, Brian Thompson’s heinous killing also exposed the underlying crisis. I unpacked the leadership resentment, unfairness, and norm-breaking conduct behind it
www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/ceo-killing-...

#ethics #leadership #business
www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Reposted by Caterina Bulgarella
Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
January 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Either sexual assault is part of the job description for US President or the Supreme Court claim of presidential immunity ultimately means no judicial process can ever apply to a US President.

#trump #ethics #compliance

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/n...
Trump Argues That His Immunity Extends to E. Jean Carroll’s Lawsuits
The president, who was found liable for sexually abusing the writer E. Jean Carroll, is contending that he doesn’t have to pay the $83 million he owes for defaming her.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Here is a taste of the post-DEI “culture:
“We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled,” the banker said. “It’s a new dawn.”

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

#dei #backward #culture #leadership
The End of the DEI Era
As Donald Trump returns to the White House, a newly emboldened anti-DEI bloc has gained powerful allies.
www.theatlantic.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It is an attentional disease but also a fatal addiction to moral outrage. The syndrome of our time, self-affirmation through negation, is incurable because it is fueled by an alert system that looks only for misses and false positives.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
You’re Being Alienated From Your Own Attention
Every single aspect of human life is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Petro’s stance that immigrants, even if illegal, are human beings and must be treated with respect and dignity - underscores a simple truth: all leaders, even the most powerful ones, are accountable to the same ethical principles, whether they feel beholden to them or not.
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Trump Hits Colombia With Tariffs in Feud Over Military Deportation Flights
Gustavo Petro said that the United States should not treat Colombian migrants as criminals and that he had already turned away U.S. military flights carrying deportees.
tiny.cc
January 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It used to be the attention-grabbing effect of charisma that made leaders extraordinaires. It is now the attention-grabbing-&-depleting effect of social media platforms giving the impression of info abundance while controlling content exposure.

tiny.cc

#leadership #trump #socialmedia
Opinion | Trump Has Something He Would Like to Bring to Your Attention
Attention is the fuel of American politics, and Trump knows it
shorturl.at
January 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The crack-down aspect is the whole playbook: 1. go after the outgroup (ie, the enemy) as if they were criminals to create the impression they are criminals; 2. project strength; 3. instill fear.

#trump #DEI #government
Breaking News: The Trump administration said federal employees would face consequences if they failed to report colleagues pursuing DEI efforts.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Latest News on Executive Orders and D.E.I. Crackdown
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
And so it begins…undoing the little progress made, branding it as illegal & immoral, and making those tasked with addressing systemic inequality pay for it. Absurd and surreal if it were not for the inequality of inequality.

#DEI #Trump #government

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Donald Trump Ramps Up His War on “Woke” With Purge of Federal DEI Workers
The president also warned that companies and universities could face federal investigation if they preserve their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
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January 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Ugly times ahead if a company as big as Meta declines any ethical responsibility, suggests it was bullied into doing the right thing, and looks for more “masculine” energy. Not exactly a strategy to solve the problems of 21st-century virility. Don’t you think?
tiny.cc
Zuckerberg on Rogan: Facebook's censorship was "something out of 1984"
Zuckerberg is settling scores and building bridges to Trumpworld.
www.axios.com
January 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I couldn’t let the past election cycle slip away without noting that Kamala Harris’ prosecutor-in-chief effectiveness was one of the reasons she lost to Donald Trump. Plus a few other ethical blind spots warping voter behavior. So, I wrote this: www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/corporate-et...
Corporate Ethics & Culture Face New Tests in Trump's America
As Donald Trump returns to power, what happens when employees no longer respond to traditional ethics messaging?
www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM