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Political scientist, DEI professional, researcher, Masterchef Australia fangirl, mom, friend, author of "The Backstory" newsletter (norakeller.substack.com)

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At the WEF, a plate of butter chicken curry costs $72.57. That says about all that needs saying about the inclusiveness of the event.

23.01.2025 17:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What is musk’s interest in dismantling social security? Plz explain to me like i’m a fifth grader.

10.12.2024 17:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Biden Changed His Mind on Pardoning Hunter: β€˜Time to End All of This’ The threat of a retribution-focused Trump administration and his son’s looming sentencings prompted the president to abandon a promise not to get involved in Hunter Biden’s legal problems.

40 ppl on death row, mostly black ppl convicted pre-2010 are still serving 20yr crack cocaine sentences. But by all means: β€œThe Biden family was concerned about a political backlash, but felt that Hunter Biden had earned public good will by enduring two prosecutions.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/u...

03.12.2024 08:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Christmassy people, how do you do it? How do you enjoy a holiday that's supposed to be about love + peace in a world gone mad + beset with evil? I really want to know because I'd like to try + be more festive

I think this is why I prefer Halloween. It's just fun + doesn't ask for what I can't give

30.11.2024 12:30 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 2
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184. β€œI survived a plane crash. Is stressing about money really worth it?” Money For Couples with Ramit Sethi Β· Episode

The podcast host counsels a couple who makes 400k/y and invests 1/3 they can afford to spend more. Nowhere do they discuss just … working less, spending time with loved ones and do what you want. Working less is the best! Your capitalism is showing, sir. open.spotify.com/episode/4r9A...

30.11.2024 10:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How they got DEI wrong DEI lessons for the Democratic Party

β€œThe Harris campaign and its surrogates didn’t make clear why DEI is vital for American Democracy. And they focused almost entirely on β€œD” (i.e., diversity) and forgot that the β€œI” (inclusion) and β€œE” (equity) are vital parts of the DEI equation.”

open.substack.com/pub/norakell...

25.11.2024 12:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germanyβ€”and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.

Great piece of reporting from @wired.com. Somehow not hopeful this is going to register back home amid everything else going on
www.wired.com/story/phone-...

20.11.2024 06:51 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 12
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How they got DEI wrong DEI lessons for the Democratic Party

I wrote an essay about how the Dems got their DEI narrative fundamentally wrong. (I’m a political scientist working in DEI)

open.substack.com/pub/norakell...

18.11.2024 16:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Setting aside that he is surrounding himself with loyalists and testing senate loyaties, β€œnihilistic disruption” rings very true for someone (me) who grew up with an antagonistic narcissist.

15.11.2024 17:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A hollowed out, decorated kohlrabi lantern

A hollowed out, decorated kohlrabi lantern

A decorated kohlrabi lantern all lit up

A decorated kohlrabi lantern all lit up

In case anyone needs a little light today: last weekend was Swiss Thanksgiving, where we carve out and decorate kohlrabis, plop real candles into them, and do a procession through the woods with our kids and lanterns, singing songs (β€œRΓ€beliechtliumzug”). It is delightful and ridiculous.

14.11.2024 11:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Succinct, persuasive argument for why it actually probably was the economy, stupid.

(And why the Democratic Party needs to take the working class seriously.)

open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

14.11.2024 11:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A friend sent this to me and it’s pretty perfect.

13.11.2024 18:36 πŸ‘ 405 πŸ” 89 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 7

Education sounds right up his alley

14.11.2024 07:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How do you get added to a starter pack???

14.11.2024 07:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel’s true objective in northern Gaza? Removing Palestinians – and annexing the territory | Ben Reiff Settlers have been dreaming of a return to Gaza for nearly 20 years – and Trump’s presidency may only embolden them, says Ben Reiff of +972 magazine

45,000 Gazans dead. 90% of the living displaced. No one's been deceived. They've looked away.

"A senior IDF officer quietly admitted what the intl community has long been reluctant to acknowledge: that Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in N Gaza & deceiving the world abt its true objectives."

14.11.2024 03:23 πŸ‘ 453 πŸ” 225 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 16

We go low, they go lower

14.11.2024 07:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Graph with list of wealthy families and their political contributions to different political parties with the vast majority going to Republicans.

Graph with list of wealthy families and their political contributions to different political parties with the vast majority going to Republicans.

150 billionaire families spent $1.9B on the 2024 election through October.

It's a huge amount of money β€” but it represents just 0.07% of their overall wealth.

It essentially costs them nothing to drown our democracy in cash.

We must get big money out of our politics.

14.11.2024 06:02 πŸ‘ 1667 πŸ” 580 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 43

There's a reason democracies don't let people who tried coups back into power.

13.11.2024 23:45 πŸ‘ 41342 πŸ” 5260 πŸ’¬ 1160 πŸ“Œ 290

I love food memoirs and don’t get the hype around Ina Garten’s oeuvre tone-deaf book. For a couple with no kids, a 2-BR house with a dining room was too β€œcramped” for Jeffrey to sometimes work from home? So Ina bought a plot of Hamptons land and had the same house REBUILT FROM SCRATCH, just bigger?

14.11.2024 06:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What’s next, Joe Rogan for Press Secretary?

13.11.2024 11:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dear all, I'm happy (or as happy to can be in any political-ish space post elections) to be here.

The bad news is, I may be a robot. Wtf, WHAT WAS THE SOLUTION?

12.11.2024 15:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0