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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

So POTUS reposted a conspiracy 'theory' that Biden was killed in 2020 and replaced by clones and robots. Why on earth would we (and I'm not taking responsibility for this or Jewish space lasers) give a robot an old man shuffle and stutter.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I had such a good time on this podcast. Richard is a top notch interviewer. We had a great conversation.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The 'big' deal with China will drop tariffs from 145% to 30%. The markets jumped. Ok, but imagine if there were no tariffs and they announced a 30% tariff across the board on China. The markets would have hated it. So you do something insane, drop back to just stupid, and you're a hero?

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Comparative advantage or greed. Tomato Tomahto.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Anyone have any ideas for the logic behind the administration gutting investment and grants to health and cancer research. I can come up with some logic for their cruel cuts to aid ('pull yourself up by your bootstraps you leeches'!) but do they not realize that they get cancer also?

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Trump says people can just buy 2 dolls instead of 30. Who knew he was such a committed anti-consumption de-growther.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

And, perhaps even more oddly, recreate a manufacturing based employment system that we can't possibly go back to (and won't since our factories will be increasingly automated anyway).

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

What about the Walz family chat?

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

When Vets who had federal jobs, or farmers who sold to china, find themselves in the streets asking for change, at least they won't have to deal with the penny or drink thru paper straws. So, win-win?

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

You may think birthright citizenship is dumb. And you can take it up at the next Constitutional Convention. But since 1868 (the 14th Amendment), it's the law of the land. Nobody (including the president) can say that their citizenship isn't real. It is.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

There are no "real" Americans. There are no tiers of citizenship. The children who were just deported -- first-generation Americans -- have the same rights as the rural farmer whose ancestors came on the Mayflower

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Pete Buttiegieg is by far the best communicator in the Dem party -- and maybe the best I've ever seen. If you missed this, it's basically how Dems should always message what their priorities are and how they make people's lives better. www.youtube.com/shorts/veb4z...

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Pete Buttigieg tells Andrew Schulz his vision for America #shorts

YouTube video by The Recount

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Thanks so much for the shout out. Glad you liked it...

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Perhaps he should've thought of that before the election. Or when there was a chance to impeach. If only he had some kind of platform as a Senator.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Unbelievable. Or not these days...

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I SO agree with this one. The condescension in most of his stuff is dripping.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is the real story that should be getting all the attention. The tariffs are big economic news...until they aren't because, psych, he didn't mean most of it. But this erosion of basic due process is terrifying.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It's also just grift. Just imagine how much insider trading was going on thru related companies or people paying him.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

What a shocker. He pulls back on a bunch of tariffs last minute and the market surges. I'm sure there was zero insider trading from him and his team. It's almost like it's one big grift.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

So, I guess everything we buy from China will cost twice as much in a day or two? It's a good thing that we don't buy much from them. Phew.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

These arguments are deeply mirrored in the corp sustainability world. We just have to speak their language and we'll make real progress. In this reactionary time against DEI and climate action, I keep hearing we're 'back to the business case', as if we ever had a single nanosecond of break from it.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The important thing about the tariffs is that this administration is locking people up without due process and shipping them to a torture prison in another country.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I like to think I have a strong sense of empathy -- in the literal sense of putting myself in others' mental spaces, even if I'm disgusted. Yet I'm struggling to 'get' some of the Trump/Musk admin's actions. What is the purpose behind, say, trying to destroy a seed vault? Signed, Stumped

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The layoffs in the government continue at an unreal pace. At some point, the small government obsessed people will realize that federal jobs are, you know, jobs...filled by real people who spend money in the economy. Layoffs of this scale are great if you want a recession.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A Trump voter fired from her gov't job said this: "Nobody that I've talked to understood the devastation that having this administration in office would do to our lives" There's the problem. She didn't talk to ANY of the 70 million of us that knew. bsky.app/profile/andrewwinston.bsky.social

bsky.app

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

There are checks, in theory, in the Congress. But his party, which controls both houses, has rolled over. The founders foresaw a narcissist wannabe dictator. They didn't imagine one of the built-in checks would just kneel. They fundamentally make the dictatorship, not him.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

So many people voted for 47 because of a vague 'he'll do better on the 'economy'' feeling. Or he'll help with the price of eggs. He talked about these tariffs a lot -- he ran on them in part. Why is anyone surprised?

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Imagine you're one of the richest people in history. You could give everyone on earth water infrastructure without noticing a dent in your piles of money. Instead, you get excited about cutting programs that hand out anti-malarial nets, or taking away social security payments for the elderly.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I'm less worried about climate action stopping than I probably should be. But clean tech is basically cheaper, and money drives everything. This administration will make it harder to, say, get an EV and charge it. But the world will move on with the energy transition. Investors will still engage.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

In all the horrible news, this piece got its 5 seconds, but it's worth focusing on... VP Vance met with the (effectively) neo-nazi party in Germany, the one that other German won’t even talk to. And he scolded Europeans to their face for not talking to them. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Vance meets with leader of far-right German political party backed by Musk

The vice president met with the leaders of all four major German political parties — including Alice Weidel, leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Yes, the woke virus of 'food safety', or 'air traffic control' He's really on to something.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Things are changing so fast, for the worse, that Dems should start running ads saying "Are you better off than you were 4 weeks ago?"

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It's a firehose of awful right now. But some things are worth fighting. This seemingly silly story of punishing @apnews.com for using "Gulf of Mexico" is one. All media should boycott until freedom of the press is restored. I won't hold my breath. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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OPINION: Trump Trying To Make World’s Largest News Organization Bend The Knee

Maybe you don’t care that the president of the United States is punishing The Associated Press, but you should.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The only thing they'll accomplish by slowing EV adoption in the US is to ensure that the US falls way, way behind the rest of the world.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you eliminate millions of jobs and the pay that goes along with it, it doesn't do good things to the economy. I wonder if anyone has told the MAGA team that federal employees have, you know, jobs.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

yeah, it's crossed my mind when flying right now

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Ettu, Google? You don't actually have to comply with everything he wants. In fact, it would be really helpful if you stood up for some core values. www.huffpost.com/entry/google...

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Google Scraps Diversity Hiring Goals To Comply With Trump's New Directive

The move comes slightly more than two weeks after Google CEO Sundar Pichai stood behind Trump during his inauguration.

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The energy demand from tech giants is soaring from AI (if DeepSeek's claims are true, it should help with this). But they all seem to be still going full speed on renewables. A few are even sourcing nuclear!

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

China, logically, strikes back with tariffs. We're lucky we don't buy much from China...

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

My latest in MIT SMR (@mitsloan.bsky.social) on what Trump admin means for corporate sustainability and some ideas on how to handle it. Wrote it a few weeks ago, saying 'hey, maybe you should plan for things like tariffs'. sloanreview.mit.edu/article/what...

sloanreview.mit.edu

What the Trump Administration Means for Sustainability Efforts | Andrew Winston

What will possibilities such as elimination of federal support for climate efforts mean to your business?

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The orange one said 'we're the only country in the world that does birthright citizenship. it's ridiculous'. Except for the 34 countries that do it, including Canada and a lot of the Western Hemisphere. The lying is like breathing. worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

worldpopulationreview.com

Countries with Birthright Citizenship 2024

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Andrew Winston @andrewwinston.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

That will always be one of my favorite climate denial moments. You can't top saying people will be smart enough to sell before sinking beneath the waves. To whom, he didn't reveal.

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