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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 18/10/2025

John Brown’s fort in Harpers Ferry 🫡

Dug Song @dugsong.com · 09/05/2025

AGAINST FORGETTING - portraits of Holocaust survivors in #Mannheim, birthplace of the automobile. Germany’s culture of remembrance 🙏🕊️ #VictoryDay

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 07/05/2025

“And not the other color, so police think: They have the AUTHORITY TO KILL A MINORITY… ‘Cause they’ll slam you down to the street top BLACK POLICE SHOWING OUT FOR THE WHITE COP” #JusticeForTyreNichols 🤬🤬🤬

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 06/05/2025

CEO Markus (met him 16 yrs ago!) grew up in social housing and founded $DHER.DE, Philipp built $ZAL.DE, Bernd built timber/manufactured wood products. Other execs led auto / digital manufacturing in Germany & Detroit. Dream team! #Gropyus

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 06/05/2025

Incredible visit to portco Gropyus.com - attractive, affordable, sustainable housing designed by humans, engineered by software, built by robots, and worker-assembled to German-level quality, safety, energy efficiency (~LEED Gold) 🏡🌱 #FactoryForHousing #AffordableByDesign #MassTimber

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 06/05/2025

China may outspend the U.S. on R&D by >30% by 2030 📈 www.rdworldonline.com/china-could-... Meanwhile Trump’s budget slashes NSF by 56%, NIST 40%, EPA 55%, CDC by 33%, NASA 24.3%, NOAA 25%, USGS 38.6% 😵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 29/04/2025

All net new job creation in the US is from new businesses (5 years old or less). In Michigan, our past is strangling our future speakerdeck.com/dugsong/impa...

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IMPACT 2023

Keynote for A2Y Chamber IMPACT 2023

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 22/04/2025

Hugs Becca - I’m sorry you are going through all this, and thank you for having the courage to share. Craig can go f* themselves

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 20/04/2025

Timothy Snyder (who has been consistently amazing throughout this crisis!) has written a very important article preparing people’s minds for what I fear is near-inevitable: a US equivalent to the Reichstag fire.

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The Next Terrorist Attack

And What Comes After

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 07/04/2025

The future of American opera is in #Detroit! Yuval Sharon’s wild reimagining of Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” as BigTech AI dystopia just premiered - thx to Barb Walkowski for securing him for Detroit Opera! www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/m...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 07/04/2025

Another keynote at #Michigan Ross, this time for the student-run Midwest Ventures Conference. The kids are alright, and so is the entrepreneurial future of b-school!

Dug as Coach Harbaugh, with the help of AI

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Fact-check of Trump’s tariff speech finds some doozies. Why tariffs? Speech suggests they could replace income tax, benefiting wealthy over lower income Americans. When a choice makes no apparent sense, it’s usually about $$$.

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Analysis | The false things Trump said about tariffs during his announcement

The president relied on claims that have been debunked many times before.

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 03/04/2025

An incredible conversation with @jeffiel.bsky.social & @karaswisher.bsky.social today, and dinner with founders from #AnnArbor to #Detroit tonight! Great to have Jeff back in Mich-again!!! ❤️

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Some data worth pondering as the conversation shifts to "reciprocal" tariffs.

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 30/03/2025

New season of free/PWYW/all-ages shows at the #Ypsi Freighthouse April 3-19: Latin jazz, sonic meditation, Palestinian jazz, alt-folk, all-women jazz, second line brass band! 🎶🛤️ ums.org/season/ums-a... #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #AnnArbor #Ypsilanti #Detroit

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UMS at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse

University Musical Society

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 29/03/2025

Ford securing access to Tesla’s supercharger network was the best free upgrade ever 💙🚙 #MachE

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Donnell Wyche @donnell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Ann Arbor was meant to grow. We just didn’t follow through. In the 1970s, city planners envisioned 150K residents in a compact, connected city. Instead, we built zoning walls around downtown and called it progress. Part 4 of my “Density is Fun” series. #a2council thewychefamily.com/density-is-f...

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Density is Fun: Why Ann Arbor’s Future Depends on a Good Plan

Ann Arbor’s future depends on smart growth. It’s time to build more homes of all kinds—and shape a city that welcomes more neighbors.

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 28/03/2025

In 1967, “The Innovation Millionaires” called out Ann Arbor, Boulder, LA, Phoenix, and Ft. Lauderdale as likely tech hubs after Boston-Cambridge & Santa Clara County (only one mention of “Silicon Valley”) - but A2 has been by far the laggard

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 29/03/2025

Unverified estimates via ChatGPT

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 28/03/2025

Congrats to our first #MichiganFoundersFund pre-accelerator cohort!! Founders for founders, founders for community 💫 #givefirst

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 26/03/2025

Area Man Returns To Show Those Who Leave Can Also Be Champions 〽️ Stoked to have old friend, Twilio founder, & @theonion.com owner @jeffiel.bsky.social in #AnnArbor next week! democracy.umich.edu/events/democ...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 26/03/2025

Happy birthday! 🥳

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 26/03/2025

Ann Arbor is already in the Studio Ghibli universe, though

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 26/03/2025

Ann Arbor is already in the Studio Ghibli universe, though

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 21/03/2025

Spoiler: brief partying drugs gun violence death (sobering, not glorified) and absentee parent drama - maybe more PG-13 than R

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 21/03/2025

From Tribeca to #AnnArbor — we’re proud to present a free screening of New Wave at UMMA on April 19! www.eventbrite.com/e/new-wave-t... #vietkieu #newwave #documentary

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 20/03/2025

Congrats to Ronnie & Malek on TidewayLogistics.com new office in #Dearborn - the youngest & fastest-growing city in Michigan, thx to Mayor Hammoud & friends!

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 20/03/2025

Welcoming Bo’s Bagels to #AnnArbor, imported from NYC by old friend & classmate, Joe’s Pizza partner, Professor Thom’s founder, & Saturday Night Live crewmember Pete L.!

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 19/03/2025

#Solarpunk dreams of planetary abundance - but can we govern our way to it? 🤔🌎🌳 @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social @ezraklein.bsky.social

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

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...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 17/03/2025

This is horrific. They also help track nuclear fissile material around the world that isn’t ours (NSDD), preventing the development and potential use of dirty bombs against the US.

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 17/03/2025

So much love at tonight’s #a2skatepark art show! Stoked to snag the Margaret Kilgallen tribute deck, but snaked by @ccassell.bsky.social on the printmaker’s woodcut!!

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 16/03/2025

Mark Pauline’s Survival Research Labs (SRL) was total GWAR + Battlebots + Kaiju chaos in the 80s/90s, blowing minds, eardrums, phalanges. Will future resistance / #Michigan militias go full Mad Max? youtu.be/QuRKYUBoD9I?...

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SRL pandemonium segment 1996

YouTube video by Genuine Survival Research Labs

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 16/03/2025

Last year, a 73 year old man slashed the throat of a 7 year old girl in #Dearborn: www.freep.com/story/news/l... Year before, a 71 year old man stabbed a 6 year old boy 26 times in #Chicago: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... #Islamophobia is a threat to us all.

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 16/03/2025

Annual #a2skatepark art show tonight at the Circ Bar! Support your local skatepark 🤙

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 16/03/2025

Deeply moved by Tarek Albaba’s film on the #hatecrime killing of 3 Muslim students in #ChapelHill. Watching it in #Dearborn (home to the largest Arab American community) on the Int’l Day to Combat #Islamophobia (6 years after #Christchurch) is a powerful reminder: We must stand together against hate

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 14/03/2025

Keynoting today’s Detroit Impact Conference - connecting students with the innovation ecosystem in #Detroit www.eventbrite.com/e/the-15th-a...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 13/03/2025

Distribution of US household wealth since 1989 - that thin black line at bottom is *50% of the US population, holding 2.5% of US wealth* www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 11/03/2025

MidwestHouse.org ready for Michigan Day at #SXSW 👉✋

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Dug Song @dugsong.com · 10/03/2025

Speaking at Frontiers of Innovation Day at #SXSW at 1pm - free registration here ✌️ lu.ma/v4a9d6ix?tk=...

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