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Techstars Startup Weekend Boulder for Accessibility in Technology – Co-hosted with Google for Startups

Im excited to share a unique Startup Weekend opportunity for the Colorado community. Startup Weekend has grown up quite a bit from its humble beginnings here in Boulder in 2007. The latest stats, which are likely already out of date, are; 23,000+ teams formed…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Holocaust

If Germany Atoned for the Holocaust, the U.S. Can Pay Reparations for Slavery

The idea of paying reparations for slavery is gaining momentum in the United States, despite being long derided as an unrealistic plan, to compensate for state violence committed by and against people long dead. The topic saw substantive debate in the July 3…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Greta Thunberg

New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March

Each generation inherits the messes made by its predecessors, and their mythologies, too. Like many nineties kids, I grew up on stories and photographs of anti-Vietnam protests: young people in flared jeans and peacoats marching hundreds deep, brandishing pit…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Greta Thunberg

All the best signs we saw at the Climate Strike in NYC – CNET

"We are the rising sun / We are the change / We are the ones we've been waiting for / And we are rising"

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Plastic Pollution

New York lawmakers want to ban single-use hotel toiletries

An entire state may join the war against single-use plastics. Long Island Democratic Senator Todd Kaminsky, in partnership with a group of lawmakers, is leading a campaign to ban individually-packaged amenities in New York state hotels with more than 50 room…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Feudalism

How Bitcoin Ends

Bitcoin was a clever idea. Idealistic, even. But it isn’t working out quite as its developers imagined. In fact, once all the coin has been mined, bitcoin will simply reinforce the very banking system it was invented to disrupt. Watching the bitcoin phenomen…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Ukrainian Revolution

Inside President Donald Trump’s push for Ukraine probe of Democratic rival

When Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, endeavored in early 2019 to have former Vice President Joe Biden investigated in Ukraine, one of his points of contact was the country's former prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, whose ouster in March of …

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Christianity

The Right’s Latest Attack on Academic Freedom Might Actually Work – Slate

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in Washington on July 15. The Intelligence Whistleblower Case Could Spark the Most Serious Clash Over Presidential Power Since Watergate Trump Administration Orders Changes to Duke, UNC Curriculum Bec…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Xi Jinping

China Scraps U.S. Farm Tour, Stoking Pessimism on Trade Deal – Yahoo Canada Finance

(Bloomberg) -- A Chinese trade delegation canceled a planned visit to farms in the U.S. heartland, driving down stock indexes as investors turned pessimistic on progress toward resolving the two nations trade war. The cancellation came only about an hour aft…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Protectionism

Ford declares ‘I’m a big Republican’ but questions Trump on trade protectionism

Premier Doug Ford went on a business trip to Ohio declaring “I’m a big Republican” but taking U.S. President Donald Trump to task on trade. Ford, who last year said there was “not a doubt in my mind” he would have voted for Trump, took aim at protectionist p…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Techstars Startup Weekend Boulder for Accessibility in Technology – Co-hosted with Google for Startups

If Germany Atoned for the Holocaust, the U.S. Can Pay Reparations for Slavery

New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March

All the best signs we saw at the Climate Strike in NYC – CNET

New York lawmakers want to ban single-use hotel toiletries

How Bitcoin Ends

Inside President Donald Trump’s push for Ukraine probe of Democratic rival

The Right’s Latest Attack on Academic Freedom Might Actually Work – Slate

China Scraps U.S. Farm Tour, Stoking Pessimism on Trade Deal – Yahoo Canada Finance

Ford declares ‘I’m a big Republican’ but questions Trump on trade protectionism

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