Open Thread Day!

School lunches, GLP's, bird flu, the election, MDMA and more

Quinn Emmett
August 14, 2024

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Welcome back, Shit Givers.

Something new today — an open thread! Huge thanks to beehiiv for upgrading the comments infrastructure so we can do these.

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Open Thread!

A major pillar of my theory of Compound Action involves voices, ideas, proven policies, and corporate progress intentionally being carried over time and people, breaking down (bullshit) barriers between individual and systemic action.

So I’m excited to introduce our new monthly Open Threads.

I’ll share some topics that are on my mind below, but feel free to come with whatever’s on your mind, what you’re working on or struggling with, what you’re reading, or have questions about.

As always, I’m disproportionately more interested in getting to the bottom of what’s happening and why than staying on top of the latest breaking news.

The more active these discussions are, the more of them we can have.

The more civil and constructively we behave, the more helpful they are to more readers.

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What’s on my mind today:

Falling interest rates re: clean energy and manufacturing; SunPower and tariffs, etc.
IRA benefits and job numbers (so far!)
GLP-1 fraud
US public school funding budget cuts & fights for universal school meals
Africa mpox & North America bird flu
Abortion access on the ballot in Arizona, etc.
FDA MDMA rejection
Driving down-ballot support
Disinformation in UK riots
Pakistani solar installations
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