Effed-up Friday was back with guest Ann Kramer, a therapist and systems thinker who’s developing a framework she calls the integrative economy—and who fit right in by immediately swearing like a sailor.
We each brought our news of the week and found we had three stories, and one throughline: defund the science, nature wins.
Dana brought the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — algae-green after a $14 million no-bid repaint job awarded to a Trump donor. Ann brought Battleground, WA, a Portland-area town of 23,000 being methodically taken over by a billionaire white Christian nationalist. Lawrence closed with the New World Screwworm, a flesh-burrowing parasite the US had eradicated for 60 years via a $15M/year sterile fly program — until DOGE cut it. It’s now in Texas and New Mexico. The administration is requesting $1 billion to fight the outbreak.
Lawrence won, though Ann was a very close second.
Ann and Lawrence are launching a four-Tuesday series in July on building a better economy. Watch this space for details.
Thank you Beth Cruz, Sacred Storylines 🎨, Donna Everett, Sandra, Shirley Figueroa, and many others for tuning in, and to Karen Marie Shelton and Yanni Hamburger for moderating.
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