Pete Manzo

@pmanzo

Advocate for human development and justice, recovering attorney, father/husband/son/brother

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Pete Manzo@pmanzo· 6d

Big Lebowski, Tombstone are favorites, but thought he was great in "Mask" with Cher www.google.com/imgres?q=mas...

Sam Elliott and Cher sitting on a motorcycle, from film "Mask"

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· 12d

Looks like something out of "A Serious Man", like we haven't learned much in past 60 years

Image from poster for the film "A Serious Man" by the Coen Brothers, showing actor playing a suburban home owner standing next to an aerial antenna, on a sloped roof of a tract home,

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· 18d

Thanks! Btw, "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey, is a really good imagination of what it must be like to be an astronaut on the ISS (something like 16 sunrises and sunsets a day?)

Cover of the book "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey, noting that it won The Booker Prize in 2024, showing colorful spheres in blues, greens, reds, purple

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Jul 6

Hearing "Country Road" as the US World Cup team anthem brings back some memories (we had the album when I was a kid), but these days, when I hear it I keep thinking of "Logan Lucky" and have a chuckle

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Jun 25

Seems like what they really fear is how well immigrants have contributed to and _been welcomed by_ communities like Lewiston, ME, or Springfield, OH, which they went after because Haitian immigrants were helping save the town. bsky.app/profile/pman...

Image of cover of “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyeone and How We Can Prospert Together”, including an adolescent boy jumping into a pool, someone climbing a ladder

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Jun 25

Cartoon drawing with a Daily Bugle newspaper headline “Everything Awful: Oh God, Somebody Do Something”

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· May 30

They make the world a better place, no doubt!

Photo of a Lhasa Apso looking sardonically right at the camera

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· May 23

Yes, the fight we're in isn't simply democracy vs. fascism, it is multi-racial democracy vs. fascism. We all do better when we all do better, as Sen. Wellstone said, and as Heather McGhee shows in "The Sum of Us," a zero-sum, us vs them frame really hurts _everyone_ who isn't wealthy.

Image of cover of Heather McGhee’s great book, “The Sum of Us”

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· May 19

Orchids are such beautiful and surprisingly sturdy plants, if well cared for. Takes some regular effort, though; showing here the bi-weekly soaking my wife does to keep them going, for years. #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling

7 orchid plants in pots, soaking in a sink or draining on a kitchen counter.

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Mar 12

Stand on principles and your mission, with courage, but also minimize your attack surface Good discussion of fed admin attempts to intimidate foundations and nonprofits, including by threatening to remove #tax-exempt status at Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations #wcteo #nonprofitsky

About 300 lawyers and accountants seated in a large conference room, on left, facing and listening to panel of nonprofit tax law experts, on raised dais on right, at the Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Mar 4

A view of the San Francisco Bay never gets old, from many angles. Today, looking from Berkeley toward San Francisco. (In law school too many years ago, enjoyed this daily.) #photography

Looking across the bay toward San Francisco, from Berkeley.

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Feb 19

Smith I think would support minimum wage increases and universal basic income, too

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Feb 15

Feel like this chart or something like it should be on everyone’s wall. From Economic Policy Institute www.epi.org/productivity...

A chart titled “Disconnect between productivity and a typical worker’s pay, 1948-2014”, showing sharp divergence late 1970s and early 1980s between continuing growth in productivity and declining worker pay, with productivity increasing 238.7% over the period, and worker pay increasing 109%.

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Feb 10

We need to undo this, which Reagan really greased and has snowballed since. Workers have not been sharing in the increasing wealth they have produced:

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Jan 21

If you’re in LA, it will be the unlicensed fireworks

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Jan 10

Tempting fate, no doubt.

David Strathairn portraying Sid Hatfield (yes, of the Hatfields vs McCoys), Sheriff, in the great John Sayles filme “Matewan”

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Jan 2

Built in the 1930s, if I recall, well before, I think, Frank Lloyd Wright‘s similar staircase along walls of an art gallery in SF, and later the Guggenheim in NYC

View looking up from spiral staircase in Vatican Museuum to glass and metal dome skylight in ceiling above

View looking down from spiral staircase in Vatican Museuum

View looking over spiral staircase in Vatican Museum

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Dec 22

(Reposting w alt text this time, sorry)

Wine bottle with brackets - first third has “Abraham Lincoln was a good president, but a little too soft”; middle third says “Reconstruction should have been longer”; last third lines up with statement “Sherman should have salted the earth and occupied Georgia until the end of time”

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Dec 7

Actor Jason Isaac’s playing General Zhukov, saying “I mean, I’m smiling - but I am really fucking furious” in “Death of Stalin”

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Nov 12

Learning from United Way state org leaders from AL AZ CA FL IN KS KY LA MI MN MO NC NJ NM OK PA TX VT WI #nonprofitsky #LiveUnited #UnitedistheWay #Advocacy

2 dozen people seated at conference table in room with windows looking over Kansas City, Theis Park and Park Central

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Nov 2

Thanks for sharing! Beautiful! Orvieto is a very memorable place. Beautiful, and also with long, interesting history. Founded by Etruscans, if I recall, seated at top of a hill, but has water table right under town due to limestone layer underneath it. #photography #architecture

Orvieto Cathedrall, viewed from street level, on a cobble-stoned street between two buildings

Orvieto Cathedral, with sun rays peeking over top, from plaza in front of it

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Oct 29

Union Station, Kansas City, built 1906 #photography

Interior of Union Station train depot, very high ceiling w bas relief, arched windows

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Oct 28

Packed room for 211 Orange County presentation on GetHelpOC closed-loop referral system for care management #211 #Nonprofitsky #211Thrive conference

Dozens of people in conference room, seated at round tables, and standing, with 3 speakers at front of the room. Amy Arambulo at podium, Liz Andrade and Chris Ticknor at panelists table, all representing 211 program operated by United Way Orange County, California

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Oct 28

Angela Williams, CEO, United Way Worldwide, and Clarence Anthony, CEO, National League of Cities, open #211Thrive conference in Kansas City. #nonprofitsky #211 #UnitedistheWay

3 people sitting on stage, moderator Kim Torguson, United Way on left, Clarence Anthony, National League of Cities, middle, and Angela Williams, United Way, on right ,

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Oct 23

Love this movie, and especially Sensei Sergio, played by Benicio Del Toro, who says the line quoted here

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Oct 20

Vanderbilt chancellor has been pushing for "engagement" with the admin, IIRC. Let's see how this works out for him. Wesleyan's President Roth was right about all this, IMO. "Dialogue" rather than rejecting is doing the authoritarian's work for them. from: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Quotes and text clipped from an Inside Higher Education article, quoting Michael Roth, Wesleyan President:

“Your complaints at the Heterodox conferences for almost 10 years now—about being too woke, about not having enough jobs for white people, about too many women in the academy—have found resonance with an authoritarian push to control our spaces,” Wesleyan University president Michael Roth said Tuesday during a plenary panel at the event.

“We can make nice and not say that and we won’t get investigated,” he said. “Or we can do our job, which is to call the indecent attack on our sector indecent, wrongheaded, lawless, authoritarian, fascistic—choose your words. But if you sit there and worry about the sociology department and whether Near East studies is really antisemitic, I think you’re doing their work of authoritarianism.”

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Many in the room applauded.

At Wesleyan, Roth said, he’s tried to increase intellectual diversity and raise awareness “about the political biases that undermine faculty hiring, that undermine classroom discussions, that undermine the education we want to offer.” But he said that “right now that would be like talking about needing a better milkshake when the house is on fire,” or like complaining about corruption in Ukraine’s mining industry or the University of Kiev’s anthropology department talking too much about settler-colonialism.

“The federal government is trying to destroy civil society by undermining the legitimacy of colleges and universities, of law firms—entertainment is on deck, and journalism,” Roth said. “And so while we twiddle our thumbs and talk about reforming the university, people who want to destroy the university are doing so not because we don’t have enough Republicans at the top business school or Wesleyan’s department of mathematics. They want to destroy the university because that’s how you claim more executive power.”

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Oct 6

Quite possible. I highly recommend Yuval Noah Harari’s book, “Nexus” about the history of information networks, and touches on the comparisons you raised to railroads/telecom, printing press and other inventions. AI threatens to really compound the dangers but it also may threaten autocracies, too.

Photo of cover of the book "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI" by Yuval Noah Harai. Black and red text on white background, with a drawing of a carrier pigeon in middle

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Sep 30

Could post this every day it seems…

Image of a wine bottle, with brackets dividing it into thirds, with thought bubbles for each section as user drinks them. Top third labels says “Abraham Lincoln was a good president, but a little soft”, middle third says “Reconstruciton should have been longer” and last section “Sherman should have salted the earth and occupied Georgia until the end of time.”

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Sep 26

Bougainvilleas humming today #photo

Bright fuchsia-colored flowers on a bougainvillea plant

Bright fuchsia-colored flowers on a bougainvillea plant climbing a pillar

Pete Manzo@pmanzo· Sep 26