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Beyond Democracy, Everyone Eats

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By Baratunde Thurston, Claire Maracle
| The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice Verified
July 2, 2026 Where did the concept of American democracy come from? And are we living up to its core values? As we mark 250 years of America, these are pertinent questions to consider. In this conversation, Claire Maracle, Executive Director of Words of the People, and Baratunde Thurston, storyteller and author of How to Be Black, excavate the origins of American democracy to expand and reshape our political imagination. It turns out we’ve been dreaming too small.
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Superficial Intelligence: Employee AI

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By Baratunde Thurston
| Nothing Personal
My company installed tracking software to monitor how we work and use that to train AI agents. Should I be worried? — Tracked and Confused, Menlo Park Dear Tracked, I love this question! No, you should not be worried at all. You should be excited, and even honored. We are at the precipice of a New Golden Age, the dawn of an era of abundance and human evolution, and the fulfillment of Milton Friedman's prophecy that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.
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Baratunde Thurston: They want us to quit the fight which is why we can't!

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By Dean Obeidallah Verified, Baratunde Thurston
| Substack
I spoke with my long time friend, writer/activist Baratunde Thurston who you might know from hosting countless shows from PBS’s “America Outdoors” to “Life with Machines.” Baratunde shared the joy of returning his Tesla making it clear he “did not want to be advertising Elon Musk” who has “become an agent of destruction of our public.” We also talked Trump “importing” white people from South Africa this week while also ending temporary protected status for refugees from Afghanistan who helped...
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