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9/ P.S. We're also recruiting for fellowships in Global Tax Fairness, EU Food Systems, and US Food Systems Reform.
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7/ This is why we built the Tobacco Free Future Fellowship. A paid, 7-month program for experienced professionals ready to redirect their careers toward ending the most evil legal industry on earth. Applications close April 27.
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6/ Not burn-it-all-down anger, just enough to see clearly what needs to happen. Every moral movement in history has run on this kind of anger, from abolition to civil rights. Channeled properly, it can be a really productive emotion.

5/ I’m so proud of Jeltsje Boersma — a fellow in our Tobacco Free Future program at the School for Moral Ambition. She used to see anger as something to manage, now it's her fuel.

4/ It’s what happens when a problem has no constituency. The victims are diffuse and mostly poor. The industry is concentrated, rich, and has lobbyists in every capital.

3/ For HIV, TB, malaria — at least we're fighting back. Not nearly enough! But there's some funding, some infrastructure, some global attention. But this evil industry? Well, the #1 killer on the list gets 1/10 of 1 percent of global health funding.

Abolish the Tobacco Industry — No One Should Be Allowed to Addict and Poison Others on an Industrial Scale No one should be allowed to addict and poison others on an industrial scale. The cigarette is a fraudulent product that costs millions of lives and should not be produced and sold.

2/ Most people think we've already won this fight. We haven't. When regulation tightens in rich countries, Big Tobacco moves to poorer ones. When smoking falls, they pivot to vapes. The industry is growing: moralambition.org/stories/abolish-the-tobacco-industry

INSANELY powerful speech about one of the most evil, legal industries: Big Tobacco.

This industry kills 8+ million people/year. More than HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria combined. The #1 cause of preventable death on earth.

Yet the fight against it gets just 0.1% of global health funding. 🧵

5/ The BBC even told me the line wouldn't have been a problem a month ago. I think they meant that as reassurance, but it sounded like a confession. This wasn't legal caution, it was capitulation.

4/ The thing is, my lecture was about exactly this. About institutions bending the knee to power while telling themselves they had no choice.

3/ That was enough for the BBC to fold. They called me and asked how I'd feel about removing the line. I told them: not good! They removed it anyway.

2/ Here's what happened. The Daily Mail got the story, claimed my entire first lecture was an anti-Trump rant — a lie — and splashed it on the front page. The White House director of communications instantly labeled me a "rabid anti-Trump individual."

1/ Less than 24 hours before broadcast, the BBC called me and said: we're editing a line out of your lecture. The line? That Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.

Why Billionaires Fear This Economist YouTube video by Rutger Bregman

This is not how democracy works. Democracy is pooling resources and deciding together, not letting billionaires pick their favorite causes. Watch full video here: youtu.be/UWXyUbq34hQ?...

Philanthropy can be great, but it’s no substitute for taxation. The British aristocracy tried the same trick in the 19th century: skip the taxes, do some charity, and call it generosity.

Over 80% of people want a wealth tax for billionaires. Of course they’re resisting with their army of lawyers and lobbyists, but we’re building ours.

I’m so excited to be teaming up with @gabrielzucman.bsky.social 👉

The market failure beneath the manosphere [FREE TO READ] Confronting the misogyny and get-rich-quick schemes of influencers means talking openly to young men about success

It’s the most FT thing in the world to describe the manosphere as a market failure but it somehow doesn’t detract from this very good piece as.ft.com/r/c3d11403-b...

The Liar Running the Most Dangerous Company on Earth YouTube video by Rutger Bregman

This is the story of how one man dismantled every safeguard that was designed to restrain him. Full video here: youtu.be/bta18wTOr_k?...

Sam Altman is the most dangerous man in Silicon Valley right now. The board that fired him? Replaced. The safety team that questioned his priorities? Dissolved. The nonprofit structure that was supposed to keep mission above profit? Restructured. The employees who wanted to speak out? Silenced.

I’m honestly baffled: why is there not a single billionaire who just makes the call to Nick Allardice, GiveDirectly’s CEO?
Instead, they fund vanity projects and call it philanthropy. The solutions exist but the ambition is pointed in the wrong direction.

GiveDirectly has sent $1 billion in cash directly to people in extreme poverty. Their model has no middle man and study after study shows it works.

Any billionaire could call them tomorrow and help pull an entire country out of poverty. For some, it would cost about a year in the stock market.

Fellowships | The School for Moral Ambition Our fellowships offer a transformative journey, demanding full commitment as you pivot your career among ambitious peers. With guidance from top-tier guest speakers, we focus on what truly matters — e...

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We pay you to quit your job and spend 7 months fighting the tobacco industry, transforming the food system, or making the superrich pay their fair share in taxes.

37 fellowships. US, Canada, Europe, Kenya. Applications close April 27th.

80% of billionaire political spending goes to one party.

Guess which one.

You're Not Overreacting. This Is Actually Fascism. YouTube video by Rutger Bregman

Every time in history that people recognized what was happening early enough, they stood a better chance of stopping it. I made a 15-minute video breaking down the evidence. Watch the full thing here: youtube.com/watch?v=DDf25rNyT1A

Fascism isn't a vague insult. It's a pattern historians have studied for decades. So I took the time to actually look at the evidence and ask honestly: does the pattern fit? The answer right now: yes, it fits.

As a historian, I've always been careful with the word "fascism." We've all seen how it shuts down debate when everyone throws it at everything they don't like. But at some point, being careful with the word starts to mean being blind to the thing itself.

The far right has spent decades building the infrastructure to act on that belief. Those who believe in democracy and human rights should match that ambition, not just the outrage.

Peter Thiel literally wrote that freedom and democracy are not 'compatible' and that regulating Big Tech is the work of the 'anti-Christ'. Stop treating this as metaphor. When billionaires tell you they want to end democracy, take them seriously.