Avoid your eyes!mine sunday morning Look at incompetence, corruption and policy blunders:

• ‘This is true barbarism’: Life and death under Russian occupation: The town of Trostyanets was occupied by Russian troops for a month before the liberation of the Ukrainian army. Residents described weeks of hunger and fear. (New York Times)

• Congress cut corners on Covid-19 funding.We may pay later. The global vaccination campaign has been removed from Congress’ new Covid-19 funding bill. This is a mistake. (sound) see also Why experts fear a man-made epidemic — and what we can do to stop it As biology gets better, biosecurity becomes more difficult. This is preparation the world can do. (sound)

• Stacks of money gave Disney what it wanted in Florida until now The Walt Disney Company has ruled Florida for so long that the idea of ??a backlash from the state’s political leaders is unthinkable. Yet here we are. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and his Republican colleagues in the state House have threatened to crack down on the entertainment giant. Why? Because Disney has expressed dissatisfaction with their recent efforts to cater to the far-right base, the so-called “don’t say gay” law is designed to oppress transgender people. (los angeles times)

• Student debt: what it is, how we get it, and why it’s so hard to cancel Pausing student loan payments is easy. Repairing the system will be more difficult. (grid) How Viktor Orbán built his illiberal state The victory of FYD on Sunday was the culmination of many events that, once upon a time, we thought could not have happened here. (new republic)

• Why China is firmly standing with Russia – now Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd sees China as a student, scholar and head of state. When it comes to China’s “unlimited partnership” with Putin’s Russia, he thinks he knows where the red lines lie. (grid)

• A Facebook bug led to an increase in views of harmful content in six months: Social networks tout downgrades as a way to block problematic content, but what happens when that system crashes? (edge)

• Amid the Bitcoin Bankruptcy of the Web’s Largest Child Abuse Site They consider their payments to be untraceable. They were dead wrong. The untold story of the case shatters the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity. (wired)

• Latest Covid misinformation star says he invented a vaccine Dr. Robert Malone, who helped invent the mRNA vaccine, has been wronged for decades. Now he is spreading unfounded claims about vaccines and viruses. (New York Times)

• The future of the International Space Station looks dire For 30 years, the U.S.-Russian partnership on the International Space Station has come above all else. Now America finds itself in need of friends, not enemies. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-29/russia-ukraine-invasion-puts-iss-future-in-doubt

• Pass any necessary meme: How the far right took over French elections Eric Zemmour’s tactics pushed nativism to the center of the campaign — and showed how little social media platforms have done to thwart misinformation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-07/zemmour-s-facebook-powered-french-election-rise see also U.S. right is in step with Kremlin on Ukrainian disinformation: False narrative pushed by Tucker Carlson and leading Republicans in Congress has been embraced and recycled by Moscow (protector)

Be sure to check out our Master of Business interview This weekend with Bain Capital’s co-managing partner Jonathan LaVine and Bain Capital Credit’s Cheif Investment Officer. He is co-chair of the Columbia University Board of Regents.

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