Dear Undecided Voters, If there's 10 people on the bus, and 3 vote to drive off the cliff, 2 vote against it, and 5 people don't vote, you're all going off the cliff. Your reminderthat not voting is literally the dumbest choice. GO VOTE THIS NOVEMBER.

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TONIGHT AT 6PM: @maddow joins @PeterAlexander for a special edition of 'State of Play' after MS NOW is denied access to the White House.

Tonight, the Empire State Building tower lights will turn to a pink sparkle at 9:25 to honor the late Dolly Parton. Dolly was a global cultural icon whose seven-decade career reached generations of fans. Beyond entertainment, Dolly leaves a significant philanthropic legacy through the Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library, which has provided hundreds of millions of books to children worldwide. At Nine-Two-Five tonight, we celebrate her and her legacy 💖

I’ve been permanently banned from @amazon . No appeal. No human explanation. As a published author with four books on B2B sales, marketing, and influence: Social Selling (1st Ed, 2016) Smarketing (2018) Social Selling (2nd Ed, 2022) Social Selling & Influence (2026) they have banned this self-published book! ..getting wiped off the platform with zero recourse is both baffling and frustrating. When I questioned the initial removal, I received an automated reply confirming the permanent ban. Every attempt to resolve this feels like shouting into an AI customer service void. How you can help: If anyone in my network has a direct contact at Amazon KDP or executive support who can connect me with a real human to review my account, please send a DM or tag them below. I’d deeply appreciate a share to help get this in front of the right person! Has anyone else faced a sudden automated account termination on Amazon? How did you manage to reach a human? via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #AI #Marketing #MarketingSuccess #MarketingStrategy #AIAgents #ABM #Amazon

I will never forget this portrait composed of the faces of healthcare workers across the world who died from Covid. These are the heroes who should never be forgotten.

New episode today. Wendy Lipton-Dibner @ImpactExpert Impact first. Results follow. This is brought to you by: LifeWave Corporate

Wholesome moment captured at Boston Marathon 🥹

He drives a school bus in Dallas, Texas. But the kids on his route call him something else — Dad. Every morning before the sun is fully up, Curtis Jenkins pulls his yellow school bus to the curb and waits. Not just to pick up kids. To see them. For seven years, Curtis noticed things other people missed. The little girl who folded her paper lunch bag perfectly every day but left it on the bus — because there was nothing inside. The boy whose shoes were too small. The kids who got on quiet, eyes down, carrying weight no child should have to carry alone. So Curtis did something simple. He made his bus a community. He gave every child a job — a greeter, an assistant, a "police officer" keeping order in the aisles. Every morning he'd call out, "We're going to care about each other and love everybody, right?" And 50 small voices would answer back. But it didn't stop there. Over the years, Curtis spent thousands of dollars of his own money — money he saved by skipping his own Christmas gifts with his wife — on birthday cards, bikes, backpacks, turkeys at Thanksgiving, and 70 hand-wrapped Christmas presents. He didn't buy random gifts. He asked each child what they wanted. Then he went and got exactly that. No donation page. No announcement. No cameras. When the story finally got out and people questioned how a bus driver could afford it, Curtis just smiled. "It doesn't take money. It takes discipline." But here's the part that will stay with you. When a reporter asked the kids what they loved most about Curtis — not one of them mentioned the gifts. A fifth grader named Ethan, whose parents had divorced when he was four, looked up and said quietly: "He's the father that I always wanted. In some ways, I wish my dad could have been like that." Curtis heard it. Didn't flinch. Just nodded. "That's the paycheck right there," he said later. "If I can get that, you can keep the money." He wasn't looking for a medal. He wasn't going viral on purpose. He was just a man who decided, every single morning, that his bus would be the safest place those kids walked into all day. Sometimes the person who changes a child's life forever isn't a teacher or a coach or a counselor. Sometimes it's the person behind the wheel of a yellow bus at 7 a.m. — who chose to show up, and chose to care, when nobody was asking him to. Tag someone who needs to read this today. 💛

WE DID IT! Service animals have now been formally recognized by the CDC BMBL clarification, and it is the first time this has been explicitly stated in alignment with biosafety guidance at the federal level. URGENT UPDATE: Federal Clarification on Service Animal Access in Laboratories—Attention Safety and Compliance Personnel Nearly 3 years ago, a scientist lost their career over one sentence. They contacted me for help. They were highly qualified. They had an exemplary record. They were also disabled and relied on a trained service dog for independence. Then the newest edition of the CDC’s Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) was released. One sentence changed everything: “Animals and plants not associated with the work being performed are not permitted in the laboratory.” That sentence—without context—was used to terminate them, and many others, as well as be used to deny students with disabilities utilizing a service dog for independnece access to labopratory experience. Not because of risk. Not because of performance. Not because of science. Because of interpretation. I took this on directly. I reached out to the authors and leadership behind the BMBL asking for one simple clarification: That service animals may be an exception based on individualized risk assessment. For months—nothing. So I escalated. I contacted Arizona Representative Juan Ciscomani and worked alongside his Legislative Director for over two and a half years. We engaged direct conversations with the CDC. We sent a letter signed by several others members of Congress and over a dozen biosafety organizations. We engaged in NIH modernization discussions. We spoke in open forums. We pushed—consistently, persistently, and with evidence. Today, there is a major step forward. CDC has issued a formal clarification: “Clarification on Service Animals in Laboratories: Compliance with Federal Laws and BMBL Guidance.” And it says what should have always been clear: • The BMBL does not override federal, state, or local law • It cannot be used to deny reasonable accommodations • It is guidance—not regulatory authority • Risk assessment—not blanket exclusion—must drive decisions Most importantly: Service animals must be considered within the framework of lawful accommodation and individualized risk assessment. This is more than a clarification. It is the first time this has been explicitly stated in alignment with biosafety guidance at the federal level. This is precedent setting. It closes a policy gap that has harmed careers, limited access, and forced talented scientists out of the field. To every Environmental Health & Safety office, compliance leader, biosafety professional, and institution: Please read this. Share this. Implement this. Because inclusion and biosafety are not in conflict—they were just never clearly aligned. Until now. I owe a great deal to Rep. Ciscomani and his Legislative Director for their trust, dedication, and commitment to making this possible! Direct link: lnkd.in/guhepBzG #CDC #NIH #ServiceAnimal #ServiceDog #Accessible #Science #Inclusion #BMBL #RepresentativeCiscomani #INSISTENT

On @DisrupTVShow ep. 412! Steve Lucas, CEO @boomi, @MarkCCrowley, Co-author of The Power of Employee Well-Being, @ImpactExpert, Author of What Matters Matters Most w/ @rwang0 & @valaafshar zurl.co/MvFLm #DisrupTV

Because February 2026 begins on a Sunday in a non-leap year, the entire month fits perfectly into 4 clean weeks. No extra row. The next time this will happen is 2037.