Brian Levy
@Brianlevy387
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UCLA Luskin School. Prof of Practice SAIS JHU 2012-24 Mandela School of Gov, U Cape Town 2012-19. World Bank1989-2012. Blogs at https://t.co/18HAEvTmYV
UCLA Los Angeles
Joined December 2010
In times of crisis, holding open the door to a hopeful future needs not just urgency, but clarity vis-a-vis goals, tactics, strategy & vision. For each, the lens of South Africa’s struggle to establish & sustain its own democracy offers useful lessons.
workingwiththegrain.com
Now what? Four weeks into the Trump administration, a wrecking ball threatens to wreak havoc with millions of peoples’ lives. A sense of urgency is in the air. Indeed, we urgently need to bea…
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To be clear, 2025 Cape Town is a marvelous, soulful city. Things were different during apartheid. The 1950 Group Areas Act forced 100,000s of people out of their homes, and left a gaping open wound in the heart of the City (formerly District Six). And 1950s Pass Laws resulted in.
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I've lived through this before. Cape Town's forced removals set in motion decades of protest, repression & dehumanization, destroying the city's soul. In vibrant diverse LA, forced removal's consequences will be devastating. How to avoid catastrophe?
workingwiththegrain.com
I’ve lived through this before. My first two decades of life were during peak apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa. Beneath the glistening surface of the city’s sunshine, mountains and ocean…
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The combination of my new piece in the @latimes on efforts in LA to address homelessness, and its posting by @UCLALuskin (where I now am part-time teaching faculty), signals some positive ways in which life has been moving on.
UCLA Luskin’s Brian Levy shares hope for LA’s homelessness crisis: A new roadmap backed by measurable 2030 goals could signal real progress — if leaders stay aligned.
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An invitation from @elonmusk to 'change his mind' about the damage he has caused. How about 3 million additional deaths in Africa? or perhaps saving lives in Africa doesn't count as 'a part that works. ' (??).
livescience.com
A modeling study looked at how anticipated cuts to international HIV funding would affect the rate of new cases and HIV-related deaths in low- and middle-income countries.
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Decades of good intentions gone wrong helped fuel LA’s homelessness & affordable housing crisis. Recent efforts to address the crisis offer hope that progressive approaches to governance can become part of the solution. Introducing my new research project.
workingwiththegrain.com
In dark times, I take inspiration from the great social scientist Albert Hirschman’s commitment to the search for ‘a bias for hope’, for “avenues of escape from exaggerated notions of a…
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RT @davetroy: 📄 NEW: "To Survive This, We Must Break the Fourth Wall" With a potential government shutdown looming, old frames of left vs.….
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We cannot navigate the current moment using existing political frames or received wisdom.
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What is the glue that holds society together? Another example of entitlement, arrogance and ignorance - “justify their job duties to the this out-of-touch, privileged, unelected billionaire who has never performed one single hour of honest public service in his life.”.
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For anyone still on this site who is interested in deliberative discourse, here's an unmissable series of articles by @FukuyamaFrancis on the 'deep state'.
persuasion.community
Francis Fukuyama's nine-part series on the advantages, dangers, and complications of bureaucratic autonomy.
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Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how USAID would’ve spent that $$: Bought 66,000 metric tons of crops from US farmers & shipped them overseas to feed 8 million people on the brink of famine #saveforeignaid
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🏈Protected 30M football fields of tropical forest in Africa to stop China from exploiting the minerals that fuel our world
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Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID
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A succinct statement from a reliably measured, moderate voice.
washingtonpost.com
The Founders would not have envisioned a Congress so supine in the face of Trump’s barrage.
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Elon: how much does one week of your private jet cost? More I'm sure than the 3 examples here (total: $150k). Gaslighting= focus on irrelevancies to conceal the big picture. Which is: Make room for a billionaire tax cut by cutting $ billions of food assistance & life-saving drugs.
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RT @ChrisVanHollen: 🚨Trump’s decision to shut down USAID has frozen critical work to deliver vital assistance around the globe, and put Chi….
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USAID provides anti-retrovirals to millions. It is the largest provider of food assistance to the world's most desperate. Almost all staff are committed, hardworking professionals. @elonmusk distortions and gaslighting are shameless. How do you sleep at night?.
Good question.
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Stopping the provision of anti-retrovirals. Undermining food assistance for the world's most desperate. Denigrating committed professionals, "without offering evidence, as left-wing and corrupt". How do you sleep at night @elonmusk
washingtonpost.com
Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk said early Monday that his DOGE team is in the process of closing USAID, the world’s largest provider of food assistance.
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Hmm. So was DOGE careful to categorize government functions by criticality, and only targeted those that were less critical. Which were on the critical list? Which medium? Which low? To boost confidence in the coherence of the DOGE effort, please share the full categorization.
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