It's not just that Ezra Klein said that Kirk was doing politics in the right way, it's that Klein said he "ENVIED what he built."

Just think about that for a second. Mask's off, I would say.

Sweet treat upcoming 🥰

darkly funny that it was the ascendant right wing (not the degrowth left) that is launching the trade policies that threaten to Take Banana

As the price of food and basic goods increase, so will gendered violence. So it's great we're in a cultural place where trad wives and conservatism have made such a roaring comeback when women won't be able to do food or caretaking work in this economy.

Amazing show on the work of New Deal era illustrator / graphic designer Lester Beall at the Poster House gallery in Manhattan. Closes this weekend!

Just saw a couple on the subway doing a crossword that they’d ripped out of a magazine together and it was so gentle and romantic!!!

The looming tariffs on electricity will spike people's bills almost instantly. That's a disaster. But as we told @newrepublic.com, “we already pay a tariff because of how much corporate profit is priced in, compared to what the price would be under public power.”

Please share with your school district and your school principals! Protect our trans and gender non-conforming kiddos 💕

I heard an NPR interview yesterday about oligarchs & Musk/Bezos/Zuck/Trump & they were talking about these guys being talented & the potential benefits of them advising government. We have to crush the idea that billionaires are aspirational or necessarily good at anything besides exploitation.

Israel's UNRWA ban is coming into effect next week, just as the ceasefire agreement's provision to let more aid in will be ramping up. The logistical framework to distribute said aid throughout Gaza will suddenly disappear.

This is a great piece.

"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

Hanging out with Aaron and Vijay to talk about the distortion of sustainability to equal green consumption with moral implications and ask: what is to be done?

8/ If you read between historian Mike Davis' apocalyptic lines, policy advice for 2020s
-Move ppl out of fire prone, sprawling WUI zones to denser coasts
-Pay ppl to thin weeds, clear millions of dead trees & do prescribed burns
- Limit human ignition
- Cut CO2 FAST
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Been having a lot of conversations about how to rebuild social cohesion and a sense of optimism on the Left, and the answer lies in design: we need more programs and public spaces to fight alienation.

truly maddening how this was never part of the discussion. paying nine bucks to save an hour is worth it for like 99 percent of hourly workers

Hey friends. @propublica.org is hiring! We have several openings for great journalists including this one for a new Climate Accountability Reporter. Come work with me!
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Honoring my ancestors by walking around Rome belly full of pizzapasta, waistband 3 sizes too tight, complaining about needing kimchi and rice

This is why they tried media figures at Nuremberg

The congestion pricing era starts tonight, at last. It's going to be a great time to walk the entire length of Manhattan; use our guide to maximize this entirely toll-free way to enjoy the city: nygroove.nyc/im-walkin-he...