RETWEET if You Promise me that you will Vote in the 2018 Midterm elections! LIKE if you will Vote Democrat across the board!

Worth reading: profile of James Jeter, who I met through one of our Community Learning courses at Trinity College, written by Matthew Ormseth x.com/hartfordcouran…

I remember when the news used to tell us what happened and we had to decide what to think about it. Now the news tells us how to think about something, and then we have to decide if it even happened.

The thing that often annoys me about the nominally correct take that “zoning was always racist” is that urbanist twitter loves to use it to make zoning an *exception*. When, in reality, pretty much all major institutions and practices in the US are virulently racist.

“It is hard to defend the event on journalistic grounds,” Jeet Heer writes of the The New Yorker’s decision to invite Steve Bannon to be interviewed its festival. This is the best argument. He isn’t a newsmaker anymore. Why is he being interviewed by Remnick? newrepublic.com/minutes/151023…

"Voluntary focus on a simple object, such as the sensation of one’s own breath, combined with a non-reactive and accepting awareness of concurrently arising mental phenomena, can have far-reaching effects on cognitive functions" from nature nature.com/articles/s4159…

Between 1933&1942 from 5k camps 3mil men planted 2.3bil trees slowed erosion on 40mil ac built 800 state parks 10k reservoirs 46k bridges 13k trails 1mil mi. of fence stocked 1mil fish worked 6.5mil days in fire protection altering 118mil ac, 3x the size of Conn.

Let me just be clear. I will not divide and I will not lose focus. I want Trump and any and all of his enablers gone. That's my number one goal. You do you. I'm here for the end of the Trump Dynasty and a country that breathes progressive politics. Warrior time.

At the Guggenheim New York now, protests erupt. 200 DEAD EACH DAY, throwing leaflets as prescriptions. The museum has lost control: This post is an act of solidarity || #decolonizethisplace #shameonsackler #takedowntheirname #sacklerpain #opiodcrisis || #swipeleft

Wanting equality in education is like stealing according to this westport-news.com/news/article/L…

This time table isn’t being set in Congress; it’s being set by reality. We need to move towards becoming carbon free and the bottom line is, scientifically, the right year to do that was yesterday.

the refusal to even *consider* the idea that democrats could make impeachment a *moral* issue tout court - and thereby leverage even its *failure* into an indictment of an entire class of political elites that galvanizes fed-up voters - is for me a sign that the party is hopeless

All the roots growing out this month vindicate my decision to go silver in 2017

“As the great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter remarked in the aftermath of the first world war, “the budget is the skeleton of the state stripped of all misleading ideologies”, the truest reflection of the distribution of power and influence.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The headline we should be seeing in our national newspapers slate.com/news-and-polit…

i can’t stop thinking about this diary entry i wrote right after 9/11