I’m very excited and proud that has brought out my book Perilous Bounty as a paperback, and it’s available starting *today*! You can buy it here: geni.us/perilousbounty Please indulge my thread on it.
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Twitter staff have been told to work 84-hour weeks and managers slept at the office over the weekend as they scramble to meet Elon Musk's tight deadlines, reports say
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That’s quite the spin. The size of Social Security checks is linked, by law, to inflation (ssa.gov/cola/#:~:text=). This year’s increase is unusually big because the inflation rate is unusually big.
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Seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden's leadership.
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Whereas today’s Matt Y reads like self-parody.
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This is bad. Bird flu is back as wild bird migration begins. A few hundred thousand turkeys & chickens have been affected (killed) in Oct. and Iowa just reported 1.1 million. We'll likely see many more killed in the next 7 mos., and in rather brutal ways.
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^a third of a billion dollars, not a quarter.
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Twitter is basically a toy that will cost Elon Musk ($1b-$630 million=) about a quarter billion dollars per year. And no, charging blue checks $20/month, even if they all submit, won't close that gap.
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A quarter of unemployed workers getting unemployment benefits, plus getting well under half what they were making at their jobs while on the hunt for new work. Way to head into a potential recession. tcf.org/content/report
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Bolsonaro told his cabinet he does not plan to contest the result of the election, but he also does not plan to congratulate President-elect Lula.
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Yet again, sovereign debt incentivizes extractivism. Here, Colombia’s recently elected Left president is walking back promises to ban new oil exploration. Increasingly clear there is no climate justice without lowering or cancelling Global South debt loads reuters.com/world/americas
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It's a podcast crossover! Give a listen to 's contribution to #WhatYoureEating podcast episode 10: The Power of Big Pork, interviewed among others by .
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Reminder that 43 percent of white Harvard freshmen in 2019 were athletes, legacies, families of donors or of staff (ALDS). 70% of those white applicants would not have been accepted if they were not ALDS. If the issue is fairness, there is your problem.
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WATCH: 25 km of new protected bike-lanes were launched in Berlin during the #coronavirus pandemic. They say the main investment was just paint, but the REAL key was being willing to rethink key decisions like where the car parking is. Via
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Here, when a democrat is elected president, we are scolded not to expect much.Filibuster, senate, etc etc. maybe 10g debt relief and, maybe, save inflation adjustment for social security. In Brazil, they elect a Lula and proclaim that he is going to save the Amazon and the world.
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NEW: As Brooklyn borough president, Eric Adams called for the city to bring ferry service to Canarsie, a majority Black neighborhood with few public transit options.
Now as mayor, he’s silent on the issue:
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The distressing read of the week: some formerly incarcerated Floridians say they’re worried about voting in light of the prosecutions & climate of entrapment Republicans and DeSantis have set up there: “It makes you think twice before going to vote.”
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Considering that São Paulo is not a particularly pro-Lula city, the streets are quite insane right now. People yelling, cars honking, it feels like Brazil just won the World Cup
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Can't make sense of all the deaths in 이태원. Just unreal.
RIP 💔
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New data, exclusively shared with , indicates that at least 10,000 women were unable to get an abortion in July and August because of Dobbs. fivethirtyeight.com/features/overt
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New , spoke to organizer and award winning barista Michael Sanabria, fired for going to his grandmother's funeral. thecheckoutradio.com/podcast/episod
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For the New York Review of Books, I wrote about the pre-history of Bolsonarismo, and how a movement originally created by elite campaigns and insider scheming has built a power base that could well outlast the Brazilian president
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All of a sudden it's anti-fascist Carnaval
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It's not a fair fight: The Right, to defend miserable state of the world and deepen that misery, simply needs to obstruct the Left. The Left, to transform the world economy in face of climate catastrophe, needs to decisively defeat Right and create a durable governing majority.
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THANK GOD. But Bolsonaro's strong showing, much like defeat of Chilean constitution, shows that beating the Right in prez elections doesn't add up to sort of power needed to transform society—the sort of power First Pink tide got much closer, but not close enough, to exercising.
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I’m sure Bolsonaro will accept his defeat with great solemnity and dignity.
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UPDATE: , whose final poll had Lula had 4%, has just called the election for Lula & the left.
With 96% reporting, Lula leads 50.68% to 49.32%.
That's a lead of 1.6 million.
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Maybe this is because the conviction was bogus, and annulled by the supreme court a year ago? (That's why he's allowed to run in the first place.)
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If frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins Brazil’s election it would mark a major comeback for the leftist, signaling that Brazilians care more about jobs and food than battling corruption on.wsj.com/3sFpqGP
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He lived until the age of 25 and still left such a legacy.
Born on this day in Wilmington, DE: (today is a perfect day to dive into some Brownie!!)
Clifford Brown 🎺👇🏾
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Results are now coming in from Brazil’s extraordinary high stakes election.
You can follow here: resultados.tse.jus.br/oficial/app/in
A month ago, Bolsonaro had a large lead in the first few hours of counting — Lula grabbed the lead, before extending it to 5% as count ended, around 7pm ET.
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Democratic socialism or barbarism time in Brazil. Hoping for the best.
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Out today: Drivers of (in)equity in collaborative environmental governance. Happy to bookend the dissertation where it started
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“If there was ever a time for fire in the belly and a radical politics of hope, it is now.”
As we grieve and honor the legacy of Mike Davis, we've made his classic book, City of Quartz, free to download.
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From the New York Times, on this day 66 years ago.
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