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Housing The Homeless Saves Money--Here's The Research That Proves It The best way to stop homelessness is mindbogglingly simple: Give them homes.

“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high taxpayer cost. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.”

Housing the unhoused saves money. Via @fastcompany.com

in addition to hoarding as much gas as humanly possible, smart americans will sell their gas-guzzling SUVs immediately, before the market becomes glutted in the immediate future

I guess it’s good if we’re trying to convince everyone on the planet to ditch fossil fuels?

the number of times i have heard disability used as a shield to block making our transit better or streets safer is insane

I'm looking for good social histories of mangroves. Do you have any favorite articles, essays, or books on mangroves?

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

Mike Sommers, President and CEO of API, stating: "Encouraging to see momentum building again around permitting reform negotiations in Washington. America is the world's top producer, but we can’t deliver affordable, reliable energy if critical infrastructure is stuck in red tape. The time for durable reform is now."

The American Petroleum Institute's #1 priority is "permitting reform," a euphemism for letting energy & tech data center industries bulldoze over our lands, waters, & communities.

This is about money & power. Not climate. Not our economy. Not even energy.

Money. And power.

Act accordingly.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

VACCINATE YOUR DAMN KIDS

This post is an excellent way to find funny people to follow but also good to block everyone who liked this

That’s a very silly argument. Just because we don’t know how a particular phenomenon works, doesn’t mean we have to take any random claim about this phenomenon as plausible. «Cars aren’t conscious!» «They might be, we don’t understand consciousness!»

Also, we may not know how consciousness works, but we do know how LLMs work, and they way the generate their texts has nothing to do with what we do know about consciousness, and crucially, do not require consciousness as an explanation for their output.

If you are looking for a perfect track record on food hot takes, @kendrawrites.com is the one to follow!

The fried wonton is so enticing, and filling it with one of the grossest substances possible (hot cream cheese) is truly awful.

Depends on how you feel about hot cream cheese, I expect. Personally, I find it extremely gross.

Again, the unifying 🧵 about Trump’s foreign policy is not realism or neo-royalism. It’s the extension of sexual assault/predation/partner abuse to IR. If he thinks you’re his macho pal, he’ll respect you/your sovereignty. If not, he’ll try to violate you & humiliate you. Epstein-ism, if you like.

I mean, if Escher could do it…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American History The White House March 27, 2025 RESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by revitalizing key cultural institutions and reversing the spread of divisive ideology.

DuBois argued that the existing, racist literature on Reconstruction in 1934 showed "that with sufficient general agreement and determination among dominant classes, the truth of history may be utterly distorted and contradicted and changed to any convenient fairy tale that masters of men wish."

What is conceptually or culturally “available” to an Iranian-American, *especially* for those who came to the U.S. *because* of the revolution, is simply not fungible with the lived political/spiritual/cultural realities of most Iranians currently living in Iran.

Class selection shapes what “home” they remember + which forms of state power appear normal or desirable. This (very often) filters down into the children of Iranian immigrants.

It shows without a doubt that this war, and Trumpism in general, center around performing masculinity.

We have to start seeing what is happening in the world through the lens of the social construction of gender or nothing makes sense.

President Trump announces that to combat climate change he is facilitating crude oil prices going to $500/barrel.

#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact

#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: System justification = People defend existing systems and discount data showing systemic problems. #Science4Policy #learning #Polarization

Two of the common traits are adherence to facts/reality over social norms, and a deep sense of justice. Fascist cryptonite?

Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons Fishing crews face horrifying burns from dredging the dumped chemical weapons.

At least three commercial fishing crews off the coast of NJ between 2016-2023 were exposed to mustard agent dredged up from the ocean floor where until 1970 the US dumped 17,000 tons of unspent chemical weapons from WWI and II in the Atlantic.

Aug. 19, 1953: U.S. and Britain Topple Democratically Elected Government of Iran Democratically elected Iranian Premier Mohammad Mossadegh was removed from power in a coup.

History teachers: How are you contextualizing the U.S. war on Iran with your students? Consider covering the 1953 CIA coup overthrowing the democratically-elected Mossadegh government? Here is a good summary (with sources) from @zinnedproject.bsky.social. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ir...

Not at all the point, but I love that you have inadvertently invented the new term “booklicker” 👀 and I desperately want to find more ways to use it! 😆

A major victory! ✊

"This is a member-driven landmark achievement that will have an enormous impact in Kansas. This would not be possible without the courage of our members, who dug in and fought so hard because they knew that a fair contract was possible.”

—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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The future is panels everywhere"-@dfeldman.org
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