Lynne in Minneapolis

Dauood Naimyar on Instagram: "London is kind of a scary place when you think about it. London loves to claim things as their own. #london #musuem #colonization" 104K likes, 397 comments - dauoodn on April 8, 2025: "London is kind of a scary place when you think about it. London loves to claim things as their own. #london #musuem #colonization".

The OG of chop shops! www.instagram.com/reel/DINSEeN...

No economic reason, unless you’re a defense contractor, that is. Lobbyists write our policy here.

“Agreement” should be the goal. Agreement suggests equal agency among participants

Dynamic wages make work a gamble Ride-hailing and food-delivery companies’ new pay models use algorithms to decide bespoke fees

No surprise that the people pioneering dynamic wages are the companies reinventing domestic service with a flexible poor of vulnerable employees without many choices. Interesting piece from @sarahoconnorft.ft.com

YouTube video by BBC News Could 'degrowth' save the world? | BBC News

BBC: Could Degrowth Save the World? (20 minute video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=596d...

But heaven forbid we spend money on food stamps or Medicaid for someone who doesn't "deserve" them.

Important thread.

If they can deny due process to some people, they can deny it to us all.

Which means we will have no way to prove our innocence or take legal action if captured.

Yes, and lobbyists write policy-as they often do-to create that commitment.

Highly recommend:

1. Rewire: Your Neurotoolkit for Everyday Life" by Nicole Vignola

She's a trained neuroscientist, her blog is below.

2. "Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language" by Richard M. Roberts & Roger J. Kreuz

3. "Ultralearning" by Scott H. Young

Immigration is a complex phenomenon. When people move with just the clothes on their back, it's a desperate act. It's a *humanitarian* crisis. Liberal governments have been unable/unwilling to explain these complexities. The US Dem party has tried supporting the GOP view w/no results to show. 1/

If I were a political party out of power, I would get on YouTube every day at the same time to run down the latest political news and alert the public what the party was doing about each issue.

Towns like Moscow, Idaho, which is totally dependent on its university for economic activity, will be devastated. Moscow happens to be where extreme right pro-slavery Xtian nationalist Doug Wilson and his toxic cult church is based. He's a friend and ally of JD Vance.

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

📣 Call for Papers: Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability Special Issue on 'Spatial, Environmental & Social Dimensions: The 15-Minute City'
See link below for more information on the call.
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

“It sends the clear message that law, order, + obedience are bigger priorities than educational + recreational well-being. Than verifiable facts + information…”

Always follow the money

Jackson Lears · The Righteous Community: Legacies of the War on Terror There are many reasons war fever has raged out of control, but the millenarian worldview contributed to igniting the...

“people avoid experiencing shame. ‘They deflect, lash out, rationalise, or lose themselves in hysterics. They start fights they can’t win, search desperately for hidden enemies in their midst, and see the world that surrounds them as filled with potential threats.’”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

While there's certainly much that can be said about Le Corbusier, Chandigarh, the city he planned in northern India, is nothing short of visionary, particularly in terms of its mass automobile traffic and urban cool spots.
Below, the sublime Sukhna Lake, one of the city's "lungs":

Been told for years that the capitalists value government economic data and need it to be reliable. We'll see.

Neighborhood Social — Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Chicago theater types and art nerds! A fabulous neighborhood performance and party in Bucktown for Hull House- join us! www.hullhousemuseum.org/neighborhood...

People on patios on a city street. Another car free street devastating local businesses.

Some articles by Bruno Latour on technology:

1. ‘Opening Doors’: bruno-latour.fr/node/381
2. ‘Can we have our Materialism Back?’: bruno-latour.fr/node/241.html
3. ‘Simondon’: bruno-latour.fr/fr/node/138

See also books: ‘Aramis: Love of Technology’, ‘La Clef de Berlin’, chap 8 of ‘The Inquiry’.

The Last Time Democracy Almost Died Learning from the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties.

I often recall this 2020 Jill Lepore article, which introduced me to "America's Town Meeting of the Air," a national forum broadcast, from 1935 to 1956, on NBC to listeners who gathered in their local libraries, where, after the show, they then discussed the program themes...

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by it—especially the use of the term “stolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago—his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

Quick, someone Google "current NYC mayor" before hitting publish.

This is why Dems will keep losing on a national scale. They're abandoning their base. The people of Minneapolis prefer Omar Fateh. Get behind who your constituents are voting for, learn what policies are favorable, and support those!

Don't 'Vote Blue No Matter Who'.. 'unless it's this person.'

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell