Nancy J Hess

New York Lacked an Affordable Housing Portal. So These Teenagers Made One.

...after countless bleary-eyed hours on bedroom computers, he and Derrick Webster Jr., his classmate, launched Realer Estate, a website that combines public data with real estate listings, allowing users to search for below-market and rent-stabilized apartments. tinyurl.com/4m8488kx

Who Didn’t Suffer During the Shutdown? People Flying Private.

Yuck.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/t...

Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault

In case you missed it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

A Beloved Clothing Store Closed. A Customer Bought All 4,500 Items.

A creative expression of life. Begins with finding a place where there is a two-for-one deal on homes! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b...

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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Satellites

Today I am trying to work and the landscape crews are blowing leaves. I escape with headphones and one of my faves. Jack Vanzet, Thrupence. open.spotify.com/track/2dMpX9...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, who spent the Seventies singing with the Grateful Dead, sang back-up on several classic Sixties hits, and fronted her own bands, has died at age 78.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

How Should I Deal With My Horrendous Sister-in-Law?

Good one. " You don’t owe civility to someone who chronically violates it; courtesy is a reciprocal virtue." Even family. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/m...

Thinking is invisible labor. Collaboration is invisible labor

How is it that John Oliver is delivering this message, and not our elected leaders or even our mainstream media? I was confused as anyone when I turned 65 but I thought Medicare Advantage was necessary. This really pisses me off. Thank you for the laugh John Oliver, it helps the medicine go down.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

How do you spell Oligarchy? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Classic. I could name that hotel. Not really, but i recognize the "bones".

"In 2014...farmer Craig Watts allowed a film crew.. to document the conditions inside his facilities...the video from Watts’ farm ... showed chickens panting, paralyzed, diseased, unable to stand and lying dead on the floor among the living birds."

How Contract Farming Makes Big Corporations Rich And Family Farmers Broke 90 percent of all chicken farmed in the U.S. is the product of contract farming.

I stopped eating chicken when I saw them being transported again and again stuffed in big dirty semi trucks, feathers flying everywhere. Nothing sanitary or humane, just mass profit. sentientmedia.org/contract-far...

The Spritzes and Carbonaras That Ate Italy

When tourism becomes blight. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/w...

Under Pressure Water privatization threats are relentless–and now they’re federal.

“...private ownership is the single biggest factor in higher drinking water rates among large systems, playing a larger role than aging infrastructure or drought.” inthepublicinterest.org/under-pressu...

Amazon’s new facility could mean faster deliveries in central Pa. The major difference between the new facility and traditional fulfillment centers is “the speed at which this building is able to process customer orders."

Faster? My God, they are already everywhere all the time. www.pennlive.com/business/202...

Sorry this is not a gift article, but the topic is close to the heart, so wanted to share!

The Airlift Operation That Has Transformed Pet Adoption Euthanasia in an under-equipped shelter used to be the fate of many dogs in Texas. Then chartered planes started bringing them North.

Dogs at municipal animal shelters in Texas used to face euthanasia while pet adoption was booming in other parts of the country. “It didn’t take too long to realize that, if there are empty shelters in the North and overflowing shelters in the South, this is a distribution issue,”
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The Cognitive Contradictions That Shape Who Runs the Household - by Allison Daminger - Behavioral Scientist There’s a puzzling inconsistency in the way couples deploy their skills at work and at home.

"The same men who struggled to anticipate domestic problems or follow a project through to its end frequently described success in occupations requiring the very same skills they were said to lack at home..." behavioralscientist.org/the-cognitiv...

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I find myself contemplating the meaning or definition of civil war. It feels imperative that we figure out if that is what we are engaging.

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

Chilling....and no comment option. Civil debate vs civil war, the line appears to be thin right now. I hope we can change that. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

Better things come to those who wait: The importance of patience in diagnosing labor force participation rates and prescribing policy solutions Introduction A recent EPI report surveyed trends in labor force participation in the United States in recent decades. Besides presenting basic facts, the report also reviewed the research literature o...

Better things come to those who wait: The importance of patience in diagnosing labor force participation rates and prescribing policy solutions www.epi.org/publication/...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

He Was Expected to Get Alzheimer’s 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn’t He?

Great story. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/h...

Somebody please explain how this works! This seems related to why conspiracy theories stick in the brain.

What Your Community Does When Government Isn’t Looking (Part 6 of the James C. Scott Series: The Anarchist Squint)

James C Scott suggests that people everywhere, even those who’ve never heard the word “anarchism,” quietly act out its principles through cooperation, autonomy, and mutual aid. open.substack.com/pub/munisqua...

If you want to change an organization’s culture, start by changing how work is done. Changing these systems changes behaviors. Over time new beliefs are formed and a new culture emerges. #iopsych #orgdesign #culture