discovered twitter's bookmark function this month which means WAY more time on twitter, and less on pocket. in other words, way more politics and current stuff
Norah Vincent - voluntary madness
LA Times - Billionaire created a perfect experiment by erasing $34 million in student debt
NYT - Trump Announced, Then Canceled, a Yankees Pitch. Both Came as a Surprise.
Medium - All your most paranoid transfer of power questions, answered.
Bloomberg - OK Boomer, We're Gonna Socialize You.
Worth - Not All Billionaire Philanthropists Are Created Equal
Inverse - Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners
Washington Post - Reagan Foundation to Trump, RNC: Quit raising money off Ronald Reagan's legacy.
In the Public Interest - The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service
Mother Jones - The Last-Ditch Effort to Stop Florida's Century-Old Campaign of Racist Disenfranchisement
Seattle Times - New cuts threaten the Postal Service when it's most needed
The Texas Tribune - How a $175 COVID-19 test in Texas led to $2,479 in charges
"The American public helped finance the development of remdesivir — and will now be charged $3,000 for a treatment that experts say costs less than $10 to produce."
The Atlantic - Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time
I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS SINCE LITERALLY THE BEGINNING!!!
Vogue - What’s the Carbon Footprint of Your Internet Habit? It’s Probably Higher Than You Think
I had read somewhere way before that our archived emails actually makes up quite a bit of our online carbon footprint. so during quarantine, I made a point to go thru my inbox and clear out a bunch of emails. I'm sure what little I did made pretty much no impact, especially since I've been on the internet more overall since quarantine, but still, it felt nice to clean up my inbox a bit.
Vogue - Soul Fire Farm’s Leah Penniman Explains Why Food Sovereignty Is Central in the Fight for Racial Justice
Your CSA boxes, or “Solidarity Shares” are delivered to families living in neighborhoods classed as “food deserts,” although you prefer the term “food apartheid.” Why is that?
According to the USDA, a “food desert” just means a zip code with high poverty and no nearby grocery stores. “Food apartheid” is a term that Karen Washington introduced me to and refers I think more accurately to the situation. A desert is natural, but there's nothing natural about your zip code being the number-one determinant of your life expectancy, usually highly correlated to race. And that's all about, like I said, histories of redlining and zoning exclusions of people of color from certain neighborhoods. The fact that certain people have food opulence and others have food scarcity is not because of personal choice. It's because of these systems of segregation that are more appropriately called apartheid. So that's a term that we use to not pretend that it's natural and inevitable when one in four Black children are hungry every night.
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