For my latest post, I've borrowed the eloquent words of Jason Hickel, along with Molly Crabapple and others, to talk about the immeasurable loss of David Graeber. https://t.co/7MzjmNxvhX
@rachel_berc So glad for you. I saw the Brooklyn show and still on a high from it. It was spectacular. And it’s obvious from the videos that the Cleveland crowd was amazing.
This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽♀️
Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.
@FlynnMcLean It had me fooled, but I’m now leaning towards it being AI. But how it got on Kristen Bell’s official spotify, and so on, is an odd mystery.
Non-U.S. citizens already cannot vote in U.S. elections, and the voter fraud rate is .0001%.
If Republicans were serious, and wanted to actually secure elections, we’d prevent billionaires and corporations from buying them, and spreading lies to manipulate the outcomes.
The Proud Boys are now ICE agents.
Neo -Nazis from Charlottesville are now ICE agents.
The 3%ers are now ICE agents. This is the America the Republican Party voted for. They are pleased with the warrantless raids, detaining US citizens, racial profiling, and violence. America.
Gutted to hear that we lost Howie Klein.
Howie was one of the few that put morality above political connections. He always took time to help progressive candidates, offering advice, support and solidarity.
Beyond that, his anecdotes and humor were top notch. I’ll forever cherish our 5 minute calls that turned into hours and will be forever grateful for his support while running for office and afterward. I was lucky to know him.
Friends, we lost a good one. 💔
I finally got around to @doctorow's excellent new book, which I highly recommend to anyone who's found themselves grappling with creeping feeling that the platforms they use (and much else) have gotten imperceptibly worse over the last few years.
https://t.co/jr6pShGxJ8
I’ll always fight for better because I love our city.
Born into St. James Town, it’s surreal to be included on @torontolife’s list of the 50 most influential.
I think back to where this started for my parents from Iran, and to everything I’ve seen since — how poverty, policy, and prejudice shape who gets care and who goes without. The people I’ve met in shelters, clinics, and classrooms have shaped my work more than anything else.
Any recognition belongs to them, and to the colleagues, mentors, and community partners who show every day that health is driven inside and outside of hospital walls.
I’m grateful to everyone who’s been part of this work — those before and those who have long believed and refuse to give up. There’s still a long way to go together.
The goal remains the same: make health and dignity possible for everyone no matter where you live.
@davemcomie I don't dislike it, I simply don't care about that argument for Rawlsian reasons.
Put aside that IQ scores are responsive to material conditions throughout life, meaning if you really do think they're determinative clearly there is something deeply wrong...
My open access book “The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins" is now published by Palgrave Macmillan, major Western academic press! It is freely available to read, download, share, translate & republish in whole or in part: https://t.co/gLEALiIwBb
Thank you everyone who contributed or shared ongoing crowdfunding to make electronic edition of my book open access/free. Heavily discounted hardcover edition, which will be published this month, is available for purchase from publisher via link above & from major bookstores, such as Amazon.
The world has lost a giant but she left us with the idea that hope is an act of resistance in a world run by greed and cruelty. She was a fierce defender of social and environmental justice, which to her, went hand in hand.
She was my dear friend and I will miss her.
Really awful. Kaleb was such a great writer, and about as fascinating and thoughtful as a someone could be. The first couple real life interactions I had with him were surprising. It’s not that I expected him to be humorless or anything, but it’s very unusual for someone who