Kendall Dix

National policy director at @TaprootEarth. Former cook. Former fisheries and EJ organizer. KC born. LLM in food and ag policy.🌹🌱[email protected]

[Kendall Dix @kendix]

While we focus on making sure every single person in Jackson, MS, has clean and safe water flowing through their pipes, let’s also look forward to making sure this never happens again.

We should fully fund the nation’s water utilities with a steady stream of federal taxes.

[People's Policy Project @PplPolicyProj]

🚨 New Paper 🚨

In the first of our forthcoming Sewer Socialism Series, @kendix argues we should eliminate residential water bills.

https://t.co/ZzJEEUQBh2

[Kendall Dix @kendix]

@KelseyTuoc @MattBruenig @mattyglesias Heart disease and cancer still the leading causes of death by far. All of which would be helped by early detection. Universal healthcare would ensure all have ability to get treated.

I think this graph says it all

[Kendall Dix @kendix]

@KelseyTuoc @MattBruenig @mattyglesias But is the goal not to have a healthier and longer living population?

[Kendall Dix @kendix]

@KelseyTuoc @MattBruenig @mattyglesias Wait, you believe the United States population is healthier than the Nordics?

[Kendall Dix @kendix]

@KelseyTuoc @MattBruenig @mattyglesias What does the U.S. have that all the other wealthy countries with universal healthcare had to give up? What was the tradeoff?

[Kendall Dix @kendix]

@JasonWR83 @anne__rogers https://t.co/xK62j7XKpT

[Kendall Dix @kendix]

@EricLevitz @musharbash_b @Brendan_Duke Quibbling over the meaning of the word “just.” Wow, you really got him, Eric.

[Kendall Dix @kendix]

@JooBilly

[Kendall Dix @kendix]

@SamAdlerBell Maybe they should all spend more time interviewing conservatives on their rich intellectual traditions

[John Frankensteiner @JFrankensteiner]

Thinking about Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise pitch to Ethan Hawke on its 30th anniversary

[Don Hughes @getfiscal]

The best takes this week are like "I knew Trump would win when I saw a 'Please recycle' sign for bottles... liberals still don't understand how the recycling sign became a type of swastika to ordinary Americans"

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

“Its analysis found around 44% of verified victims were children and 26% women. The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds”

[Kendall Dix @kendix]

Very excited about this. I have been asking for years, "who is working on grid nationalization?" and getting crickets. Now we have a whole new org for public grids!

[PUBLIC GRIDS @publicgrids]

👋🌎 Hello world. We are Public Grids. We bring grassroots organizers and sector-leading experts together to build the public power movement at every level, from campaign to implementation.

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Hurricane Milton is undergoing one of the fastest rapid intensifications ever observed in the Atlantic.

It is now a 155 mph Category 4 storm, just 2 mph shy of Category 5 status.

Not a single weather model predicted the storm would strengthen this quickly.

[Kendall Dix @kendix]

Eric Adams is obviously being persecuted by the puppet masters at Big Trash for his audacity to experiment with trash containers replacing plastic bags of garbage strewn all over the streets.

[Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos]

Fossil gas plants are booming in the US. Again. In the year 2024. For AI data centers. Energy addition, not transition.

“In the first six months of the year alone, companies have announced plans to build more new gas power capacity across the US than they did in all of 2020”

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

Well then: Of the 400,000+ acres burned in the Park fire, "about 43,000 of those acres are forests that were supposed to stay intact for at least 100 years under California’s carbon offset program," per @carbonplanorg analysis. https://t.co/QpXDjK23Pj

[Halle Parker @_thehalparker]

This project caused a major divide in this community. Family members & lifelong friends turned on each other. There has been one huge question throughout the debate: What is the future of St. John's west bank?

That question remains unanswered.
https://t.co/apAgflPtfb

[Kendall Dix @kendix]

“It’s like putting a bandage on somebody that needs open-heart surgery,” Boyd said. “We want our land, and I want to be very, very clear about that.”

[The Associated Press @AP]

Black and other minority farmers are getting $2 billion from USDA after years of discrimination https://t.co/ws9sy5PJBV

[𝕯𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖆 𝕹𝖔𝖔𝖗 @dharnanoor]

I wrote about the christian nationalist oil billionaire Tim Dunn, who's poured $30 million into driving Texas to the far-right & is now Trump's eighth largest donor.

https://t.co/RmunFhoVgj

[Benjy Renton @bhrenton]

Congratulations to New York City, which has seemingly invented the trash can.