Peggy Northrop

Radivision content strategist, comms consultant, Bay City News Foundation board member, former lots of things.

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

Stop scrolling. Pause:
As we all struggle w/global warming & swelter in extreme heat, subsidies for oil, coal & natural gas are costing 7.1 % of global GDP.
That’s more than govts spend annually on education (4.3%) & about 2/3s of what they spend on healthcare (10.9%).
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[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"I’ve never seen centrists like Yglesias say to people on the right (or center) that it’s important to read progressives. Nor have I seen traditional conservatives like Brooks call for empathy with people on the left."

Why is that? New from @NGrossman81: https://t.co/1TTGIj9dBd

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

The poster for the Kyiv Book Fair.

Instant classic.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

To be clear, Israel is doing this with the implicit approval of "the West" (USA, Canada, Europe). If you are an American taxpayer, you are paying for this.

[Deadline White House @DeadlineWH]

"In this country, you cannot bring a case that is a hypothetical... There has to be a real dispute... This is somebody who, there was no real issue, there was no complaint. This wasn't even somebody who had opened up a business" - @AWeissmann_ w/ @NicolleDWallace

[Peggy Northrop @pnorth]

Read it and weep:
“The unattractive lesson of the majority opinion is this: What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is yours. The lesson of the history of public accommodations laws is altogether different. It is that in a free and democratic society, there can be no social castes.

[Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin @JRubinBlogger]

major questions doctrine is a farce, a smokescreen for ensuring rightwing political outcomes. Expand the court. Enact term limits. Limit its jurisdiction. We are at a constitutional breaking point.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

You can't square John Roberts 2023 ruling that POTUS cannot authorize student debt relief with his 2018 ruling that POTUS can ban Muslims from entering the country, unless you account for the fact that Roberts is a partisan plant.
My latest in @thenation
https://t.co/92gC9Az2e3

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Let me get this straight...

Students getting relief from onerous debt is unconstitutional.

But justices secretly getting hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in gifts, vacations, and free housing and education for their family members is just fine.

Hello?

[Peggy Northrop @pnorth]

@dieworkwear I am just here for the cashmere commentsry.

[The Hoarse Whisperer @TheRealHoarse]

Good news for economy class air travelers:

When boarding, if you see an empty seat in first class, you can now take it because, according to a Supreme Court justice, if it’s empty, it’s free.

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

I'm tweeting this again because it is so very, very important. It's a dire forecast from James Hansen, the @NASA scientist who first warned Congress in the 1980s about global warming & #ClimateCrisis.
PLEASE READ
https://t.co/JW0u5Z3kcg

[Peggy Northrop @pnorth]

@tristathurston @PNAnews @oronline Congratulations! Well deserved.

[Rue Mapp @RueMapp]

@sunset is a publication close to my heart! So it’s an honor to elevate my favorite and unsung #NorCal campsites with them! Where will you be camping this summer?

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

Brilliant one-line email from an historian friend, connecting Trump's nuclear-secrets-involved DoJ Espionage Act indictment to Trump's lawyer who handled a nuclear-secrets-involved DoJ Espionage Act prosecution:

"What was it that Roy Cohn got the Rosenbergs electrocuted for?"

[Peggy Northrop @pnorth]

@Joseph_Fasano_ The Overstory — upended how I thought about trees forever

[Peggy Northrop @pnorth]

#NewYork friends please read

[Peter Fish @PeterAFish]

Tomorrow, Monday, June 5 at 6 P.M is the 92nd Annual @cwclub California Book Awards Ceremony. Come join us as we honor--and hear from--11 of California's best poets and fiction, non-fiction and juvenile and young adult writers!
https://t.co/ffvn9p42h3

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

This bit about overcounting COVID deaths gets glossed over in the amazing Licht profile but it’s worth mentioning how wrong it is. The reality is the “excess deaths” exceeded the official COVID death count. We almost assuredly undercounted. https://t.co/V5Jg8MtLaJ

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

Friends, I will be doing a 3-hour long zoom lecture & conversation about international poetry in time of crisis - on June 10th. All proceeds will go to support refugee center & food bank, writers & independent newspsper in Odesa, Ukraine - here is a link to description: