Interview I did with @meetup about my Toastmasters club, @greenspeakers We discussed how to improve as a public speaker and the importance of building community and a supportive learning environment.
https://t.co/GhHl6SJuVm
There is no doubt NYC @NYCMayor@NYC_DOT could do this EVERY Saturday (and Sunday?) of the year and people would come out.
At least during the summer months!
How do we make that happen?
This Salon piece on a Vance event is very much a “Reuben voice” excerpt (so I like it lol)
It’s all broader Q; will overwhelming support Harris has from society’s desirable class (high edu women) radiate and carry an ambivalent electorate? Or is anti-elitism still ascendant?
I gotta say: the total betrayal and sheer cowardice from @GovKathyHochul feels even worse one day later. She doesn’t even have a plan to address the budgetary problems she’s created or the courage to face questions about it.
Seeing podcaster @HardcoreHistory tonight in NYC. His Common Sense podcast (now mostly dormant) in the mid 2000s changed my political views more than any other thinker. I'll be ever thankful that his logical arguments talked me out of the politics I was raised with. Thanks Dan
one could ask why not compare it to the Schwarzman Building (with the lions). that building is a historic artifcat and it is not a "regular" lending library like the Biblioteca Cavasconcelos . you have to go through multiple security checks to get to the reading room.
Why can't we have nice things like Mexico City? In the newest massive NYC library (Stravos), you can't read/work without hearing the toilet loudly go off every few minutes. In the largest Brooklyn one (central), the redolence of poverty is ever-present.
@TransAlt@remix …yeah I ride citibike on the sidewalk to avoid it when Atlantic is the route I’m using. crazy how right in the center of BK by Barclays it feels so unsafe
This is what oligarchy is about. Today just 3 Wall Street firms, BlackRock, Vanguard & State Street manage $20.7 trillion in assets. These 3 firms are major shareholders in 95% of S&P 500 companies. Democracy will not survive with this concentration of economic & political power.
Trump’s message on Christmas day: “MAY THEY ROT IN HELL.”
Disturbing. This man is not a Christian, and clearly not well. These next couple months are the last chance the GOP has to save themselves from this catastrophe.