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  • Two Bare Feet

    A lot of news I’ve been sharing here is unhappy and stressful, so I want to make an effort to share something I like each week. For this first post towards that goal, here’s one of my favorite songs: Two…

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  • Innovation is a Distraction

    We do absolutely know what we need to to to fight the climate crisis: Reduce carbon emissions radically. Which we have known for decades (I was taught about the “greenhouse effect” in motherfucking school 30 years ago and my schools…

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  • Protecting North Carolina’s Voter Rolls

    Established in 2012, ERIC offers a modern and common-sense approach to interstate voter registration maintenance. At its core, ERIC is a voluntary and bipartisan interstate collaborative that now includes 21 states and Washington, D.C. Together, member states agree to securely…

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  • When Creators are Disappointing

    It’s entirely up to you where you draw the line for yourself. It sucks to think that something into which you invested so much of yourself was created by a monster, and that you might then have to change your…

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  • Who Owns the Streets?

    For the vast majority of civilization, the streets were a shared space for kids playing, bicycles, pedestrians, merchants and more. But by the 1920s there was a huge shift in how we use our public space, and that has major…

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  • How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza

    Authorities in and outside government said the acquiescence to Israel as it prosecuted a brutal war will likely be regarded as one of the most consequential foreign policy decisions of the Biden presidency. They say it undermines America’s ability to…

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