Every time I read “we have a spending problem” I roll my eyes. We have a priorities problem. Tax the rich and fund universal healthcare, education, childcare.
I don't believe love is apolitical. To love someone is to become invested in the conditions under which their life is possible.
Working people shouldn't have to work themselves to exhaustion just to afford food, housing, and healthcare. These are basic necessities, not luxuries.
Socialism is really about lifting up EVERYONE so even the most disadvantaged people know they can contribute without starving.
Who is old enough to remember waiting in long lines with your family to get the sugar cube permeated with the polio vaccine.
I find it fascinating that all available evidence suggests that meeting people's basic needs improves their well being and does not make them lazy, and that we have more than enough resources to do so, yet we are expected to accept the opposite on faith forever.
How come AI is treated as inevitable and something we must adapt to and accept, but renewable energy technology, sustainable infrastructure and electric cars aren’t treated with the same urgency or certainty?
Crying for whales harmed by sonar, for trees that stand in silence for decades only to be cut down in hours, for animals forced from their habitats into fires, noise, and destruction they never learned to escape, and for rivers and oceans choked by pollution.
There should be an autumn version of an ice cream truck that drives around the neighborhood playing Noah Kahan songs and selling soup, sourdough, hot cider and caramel apples