I saw a good bit of the press conference. This is basically what Senator Hassan said. She said this administration forced a choice between healthcare and food, and that people need to eat first. I have my thoughts on why this wasn’t adopted as an overall message, but that’s for another post

I bought some no name products while camping in Canada thus summer. They were the only options for a couple things we needed in the small grocery nearby. They were way better quality than 1970s white label generics. That stuff was truly awful.

Very true.
In the late 1990s, someone who reported to me blurted out one day “The Reagan presidency ruined my childhood.” And you know what? She secretly was my favorite from that day on.

Such a dreary decade. It was truly a slog

“no beds or blankets, no access to hand soap, showers or hygiene products,” ”the smell of human excrement and other unwashed people”

"Some of these conditions are,” disgusting.” ”To have to sleep on the floor next to an overflowed toilet,"

You’re a better woman than I. I saw the headline and said, “For the love of Christ!” and went back to my 40 year career of ruining the workplace

Anyway, there are moments of crisis and scandal when historically excluded people can start to break through. It is easy for those breakthroughs to be limited and mitigated by pre-existing hierarchies. We need to both see the break throughs and support the structural changes.

I am in NJ and am going to a small one tonight, with other grassroots folks. I am nervous, but hopeful. If the worst happens, I’ll be with a group that has been through alot together. Still, I feel like I’m tempting fate.

The Community Bookstore! Wow! I remember it well from my Park Slope days 40ish years ago.

Number 2 & 3 are flights of voter behavior fancy. Not one to pick these things apart, more inclined to just GOTV until polls close. But that’s weird stuff

COVID impact clearly reflected in the 2020 totals, but a nice recovery in 2021, with consistent year over year gains