SteveW
@steveweinstein.bsky.social
Author/Satirist/Once a Reporter at the LA Times.
A Wish Can Change Your Life published by Simon & Schuster https://www.amazon.com/Wish-Can-Change-Your-Life/dp/0743245059
A Wish Can Change Your Life published by Simon & Schuster https://www.amazon.com/Wish-Can-Change-Your-Life/dp/0743245059
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@nytimes: Here are the 100 notable books from 2024 — including standout fiction, poetry and nonfiction, all chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
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https://nyti.ms/4eQrz8u
nyti.ms
November 26, 2024 at 6:46 PM
@nytimes: Here are the 100 notable books from 2024 — including standout fiction, poetry and nonfiction, all chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
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@latimes: Salvation Mountain, one of California's great art oddities, partially collapsed. Devotees vow to save it
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-11-26/salvation-mountain-slab-city-leonard-knight-east-jesus
www.latimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:46 PM
@latimes: Salvation Mountain, one of California's great art oddities, partially collapsed. Devotees vow to save it
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IT'S PERCIVAL EVERETT! Percival Everett, author of JAMES, is the winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction! "Hope is really no substitute for strategy."
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bookshop.org/a/169/978038...
November 21, 2024 at 3:01 AM
IT'S PERCIVAL EVERETT! Percival Everett, author of JAMES, is the winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction! "Hope is really no substitute for strategy."
bookshop.org/a/169/978038...
bookshop.org/a/169/978038...
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Would you look at that? Fast food workers in California are now getting living wages, and the economy is benefitting! Now, we need to make this happen across all industries and across the country!
www.latimes.com/00000193-232...
www.latimes.com/00000193-232...
LA Times Today: The latest info on California’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers — higher pay, no job losses and minimal price hikes
Watch L.A.
www.latimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Would you look at that? Fast food workers in California are now getting living wages, and the economy is benefitting! Now, we need to make this happen across all industries and across the country!
www.latimes.com/00000193-232...
www.latimes.com/00000193-232...
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Remarkable Sea Slug Found Among Monterrey Bay’s Lightless Depths is Nicknamed ‘Mystery Mollusk’
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/remarkable-sea-slug-found-among-monterrey-bays-lightless-depths-is-nicknamed-mystery-mollusk/ #goodnews
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/remarkable-sea-slug-found-among-monterrey-bays-lightless-depths-is-nicknamed-mystery-mollusk/ #goodnews
Remarkable Sea Slug Found Among Monterrey Bay's Lightless Depths is Nicknamed âMystery Molluskâ
While most sea slugs use a rough tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, B. caudactylus uses a cavernous hood to trap prey.
tinyurl.com
November 13, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Remarkable Sea Slug Found Among Monterrey Bay’s Lightless Depths is Nicknamed ‘Mystery Mollusk’
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/remarkable-sea-slug-found-among-monterrey-bays-lightless-depths-is-nicknamed-mystery-mollusk/ #goodnews
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/remarkable-sea-slug-found-among-monterrey-bays-lightless-depths-is-nicknamed-mystery-mollusk/ #goodnews
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Carol Moseley Braun was the first Black woman elected to the Senate in 1993. Jesse Helms once followed her into the Senate elevator singing "Dixie." He told fellow Senator Orrin Hatch, "I'm going to sing Dixie until she cries."
Thinking about that today.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Thinking about that today.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Rep. Mace introduces measure to ban trans women from Capitol’s female bathrooms
The South Carolina Republican’s resolution comes two weeks after the historic election of Democrat Sarah McBride, a trans woman, to Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Carol Moseley Braun was the first Black woman elected to the Senate in 1993. Jesse Helms once followed her into the Senate elevator singing "Dixie." He told fellow Senator Orrin Hatch, "I'm going to sing Dixie until she cries."
Thinking about that today.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Thinking about that today.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Earth seen from the ISS
November 20, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Earth seen from the ISS
An exhilarating book. Try it.
The announcement of Orbital (Jonathan Cape) by Samantha Harvey as @thebookerprizes.bsky.social winner for 2024 has rocketed it to the top of the charts 👇 www.thebookseller.com/news/news/in... #BookSky
Into orbit: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital becomes first Booker champ to hit number one in week of its win
The announcement of Orbital (Vintage) by Samantha Harvey as the Booker Prize winner for 2024 has rocketed it to the top of the charts, breaking Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid's three-week run in first place.
www.thebookseller.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:41 PM
An exhilarating book. Try it.
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1/ Gained (gulp) 50K followers over the weekend and a big reason is that this piece seemed to reverberate with a lot of people: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Of misogyny, Musk, and men
Women are not okay. We're furious.
www.motherjones.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 PM
1/ Gained (gulp) 50K followers over the weekend and a big reason is that this piece seemed to reverberate with a lot of people: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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"In 2020, the F.B.I. seized Gaetz’s phone."
Matt Gaetz’s Chaos Agenda
The Florida Republican is among the most brazen and controversial figures in Donald Trump’s G.O.P. He’s also among the most influential.
www.newyorker.com
November 14, 2024 at 12:21 AM
"In 2020, the F.B.I. seized Gaetz’s phone."
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new Biden student debt relief proposals on deck: cancellation for:
-debts with negative amortization
-loans that have been in repayment for 25+ years
-loans from schools that produce "unreasonable" debt loans
-plus automatic forgiveness for eligible borrowers
www.politico.com/news/2023/10...
-debts with negative amortization
-loans that have been in repayment for 25+ years
-loans from schools that produce "unreasonable" debt loans
-plus automatic forgiveness for eligible borrowers
www.politico.com/news/2023/10...
White House details draft plans for next student debt relief plan
The draft regulatory plans outline what are essentially four separate student debt relief programs for different categories of borrowers.
www.politico.com
October 31, 2023 at 12:51 PM
new Biden student debt relief proposals on deck: cancellation for:
-debts with negative amortization
-loans that have been in repayment for 25+ years
-loans from schools that produce "unreasonable" debt loans
-plus automatic forgiveness for eligible borrowers
www.politico.com/news/2023/10...
-debts with negative amortization
-loans that have been in repayment for 25+ years
-loans from schools that produce "unreasonable" debt loans
-plus automatic forgiveness for eligible borrowers
www.politico.com/news/2023/10...
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Real wages are growing. Job creation remains robust. Household wealth is up (including for the middle and the bottom). Overall economic growth is up. Inflation is down.
Those are facts.
Those are facts.
The rebound in real (inflation-adjusted) wage growth is really notable. For much of 2021/2022, wages weren't keeping up with inflation. But this year, as inflation has cooled and the job market has remained strong, pay has again been rising faster than prices.
October 31, 2023 at 2:01 PM
Real wages are growing. Job creation remains robust. Household wealth is up (including for the middle and the bottom). Overall economic growth is up. Inflation is down.
Those are facts.
Those are facts.