(This is one of many, many ways that US expansion was essentially geological/geographical "easy mode" compared to other North or South American countries--the spine of the Rockies-Sierra Madre-Andes doesn't usually offer a convenient, literal ramp to put a rail line on.)

Ugh, I can totally hear folks deciding they need to talk about “solutioning”something. Let’s not.

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

I went down a rabbit hole on this once and the first recorded complaint in this genre was Socrates, who was complaining that kids these says weren’t actually learning things because they were relying on newfangled technology (writing) instead of memorization

I would like to see a movie theater brag about its air filtration system, cleanest air in the business!

Meanwhile, teaching is being undermined and devlaued at our institutions in a frankly historically dangerous way, and as an underpaid contract instructor, having to spend more time and emotional energy finding ways to get through to my students for the same low pay is not sustainable. /8

One is that teaching university students *well* requires much more work (and frankly, compassion) now than it did when I started nine years ago. 2/

And for soldiers who feel that they are in that situation, reach out to the Orders Project. www.ordersproject.com