This, as an example, does not strike me as someone who has an understanding of the consequences of this bill. If he does and he’s still celebrating like this, that says something very disturbing.

Santhosh Ramdoss of Gary Community Ventures, lays out the history of the U.S. as a series of turning things into securitizable assets that shouldn’t be—land, people, corporations, housing.

Tony Pickett of @groundedsolutions.bsky.social opening their conference by noting that community ownership strategies have always been envisioned s as list of a larger movement for justice. So happy to be here for @shelterforce.bsky.social

Sobering to be on my way home from an event with Shelterforce and witness three armed cops and two people from a “mental health” organization rousting a person resting in the corner at the train station and forcing them onto a train. Pretty certain this action improved no one’s mental health.

In which the direct mail targeting goes badly astray.

Dear Red Cross, you seem to have misspelled “We don’t actually care about preventing airborne infections at all, or at least don’t have the courage to do anything about it.”

Invested a decent amount in a desk set up in my room a while back, but it's a dark room and I'm finding I'm much happier, especially this week, working in the sun at my kitchen table. Though I need to wash my windows apparently.