One of them said she never wore high heels again. As someone who lives in earthquake country, I like footwear that gives me options.

In 9/11 some women who'd been wearing high heels ended up barefoot--those who evacuated via Chinatown were given slippers by the merchants there.

sigh: ultra-rich, damn autocorrect.

Every time I see him use that phrase I think about the link between ketamine abuse and impotence. Also this:

At the very site of the Free Speech Movement 61 years ago. www.dailycal.org/opinion/edit...

We have had so much progress on rights for women, BIPOC, LGBTQ people, and on environmental awareness and action (even with the backlash). I lived through those decades, and I watched the changes.

Thinking here of Marshall Sahlin's classic Stone Age Economics, a landmark of anthropology arguing that actually hunter gatherers were often affluent, including in leisure time.

What part of the world is this based on? The UK? Because it seems to be reflecting industrialization, urbanization, and the enclosure acts in that sudden rise in underpaid hours..... Of course in, say, 1750, indigenous North Americans were living very differently.

Hope I see your list. Mine came out yesterday.

I haven't. I have been thinking of you all since DOGE's rampage.

Go away. You're why we lose.

I just want to say thank you to all the federal workers on this thread; we see you, we know it was brutal; we deeply respect your work and your commitment to the principles we thought they were holding out for.

Thanks from a California voter.