Your solidarity economy inspiration for the day.

Watch as a massive crack forms in the ice on Lake Erie. An impressive view captured by GOES-19 earlier on Sunday.

"In my work, like my recent book on school finance, I try to make the otherwise arcane and hard-to-understand world of municipal finance more comprehensible to the people impacted by it."

Two people have told me in the last week how the Epstein emails vindicate their long-held conspiracy theories. There is indeed a cabal of rich white men hurting people with impunity! This article starts to fit that reality into a broader political analysis of social hierarchy and power.

A beautiful moment in the socialist republic of New York

Disgusting display by the US men's hockey team as they laugh along with a violent misogynist as he mocks the women's team. No solidarity among Olympians with these guys.

And 2. the Biden admin approved a $400 million grant to Puerto Rico to install solar panels to improve reliability and protect 30,000 low income households from blackouts. Trump cancelled it a couple weeks ago

"I don't care about medals." "I just skate because I like to skate." "I take breaks and I enjoy my life." "My friends and family are the most important parts of my life." "I don't define success as winning."

A modern NJ model should reward utilities for: • Increasing grid utilization • Reducing interconnection delays • Expanding hosting capacity • Lowering peak demand growth • Delivering measurable bill reductions Align incentives. Change outcomes.

Loved this interview and all the new stuff from @freefreeforum.bsky.social. Super clarifying and made me want to read Clara Mattei’s new book, Escape from Capitalism

Another day, another reminder of the need for dedicated bus lanes on west 25th north of Monroe @clefortransit.bsky.social

Wow

Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

Looking for a new role where you get to blend grassroots organizing, coalition building, and policy engagement to move street safety projects from concept to construction? We're adding an Advocacy Manager to our team! www.bikecleveland.org/bike-cle/new...

Whether traffic is bad ultimately depends on the mode causing it.

I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much

@justinmbibb.bsky.social Please be sure to let me know when you and Councilman Shah sit down for your 'long, thoughtful conversation' about how city payouts to corporations fit in your idea of the free-market economy 😆

'If we're going to keep it here' is doing a lot of work in this sentence

Wishing a meaningful & reflective Mark Wahlberg 40 Day Challenge to all who observe.

so profoundly disagree with this. There is no 'path to victory.' There are many paths, and not conceding Christianity to the right is a crucial one.

Ready for Ohio to follow Ethiopia’s lead here

MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.

"PM2.5 exposure was associated with increased [Alzheimer's Disease] risk in a large national cohort, primarily through direct pathways rather than mediation by common comorbidities"

thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019: "The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is like if the show Hijacked was a Bluesky thread and I read it 27 days after it dropped

I had been having a quite nice day before I learned this! Melting snow in springtime releases harmful pollution particles trapped in the snow that get in the air and cause unsafe outdoor air conditions YIKES

If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

Popping up across Brooklyn... All of the people featured in the windows are Black people.

A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories. Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.” You can’t make this shit up. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

Fascinating. I've always felt an unresolved tension between economists saying wages are up, nothing to see here, and the perpetual concern I hear about affordability from low-income (and middle-income) people in my life.

As a Packers owner, I’m so glad I didn’t make this list.

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should. www.state.gov/releases/off...

"One of the best representatives of the competitiveness, cost, and reliability of public power is the state of Nebraska, which currently boasts the third-lowest average electricity price in the country. Since 1970, 100% of Nebraska’s power has been provided by an array of public utilities"

Ohio's finest! And that is a competitive category

The replies alone make this my favorite post of the year

$38.3 billion is more than triple the amount Congress authorized the Loan Programs Office in the IRA. Instead of paying for concentration camps, we could have facilitated like $400 billion in clean energy investments

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis. It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0 www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

What a dream!

Glad to see this fight in still ongoing. Cleveland is years behind where we should have been as a result of the Trump admin (illegally) killing SFA

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

‼️‼️‼️‼️ newrepublic.com/post/206564/...

Ring has done this before. They partner with cops, get backlash, withdraw a bit, wait for it to calm down, and then go right back to working with cops. Don't believe this spin. www.theverge.com/news/878447/...

Hickel and Yanis are the Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga of anti-capitalist opinions pieces

Watching ICE invade communities in the US today reminds me of Dominican immigration police racial profiling, demanding bribes, and terrorizing people when I lived in the DR, 2008 - 2010. The terror in the DR has increased substantially since then. This reporting tells that story powerfully.

New York's private housing is infrastructure. It's a collectively managed good that's a platform for the whole economy. Finally, under Zohran, we have the chance to manage this infrastructure properly—fix up the homes, and stop landlords' speculative profiteering off the backs of tenants.

Exactly! As I wrote last year: (fintechdystopia.com/chapters/cha...)

Great point. So important to remember the VC/tech business model is premised largely on widespread adoption, achieving near-monopoly, and then rent-seeking in the future. That leaves either a huge price increase or a public bail out as the two ways to pay back the massive AI investments.