...after countless bleary-eyed hours on bedroom computers, he and Derrick Webster Jr., his classmate, launched Realer Estate, a website that combines public data with real estate listings, allowing users to search for below-market and rent-stabilized apartments. tinyurl.com/4m8488kx

Yuck. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/t...

In case you missed it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

A creative expression of life. Begins with finding a place where there is a two-for-one deal on homes! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b...

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Today I am trying to work and the landscape crews are blowing leaves. I escape with headphones and one of my faves. Jack Vanzet, Thrupence. open.spotify.com/track/2dMpX9...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, who spent the Seventies singing with the Grateful Dead, sang back-up on several classic Sixties hits, and fronted her own bands, has died at age 78. Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Good one. " You don’t owe civility to someone who chronically violates it; courtesy is a reciprocal virtue." Even family. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/m...

Thinking is invisible labor. Collaboration is invisible labor

How is it that John Oliver is delivering this message, and not our elected leaders or even our mainstream media? I was confused as anyone when I turned 65 but I thought Medicare Advantage was necessary. This really pisses me off. Thank you for the laugh John Oliver, it helps the medicine go down.

How do you spell Oligarchy? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

I stopped eating chicken when I saw them being transported again and again stuffed in big dirty semi trucks, feathers flying everywhere. Nothing sanitary or humane, just mass profit. sentientmedia.org/contract-far...

When tourism becomes blight. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/w...

“...private ownership is the single biggest factor in higher drinking water rates among large systems, playing a larger role than aging infrastructure or drought.” inthepublicinterest.org/under-pressu...

Faster? My God, they are already everywhere all the time. www.pennlive.com/business/202...

Dogs at municipal animal shelters in Texas used to face euthanasia while pet adoption was booming in other parts of the country. “It didn’t take too long to realize that, if there are empty shelters in the North and overflowing shelters in the South, this is a distribution issue,” shorturl.at/1nFkc

"The same men who struggled to anticipate domestic problems or follow a project through to its end frequently described success in occupations requiring the very same skills they were said to lack at home..." behavioralscientist.org/the-cognitiv...

Chilling....and no comment option. Civil debate vs civil war, the line appears to be thin right now. I hope we can change that. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

Better things come to those who wait: The importance of patience in diagnosing labor force participation rates and prescribing policy solutions www.epi.org/publication/...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Great story. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/h...

Somebody please explain how this works! This seems related to why conspiracy theories stick in the brain.

James C Scott suggests that people everywhere, even those who’ve never heard the word “anarchism,” quietly act out its principles through cooperation, autonomy, and mutual aid. open.substack.com/pub/munisqua...

If you want to change an organization’s culture, start by changing how work is done. Changing these systems changes behaviors. Over time new beliefs are formed and a new culture emerges. #iopsych #orgdesign #culture

The conversations that matter are the conversations that make you better.

Over the weekend, I was reminded of an observation someone shared that books by women about leadership get placed in the self-help section of bookstores while books written by men about leadership get put in the business section. This was a Barnes & Noble 🙄🤬🤨

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

‘Motherhood penalty’ costs women an average £65,618 in pay by time first child turns five www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

To all #military personnel worldwide, especially in Trump’s #America — a timeless command🔻from Emperor Marcus Aurelius. #Truth #Honor #StoicWisdom

"Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear." Guten Morgen mit Hannah Arendt 

Lutnick on being invited over to his then-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein's house: He invites us in and there's a massage table in the middle of the room. I say, "Massage table in the middle of your house? How often you have a massage? And he says, "Every day...and the right kind of massage."

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it Shakespeare

When the news gets too painful we need Ronnie Chieng for a fresh perspective.. Don't miss the new army recruitment ad he proposes at the end. GIFT ARTICLE www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/a...

Beautiful! Poetry appears when rain hits the sidewalk. www.pennlive.com/news/2025/09...

Timeline cleanser 🐈

We've been told a story about human progress: people invented agriculture, settled down, built cities, and life got better...not so fast. Adaptation and resilience are not new challenges. They're the foundation of what local government has always been about. open.substack.com/pub/munisqua...

O autismo foi descoberto em 1911, e o Tylenol foi inventado em 1950. Libere os Arquivos Epstein

I have been guilty in my life of what I call flat thinking.... open.substack.com/pub/munisqua...

"A man who is pious and wise will know that a real victory is won only when integrity is safeguarded and greatness kept intact." -Montaigne munisquare.substack.com/p/whether-th...

Financial Times ... tracking the dollar. www.ft.com/content/ac9e...

When organizations meander… Do we look at the river and see it as the same river every day, or do we really observe it closely, noticing the sounds, smells, and currents of the water? How often do we do the same thing in our own lives and organizations? open.substack.com/pub/munisqua...

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

bring your special someone to #CleanWaterFest this Saturday in Cuyahoga Heights cleanwaterfest.com

When were you last almost sucked in by a scam? No need for shame, we have all been there! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

RIP, Robert Redford.

Keep talking Bernie. I love WVa, my roots are there. I want the State to flip.

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome