Gwendolyn R. "Dell" Adams

*unties your wheat*

The affordable-housing crisis is a national phenomenon: Nearly half of all renters across the country are now considered “rent burdened.” But it is also a generational phenomenon. About half of the young participants in a recent New York Times/Siena poll said their primary concern was affordable housing — and that they worried about it more than every other expense item combined, including retirement, health care, education, bills, transportation and food. In 2014, the median age of a first-time home-buyer in the United States was 31. Last year, it reached a record high of 40. Property ownership has long been viewed as a pillar of American wealth generation, but to an increasing number of young Americans, the notion of ever owning a home has become pretty much inconceivable. This is especially true of young Americans who live in New York City, where the median apartment sells for close to $800,000. One way to look at Mamdani’s rise — and, in turn, Cea Weaver’s — is as the coming-of-age of a generation that identifies not with owners but with tenants. “My generation does not see homeownership as an attainable thing,” Weaver told me when we met for the first time in January at City Hall.

Why @runforsomething.net is recruiting more renters (like Mamdani!) to run for office in two quick paragraphs. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/m...

Just march to the sound of the guns

Passengers in an air-conditioned bus at that

Yellow bird with black face and red eye, all puffed out and slightly damp.

Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds.

To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

I’ve been asked if I would support Sen. Mullin as Noem’s replacement.

The answer is a resounding NO. The rot in DHS is deep, much deeper than any individual.

It’s a question of policy not personnel. The Senate should not consider any DHS Secretary nominee until DHS and ICE are reined in.

"The raid on La Catedral may not have made the national headlines that immigration sweeps in Minneapolis, Chicago and Los Angeles did, but it illustrated the depth and breadth of President Trump’s effort to find and rid the country of undocumented immigrants; 75 people rounded up that day have since been deported, according to local immigration lawyers. Beyond the economic impact, there is the social one — the profound sense of uncertainty and suspicion that has filtered down, even to a town like Wilder, Idaho. The raid “nearly destroyed” the community, said David Lincoln, a longtime Wilder resident and executive director of a nonprofit economic development agency serving rural towns in western Idaho. Wilder won’t really know the impact until planting season begins this spring."

And look at what comes after it. Not only does it accept the supposed purpose of the raid without any evidence or doubt. It then purports to move to the "social" impact -but while the top of the paragraph uses the word "community", it says the impact won't be clear until spring planting!

The work is not "Hispanic". The "Hispanic"ness of the laborers is not relevant to how they do the work, or why the "we" in this quote - the non-Hispanic residents of the town, presumably - depend on them.

What it means is cheap labor. It means people made precarious so they can't ask for more.

"The rich Goth plays the Roman, the poor Roman the Goth"

Yes but they ment apart from that

Rain Raymond Carver Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgiveable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes.

Starfleet Academy S1 Episode 8 readalittlepoetry.com/2012/12/13/r...

Doesn't sound like he lives up to his name

Right, I take it as a joke

I think I just got it myself--he started a war with Iran which is driving oil prices up enough to make the Venezuelan oil possibly worth what it cost to extort it

There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.

Many plumbers are smart (and don't have bachelor's degrees because they pursued a lucrative skilled trade instead). Mullin just happens to really not be.

if you find out, please let us know

"Everything is everything.
What is meant to be, will be.
After winter must come spring:
Change, it comes, eventually."

Myths activate something very deep in our subconscious. If you want to make people behave a certain way, convince them that they are living out one of these archetypal myths. Even if a myth isn't literally true, its consequences can be.

But we have the power to write a different narrative.

Thanks! This moves the needle.

I think he has a fair few uses in mind for it in the meantime.

Thanks!

They are??

And he wants a basement.

It's worth making the time!

Bodycam video shows confrontation between U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, officer The footage shows Jackson being tackled to the ground and placed in handcuffs, with the Amarillo Republican directing a profanity-laced tirade toward a trooper. His office has said Jackson, a physicia...

Dr. Jackson hasn't had particular success keeping it together since leaving the White House, either. Needless to say, his place in our Congress remains secure.

www.texastribune.org/2023/08/14/r...

I have wondered whether Sheehy's attacking the protester might have inspired the swap, and then they looked for other Senators after someone pointed out that Montana could go Democratic.