Climate, economic justice & human rights research, advocacy & policy visioning. Senior Fellow @cplusc.bsky.social studying US disaster insurance & global finance policy. Board co-Chair @lawgaction.bsky.social. Amo a 🇨🇴. Living on Ohlone land. she/ella/ela.
There’s still time to get to MI to support @abdulelsayed.bsky.social before the August 4 primary! @seedthevote.bsky.social is running volunteer canvasses every day in Detroit. As Abdul says, “they’ve got the money but we’ve got the many!”
Don MoynihanA single interest group whose primary mission is to represent the interests of another country has spent $30 million on a *primary race* www.ap.org/news-highlig....
If we had Medicare for All, we'd all qualify and none of this would be an issue. Plus, we'd all have healthcare, which sounds nice.
Julia MétrauxRFK Jr. and Oz attacked California for its Medicaid home care, citing growth as proof of fraud. For @motherjones.com, I reported on how the growth isn't proof of fraud, and growth of participants is proof the program is more accessible than in other states. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Means testing hurts the people it’s supposedly meant to help, and costs a lot in added bureaucracy.
Carl QuintanillaPage One. @nytimes.com
Insurance costs are so bad in TX that Abbott has made it part of his campaign. His proposals are half measures, though. If @ginafortexas.bsky.social wants to run on transformative solutions, she could check out @cplusc.bsky.social's proposals: climateandcommunity.org/research/pro...
Protection or Profit? Transformative Solutions to the Home Insurance CrisisCCI’s proposal to transform home insurance involves states creating entities, termed Housing Resilience Agencies (HRAs), to run the state’s housing risk-reduction work and home disaster insurance prov...climateandcommunity.orgHouston Public MediaGov. Greg Abbott is proposing measures to help rein in rising home and car insurance costs for Texas residents.
Climate change-fueled disasters threaten the safety of our homes & insurance provides a financial safety net to help us recover. But current insurance systems are failing, leaving households high (& not dry). What can the federal government do? I've got a proposal: peri.umass.edu/publication/...
National Disaster Insurance for All: Single-Payer Disaster Insurance and Community Resilience Investments for Safer and More Affordable HousingThe Problem The climate crisis is fueling extreme weather and increasing disaster risk for households and housing providers across the country, representing collectives risks that no individual househ...peri.umass.eduAnd this is by no means the first time: @johnvaillant.bsky.social's book Fire Weather. vividly documents this same scenario happening way back in 2016.
Albert PintoThe insanity the world summarised in a headline on Canada: Wildfires threaten Canadian oil sands www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...
This is NOT ok, not when ICE does it and not when police do it.
ZitoSo ICE, like police officers, basically get to execute people, say some nonsense about feeling in danger, and then completely get away with executing people
DHS is directly purchasing detention centers from private companies because it provides more of a shield against litigation on medical care, availability & quality of food, etc. This is a great reminder that detention is the problem, not just profiting off detention. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
DHS buys two California immigrant detention centers for $1.5 billionThe purchase comes as the Department of Homeland Security has moved to scale up its capacity to detain immigrants without relying as heavily on private prison corporations.www.latimes.com“Coalitions fracture under pressure,” Scot Nakagawa writes in Anti-Authoritarian Playbook. “Our job is to build the infrastructure underneath them.” And part of how we do that is relational, not just performative, solidarity. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/when-the-h...
Oh the irony. Rubio instructed diplomats to pressure countries to rebuke Cuba for “gross incompetence and massive corruption” during an upcoming UN debate on U.S. sanctions against Cuba, per reporting in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...
“Every day, Michael Geoffrey Asia spent eight consecutive hours at his laptop in Kenya staring at porn, annotating what was happening in every frame for an AI data labeling company.” www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting BackKenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.www.404media.co