Radivision content strategist, comms consultant, Bay City News Foundation board member, former lots of things.
San Francisco, CA
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Peggy Northrop retweeted
Stop scrolling. Pause:
As we all struggle w/global warming & swelter in extreme heat, subsidies for oil, coal & natural gas are costing 7.1 % of global GDP.
That’s more than govts spend annually on education (4.3%) & about 2/3s of what they spend on healthcare (10.9%).
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Peggy Northrop retweeted
"I’ve never seen centrists like Yglesias say to people on the right (or center) that it’s important to read progressives. Nor have I seen traditional conservatives like Brooks call for empathy with people on the left."
Why is that? New from @NGrossman81: plus.thebulwark.com/p/media-…
Peggy Northrop retweeted
To be clear, Israel is doing this with the implicit approval of "the West" (USA, Canada, Europe). If you are an American taxpayer, you are paying for this.
Peggy Northrop retweeted
"In this country, you cannot bring a case that is a hypothetical... There has to be a real dispute... This is somebody who, there was no real issue, there was no complaint. This wasn't even somebody who had opened up a business" - @AWeissmann_ w/ @NicolleDWallace
Read it and weep:
“The unattractive lesson of the majority opinion is this: What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is yours. The lesson of the history of public accommodations laws is altogether different. It is that in a free and democratic society, there can be no social castes.
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Peggy Northrop retweeted
major questions doctrine is a farce, a smokescreen for ensuring rightwing political outcomes. Expand the court. Enact term limits. Limit its jurisdiction. We are at a constitutional breaking point.
Peggy Northrop retweeted
You can't square John Roberts 2023 ruling that POTUS cannot authorize student debt relief with his 2018 ruling that POTUS can ban Muslims from entering the country, unless you account for the fact that Roberts is a partisan plant.
My latest in @thenation
thenation.com/article/politi…
Peggy Northrop retweeted
Let me get this straight...
Students getting relief from onerous debt is unconstitutional.
But justices secretly getting hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in gifts, vacations, and free housing and education for their family members is just fine.
Hello?
Peggy Northrop retweeted
Good news for economy class air travelers:
When boarding, if you see an empty seat in first class, you can now take it because, according to a Supreme Court justice, if it’s empty, it’s free.
Peggy Northrop retweeted
I'm tweeting this again because it is so very, very important. It's a dire forecast from James Hansen, the @NASA scientist who first warned Congress in the 1980s about global warming & #ClimateCrisis.
PLEASE READ
mailchi.mp/caa/equilibrium-w…
Peggy Northrop retweeted
@sunset is a publication close to my heart! So it’s an honor to elevate my favorite and unsung #NorCal campsites with them! Where will you be camping this summer? – at Vallejo, CA
As you're traveling this summer to Outdoor Afro networks across the United States, consider these campsites to experience the Bay Area's neatest nature scenes. Our Founder and CEO @RueMapp shares why with @sunset: bit.ly/3J8Sqzm
#OutdoorAfro #destination #campsites
Peggy Northrop retweeted
Brilliant one-line email from an historian friend, connecting Trump's nuclear-secrets-involved DoJ Espionage Act indictment to Trump's lawyer who handled a nuclear-secrets-involved DoJ Espionage Act prosecution:
"What was it that Roy Cohn got the Rosenbergs electrocuted for?"
#NewYork friends please read
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Peggy Northrop retweeted
Tomorrow, Monday, June 5 at 6 P.M is the 92nd Annual @cwclub California Book Awards Ceremony. Come join us as we honor--and hear from--11 of California's best poets and fiction, non-fiction and juvenile and young adult writers!
commonwealthclub.org/events/…
Peggy Northrop retweeted
This bit about overcounting COVID deaths gets glossed over in the amazing Licht profile but it’s worth mentioning how wrong it is. The reality is the “excess deaths” exceeded the official COVID death count. We almost assuredly undercounted. bu.edu/sph/news/articles/202…
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Friends, I will be doing a 3-hour long zoom lecture & conversation about international poetry in time of crisis - on June 10th. All proceeds will go to support refugee center & food bank, writers & independent newspsper in Odesa, Ukraine - here is a link to description:
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Peggy Northrop retweeted
If I hadn’t spent the last 15 years working in media and public relations, I too would interpret the media silence around covid and new covid research/science as a sign that there is nothing to worry about. But I have. So here are some things you should know🧵
Just leaving W. PA where I can assure you no one understands the #debtceiling. “Is it bc Democrats are mad about budget cuts?” a relative asked.
I said it was like him deciding not to pay his mortgage, and then all his neighbors do the same, and then the bank fails and no one has any credit or money. “Oh.” (And this time the Fed doesn’t back the depositors)