David V. Johnson
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Acorn Woodpeckers in Five Acts - Bay Nature Magazine
Bay Nature 12h 1 tweets
A tragicomedy of avian proportions
Who Or What Is Mutilating And Killing Cattle In Eastern Oregon? Strange Theories Abound.
OPB - Opb.org 55h 2 tweets
In remote Eastern Oregon, a serial crime spree is unfolding. Young bulls are mysteriously showing up dead. Cowboys recently found several animals with body parts precisely removed — and it’s happened just like this before in the West.
David V. Johnson This is really a climate change story. The chupacabra has clearly migrated north. 30h
Trump is about to make the pork industry responsible for inspecting itself.
Mother Jones 3d 5 tweets
Yikes.
‘This Is Not the Way Everybody Behaves.’ How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork.
Eliot Brown - WSJ 42h 37 tweets
His entrepreneurial vision and risk-taking, plus tequila and marijuana, helped fuel We Co.’s breakneck growth. Those qualities are piling up as potential liabilities as the company prepares to go public.
US and Brazil agree to Amazon development
BBC News 7d 10 tweets
Brazil's foreign minister also hit back at criticism over Brazil's handling of the Amazon fires.
The Future of Political Philosophy
Boston Review 3d 19 tweets
For five decades Anglophone political philosophy has been dominated by the liberal egalitarianism of John Rawls. With liberalism in crisis, have these ideas outlived their time?
Free Public College Is a Terrible Idea
The Chronicle of Higher Education 3d 2 tweets
While some low-income students would benefit, mostly it would increase inequality.
Bites: Alice Waters says 'Gourmet Ghetto' is offensive name; Tribune Tavern redux; Kitchen Story coming to Rockridge
Berkeleyside Nosh - Berkeleyside 59h 1 tweets
Catch up on the latest East Bay food news and events.
David V. Johnson Has "Gourmet Ghetto" been cancelled? h/t 59h
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: A look back at the Berkeley Fire of 1923
YouTube 3d 1 tweets
KTVU archive footage
Cokie Roberts, Pioneering Female Journalist Who Helped Shape NPR, Dies at 75
NPR.org 3d 23 tweets
Roberts, who joined the fledgling network in 1978, was a seasoned Washington insider who developed a distinctive voice as a reporter and commentator for both NPR and ABC News.
Opinion: UC investments are going fossil free. But not exactly for the reasons you may think
Los Angeles Times 3d 17 tweets
Divesting is less a moral imperative than risk-averse stewardship of the university's endowment and pension fund.
Ideology is Dead! Long Live Ideology!
Institute for New Economic Thinking 34d 5 tweets
Economists like to say they’re immune from ideological influence. Our research shows the opposite.
Illustrated Guide to Northern California Nature, Fall 2019
Bay Nature 3d 1 tweets
Things to see and do in nature in Northern California this fall.
Communities Need Neighborhood Trusts (SSIR)
Ssir.org 4d 1 tweets
The current approach to community revitalization has helped arrest and even reverse the degradation of American neighborhoods. But it cannot solve the problem without local ownership and control of assets and the decommodification of property.
David V. Johnson Bernie Sanders has proposed $50 billion for community land trusts. For more on the topic, see feature in ... 4d
The Average American Works Harder And Vacations Less Than A Medieval Peasant
All That's Interesting 5d 1 tweets
"Our ancestors may not have been rich, but they had an abundance of leisure."
September 2019
POLITICO 9d 2 tweets
Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker.
Extreme Weather Displaced a Record 7 Million in First Half of 2019
Somini Sengupta🥭 - Nytimes.com 8d 21 tweets
A new report puts 2019 on pace to be one of the most disastrous years in almost two decades even before the effects of Hurricane Dorian on the Bahamas are tallied. But there was also good news. 
Eddie Money, 'Two Tickets to Paradise' singer, dies at 70
AP NEWS 7d 1 tweets
Eddie Money, who left behind a career as a New York police officer to become one of the top-selling rock stars of the 1970s and '80s, with hits like "Two Tickets to Paradise" and "Take Me Home...
Business Insider | Whole Foods is cutting medical benefits for hundreds of part-time workers
Quartz 8d 1 tweets
The Amazon-owned grocer started notifying some employees this week of the changes, sources told Business Insider.
David V. Johnson Whole Foods is cutting medical benefits for hundreds of part-time workers via 8d
The Hell of Meritocracy
Jacobinmag.com 8d 8 tweets
Today, meritocracy doesn’t actually challenge hierarchy but grounds it and allows for its reproduction. But liberals and leftists have different ideas about how to break the cycle.
David V. Johnson Yale Law School comes to Jacobin to discuss meritocracy, and here is its radical proposal ... 8d