Of Mushrooms and Capitalist Ruins
...n still catch the scent of the latent commons–and the elusive autumn aroma. Following the matsutake’s long mycelium threads, wherever they lead us, might just be what we need to do right now....
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Weekend Linkages: Perfection Salad
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Weekend Linkages: You’re Either On the Bus or Off the Bus
...us routes that are crucial lifelines for under-served Angelenos Sabadell Spain’s new bus mascot The FDA’s Warning About NyQuil Chicken Resulted In Around 7,000 Searches For It On TikTok Profiting from poison: how the US lead industry knowingly created a water crisis Workers creating music in a scrapyard in Indonesia Better than Bulgaria but not as nice as Cuba: how did the US become such an awful place to live? Against Pickleball...
On the 100th Birthday of Our House: The Past and Future of Housing in the U.S.
...ncrease in square footage and more consumer electronics. These differences lead to a difficult discussion about what a more energy efficient future might look like. Our future might be less about energy efficient tiny houses and more about sharing an apartment with relatives. Or getting your not-in-my-backyard neighbors to agree to a bus-only lane on an already congested boulevard. Or democratizing the workplace to ask for fewer hours for more pay...
LA’s Gangsters
...eting was all about: machine Democrats, in a backroom with a corrupt labor leader, gerrymandering their districts to cling to power and disenfranchise African-Americans, renters and progressive voters. Almost half of the city council is now either in jail, under investigation or caught up in this recent scandal. My own city councilman, Mitch O’Farrell is attempting to distance himself from Nury Martinez, Cedillo and De León but we should not let h...