Ashwin Dollar 🇺🇸🥥🌴
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Atlanta Mission is no longer moving forward with plans for a 900 bed homeless shelter along the Westside BeltLine after months of neighborhood opposition. The organization is now searching for a new location, leaving the Bankhead property available for a different project.
YoY rent growth in San Francisco and Austin in the new @ApartmentList data:
HOLDUP. Zohran’s tax applies to >$1M+ for condos and co-ops?! I thought it was for >$5M. no wonder there are that many. holy rug pull Batman. This is going to be very interesting. nyc.gov/site/finance/p…
Four out of five foods sold for toddlers in the United States are ultraprocessed, according to research that analyzed more than 2,700 products on grocery store shelves. Nearly half of those items also failed to meet at least one nutritional benchmark for children set by the World Health Organization. cnn.it/4wKtKnX
Clinton ‘16 ran to the left of Obama ‘12, and voters saw her as more liberal than him. Not a hot take at the time — Dems celebrated that they had the most progressive platform in history — but that election is forever remembered On Here as Dems losing bc they went w a centrist instead of a populist.
If I ever build a house I want my whole kitchen counter to be a cutting board
> Abolish borders > Abolish prisons > Defund the military Yeah, sorry guys. You can't expect AOC or whoever to run on this. This is electoral poison. Even associating it with Dems is poison.
I'm confused. What exactly were you expecting?
Basically every apartment ive lived in has been on top of a store that carries eggs or was a 5 min walk from one. This is deranged.
The overwhelming majority of the comment section is women (mostly moms!) encouraging girls to stay child-free. It’s almost dystopian to see women so resentful of motherhood. I keep thinking about the young girls who’ll read this and absorb it as the smart and enlightened take. I probably would have.
This one hits like a gut punch: Austin Sarat, my favorite college professor, pens a fierce OpEd on @AmherstCollege students’ inability to read challenging texts. He rightly pins blame on “a K-12 system that has quietly stopped asking them to finish books at all.” “This past term, I enlisted a few colleagues to teach a short course called “Why Read?” We spent three weeks working through essays on the value of reading by scholars like Martha Nussbaum and Edward Said. What struck me wasn’t students’ lack of interest — it was how unevenly prepared they were even to attempt something long and difficult. It was clear to me that the students had very different approaches to and comfort with reading difficult material. I tried to help them see that when it comes to reading, similar to physical exercise, the most benefit comes with the most exertion. Reading longer things requires patience and attentiveness, it cultivates the capacity to follow an argument or a plot, and it requires sustained effort to decode meanings. Surely, this single course won’t end students’ entrenched habits and reverse their retreat from reading. But before we ask our students to read difficult material, those of us who teach in college owe it to all of them to explain that reading books in their entirety matters. If we won’t, or can’t, then higher education will have a bleak future.”
