50 years ago, the harbor of New York City was a sewer, filled with human trash and pollutants
But congress passed the Clean Water Act and it helped enormously, so …
… today wildlife has staged a remarkable comeback, and the water quality is high. They’ve seen humpback whales in the Hudson River one mile from Times Square, and there’s a thousand breeding pairs of heron
Smart ecological legislation works
🚨 NEW: NYU Langone's emergency room has been secretly allowing the rich, even those with minor complaints, to jump ahead of everyone else.
Meanwhile, the poor sometimes struggle to be seen.
@[email protected] and I dug into this two-tiered system of care.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/health/nyu-langone-emergency-room-vip.html
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jbsgreenberg/status/1605924429233459200
Twitter is the MySpace of the '20s. Its hard to see how it will return to its former glory.
I think locking your account is a great alternative to deleting. I think it would just be cool to see if we can get an immediate dive in use; we are the product, let’s take ourselves off the shelves.