I just listened to today's episode of the podcast "Ideas with Nahlah Ayed"

"Today, our homes have become commodities. Leilani Farha, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, considers what happens when humanity is stripped out of housing."

It makes many connections between the housing crisis, human rights, neoliberalism and private equity.

Nothing really new, but a well-told story, putting a lot of pieces together.

#housing #humanRights
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16116223-theres-no-place-like-home-humanity-housing-crisis

Let's be clear: America's “moral crisis” isn't about pregnancies, contraceptives, or which bathroom people use.

It's obscene CEO pay, wage theft from workers, Wall Street gambling, money corrupting our politics, and the failure of those with power to serve the common good.

RT from ACLU (@ACLU)

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just refused to hear Wikimedia v. NSA, our longstanding challenge to the NSA’s mass surveillance of Americans’ online communications with friends, family, and others abroad.

This decision comes at an immense cost to our privacy.

Companies have already announced roughly $175 billion worth of stock buybacks so far this year.

That’s more than double last year's pace.

If there was ever a time to ban stock buybacks — or at least tax them more heavily — it's now.

RT from Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled)

People think that since Hersh's My Lai massacre story eventually made it to mainstream, the major media works like some kind of meritocracy—ignoring the hellworld of media self-censorship Hersh had to overcome to get My Lai story out. We're seeing it again

https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1626279696827617290