Bustedknuckles

George Conway had an interesting "fix" that gets around the constitutional obstacles where older justices are relegated to something like emeritus positions and new justices are appointed to the main bench to take their place

From what I could see, nurses were pushed to work in hazardous conditions as "heroes" and "essential". A cohort left because the risk/reward was bad in a situation where supply/demand was low, some then got huge pay bumps to be travel nurses. In short: capital interests exploited nurses willing to work for non-monetary compensation (e.g. clapping, their own sense of compassion, etc). The nurses willing to demand more pay generally got it

From what I can tell, she's doing great so far - but it's still pretty early

That's the seat Kat Abughazaleh (sp?) is running for. And she Definitely doesn't take aipac money. In this environment, I think Dems are going to pay more attention to primaries this time around

I was going to send a DM to cowbee, but it may be worth knowng for others. I'm a bit older and may be a "normie" leftist with moderate anti-cap views and have unexamined prejudices about the USSR. I liked what I read from Lenin/Marx (one work each, i know!) but don't like the reality of what I know of Stalin so don't want that association. After reading some more, I'll reexamine the USSR prejudices. So thanks to cowbee and folks who didn't assume malice

Civil and Fair, so thanks. I'll also pay more attention to the instance in the future if only to not be so baffled. Even if folks consider the Soviets progressive for the time, my 2 cents is that tying modern anticapitalism to the realities of USSR, especially Stalinism, does a disservice to progressive movements and even Marxism. But as you say, it's a minority opinion, so I'll accept my downvotes. Thanks again

It's true that some landlords would jack up rent rather than sell - especially as some people are stuck renting in a tighter market. Ideally you could separate corporate landlords from onesie-twosie landlords? A big issue is that landlords and banks are happy to artificially tighten the market with vacant housing. I think Vancouver Canada had a law that levied taxes on unoccupied housing - I should look into how that went

I think that was in the original text but was removed before passage because Texas has already passed their gerrymander

I've seen the idea floated that we jack up property taxes, exempting owner-occupied homes. I don't think it's that bad for seniors to downsize and increase housing liquidity and let people who want to get more out of local communities for their tax burden. We're facing a lot of resistance to taxes and our schools are getting disrupted by budget shortfalls. I'm happy to pay more because I have kids who use the parks, sidewalks, schools, library, etc. a lot of seniors use less and don't want to pay more. So maybe low-but-nonzero property tax for owner-occupied, and high tax for landlords like me!