I occasionally listened to the first ten minutes or so of this program, inadvertently, after forgetting to switch away after Morning Edition. Happy to hear that it's cancelled -- hopefully it will be replaced by something better, but given the trend in public radio, that's not too likely (I used to listen to NPR quite a few hours a week, subscribe, etc., but that was twenty years ago -- I hardly ever find myself listening to anything but the BBC on WNYC now). I tend to call it, in my head, National Public Race and Gender Radio. My heuristic is to occasionally give it a try, but the first mention of racial/gender identity, I give it a rest -- it's rarely more than 5 or 10 minutes. Apparently, supplementary DEI training is what their main audience is there for these days.

I wonder what the next term will be that replaces "migrant" on the euphamism treadmill?

I wonder what it would cost New Yorkers to pay Venezuelans to stay in Venezuela, say? I'm guessing it would be a lot less than we're paying to house them here?

Same happened in my non-NYCHA Brooklyn apt -- stuff happens. Landlord finally got somebody to look into it today, and temperature just got up to 66°F for the first time in 4 days (turns out that 3-season sleeping bag I've had stored away for a couple decades can come in handy)! Hallelujah! I might actually hazard a shower in the morning if this keeps up (went in to work today looking like I'd been on a bender since X-mas eve, lol!

I suspect a large proportion of NYC apartment buildings are technologically obsolete, particularly in their hvac systems. And if you are in a rent-stabilized unit, your landlord has no incentive to do any upgrades.

Isn't that simply a matter of the process by which racial categories were constructed by the government in the 1970's? David Bernstein has an extremely interesting book about this: Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America. South Asians and East Asians, who have little in common, were conflated as "Asian American." Jews specifically did not want to be in a category of their own: imagine the anti-Semitism that would result from accurate counts of Jews in academia, medicine, law, etc. Thus for purposes of government statistics, Jews are "white," along with other peoples with origins in the Middle East. If you're going to have diversity requirements for Hasidim, you would need to have such requirements for, say, the Welsh and Catalonians too.

For the love of God, can we please, pretty please, bring back looney bins? Sure, make them better than they were, but some folx should not be out and about terrorizing their neighbors.

So I was today years old when I learned that diwali is a holiday. Also, that it's not pronounced as if there are two Wally's (I googled: its DIH-Wally, apparently -- just say Dear Wally, and take away the R in dear). And while I'm perfectly happy to add another holiday, doesn't it seem like, at this point, if you add one you need to take one away -- you can't have every day be a holiday or nothing will ever get done! I'm fine with removing Thanksgiving for Diwali (does anybody in the failed state known as the US have anything to be thankful for? -- I thought not) or X-mas for example. I still don't quite know what it celebrates (tried the wiki article, but tldr -- something to do with having lights; why not just call it Thomas Edison Day?).

I would be surprised if the list's origin in "membership rolls obtained by an anonymous hacker," isn't a HUGE reason for this. Is this "evidence" really so different from a list of D.C. pizzerias engaged in child-sex rings for Hilary Clinton obtained from Q-Anon?