Some of the posts on this platform are wild. Joe Biden has canceled $180B in student loans and the total would be higher if not for Republicans and the SCOTUS. This forgiveness is for public servants, people who are paid a lot less than others to do very critical jobs. Some people are just not going to be happy no matter what a Democrat does. Ever. Statement from President Joe Biden on Student Debt Cancellation for Public Service Workers | The White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/20/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-student-debt-cancellation-for-public-service-workers/

By protecting these 250 river miles, the Water Quality Control Commission in New Mexico is doing important work. Rivers sustain life and connect communities. New Mexico water board votes to protect 250 miles of river and stream segments from pollution • Source New Mexico: https://sourcenm.com/briefs/new-mexico-water-board-votes-to-protect-250-miles-of-river-and-stream-segments-from-pollution/

I’m going to give this to the NYT because it gives some background and reasoning I don’t see anywhere else. The justice system has proven itself to have flaws to say the least. Someone who is wrongly incarcerated has a chance at recourse. A wrongful execution can never be righted. He commuted the sentences of everyone except the white supremacist mass shooters and a clear terrorist. Biden Commutes 37 Death Sentences Ahead of Trump’s Plan to Resume Federal Executions:

Biden Commutes 37 Death Sentences Ahead of Trump’s Plan to Resume Federal Executions (Published 2024)

Those affected by the president’s action on Monday are still subject to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Three men will remai...

“It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps his shoes were too tight.” Video: Trump makes threats about Denali and the Panama Canal | CNN Politics: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/politics/video/donald-trump-transgender-denali-mt-mckinley-panama-canal-tpusa-digvid

I’m spending time and resources on good local journalism. Pittsburgh’s Public Source is a nonprofit. Black lives matter to me. This story is about different access, different treatment, different consideration- not the same. Just think about pain management. If doctors and insurance and others discount Black patients, there is no choice but to try to get help where they can. This is more than just addictions. Pittsburgh’s older Black men hit hardest by overdose crisis:

Pittsburgh’s older Black men hit hardest by overdose crisis

Saturday night latke. #Hanukkah 🕎

On top of this, oil companies want to lease abandoned, plugged oil wells to their own divisions or to startups who plan to store captured CO₂ in the wells, knowing full well that pressurized gas will migrate among interconnected wells and leak into the atmosphere, endangering the planet and life on it, along with the economy. Would be great to see CNN or someplace cover this for even 5 minutes. The U.S. Oil Industry Has Repeatedly Stifled Efforts to Reform Well Cleanup:

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How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State

In New Mexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of n...

Here’s another Biden accomplishment that won’t get any news attention which is a significant reason why we’re here. The final rule will save Americans more than 50 million hours in wasted time in a year and $11 billion in money over the next decade. Good luck getting anything like this out of Trump, or your third party vote for whoever. Federal Trade Commission Announces Bipartisan Rule Banning Junk Ticket and Hotel Fees | Federal Trade Commission:

Federal Trade Commission

Federal Trade Commission Announces Bipartisan Rule Banning Junk Ticket and Hotel Fees

If you really do think that “economic anxiety” and a “failure of Kamala Harris to connect to the average working class American” is why she lost, I hate to tell you this but those same people with the economic anxiety have no idea who Gerry Connolly is and don’t give a shit about David Hogg, who spends a lot of his capital on alienating people, being a DNC co-chair. Talk about something else.

Reminder that left social media spaces are not at all representative of what’s on the minds of average Americans.