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ok #introduction I'm an #evolutionarybiologist and #behavioralecologist studying how social interactions lead to biodiversity. I'm big on #socialselection, #polymorphism, #color, #genetics and #teaching /course development (queer bio woo!).
My main study organisms are #hummingbirds, especially white-necked jacobins (Florisuga mellivora), which have female polymorphism -- 20% females look like males, while the rest look different. I love them 💓
🎨 📸 :Jillian Ditner & Irene Mendez Cruz
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"Even more significantly, every person in the United States de facto funds rich people’s charity. The indirect government subsidy of income tax deductions for charitable contributions is substantial, amounting to $52 billion in foregone government revenue in 2022, nearly all of it to the tax benefit of wealthy individuals. That is nearly twice the amount that US federal and state governments spent in the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program that year.
The US tax code’s definition of charity is so broad that this subsidy is available for donations to college sports programs, political think tanks, and elite private schools where wealthy donors attended and/or their children attend. In fact, less than one-third of the money US individuals donate to nonprofits is focused on the needs of the economically disadvantaged. As Rob Reich, Stanford political science professor and author of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better, concludes, “We should stop kidding ourselves that charity and philanthropy do much to help the poor.”
Meanwhile, government entitlement programs like SNAP, Medicaid, and Social Security, even without meeting all basic needs, are credited with lifting forty-five million people out of poverty annually. Before the Social Security monthly benefit was expanded in the 1960s, more than one in every three US seniors lived in poverty. Expansion reduced the senior poverty rate to 10 percent. The child tax credit expansion in response to the COVID pandemic cut child poverty nearly in half.
By contrast, even well-meaning charitable efforts come up well short."
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/charity-inequality-poverty-economic-rights/
#USA #Charity #Philantrophy #Donations #Inequality #Poverty #Medicaid #PublicHealth #Healthcare
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"Even more significantly, every person in the United States de facto funds rich people’s charity. The indirect government subsidy of income tax deductions for charitable contributions is substantial, amounting to $52 billion in foregone government revenue in 2022, nearly all of it to the tax benefit of wealthy individuals. That is nearly twice the amount that US federal and state governments spent in the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program that year.
The US tax code’s definition of charity is so broad that this subsidy is available for donations to college sports programs, political think tanks, and elite private schools where wealthy donors attended and/or their children attend. In fact, less than one-third of the money US individuals donate to nonprofits is focused on the needs of the economically disadvantaged. As Rob Reich, Stanford political science professor and author of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better, concludes, “We should stop kidding ourselves that charity and philanthropy do much to help the poor.”
Meanwhile, government entitlement programs like SNAP, Medicaid, and Social Security, even without meeting all basic needs, are credited with lifting forty-five million people out of poverty annually. Before the Social Security monthly benefit was expanded in the 1960s, more than one in every three US seniors lived in poverty. Expansion reduced the senior poverty rate to 10 percent. The child tax credit expansion in response to the COVID pandemic cut child poverty nearly in half.
By contrast, even well-meaning charitable efforts come up well short."
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/charity-inequality-poverty-economic-rights/
#USA #Charity #Philantrophy #Donations #Inequality #Poverty #Medicaid #PublicHealth #Healthcare
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"Even more significantly, every person in the United States de facto funds rich people’s charity. The indirect government subsidy of income tax deductions for charitable contributions is substantial, amounting to $52 billion in foregone government revenue in 2022, nearly all of it to the tax benefit of wealthy individuals. That is nearly twice the amount that US federal and state governments spent in the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program that year.
The US tax code’s definition of charity is so broad that this subsidy is available for donations to college sports programs, political think tanks, and elite private schools where wealthy donors attended and/or their children attend. In fact, less than one-third of the money US individuals donate to nonprofits is focused on the needs of the economically disadvantaged. As Rob Reich, Stanford political science professor and author of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better, concludes, “We should stop kidding ourselves that charity and philanthropy do much to help the poor.”
Meanwhile, government entitlement programs like SNAP, Medicaid, and Social Security, even without meeting all basic needs, are credited with lifting forty-five million people out of poverty annually. Before the Social Security monthly benefit was expanded in the 1960s, more than one in every three US seniors lived in poverty. Expansion reduced the senior poverty rate to 10 percent. The child tax credit expansion in response to the COVID pandemic cut child poverty nearly in half.
By contrast, even well-meaning charitable efforts come up well short."
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/charity-inequality-poverty-economic-rights/
#USA #Charity #Philantrophy #Donations #Inequality #Poverty #Medicaid #PublicHealth #Healthcare
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"Even more significantly, every person in the United States de facto funds rich people’s charity. The indirect government subsidy of income tax deductions for charitable contributions is substantial, amounting to $52 billion in foregone government revenue in 2022, nearly all of it to the tax benefit of wealthy individuals. That is nearly twice the amount that US federal and state governments spent in the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program that year.
The US tax code’s definition of charity is so broad that this subsidy is available for donations to college sports programs, political think tanks, and elite private schools where wealthy donors attended and/or their children attend. In fact, less than one-third of the money US individuals donate to nonprofits is focused on the needs of the economically disadvantaged. As Rob Reich, Stanford political science professor and author of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better, concludes, “We should stop kidding ourselves that charity and philanthropy do much to help the poor.”
Meanwhile, government entitlement programs like SNAP, Medicaid, and Social Security, even without meeting all basic needs, are credited with lifting forty-five million people out of poverty annually. Before the Social Security monthly benefit was expanded in the 1960s, more than one in every three US seniors lived in poverty. Expansion reduced the senior poverty rate to 10 percent. The child tax credit expansion in response to the COVID pandemic cut child poverty nearly in half.
By contrast, even well-meaning charitable efforts come up well short."
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/charity-inequality-poverty-economic-rights/
#USA #Charity #Philantrophy #Donations #Inequality #Poverty #Medicaid #PublicHealth #Healthcare
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"Even more significantly, every person in the United States de facto funds rich people’s charity. The indirect government subsidy of income tax deductions for charitable contributions is substantial, amounting to $52 billion in foregone government revenue in 2022, nearly all of it to the tax benefit of wealthy individuals. That is nearly twice the amount that US federal and state governments spent in the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program that year.
The US tax code’s definition of charity is so broad that this subsidy is available for donations to college sports programs, political think tanks, and elite private schools where wealthy donors attended and/or their children attend. In fact, less than one-third of the money US individuals donate to nonprofits is focused on the needs of the economically disadvantaged. As Rob Reich, Stanford political science professor and author of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better, concludes, “We should stop kidding ourselves that charity and philanthropy do much to help the poor.”
Meanwhile, government entitlement programs like SNAP, Medicaid, and Social Security, even without meeting all basic needs, are credited with lifting forty-five million people out of poverty annually. Before the Social Security monthly benefit was expanded in the 1960s, more than one in every three US seniors lived in poverty. Expansion reduced the senior poverty rate to 10 percent. The child tax credit expansion in response to the COVID pandemic cut child poverty nearly in half.
By contrast, even well-meaning charitable efforts come up well short."
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/charity-inequality-poverty-economic-rights/
#USA #Charity #Philantrophy #Donations #Inequality #Poverty #Medicaid #PublicHealth #Healthcare
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This is very good! Christoph Schuringa on #radicalism, #analyticphilosophy, and #McCarthyism. A really good explanation of why working in academic philosophy can be an alienating experience even today.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/analytic-philosophy-mccarthyism-postwar-communism -
This is very good! Christoph Schuringa on #radicalism, #analyticphilosophy, and #McCarthyism. A really good explanation of why working in academic philosophy can be an alienating experience even today.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/analytic-philosophy-mccarthyism-postwar-communism -
This is very good! Christoph Schuringa on #radicalism, #analyticphilosophy, and #McCarthyism. A really good explanation of why working in academic philosophy can be an alienating experience even today.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/analytic-philosophy-mccarthyism-postwar-communism -
This is very good! Christoph Schuringa on #radicalism, #analyticphilosophy, and #McCarthyism. A really good explanation of why working in academic philosophy can be an alienating experience even today.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/analytic-philosophy-mccarthyism-postwar-communism -
This is very good! Christoph Schuringa on #radicalism, #analyticphilosophy, and #McCarthyism. A really good explanation of why working in academic philosophy can be an alienating experience even today.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/analytic-philosophy-mccarthyism-postwar-communism -
"Nella concezione ultra-securitaria e repressiva del governo al potere, le peculiarità del carcere di #Prato non sembrano un’anomalia, ma il corollario deliberato di politiche di iniquità ed emarginazione sociale."
#GovernoMeloni #carceri #5febbraio
https://jacobinitalia.it/i-suicidi-seriali-del-carcere-di-prato/
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< È questo il messaggio che ogni anno tra gennaio e aprile, dal giorno della Memoria alla festa della Liberazione, giunge all’opinione pubblica. Nazisti e antifascisti ugualmente criminali. Al punto che un assessore comunale di una grande città come Lucca può candidamente dichiarare che non è possibile intitolare una via a Sandro Pertini perché è stato un partigiano. >
#fascismo
#revisionismo
#antifascismohttps://jacobinitalia.it/che-fine-hanno-fatto-i-crimini-fascisti/
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I wasn't at all suprised to see this bilge was bylined Branko Marcetic.
That would be the same Branko Marcetic who justified Dem funding for the Iron Dome by cluelessly claiming that Iron Dome was "irrelevant" to Gaza. 🙄
And NB how the prolowashing of Platner's upper middle class background continues.
Soon as I saw the headline I figured it was either him or Ben Burgis. #misère
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/democrats-cynically-wield-wokeness-against-graham-platner/
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Black Ribbon Day is a day of memorial deliberately designed to promote double-genocide theory and obfuscate the #Holocaust. Everyone should encourage East #European democracies to oppose the far right's attempts to distort #history.
@histodons #Histodons #HolocaustObfuscation #HolocaustDistortion
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Black Ribbon Day is a day of memorial deliberately designed to promote double-genocide theory and obfuscate the #Holocaust. Everyone should encourage East #European democracies to oppose the far right's attempts to distort #history.
@histodons #Histodons #HolocaustObfuscation #HolocaustDistortion
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Black Ribbon Day is a day of memorial deliberately designed to promote double-genocide theory and obfuscate the #Holocaust. Everyone should encourage East #European democracies to oppose the far right's attempts to distort #history.
@histodons #Histodons #HolocaustObfuscation #HolocaustDistortion
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Black Ribbon Day is a day of memorial deliberately designed to promote double-genocide theory and obfuscate the #Holocaust. Everyone should encourage East #European democracies to oppose the far right's attempts to distort #history.
@histodons #Histodons #HolocaustObfuscation #HolocaustDistortion
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Black Ribbon Day is a day of memorial deliberately designed to promote double-genocide theory and obfuscate the #Holocaust. Everyone should encourage East #European democracies to oppose the far right's attempts to distort #history.
@histodons #Histodons #HolocaustObfuscation #HolocaustDistortion
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"In the twentieth century, socialists and communists used municipal power in #Paris to build some of Europe's most ambitious #SocialHousing projects — housing that was not only beautiful but made for and by the city's working class."
https://jacobin.com/2021/03/red-paris-concrete-paris
#BanlieuesRouges #histFR #architecture #urbanisme #logement #LogementSocial #PCF #CeintureRouge #villes#ConcreteParis : https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000sqxl
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"When I started this piece, I claimed that poverty occurs when the following four conditions are present:
1. The national income is distributed using payments to laborers and capital owners.
2. Capital ownership is very unevenly distributed across families.
3. A large share of the population is not working at any given time.
4. Nonworkers are unevenly distributed across families.One could do more, but I think I have demonstrated this all pretty well using the most recent census income microdata. If this is a correct diagnosis of the problem, then the solution involves flipping one or more of these four conditions.
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So what we are left with is flipping the first condition and using mechanisms other than payments to laborers and capital owners to distribute the national income. This is called the “welfare state” and it is, as a factual matter, how low-poverty countries come to be that way.Indeed, if you look at the categories of nonworkers in the graphs above, you might notice that they map perfectly onto the populations that welfare states are designed to serve. In good welfare states:
- Children receive a monthly child benefit check, child care, pre-k, K–12 education, among other things.
- Elderly receive an old-age pension.
- Disabled receive disability benefits.
- Students receive tuition subsidies, living stipends, and subsidized loans.
- Carers receive paid leave and home care allowances.
- Unemployed receive unemployment benefits.Even the United States has some of these benefits and they work in proportion to their coverage and generosity. We can see this in the below graph where I introduce a bar for disposable income poverty, which counts government benefits."
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/welfare-state-poverty-aging-disability-unemployment/
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"Panchine anti-bivacco, dissuasori lungo i marciapiedi, luci al Led nei centri commerciali per scoraggiare gli adolescenti: l’architettura ostile, in nome del decoro, ridisegna le città reprimendo i comportamenti e scoraggiando chi non consuma a vantaggio delle élite privilegiate."
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The real proponents of any #war are the one's who play both sides.
#Jacobin = CloudFlare.
#HeGetsUs = CloudFlareFight!
#divideAndRule #panemetcircenses #cloudFlare #cheatingHumanity
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the same is happening in the UK by the centre-left government of
#KillerStarmer#LabourFriendsOfGenocide #PalestineAction
#israelterroriststate -
the same is happening in the UK by the centre-left government of
#KillerStarmer#LabourFriendsOfGenocide #PalestineAction
#israelterroriststate -
the same is happening in the UK by the centre-left government of
#KillerStarmer#LabourFriendsOfGenocide #PalestineAction
#israelterroriststate -
the same is happening in the UK by the centre-left government of
#KillerStarmer#LabourFriendsOfGenocide #PalestineAction
#israelterroriststate -
the same is happening in the UK by the centre-left government of
#KillerStarmer#LabourFriendsOfGenocide #PalestineAction
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💬 Zohran Mamdani Needs to Create Popular Assemblies
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/mamdani-popular-assemblies-democratic-socialism/
#politics #deliberation #democracy #mamdani #zohran #nyc #government
