WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Mazatlán Mi companera follows Twitter largely for the laughs, although she sometimes finds pearls among the swine, as the saying went. Today, she read me one from a wag that said, “Why did Elon Must buy Southwest Airlines without anybody knowing it?” Not only is that funny, even if it’s a form of gallows humor, …
Baja California In the ongoing saga of Elon Musk’s reputational meltdown at Twitter, it just keeps getting better and better. The reason lies not in his fall from the richest man in the world to the second richest, but in the ways his arrogance and petulance combine into his own special witches’ brew to …
Marble Falls Regular workers under fire from bosses is old news, and what many believe is just the way it is, and will always be. Class being what it is, that is just normal. Workers had their moment during the pandemic though. Many unheralded jobs suddenly became understood, sometimes for the first time, …