EPA plans to end a program that makes solar power available to low-income Americans

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5493300/solar-climate-change-trump-epa

The Trump administration plans to end a $7 billion Biden-era program that helps low-income households get solar power.

https://www.europesays.com/2312310/ 11 Frugal Habits People Who Are Afraid Of Being Poor Again Usually Can’t Let Go Of #business #EconomicallyInsecure #finances #FinancialAdvice #FinancialConcerns #frugal #habits #money #MoneyAdvice #PersonalFinance #Poor #stability

We are #happy to see our harvest and the #poor people being fed but most #sad to see all this ending. It's only your #support that can help make a #difference.
https://gofund.me/c6169d1d

Why You HATE Poor People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha2SLXYoJsM

From Plato to Thatcher - today we explore the evolving attitudes to poverty and how you were programmed to hate the poor.

https://www.ft.com/content/6da2e1fd-f606-4e82-ad74-acecfceeac4e

Close to a #trillion dollars are being spent on #genai which is fundamentally flawed as experts have been pointing out (e.g. #apple @garymarcus etc.)

That money could help the #global #poor put food on table and #adapt to #climatechange or provide #health #education etc.

Hate #wallstreet

#EstadosUnidos destruirá 500 toneladas de alimentos de emergencia financiados con fondos públicos!!! | CNN #USA #USPolitics #Hunger #Poor https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/07/17/eeuu/estados-unidos-destruira-toneladas-alimentos-emergencia-trax

More than 60 scientists issue dire warning that the Earth is careening toward catastrophe: 'Things are all moving in the wrong direction'

https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-60-scientists-issue-dire-101547406.html

"We're seeing some unprecedented changes, and we're also seeing the heating of the Earth and sea-level rise accelerating as well.“

This is interesting to me, at least. It looks like they trialled this in poorer areas of the country, so mostly I see Lancashire in the article, but also Plymouth; possibly places where kids wouldn't be expected to have access to books at home?

I went to school at a very early age, to a day-boarding school. They taught ITA and normal English together, I think, at least, I could read normal English, but I thought in ITA and still do.

If you ask me to spell something, I spell it in my head in the phonetic alphabet (ah, bu, ker, der, eh, pff, ger) and I have a mostly instinctive translation mechanism that translates it to normal English style before I speak it; except when I have to actually think about the spelling, and split my brain, then it comes out phonetically, I have to experiment with the spelling in phonetics before I can convert - I just can't think in normal English.

I am not sure it messed me up much. I have learned to spell, but some words don't make sense to me (which is just English), and some I am stubborn about.

I also collect ITA books now, the first one I got after 50 years or so, I realised I could read perfectly. I'd never thought about what happened to ITA, maybe I was lucky that I used both and wasn't suddenly hit with a whole new reading language; but I do wonder where it went, and when I stopped using it.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell

#Disinformation: #SocialSecurity email praising Trump’s tax bill is a lie

The #SSA sent an email claiming Trump’s bill eliminated taxes on benefits for most recipients.

The reconciliation bill–which #Trump called the #OneBigBeautifulBill before signing it after #Republicans in #Congress passed it–will strip people of their #HealthInsurance, cut #FoodAssistance for the #poor, kill off #CleanEnergy development & raise the #NationalDebt by trillions.

#propaganda
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/05/social-security-administration-email-trump-tax-bill

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Ways to address the food crisis - 1. Minimize red meat #consumption, especially, #beef 2. Allow #fertility rates to fall and focus on #redistribution of existing #food to feed the #poor #books #booksky #climatechange #adaptation #solarpunk #hopepunk #novel

Do We Need Another Green Revol...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/opinion/population-climate-progress.html

There is this absolutely #weird #obsession with #population #degrowth when #global #poor are left to die in the #heatwave #drought #flood #storm #hurricane #starvation all the time by the #oligarchy #plutocracy #billionaires

First #save the #orphans around the world before talking about #depopulation #fertilityrates etc.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o... Instead of #cutting #taxes of #oligarchy #plutocracy #billionaires , #US should be raising their and providing #aid to the #global #poor #USAID should be larger We need #adaptation #migration to #save #lives from #heatwaves

Opinion | I Worked at U.S.A.I....

www.theguardian.com/environment/... The trigger event for the plot of "A New Faith" < tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith > is a catastrophic #heatwave that kills millions mostly in the #poor #nations in #Africa #Asia #SouthAmerica #solarpunk #hopepunk #booksky #authorsky #climatefiction #sciencefiction

Spain records highs of 46C and...