Dan Gillmor on Nostr: Saw a Facebook post, showing the 120F temperature in a desert city in the American ...
Saw a Facebook post, showing the 120F temperature in a desert city in the American west and saying, "All sensible people have already left town."
There are a lot of people who can't afford to leave town, because they are old, or they have to work to feed their children or they are poor, or they have nowhere else to go in any case.
We have a profound deficit of empathy in America.
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