#Chicago

LittleSis.org

twittlesis

1/ THREAD The fossil fuel companies and financiers that drive environmental racism are also intertwined with police foundations, helping build private slush funds for the police away from public

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

RWJF

Despite the billions of dollars directed to #COVID19 relief, @RWJF's latest poll with @NPR & @HarvardChanSPH finds U.S. households face serious financial and health problems:Depleting savingsForgoing medical careUnable to afford

Alan Neff

AlanNeff

1/NA thread on utility regulation...As the Texas energy crisis continues to unfold, I recall my time as a utilities lawyer for Chicago, when I spent years litigating against the state's

Conor Clarance

FirstNameConor

The puck drops for #HockeyTwitter on Wednesday and @TwitterCanada couldn't be more excited.https://blog.twitter.com/en_ca/topics/events/2020/the-new-nhl-season-on-twitter--by-the-numbers.html Since the emoji launched, Toronto has led t

Towards Synthesis

TowardSync

Where did this child sacrificing "elite" cult come from? If we trace them back a few thousand years we can easily see these same practices being used by the Phonecians.

BRYCE

aintthatbryce

Here’s a thread of some legendary HBCU athletes: Jerry Rice. Wide Receiver from Mississippi Valley State University who played most of his NFL career with the 49ers. Called the GREATEST

Jeeyon Shim

jeeyonshim

I cannot overemphasize how incredibly dangerous this is, and how many people will be hurt or killed as a result. This cannot, cannot happen.https://www.newsweek.com/ice-launching-citizens-academy-course-how-agency-arrests-immigrants-1516656

Rusty Shackelford

rshackelford14

Have you ever spent the late afternoon watching the purple shadows deepen in an Arizona desert?Or seen a herd of elk plow their waythrough waist deep snow on a cold

tyler dcstatehood fitch

ty_fi

Two really incredible research studies out of UCLA and UC-Berkley today--they're really changing how I think about racial injustice in our energy system. First, Eva Lyubich from Berkeley: National data

Once Great Pyrenees

ThatOldSheepDog

We need a thread on Police brutality & murder of unarmed Whites which is the biggest problem with our law enforcement. Police kill unarmed Whites in grossly disproportionate numbers. Who

louie

GranVarones

1990 was the year house music went mainstream. after creating a massive underground following in chicago, new york and detroit, house music became a dominant force across the globe. and

Naima Cochrane

naima

I’m gonna assume the folks who don’t understand why this is necessary only know the Aunt Jemima that looks like 227-era Marla Gibbs, which they introduced in like 89. So

Audrey Watters

audreywatters

I keep thinking about this (and folks seem confused as to what "Peloton for School Teachers" means here — that is, who's the cyclist in this analogy). So pardon me.

Dr. Thrasher, jouRNAlist

thrasherxy

Today is #WorldAIDSDay, when we remember the tens of thousands in Chicago & tens of millions around the world who are living w HIV or have died of AIDS. Here's

Ioana Marinescu

mioana

I've been teaching my students that you can never rule out statistical discrimination, so you cannot prove racism (taste-based discrimination). Now I think statistical discrimination is a cop out for

Terry Sweet Georgia Brown™️

TBrown_80

We know what Sen. Kaine is saying, right? That there wasn’t a legacy system of slavery on these shores, so America created one and that foundation of racism, specifically of

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