#Labor

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

The USPS has endured decades of fuckery thanks to the brush-war that led to the passage of the 2006 bill that made America's unglamorous, essential, universal, self-funding agency nominally broke,

BrianMier

BrianMteleSUR

After 15 years, corruption charges are dropped against former top PT officials José Genoino and Delubio Soares related to the "mensalão" lawfare attack, orchestratedto block Lula's reelection. A key argument

Man w/o a Plan

MidWestMet

This essay is not bad. Certainly better than much of the tiresome nonsense by Vijay Prasad or Hari Kondabulu. Comments...https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-making-of-a-model-minority/617258/ First off - the notion that

Lisa Schamess

lisaschamess

The Joy of Cooking was a trauma narrative. 1/ That’s my opinion. The most-often quoted story — and factual — is that Rombauer compiled and self-published the book out of

Malnormalulo

Malnormalulo

One thing that I think is sometimes not made clear in arguments in favor of anti-psychiatry, social models of disability, etc.: while certain theories do deny the existence of unconditionally

Naima Cochrane

naima

Men: "I just wanna explore my options and get myself together before I settle down."Also men: "Lori Harvey is jumping from man to man and you're a hoe if you

Erynn Brook

ErynnBrook

I can do this thing. Ladies, circle up.https://twitter.com/polotek/status/998336914842312707 As @polotek points out succinctly, sexism and misogyny is what men do to women. Toxic masculinity is what men do to each

Wait_What_Memes Kodak

wait_what_memes

1.Ready to learn?Want to truly understand what is going on?Want to understand why a “virus” that is about as dangerous as the cold still has half the country shut down?Well

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/5It’s great that the idea of raising minimum wages is become increasingly acceptable. Higher wages, in a world of weak demand, stagnant investment and underutilized resources, will boost business investment

Connecting the Dots⚡🚗🌎🚀🔴 to Disruption✨🏄‍♀️🌟

ConnectingODots

UAW preparations towards the EV disruptionInteresting interview. They realize LOTS of jobs will be lost, and are taking steps.A few gems here1/https://youtu.be/5RYTkGBPYq4 2/Previously UAW tried to stall EV penetration (see

Dawson Richard Epiphanytide Vosburg

DawsonVosburg

A thread covering one reason why economic conservatism is nonsense for Christians.I specifically say "economic conservatism" because "cultural" things (abortion and sex mostly) are used as a shield for less-examined

💀John F.D. Taff, King of Pain👻

johnfdtaff

You know what the last four years (at least) show?That we are living in the 21st century nationalized equivalent of a 19 century company store.Stay with me now... Company stores

Mike Denison At Home

ThatMikeDenison

I have a million thoughts about this and most of them aren't good... https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1353766523664531459 There's part of me that thinks this community-based focus is really cool but it also feels

Cite Black Women.

citeblackwomen

We had a great conversation @UNCWomensCtr about the politics of citation a black women’s knowledge production. One of the things that came up was this issue of action. How do

Paul M. Talboo

thepaultalboo

.@indians Hear me out. Those screaming about losing the team’s history: one of the former names of this same franchise is the Blues. You could return to it without “erasing”

Nicole Alexander Fisher

_nalexander

Sexual assault in the music industry is, unfortunately, very prevalent.Women—especially performers and crew—have long been expected to tolerate this culture, as well as undergo harassment or assault themselves.I support Evan

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