#Workers

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Peter Thiel styles himself a defender of liberty, and every time he does, someone points out this article he wrote in which he said that democracy is incompatible with freedom

Taylor Popielarz

TaylorPopielarz

An ICYMI thread Last night, Ohio's senior U.S. senator, @SenSherrodBrown (D), was called "a complete ass" by his colleague Sen. @tedcruz (R-Texas).The reason?Brown asked @SenDanSullivan (R-Alaska) to keep his mask

Amy Maxmen, PhD

amymaxmen

So many stories on reaching vaccine herd immunity! But there's a massive dilemma. Here's a on what I mean...About 50 countries have fewer than one nurse per 1000 people. Israel

Kate Ryan

KateRyanWTOP

"Covid-19 poses risks to voters and to poll workers" -Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health "The virus is hoping a lot of people turn up to

Mike Harding #RejoinEU

HardingMike

1/ I read yesterday of an Irish trucker stuck on the M20 urinal and have every sympathy for him (having been stuck there myself in far better times) What was

Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Tech

feministandacc1

Great section of @AINowInstitute report that points to why we hire CART captionists instead of using an automated captioning system for our events- https://ainowinstitute.org/disabilitybiasai-2019.pdf: "AI and automated systems are als

鍾翔宇 Xiangyu

notXiangyu

1. Think about why radical liberal "leftism" is pushed so hard by the ruling class. Do you think its predominance on college campuses was something that grew organically and had

Save the Post Office

USPostOffice911

Another USPS hearing underway now.Big USPS data dump this morning. Plaintiffs are trying to distinguish between origin scans and destination scans (among local and non-local ballots) to figure out how

Evan Dawson

evandawson

Spent the morning talking to doctors who are working on vaccine trials / research / efficacy.There is a lot of good news. But there are some big, big questions. Thread.1)

Josh Eidelson

josheidelson

My feature in new @BW: How the American Worker Got Fleeced https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-the-fleecing-of-the-american-worker/ It's about a lot of what I've spent the past months/years covering:failed labor law, fissured wo

Jonas Čeika

PhilosophyCuck

Imagine how different popular political opinion would be if people were taught real working class history. If they knew who fought for what. That it was, for example, mainly socialists

Rhiannon Flora 🦇 bimbo opossum

hottermulligan

Working with sex workers can be therapeutic! Most of us, however, are not therapists & our work should not be considered the same.We can help you work through some shit,

Tejal Rao

tejalrao

I wrote about how the Black Lives Matter movement and fast-food worker protests are inextricably intertwined, why it's disingenuous for any brand to say they stand with BLM while ignoring

Marco Cimino

MrMCimino

There are so many things wrong with the Government's suggestion to cap super at 10% and allow workers to receive the remaining 2% as either super or income. Firstly, there

travis

TravisShreffler

Lemme illustrate the fallacy of "minimum wage increases makes costs go up too much" for you the only way I know how, using a universally understood metric:The Taco Bell soft

Kane Shaw

KaneShaw16

[Thread] I took a break from Twitter for my mental health and because my personal life took a nose dive (yet again), but since re-joining I can't help but notice

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