#Workers

Kerry

bureaudeshame

I know this shouldn't need saying, but just your annual reminder that the next 9 days are going to be rough as fuck in supermarkets and retail. A lot of

Ken Theroux 🛎

KenTheroux

Do you believe in coincidences?Part 1: 3/24/2020“US plant-based meat start-up Nature’s Fynd, backed by Jack Ma, Bill Gates, gets new funding from Al Gore as it targets Chinese market”https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/307

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Meat factory outbreaks around the world in May are slightly different in nature to the ones in August.The qualitative difference is infection control is a lot tighter now - and

Marauder🎏

marauder1008

36 new cases in Beijing. All are connected to Xinfadi Market, aka Newfoundland, in one way or another. What’s impressive is the public information on these cases: gender, age, hometown,

Philip Loring

ConserveChange

Since the start of the pandemic, the incomparable @StatCan_eng emeritus Ray Bollman has been tracking the impacts on employment in rural and urban areas. I thought now might be a

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

The "shitty technology adoption curve" describes the arc of oppressive technology: when you have a manifestly terrible idea, you can't ram it down the throats of rich, powerful people who

Progress Alberta

ProgressAlberta

Christmas is canceled. And it's worth pointing out just how badly Jason Kenney performed yesterday. The lockdown announcement was a real opportunity to show some empathy, to show that he

Vanessa García Polanco, MS

vgpvisions

For this #FoodJusticeFriday I am talking about the Secretary of Agriculture. We have been in our tiptoes waiting for the announcement of the @Transition46. So here is a more detailed

Adrian Madaro

adrianmadaro

East Boston has the highest COVID infection rate in Boston. Last week it was 7.9%. This was over 4x the state average. It was almost 50% higher than the second-highest

Dirk Schwenk (Esq) 🎵

DirkSchwenk

Let me begin in 2012. In that year Obama/Biden announced an "all of the above" policy on energy. The US would frack like mofos, build solar and wind, increase efficiency,

Mohsin Kamal

mohsinkamal169

1)My name is Shoaib,I am working as a Specialty Training doctor in the UK. I am a Pakistani national.I have worked in Ireland for couple of years in the past.This

Cultured Mongrel

culturedmongrel

Petition:Please sign and share.The Home Office wants to deport Non-UK nationals for rough sleeping. Homelessness is a structural issue that has been amplified hugely because of the pandemic and that

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update July 23: If you don’t know many people who have Coronavirus, its because you don’t know the people who pick the food you eat.Yes many of the people

Martin Austermuhle

maustermuhle

A D.C. Council oversight hearing on the preparations for the Nov. 3 election has started. Stay tuned for tweets and updates. "Any person voting on Election Day will likely have

Philip Peters

PhilPeters1

Recent Cuban govt announcements about economic moves have left me with a wait-and-see attitude. Lots of intentions, few specifics, no time-line, and heavy complaining (I don’t blame them!) about U.S.

Greg Akers

MBJAkers

Deep breath. Thread about State of Tennessee vaccination distribution, and how Shelby County seems to be getting significantly fewer doses than it is supposed to: Yesterday @MBJSteimer reported that TN

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