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Morgan Hughes

Morgan_Hughes

The baby doctor told us yesterday that she’d go ahead and schedule next weeks checkup, but there was really no point.Said she’d just see us shortly at the hospital for

Audrey Kawire Wabwire

akawire

Within the first 10 days of the dawn-to-dusk curfew responding to COVID in Kenya, at least 6 people died from police violence. New from @hrw https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/22/kenya-police-brutality-during-curfew "We ran when the

Victor Ferguson

VictorAFerguson

1/6 Interesting. When the US pulled out in 2017 the idea of China joining was floated. I'd just written a thesis on the SOE chapter (17), and felt sufficiently skeptical

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

This is the funniest fucking graphic omg. And is such horseshit. The Cosmists, founders of the Soviet space program & its scientific basis, were anarchists. The poverty lifting stats apply

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radioheadass

being online is exhausting in general but this week has been especially rough.black people: drop your cashapp/venmo/paypal in this thread, let a white or nonblack ally buy you a

More Perfect Union

MorePerfectUS

BREAKING: Amazon workers revealed new evidence of Amazon's illegal union-busting—including managers passing out coupons for 15 extra minutes of break time—at an NLRB hearing today.Here's what Darryl Richardson, an Amazon

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab

saragoldrickrab

Very serious question: Is it very common for employees to have no idea how the business model of their employer works?If so, is this really an effective labor strategy? Followup

Branko Milanovic

BrankoMilan

It is instructive to read Tocqueville and Marx discuss the 1848 revolution. It does not often happen to have two such heavyweights describe the same events as they happen (w/o

Nazmul Ahasan

nazmul_ahasan_

I'm a big fan of @chrishemsworth, but #extraction sucks: It's worse than a low-budget Bollywood action thriller. Western viewers might find it exotic, but most would agree that when you

Quinn Dombrowski

quinnanya

.@elotroalex Computation is universal in the sense that it's a machine that should be able to predict or encompass all other machines. Input/output, say this thing = that thing, evaluate

Tom McIlroy

TomMcIlroy

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is making a ministerial statement in the House of Representatives. Parliament is sitting today to pass legislation for the $130 billion JobKeeper package. Scott Morrison says

Mo Black | This is a soft coup

__MoBlack

Animaniacs making "Vuvuzela no food"-tier communism jokes rn and I'm not here for it I don't think they know the Russian Federation isn't communistAmericans: "The USSR is gone we won

Luke Michael

luke_michael96

Much has been made of the fact Newstart hasn't increased in real terms since 1994. But why has the freeze gone on so long? Let's look back at how we

Students Organizing for Labor Rights

solr_nu

THREAD: WHAT DOES SOLR NEED FROM YOU TODAY? 1) Help us spread the word that NORTHWESTERN HAS MISLED US. NU sent out an email earlier this week promising service workers

Lynn Shon

lynnshon

My students are terrified & isolated in their rooms from their own sick parents, w/no choice but to step outside alone to get essential items. As a T who has

Adam Ryan

AlwaysBeHustlin

In 2019, I met with 1 person a week for coffee I didn’t know or who I fell out of touch with. It wasn’t as easy as it sounds. The