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Méthode Scientifique

lamethodeFC

05/05 > Les restes d'un enfant de 3 ans sont la + ancienne sépulture connue en #Afrique https://bit.ly/3vYxP8f via @newscientist #LaMethSci [L’étude à découvrir] 05/05 > Le + ancien enterrement

isaac Samuel

rhaplord

#TriviaxtThread on economic dynamics of slave trade: why most west african states exported enslaved ppl and why some states didn't export them despite the overwhelming economic incentives (by extension political

Amanda Marcotte

AmandaMarcotte

Just as birtherism was a way for Republicans to express a belief that Black people can't be president, the Pelosi salon "scandal" is just a back door way to express

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The labor movement has a complicated relationship with monopolism. For a long time, economists (both right and left) documented the "large firm premium" - the higher wages that workers at

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

As we head into fall, worth reflecting on the past 3 months, and what it portends for next fewWhile things are clearly better since summer peak, serious warning signs aheadThe

John Brown stan account

JBrownStanAcct

Take from an econ grad student: the simple supply and demand argument against minimum wages and rent control that you learned in Econ 101 are laughably bad. The reason: there's

Mary 😷😭🌶🖤

MHPoison1

It's a beautiful day to honor the women of the labor movement who risked destitution & starvation to improve working conditions in the garment industry (My mother worked in a

Noah Glasgow

noahglasgow92

Kamala isn't only rebuilding the Obama Coalition, but she is also creating her own Harris Coalition as well. Here's a thread of her plans to invest in the diversity of

wendy

panopticorean

Like many, I was first introduced to the Korean labor movement through the story of workers' rights activist, Chun Tae-il ("We are not machines!"). It wasn't until more recently that

Justin Wolfers

JustinWolfers

Payrolls rose +661k in September and unemployment fell half a point to 7.9%.We are still 11 million jobs below the February level -- a larger gap than at the low

Mitchell Malloy

mmalloyart

I am generally averse to wading into Twitter Drama, but nobody cares that people make a living wage, or even a comfortable living, off their podcast. The issue is that

Sami Schalk

DrSamiSchalk

#Thread on community care. A major theme of the trolls emailing & tweeting at me right now is that I am begging for money/resources because I (we as a movement?)

Zoé

ztsamudzi

I love how all of a sudden we don’t understand that something being legal doesn’t mean that it isn’t unjust. Raising rent when salaries are not increasing proportionally is legal,

Elie Mystal

ElieNYC

The health outcomes for black and brown women when it comes to their reproductive systems are so bad, I feel like every husband needs to know.During my wife’s pregnancies my

Alice 🏴 🇭🇳

Chicken_Face1

Anyone remember that guy with a black mage pfp that had a YouTube that was a fash, then went anarchist, then everyone called him dumb for saying wage labor is

Chris Masterjohn

ChrisMasterjohn

Why is PPE considered first for medical personnel?It should be considered first for the massive labor force that should be reallocated to making more PPE. That way the medical personnel