#Policies

Yesterday during a call about the Michigan Department of Corrections + COVID-19, I learned about the work of @MILiberation--a statewide network of people + orgs organizing to end the criminalization
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Let's make the case for #NaturalInfrastructure - my tree-lobbyist hat firmly on. THREADRestoration work is labour intensive & low on consenting & qualifications requirements. Ideal for quick transitional employment, even
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1/4: Hey Longhorns, need a reason to fill out the #2020Census? Here's a few good ones! #HookTheCensus 2/4: The #Census counts every living person in the U.S. every 10 years.
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It was fake news all along, yet you believed it. Not only did you believe it, you shared it further, because it reaffirmed your belief that the other community is
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Absolutely intriguing @CESifoGroup working paper no 8210 by @AtifRMian, @ludwigstraub and @profsufi on the detrimental effects of ever more indebted households, resulting in a #debt trap where HH reduce their
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Civics: the study of the rights and duties of citizens.Derived from the Latin word “civics”, meaning relating to the citizen”.Civics is our agreed upon ideology as a nation.The reflection and
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Some thoughts on #EmergingMarkets FX. @RobinBrooksIIF has been making a compelling case for letting EM FX play the role of (Corona) shock absorber. The alternative—the “real economy” adjusting instead—
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Inconvenient truth: some of us (i.e. bougie and/or Blue Checkmark "us") are going to have to accept the reality that using fear to motivate black folks to vote will not
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Seeing lots of talk about what normalcy will look like now that most of us are several weeks into quarantineHere's a 1921 cartoon on the "return to normalcy" Some events
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Effort thread on the Japanese Communist Party 日本共産党, the largest non-governing Communist party in the world, still have their own News Media institution (Shimbun Akahata しんぶん赤旗 10th most read paper)
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now an active politician: WSJA thread https://vinron.in/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-is-now-an-active-politician-wsj/ According to the latest report by WSJ, Facebook (https://vinron.in/?s=Facebook ) CEO
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Steve Brine, MP (Con) banged on about “all those restrictions, we’re doing it to protect you”.Steve: just stop. SAGE itself estimates that the “acceptable collateral damage” as a consequences of
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The UK government could look to their own complicity in causing eating disorders by pushing fatphobia as public policyBut sure, do this first https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1299770850141327361 We have years of research in
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Are teachers acknowledging that our ability to excel in online teaching may depend on privilege like having dedicated space, money to buy additional tools, resources to make other aspects of
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On Tues (Nov 26) #vanpoli Council will consider a report on encouraging badly needed rental housing. If it doesn't pass it could be a big setback. Please consider sending a
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Caveat: IANAL and just thinking aloud. I don't think the ADA is broad enough to be able to ban pet-friendly workspaces. PFW can arguably be good for mental health depending
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