#Workers

What if there’s two second waves? What I mean by this is we’ve already seen the first wave of the virus and the subsequent first round of layoffs (30 million
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Watch live @CBCNews: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to deliver daily coronavirus briefing shortly after 11 am ET.http://cbc.ca/1.5574943  Canada and United States agree to extend border closure for another 30 days,
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What do cops, teachers, and emergency room doctors & nurses all have in common?In this country, we tend to make them all responsible for dealing with profound social problems that
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The first-ever Pride was a fire. A fire ignited by the spark that was the Stonewall riots. 50 years of marching. 50 years of fighting. 50 years marked with unbearable
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There is some very serious sh*t going down at the University of Arizona. Faculty have been ordered back to the classroom in August and prohibited from wearing masks in the
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In the past few years, I've been in the position to lead inside companies while major events, all with racism at their core, have unfolded in the news From the
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I’ve seen lots of fellow Kiwis overseas tweeting thoughts on the NZ govt proposal to charge citizens $3000 (approx £1500) towards the cost of quarantine on returning home. I thought
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ThreadI wasn't going to call out @TuckerCarlson on his lies, but the dishonest headline made hear this outrageous BS.Tucker, this may shock you, but @realDonaldTrump knows more about everything than
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This is a useful story by @AaronBlake about how Trump's accusations vs President Obama follow a familiar pattern of Trump falsehood. http://washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/ … Yet there's another pattern they follow: the Trum
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Many of you may have seen this story yesterday, about a new GTA-based 'service' offering at-home COVID swabs for $400 (not a typo). Many, many questions need to be asked
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Silicon Valley used to be a cradle of creative mavericks. How did they become so authoritarian? My attempt at a thread. Twitter used to declare itself "the free speech wing
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The coming social disaster in the US is the next wave of this crisis. It will be the ultimate indictment of our form of conscienceless capitalism. Confronted by the worst
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Baby I remember my days working in the mall. Standing 8-10 hours, being berated by customers about the price of food, racist and classist MFers assuming I wasn’t smart bc
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The Real Reason for Gov. Kemp's Reopening of GeorgiaWritten by George Chidi:“You really want to know what I think about rescinding shelter in place in the way this order is
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Watched Zafar Mirza's interview last night. @OwaisTohid asked some very pertinent questions but the answers by health minister didn't inspire much confidence. Here he talks about curve flattening in five
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@nsitharaman says coming from south India, i know some people were wondering what aatmanirbhar means and translates the word into 4 south Indian languages. Have to give it to this
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