#Govt

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
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@jwhandley17 I've been working on a building up a comprehensive set of @BESResearch demographic variables, so I can run dredge-regressions without "attitudinal/behavioural/political" variables displacing everything./1 On this chart
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What makes #Covid19 so tricky from a public policy perspective is that it’s neither a short/sharp emergency nor a gradual transition. If it was short, govt could put the economy
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Dear Queen's Park Press Gallery,I revere your tireless work during the most important period for Ontario since war and Great Depression.I must raise an alarm, and ask you go even
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kid 1 worked during covid, other kids quit, saying--i'll just get money from my parents.kid 2 has been abroad 2 times, both times he had to work and fundraise. other
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Important breaking newsUS govt calling for a pause of the J&J vaccine after a small number of people develop a very rare blood clot.While unfortunate, its the right step.Central to
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Ok so the Dutch government is handling #COVID19 almost as bas as Trump. They’ve been touting herd immunity and are not enforcing social distancing in any way that I have
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Hello friends! I want take a moment to talk about COVID-19 criminalisation as state govt's bring in tighter restrictions and dramatically ramp up policing (thread) Policing & criminalisation don't address
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I educated myself about everything that is going on rn. And I have a few things to say :1) Yes saying JSR with regards to its current use and context
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Media trumpeting “1m deaths worldwide of Covid” (with Covid). Annually there are around:60m total deaths including:17m cardiovascular deaths10m cancer7m respiratory diseases/infections3m dementia1.5m road deaths 1m suicidesMany Covid wo
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Thread - 5 root causes behind Johnson and the Tories shambles handling of #COVID191] The overriding focus on looking after their mates (eg turning a blind eye to breaking lockdown,
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One of the fundamental features of Liberalism of any kind is a belief in the idea of "Progress" - the idea that today is always better than yesterday. And tomorrow
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Not a single one would have happened. The decision to make India secular, keep the mussies here and not do population exchange, not build Ayodhya,Kashi, Mathura ALL were done when
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1. This (May Day) History Thread is about Agricultural Workers' Uprisings in Burma (Myanmar) which has a long background of peasant rebellions. With workforce est. 70% agriculture employed rural resistance
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THREAD: Australia lost another 228,000 jobs in May. Employment is still falling (unlike US & Canada where some rebound occurred in May). Total job loss since February 838,000 (down 6.5%).
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Ok. Here’s how I see the Amy Cooper situation going, if I had to guess & *why her prosecution solves little to nothing re: racial injustice.* Read the whole thread
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