#Wage

Stomp Out Slumlords

StompSlumlords

The mayor's threat to have the unelected Chief Financial Officer overrule the council's budget because of tiny cuts to MPD's reveal a lot about how the District government works.Even if

Ruby Glaskin

RubyGlaskin

1/11 OK I still don’t understand why self employed people are being treated as less deserving/in need than employed people. 2/11 Furloughed staff get 80% of their entire earnings from

The Secret Barrister

BarristerSecret

In 2018 I published a book on how politicians have broken our criminal justice system.In 2020 I published a book on how politicians lie to us about the law.Still didn’t

Robert Reich

RBReich

As a former secretary of labor, I can tell you that we shouldn't be talking about stimulating the economy or going back to work.We should be talking about shutting down

Ray Walley

WalleyRay

Public health doctors to ballot for strike action over contracts https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40070261.html?type=amp #COVID19 @IMO_IRL 1/- A dangerous game of Russian roulette being played by @IRLDeptPER My fear is that a lot

Kim Crawley

kim_crawley

No. Obsession with "productivity" is ableist, bad for your sanity, brutally Calvinistic, cruelly capitalistic. No!https://twitter.com/Fox0x01/status/1308378762678079488 Just because I research #infosec doesn't mean I have to a

Ericka Hart (She/ They)

iHartEricka

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the word empathy. Activists to kindergarten teachers to Kim Kardashian fans will assert that empathy is a necessity and requirement in caring for

Shibani Mahtani

ShibaniMahtani

The narrative that Singapore's meticulous government "did everything right" and yet lost control of covid19 misses the fact that for months, they were warned about the conditions that 1/3rd of

Senator Megan Hunt 😷

NebraskaMegan

On March 3rd, I called for the Governor to expand Medicaid now to ensure that Nebraskans who have symptoms can receive care they need and reduce the spread, help people

Nigel Spencer

c21stprimitive

@Bandcamp is brilliant, because you're paying artists directly for their work at a price they set themselves, rather than funding a content provider that sees itself as the 'product' (hello

scientism

mr_scientism

Libertarians like to say the market is foundation of freedom and they’re right in the sense that it’s the core myth that makes all the other claims to freedom seem

Shoaib Taimur

shobz

Thread: On the 26th of August, a hashtag was reactivated to commemorate Akbar Bugti's death anniversary. I was given a tip that a lot of the users were not Baloch.

مصطفى

Mustafalization

Unlike what these so called muslim ‘intellectuals' write and lecture regarding the revival of the Ummah...Victory will only come when we establish tawheed and sharia in ourselves and our lands,

Itus Andronicus

RaynardFaux

Exploitation as a virtue: a brief thread of aphorisms on why ‘sharing rates’ is good, how poor page rates directly relate to racism in indie comics, and how white men

Jonathan Portes

jdportes

Well-argued and thought-provoking as usual by @dsmitheconomics but for once I disagree with the conclusion (1/8 or so)https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-rules-of-a-true-depression-are-being-rewritten-like-everything-else-bq9z965gd I think this is

Husnain Fateh

husnain_fateh

1/ The government is loosening lockdown requirements allowing "skill-based" jobs. https://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/541071-Federal-Cabinet-coronavirus-situation-countryHere's a ECON 101 argument for why this is not just a bad idea, but t