#People

my feeling on "defund the police" is that i'm mostly in favor of the goals, am ambiguous on the sloganeering, and think that everyone who isn't directly involved with lobbying
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Appreciate the sentiments calling for discourse here from the President of Wesleyan. But perhaps the most concrete signal that people in his position could take is to pledge not to
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It’s follow Friday Eve. And I want to say as someone who often struggled to make friends that this last 6 months in the fantasy football community has been great
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Thread A timeline of how @NYCMayor & @NYGovCuomo responded to people experiencing homelessness on the streets amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Spoiler: It’s not good.In April, people (incl. Cuomo) began
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A quick little reflection on 2020 [thread] As you well know, January was consumed by fire. By January 3, we had 30 volunteers and 4000 places listed with us. The
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I remember the Pulse terrorist attack vividly.I remember walking into work and seeing the quiet, concerned look on my coworker's faces unsure of what to say or do.I remember my
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So I said this in a whole reply over in my Facebook discussion group, Textile Talk with Abby Franquemont, and I'm going to reproduce it here as a thread because...
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It is sad to see grocery store workers not wearing proper PPE such as face masks in contrast to health recommendations put forth by the CDC, WHO or Canadian health
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Maybe we should be asking why? Why are some young transgender people adamant that they are the gender they were not born, yet want to be? Why? Here is where
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The big thing about the lockdowns for me this year, is that pre 2020, life was offline and augmented by the internet.Now life feels online, but with reality as a
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Hi to everyone who has struggled or is struggling with their mental health in lockdown. Please share any tips below for coping mechanisms, things that have helped, self care, etc.
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Sustainable housing provision through vertical extension - a thread The housing crisis means that 1 in 200 people in England are now homeless, with more than 90% of these
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NEW: I wrote this piece for @TheAtlantic about the latest weapon being unleashed in the war against #COVID19: the cops. Crowded indoor parties need to be avoided during a pandemic,
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if you haven't seen the movie "Dark Waters" you definitely should: it's about how Dupont knowingly poisoned the world with carcinogens in products like teflon and regulatory agencies let them
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daily thoughts thread: why do we cry when we’re sad is there life after death is the government spying on us through cameras on our devices who decided which
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"We're all Americans!"... are we? The idea that this was going to be a landslide was predicated on a weird idea that these motherfuckers in red hats taking off their
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