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Don't Settle

WeDontSettle

Today we want to start a thread about the Bristol Bus Boycott, which arose from the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian people in Bristol in 1963.

Gary Younge

garyyounge

1/ For this year's US black history month I plan to post an article each day, drawing on my 12 years of reporting from there and beyond, including interviews (Maya

Paige T. MacPherson

paigemacp

Atlantic Canada at tax disadvantage compared to neighbouring New England states | Read our @taxpayerDOTcom news release and new report: https://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/atlantic-canada-at-tax-disadvantage-compared-to-neighbouring-new-engla

Dr. Jessica Taylor

DrJessTaylor

If you want to improve safeguarding and social care training, stop letting people with zero knowledge or qualifications in neuroscience and neuropsychology teach anything about the brain to professionals. The

Watchdog

LibWatchdog

After watching Gov. DeSantis rip the media’s coverage of Florida’s handling of the coronavirus, I thought I’d put together a thread of just how garbage that coverage was. We all

Richard Rout

RichardRout

Not to let facts get in the way of a mediocre argument, what I said was “Our fleet is moving to EVs” (ie started & is ongoing) & , later,

KELLY BACON

KellyBacon

North Inland #California end of Jan 2021:ICUs still at 0%In-person public schools still openElderly who want to be vaccinated ~ still not vaccinatedNon-essential stores still openNo stimulus (other than 2020’s

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binthurayrah

Suicide warning signs. [THREAD] As it’s suicide prevention day, I think it’s important to address the common warning signs when someone is contemplating taking their own life. Take any suicidal

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

We have very strong evidence that racism has been a major factor in shaping our stingy welfare state, our weak labor unions, and our hyper-local education & land use institutions

Alan Cross

AlanLCross

Police came to our church last night while my sons lead worship for our youth group in response to a neighbor’s complaint that we violated California law on church gatherings.

Bellingcat

bellingcat

Just what is going on in #Portland? Our very own @IwriteOK has covered the events leading up to the current crisis for weeks, and continues to report on the ground.

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Australia - like many English-speaking countries - is full of lovely people who somehow manage to keep electing far-right, genocidal, climate-denying governments of surpassing administrative incompetence.1/ The most likely explanation:

Barry Holland

HollandBarry

With all the coverage of the American election and in particular, the state of Pennsylvania, I thought it would be an appropriate time to share the story of the link

Victoria Neville

IchthyophileVic

There was a petition put forward in the @NL_HOA yesterday (@PCPartyNL) for the @GovNL to outright reject a proposed Protected Areas Plan #AHomeForNature for the Island of Newfoundland due to

Pedro L. Alonso

PAlonsoMalaria

@WHO World malaria report 2020 reviews the unprecedented #malaria response in the last 2 decades. 1.5B cases & 7.6M deaths averted. But progress has stalled at 200M cases & 400K

balajis.com

balajis

Perhaps obvious, but it strikes me that dollowers (dollar-weighted followers) are an important part of the future.Platforms like Substack, Patreon, Ghost, Locals allow writers to optimize their dollowers. Dollowing is

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