#Advocacy

Thread: I'm a part-time courier for @Postmates, @UberEats, @Caviar. I'm young, college educated, and do this on the side, on my own schedule. I am the mythical worker these companies
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A white friend asked me today: "How can I speak against institutional racism without talking over the experiences of Black and South Asian Tory MPs who say it isn't a
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Friends,The election results are unlikely to be officiated on November 3rd. There are a lot of mail-in ballots that will need to be counted, and there may be some areas
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[CN for entire thread. No details, but mentions of abuse, violence, neglect]These last few weeks have seen a rising tide of violence against us being made public. Disabled people dying
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LA has obviously been transformed by this pandemic. But in many ways, the pain that residents are feeling now is manmade -- built on years of policies that have failed
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Reality has a well-known leftist bias. If you want to convince people that inequality, high carbon emissions and austerity are good for them, you need to get them to abandon
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A late night thread from my heart: 1/ For years Iโ€™ve anticipated using the Twitter platform for foster care advocacy. Iโ€™ve longed to be a voice inside the church in
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A THREAD on John Lewis' 1986 election to Congress. Lewis was elected to the #GA05 after winning a contested and bitter Democratic contest in a seat that broke down 60%
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#NationalComingOutDay I watched this movie again last night, for the first time in... years. In like, 1998, two high school (girl)friends of mine had me over and tricked me
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You know what? No - it wasnโ€™t my last word on the subject. I have been distressed about this Sia stuff for days. It has interrupted the one break I
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Just because insulin resistance is associated with heart disease, and just because keto reduces one marker of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) (but makes other markers worse), does not mean that keto
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Opening streets to create space for socially-distanced transportation and recreation during the pandemic is becoming mainstream. It's disappointing that Chicago's leading transportation advocacy group has pretty much said it's not
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Trump plans to cry "rigged" when a blue shift occurs as mail-in ballots are counted. One way to counter this is for voters to be strategic in deciding between mail-in
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10 Marketing Lessons From Steve Jobs That Every Marketer Must Know 1/ A great product markets itselfJobs knew good brands were built on products. Not advertising.Each time a product
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Feminism is a non existent movement to the Muslims - a thread, pertaining to equity vs equality! [WARNING: LENGTHY] So before we get into this, letโ€™s first assess feminism as
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Live tweeting some highlights from the @DenBicycleLobby meetup with Prof. @greg_shill - Talking about his paper- "Should the law subsidize driving". Greg lived in Denver in 2013-2014. Didn't have a
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