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C. Katsfoter, Social Justice Stalinist🔻

primarycatdad

A McDonalds hamburger costs $2.09 at the register. McDonalds internal documents show that the raw materials (patty, bun, etc.) cost $0.34. A McDonalds employee makes $11/hr on average with a

Jan Dutkiewicz

jan_dutkiewicz

If you're coming here from the @alcurrents webinar, here is a very incomplete reading list off the top of my head re: animal ag, zoonoses, labor: (1/x) On zoonoses risk:Mike

Tim Watts MP

TimWattsMP

Australians who make their living working in the arts have been flooding social media all week with images of their work to try to get the government’s attention and force

Narumi Momose

HardFastAndFree

1/10 It's this arrogance of Sanghis that's gonna be the downfall for Indians.Indians aren't the cheap labor like in the 20th century. People in the Gulf hired Indians due to:1.

Wreck Everyone & Leave

Sean_Bishop

I really can't express how disappointed I am in @BraunStrowman ... I don't know that I expected anything different, but maybe that was just me being foolish. Wish that wasn't

Calla Wahlquist

callapilla

Is Andrews confident we'll get the 14-day average from 11 down to 5 in two weeks?"As confident as you can be. You can't be certain, that's not the nature of

sara david

SaraQDavid

one time i was being considered for a panel on media unions and the organizer explicitly told me that she reached out to me because all the other speakers were white

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Ready? Thread on the corona virus & what trade and investment has got to do with it. This is similar to trade-war but going to be WORSE b/c we're adding

BillStepien

BillStepien

We are 7 weeks from Nov. 3rd.Over the last few weeks, GOP voter registration continues to outpace DEMS in key battlegrounds with partisan registration.This growth is after GOP registration gains

Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education

SFNDHE

We are thrilled to endorse the #CollegeForAll bill introduced today by @SenSanders + @RepJayapal. This bill is a huge step for higher education in the United States. It addresses multiple

Matt Darling 🌐💸

besttrousers

One last point re:Klevan 2019. I think that people sometimes are overselling how much it matters whether people understand the EITC. Here’s an example from @ryanlcooper’s (excellent!) review of @mattbruenig’s

Kevin Gannon

TheTattooedProf

Of course Prager misquotes Jefferson. The actual quote is "If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them,

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Project

PrettyBadLefty

Democrats are going to abandon "Kids in Cages" once they are the ones implicated by it just like they abandoned "Believing Women" I'm old enough to remember when 13th came

Alice Workman

workmanalice

Australian politicians zoom backgrounds, ranked Did not start - Greens @RichardDiNatale Internet problems Labor senator @KKeneallyAmerican with token #TeamAustralia flag. Empty bookshelf. Is that the roof? Nationals senator Perin DaveyWell

Kevin Rinz

kevinrinz

If you are producing or consuming unemployment rate forecasts for April, know that these have to answer both an economic question (how many people stopped working?) and a measurement question

Jeff Kennett

jeff_kennett

Here comes the greatest False News of all time. Victorian Government is blaming all of Victoria's financial ills on Coronavirus. Absolute falsehood. They lost control of their budget well before