#Austerity

Nivedita Tiwari

TiwariNivedita

On Father’s Retirement (written last year)When I am home, I make sure to watch him polish his shoes each morning, a practice he has inherited from his days in the

UCWVA at UVA

UCWVA

When we're talking about fighting austerity at @UVA and other wealthy schools, the $9 billion+ elephant in the room is: why not spend more of the endowment? We're often told

Claire Connelly

_ClaireConnelly

While ScoMo's spouting his whole living within our means schtick here's something I wrote four years ago about why this whole narrative is incredibly destructive to the economy and to

Joseph Gill

JosephGillMA

There's an openly racist man as your president, lauded anchors on your news networks spewing racism, a head writer on said shows resigning because his open racism was discovered, applause

Monica C. Bell

monicacbell

Feels messy to post here, but my estranged father died from #COVID19 on April 1st. My hometown paper just published this piece on racial disparity in #coronavirus deaths in South Carolina

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

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

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. So. Richard Hofstadter. Where to start? 2. People have asked me why I'm obsessed with the late historian Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970). The short answer is that he's emblematic of

siwan

SCClarkCymru

Brilliant event from @BevanFoundation screening a beautiful short film 'Nowt but a fleeting thing' and how so many of our food producers are themselves trapped in food poverty. @undodcymru https://www.bevanfoundation.org/events/watc

shibley

dr_shibley

Quiz. Since 2010, £7.7bn had been cut from adult social care budgets in England. Coincidentally, which of the following received a CBE in the Honours List? In 2015, it was

Joe Emersberger

rosendo_joe

.@Reuters with a rare article on #Ecuador's upcoming election. Lazy framing in the headline. Rightwingers do not believe "free markets". Nobody does, whatever they may claim. All markets require a

pōmaikaʻi ✨🌗💫

pomaika__i

What is going on with Womens Studies and Ethnic Studies at @UHManoa and what we can do about it, a thread: UH Mānoa is going through "reorganization," which, as anyone

David Hulme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

DavidHulmeCldwl

1/28 Im on a ramble! This is a thread for people in England wondering about the SNP rise to prominence, and why it has nothing to do with nationalism or

Ben Pile

clim8resistance

George Monbiot calls out the racism and colonialism that persists in his own movement in the form of population-control.His answer: in order to stop climate change we have to stop

Steve Holbrook

WStevenHolbrook

A fascinating and diverse set of short essays in the @chronicle about the future of post-pandemic #highered. Twenty-three pieces covering the gamut, briefly summarized here. /thread:https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Will-the-Pandemic-Change/24847

Claire Holland

clairekholland

Despite a really difficult financial outlook & govt reneging on their pledge I'm proud @LambethLabour cabinet tonight agreed @lambeth_council's capital investment plan for next five years. It includes around £90m

Charlotte Colombo 🌺 (she/her)

colombochar

Who would new gen Dr Who characters vote for in General Elections? (2005 onwards) The Ninth Doctor - Part of the Red Wall so obv Labour. Very anti-Thatcher. Regularly goes