#Deprivation

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the nation,There was misery, poverty and great deprivationSome stockings were empty, some fridges were bare,The heating turned off, little money to spare.
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I've been in both special ed and the gifted program and to be honest there's way more overlap between these two than most people think. Not just in the people
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One of the themes of #TheWalkingDead season 10 was:What does Carol want?It was a reoccurring topic throughout the entire season & I am going to examine this & try to
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This year, poor countries owe $25 billion in installments to creditors in rich countries in the midst of a pandemic. Demands for canceling Third World's debt are absolutely rational and
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@AmerAcadPeds and I made a short video on racial health inequities amid COVID19 and their impacts on kids and families. Here are a few takeaways. Thread.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_9ozzK21S8&list=PLKYV5259WcZ0dQPiGaPzP_kPJ3G3Dyd7u&index
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This past week has honestly been such a fever dream. I woke up at 6am this morn (no alarm), couldn’t go back to bed, decided to start my weekend work,
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THREAD: How @JoeBiden and Barack Obama treated migrants coming across our southern border... While Joe Biden was VP, migrant children being held in detention were allegedly kicked, punched, and threatened
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#ramadanmubarak I've been thinking how Ramadan reminds/reconnects me to parts of #abolition practice & transformative justice: 1. The underlying function of Ramadan isnt deprivation/absence of food/water. Its actually bout
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Last semester I was enrolled in an online professional development class, that I had to drop midway through due to a personal crisis. I just re-enrolled and sent an email
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In answer to my question on whether the 2m social distance rule would be reduced, as the PM seemed to imply yesterday he would favour, @uksciencechief said research published and
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After adjusting for socio-demographic characteristics – including deprivation – and self-reported health and disability at the 2011 Census, males of Black ethnicity still have a #COVID19 mortality risk that is
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Is #KindnessMatters too vague & sanitised a concept for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek? Is normal distress the focus of our ‘awareness’ at the expense of SMI, addiction, socioeconomic deprivation, & other such problems
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Capitalist authoritarian violence kills without any accountability.How many dead people?How many are ever held to account?Capitalism kills with impunity.Fuck that. If you think that the death caused by capitalism is
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Just finished "The Longing For Less: Living with Minimalism" by one of my favorite writers @chaykak (https://amzn.to/2yZ4PW1 ). Sharp and eloquent analysis as always. Very helpful in understanding minimalism as more
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What it will take to lift stay-at-home orders? Imagine you're locked in a house that's on fire. You've got no water, but there's an open window. If you close the
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Just had another masterclass in @ICNARC report interpretation by @ActuaryByDay As I was reading the report, I noticed a couple of things too Reports herehttps://www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/ReportsBoth national, and regional network
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