#Immigrant

An early #TheWeekInTory (Sun to Tues), but things are moving crazy fast1. Last week the govt said “we will work around the clock to ensure nobody goes hungry as a
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African Americans who are descended from slaves aren't "settlers." end of discussion. we stole nothing. we weren't indentured servants. we ain't emigrate here. our ancestors were forcibly removed from their
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Flushing and Corona are two adjacent neighborhoods in Queens, NY. They are both working-class immigrant neighborhoods whose residents experience high degrees of covid comorbidities like hypertension. 1/ Both neighborhoods are
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This morning is a glimpse into why I've started dreaded seeing all the BLM tags in white people's profiles and the whole, "Get Trump out no matter what!".It glosses over
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Thousands of migrant children have been expelled from the U.S. since March under an emergency health order from the Trump administration. Some have been sent back to danger in their
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Fresno State schools and colleges each selected an outstanding student to honor as part of the class of 2021 Undergraduate Deans’ Medalists.Learn more and read their #FresnoStateGrad stories:http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2021/04/27/fresn
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As a Bristolian immigrant living in Croydon, it's been surreal seeing my council the centre of so much real estate investment-related controversy. A quick thread on what's been going on
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just got out of the zoom meeting equivalent of a pink slip, in which i learned some ugly details about the institutional shock doctrine underway, so it's time to put
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The steady patter of "Well what happened in Minneapolis has nothing to do with these other cities, so why are they protesting?" tells me a lot of Americans ignore their
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Ok this #CapitalGainsTax stuff warrants a thread because we're wading into what people misconstrue as "politics", but what I think of as "economic incentives"As always, the reality is more nuanced
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Who told me to make the mistake of going down an ADOS (American Descendants of Slaves) hashtag rabbit hole? I completely share the concern with racism and wealth inequality (it's
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I love the liberal white-people handwringing about "Trump didn't lose by enough." Lose? Enough? He was going to *win*, and it was because of *your* families. Did you not know
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THREAD Varieties of FascismSee definitions of fascism in our pinned TweetCommon theme is classic interwar regime fascism was *syncretic* - it borrowed from both left & right.Postwar fascism has
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Ted Hayes, Terry Anderson, Coretta Scott-King, Dr. Claud Anderson, Barbara Jordan, Kathleen Wells, Chanell Temple, Father Bascio etc. All have spoken out about how illegal immigration has harmed us as
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Interesting lesson today on how our society works. Having always lived in the city, I never needed a car, until my Great Escape into the burbs. Today, I drove out
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1/ #MayDay in Montreal. Know your protests. Support anti-capitalist, social justice-based resistance; reject anti-science, far-right, conspiracy theorists. Here is a somewhat long protest primer, with both (really) bad news, and
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