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docrussjackson

Short THREAD on the @UKLabour heartlands.A 2016 study found that the sharp decline in the number of working-class @UKLabour MPs had - entirely predictably - caused a slump in support among voters

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

.@WholeFoods management have found a cost-effective way of managing employee dissatisfaction. Instead of providing adequate pay and protection, they're tracking union activity with an "interactive heatmap" that prioritizes union-busting

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) Let Them Eat TweetsI just finished reading and I’m ready with a Twitter Book Report.Bonus: It explains Barr's extremism and the Barr-Trump partnership.Spoiler: Trump [and Barr] are part of

Robert Parenteau

MacroEdge1

1/N We should applaud @LHSummers recognition of the work neoMarxian economists Bowles, Gintis, Weisskopf, and Schor did on worker power...4 decades ago. Am willing to bet they are not cited

Tyler Green

TylerGreenBooks

Over the last couple weeks, art museum staff - especially at SFMOMA, Philadelphia and the Guggenheim - have highlighted how too many art museums are acting like corporations, not charities.Let's

Aaron 🥑🚈🌲🏀

aceckhouse

listening to @jbouie going over the history of zoning in Berkeley, implemented to prevent "the invasion of Negros & Asiatics" OG zoners were really up front about apartment bans, talked

Mr MT #sisu 3.5%🕯🇪🇺❤️🕷🌏🖤🎪

mrEmTee

A thread. Here are some things about me:I’m over 50, white and I own a house in a rural area of Wales. I don’t have kids, I’ve been variously vegan

Yusuf A Ahmad Ansari یوسف انصاری

yusufpore

Vile, false but predictable propaganda by the Far-Right, pertaining to actions committed by the former Vice-President, Shri Hamid Ansari find sporadic utterance every once in a while.This thread examines and

Elle M. (they/them)

ellle_em

If we white people want to make a constructive stand against white supremacy and the continued violence enacted against Black people there's one thing we absolutely MUST do:talk to our

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jdcampolargo

Eric Weinstein(@EricRWeinstein): The Mathematician turned Physicist & Economist. [THREAD] Eric became a beacon of hope for me when he started sharing his story and lessons he learned throughout his impressive

dasPost-CV

dasvee

1/ Rock and Roll podcast on BBC coverage of Philip's death: excessive, indicative of fear of right wing press.Shallow analysis though: not delving into why royal funerals are important to

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cakeis_not_alie

So I have had a few people ping me about my views on the differential wages debate, and I figured I'd piss everyone off with my opinion, so here goes:

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

1/. Horrific!@lindsaylohan interviewed by David Letterman in 2013. 2/. INTERVIEWER: Everyone’s talking about itBRITTNEY] shy smile] What?INTERVIEWER: Your breasts#BrittneySpears getting asked about getting breast implants, aged 16, on Ger

Michael Wear

MichaelRWear

I want to share a story about Rev. Joseph Lowery today. It was by the grace of God that I got to know Rev. Lowery over the last twelve years.

Nome

NomeDaBarbarian

The Flu is bad enough, going around a kitchen.#COVID19 is substantially more easily transmitted than the flu.And we've created a situation where food service workers' SURVIVAL depends on doing THE

forwomen.scot

ForwomenScot

ThreadAs recently resigned Global director of Comms for Amnesty Intl, we wondered if the opinions of Osama Bhutta, the cousin of the Justice Secretary, who is challenging Kenny Gibson for