#Precarious

Rojava Information Center

RojavaIC

We helped @UN speak to civilians kidnapped and tortured by Turkish-controlled 'SNA' militias for their new report.The UN accuse SNA of:"Onslaught of violations" against civilians, "war crimes" of "hostage-ta

Dada Docot

dadadocot

Some comments from Filipino immigrants circulating online are so condescending to the poor like, "Instead of waiting for dole-outs, they should plant seeds so they have food to harvest." Mamser

Chinonyerem Odimba

Chino100percent

I worked on Creative Media and TV production in Bristol as a Black woman for years...I eventually left the industry because the daily very overt aggressive racism of a few

RustBelt Rebel

RustBeltRebel

The entire parents in quarantine have it hard ‘debate’ has been bringing up an earthquake of rage in me for some reason. Took me a while to really process it

Miqdad Asaria

miqedup

Does Vitamin D deficiency explain why more non-White people are dying from COVID-19?Let's start with a quick poll - if all non-White people took Vitamin D supplements their COVID-19 deaths

Vindhya Buthpitiya

vindib_

11 years following the brutal conclusion of the armed conflict between the state security forces and the LTTE, the postwar remains steeped in a panoply of visual debris. The cosmetic

Bo Winegard

EPoe187

1. What is conservatism and why am I a conservative. In my view, a conservative is a person who believes (1) in original sin; (2) there are no solutions, only

Paul Bohm

paulbohm

Notes from Will and Ariel Durant’s Story of Civilization In 11 Volumes, part 1: Our Oriental Heritage. “I want to know what we’re the steps by which men passed from

Eric Garland

ericgarland

If you're interested in why Wall Street banks propped Trump - and how they play those games with massive debt, which gets forgiven - it's in my latest Game Theory

Nathan Stall

NathanStall

In the last 24 hours, two more Ontario #LTC residents died of #COVID19: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/two-more-residents-die-in-covid-19-outbreak-at-extendicare-west-end-villaThere remain 22 active Ontario #LTC home outbreaks (s

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

In 1933, FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps, which went on to employ 3m workers (5% of the US male workforce!) in projects whose benefit we still feel today: road-

Look at my Teef!

ohnoayeti

So this topic of the day has given me some thoughts on my/our whitness. Now before I start let me just say if you comment hoping to defend whitness I

Final Brain Cell

initialvw

1/ The announcement of @citizenlab cutting ties with @UTLaw and @IHRP_UofT is enormous. Here's some context.@citizenlab is likely the *most* important partner that the @IHRP_UofT has, internal or external to

Helen Corcoran

hcor

I've seen some bits going around that refers to QUEEN as "a queen falling for her spy". This is not strictly true. Xania is a spymaster, not a spy, and

Dan Ziffer

danziffer

THREAD: Someone has done a worse job than you.We all fail to touch the skies on some things. That's human. Because it's Friday I can share an epic policy failure

NetflixFilm

NetflixFilm

¿Qué onda? I’m Carlos Aguilar (@Carlos_Film), a Mexican film critic in Los Angeles. I’d like to discuss the theme of personal transformation in the immigrant experience as depicted in Fernando