#Center

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Last week, 1.6 million workers applied for unemployment insurance (UI). Breaking that down: 881,000 applied for regular state UI, and 759,000 applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf There

Carol Ann Brand

BrandcaAnn

Everybody complaining about anc performance over the last 26 years. Here's a list I borrowed from a FB post, of what the anc HAS accomplished:1. ANC’s Multi-billion $ Arm’s scandal2.

Lynn V

lynnv378

We've been raising a lot of money on Act Blue since Friday. But we need to do more. Get involved. Volunteer to do phone banking & text banking for these

jessa

jessa_barton

you’re mad about confederate statues and monuments in the south? wait until you hear about the one in elmira, new york the history of the confederacy within elmira is long

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

We are living in a golden age of predatory capitalism, in which businesses that generate real value and stable employment are being destroyed by deep-pocketed quasi-tech firms that lose money

AJ

AhmedWJanjua

Nawaz Sharif presents himself as if he’s a fairytale hero or a Messiah (even at the cost of defaming National Institutions) making his case as if it was him that

man is human

EarthManat

BillionairesForFuture top Ecocide executor.Potential killer of Thacker Pass & Earth.Meet Leo.He is connected with the same BFF network, loving Ken the advisor of richest capitalist Bill, sorry, now we call

SELFCONQUERING

selfconquering

33 dark truths for freedom.1. All rules are arbitraryAccept that any rule is made-up. Even the laws of physics do not apply throughoutthe whole universe. Man-made rules are thus the

Jay Rosen

jayrosen_nyu

When I started studying the American press as an institution (around 35 years ago) I did not assign much significance to a factor that would later feel huge and at

Richard Florizone

IISD_Pres

Amidst this global pandemic, don't forget the developing world. Infection anywhere is a risk everywhere.THREAD 1/x So far, government and media attention in the developed world have focused at home,

Travonne Edwards (Blk Tray)

Travonne

In 1844, all black people were ordered to get out of Oregon Country, the expansive territory under American rule that stretched from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains. Those

Adam

splitthisadam

Defund the #FortWayne police? ABOLISH the Fort Wayne police?!YES, and here is how that might look.A (long) thread: Before the how, let's look at the why. Policing in the United

ET @ ZINES! 💥🌺🌠🦁❤🍓🍋

KB_Shark

Welcome to the early 2000's-- where pop punk music all kind of sounded the same but we pretended it didn't, flip phones with limited text messages and minutes were the

Branden Hunter

JustCallmeBHunt

Back in downtown Detroit covering the protests at DPD Headquarters. A much smaller group out here today at DPD headquarters at Third and Michigan Avenue. Few dozen. I’m guessing the

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update September 7: The best way to overview what’s going on w people w long term #COVIDー19 symptoms is to let people with #LongCovid speak for themselves.And I gave

Trent Telenko

TrentTelenko

1/There has been a great deal on hypersonic weapons recently on Twitter. This thread is my take on them & why Russia, China and the USA are going there. 2/I