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I've reported on the ground from many epidemics, but this is the first one I'm really living through. A of memories to follow...For me, this got real when I
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Another 1.3 million people applied for UI last week, including 885,000 people who applied for regular state UI and 455,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf  The
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No one was prepared for the coronavirus pandemic.But after a long 2020, here are 13 things about the virus that we didn't know at the start of the year. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/13-coronavirus-facts-2020?bftwnews&
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Covid Epi Weekly: Don’t Ease Up on the Brakes!Variants are coming—but so are vaccines. Let’s double down on protection protocols (masks, distance), scale up equitable vaccine delivery, spur innovation in
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I've been thinking about the rise of BIPOC Futurisms in speculative fiction, especially Latinx and Indigenous Futurism.In trying to articulate the aims of my own work, I've realized there's a
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Roe v. Wade — decided 48 years ago today — was the first major Supreme Court case to address abortion rights. It protected the right to abortion, prohibiting excessive government
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The federal eviction moratorium is gone. States are delivering their final CARES Act unemployment checks now. And months after the House passed another relief bill, the GOP still doesn’t have
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We’re so excited to be kicking off Day 2 of #WeAreEMILY! Today we’ll be joined by @SaraGideon, @YNB, @EWarren, @KamalaHarris, @SenGillibrand, @AmyKlobuchar, @LondonBreed, @GreenfieldIowa, @MJHegar, Dr. @BarbaraBollier, and so many
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LA is the largest urban oil field in the country -- and while many places mandate buffer zones between oil wells and residential areas, we don’t.This means 500,000 Angelenos breathe
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Algorithmic Necropolitics: Race, Disability, and Triage Decisionmaking The algorithm that will decide who gets access to life saving care in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was laid out on Apri 7th
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Happy #GiveMiamiDay #GiveMiamiDay2020! Support movement lawyering with a gift before midnight at http://givemiamiday.org/cjp  We'll be highlighting some of our partners and friends organizing for racial justice and human rights, so
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Let's do this! You voted to read about "food as race, diet racism" so that's what this thread is abouthttps://twitter.com/KivanBay/status/1043412823798296576 So, I'm going to start by sharing a long quote
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When I first saw them, they looked *so* young. Immediately checked myself & considered cancelling going to court. Way too much to process. Would maybe scare them. Decided to play
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Princeton Univ. “Archival Silences” series continues now w/ Decolonizing Knowledges. Nishikawa greets. Sarconi brings Native territory knowledge of the Lenape nation “evicted” and persisting. Sarconi: “What does ‘decolonization
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1/ We just did an analysis of five years of data from New York City’s housing lottery system and found that those applying with the *highest* incomes are six times
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Covid Epi Weekly: Could Covid Kill 1 Million Americans?New strains are a shot across the bow. A message from the virus: We outnumber you. We’re more persistent. We change and
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