#Juneteenth

Daphne Keller

daphnehk

Germany is requiring platforms to report users to the police if they are suspected of saying something illegal. The DOJ Section 230 Report says we should have the same dystopian

Dan Price

DanPriceSeattle

Compared to white people:*Black-owned homes devalued 23%*Black-owned property taxes 13% higher*Bank fees 2x higher for black customers*Black-owned biz closed at twice the rate in pandemic*Black people w/ NO criminal record

Susan Simpson

TheViewFromLL2

In honor of Juneteenth, a brief story about the America that almost was.I was at the Federal Archives once, searching for a very different document, when I came across a

Ajey Pandey

AjeyPandey

Hello, folks.I hope you’re well.  Experience and advancement in #ttrpgs is now hot in the discourse. So let’s chat about it in the #TabletopChopShop Personally, I see XP as the way

Karin Sung 🗽

KarinSung_

Brief summary of Elizabeth Warren’s racial justice and bankruptcy fight, dating back to 1975 1975: “Warren's first law review article criticized Supreme Court anti-busing ruling”https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/06/politics/elizabeth-w

Jodi Cohen

Jodiscohen

When I answered the phone, the caller began by asking: “Is there a ProPublica Michigan?”She had a story to tell, about a teenage girl who was in juvenile detention for

Terrell Jermaine Starr

Russian_Starr

Happy Juneteenth! This a perfect day to talk about how black people have always fought for freedom and how that fight often led us to seek it beyond U.S. borders.

Lawrence Glickman

LarryGlickman

We are living through a terrible time in many ways, but it is a Golden Age for public-facing history. No major pundit, as far as I’m aware, has as consistently

Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid 😷)

JoyAnnReid

Ronald Reagan called Medicare & Medicaid dangerous socialism in 1961... he was a right winger of the Barry Goldwater variety, not the warm and fuzzy presidential muppet he has become

Fe Fi Fo Fum

FionaUnderhill

Tomorrow, I'm properly starting my marathon of films directed by Women of Colour.We @JumpCut_Online have already raised 50% of our target of £3000 to support Black Lives Matter and The

Dissect Podcast

dissectpodcast

BLACK PARADE by Beyoncé.An analysis thread. The song is produced by Beyonce & Derek Dixie, her longtime collaborator who served as music director for Homecoming and co-producer of many Bey

Sarah K Mock

sarah_k_mock

Is it possible to farm without exploitation? I've spent a decade working all over ag looking for the answer to that question.The world is littered with evidence that it is

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

So, here's a thread on a them I have spoken about before several times over the years, on other social networking sites as well on as here.It's about scale, community,

Reuters

Reuters

Today marks one month since George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. One month ago,

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

If you only learn one technical term from labor economics, make it "chickenization" - @CLeonardNews's term for the way that the Big Three poultry processors have structured the chicken-farming industry

Sam Dylan Finch

samdylanfinch

A while ago, I was writing a testimonial about why I deeply believe in the work being done at RaceBaitr.Which turned into a really long essay(?), asking folks to let

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