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Bill Figueroa

IranChinaGuy

Inspired by my answer on @askhistorians yesterday, I decided to share a thread about #Slavery in #China. What was slavery like in China? Who were #Chinese slaves? And how did

Paras Chopra

paraschopra

How to make Universal Basic Income (UBI) work?(a short thread) 1/ UBI is the idea that all humans deserve a basic income just for existing.It’s getting popular over time because

Ted Hope

TedHope

"Was there a specific moment in your life where art really mattered or made a difference for you?" (part 1)Press conference for Monuments Men. All eyes on Bill Murray. A

Jean-Michel Connard

torriangray

My mom was telling me about a friend of hers who had polio when they were kids last night. She spent a good chunk of her childhood in an iron

Ashley Warren @ RPG Writer Workshop

ashleynhwarren

WotC's treatment of marginalized creators is abhorrent. Of my many friends who have worked there (either p/t or f/t), not many have had a great experience (myself included). Much of

Kevin Gosztola

kgosztola

The Biden-Harris Transition Team released names of people who are on their "agency review teams," which will prepare Biden and his Cabinet for their administration. Let's examine some of the

Nelson "Things are going to get weirder" Rosario

NelsonMRosario

I'm convinced that the best way to understand everything going on right now is to look to the beginning of the 20th century, technically starting with the Panic of 1893,

comrade vinny, head of the department of jokes

authlefttrash

hot take but out of all identities, queer ones have the least correlation to class. this is because unlike race and class, its not hereditary. how can that be? well,

Diana B. Henriques

dianabhenriques

I've been thinking a lot about how the GOP/Trump response to the pandemic compares to the GOP/Hoover response to the Great Depression. Same issue: Does government have a duty to

tarachara | local trap

taracharamod

if you were described the u.s. using the same language the western press uses to describe socialist states, you'd invariably imagine something profoundly dystopian "the two parties in government closely

Jonathan Feld

JonathanFeld

For so many reasons, Hank Aaron was an American hero.On one muggy, summer night in St. Louis, Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, and Hank Aaron all jogged out to take their

Humanity United

HumanityUnited

For #InternationalMigrantsDay, we’re highlighting recent reports and blogs related to #migrantworkers, including their contributions to society & the unique challenges they face amidst #COVID19 here and internationally. THREAD Migran

Christopher Mims

mims

This is the most important thing I’ve ever published, and I’ve been a technology journalist for more than a decade.(thread )https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-is-dividing-the-american-worker-11598068859 People with a high school degr

Pavlina R Tcherneva

ptcherneva

$600/wk Unemployment Insurance cannot deliver the benefits of a $600/wk Job Guarantee. From the outset, I should say JG is not a replacement for UI, no matter what you may

Hayden O'Connor

HaydenJOConnor

13% of Australia is below the poverty lineThe poverty line is roughly $450 p/wJobSeeker is $357.85 p/wBefore COVID it was $280 p/wThis is unacceptable for a wealthy country such as

One Fresh Pillow

OneFreshPillow

I want to update everyone on why we sold out of pillows yesterday. We were actually working on getting another round of pillows started up a week ago. The amount

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