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Liz Ananat

LizAnanat

NEW RESEARCH THREAD Congress is considering new legislation to help Americans still struggling during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. My recent survey w/@agpines of our sample of hourly service workers with

natty strange

nuns_on_film

Just spoke with the leader of our postal workers union local and she made me aware of a few things I didn't know:1. USPS handles FedEx, UPS, and Amazon's mail

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libyajamahiriya

The socialist policies of Libya during Gaddafi's Jamahiriya: A Thread 1. Nationalisation of oil.Approximately 70% of all oil in Libya was nationalised. Contrary to popular belief oil was never privatised.

MT

MarigaThoithi

What's the single worst financial decision you've ever made? I've had many bad financial decisions Investing in farming without any technical skills had me losing a few hundred thousand as

Andy Smarick

smarick

Let me tell you one really interesting thing about some letters.I think it only occurs after you've been writing back and forth with someone for a while.1/ As I've written

Peter Ganong

p_ganong

new paper on labor market & expanded UI benefits Tldr: spending more than expected, job search order of magnitude less than expected1) rise of repeat unemployment2) effect

Lydia DePillis

lydiadepillis

Happy Saturday. It’s 169 days since the CARES Act passed. As Congress dithers on another relief package, I want to show you what the stimulus has done for people, from

How to gamble in a god honoring way

ddddarby

you could have sent us those $2k checks, weekly, retroactive to last march instead of all this!https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/gamestop-short-sellers-reload-bearish-bets-after-6-billion-loss There are hundreds of comments

Elsa H Elmi

HibaqElmii

The day that was 14 of June 2020.The day that shook Farmaajo denfenders and his fanboys.If you’re in the Somali tweeter or somali-media ecosystem of punditry, the Farmaajo defense game

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

In most of the world's democracies, tax prep is really easy: the government uses its own employer-supplied payroll records to estimate your taxes, fills in a tax return for you

Tom Forth

thomasforth

Since 2010 UK state spending has shrunk by 6% of GDP. In the same period the French state has shrunk by just 1% of GDP. This comparison is quite a

David Marsland

DavidMarslandia

Sad at the death of Sean Connery. I interviewed him, very hungover, on a golf course. I asked for a mic check: “Just say your name and occupation”. He stared

Occam’s Chainsaw

PianoGrump

Because of the ADA I'm allowed to sit down while talking to customers...after a dr note & month-long processing w HR bc corporate thinks that sitting down is "not respectful

anonymous 👥

YourAnonCentral

So you want to join Anonymous? You can not join Anonymous.Nobody can join Anonymous. Anonymous is not an organization. It is not a club, a party, or even a movement,

Zul.

zfatlee

I stayed on my own during MCO 1.0 and decided to stay with my parents this time around.It’s day 2 now and I decided to make a guide of “Surviving

THE BUREAU

thebureauco

The Great Depression was the most significant economic decline in the industrialized world. But the images associated with it are usually of rural, White Americans amidst extreme poverty. The reality

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