angela matua

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[Brian M. Rosenthal @brianmrosenthal]

NEW: The agency that oversees elections in NYC is staffed almost entirely by relatives & friends of political leaders, even the computer programmers. Many are incompetent. “The agency is chronically dysfunctional,” one current staffer said. With @MRothfeld https://t.co/YbDAnFcAeF

[Christina Goldbaum @cegoldbaum]

Transit workers in NY have been some of the hardest hit by the coronavirus. We followed three of them in recent months to show how the outbreak - and its aftershocks -have forever changed the lives of these essential workers.

Meet Sally, Cesar and Pan.

https://t.co/1jWJryFSoI

[taha @KhanStopMe]

Support him.

He showed the world what they did to his friend and only he went to prison.
https://t.co/jYj9OvGsEb

[Sarah Jones @onesarahjones]

"Voting in Democrats didn’t keep George Floyd alive. It didn’t save Eric Garner here in New York. The protests that erupt daily...follow decades of dysfunction, institutional decay, and neglect." https://t.co/Jm4LOo0DCD

[Joaquin Sapien @jbsapien]

Two Coasts. One Virus. How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California. https://t.co/Ymsanj4wnr

[angela matua @angelamatua]

@proleangst lolll, weird how California can afford it 🤔

[angela matua @angelamatua]

@proleangst and they have a new album coming out in May, lolol

[Annalisa Quinn @Annalisa_Quinn]

Plastic bags! Environmentally ruinous, weirdly beautiful, made to last forever, thrown away immediately. We say goodbye: https://t.co/VnYh4DAq3b

[The Nation @thenation]

How one company helps landlords exploit a loophole in New York’s tenant laws. https://t.co/uR9NURyasn

[Sarah A. Topol @satopol]

For almost a year, I've been speaking to Humar. Her Uighur family did everything 'right.' One day her mother disappeared. Then her father. The story of a daughter taking on the state to free her parents from the vast internment camp system, for @NYTmag: https://t.co/fHv9CKOLLY

[Gothamist @Gothamist]

Metro New York Staff Fired Without Severance As Schneps Media Gobbles Up More Local News
https://t.co/vacT8J4303

[POLITICO New York @politicony]

NYC's recycling failures are the result of inaction by @NYCMayor and @MikeBloomberg both of whom emphasized climate change in their 2020 presidential bids. NYC spent $409M exporting 3.25M tons of trash last year and recycled just 18.1%: https://t.co/fB99K7ViZ7

[NYT Metro @NYTMetro]

Mr. Rodriguez and his children stayed in as many as five different shelters in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx before settling in one on Fox Street in the Bronx. https://t.co/x1mMNGaDpG

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

After moving from Ghana to America, Karen Mills found a second family at Children's Aid. When she was starting college, the organization gave her a gift card to buy blankets, pillows and other essentials. Now, Ms. Mills can't wait to give back. https://t.co/fJAxCyS1Jf

[Elisha Brown @elishacbrown]

Happy #GivingTuesday! For The Neediest Cases Fund, I wrote about a promising student who wants to be a dermatologist, but college tuition could thwart her dreams. https://t.co/cjUa4kN4WK

[NYT Metro @NYTMetro]

After her mother was injured in a subway fall, a mountain of responsibilities fell on Syria Sanchez. Now she is refocusing on her goal of becoming a nurse. https://t.co/AwOSq8aBjw

[NYT Metro @NYTMetro]

He received help with his rent and textbooks from The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund. Now he is one exam away from becoming a C.P.A. https://t.co/xtHPTsR901

[The New York Times @nytimes]

George Nkrumah Meizah moved to New York from Ghana when he was 17. When he ran into problems at home, he found hope, and purpose, in art therapy. “Now I feel better,” he said. “I feel free." https://t.co/m09qGDbkhM

[Nikita Stewart @kitastew]

THREAD: In New York, hope sometimes comes at the price of the sun. For immigrants like Amado, the basements of Queens provide sanctuary in a city where most rents are out of reach. https://t.co/kQBRxMeipM

[Lisa Goldman @lisang]

A Uyghur woman who escaped from one of China's 're-education' (read: concentration) camps recounts what she witnessed and experienced: starvation, torture, gang rape, medical experiments. It's gut churning. https://t.co/nK6OHCTV9b