Simona Tobia

Maître de conférence en civilisation des États-Unis (Associate Professor in US History and Politics), co-editor @close_War

[Simona Tobia @SimoTobia]

@SevenPaperclips Unbelievable

[Close Encounters in War Journal @close_war]

Close Encounters in War launches a new section for stories and poetry https://t.co/K3TivjH8kH

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Dozens of Trump supporters rushed to the East Front entrance to the Senate side of the Capitol and some repeatedly hit the locked doors with batons and poles.

“Arrest Congress!” a woman in a flag scarf shouted.
https://t.co/IFNIZ9Ekfo

[Simona Tobia @SimoTobia]

Storming the Capitol? My students come to American History class full of ideals about the most beautiful democracy in the world, just as I did however many years back. I’ve since lost any illusion about American ‘democracy’, but how will I be able to help them make sense of this?

[Close Encounters in War Journal @close_war]

Issue n. 3 (2020) of the CEIWJ is online https://t.co/c1QVk7Njmy via @wordpressdotcom

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

30 million lost their jobs in six weeks.

We are the only major country with millions unemployed and uninsured.

It's time to reexamine our society's foundations and fight for a more just nation.

This is the moment to make sure everyone has economic security and health care.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

$282,000,000,000.

That's by how much America’s billionaires increased their wealth in less than a month, while over 22 million lost their jobs.

This system of unfettered greed is morally obscene. It’s time to put working families first—not billionaires. https://t.co/KAsOVJgbKX

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Here's an idea for @JeffBezos: Instead of handing out t-shirts, maybe, as the richest man on Earth, you can provide all of your workers with paid sick leave, hazard pay, protective gear, and a safe and sanitary workplace.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

American taxpayers put tens of millions of dollars into developing remdesivir. Any coronavirus treatment or vaccine must be made free for everybody.

We will not tolerate profiteering by Gilead or any other pharmaceutical corporation right now. Human life comes first.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Justice for frontline workers means childcare, safe conditions and $500 a week in hazard pay to:

🛒Grocery workers
👷🏼‍♀️Transit workers and truck drivers
📦Warehouse, delivery and postal workers
👩🏽‍⚕️Paramedics, nurses, pharmacy employees
🧺Domestic workers
👨🏼‍🌾Farm laborers
🧼Janitors

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Even before this pandemic, a majority of our workers lived paycheck to paycheck.

1 in 7 children didn’t get enough to eat.

40% couldn’t afford a $400 emergency.

Let us learn from this crisis. Let us finally eradicate hunger and poverty in the richest country in human history.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

$33.4 billion. That's how much the wealth of Jeff Bezos and six other billionaires increased last week while millions of Americans were filing for unemployment.

Our society cannot sustain itself when so few have so much, while so many have so little. https://t.co/XwlhIXTMzS

[Kevin M. Cline @TheKevinMCline]

I did...who’s with me?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

We are looking today at doctors and nurses who can't acquire the masks they need as they put their lives on the line.

Yet we are the wealthiest country in the history of the world.

How does that happen?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If today we had the same level of inequality we had forty years ago, the bottom 90% of American households would be earning $12,000 more every year.

$120,000 per decade.

Do not tell me we cannot afford to cover the paychecks of every worker during this horrific pandemic.

[Simona Tobia @SimoTobia]

Following this excellent webinar

[BU Oral History @BaylorOH]

Our free "Conducting Remote Interviews" #oralhistory webinar is today from 1-3pm CST! Two hours of instruction followed by a lengthy Q&A session. If you can't make it, both sections will be recorded and posted publicly later this week. Hope to see you there!

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

To clarify, $1200 checks are ONLY going to some w/social sec numbers, NOT immigrants w/ tax IDs (ITINs).

Thanks to GOP, these checks will be cut off the backs of *taxpaying immigrants,* who get nothing. Many are essential workers who pay more taxes than Amazon.

Wall St gets $4T

[ITP Support Assoc @ITPSupportAssoc]

#Coronavirus (Covid-19) - Updated Information Statement from the UK ITP Forum and the ITP Support Association 23rd March 2020. #StayHomeSaveLives
Information for adult patients with immune thrombocytopenia in the setting of COVID-19 pandemic
https://t.co/ffVKU46xCe

[Simona Tobia @SimoTobia]

Students in too many countries cannot separate “fact” from “opinion”. This is where the responsibilities of teachers in the humanities lay, at all levels of education. This is how we can make a difference.

[OECD Education @OECDEduSkills]

PISA 2018 results now available: Get the full package ➡ https://t.co/yxx9nzP35R | Programme for International #Student Assessment #OECDPISA #SDG4

[Simona Tobia @SimoTobia]

@MemStudiesAssoc When will the submission portal open?