@Schubes17 my roommate and I will be there! and I went to Drake (university, not the rapper, though he did visit once), which is right next door and such a cool place to walk around and visit!
Sherrod Brown was an old school labor rights Democrat and he lost decisively to a car dealership owner who had to settle several wage theft lawsuits before running for office. This election was not about working class discontent.
as we move toward election day I want everyone to keep in mind that this Listeria surge is 100% a ramification of the last Donald Trump presidency and his rollbacks on food safety and production regulations.
We don't call transphobes 'transphobes' to 'scare them out' of being transphobic. E.g. saying 'Anita Bryant is a homophobe' doesn't stop Anita Bryant being homophobic. We're identifying a bigotry, and asking society to stand up to it.
Everything isn't about you, Joanne. 1/
Kinda seems like if someone commits 34 felonies in order to win an election, their Supreme Court appointments shouldn’t get to remain on the bench for life
This article argues in part that racism and sexism are essentially non-existent because their effects on stuff like income disappear if you control for all relevant variables like education, work history and so on. This is a common argument so let me explain why it's wrong. 👇
If you simply cannot build your tools—which you intend to profit directly off of, at great scale—without compensating or getting permission from those whose work is integral to creating those tools, you should not be building them at all
Okay everyone stop because there is nobody in federal prison for simple possession. This is just another bullshit symbolic gesture from the Biden administration to try and get all of you to forget he’s supporting a genocide.
Lastly, can we be clear on DEI in general: it’s NOT helping unqualified/less qualified people get opportunities. Rather DEI initiatives help QUALIFIED people who have been denied access to opportunity b/c unconscious bias, “not a good fit” etc get it.
After Roe fell, many believed that abortion bans that were triggered would be clarified in 2023 to include more exceptions covering health risks, rape, incest, and fatal fetal anomalies.
But a @propublica review of 12 of the strictest abortion bans found that didn’t happen.