Andie Long

Professional storyteller. I tweet about global development, climate change, game design, and an economy that works for everyone. Usual caveats apply.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

End all unpaid internships.

If you can't afford to pay someone, you don't deserve their labor.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

This is not complicated. If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage, you do not have a viable business model.

[Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix]

The United States could literally save the world right now. We must. We must. It does not matter what it costs.
https://t.co/reDPlo7Go3

[Louise Miller 🐐 @louisethebaker]

I’m almost 50, and here is the best thing I have learned so far: every strange thing you’ve ever been into, every failed hobby or forgotten instrument, everything you have ever learned will come back to you, will serve you when you need it. No love, however brief, is wasted.

[Ryan Orbuch @orbuch]

Here's your reminder that the whole idea of a personal carbon footprint was a targeted BP media campaign in 2005 and it worked so well that it seems like we've all forgotten this https://t.co/XQAPoABQHy

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

A seven year old girl selling lemonade to fund healthcare so she doesn’t die *is not* a heart warming story. A heart warming story is people world over have kept organising to win free healthcare, in many countries have won it, & can win it everywhere.
https://t.co/ia0URkdfgG

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

Cost to run US health care system:

—$2,497/person

Cost to run Canada's single-payer system:

—$551/person

The next time someone tells you we can't afford Medicare for all, remind them that our profit-driven system costs *4x more* to run than Canada’s single-payer system.

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

1 in 7 US adults say their families are going hungry right now. This is not about a "stimulus". This is about human beings trying to survive.

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

Canceling student debt isn't just a policy position—it's the only path forward that works in the long term. By freeing millions from loans they will never be able to pay back, America will become a better, more equal place to work, live, and thrive.
https://t.co/dgf8PUBKK5

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Refusing to wear a mask doesn't make you free.

It makes you a danger to others.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Koch-funded study: #MedicareForAll saves $2 trillion over ten years.

Yale study: #MedicareForAll saves the American people $450 billion & 68,000 lives a year.

New CBO study: #MedicareForAll saves $650 billion a year.

But how are you going to pay for it? https://t.co/OCI3ABHijU

[Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco @sffed]

"We all do better when we all do better. It's not a zero-sum game... We do better as a nation and a community when we all do better." -President @marydalyecon #NFOW2020

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

If the US were covered by foreign correspondents as African nations are: a thread.

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

Warning for COVID scientists: An impostor is asking scientists for an interview using the email [email protected] (not mine) and signature “Atul Gawande, Staff Writer, The New Yorker.”

These are fake. Do not respond. I use a https://t.co/KzImGxPZmJ address for work. 1/4

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

How is Columbus Day still a holiday but Election Day isn't?

[Jamie Sarai Margolin 🇵🇸 @Jamie_Margolin]

This isn’t because “2020 sucks”, it’s because of climate change and the fossil fuel industry, who knew for decades the damage they would cause, but decided to destroy life on earth because it made them rich.

This isn’t a “2020 is a bad year” thing, this will continue to worsen.

[Governor Bob Ferguson @GovBobFerguson]

Every single American should be able to vote-by-mail.

Pass it on.

[Luke Messac @LukeMessac]

13 years ago, I emailed Dr. Fauci out of the blue to ask if I might interview him for my undergrad thesis. He invited me to his office, where he answered all my questions. When I sent him the thesis, HE READ THE WHOLE THING (see his overly effusive review below). Who does that?!

[Anar Virji @anarvirji]

For some context, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton who introduced HR 51, the bill in DC Statehood, is the great granddaughter of a slave who escaped a Virginia plantation and built Washington DC.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Forcing people to wait in line and touch shared surfaces to vote will only increase COVID-19 infections and create a public health crisis. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t hold elections and allow our democracy to function.

Now is the time for national vote-by-mail.