@clairezagorski Damn. I'm so sorry it got so shitty over there. You're one of my fave follows on here and I was excited to start seeing you over there instead. I look forward to those econ prof apologies once the reports come out.
NYC mayor-elect Eric Adams, a former cop with close ties with a lobbying firm that represents jail workers, vows that he will be bringing back solitary confinement on Rikers Island. Solitary confinement is torture. He is vowing to bring back torture. https://t.co/fEs3IqPW8N
Thread. One thing most people don't appreciate is how much money police spend on PR/marketing. Here are a few representative examples that should get you thinking.
When housing is a luxury commodity, when cities invest in only building housing for the rich, when apts for the workers of cities are turned into AirBnB’s, the poor “essential workers” we bang pots for live in increasingly dangerous housing—like basement apts that can flood.
@Author_PCorrell Post-viral syndromes can surface decades after the original infection/disease and can be absolutely debilitating - even deadly (e.g. rheumatic heart disease). Post-polio is awful. Long COVID is bad - who knows what post-COVID will look like. https://t.co/dqcer7kHj2
@jsher88888 This is my mom. She got polio when she was 2 months old - just a few years before the vaccine was available. And now she deals with post-polio syndrome every day. I can't even begin to describe the anger she feels when people start spewing antivax bullshit.
Jasmyne is a homeless trans woman and fellow survivor. She has $16 to her name and can’t afford her medication.
I literally cannot imagine getting through this ordeal with even fewer financial resources.
If you’ve felt for me this week, please send her some $$ on Venmo. 👇
Congrats to @Starecheski on this HUGE new job! Laura is one of the smartest, kindest, and most talented people that I know and I'm just so excited for them!!
The whole purpose of allowing white ppl to storm Capitol like this is to remind everyone of the rules of race in USA. It’s to make it threateningly clear to all that, should they choose, the white power establishment can carry out more massacres like they have throughout history
Folks should be honest & say they’re ok giving billions of tax $ away to the already-wealthy while leaving working class families to starve & lose their homes, b/c the lives of the wealthy matter while the lives of the poor don’t. But don’t lie & say it makes economic sense.
@jsher88888 This is my mom. She got polio when she was 2 months old - just a few years before the vaccine was available. And now she deals with post-polio syndrome every day. I can't even begin to describe the anger she feels when people start spewing antivax bullshit.