@JeanieOsc @rOpenSci@RallidaeRule I'm new to twitter. Thanks concerned citizen, @JeanieOsc, for raising the question about minority representation in data science.
BUT I'm right here in the photo! #TwitterIsWeird to me. #WhitePeopleTwitter
(Thanks @revodavid for side-inviting me to the #runconf18 conclusion. :-)
In America, 1 in 4 cancer patients declared bankruptcy or lost their homes to eviction or foreclosure in 2022, while 42% deplete their life savings within 2 years.
This is insane and unspeakable. Getting cancer should not cause bankruptcy. We must cancel medical debt.
Billionaire-backed voucher advocates are trying to expand “school choice” programs in more red and purple states.
But some of the strongest resistance to this conservative assault on public schools is coming from rural Republicans.
https://t.co/IHdx1rlek2
The argument against regulation is always the same: “It stifles growth and jobs.”
But just as tax cuts for corporations have not trickled down, regulatory cuts have not benefited most people.
Big companies enjoy bigger profits. Working people bear the costs.
Wisconsin Republicans spent like 15 years talking about how no one would ride a train in the Midwest and it would be an expensive boondoggle...and then a new route was added and it turned a profit in less than two weeks. https://t.co/KtOBRs4uuV
If you think a nightmarish, unconstitutional round up of innocent people, merely suspected of being enemies of the state, can’t happen in the U.S., then you’re forgetting that it already has.
I was among them, along with my entire family and community.