The Progressive Agenda for New York City would create a public bank for New York City, put an end to our hostage relationship with Wall Street, end solitary confinement, create permanently affordable housing, expand sick time to gig workers, and more.
NEW: Paris wants to kick "dark stores" out of the city center as it struggles to grapple with rapid-delivery services that are elbowing their way into the city’s old economy.
@jsyche reports: https://t.co/frGYnuKbtG
Every billionaire is a policy failure, but every billionaire is also a factory for producing policy failures at scale. The political power conferred by massive wealth makes democracy a sham, where "one person, one vote" is swamped by "one dollar, one vote." 1/
"I'm not the person I was"
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Sadly we read this so often in our @long_covid Facebook support group.
If you have been diagnosed with #LongCovid or care for someone with Long Covid please join us for peer support & wellbeing events.
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Even in the face of unprecedented union-busting activity, 248 Starbucks stores in 35 states are now unionized thanks to @SBWorkersUnited.
When workers fight, they win.
Imagine if Starbucks corporate actually played fair.
A new #LongCovid nationwide study from Scotland w/ matched controls, 6-18 months follow up, showed 6% no recovery, 42% had only partial recovery, with "poorer quality of life and wide-ranging impairment of their daily activities which could not be explained by confounding"
Mayor Adams’ plan to solve the lack of affordable internet for New Yorkers is to hand more money over to big telecom companies that have failed to fulfill their promises over and over again. We need @Internet4AllNYC https://t.co/8lf8xVDuvJ
Spectrum should be have kicked out of the State years ago
Rich address? Gigabit up/down
Marginalized address? 100Mb down occasionally, 12Mb up always
Low income? 30Mb down, 6Mb up
They are censoring / restricting #BIPOC content creation via speed limits
the workers at Charter, one of the companies Adams is giving money to, were on strike for five years and Charter hired a scab workforce and tried to decertify the union. Would be nice if our City didn’t continue to hand money to union busting corporations https://t.co/sc1vpsJ9uG
#LongCovid (post-COVID19 condition) is devastating people’s lives and livelihoods. In my @guardian piece, I'm outlining 5 key elements to drive the effort forward to support the patients with prolonged symptoms, as well as to prevent more suffering. https://t.co/lSNf7eLLEQ
@D_Bone Pfizer Bivalent last week, about back to normal LC rest cycle from hard crash for 48 hours. Big swell at injection site, sore for a few days. Not much else to report, definitely not recovered as I wake from another 3 hour daytime nap.
“In the past, I was hurting, and I have a lot of coworkers who have home instability. Yet we’d all be here at Trader Joe’s selling food to folks with smiles on our faces, even though some of us didn’t know where the next meal would be coming from.”
@TraderJoesUnite
Make no mistake: Companies are using inflation as a smokescreen to hike prices and rake in record profits. 2021 was the most profitable year for American corporations since 1950.