Lee Salazar (she/her)

Certificated paralegal · Committed Versatile Support. Appreciator of the arts; board & rpg gamer; 2 cats; UU; vaxxed Team Pfizer.

[Lee Salazar (she/her) @leesalazar]

Truth is important and worth spreading even when I don't see a clear path for truth to lead to change

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. The consolidation of corporate power, along with the decline of unions, has weakened the ability of workers to negotiate wages.

In the grocery industry, this could get worse if Kroger, the largest supermarket chain, is permitted to acquire Albertsons, the second-largest

🧵

[C. Robert Cargill @Massawyrm]

The immediate fear of AI isn’t that us writers will have our work replaced by artificially generated content. It’s that we will be underpaid to rewrite that trash into something we could have done better from the start. This is what the WGA is opposing and the studios want.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Alex Barnett, a college student, was sentenced to 10 DAYS IN JAIL for participating in a peaceful protest of anti-trans policies imposed by an Arkansas school board.

The school board would not allow public comment, so Barnett chanted "Trans lives matter!"

🧵

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

Some people seem convinced that accepting children can get and transmit covid automatically implies schools shouldn’t exist??🤯🤯

Newsflash: there are many ways to lower risk and still give our kids good educations.

But they all require admitting that we have a problem.

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

I teach college music theory, but I'm also a new dad. I decided to combine my professional and personal identities and make a thread of music for babies where the adult musicians went way, way harder than they had to. (1/12)

[Cat Moon @inspiredcat]

"But students are not the source of the problem, so individual stress-reducing activities cannot be the solution. Self-care is not a cure for institutional brutality. Student suffering is built into the structure of legal education because the market for lawyers demands it.

[Ask a Manager @AskAManager]

Right now 79% of the responses to this are from women (!). Men, want to take an easy action for feminism today? Please fill this out to give us all concrete salary comparisons to inform pay negotiations --

[Access to Justice Lab @a2jlab]

Though millions in the U.S. w/ criminal records are eligible for record expungement & sealing, there are high barriers. Our new study shows which legislative reforms would most effectively address this: https://t.co/DIVg1vDLZS

#A2J #AccesstoJustice #expungement #criminaljustice

[Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter]

It happened recently in Jackson, Mississippi. Last week it happened in Nashville, Tennessee.

In statehouses across the South, white supermajorities are voting to silence voices and remove representation from Black and Brown communities.

https://t.co/axX0Wx4p98

[Eric Umansky @ericuman]

Reminder:

Florida did a voter reg drive in jail. Then Florida charged the inmates...for illegally registering

8 of 10 are Black

They've been sentenced to years in prison

Also in FL: 2 white guys in The Villages voted 2x

They got community service

https://t.co/KKJrPAE9ee

[DSA Jacksonville #CeasefireNOW! #ArmsEmbargoNOW! @JaxDSA]

The federal student debt relief application is live. Expect the website to be up and down throughout the weekend. Luckily, it only takes a few minutes!

Still have questions? @StrikeDebt has the answers!

[Spuffyduds @spuffyduds]

Heads up that the first two Mel-and-Sue seasons of #GBBO which were never on US Netflix, are on the Roku channel!

[Senior and Disability Action (SDA) @sdaction1]

We're angry and disappointed that after months of prioritizing public health by requiring masks on @SFBART, the board caved to political pressure to drop the mask requirement, throwing #HighRisk people under the bus. #Masks4Equity

[none of us are free til all of us are free 🍉 @hankoehle]

Throughout the pandemic, people have struggled to understand that using the "normal" patient as the model person affected by health policy does not put a few marginal people in harm's way, but harms *almost everyone*.

[none of us are free til all of us are free 🍉 @hankoehle]

Public health policy is frequently modeled on a "normal" patient, and others are treated as exceptions. The standard body in medical knowledge is male, white, cisgender, heterosexual, of normative weight. The standard patient in the US is a Protestant citizen without disability🧵