I still watch this every few weeks, because I still can't believe I was privileged to see and try to write live, and coherently, about Stephen Curry, at his absolute best:
https://t.co/q1umR495KP
To celebrate our mint yesterday, we're giving away 2 Sunday tickets to the Masters 🏌️♂️
Follow and RT to have a shot to win 2 tickets OR the SOL equivalent (valued at ~$4,000).
The winner will be announced early next week on Twitter.
Hit 'em straight!
This guy at @CityofProv DPW tried closing the mattress drop off 15 minutes early, was harassing residents and threatening $1,000 fines to people who were there trying to do the right thing. Meanwhile there’s literal piles of dumped mattresses around the corner on Carolina Ave
I encourage people to follow the case of historian Naoko Shibusawa, suspended from the job and stripped of faculty rights at Brown for publishing what was deemed a controversial essay on racial solidarity: https://t.co/Uei2r0EHLW. The NYU AAUP sent a letter supporting Shibusawa.
Today would have been my dear relative José (Joe) Soto’s 64th birthday ❤️
In his honor I’m asking my extended community to contribute to help uphold Joe’s vision and living legacy through the Traditional Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Healing
https://t.co/KDemqm00ko
Corporate media has barely covered the story behind the disaster in Ohio.
By contrast, @LeverNews has been holding politicians accountable for weakening train safety rules & the pressure is making an impact: https://t.co/EVLpeBvbme
Both @RepBowman & @RepMTG just did this 👇
“All labor has dignity … it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages.”
Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the passing of my friend/cofounder @aaronsw. Breaking Points just did a segment on Aaron's legacy. Also interviewed me - I'll share when it's up.
Aaron Swartz : Legacy Of An Internet Freedom Fighter | Counter Points https://t.co/yyWSJHlUrm
1st week of 2023 and we already have a bad odor day (overcast, slow winds from the east) with port stench in Providence
Hope @PVDMayor Smiley will take this seriously and fix it! We can’t have a “world class city” with sewage/asphalt/fuel sulphur odors impacting 4+ neighborhoods
Today Brown CSTAs rallied and asked Pres Paxson to voluntarily recognize their union!! They cited several issues:
-TAs unpaid for months
-TAs feel pressured to work unpaid hours
-last minute changes and working until 3 or 4am
-fear of retaliation for logging overtime
-low pay
Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.