Vienna

Simply interested in what's going on in the world.

[The Problem With Jon Stewart @TheProblem]

Danger! Workers are doing too well! Call the Fed to shut that down! A conversation with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Watch the full interview in our latest episode, now streaming on @appletvplus.

[Adam Conover @adamconover]

Los Angeles folks: I believe that we all need to be a LOT more worried about Rick Caruso's candidacy. We're on the verge of allowing a Trumpian, anti-abortion billionaire to buy our city government. And he can do it this June, in the primary, if we don't stop him. Thread:

[Lindsay Toczylowski @L_Toczylowski]

Spent this morning visiting a shelter for Ukrainian refugees in Tijuana.

Spent the afternoon at a shelter @ImmDef visits regularly to provide legal services to mostly Haitian & Central American families.

The differences between the two are stark and soul-shattering. 🧵

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. Today the New York Times responded to a mass subway shooting with a relentless string of copaganda. Let’s look closely at how the NYT used a crisis to boost police talking points and lies in some creative ways:

[Ashley - Serious Security Scientist @Infosec_Taylor]

I just realized my non-US friends probably don't know how US insurance works.

So lets say your employer offers insurance. They pay a portion and then you pay a portion. For a family, the employee pays on average about $400 per pay cycle, or $10,400 per year.

[Tessa Davis @TessaRDavis]

The most powerful feature that Twitter has:

Advanced search

Until recently I hadn't even heard of it, but now I use it all the time.

Here are 6 twitter advanced search features that will revolutionise the way you search for what to read: 🧵👇

[S. 🏆 @saratu]

I'm going to start a thread of these incidents of insidious racism in the media coverage of the Ukrainian crisis, because I've just been seeing so damn many. https://t.co/xKMo2d568s

[Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz]

There's a phenomenon I actually see extremely commonly when literature is used to teach history to middle school and high school students. Let's call it "pajamafication."

[Vienna @vrobstar]

Brilliant

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

I was invited to give an MLK speech today and a small number of members of the group hosting me wrote and then leaked emails opposing my giving this speech, as it dishonored Dr. King for me to do so. They called me a "discredited activist" "unworthy of such association with King"

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Would you help me tweet this around the world?

Kindness matters
But kindness does not = justice

Civility counts
But civility is not the humane response to injustice
Justice is

Love is essential
But love is not a passive, weeping bystander

Love puts in work.

#MLKDay

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

A thread of color photos of my father, as we commemorate his 93rd birthday.

#MLK #CorettaScottKing #BelovedCommunity  #MLKDay #ShiftingPriorities

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

One of the clearest signs of learning is rethinking your assumptions and revising your opinions.

21 things I rethought in 2021: a thread...

[Ryan Ken @Ryan_Ken_Acts]

One thing that I learned going to school with rich yt kids & something COVID has hammered home is people with a lot of privilege are shielded from their poor decisions thus are terrible at risk assessment. They don’t need to be in charge but that’s all they want & they get it.

[Vienna @vrobstar]

If only we all got this much time to fulfill our potential

[Paul Krugman @paulkrugman]

So I'm reading that Elon Musk, who founded Tesla in 2003 and first had a profitable year in 2020, is concerned that Build Back Better might, for a while, add modestly to the budget deficit while it invests in children and the environment

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

It’s actually simple: If you can feel pride in things you didn’t personally take part in, then you can feel shame in things you didn’t personally take part in. Some of you are motivated to make this hard, but it’s only hard bc you want the glory of our history but not the burden.

[Adam Conover @adamconover]

LA folks: @nithyavraman's campaign was an incredibly inspiring moment for so many of us in 2020. A diverse coalition came together to fight for a better, greener, more equitable city - and we won!

But now, an unelected commission is trying to take away 73% of our district, CD4.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

When I tell you the history we all are taught renders us incapable of understanding the world in which we live, this is such a profound example. The shock on the other anchors faces when @vladduthiersCBS breaks down some key and basic facts about Haiti. Whew.

[Vienna @vrobstar]

The history books were inadequate when I was in school, and they seem to have moved into appalling. This denial is shameful.

[Joshua Benton (@joshuabenton.com on Bluesky) @jbenton]

There are two approved Louisiana history textbooks for the state's 8th graders.

This is how one of them introduces the Civil War: as tough times for a poor young white woman whose family owned 120 slaves.

[J Easley, PhD @DrJ_Easley]

Can someone explain to me why Daycares are so expensive, but daycare workers are so underpaid? What am I missing?

[Team Katie @TeamKatiePorter]

Big Pharma says they need to charge astronomical prices to pay for research and development. Yet, the amount they spend on manipulating the market to enrich shareholders completely eclipses what's spent on R&D. Today, I confronted a CEO about the industry's lies, with visuals ⤵️