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While people’s desire to defend DEI is well-intentioned, let’s be real: most corporate DEI “efforts” are just window dressing—which is harmful when they conceal these same corporations’ racialized exploitation of workers/consumers.
If you want equity in your workplace, unionize.
Exactly right and I'm very happy to see this perspective aired for once in the pages of the @nytimes:
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Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity.
People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now. You work for them. Thank you for making that crystal clear to all.
This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.
It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.
In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.
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The people losing CBP One appointments were patiently waiting in Mexico & complying with a smart process that could modernize asylum. Eliminating CBPOne is not only deeply unfair to the human beings who were following the rules, but this move will destabilize the border.
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I called @SenWarren and @SenMarkey to thank them for their NO vote and @RepPressley for voting against the bill yesterday.
If you like what your legislators do, they should hear from you.
If you don't like what your legislators do, they should hear from you.
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It's gotten ZERO attention but this law authorizes state AGs like Ken Paxton to seek court orders forcing the executive branch to detain and deport specific people, overturn individual humanitarian parole decisions, and most worryingly, cease issuing visas to entire countries.
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6/28- SCOTUS rules cities can arrest homeless folks for sleeping outside, even when there isn't shelter
Dec- #PresidentMusk tweets lies about homelessness
12/9- Neely murderer acquitted and celebrated, invited to party w/ Trump & Vance
12/22- Homeless women set on fire, murdered
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The way society talks about homelessness is and will keep getting homeless folks killed.
Trump has made it clear that, from day 1, he is going after unhoused folks. I need progressives to talk about this more.
A brief timeline of assaults and attacks on homeless folks:
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Maybe Dr. Oz owning $550,000 in UnitedHealth stock and seeking to run the agency that oversees UnitedHealth's biggest cash cow (Medicare Advantage) should get more attention
warren.senate.gov/imo/media/…
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Everything that led up to and followed the lynching of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway train by Daniel Penny could and should have been prevented.
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The operative principle is not that political violence is not allowed. It is that it is allowed only by some actors, for some ends, and forbidden to others.
A couple thoughts on the election:
1. Incumbents worldwide are losing due to inflation (driven by post-pandemic supply shocks, war in Ukraine, etc.).
This is true of both left-wing and right-wing incumbents, who have pursued a range of economic policies.
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2. We have progressive answers on affordability— on lowering the cost of housing, childcare, college, elder care, prescription drugs, etc. We should run on these things, and organize for them at the state level.
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This is where for-profit healthcare leads: to hospitals imprisoning patients against their will, for insurance payments.
nytimes.com/2024/09/01/busin…
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BREAKING: The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against real estate software company RealPage, alleging that the company's algorithm is used by landlords who collude to raise rents.
This housing cartel and their algorithmic conspiracy could be why rent is up 20% since 2020.
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UAW Region 9a leader Brandon Mancilla says in an interview with Jacobin that he and his union are not impressed with Republicans’ supposed pro-worker turn — and he explains what a real progressive, working-class agenda would look like. jacobin.com/2024/08/gop-vanc…
