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We’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.
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This is going to be like Fyre Fest, isn't it? 😬
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Why have so many football team badges been simplified into corporate logos?
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Airbnbs more expensive than hotels
Ubers more expensive than taxis
Netflix now acting like a cable company w/ ads and less binging
This is the “new” economy
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Weekend reminder that SimCity's creators couldn't accurately reflect the scale of urban parking lots because if they did the game fell apart.
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Which label gives you more confidence in the value? Feel free to reply with why.
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Looking at Amazon's quarterly financials, it would be easy to mistake the company's $31b ad division as a serious shift in the online advertising industry, but that would be a huge mistake. You see, Amazon's not really selling *ads*. 1/
ALT Jean-Leon Gerome's painting Pollice Verso, 1872, depicting gladiators in an arena with noble onlookers giving a thumbs-down gesture. The tapestry before the nobles has been replaced with a US $100 bill in which Ben Franklin's mouth has been replaced by an Amazon smile logo. Image: Jean-Leon Gerome (modified) US Treasury (modified) Amazon (modified)
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Most people who make fun of the 17th-century mania for tulips
- own zero costly tulips
- have never imported a tulip
- have never participated in an early modern financial bubble
- missed out on pineapple mania and the South Sea and Mississippi companies
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BLM King County is a PERFECT example on how you CAN’T just trust an organization because of it’s name. They are being used to shield neolib Seattle politicians from accountability and preventing real transformative material change. They aren’t even an accredited BLM chapter. – at Seattle, WA
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Our movement's won a victory today. City Council voted to DEFUND the SWEEPS of homeless encampments.
Congrats to those fighting for years: homeless activists & advocates, People's Budget, socialists!
We need to keep organizing for tiny house villages, services, social housing.
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Navy SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce used “Colin Kaepernick stand-in" for K-9 demonstration at fundraiser last year #BecauseFlorida instagram.com/p/BtJtJ6OFrE-/
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Didn’t ask for this. We want the City to get its knee off our necks. We want to reinvest 50% of police funds into the Black community towards true public health and safety initiatives.
#PayTheFee #FreeTheLand #EquityNow
King County moves to make Juneteenth holiday a paid holiday
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Mayor, it is raining harder than we’ve ever seen before. – at Seattle, WA
Mayor Durkan has vetoed the City Council's plan to spend $86 million from the city's "rainy day" and emergency funds on new COVID-19 relief programs. Here is the statement that the Mayor attached to her veto. durkan.seattle.gov/wp-conten…
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In April, I called for $50 billion in dedicated child care funding. In May, I helped introduce the Child Care is Essential Act to make it happen.
Today, the House passed it! RT if you agree that the Senate should immediately do the same.
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Alex Pedersen is conducting a survey about defunding the police. He is one of the lone holdouts against the plan to defund. You should take his survey and provide your perspective.
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The establishment pretends to be inspired by nonviolent protest while opposing what protesters demand (defund & abolish police). They want folks to march in circles & not damage or disrupt anything. That’s all. They‘re not committed to dismantling racist policies or institutions.