Kay Newhouse @KayWCS

writing lots of things, mostly in pajamas kaynewhouse.com Joined May 2014

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid

2 years ago

McDonald’s reported $1.9B in Q1 profits yet is 2nd only to Walmart on employees who receive welfare USA isn't $34T in debt because the poor rely too much on welfare & pay too little tax—but because billionaires pay too little tax & rely too much on corporate welfare. #TaxTheRich

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Assal Rad @AssalRad

2 years ago

Student protests

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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand

2 years ago

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize winner and one of the most important Jewish intellectuals in the world, adds his voice to debunk the narrative that pro-Palestinian protests on campuses is antisemitic. He calls it "normal human empathy": "What a large number of young people are expressing is normal human empathy. They don't want to see people die unnecessarily. And I think the pictures, the fact that tens of thousands of people have died, including lots of children and women, innocent bystanders, in the attack on Gaza, in a very short span of time, has had a horrific impact. And they're saying this is unjust. And it has brought back to the fore that much of the architecture of the world was shaped in a colonial era. And many of these people are from countries that themselves were shaped in a colonial era. So what I hear, and what's going on, is a real sense of empathy for so many people dying unnecessarily, and outrage at collective punishment, which is unacceptable. And it brings back to the fore reflections on colonialism and its consequences, that remind us that history doesn't just disappear, even if one would like it to."

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deray @deray

2 years ago

There’s no way anyone truly believes that teenagers in tents on college lawns w/ posters & chants requires men with guns to show up. The police are summoned to threaten, to repress, to create fear. This is the core of their role. It was never about community safety.

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James Lucas @JamesLucasIT

2 years ago

The power of street art - a thread 🧵 1. Patrick Commecy

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James Lucas @JamesLucasIT

2 years ago

5. Kevin Lee called this artwork "Invisibility of Poverty"

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Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_

2 years ago

yes

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The author, Séamas O'Reilly @shockproofbeats

2 years ago

Now that snipers are trained on peaceful students and professors are being hog-tied by masked men with assault rifles, it'd be great to hear from all the people who made "free speech on US campuses" their life's mission every time they met a student with blue hair.

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Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation @OKWildlifeDept

2 years ago

it's another lovely spring day to REMIND YOU DELINQUENTS TO STOP "RESCUING" BABY ANIMALS. THEIR MOMS ARE MOST LIKELY NEARBY - SO MIND YOUR BUSINESS. FAWNS, DROP EM'. BIRDS, LEAVE EM'. RACCOONS, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. FOXES?! -SWIPER NO SWIPING. ARMADILLO?¿? ARMADILL-NO.

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Luke Savage @LukewSavage

2 years ago

A whole lot of people who've spent years calling the younger generation "snowflakes" now apparently want armed guys in riot gear to protect them from teenagers sitting peacefully on the ground

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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction

2 years ago

“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.” Howard Zinn 1971

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Kyle Swenson @kyletalking

2 years ago

Don’t usually do *this* but, thread: Monday, SCOTUS debates the criminalization of homelessness. That means many folks are sounding off on the topic. I’ve spent 4 yrs covering this for @washingtonpost, and need to reality-check assumptions getting thrown around this week (1/x)

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(((Charles Fishman))) 💧 @cfishman

2 years ago

Again, a moment to pause & appreciate the cool professionalism of those in & around the Key Bridge at 1:24 am Tuesday. Ship’s pilot radios in that ship has lost steerage & will hit bridge. Someone (maritime control?) transmits urgent alert to Maryland/Balt police dispatch… —>

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Bobby Kogan @BBKogan

2 years ago

Hard to explain the reality of pre-ACA unless you lived through it, but: Before the ACA, if you got sick, health insurers could decide to just not cover you. Many people could not get health instance. An estimated 25-50% of America had pre-existing conditions. Obama fixed that.

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Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive

2 years ago

With today's announcement, President Biden and I have now forgiven nearly $144 billion in student loan debt for almost 4 million Americans. This is historic progress — and we’re not stopping here.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives

2 years ago

Mexico abolished slavery in 1829. Enslaved people were escaping to Mexico. The U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty to return escapees but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil. —Did you know that Juneteenth is also celebrated in a part of Mexico? Nacimiento Mexico was once home to thousands who escaped slavery in the US. As many as 10,000 slaves followed a clandestine Southern Underground Railroad to Mexico. —To date, many Black Mexicans from the Texas area retrace a portion of the same route their African American ancestors followed in 1850 when they escaped slavery. —Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions in the village of Nacimiento. —Slave hunters would patrol the southern border for escapees, led by the Texas Rangers but the Mexican army would be there waiting for them (the slave hunters) to turn them away.