@Dennysat4am

4 Followers
17 Following
37 Posts

Work from home has been a huge boon to employment access for disabled people.

“The jobless rate for disabled workers — typically in double digits and 12.3% two years ago — dropped to 5.8% in November … the lowest rate for people with disabilities since record-keeping began in 2008.”

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-12-15/long-left-out-of-job-market-people-with-disabilities-reap-benefits-of-covid-19s-teleworking-boom

People with disabilities reap benefits of surge in telework

The COVID-19 pandemic's silver lining for people with disabilities: a lot more remote work opportunities. Will it last?

Los Angeles Times

@online-news

NPR reports that six news websites in Alabama and Florida have been taking under-the-table payments from electric utilities in exchange for stories attacking alternative energy.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm

In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics

Alabama Power and Florida Power & Light hired the consulting firm Matrix to help shape their fortunes. Matrix funded six sites that covered politics, filling a void left by the decline of local news.

NPR
Watch ARadicalGuide with me on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/aradicalguide?sr=a
ARadicalGuide - Twitch

A Radical Guide to Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Radicals

Twitch
IN WAKE OF CAPITOL RIOT, GOP LEGISLATURES “REBRAND” OLD ANTI-BLM PROTEST LAWS
Three states introduced anti-protest laws since the Capitol insurrection — part of a wider push to criminalize dissent.
https://theintercept.com/2021/01/12/capitol-riot-anti-protest-blm-laws/
In Wake of Capitol Riot, GOP Legislatures “Rebrand” Old Anti-BLM Protest Laws

Three states introduced anti-protest laws since the Capitol insurrection — part of a wider push to criminalize dissent.

Telegram surpassed 500 million active users.

In the past 72 hours alone, more than 25 million new users from around the world joined Telegram.
4,341,995 accounts
+232 in the last hour
+4,112 in the last day
+48,335 in the last week

Brown Berets call for a national day of action against ICE on January 20th

Further info: https://shepherdexpress.com/news/features/brown-berets-will-march-for-immigrant-and-human-rights/ #AbolishICE

Brown Berets Will March for Immigrant (and Human Rights)

Milwaukee chapter plans a protest and calls on Joe Biden to change immigration policies.

@[email protected]
Hey! Found an archive I thought you'd be interested in: Zines from the 2020 George Floyd Protests. I hope you find them useful.

https://t.co/WQZYQvAcDE

Zines from the 2020 Uprising