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Hey Wisconsin! There is so much at stake April 4th!. Judge Janet will uphold our constitutional freedoms, protect our democracy, & defend reproductive choice.
Vote Judge Janet Protasiewicz for a fair, impartial Supreme Court on April 4th!
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Graduate students at the University of Minnesota announced on Monday an effort to unionize to negotiate for higher wages, fewer fees, and protection against workplace abuses. “Graduate workers at UMN need a change. We face low pay and high student fees. Work expectations are unclear and when issues arise there is little to no support […]
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO—Following a series of transphobic comments by the Harry Potter author, the nation’s top evangelical leaders announced Monday that J.K. Rowling had finally become bigoted enough to make it okay for kids to read about witchcraft. “While I always appreciated Ms. Rowling making the greedy banker…
#Moderna is quadrupling the cost of #covid #vaccines, from $26/dose to $110-130. Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel calls the price hike "consistent with the value" of the #MRNA vaccines. Moderna's manufacturing costs are $2.85/dose, for a 4,460% markup on every dose:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/24/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity
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Layoffs:
- don't save money
- don't improve company performance
- don't increase stock pricess
- destroy trust
- have huge impacts on health, well-being, and income of employees
So why do layoffs? It's a network effect: execs lay people off because other companies are doing it
Stanford Biz School article: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
Harvard Biz Review:
https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about-layoffs
As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.
As of the New Year, Social Security recipients will receive the largest boost in four decades—an 8.7% increase.
House #Democrats are on guard as House #Republicans set out to defund the social safety net, including Social Security. We won’t let them.
Max Nesterak
Parker Molloy
L O L G O P
Cory Doctorow
Casey Newton
J. Nathan Matias 🦣
Rep. Ritchie Torres