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Benjamin Romano retweeted
"Thanks in part to Sue Bird’s consistent greatness, even with less attention, less investment, and less hoopla than any male athletes in town, the Storm’s reputation has only continued to grow over the years." - writes @maggiejmertens southseattleemerald.com/2020…
Benjamin Romano retweeted
A huge congratulations to #IWMFfellows @CorinneChin and @ErikaJSchultz, whose story "Disappearing Daughters" is a finalist for @ONA's Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling award! We're so honored to have helped bring this story to life! awards.journalists.org/winne…
Benjamin Romano retweeted
"This commitment to social justice is real for the WNBA. These women are used to having to fight for their own right to exist in a pro-athlete world that constantly tells them they aren’t as important as their male counterparts." / by @maggiejmertens southseattleemerald.com/2020…
Benjamin Romano retweeted
1st day of online class for my 1st grader.
Teacher read a story online about a character named Echo the Owl. It kept triggering peoples’ Amazon Echos.
One of the Echos asked if anyone wanted to buy a bible.
Benjamin Romano retweeted
Meet me at the Pledge!
Seattle, what are we doing with Climate Pledge Arena? The CPA? The CliPled? The 'Mate? seattletimes.com/sports/hock…
Seattle, what are we doing with Climate Pledge Arena? The CPA? The CliPled? The 'Mate? seattletimes.com/sports/hock…
Benjamin Romano retweeted
Nearly two-thirds of Americans want more aggressive federal action on climate change, and "clear majorities say they would prefer that climate initiatives be funded by increasing the taxes on wealthy households and on companies that burn fossil fuels." washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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NEW: Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda unveils her own proposal for taxing Seattle’s big businesses seattletimes.com/seattle-new…
Benjamin Romano retweeted
in this story: a surgeon who wants physicians to use clout for good, the only Black ballerina at Pacific Northwest Ballet, a tech worker who marched on a whim & wept, a mother whose view of policing was altered by flash bangs — all worth listening to
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Benjamin Romano retweeted
Amazon reopened its photo studio in Williamsburg claiming a warehousing exemption. It's essential business? Fashion.
It closed the studio this month after we started asking the state if that was allowed. (It wasn't.) 1/
w/ @VVFriedman nytimes.com/2020/06/12/techn…
Benjamin Romano retweeted
If you're not reading @JerryBrewer right now, fix that.
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Covid-19 has swamped Amazon HR. Workers are struggling to get paid for quarantines or take leave to care for kids at home. Hours on hold, weeks waiting for answers.
The crisis is testing Amazon’s automated, just-in-time approach to caring for its people:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Benjamin Romano retweeted
Plaintiffs say Amazon
- Provides workers misinformation
- Sets “oppressive and dangerous” quotas & discipline
- Tells workers to avoid informing others if they get infected
- Has said its contact tracing consists only of reviewing surveillance footage
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Scoop: New York warehouse employees - including one who says she contracted coronavirus at work and then exposed her cousin who died - sue Amazon: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… “Amazon’s failures have already caused injury and death to workers and family members," suit claims
Benjamin Romano retweeted
Redmond startup powers all-electric first flight of a Cessna turboprop
It's a step toward MagniX’s future vision of all-electric, flights as the norm for small commuter aircraft
- but that won't materialize for a while
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Benjamin Romano retweeted
A week after state officials acknowledged potential losses of hundreds of millions of dollars from fraud in Washington’s unemployment insurance system, the state saw a sharp decline in new claims for jobless benefits. st.news/3dcQWSH
