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George Kokkinidis retweeted
Change in Abstract
ALT Before: The attack at a supermarket in Buffalo in May, in which 10 people were killed, was the country’s deadliest shooting this year. After: The attack at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in which 14 children and a teacher were killed, was the country’s deadliest shooting this year.
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I brought my childhood imaginary friend back to life using A.I. (#GPT3) and it was one of the scariest and most transformative experiences of my life.
A thread 🤖 (1/23)
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It's unacceptable to do little to stop the spread inside the country, and then use COVID as cover to continue xenophobic policies.
JUST IN — Citing Omicron, the Biden administration has decided, after a new review, to maintain the Trump-era Title 42 border policy that authorizes the rapid expulsion of migrants and asylum-seekers, a CDC spokesperson tells @cbsnews tonight.
cbsnews.com/news/immigration…
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#BREAKING: New York's Emergency Rental Assistance Program will reopen TONIGHT at 10PM.
We urge all NYers in need of rent relief to apply through the OTDA web portal once it's open, as a pending application will provide temporary protection from eviction.
otda.ny.gov/programs/emergen…
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
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A ban on most rental evictions is set to end on Saturday.
If you're one of the millions of Americans behind on payments, the @CFPB has a new tool to help find rental and utility assistance programs.
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When we passed the American Rescue Plan, I promised help was here. And right now, billions of dollars in federal assistance is available to renters and landlords who’ve struggled during the pandemic. To find assistance near you, head to consumerfinance.gov/renthelp.
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CA has $5.2 BILLION to give out in rent relief. You can get 100% of back rent paid from April 2020 thru this Sept if you've struggled financially bc of covid & are income-eligible.
Applying can be hard if you don't know English well. Here’s ways to make it easier:
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By the end of 2018, the 25 richest Americans were worth $1.1 trillion, as much as the combined wealth of 14.3M ordinary wage earners.
The 2018 personal federal tax bill for the 25 richest: $1.9 billion.
The bill for the wage earners: $143 billion.
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feel like @palan57 had the best quote on this forbes.com/sites/petergreene…
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This is great! I knew it was fucked up but not exactly how. How big pharma, Bill Gates, liberal politicians and "we are the world" charity are all connected in opposing an IP waiver for covid vaccines and feeling good about it and themselves. @CitationsPod at it's finest!
In this News Brief, "#VaxLive is a PR Scam So Those Causing Vaccine Inequity Can Pose as Saviors of Global Poor," we breakdown the corporate and political forces opposed to freeing up vaccine IP who are behind the ostensibly humanitarian concert on May 8th
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I’m seeing a massive disconnect (more so than usual) between the two twitter worlds I usually inhabit — the US and India. It is important to bridge the two now for a very important reason: #CovidIndia
Please read the whole thread and amplify.
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I’ve asked my 3rd year illustration students at @sva to come up with a post-pandemic New Yorker magazine cover. Here is what they sent in:
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How Bill Gates has developed and wielded influence over two decades is one of the more consequential and under-appreciated shapers of the failed global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Alexander Zaitchik writes. newrepublic.com/article/1620…
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Asian reporters fluent in Korean who know Atlanta are being told they might be too biased to cover the shootings
& I mean who are they, who are these newsroom people telling Asian reporters they'll be too biased to cover an anti-Asian massacre, I just want to talk
Since the shootings, @AAJA members reported:
-being fluent in Korean, knowing ATL, asking to cover but being told they may be too biased
-being the only AAPI at work and feeling overwhelmed they have to represent all AAPIs
-& more.
To their newsrooms: aaja.org/2021/03/18/aaja-enc…
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So far no story I've read that's focused on the victims seem to have any details yet about the lives of any Asian victims, even those that have been IDed. I get there's likely a language barrier, but what does that say about newsrooms' capacity to cover these communities well?