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116 - Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:: "During the wildfire smoke peak…" - Med-Mastodon
During the wildfire smoke peak in NYC, 70% of asthma-related ER visits were in ZIP codes with predominantly Black & Brown residents. 60% were in areas with higher poverty rates than the city overall. #ClimateChange is one of the most important health equity issues of our time.
235 - Kathleen McElroy will stay at UT-Austin, rejecting A&M journalism offer | The Texas Tribune
In the days after the signing ceremony, she said, A&M employees told her an increasingly vocal network of constituents within the system were expressing issues with her experience at the Times and with her work on race and diversity in newsrooms, McElroy said. Behind the scenes, A&M spent weeks altering the terms of her job. After hearing about the concerns, McElroy agreed to a five-year contract position without tenure, which would have avoided a review by regents. On Sunday, she received a...
1083 - Statistics World 🌎 :verified:: "Since 2020, 63% of all new wea…" - Mastodon
Since 2020, 63% of all new wealth went to the world's wealthiest 1%, according to an Oxfam report. An individual would need to earn an average of $401,622 per year in order to join the top 1%, and a household would need an income of $570,00. There are 2640 billionaires in the world with a cumulative wealth valued at $12.5 trillion.
2024 - Adrianna Tan: "The SF Standard had another ru…" - disabled.social
The SF Standard had another run of the mill story about how bad homelessness in the TL is, but what stood out for me was this guy who said in the story he’d developed skin problems from sleeping on the streets, and I was like that’s the story! The story should be about people suffering from homelessness but no the story was about homelessness is a problem for business owners
5089 - 92wav
Lewis’ obituary: “Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” https://t.co/XpesOrcVUe
7483 - When you've been up since before 5 with big anxiety feels because the immensity of having to remind people all the time (especially the people who should really know) to not be ableist (in all the ...
7486 - I see we're doing the "parental estrangement" discourse again. As a therapist I've been with many many client's who made the decision to stop having their parents in their lives.
8164 - The 60 millionaires who paid no tax and the richest and poorest postcodes revealed
Sixty people earned more than $1 million but paid no tax in 2019-20, and the country's lowest incomes have been recorded in regional NSW, according to the ATO's latest taxation statistics.
11616 - Brennan Center report exposes double standards in social media content moderation, recommends legislative & industry reforms - Business and Human Rights Centre
All too often, the viewpoints of
communities of color, women, LGBTQ+ communities, and religious minorities are at
risk of over-enforcement, while harms targeting them often remain unaddressed.
