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233 - Tess Ryan
Just watching 7:30 report discussing Robodebt. As someone who was hounded through this scheme I realise how lucky I was to have support around me. Had it been a few yrs prior, I could well have fallen into a major depression with suicidal ideation. Ppl must be made accountable.
2129 - Serena Williams again bears brunt of double standards in tennis | Serena Williams | The Guardian
King duly noted the double standard over a woman’s right to express her frustration on court. Compare the sympathetic or neutral coverage of male players’ transgressions from Roger Federer to Novak Djokovic with the heated debate generated by Williams’s stance. Let’s not forget Dominic Thiem’s multiple racket smashes this season. At the Rome Open in May, the Sky Sports commentary observed: “Broke it in style, didn’t he?” as Thiem violently destroyed his racket. “Not condoning it, but you can ...
3060 - Dare Obasanjo: "A huge flaw in American socioe…" - disabled.social
A huge flaw in American socioeconomic policy is that housing is seen as an investment. So much that increasing housing supply is seen as a disaster because rents decline and become more affordable. Housing should be a utility like water or power not a 401(K) with a roof.
3204 - Lawsuit sheds light on racial bias in appraisals for Black and Latino homeowners : NPR
When Paul Austin and Tenisha Tate-Austin sued their real estate appraiser, her company, and the company that hired her for allegedly under-valuing their home based on their race, they were after more than just financial restitution. The African American couple, who own a home in Marin City, Calif., wanted the individuals and the companies involved in shortchanging them to change how they would appraise Black and Latino-owned properties moving forward. They think they're on their way to doing that.
5656 - tynedaile
The 'hard lockdown' of the estates is the starkest example yet of the class divide in Australia’s coronavirus response - https://t.co/NGm21CvwJh
8269 - Let's be very clear: what this is saying is that disabled/high risk folks are only entitled to access places essential for survival*, but have NO right to equal access to anywhere else. (And even T...
8349 - EXC: Heather Small reveals she was KICKED by a male school teacher
The M People frontwoman, 56, is gearing up to release her new charity single United Together in aid of the Rio Ferdinand Foundation, for which she is an ambassador.
8566 - 1/Yesterday 2 privileged NHS colleagues blocked me because they disliked what I said about racism. Imagine their response to minoritised colleagues or patients in real life? This is EXACTLY why rac...
9870 - Is Jane Campion aware what Venus & Serena had to deal with in the whitest of sports? What an insulting comparison. She must have not watched @KingRichardFilm @serenawilliams was right whe...