E.A. Gibes
@eagibes
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Librarian doing digital stuff. Also: storytelling, cities, social justice.
Milwaukee, WI
Joined February 2011
In other news, America's billionaires could give everybody in the country a $3,000 stimulus check and still be richer than they were before the pandemic. It's past time for a wealth tax.
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Healthcare spending per capita: 🇺🇸 $11,702 - 92 million uninsured/under-insured 🇩🇪 $6,646 - 0 uninsured 🇨🇦$5,418 - 0 uninsured 🇫🇷 $5,376 - 0 uninsured 🇯🇵 $4,823 - 0 uninsured 🇬🇧 $4,653 - 0 uninsured 🇫🇮$4,578 - 0 uninsured 🇰🇷 $3,384 - 0 uninsured Yes. #MedicareForAll saves money
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If you need a Four Seasons Total Landscaping zoom call background.
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Looking forward to opposing the new regime because they’re wrong on policy, not because they’re wrong on policy, dangerous, brazenly corrupt, and gratuitously cruel.
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On this #ElectionDay, it is important to stress that politics is another word for power. To not do politics is to not do power. And what happens when we don’t do power? Fascism happens. Bigotry happens. Injustice happens. To engage in politics is to engage our power. 1/6
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Amy Coney Barrett, whose own family should be quarantining right now, is still meeting with Senators as they violate their own quarantine guidelines. For a judge, that’s pretty bad judgment.
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You know, the quarantine was a lot easier when we were all in it together instead of constantly driving past packed restaurants and feeling like the Ghost of Christmas Present is showing me what a chill party everybody is having without me.
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No, when police shot my gear that was property damage. I am currently shopping for another camera. When they shot out my eye I went blind. Turns out one cannot merely call the eye store. Things are things, people are not things.
@KillerMartinis Property damage IS HURTING PEOPLE - the ones who have spent their lives building a business !
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These campus plans! They are so nonsensical! They have no logic. There are giant plot holes. They are like the screenplay to THE ROOM only we're talking about thousands of people's lives
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Schools Aren’t Opening. We Have to Pay Parents to Stay Home with Their Kids. by Shayla R. Griffin, PhD, MSW
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Let me be blunt: For most kids, schools are not opening in-person in the fall. Even if your school is one of the few that opens, there is…
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I think some people really take for granted for much work it is for educators to set up meaningful, engaging lessons for their students over zoom. There's a bizarre narrative that online teaching is easier for educators, but I don't know a single teacher who thinks that's true.
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Some of my favorite faculty speaking out about Marquette's fall plans:
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More than 100 faculty and staff signed an open letter last week calling on Marquette to re-evaluate its "deeply irresponsible" plans
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We can mail you a check, not a ballot. We want you to spend, not vote. Apparently.
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