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"Re-opening" isn't about saving ordinary workers and earners. You can't save someone by infecting them with a deadly disease. In a world without contact-tracing, therapeutics, tests, PPE, santizing products, etc,

Your racist Facebook uncle may have sent you a link to a trailer for "Plandemic," a conspiracy movie that stars a disgraced virologist called Judy Mikovits who makes a string

So many commenters here and in the OP on Reddit are asking "Why is anyone flying?" I understand the question, but to understand the answer, you need to consider the

The central claim behind Comcast's long holy war against #NetNeutrality is that without "network management" (slowing down your connection to the sites you like unless they pay bribes to

This month, Denver Health Medical Center CEO Robin Wittenstein notified front-line health workers that they should expect paycuts.Also this month: Denver Health's exec team got bonus checks ranging from $50k-$230K.https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020

A funny thing happened on the way to the pandemic. Neoliberalism's imperative to look only at how things work (not how they fail) created lean, overstretched supply chains that allowed

Amazon told Congress that it doesn't spy on its sellers to figure out which products it should clone. Instead, the company has argued that its longstanding practice of knocking off

Reality - especially epidemiology - has a distinct leftist bias, which almost makes you feel sorry for right-wing ideologues like @mayoroflasvegas Carolyn Goodman, who says that every business in town

Arnold Drake World is a treasure of a human being. For years, he's spent his days holding down a table in the cafe at Portland's Powell's Books, folding intricate, gorgeous

I wouldn't normally bother to dunk on stuff this callous and foolish, but there's an important lesson here. This guy is absolutely primed to get phished because he is convinced

.@abigaildisney is the outspoken, anti-corporatist Disney heiress - granddaughter of Roy Disney - and she's really angry about the company's decision to furlough 100,000 front-line workers.https://twitter.com/abigaildisney/status/125266580633

You could be forgiven for thinking that @mcmansionhell is all about dunking on McMansions (for obvious reasons), but Wagner is a multiple threat. Here she is explaining why coronavirus doesn't