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Oct 26 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
What people seem to be ignoring is what they're making blatantly obvious:

The powerful on the right want a permanent economic and sociopolitical underclass that they can exploit for their own gain without ceasing. Everything they want will come at our expense. That's the plan. Let me be more crass:

They want to bring back slavery. They want child labor and want to force people to have kids. They want to make it harder for you to have wealth and for you to have an education. They want to own us. Literally.
Aug 7 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
lol Tim Walz works because he's a political UNO reverse. They can't attack him on his identity because he has the same identity as them.

He hunts, he fishes, he's white, he's middle class, but he's not weird and they don't know what to do with that AT ALL. They have nothing. 🤷🏿‍♀️ lol how you gonna attack yourself? Walz is them without all the bigotry and that is why they crying and throwing up.
Jul 28 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Tim Walz is an EXCELLENT choice for several reasons:

1) Midwestern, 2) Veteran, 3) has pushed for policies that help the working and middle class, 4) former teacher, 5) excellent communicator, 6) great with the media, and 7) a great boss according to several people I know. Tim Walz can also afford to leave right now because his number two @peggyflanagan is a powerhouse and they have a democratic majority across the board.

The state will be more than okay if he becomes VP and thats why he should. Oh, he's also pro-union.
Jun 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
lol idk who needs to hear this, but:

#PhD programs in the social sciences and hard sciences are typically FREE. They pay you. And if you don't want to be a professor, private and public sectors will hire you! lol another fun fact: Private sector be hiring PhDs down and the pay be PAYING. I know someone who worked as a consultant after the PhD and got 300k at minimum.

The government and companies NEED scientists.
Apr 27 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
lol this is stupid for TWO big reasons:

1) The future of the U.S. is NOT majority white. Gen Z is only 51.4% white. Gen Alpha will be <50% white.

2) The white guy from rural Iowa could be a #firstgen college student. Guess what offices serve first gen students? DEI OFFICES. The elimination of DEI offices will 100% impact white people: rural folks, veterans, returning parents, disabled, and the list goes on.

If you think DEI was a stand in for Black, you are SORELY mistaken. Those offices served basically EVERYONE.
Mar 26 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is actual factual.

Diversity training can sometimes lead to backlash and ultimately does not change people's behavior towards racial minorities. That is why there needs to be WAY less on training and more on accountability.

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Image I've grown up a bit and realized that it is REALLY hard to change people's beliefs. So if folks wanna be bigots in their bathtubs, so be it..

But the moment they step outside? Best believe you will be held accountable for that kind of behavior.
Jan 30 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A parent offered a consultant $1.5 MILLION to NOT work with any other students in their child's class on their college applications. 1.5 million dollars.

And they're talking about Affirmative Action? Bruh. 🙄 lol they claim Black people are the problem, that we lack merit, but there are parents paying MILLIONS of dollars to keep their children's classmates OUT of Harvard.

You literally cannot make this up.

Jan 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Mark Cuban is right on several fronts, but this first point is *especially* right:

The U.S. is becoming more diverse regardless of how people feel. This is just a fact. Ignoring that fact puts your business at a disadvantage no matter HOW you slice it.
lol like I'm very sorry if this upsets folks, but this is straight up a fact. The U.S. is becoming more diverse.

Be mad about it I guess, but the facts are quite literally the facts. No amount of anti-DEI campaigning with eliminate the facts.
.apnews.com/article/growth…
Dec 12, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Here are most important #economics papers of the year and why YOU 🫵🏿 should care about them. A thread/

1) #Copganda has consequences! @emmarackstraw finds that cops in reality shows make more arrests for low-level crimes while on camera. #econtwitter 2) White co-workers can shape Black women's careers.

@ElizabethLinos, @profsanaz, and @NinaRoussille find that having more white co-workers leads to lower promotion rates and higher turnover rates for Black women. #diversity #econtwitter
Dec 8, 2023 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
I didn't know this had to be said, but:

Framing the mass death and displacement of millions of Black people as a win for #climate change is dehumanizing and racist. War in the Congo Has Kept the Planet Cooler The grim ironies of climate change By Ross Andersen @TheAtlantic Framing the mass death and displacement of millions of Black people as a win for climate change is messed up when you consider how sub-Saharan Africans disproportionately suffer from the climate crisis despite contributing very little to it.
Nov 30, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I just can't get over the FACTS of this man's legacy. The FACTS are just so terrible. Like objectively bad. Like how did he get away with this? How is one man's legacy just defined by death counts? Like that is so wild to me, I can't even wrap my head around it.
Nov 13, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
TLDR: A new study finds that Black Women’s #promotion and #retention rates are more negatively affected when they initially have higher share of white co-workers. Bruh.🤯

AND Black and white women have the BIGGEST gap in turnover and promotion rates. #diversity #econtwitter 1/3 This is one of the most important studies about #BlackWomen in the #workplace EVER.

Y'all, Black women are 20.3 percentage points LESS likely to be promoted on time than White women. This reminds me of @mindaharts and @ProfKori work. 2/3
Jul 16, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
lol the optics of this are terrible.

TLDR: Kemba Walden, a leading expert and one of the few notable Black women in her field, was not selected for a job at the White House because of debt she had to take on to put her kids through school.
washingtonpost.com/national-secur… "If the requirement to take a job [...] is that you have to be independently wealthy, then it will be a poorer place because you’ll be cutting out a lot of great talent.”

We need to talk about how public policy selects on privilege as much as corporate.