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Your reminder that churches don’t pay taxes because they are supposedly spending their money to help their communities through things like food banks, shelters and after-school programs.

Congressmen should, obviously, be making like 250k. Having low wages for Congressmen just means that 1) It's a lot more ultra rich people who don't need the salary 2) Very competent people will go into industries where they can easily make more money

doing this will guarantee that the only people who ever run for Congress will be already rich. you would never see an AOC ever again

Unsurprising. All that handwringing about declining birth rates & even a billionaire doesn't want to care for his children, financially or physically. They just want to force women into motherhood & poverty.

Amazon should not be allowed to flood a neighborhood. The US is under complete corporate capture.

I have a story out today about a remarkable woman named Linde Jacobs (Linde Jacobs). Three years ago, at 33 years old, Linde found out that she carried a genetic mutation for a devastating brain disease, frontotemporal dementia, which begins in middle age. (thread)

Still can't stop thinking about how Starbucks could sign a contract to give one greedy CEO a $113 million pay package and a private jet and handout over $70 million in golden parachutes to two CEO who failed, but can't sign a fair contract with nearly 12,000 of its union workers.

You should not have to go viral in order to get your insurance company to pay for the cancer treatments your doctor says you need to survive. Glad this story had a happy ending. Many others do not.

Is exercise really “1.5 times more effective than antidepressants”? 🧠 No, argue Nicholas Fabiano, MD and colleagues—and it might be irresponsible for us to keep circulating this bit of misinformation. “This claim erroneously arose through the comparison of effect sizes from “very low

Really wealthy ppl finding out a small group of working class ppl on strike can fuck up their day, ruin their vacation, & cost them time & money is my FAVORITE reason to support strikes.

1) ‘How to prove that your therapy is effective, even when it is not: a guideline’ This paper gives an overview of bad practices that make an intervention look effective when it is not. Most of these methods have been used by proponents of GET and CBT for ME/CFS.

The fact that if a vaccine changes a serious infection to a mild infection, despite not preventing infection it's STILL a success is a concept which seems to be just absolutely beyond many people.

Wes Nichols is a billionaire that supports cutting every social service in California. But now he’s mad the Fire Department doesn’t have enough money.

For once, everyone in my corner of Twitter is empathizing with him as a person, so let me be contrarian and explain why this rubs people the wrong way In America, as our government collapses, the rich just build their own parallel systems and the poor eat shit. Healthcare is

People don’t even realize that the super rich often create an ecosystem around them of service workers who are not affluent…. housekeepers, nannies, landscapers, repair people, etc.…. have all just potentially lost their only source of income. It’s truly sad.

And one medical crisis, even with insurance, can lead you to become unhoused and deeply in debt

I don’t think Americans have any idea how much automobile dependence costs them.

New York Times - Wirecutter: 'Most Wearables Prompt You to Move More. This One Helps You Avoid Overdoing It.' 'Pacing is key to Visible’s approach' 'The signature symptom of long COVID and ME/CFS is post-exertional malaise' nytimes.com/wirecutter/rev…