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I imagine all the closures and cancellations give people a sense of ominousness. But it's really an amazing act of social solidarity: We're sacrificing so we can give nurses, doctors and hospitals a fighting chance. Start from there and hopefully we can figure out the rest.

Two years ago, President Trump fired the entire global health security team at the White House. Their job? Managing pandemics. Now we're all paying the price for President Trump's decisions.

Here's a radical idea: We should prioritize the health and economic wellbeing of our people—seniors, workers and small-business owners, children, and our most vulnerable community members—over welfare checks and bailouts for corporate CEOs and bankers on Wall Street.

Thinking of all the families separated forcefully by your father’s policies today. Share your ideas on how you plan to unite them. #TogetherApart

NEW: In break with Sanders and many other Dems, Joe Biden has not embraced an executive authority known as march-in rights that could be important for controlling the cost of a coronavirus vaccine. readsludge.com/2020/03/17/bid…

This must be a moment in which people ask fundamental questions about the rationality of our current health care system, which exists to make corporations as much profit as possible, regardless of the consequences.

Amazon -- the richest corporation in the world, which paid almost no taxes last year -- is offering UNPAID time off for workers who are sick and just 2 weeks paid leave for workers who test positive for the virus. Meanwhile, it demands mandatory overtime. Shame on Jeff Bezos.

We must waive all student loan payments for the duration of this emergency.

Interesting article on cv and its effect on climate. If only we could slow down without the virus to gain the climate benefits: nbcnews.com/science/enviro…

The United States of America should not have secret police.

”They are still denying the fact and ignoring the fact that we are facing a climate emergency, and the climate crisis has still not once been treated as a crisis” #FaceTheClimateEmergency theguardian.com/environment/20…

A practical demonstration of the importance of diversity of representation, concretely, on-the-ground (and she's 81! but that's another story): alternet.org/2020/07/maxine…

Proving Shakespeare right once again: strange bedfellows: sfgate.com/entertainment/…

Terrible loss, David Graeber theguardian.com/books/2020/sep…

Just because I am Christopher's mother does not mean I'm not objective :D Honestly, though this is a very good piece of writing.

Farmers have been fighting to defend their food soveregnty & the food soveregnty of India since 1991 when World Bank imposed Structural Adjustment & GATT / WTO opened the doors for Corporate Hijack of our Food & Agriculture thru #freetrade rules for global corporate dictatorship

Oversight isn't about the questions I have; it's about the answers the American people deserve. In my next term, I promise to keep bringing the receipts—and yes, the whiteboard. Here's a five-minute recap of my first two years (shout out my staff!) ⬇️

SIGCHI elections coming up soon: acm.org/special-intere… You can see candidate statements when you vote (yes, I know...). Be sure to check out Neha Kumar.

SIGCHI Elections: statement here: acm.org/binaries/conte…

Happy to say that a paper I second-authored with Zi Li (pen name for safety) is accepted to the CSCW Conference: "There Should Be More Than One Voice in A Healthy Society": Infrastructural Violence and Totalitarian Computing in China."