emmaarkell.bsky.social
freelance journalist writing about labour and LGBTQ2S+ politics in so-called Vancouver // words and photos in Chatelaine, Jacobin, The Tyee, Xtra etc.
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My surfers? Butthole.
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calling in long distance from Boston
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was thinking this morning about how much I miss Taipei and the universe was like here, have a lil earthquake
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The strongest lesson here is that economic inequality wasn't being effectively measured. Saying "inflation has dropped" is the most meaningless phrase imaginable when a teacher in Indiana who made 39k last year has watched their grocery bill rise 15% in the last year with no raise. 10/n
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" ... The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer."
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feels like this
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Women’s oppression is so pervasive as to be rendered invisible, so intimate as to infect our very sense of self, so violent that many of us do not survive it. This remains true, and wrong, matter how many people of status or authority tell you otherwise.
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THIS TIME the government will stop the supply which will simultaneously stop the demand because this time its DRUG PROHIBITION, WITH A CZAR nobody has tried this before
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Ezra Klein seems genuinely shocked that the Biden administration could put something silly like labor rights ahead of flattering the egos of the superrich.
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One point that I really appreciated from this conversation was that not taking a risk can be the more dangerous move, and that we need to think about risk in the context of what inaction will ultimately cost us. That feels like a really important lesson for these times. truthout.org/audio/we-won...