Ben Litterer (@benlitterer) 's Twitter Profile
Ben Litterer

@benlitterer

PhD student interested in computational approaches to language, politics, and media

Iowa | Michigan

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Not me spending weeks clustering, cleaning, and modeling millions of rows of data just to make 3 absolutely mid matplotlib plots in the default color 😅

Nolan is tending wheat 🌾 (@nolan_monaghan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I occasionally hear my fellow grad students say something to the effect of "It sucks that I could go work at a gas station and earn more than I do now" Even though grad students are largely underpaid, I find it incredibly insulting to bash other workers for their pay increases

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SAN JOSE POLICE UNION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CHARGED WITH ATTEMPT TO IMPORT, SELL FENTANYL. …it’s not just coming from the border. Police are bringing in the drugs killing our communities. Fentanyl is produced right here in America. This problem is so much abc7news.com/joanne-segovia…

Grad Employees' Org UMich (@geo3550) 's Twitter Profile Photo

At today's hearing, the judge refused to issue a temporary restraining order against GEO. This is a HUGE WIN for the union - we continue to organize, strike, and pressure the University to meet our demands at the bargaining table. They can lie, they can sue, but UM works because

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Our month-long strike was covered by Democracy Now! this morning! Like working people up and down the country, we're facing a cost of living squeeze while bosses like @UMichPrezOno rake in millions. We're proud to be fighting back against this inequality! democracynow.org/2023/4/26/head…

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Sound familiar? We've been told that a modest salary of $38k is "unrealistic". It's not. What's "unrealistic" is expecting grads to live in (stupidly expensive) Ann Arbor on anything less.