COVID-19 has forced capitalists to confront an inconvenient truth: that capital accumulation cannot happen without labour.

American companies denying workers paid sick leave: McDonald's - 517K workers Walmart - 347K workers Kroger - 189K workers Subway - 80K workers Burger King - 165K workers Pizza Hut: - 156K workers Target - 51K workers Marriott - 139K workers Wendy's - 133K workers

So I’m hearing many myths about #COVID-19 and would like to quickly clear the record. Coronavirus will go away in Sumer months. Wrong. Previous pandemics didn’t follow weather patterns plus as we enter summer, there will be winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Virus is global.

BREAKING: We can, of course, afford a Green New Deal. That’s been true all along.

[THREAD] As we navigate the health & economic impacts of #COVID19 together, here are some resources that may be helpful. Please share widely with your networks and your communities #justschools

We've done direct payments to individuals in previous recessions (including the "recovery rebates" in 2008). One-time Keynesian stimulus when economy is bad ≠ monthly universal payments in perpetuity, regardless of economic conditions

Juan Escalante Los Angeles Times U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement just threatened to pick up a client of ours whose appeal is pending, because she missed an ISAP phone call, as her employer required her to work her minimum wage job and she could not answer the phone. Then they threatened to arrest the whole house when they come.

Scott Santens There is a *huge* difference between UBI proposals that kick millions of people off Medicaid, SNAP, etc (aka people ending with net less $) w/o consent and a UBI proposal that provides people with net more in their lives. Conflating the two is dangerous and creates resistance.

For the media the bar is so sooo low. It’s described as ‘remarkable’ and there are calls to ‘applaud’ the President being ‘the kind of leader we need”—‘at least in tone.’ This kind of take is embarrassing and pathetic. Finally the President appears to be doing his job.

Apparently everyone except the democratic leadership understands how giving voters big checks is a super useful way to help yourself get elected.

It's not easy to cede the moral high ground at this moment, with our elected officials lying, ignoring science, and shrugging their way through a crisis that promises to kill thousands, but kudos to the Democratic Party for giving it their all. #DNC #PrimaryElection #COVID19

BREAKING: Sacramento County judge authorizes the Sheriff's Office to release jail inmates with 30 days or less remaining in their sentences. Ordered signed today and in effect until May 30. Includes misdemeanors and felonies. The Marshall Project

No industry -- not airlines, not hotels, not cruise ships -- should be bailed out. They can stay in business by borrowing at rock-bottom rates, using their assets as collateral. Taxpayer money should be used to bail out people, not corporations.

"It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump. I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks." -- Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh, February 24: rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/02/…

How one small town at the center of the outbreak has cut infections virtually to zero: test all 3,300 in town, isolate the 3 percent who tested positive. Infection rate 10 days later down to .3 percent. ft.com/content/0dba7e…

Zoom + pooped = Zooped (tm) #COVID19

.Stephanie Jones & Hilary E. Hughes speak truth abt education (and, frankly, all production) at this moment "There is no 'transforming' face-to-face teaching & learning into Covid-19 teaching and learning overnight. And even if that was possible, doing so might not make sense..."

Hey, y'all, @deepcenter is hiring a community organizer. We're especially looking for folks who work from a framework of cultural organizing and understand criminal and juvenile justice reform efforts across the South. bit.ly/3cqR6Fs