Whiteness as a social force is just buck wild because every year between St. Patrick’s Day and Easter you get to listen to some of the most reactionary people in America proudly sing socialist anthems and celebrate an anticolonialist liberation movement without even the vaguest hint of irony
Pro gamer tip: Your ancestors didn’t get run off of their land and die in 98 and flee the workhouse and landlord and genocide in 47 just for their descendant to be a Trump supporter
You bring shame to your ancestors by being the wrong kind of Republican
I have a bad feeling about where this post is going to travel to in a few hours so let me state preemptively that you lot sound just like Orangemen and that Emmet and Tone and *especially* Connolly would personally hate you.
Speaking of Connolly, did you know that the Dublin transport union and by extension the Irish Citizen Army was an affiliate of the IWW? Fun facts.
…I can’t imagine any worse insult to an Irish person than being compared to an Orangeman, and I’m English…
At a Target store in Michigan, an employee in the electronics department has stopped greeting his favorite customers with handshakes and hugs amid the growing threat of coronavirus, and he’s started to worry about what would happen if he got sick.
“You don’t get paid if you call out,” the employee, Robert O'Banner, said in an interview with Business Insider. “I don’t have the money to call off a day.”
On the other side of the country, in Oregon, Robert Davis is growing concerned about the likelihood of exposure to the virus through his job stocking shelves at a Walmart store.
“We’re in contact with hundreds of people every week,” Davis said, noting that he also handles hundreds of products during his shifts. He said he’s worried about what his family would do if he died.
“It weighs a lot on me,” he said.
As the number of coronavirus cases in the US grows, some shoppers are stampeding stores and panic-buying goods including masks, hand sanitizer, and household staples.
Retail employees are meanwhile frantically working to restock shelves and help panicked customers. At the same time, many privately grapple with their own anxieties about exposure to the virus at work and whether they could face punishment if they call out sick due to attendance policies, according to interviews with 20 retail workers from 13 states across the US. Eleven work at Target, nine at Walmart, and one at CVS.
Missouri could soon become the first state in the nation without a clinic providing abortions, but Planned Parenthood officials say the last remaining one there has already all-but ceased performing the procedure.
The clinic, Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, is at the center of a licensing dispute between the organization and Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson’s administration. That clinic’s future is in the hands of a state commission that is expected to issue a decision in the coming weeks or months.
A new analysis provided to NPR by Planned Parenthood suggests that already very few abortions are being performed in Missouri. It shows that the vast majority of patients in Missouri seeking abortions have begun crossing state lines to obtain it – many of them traveling to a new Planned Parenthood clinic in Fairview Heights, Ill., near St. Louis, that opened in October.
Both Hong Kong and Singapore continue to find a few new cases each week, but they’ve avoided the explosive outbreaks that have occurred elsewhere.
Ashish Jha, who runs the Harvard Global Health Institute, says the response to the coronavirus has varied dramatically around the world. “Some countries have been very aggressive and have actually done quite a good job,” he says. “Other countries have been quite lackadaisical and, I think, have suffered immensely from it. And I think there are lessons to be learned for all of us.”
So how has the United States’ response been?
“Our response is much, much worse than almost any other country that’s been affected,” Jha says.
He uses the words “stunning,” “fiasco” and “mind-blowing” to describe how bad it is.
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