if the new york times gets to run a “why we should consider mandatory national service” op-ed every year, i get to run my own piece arguing against that as a treat.
my latest for
@thenation
it feels really strange to celebrate during a pandemic but..... i just got a year-long position at (harm reductive) addiction recovery center in chicago!! 🌈😌
In this Q&A, I talked to some of the coolest teens and 20-somethings about their working conditions and how they learned about unions— for many the labor movement has been "life-changing."
ok so you’re telling me! that i don’t get my trumpbucks because my parents claimed me as a dependent even tho i file taxes AND i can’t file for unemployment bc my jobs are part of federal work study
Published this yesterday with
@thenation
with the hope that it will illuminate how our hodgepodge of criminalization and service privatization is harming the unhoused in California.
Today, Newsom is vowing to eliminate all homeless encampments.
Faced with a hostile NLRB, repressive university policies and a lack of institutional support, student workers across the country are pushing ahead in their campaign to unionize.
A Gazelle entered a shop in the state of Colorado. The owner decided to give him some chocolate and biscuits. He left and half an hour later he came back bringing his entire family.
people always ask: “paige why are you a communist?”
and to that i reply: it’s simple. i hate work. i’m lazy. i am an absolute hog for doing nothing at all
i’ve never ~relaxed~ at a coffee shop,, im only here to be on edge, to be on my game. my math professor from last semester? he’s here watching me sweat and struggle writing this essay. the person i made out with last weekend? their here waiting for me to fail
started performing comedy monthly, went blonde, 50 job rejections, became a bike girl + biked to the ocean, fell in love, 4,000 word print feature, worked with some my fav mags/editors/writers/ppl, and i'm moving into my studio apt next week!! 🥹
y’all ever remember that you get paid $8.50 an hour (While paying for tuition) and the college literally relies on yr labor to function .... i .... 🤧 like cmon 😤
sometimes it feels like i am Extra Alone so anyways here’s some cute selfies for twitter dod come (alt caption: my tinder match from an hour ago upon me asking them to hang out with me said they have plans)
i come home. my mom got the photo of us framed that was taken after i (a teen) had been violently crying after getting broken up with over the phone at some family thing and i.... can’t believe
2019 predictions
ARIES yak in public
TAURUS still no driving
GEM big jar contest
CANCER dirt in yr socks
LEO chair time
VIRGO u got herbs
LIBRA rain(jacket) check
SCORP 7ft trophy u have to take it apart
SAG beds comfy now
CAP worms in yr socks
AQUA gender betrayal
PISCES venom
incredibly satisfying for my final fact-check at The Nation to be about fact-checking itself 🦠
check out
@JamesCTobias
’s amazing reporting and FOIA work about early pandemic response
NIH emails obtained by
@thenation
&
@theintercept
reveal that top scientists told Anthony Fauci in 2020 they feared the novel coronavirus looked potentially “engineered.” What happened next was an effort to “disprove” a lab connection. Here’s the story.
remember when the trustee kid (whose dad made his money from $private prisons$) wrote an oped that the union was bad and so I simply called him and his dad evil and you all got mad at me
scooooooooop: ugsdw aka the first independent undergraduate labor union is at it again ❣️ to represent a wall-to-wall unit, “a historic campus-wide union of undergraduate student workers.”
WE ARE EXPANDING OUR UNION!
Today UGSDW filed for an election that would expand our union to more than 750 student workers at Grinnell College. We are weeks away from winning a historic campus-wide undergraduate student worker union!!
#1u
#UnionYes
1/2 of all educators today took out student loans to pay for their college education. The average teacher carries about $58,700 in debt— roughly equivalent to a starting teacher’s salary at Chicago Public Schools.
How does cancelling 10k solve this?
being old enough to be friends with ppl who have kids on facebook really gets me depressed but not in the way u think. sometimes they post pictures of the their kid like learning how to read and i’m like .,, what did i do today? NOthing and That child is Literate now!!
To tackle homelessness, liberal mayors are using a growing nonprofit that calls themselves the “Google or Instagram of social services.”
@RohanMontroro
profiled that ‘move fast, break things’ mentality for
@thenation
ty
@ChrisBurkeShay
&
@AlmaBeauvais
ahh! editorial is out online (& in my mailbox) from
@inthesetimesmag
today!
kicking the can down the road on student debt forgiveness demonstrates a fundamental opposition to cancellation + lack of understanding of dems voting base xoxo
How do anti-homeless laws affect campus protesters rights to set up encampments?
@RohanMontroro
and I discuss the intersections of the tents for Palestine and tent homelessness and the overlapping tactics of repression. (tw british persons podcast voice!)
Under HB 5 in Kentucky, if a property owner believes an unhoused trespasser is attempting to commit a felony or attempting to “dispossess” them, they can shoot the homeless person. And that's not all...
Me and
@RohanMontroro
's latest:
i will be tweeting out each ludicrous title for each essay i finish (as i finish them) this week. today:
Towards a Masonic Art Deco and a Political Freemasonry:
The Gr*nnell Masonic Temple and Gran Logia de Cuba
two miles from my parents current house and pictured is the house they rented when i was little. really upsetting how folks can ignore rural america’s cries for help
can’t believe my college president is taking a sabbatical to “work on his writing” like i get that coming from an MFA student who is ghosting me after going on a few dates but,, my president? lmao
in:
-steely dan
-sea glass
-british sketch comedy
-tulsi tea
-club mate
-found footage films
-jiu-jitsu
-volcanos
out:
-stand up
-literary criticism over 4,000 words
-vitamins
-the G train
-tap to pay
-wicker
-charcuterie