Louise Seamster

@louise_seamster

sociology*urban development*politics*racism*money*debt*upward redistribution*policy*more things change

Tennessee, USA
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Joined July 2016
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    26 Nov 2018

    I made this helpful sci-fi-based diagram

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  2. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Not only did I apply and was denied, but you have a bunch of these scam private institutions coming to our campus selling these Professional Degrees with idea that your loans will be forgiven.

    Just in case you missed it... I dug up the actual 9/2018 GAO report on the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. of 19,321 people who did their 10 yrs of loan payments and applied for forgiveness, 55 people have been approved so far.
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  3. 9 hours ago

    whoa thread

    You live in a society whose every production industry is based around a government-subsidized chemical feedstock. Corn is not a _food_. Corn is a _platform_.
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    May 9

    .: 59% of teachers moonlight. "It’s an appalling reality that many of the professionals whom we entrust with the critical job of teaching our children are under such financial stress that they work a second or third job"

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    May 9

    Student debt is not the result of bad choices. It is the result of a system that tells students to get an education in order to have a stable life, but then does not provide the resources so that they can afford that education. I believe together we can reform that system. 💪🏽

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    18 hours ago

    Tyree Guyton Turned a Detroit Street Into a Museum. Why Is He Taking It Down?

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    20 hours ago

    "Privatization of space and Space asset protection as new forms of expansion of capitalist militarisation"

    Replying to @redlightvoices
    Worth noting these two points: Privatization of space and Space asset protection as new forms of expansion of capitalist militarisation
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    May 9

    We are demonstrating what it means to show up for eachother and protect and love on Black mama’s and caregivers. If you can donate to :

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  9. 20 hours ago

    I missed this from last year

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  10. 21 hours ago

    giuliani: “We’re not meddling in an election, we’re meddling in an investigation, which we have a right to do”

    . taking corruption to a whole new level. Giuliani said he plans to travel to Ukraine to meet with the nation’s president-elect to urge him to pursue inquiries that allies of the White House contend could yield new info to help DT & hurt Biden.
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    21 hours ago

    Please take a minute and read this important piece on gun violence from my friend and colleague . Thanks for writing this, Carson. Each campus shooting is a reminder that I was a student at ‘one of those schools’

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  12. 21 hours ago

    like does he really think Amazon Prime will deliver these resources to space with spacedrones, or what?

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  13. 21 hours ago

    impeccable logic. checks out. definitely the guy who made a company to deliver books is right

    Bezos: "If we're out in the solar system, we can have a trillion humans in the solar system, which means we'd have 1000 Mozarts and 1000 Einsteins."
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  14. 21 hours ago

    TF

    Bezos: "The good news is that if we move out into the solar system for all practical purposes, we have unlimited resources."
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    Apr 23

    Our statement on plan. "We urge all presidential candidates to commit to canceling the debts of former students, starting with those who attended predatory for-profit colleges, and ending federal funding for for-profit colleges.”

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  16. Retweeted
    Apr 24

    Yes, this is "a battle that can be won." Thanks largely to the work of our partners at and the perseverance of thousands of college students who were cheated. can and should act to eliminate for good.

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    May 9

    Surveillance capitalism’s new normal: lure unsuspecting consumers to give you their photos with warm and fuzzy branding & then use those photos without informed consent to train face recognition tech you market to police and military

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    May 9
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    To be fair, some of us are out here raising hell about it. and are teaching a master class right now on how you can be for keeping the promise of PSLF and still demand accountability from everyone who failed millions of borrowers.

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    May 9

    BREAKING: Alabama Republicans just tried to sneak through a measure that would make nearly all abortions a felony punishable by up to 99 years in prison without even so much as a normal a roll call vote. Watch all hell breaking loose on the Alabama Senate floor:

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    May 9

    Here's a good essay on African American adjunct professors by Tressie McMillan Cottom:

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    May 9

    Wait, wait, the policy really works, so let’s find what’s wrong with 99.8 % who cannot follow rules and therefore don’t qualify. 12 Step Program needed or call behavioral economists or support group? Brecht: policy doesn’t help borrowers, time to elect new borrowers.

    Just in case you missed it... I dug up the actual 9/2018 GAO report on the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. of 19,321 people who did their 10 yrs of loan payments and applied for forgiveness, 55 people have been approved so far.
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