#Deaths

1) $TSLAQ In the very early 90s, 2 taxi cab company founders approached me to run their new company after they merged. Both companies had some very bad dudes who
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Mary Nichols as Biden EPA chief would mean an unbridled and job- and economy-killing EPA.California is a green disaster. Marty Nichols would take that nationwide.https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-climate-environment-californ
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Today is D.R. Congo independence day, so here's is a thread briefly looking at Congo's history from the precolonial era, through to independence. #Congo #DRC #mboka #independence One of the
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Interim results on Pfizer vaccine are promising But getting safe doses to those who would benefit most depends on reversing a trend that has defined this pandemic:to quote Isaac Asimov,
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Trans people have a suicide culture. A bad one.This is a thread about transgender suicide culture and how we talk about those of us who choose to die. As with
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US agencies have options for publishing open health data online. @USDataGov or http://HealthData.gov Orhttp://Data.CMS.gov http://Data.CDC.gov http://Data.CDC.gov On Monday, @HHSgov launched a new site that aggregates #C
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Election 2020 Predictions: A Mini-Thread I was inspired to post this after looking at the work of some astrologers who got 2016 correct and those who didn't. And if I
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In talking about 20th-Century Irish history, we should probably avoid sharp distinctions between Church, State, and Society, as though these were discrete entities, rather than things so organically interwoven that
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This #SundayMorning before #Election2020 , I'm documenting 101 reasons Trump is unfit for the presidency. Keeping this to 101 was difficult. The ways Trump has assaulted our democracy is
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New paper out by @flusterbird and @Pool_Depth1_1: how to design a Coal Elimination Treaty and side-step global political deadlocks around climate change.Why do I digest it into a thread? Bc
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1) Covid 19. Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y., described as the “epicenter of the epicenter of Covid 19....From the beginning of the crisis, ventilators were described as essential life saving
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Reflecting on my last 13 years. What a wild fucking ride that was at times. I literally got to task satellites. Like draw boxes on Google Earth and send them
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"The government has launched legal action against a London council over plans to close schools".This first sentence hints towards the massive unanswered question in UK education that very rarely gets
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4 years ago, #AdamaTraore (24 yo) died in France in the same way as #GeorgeFlyod. He died after 3 policemen sat on him after he was arrested for fleeing an
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A historical thread about the 14 July revolution ()The secrets of the 1958 Iraqi coup d'état () To begin with, one simple thread is no way near enough to cover
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Our recent work on vaccine prioritization for COVID-19 is now published in @ScienceMagazine, but this paper has evolved because of both formal and informal peer review. So while the paper
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