#Decades

julieturkewitz

julieturkewitz

THREAD: We traveled more than a thousand miles across Colombia to examine how the pandemic and lockdowns are affecting everyday families, looking for a window into what is happening across

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

1998's Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act extended US copyrights by 20 years to life-plus-70 for human authors and 95 years total for corporate authors. The extension was retrospective, so

Tom Clark

prospect_clark

1.Inequality in AmericaAmid the changing of the guard in Washington, Nobel laureate @DeatonAngus takes stockhttps://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/opinions/us-inequality-wealth-divide 2.With the Biden economic team, inequality will soon have ar

Ann Memmott PGC🌈

AnnMemmott

https://www.acamh.org/blog/results-of-the-acamh-awards-2020/Content warning, but a very extraordinary 10 min video re whether we are autistic, from Prof. Dame Uta Frith, one of the original leaders of the autism world. I am

Ben Williamson

BenPatrickWill

Few people have asked what's the problem and what's the solution to big tech involvement in HE.Problems first:https://twitter.com/BenPatrickWill/status/1327387541193043968 Problem 1: Tendency to construct HE as broken. An old trick,

David Bier

David_J_Bier

This is probably the best provision on legal immigration in the U.S. Citizenship Act (Biden bill). It would make family-sponsored immigration functional and realistic for the first time in many

Thabiti Anyabwile

ThabitiAnyabwil

Brothers and sisters, I want to make an ask of you.It's not for me. It's for the gospel. It's for churches. It's for often-neglected, overlooked and avoided communities of people

Dr. Mᴀʀɪᴀ Pᴜᴇʀᴛᴀ Rɪᴇʀᴀ

Maripuerta

Don’t be surprised with progressives and the left gaining more support. The right is advancing an authoritarian agenda, and they will face the consequences. They will have only themselves to

Edward Kennedy

edwardhkennedy

A short thread:It amazes me how many crucial ideas underlying now-popular semiparametrics (aka doubly robust parameter/functional estimation / TMLE / double/debiased/orthogonal ML etc etc) were first proposed many decades ago.I

Tori Williams Douglass 🇺🇸🧛🏽‍♀️

ToriGlass

Let’s talk about kids and nervous systems! The job of your nervous system is to keep you alive and safe. Because humans evolved on as fairly easy prey for big

DeplorableDeb

debdeplorable1

Don't judge spelling of names please. Pompeo: Abu Mahamed Al Masri (sp) aka Abdula Ahmed Abdula AlQ nmbr 2 on FBI most wanted list 4 slaughtering members of State Dept

daanis 🔥👊🏽💃🏽

gindaanis

So thanks to @KimTallBear and this episode of @mediaINDIGENA I've gone down a Woody Guthrie rabbit hole. This Land is Your Land is a settler colonial anthem. Fight me.https://radiopublic.com/media-indigena-weekly-indigenous-G7o97a/ep/s1

Emma Green

emmaogreen

A couple of years ago, a source mentioned something that surprised me: Pro-life activists were debating the best way to build social services for a world in which they've won:

Cora Fox

corafox_

1/ I've received countless calls from cattle producers concerned about headlines they've read over the past few days w/ regard to COVID relief payments & the Biden Administration. Here's a

Ryan Gabrielson

ryangabrielson

1/ Drug field tests like this one are little pouches with chemicals in them. Officers drop in suspected drugs and wait for colors to form.But the colors don't always signal

Politics and Health

lamarshall

Let's take the opportunity to debunk the #LizardSquad idiocy with actual data on #childabuse, how often it happens, what it looks like, and who commits it.First, a page full of

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