#PANDEMIC

NYT poll: Biden takes a dominant lead over Trump, 50 to 36Trump bleeding support even from once-loyal groups of whites and menOn the biggest challenges of his term, much of
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An important @BuzzFeed piece by @RMac18 and @CraigSilverman uses leaks and insider accounts from @Facebook to paint a picture of a company where morale is in freefall, as techies are
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WORD TO THE WISE>> During this coronavirus crisis, keep an eye on every move of my old industry: health insurers. Behind the PR spin, they will be doing everything they
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The violence in Washington didn't happen overnight. It was culmination of a four-year saga of lies - mostly played out on @Facebook, @Twitter and @YouTube - that politicians, Big Tech
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New paper out in @AnimBehSociety with @meelyn_pandit, @JuncoProject, @ketterso, @mostly_waxbills, and Trevor Price. Higher frequency songs of urban juncos persist in a common garden for three years! Read on for
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1/36 A thread on Alana Newhouse's Tablet essay. I'm sorry to criticize an essay framed around a writer's ill child. But my dream for the 2020s is to read big,
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Both @doniveson and @jkenney 's reasoning for not creating indoor masking laws is weak & their reluctance to enact one is downloading “public health best practices” on to private businesses
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A lively and interesting Highbury East Ward Partnership meeting this afternoon – loads of questions, issues with and support for the Highbury Fields and Highbury West LTNs. Meeting extended to
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Our fragile Democracy has always relied too heavily on the assumption of scruples and integrity of elected and appointed patronage rather than tested, proven career professionals with impeccable qualifications and
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1. “ How Has Professor Gerry Killeen From UCC Fared In His 2020 Predictions For Covid” 1/25I said I was going to look at our “esteemed” Doctors and Professors
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@IPCC_CH WGI is having its last #AR6 Lead Author Meeting this week - online. An important meeting to consolidate the final report chapters and the technical summary. I am enthusiastic
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#ImVoting4BidenBecause I don't want anything to meaningfully change so I'm going to set up the same trap the DNC has used for the past 30 years of using a present
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The Republican Party of Virginia's governing State Central Committee is about to debate how Republicans will handle their statewide intraparty elections next year. There's been a motion to hold primaries.
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Our darkest time has been his finest hour.The Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, D. Brooks Smith, is one of the heroes of this
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NEW: California is on track to allow mass evictions to begin during the worst phase of the pandemic so far. Millions are at risk, and many more will die of
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Last year I wrote an open letter to Steven Pinker, questioning his triumphalist narrative about global poverty reduction. I never received an answer. But I've worked on this issue a
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