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Jason Furman

jasonfurman

A few thoughts on the recovery plan that President-elect Biden is announcing tonight.THREAD: It is *very* large. Together with the December legislation it would be around $2.8T, which is about

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Many of the headlines on the new administration offer get it wrong by emphasizing the headline cost, which makes it sound serious. The key thing is the refusal to extend

John Scott-Railton

jsrailton

WOW: ex @NSAGov employees read first lady @MichelleObama's emails while working as mercenaries for a foreign gov.Essential read by @nicoleperlroth: how hubris led the U.S. to fuel a cyber arms

Stacey

ScotsFyre

My first “political” memory is the Iranian hostages. Then that Reagan guy was elected & they came home. I remember the media & establishment called him crazy too. Then I

Manuel Correia

gamesbymanuel

Gather round, I'd like to take you through the story behind the design and development of Multiuniversum.https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/192638/multiuniversum In 2012 I wanted to represent time travel through game mechanics. Time wa

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RobertUNagel

"Without telling Congress, the administration has scaled back the printing of documents it has already promised to immigrants" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-the-trump-administration-is-turning-legal-immigrants-into-u

Roll With It

RollWithItBlog

This is probably going to end up being a long thread.There's a passage in Terry Pratchett's Night Watch that I've been thinking about a lot the last few days. Night

Around Turin

AroundTurin

Suarez: Juve under investigation. What’s the status and what the Club could risk? Here a recap from @guido_vaciago First of all Paratici and the two Juventus lawyers are not

'Cami

WallflowerWorld

Since a lot of people are confused, here are some clarification about what this is all about. Hopefully, it will help people understand why this is important for all of

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Because SARS-CoV-2 testing often happens after symptoms appear, it's been difficult to estimate detection probability early in infection. So great to collaborate with team at @TheCrick & @ucl to tackle

Tom Underhill

tomunderhill

1/ Last month I finished a paper on the way Jonathan Edwards used the character of Naaman in his sermons and writings as an example of hypocrisy. It's an interesting

☭Reverend Dune(they/them)🏹🏳️‍🌈

NoFunOverlord

3) sexual attraction!This one is the kicker because I can be attracted to someone in literally all the ways that are important to me, and this one may never be

ye sun @ geeeenshin time

RoboticReborn

once again..."vocaloids" are not characters, they are instruments. they are not fictional persons that belong to an authored narrative, they are real-world tools for producing art. official info is not

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Seeing papers make the rounds that the herd immunity threshold may be much lower than the rough approximation 1-1/R0. Maybe, but let's slow down a minute.#1. There is still way

Kevin Gosztola

kgosztola

Shifting US indictment Against Julian Assange2018: Accused of violating three provisions of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and conspiracy to defraud US government2019: accused of generally violating CFAA (no longer

Niosta Cossa

NiostaC

We all respect the sensational work Casey Stoney is doing at Man United Women. But attributing to her the growth of United’s players – something that started happening “coincidentally” after

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