#REASONS

Kevin Dorst

kevin_dorst

Finally got the chance to read @RobertTalisse's "Overdoing Democracy." It's a good book! Quick summary, and a couple thoughts:The cool political-philosophy move is the point that insofar as we need

Ahava Makuta אהבה 🌊✡️⚖️

ahava_makuta

The lack of understanding of statistics & ability to understand what “contributing” or “secondary” factors means is really disconcerting. Where are #Republicans & conservatives getting that the #CDC lied about

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

I really despise the phony "follow the science" finger-wagging by people like Naomi Wolf who choose to flatten anything that's convenient from "less likely" to "impossible".This is the same thinking

Andrew Ackerman

amacker

A thread on housing finance: The Trump admin is in agreement that Fannie and Freddie's tenure under government control should have ended long ago. Now the tricky part: locking in

Movie Colony

the_moviecolony

Today on why you should watch - TENETPlot - Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight

VulvanTheOppressor

IStandWithHer1

On surrogacy:From what I saw, it is men who push for surrogacy far more often than women. Men are much more eager to propagate their seed. Women are much more

Kevin J.S. Zollman

KevinZollman

While this statement will strike many as obviously true, it's worth interrogating.Here's the question: does science do best when it's practitioners take a neutral position regarding the truth of a

Norasferatu 🧛

NoraReed

very little has been done with images of 9/11 that is not a political attackhttps://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1117024802403840000 there are about a thousand people knee-deep in their own cognitive dissonance here screaming at

Amanda Marcotte

AmandaMarcotte

The argument against moving slightly slower on impeachment than it takes to send a tweet was something like, "It's the only way to get Republicans!"Looks like that was ass-backwards, as

lickmaballs

lickmaballs420

don’t tell my mom to speak english. you’re at your local shopping mall in her native language, when you spot a group of teenagers you recognize from school. you realize

Shaneel Lal (They/Them)

shaneellall

White feminism has left Māori women behind because many white feminists have no understanding of Te Ao Māori. White feminist believe that women doing exactly what men are doing is

Nick the Wink

nickTheWink

I've seen some comments stating that during the peak we were detecting less than 10% of Covid cases, but now we're more like 60-75% ...Which means our current rate of

AltFDA

alt_fda

Afternoon peeps! #vaccine #Thread First off, an apology. Yesterday we were calling the @Pfizer released study protocol the trial study data paper. Why? Who the fuck even knows at

Scribulatora

Scribulatora

The Icelandic parliament first sat in 930. The English parliament convened in 1215, with the signing of the Magna Carta. It's an old institution. Patriarchal. Aristocratic. Built on the notion

Nate Cohn

Nate_Cohn

One thing that's fairly unique about election analysis--and that rubs people the wrong way, I think--is the emphasis on the components of change from one election to the next Take

Ċḧäṛḷïë ïṡṅ'ẗ ṡïḷëṅẗ

iloverealppl

A year ago on this day my egg finally cracked wide open. I've been wanting to post all day but had a busy one. So here's a short thread...(Left) This

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