#Crisis

John Bull

garius

If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck: It's a duck.This was the UK courts ruling on whether Uber's drivers were workers.Uber's supreme

Philippe Lazzarini

UNLazzarini

1/10 To those who ask why this year is the worst for @UNRWA, here is a quick recap 2/10 That @UNRWA is constantly in a financial crisis isn’t new: same

Niall Ferguson

nfergus

"Sometimes events are beyond a new president’s control. Sometimes they are unforced errors of his own making. But presidents don’t simply make history. Often, history comes at them fast."https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/artic

Hajer Nakua

HajerNakua

“The neuro-essentialist discourse pushes aside this relationship by suggesting that academic and social failures, which are actually more frequent in disadvantaged children, result from their intrinsic neurodevelopmental dysfunctions of g

Alex Epstein

AlexEpstein

There is a lot of conflicting "information" about the TX blackouts. Here's the bottom line: the root cause of the TX blackouts is a national and state policy that has

Fair Fight

fairfightaction

JOINT STATEMENT ON SB 463:Right now, Georgia Republicans are trying to pass a law that forbids the @GaSecofState, State Election Board, counties, and localities from mailing absentee ballot applications to

bizzy

AncomWhore

I can see my breath in my room right now. Last night my dad got frostbite because the house was so cold. He also uses a machine to sleep and

Bharat Ramamurti

BharatRamamurti

I know this Fed discussion seems technical, so let me try to explain the Republican position.Before the CARES Act ever passed, the Fed had the authority (with the Treasury's approval)

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

The current surge in #COVID19 cases in the USA is the largest day-on-day increase America, or any other country, has experienced since the #coronavirus crisis started in Wuhan in December.MORE

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

THREAD: For the last 6 months, FDA’s device center worked effectively with labs to advance hundreds of tests for Covid. A new HHS policy that extricates FDA from this work

Al Jazeera English

AJEnglish

Saudi Arabia has opened its land border with Qatar for the first time in over three years. The move, after months of mediation, could end a political dispute that led

Stephen Barlow

SteB777

1) This isn't even greenwash, it is green tokenism. As @GretaThunberg points out, we have only about 8 or so years of our total carbon budget left to avoid more

Zindagi Trust

ZindagiTrust

Everyone has an opinion about when and how to reopen schools and continue learning, but has anyone asked the teachers? #schoolsaftercorona Teachers are closest to the ground realities of the

London Renters Union

LDNRentersUnion

Government has announced new rules on evictions ahead of lifting the eviction ban on Aug 24.But they won’t protect the 600,000 people in rent debt due to Covid, we’re heading

oldcornishbloke

mrkernow

Here is a list of all the things the labour right are currently getting horribly wrong:1. The voters hate disunity in parties. One of the reasons they could not trust

Lea Kissner

LeaKissner

Kicking off the last session of #enigma2021, @katestarbird is speaking about an extremely pressing topic: "ONLINE RUMORS, MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION: THE PERFECT STORM OF COVID-19 AND ELECTION2020"https://www.usenix.org/con

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