#Society

John Mues

MuesforMontana

Amanda Gorman was indeed the "supernova" of the Inauguration. As her verse unfolded, like a roadmap for our nation, I was sent back to a place in Montana. Where a

Lawrence Glickman

LarryGlickman

This is a good piece on fissures within the GOP but I think it mischaracterizes the Trump presidency as “populist” & repeats a story about how conservatives & the GOP

Kojo Koram

KojoKoram

Seeing this shared a lot. Perhaps the strongest articulation of a growing feeling that empire isn’t really relevant to today.Problem is this review, like many others, never talks about distinctiveness

Eliot Higgins

EliotHiggins

The Social Dilemma on Netflix is very good, especially as a companion piece to Behind the Curve. Both demonstrate how effective the internet is at detaching people from reality. It's

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

The Dutch health minister wrote ystdy: “Other countries may well have the variant as well - the UK may just have picked it up first because that country has the

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

We need to treat the new variant as a new pandemic, and recalibrate our response accordingly.A short thread. The responses to Covid so far - 'Covid-secure', social distancing, etc. have

Joe Thwaites

joethw8s

At the Green Climate Fund's Board meeting this week they will consider accrediting 3 new institutions to partner with on climate projects. This includes Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), a

Dan Stern

danstern_

Never understood the point of mythology until reading Joseph Campbell's ideas on itIt powers ALL cultures and informs us of what we should care about and what we can even

Daphne Keller

daphnehk

Everyone should be paying WAY more attention to GIFCT, the database platforms use to share information about terrorist content (or things that met someone’s definition of terrorist content, which is

Molly Wood

mollywood

Also in the big #MakeMeSmart this week, you know what I've gotten obsessed with? The bar exam. So turns out, multiple states are insisting on holding bar exams *in person*

InProportion2

InProportion2

1/6Sikora: Let’s declare Covid over and get on with our normal lives* Wuhan has tested millions or residents and found no new cases. A minor outbreak in Beijing is under

g katyan misra

kamlesm

are they yogis? or Hathyogi?trying to overcome worldly emotions-Painvia http://columbia.edu a photo from Faizabad-Ayodhyagroup of Sadhu sanyasi of various level of hierarchytitled:The Chowk, Fyzabad," a photo from c. the 1880'

Abdullah A Abdullah

Ansarabdul070

Let us not even talk about the religious angle yet, each time I think of it, I can't help but imagine how expensive it must be to keep a girlfriend!

Chris Seggerman

ChrisLSeggerman

I'd say "when this is all over," but it won't be, soon, but "when we have more breathing room," there needs to be serious discussion about how abusers operate, particularly

Dave Cormack

CormackDavie

This sobering chart is not about Aberdeen. Could be any Club. Going to the Euros reminds us, certainly those of us old enough to remember, that Scottish Football has the

Nephentes the elder

Nephentes5

This will be a very long thread regarding a neighboring country across the baltic sea and why intersectionality and socialism are the two demons that are the reason why homophobia

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