#2020

Progressive Portland

ProgPortME

1/ "A growing body of research supports the perception that police unfairly target Black Americans. They are more likely to be stopped, searched and arrested than their white compatriots. They

Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

paures12

How severe is the COVID-19 recession from a historical perspective? How does its magnitude vary across countries?We address these questions in my latest blog post with @andyneumeyer and @LucasBelmudes3. We

Council of Economic Advisers

WhiteHouseCEA

The economy added only 49,000 jobs in January, after losing a revised 227,000 jobs in December. This pace is far below the rate necessary to pull us out of the

Kurt Busiek

KurtBusiek

For people interested in how plot-style comics writing works, you can find Roger Stern’s plot for “The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man” here, along with Ron Frenz’s pencils. So you can

David Jesse

reporterdavidj

Press conference from former U-M students alleging famed football coach Bo Schemechler knew about former football team doctor Robert Anderson's sexual assaults. Here's the story:https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2020/07/30/

James Brun

LeBrunJames81

It's the seventy-fifth anniversary of Allied victory in the Atlantic. Here is a 'thread in progress' of some work to highlight Canada's role in that epic battle. At Close Range:

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

After decades of bitter fights, environmentalists seemed to be winning the war against single-use plastics, until 2020.Covid-19 raised fears that reusable goods might lead to infections, leading Americans to ditch

James Reade

jjreade

Yes, Soccer Scores Are More Surprising Than Usual This SeasonI've crunched the numbers and it does look like things are more unexpected this season.Via @forbes @ForbesSports https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesreade/2020/11/09/yes-soccer-

Alex Stamos

alexstamos

1) The intentional use of online platforms to abuse both adults and children causes vastly more measurable harm to others than the nebulous privacy harms EU regulators obsess over. 2)

Bad COVID-19 Takes

BadCOVID19Takes

Context: A few issues. 1. When a study results in statistically insignificant difference, it often means it was not large enough to determine whether there's a difference. In fact, fewer

Christina Kahrl

ChristinaKahrl

I mailed in my @baseballhall vote yesterday. Operating from the belief there are at least 16 worthy choices on the ballot, cutting down from 11 was especially hard. If my

Suzy Byrne

suzybie

Last month’s tweet....https://twitter.com/suzybie/status/1325037065822740481 Today’s news report for #IDPD2020? The perspective of able bodied people staffing a disability service and locating disabled people as a burden. Seriously poor

Hafeez Noorani 🇨🇦

FEEZYDoesIT

Today's been a great day. I don't want to jinx anything but I can feel the energy for 2021.I know we all said that in 2019, that 2020 would be

Nursing Clio

nursingclio

Last week, together with 14 co-signatories, we published an open letter to the Stanton Foundation about the limited scope over their COVID-19 prize:https://nursingclio.org/2020/06/12/an-open-letter-to-the-stanton-foundation/ This week, the

Toronto Star

TorontoStar

Doug Ford plans to start building a new superhighway near the 401 next year. Why not move all the trucks to the 407 toll highway instead, like experts are recommending?

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

rasmus_kleis

Facebook is "real and present danger" to democracy (Guardian editorial, July 2020), a "danger to democracy" (2018).It's "destructive ethos imperils democracy" (Observer editorial 2018).What are readers to m

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