#2020

Itamar Mann

itamann

June 17, 2020: Notis Mitarachi, Greek Minister of Immigration and Asylum, boasts learning from the Australian government. The latter has one of the cruelest asylum systems worldwide. /1https://twitter.com/nmitarakis/status/12731780152420925

Meg Wingerter

MegWingerter

COVID-19 cases in Colorado are up for a sixth week. Short thread about what we do and don't know.https://www.denverpost.com/2020/07/28/colorado-coronavirus-covid-cases-new-high/ New cases are higher than they were at the previous peak

derecka

dereckapurnell

on @democracynow yesterday, i heard the prosecutor in the Brandon Bernard case say that her advocacy for his innocence would not have mattered because federal prosecutors in her district are

Fergus Hunter

fergushunter

Unsurprising that this US-centric, simplistic and intentionally provocative take is getting love on Australian politico-media Twitter. Further evidence of how an online intelligentsia is detached from the very rational interests

Sasagani_ya

Sasagani_ya

カントウヒゲヌカグモWalckenaeria orientalis。森林の落葉層に棲息するサラグモ科の一種。眼域に一対の毛状突起を備える。種小名は「東の」。#クモの学名と和名https://spidersasagani.blog

Ramez Naam

ramez

A short thread on Climate Justice, prompted by this great New York Times article on the global inequality of suffering from heat. 1/n When I hear the words "Climate Justice",

Ben #KBF

Brixton_Ben26

Let's look at England & Wales all cause deaths back until 1953.In the last 68 years, 51 have had more deaths than in 2020.There is a noticeable increase in deaths

Juzzie the Chronicler

SXY247

1/ We are Winning.. JFK assassination 22 Nov 1963And on the same day in 2020 President Trump fulfilled JFKs dream to end the CIA.. how?? Withdrawal from Open Skies Treaty

George Yarrow

george_yarrow

1/5 The media & profs are now on to the 'feast before fast' (inter-temporal demand shifting) effect that I've talked about previously. That it doesn't seem to have been anticipated

Outside

outsidemagazine

In 2020, we tracked every cyclist killed by a driver on an American street, with a final tally of 697 cyclist deaths. We counted deaths reported by local media, so

Jonathan Turley

JonathanTurley

The ACLU's Crankshaw alerted people that Nick Sandmann would be attending the college and expressing outrage that the school would admit someone with his opposing views. He warns that this

Sarah Gollust

sarahgollust

On the public vaccinations of Pence, McConnell and other GOP officials and whether it could close the partisan divide in vaccine hesitancy documented this week by @KFF.https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/18/world/covid-19-coronavirus#pence

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

FWIW, these highly track with populations; these states represent 36% of the US population and 38% of the sorting machines removed. So while the situation is quite concerning, I don't

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

An impressively thorough paper with the best evidence to date on the causal impact of various policies adopted in the CARES Act, from Chetty, @John_N_Friedman, @nhendren82 and others.https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/0

kate conger

kateconger

Hackers involved in the Twitter breach said it started as a quest for cool usernames. Then one member of the group began going after cryptocurrency companies, Jeff Bezos, and Kanye

Monica Perez

MonicaPerezShow

In case the population wasn’t terrified enough, here’s some speculation to keep parents on edge...#StrategyOfTension“CDC expects 2020 outbreak of rare, life-threatening condition affecting children” | TheHillhttps://thehill.com/poli

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