#2020

Shoaib M Khan

ShoaibMKhan

This is so sad.Lord Kerr was UK’s longest-serving supreme court justice & ad hoc ECtHR judge.He was a real friend of human rights. Always speaking out for rule of law

"Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"

Aelkus

this is actually less bad than 90% of the National Service takes (not a high bar) because it merely proposes a massive expansion in AmeriCorps rather than some semi-coercive mechanism.

JayEnAar

GorwayGlobal

Okay, here's the Q. Can India afford a totally free tax-payer funded #Covid19 immunisation programme for 75% of its population? Should India find the budgetary resources for such a programme?

Nick Gillespie

nickgillespie

Yes, there is a comparison to be had. Obama was not particularly good on immigration. That doesn't make Trump good--it means we have had three bad immigration presidents in a

Lydia Morrish

lydmorrish

Podcast platforms have some catching up to do when it comes to moderating toxic content and ideas. Since the Capitol insurrection, many platforms have tightened policies but shows promoting QAnon

Chris Damian

CDamianWrites

I know a young man who years ago was seduced by an older priest in a position of power. He was a young, attractive, pious, and naïve seminarian, an avid

Sita Balani

sitainshort

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/chumocracy-covid-revealed-shape-tory-establishment this article does a brilliant job of mapping how a small group of tories are profiting off our misery. what it doesn't show is that these h

Meredith Cash

mercash22

THREAD: All eyes are on Georgia tonight. But long before we knew that the Peach State elections would determine which party controls the US Senate, #WNBA players were using their

Zoë McLaren, PhD

ZoeMcLaren

Why were election polls so far off in 2020? A likely culprit is "non-response bias" in the polling data driven by people I call "poll trolls". These trolls didn't respond

Vaughn Stewart

DelegateStewart

Some folks assume taxing the rich divides Democrats--progressives support, moderates oppose.But this issue only divides *elected* Democrats. The vast majority of Democratic *voters* (and half of Republicans!) want to tax

Larry Schweikart

LarrySchweikart

1) You know my stand on the GA senate: vote. The DemoKKKrats are evil orcs, vile disgusting enemies of America.2) The RINOs however, do more damage and keep more people

Ouij

ouij

Sports fandom is expensive. Cable TV is expensive. Streaming games is expensive. Buying tickets is expensive. Gen Z doesn’t have the same kind of time or disposable income Boomers didhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/11/24/gen-z-

David Wees

davidwees

This fascinating app lets one determine the exposure time in various settings (assuming those settings include at least one infected individual) with a given risk tolerance. https://indoor-covid-safety.herokuapp.com/ It is based

Buffy Wicks

BuffyWicks

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act—a major milestone in the fight for disability rights.But the fight for justice continues. Thread on progress made, and promises

Food, Farming and Countryside Commission

FFC_Commission

The government is due to announce its ten-point plan next week “to kick start the low-carbon economy”, ahead of hosting December’s Climate Ambition Summit.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/05/uk-campaigners-set-out-plan

Charu Singh

nagharnaghat

How do we make sense of a field that's exploding? Sometimes, by compiling a thread :) So here are #HistSci #HistSTM special issues/sections on South Asia from the past decade

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