#System

My latest in @TheAtlantic : the GOP's two paths away from Trump - forward toward democracy, back toward the methods of Jim Crow: leveraging anti-democratic local rule to wield national
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Look, I understand the concept of the electoral college, that is to give small states somewhat as equal of representation as large states. My issue with it, however, is that
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Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing died yesterday. It was he who first described the ability to print dollars, convertible to gold, as "America's exorbitant privilege". The French hated this
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My MA thesis on the Evergreen affair is finished and accepted! I'm trying to figure out how to best share it with folks, but for now here's my main takeaway.
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How to suck less at writing! A small thread.Also my first thread!!!! I use to think that to be a good writer.Was beyond my reach.Would take years.Wouldn't happen.I took a
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Today I voted on a controversial downtown development in Times Mirror Square.I wanted to take the opportunity to dig into this vote, its implications, and what’s next. (thread) I share
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Q: Do you try and tell people about election fraud? If so, how does it go?"My mom (d), love her dearly, was shocked at the GA video she hadn’t seen
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Migrants have always been able to access GPs at no risk of deportation. But we've reached a point where the policies are so dangerous that the Home Office has had
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Are populist parties (still) challengers?I've just read the umpteenth article considering (almost all) populist parties as challenger parties. This conclusion is disconfirmed by empirical reality and is grounded on this
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NEW: Dallas County Reports 5,361 Additional Positive 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases and 1 Death Of the 5,361 new cases we are reporting today, 5,195 came from a large volume
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Our webinar this morning is opened by @wgmin_education, who focuses on the strengths of the Welsh student funding system (eg on part-time students & postgraduates) and also raises concerns about
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Systems Vs. GoalsA @scottadamssays Framework5 Lessons In 5 Tweets[THREAD]Let’s go “Losers have goals. Winners have systems.”// Scott Adams 1:What Are Goals? Goals are discrete events that happen in the
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30 million U.S. workers without degrees have the skills to move into new jobs that pay 70 percent more on average. A thread highlighting the @nytimes article by @SteveLohr https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/technology/work-skills-upward-mob
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Yall need to calm the fuck down. The sensationalist reporting of the contingency plans set in place by the MHRA for vaccine second dose isn't the standard plan. It's there
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Every institution is a type of government. The quality of said government cannot avoid affecting society outside of the formal boundaries of the institution. The existence of every institution must
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My new piece - The Biden Administration Needs to Add Digital Modernization into Its Immigration Plans https://thinkimmigration.org/blog/2020/11/17/the-biden-administration-needs-to-add-digital-modernization-into-its-immigration-plans/ "
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