#GLOBAL

Ayo Sogunro

ayosogunro

It is just 75 years since today's 'Western liberal democracies' were colonising and slaughtering people all over the earth. The international human rights law and norms that holds them -

Celebritydoctor

CelebrityDR_

I was stopped at 2 police check points today1st : Your brothers Dey here o2nd: Doctor how na?Make we drink malt naSo instead of getting angry,my thoughts were: Compared to

brianweeden

brianweeden

1/ Thread with my thoughts on yesterday's EO on space resources: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-encouraging-international-support-recovery-use-space-resources/ ;TLDR, I generally agree with the policy but think th

HumanProgress.org

HumanProgress

.@NellFrizzell should read our #SimonAbundanceIndex. Children do not strain the world's resources. In fact, the opposite is true: each new child is correlated with an increase in resource abundance.https://www.humanprogress.org/the-simo

Eman

punnysamosa

Disability justice efforts have to mobilize at a global scale. I’m noticing significantly less attention to the tweets about Palestine. My account is about the Disability experience & Disability justice,

local dad jokes enthusiast

oldricecooker

I’ve decided to take a leaf out of Junmyeon’s book and just enjoy the FUCK out of his promos, heart4u and whatever else he does over the next few months.

Robert Safian

rsafian

Uncertainty, blunt decisions, and “getting hit in the face over and over and over”: this is business-as-usual amid #Covid19, CEO @NeilBlumenthal tells me, even for a digital-first brand like @WarbyParker.

VICTOR TERHEMBA AGWA

terhemba_

The world is changing fasy and economic chaos is becoming the standard of the world we live in. Technological acceleration is destroying jobs at a faster rate than new jobs

Alex Cobham

alexcobham

It's not every day that a niche question of statistical definition represents a significant step forward for global policy. But today... is that day! (Excessively long thread follows) A little

Elaine Doyle

laineydoyle

And to date, Ireland has performed 8.69 tests per 1,000 people.https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing#irelandThe UK has performed 4 tests per 1,000 people.https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing#united-kingdom So: to my UK friends, let's lay i

David Brenner

DavBrenner

A must-read by @the_ayeminthant. To anticipate any unnecessary comments: it's not distracting from the real story. @clarissaward's CNN trip to #Myanmar encapsulates the coloniality of Western engagement with SE Asia,

Nelson Minar

nelson

There's a Coronavirus study being done by Stanford Medical, testing an interesting theory that CoV-SARS-2 was present in California last fall. There's reasons to be skeptical about the theory and

Peter Fairley #FreeSeams

pfairley

The photo below reminds me of a 2013 essay by SFU economist @MarkJaccard whose 2020 book > I recently

Tom Bollyky

TomBollyky

The global response to #COVID19 has stalled over a question of scheduling:When should there be a review of national and international responses to pandemic, including @WHO’s actions? Thread cc: @ForeignAffairs

Greg Lawton

thisislawton

A rundown of some of the arguments advanced for dropping the pre-reg exam.In no particular order.Thread / 1. In employment law, you’re a pharmacist if you’ve worked as one.A: In

Elliott Wooster

MrElliottJack

I’ve literally only left the flat for food or for a walk, I’ve adhered to the lockdown because I believe it’s necessary to stop the spread + for my own