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Giorgos Kallis

g_kallis

On twitter we spend time in silly debates: is degrowth impoverishment, negative GDP, lockdown misery bla bla. But in our normal lives we are producing some pretty k.a. research. Here

emilie tinolang manok

emilietumale

Hi, #FilipinxTwitter ! Looking to read more Filipinx Studies or Philippine history texts?Here are some old but great texts that changed my life when I came across them during my

Michael B. Kelley

MichaelBKelley

'The Chinese government uses these computers to watch untold numbers of people in Xinjiang...Chips made by Intel and Nvidia, the American semiconductor companies, have powered the complex since it opened

Leo Gertner

grtnrr

In law school, we had to complete a "substantial writing" of 10k words to graduate. Mine was about police union contracts & the use of force. I wrote it in

agitated outsider

grumpyanarchy

Sgt. Todd A. Tackett from the Portland Police Bureau’s rapid response team https://twitter.com/_whatriot/status/1310115121012727811 https://cops.photo/officer/31 Kudos to the fabulous http://cops.photo by @lucyparsonslabs “M

Brian Sinclair

brianarn

Hey, let's talk about empathy and masculinity for a moment.I was having a nice conversation with a friend via DM, and she asked "As an empathetic person yourself, do you

Jo Yurcaba

JoYurcaba

So, a certain media company that laid off a ton of writers and editors at the start of the pandemic is now hiring for a bunch of jobs, and it's

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

wmnjoya

For the longest time, the British were frustrated by the Kamba. Like the Giriama, the Kamba didn't enter the cash economy. They used cattle as a medium of exchange for

Champagne Sharks Podcast

ChampagneSharks

Still powering through Gone With the Wind, it’s too bad to watch in one sitting so I do an hour a day. I’ve come to realize Southern belles are the

Eliot Fishman

FishmanEliot

Criticism of failures at the FDA and CDC re:ventilators and COVID screening (among others) and what they say about the state of big American domestic agencies. Examples here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-showed-americ

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Last week, 3.1 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the tenth week in a row that unemployment claims are more than 3 times the *worst* week of the

Niskanen Center

NiskanenCenter

MASSIVE NEW PAPER: Last year, we released our policy vision that rejected the false dichotomy of “pro-market” and “pro-government."We've transformed this into a concrete agenda, our blueprint for the "free-market

y*e*e*n*k*a*h

aunty__yinka

What it’s like being the only Girl child in a Nigerian family .A thread https://kheenwriting.wordpress.com/2021/04/09/what-its-like-being-the-only-girl-child-in-a-nigerian-family/ I know most people tend to think daughters get to enjoy t

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

If you've read U Missouri econ prof Michael Hudson's writings on the subject, you know that for millennia, rulers in these circumstances simply wiped out the debts, declaring a "jubilee"

Francesca Mari

francescamari

Heartbreaking news during a deranged week: @CalSunday is folding. Highlighting just a few of the many unforgettable stories that CS published over the last 5 years, all of them with

El Faro English

ElFaroEnglish

#ElSalvador | #Breaking: On day 1 of the new Legislative Assembly, controlled by Bukele's party, Nuevas Ideas, began the process of dismissing the magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber of the