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ray

rayofsunshiin

If you are reading this, please stop scrolling and take time of your day to know about what is happening in sheikh jarrah in palestine and to know how you

Augustus

Augustus709

Why the lack of GOP outrage over COVID deaths?It's their worldview. They care about deaths when they can identify & blame a perpetrator, like immigrants, Muslims, Asians.But, when death is

Mike Hill

michaeldoron

I actually think the differences between British and German politics are a lot more structural and cultural rather than about personalities.1. None of Germany’s chancellors since 1945 were privately educated.Five

Farnaz

farnarchy

on Risk Society & 'risk-management': Contemporary society is organized around mitigating/dealing with 'risk' - not that society is increasingly risky. It means most of the things we are implementing are

Anti-Communist Ashman 🇺🇸🇧🇷🇮🇱

danny_ashman

1. Communist ideology and how Covid-19 is a Revolutionary moment. 2. The Bolsheviks took power mobilizing versus a class enemy. The bourgeois were oppressing the common man.#bourgeois 3. What is

Dominic Scott

Turingalila

1: It is rarely true, even within a limited area. For example, Biden's record with women is troubling, both personally and politically. But it is not remotely as bad, and

EJ Watson

ejwatson

Something we keep forgetting in this debate about queer Mormonism is that Mormonism =/= the Church. The Church consists of a group of well-meaning but bigoted, queerphobic, authoritarian men. Mormonism

🐾Jon🐾McPhetres🐾

JonMcphetres

New Preprint! Ever wonder what non-scientists think about the effect sizes that psychologists report?@GordPennycook and I wondered just that…Turns out lay people think that even the largest effects (d =

Benjamin Ramm

BenjaminRamm

Marine Le Pen has started to speak about a "national ecology", framing the climate crisis (which she previously downplayed) as the consequence of external destabilisation of organic local environments. She

Scott’s Cheap Flights

scottsflights

What can you do if an airline keeps stonewalling on a refund you’re owed?Here are 3 options at your disposal: As a reminder, if an airline cancels your flight, you’re

Citizens for Ethics

CREWcrew

Last night, Trump’s chief of staff told the press that no one outside of Washington cares about the Trump administration’s violations of the Hatch Act. But if they think no

Texas Tribune

TexasTribune

1/ NEW: The Trump administration is rushing deportations of migrant children during the coronavirus pandemic, according to attorneys, court filings and congressional staff.With @ProPublica.https://bit.ly/3g41vJC 2/ Since March, the De

Bachar EL-Halabi | #بيروت

Bacharelhalabi

1/ With #Lebanon entering its post-apocalyptic phase, it's becoming alarmingly obvious how the world's attention, scattered over a million issues, is veering away from #Beirut . Someone like President

📚 M.D. Parker 📚

MDParkerwrites

A lot of talk today about police training today in the wake of #DuanteWright's death.Well, here's a short #Thread from someone who served as an officer. It's worse than you

Jon-US Senate candidate MD 2022

Johnheretohelp

Let's talk about James Comey, that tall drink of stupid. Many people are upset the DOJ declined to prosecute him for "leaking" classified "memos" to his attorneys and others. It's

Rounding the Earth

EduEngineer

1. This thread is about a statistical phenomenon called a Simpson's paradox and how it relates to the #Hydroxychloroquine research that gets so hotly debated.A more complete version of this