#Policies

New: Facebook has banned a politician from India’s ruling party for violating hate speech rules, amid growing political storm over extremist content. Removal of BJP's T. Raja Singh is about-face
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“Rugged Individualism and Collective (In)action During the COVID-19 Pandemic” – new paper with @SamuelBazzi and @melesemesay [1/8]Full paper: http://www.bu.edu/econ/files/2020/08/BFG_Individualism_COVID.pdf In previous work, we show t
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[thread] Yesterday, Momentum put out a meme in taxation that was glib, unhelpful, out-of-touch & quickly deleted. Mistakes happen, but I think there’s a deeper issue that affected not just
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1/Thread about how evil Tr*mp & Stephen Miller are to Black and Brown children. They are deporting them back to danger during #Covid_19 I look at my 13 yo son
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Yesterday my first commissioned op-ed ran in the Dallas Morning News. In it, I outline why economic recovery from this recession should include comprehensive child care, from ages 0-18. (thread
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11 years ago I was very sick and waiting for life-saving surgery. I had dropped 70lbs in 3 months. I had just broken up with an ex and moved back
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Taking unpopular principled positions and not receiving any monetary or professional benefit is the Twitter definition of grifterhttps://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1298668293558095880 The easy grift in the Trump era is jumping any number of
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Truth be entire told: I do not want to Watch Party, I do not want to Netflix Party, I do not want to Quarantine & Chill. I do not want
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THREAD: I can't support Jeremy anymore. All my followers know I'm 100% Corbyn. I paid my £3. I voted for him as leader twice.I've done just about everything I can
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This paper is the most thorough and insightful deconstruction of car dependence I've seen. Should be required reading for anyone working on sustainable transport.Read @giulio_mattioli's thread below. A couple of
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This is fundamentally and factually incorrect, as we can see from women tweeting our opinions, gay people being allowed to marry and not being criminalised, section 28 no longer being
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So Just how unpopular is @jeremycorbyn? Well, the answer is off-the-charts unpopular. Negative 60. The worst approval rating ever received by a Labour or Conservative leader, according to Ipsos/Mori /2
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Very excited to unveil a white paper I’ve been working on: “The American biomedical research enterprise in a post-COVID-19 world”. http://rescuingbiomedicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Report-Final.pdf 1/ This was a months-
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As someone who studies the far right, people ask me if I am shocked that terrorists tried to kidnap the MI governor. No, I am sadly not shocked and these
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1/ My friend @cdrsalamander has posted a nice thread in response to some of my musings this morning, and his response deserves a response. https://twitter.com/cdrsalamander/status/1315296128175353856 So here goes: First, some
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Random bleary eyed lukewarm takes on #planningforthefuture 1/ Less radical than some expected, building on the existing platform of Local Plans, NPPF, PiPs and LDOs. 2/ Puts digitisation at the
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