#Policy

Viraj Patel

VPatelFX

Instead of the usual Bank of England meeting preview note ahead of Thursday's decision - we assembled 9 UK-based 'BoE Watchers' to form the FinTwit Shadow MPC. Thread is a

Brian Hanlon 🥑

hanlonbt

@pmarca asks why America isn't building what needs to be built - masks, ventilators, universities, carbon-neutral energy, apartment buildings, et al. We aren't building because we don't have a political

Dan Gardner

dgardner

Classic first-order thinking: Don't want people getting together? Close parks, even if risk is tiny. But if people have nothing else, what will they do in place of going to

Brian Stelter

brianstelter

This is evidence that the WH *still* isn't taking social distancing seriously.https://twitter.com/PaulaReidCBS/status/1245474039444975616 There are 100+ media outlets in the United States with bigger audiences and better journalistic reputations

Will: Crimes Against Journalism Drone Surveillance

bywillpollock

so I listened to about 5 min of Trump’s lying, clicked off YouTube and went to CVS for allergy medswhile checking out cashier said “wow you have beautiful eyes; really

Michael Aranda

michaelaranda

Bernie Sanders, more than any other politician I've been exposed to in my adult life, has done more to help me envision—and work toward—a future that I'd be proud to

Dr Rakib Ehsan

rakibehsan

People asking why Labour have not been able to narrow the gap.One fundamental problem is that Starmer is asking for Cummings to be sacked, even though he has failed to

Andy Rowell

AndyRowell

At Council for National Policy meeting today, Trump thanks three:- Bob McEwen (who met with Manafort backer Borys Kolesnikov in 2016), - Kelly Shackelford (lawyer for indicted-for-fraud Texas Attorney General

mrajshekhar

mrajshekhar

What is happening at the intersection of energy/climate/political economy in India? There are no easy answers to such a question. And so, in what will be a slow-growing thread, a

Carnegie Endowment

CarnegieEndow

THREAD: The rift between Russia and the West is deepening, and China is exploiting it to expand its inﬂuence in Eurasia. Are Russia and its neighbors becoming a testing ground

Tuxedo Mask

TheLoveBel0w

What can you say about a party that actively resists its country's changing demographics? Whose policy platform (from Muslim bans to voter suppression) seems to be based solely on its

Paul Sperry

paulsperry_

(1/4) Here is what AG Barr and Durham are preventing you, the voter, from knowing definitively before you vote:FBI & CIA weaponized intelligence & surveillance powers against Trump + 5

The Marshall Project

MarshallProj

In 2019, New York passed sweeping bail reforms. And they seemed to be working: for the first three months the law was in effect, the state's jail population dropped sharply.

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/The woke are trying to take over every business.Companies like Coinbase and Trader Joes that reject wokeness thrive; companies like Yelp and Spotify that don't face backlash and woke employee

Matthew Bonds

MatthewBonds3

There is broad misunderstanding of how to interpret and best use models. Infectious disease models a la @neil_ferguson are best interpreted as providing a picture of what happens if we

Ayo Sogunro

ayosogunro

Constitutional issues are usually ignored by many Nigerians until their rights are affected in a visible and direct manner.However, here is your periodic reminder that the 1999 Constitution is a