#Policy

Judd Legum

JuddLegum

1. Facebook is lying about its fact-checking program and its approach to climate disinformation.This gets a bit into the weeds but its worth it because Facebook is trying to use

Patrick Corrigan

PatrickCorrigan

LGBT+ staff members @BBCNewsNI are now banned from participating in @belfastpride, as BBC bosses regard standing up for equal rights as controversial. An outrageous interference by @BBC management in employees’

Otto English

Otto_English

Trump's grandfather died in the 1918 flu pandemic and the subsequent life insurance policy that paid out created the Trump fortune. This is the most mind boggling thing I've learned

Elaine

evilorio2

Some friends recently gave me the opportunity to put this into words: I started studying econ bc I bought into the discipline's self-aggrandizement, i.e. maybe it is better than the

Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger?

HasBezosDecided

The cleverest thing Margaret Thatcher ever did was the Right To Buy policy. R2B gave the tenants of council housing (housing owned by the local council wherein affordable rents were

Kirti Deolekar

kirti_sd

I hope all Bhakt youngsters who are agitated over #pubgban realise that a 4 hour notice of #lockdown left lakhs of poor on the roads, /1 a 4 hour notice

Michael Palin

mikepalinmmp

1/7 Infuriating language of ‘deal making’ getting lots of comment today. It is not conducive to good, long-term, policy planning or delivery. It’s inevitably short-term and places power at the

neil_ferguson

neil_ferguson

I’m conscious that lots of people would like to see and run the pandemic simulation code we are using to model control measures against COVID-19. To explain the background -

Alan Berube

berubea1

Our new research on the economic risks from COVID-19 measures finds 37 million workers, and 2 million small businesses, immediately vulnerable https://brook.gs/39H1xmy https://brook.gs/3dUxoTQ . Will share some links in this thread

Willard Foxton Todd

WillardFoxton

“Hello M, understand you want to see me about people trafficking”“Ah yes Bond. You see, the plan is to create a giant wave machine to swamp small boats”“Dastardly. Goldfinger? Blofeld?”“God

Chad Livengood

ChadLivengood

THEY PLOTTED ON CAPITOL GROUNDS: On June 18, some militia members charged today in a plot to kidnap @GovWhitmer met at a Second Amendment rally at the Capitol, the FBI

EricaJoy

EricaJoy

so i signed up for telepath last night...leaving aside how weird and borderline creepy it is to get a message like this before ever engaging on the site, i guess

Ian Mulheirn

ianmulheirn

The government isn't keen to discuss #covid19 exit strategies. But when it does move it will need to take people with it. So the debate needs to start now. A

Sunil Menon

kazhugan

With another standoff between the #Delhi government and the L-G, this article looks at the fundamentally schizoid nature of India's fight against #COVID19.Basic dilemma: health is a state subject, but

John Macgowan

john_macgowan

The problem with the discourse on insane conspiracy theories is the omission that every popular mythology circulating right now has it's origins in real policy failures from the last 20

Fiona Robertson♿🧂

FionaSnp

So while yesterday was bad, today has already been an order of magnitude worse - take care of yourselves folks.I'm blocking like it's Minecraft, but want to address one particular