#Policy

Michael R. Strain

MichaelRStrain

THREAD. The debate over unemployment benefits is premised on a false choice, as if it’s impossible to support consumer spending without excessively discouraging people to go back to work.My latest

Russ Jones

RussInCheshire

Endless, tiresome, stupid, short-sighted noise about Keir Starmer being insufficiently *something* and not a proper *something else*I'm going to post this, then mute it. And you know what: you should

Meg 🍁

MapleMegs

A threadI read a post today, from someone in the community, that used a very broad brush to condemn anyone who chooses to serve in the military of any nation.

Wilson Erumebor

wilsonrume

In 2019, Nigeria spent a whopping N23 trillion (naira) on food alone! N23 Trillion. Here is a breakdown of the type of food Nigerians purchased and how much was spent

Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D.

wormmaps

Rushed science and bad politics turned COVID-weather correlations into policy disasters. My latest, in Nature Comms w @anacrgomez @bansallab & @SadieRyan: the basic science, how ecologists derailed Indonesia's lockdown, and

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

Here is latest data on #Hydroxychloroquine. #AnthonyFauci is right, we have little data now to support its use. The idea that #PeterNavarro thinks otherwise, has ear of @realDonaldTrump should frighten

alan drummond

alandrummond2

Majority of gun-related deaths in Ontario are suicides, new report showsThey found that 67.6 per cent of deaths linked to guns in the province — a total of 1,842 —

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Jim Justice's 2016 campaign for Governor of West Virginia made a simple pitch: Justice is the richest man in WV, a billionaire, and therefore he is better than everyone else

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

Tomorrow MPs, or some of them anyway, will vote on whether to disenfranchise up to 17.5 million voters. THREAD When the pandemic hit, Parliament introduced (on a temporary basis) remote

Kevin Carey

kevincarey1

1/ This essay by @rgay makes a powerful moral and political argument to forgive student debt.But it also raises an issue that many debt forgiveness advocates are avoiding: What should

Alisha Lewis

Alishacmlewis

Sitting here on twitter watching the Lib Dem leadership debate wishing we spent more time fighting on the REAL issues? Stop wishing, start organising, and start with your local party.

太郎(Taro)

taro_taylor

A Florida law firm, Berman Law Group representing healthcare workers in the US sues China for USD 6 trillion. I will walk you through the firm, the parties involved and

The CBA

TheCriminalBar

The Government response to @BarristerSecret damning assessment of our criminal justice system is inaccurate and woefully inadequate. The legal aid criminal Bar has received no support from Government in anyway.

Danny Ayalon

DannyAyalon

20 years ago today, I participated as a member of the Israeli delegation to the Camp David Summit. Holding the foreign policy portfolio in the Prime Minister's Office, I arrived

Helen Haines MP

helenhainesindi

Today I have written to @ScottMorrisonMP urging him to change course on the vaccine rollout. I have been reluctant to publicly criticise the Government on this but after hearing many

Elizabeth Picciuto 💨🍂

epicciuto

As much as recent GOP was always convinced the left was destroying the country (ahh, sweet memories of Pat Buchanan’s 1992 convention speech), there was always a foreign enemy. The