#Policy

Toby Young

toadmeister

1/ Thought I'd do a thread about reasons to be cheerful about the Cultural Revolution. All of these are variations on the same theme: the Red Guards have seized cultural

lizdanelly ☭ 🇵🇷

lxzdanelly

why puerto ricans don’t claim lin-manuel miranda and why you shouldn’t support him [thread]: lin-manuel miranda supported the obama promesa bill. what is promesa? after the puerto rican economic recession

Ketan Joshi

KetanJ0

Okay everyone. @renew_economy let me get mad about Australia's great big new push into building big new fossil fuel infrastructure. Specifically, the threat to build a gas-fired power is *really*

The Intersectional Anansesem

TaranTrinnaman

A finale reason the “Save BYU” movement is problematic.Thread/ While they’re complaining about “cultural Marxism” and “revenge feminism”, Black BYU students are trying to figure out how to manage schoolwork

Remy Levin

RemyLevin

This hot take has been getting some attention today, so I think it's worth talking about why I think it's specious, and why the headline it comes with ("Lockdowns don't

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

Unbelievable. Absolute disregard of qualitative methods of analysis, historical and art historical expertise. This is peddling bad science.This is dangerously bad. Others have commented on the art history failings but

David Mullins

pdavidmullinsjr

1) How Russian Intelligence May Have Initially Ensnared Michael FlynnTime permitting, I will be posting a thread this afternoon detailing the subtle enticements that may have initially led Flynn astray.

Sam Hamels

SamHamels

Happy to present a new report (in Dutch), in which we estimate the capacity of households to finance renovation investments.TLDR: financing constraints are unfortunately a huge barrier that cannot simply

Nairametrics

Nairametrics

Hello everyone and welcome to @Nairametrics Corporate News Roundup for the week ended May 10, 2020. This thread is brought to you by @BluechipTechNG.    The thread starts

Dan Honig

rambletastic

The man laughed. “We’re government employees. No. This is our job.” He paused for a moment. “This is why I signed up for this job. I’m proud to do this

Laurie Macfarlane

L__Macfarlane

Today the UK government has published the details of its “once in a generation” overhaul of England’s planning system. The proposed reforms confirm many of the fears I outlined here,

Voting YES on 26-218✨Getting There Together

ThereTogether

Good morning! Ballots are starting to arrive, which is a great reminder that this weekend is a great time to do your research & VOTE (+ send your ballot

Torrance Coste

TorranceCoste

Some context for the ongoing debate around old-growth logging in BC. @WFPCompany, the biggest and one of the most controversial logging companies on the coast, made $53 million in the

Richard Murphy

RichardJMurphy

There is one very clear message from this week’s elections. It is that politically the UK is in a very confused state. This needs some discussion. A thread follows..... Scotland

Quorumof1

Seyoyo

I always wondered how it was possible logistically in 1970 to identity Igbo-owned accounts and confiscate them.https://twitter.com/timisoleye/status/1276680454536658949 Achebe PBUH said in There Was a Country that the then FMG adopted

Becky DePodwin

wx_becks

I had the fantastic opportunity to interview @mattlyttle of @fema a few weeks ago on ways to prepare for a hurricane in a way that will make the recovery process