#Public

Carissa Byrne Hessick

CBHessick

This is the story @CNN chooses to run when crime rates across the nation are plummeting.It tells you everything you need to know about the media’s role in stoking public

Jon 🔬

JonnyMicro

Just a reminder that cloth masks - the majority of what the public is wearing because it’s the only thing widely available and what is being required by governments and

Stephen McIntyre

ClimateAudit

New article in journal published by Cambridge Univ Press says that testimony to House Oversight Committee in March 2020 mixed up case fatality rate (CFR) and infection fatality rate (IFR)

Matina Stevis-Gridneff

MatinaStevis

When we were reporting on the superb epidemiologists who have become household names because of their role as public communicators in the coronavirus response, we struggled to find women in

Winnipeg Police

wpgpolice

The WPS does not own a “tank". A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat. The vehicle you see is called an Armored Rescue Vehicle (ARV). It

the tetrapod

pancake_puns

THREAD of things you still have the legal right to do in England at the moment, and relevant parts of the legislation to back you up - all references are

Scott Hechinger

ScottHech

In the noise of national news, you may have missed that Lake Charles, LA was devastated by Hurricane Laura. And the public defender office was destroyed. Records gone. Defenders now

Andy Verity

andyverity

This is a debate they're already having in the United States and we will also have to have here.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56855301 The last time the official estimate of borrowing (in this case,

Save British Farming 🇬🇧

BritishSave

New report, The Hidden Damage to Public Health, says lowering food standards increases likelihood of antibiotic resistance in humans bc of overuse in intensive animal production and cancer rates could

Jayeel Cornelio

jayeel_cornelio

If done right, surveys reveal the general picture, whether we like it or not. Instead of discrediting them, we need to confront what they reveal: Why are things the way

Jason Bailey 🗯

iamjasonbailey

[THREAD] Floating a theory.[EC] Trump plant? Informant? Flipped?Trump stages call with Zelensky.He knew it would be released.Everything is legal, but appears improper.Enough to elicit outrage.Outrage over the EXACT crimes the

jon ben-menachem

jbenmenachem

instead of unleashing cops against marginalized communities in the name of pandemic response... paying unemployed people $15/hr to hand out masks and gloves and connect people to social services/food banks

Jonathan Haynes

JonathanHaynes

The asymmetry of experience between the government and their advisers and the general public in terms of lockdowns of something I don’t is being factored in enough. 1/ If you’re

UW Coaching Lab

uwcoachinglab

The only way forward in youth sports is government regulation. Problems created by a market approach won’t be solved by that same $20 billion industry. What incentive does it have

Josh Barro

jbarro

I find this stuff bizarre. If he does this, doesn't that mean he thinks his own guidance about Thanksgiving is incorrect?https://twitter.com/KyleClark/status/1331738005862830085 Like, if politicians are unwilling to follow their own

Calla Wahlquist

callapilla

Is Andrews confident we'll get the 14-day average from 11 down to 5 in two weeks?"As confident as you can be. You can't be certain, that's not the nature of