#Senate

Dr. Bashir (commentary)

drbashir2018

What is a virus?So viruses are pieces of RNA (COVID-19) or DNA and typically a protein housing that helps it invade your cells.Because they do not have cells they are

Portlus Glam

PortlusGlam

I'll drill down on 11/10 - 11/12:- WH Press Pool lies to public re "rain" - Trump secretly holds talks w/ foreign leaders, including Putin- 30+ GOP hold secret meetings

Greg Olear

gregolear

Let’s talk about why Joe Biden should pick Kamala Harris to be the next vice president of these United States.[THREAD] 1/ The actuarial chances that the VP will ascend to

Rebecca Cokley

RebeccaCokley

People are policy? It matters who’s at the table. Presidential Appointments 101 With each administration the president has the ability to appoint roughly 6000 people into a mix of both

oC DkKoba 🌹

KobaOC

Hey, since Bernie dropped out, those of you who were donating to his campaign may be wondering: where to go from here? Now, there are a few candidates out there

Jake Sherman

JakeSherman

Playbook: HERE IS A REMARKABLE FACT: @realDonaldTrump and @SpeakerPelosi haven’t spoken in nearly one year. Their last one-on-one conversation was Oct. 16, 2019 -- they had a brief interaction at

Robert Rosenthal

ALionEye

I'm NOT A HISTORIAN but I've studied this topic a lot and have sources to cite. Here goes:The term "Illini" was coined in the 1870's. At the time, it was

James Kanagasooriam

JamesKanag

Short thread on my thoughts of YouGov's MRP of the US Presidential Election. It forecasts a landslide win for Biden. There's some interesting detail which I've tried to backsolve...https://today.yougov.com/2020-presidential-elec

Alan W. Silberberg 🇺🇸

IdeaGov

Election Social Engineering Tutorial:I will add to this thread regularly. Social engineering can take many forms. Can be someone trying to be you. Can be someone using disinformation to get

Patrick Whalen

PatWhalenNC

TIP THE KITCHEN INITIATIVE - LIVABLE WAGEThis approach was driven, in part, by the idea that everyone in our restaurants needed to make above a "livable wage." Ok, so what

NYC Votes

NYCVotes

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there's been some uncertainty around how our democratic process will continue to function. We want shed some light on what's being considered here in New York,

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

It's been 13 years since @NaomiAKlein's Shock Doctrine described the neoliberal playbook: crises are seized as a moment to smuggle in policies that could not pass public muster under normal

Senator Winnie Brinks

WinnieBrinks

.@naacpgr and West MI Branches of @NAACP stand with @GovWhitmer, denounce symbols of hate and oppression at MI Capitol protests, call for protections for high risk workers and summer learning

Gernot Wagner

GernotWagner

I wrote a thing for on Biden's climate plan. http://gwagner.com/risky-business-biden-planIt's good. The plan, that is.What I wrote is also squarely addressed at my fellow economists: please don't make this harder

David Rothkopf

djrothkopf

After Trump learned Russian military intelligence had put a bounty on the heads of coalition forces in Afghanistan, it's not that Trump did nothing. He did the unthinkable. He offered

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

The part of me that doesn't want Biden to have an AG who will do for Dems what Barr does for the GOP is pretty much dead. The part of