#System

Alec Karakatsanis

equalityAlec

THREAD: Today's story is about a man who was jailed in Houston because he couldn't pay $100 cash. What happened next is horrifying: the system lost him. What he endured

Joan Poh

JoanPohYY

13 yrs ago, a group of US public health officials decided to address one of the medical system's crucial vulnerabilities: a shortage of ventilators.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html?action=click&a

SwiftOnSecurity

SwiftOnSecurity

If you want to identity a piece of military hardware just post a picture to Twitter calling it a "tank."I'm seriously not joking. It's like that thing about giving wrong

Simon Rabinovitch

S_Rabinovitch

A look at China's digital yuan, in which I argue that on the spectrum from grand monetary revolution to big nothing-burger, it's a lot closer to the latter.There are three

One pat for Taemi every day

Midori_2114

Trends SHINee starts: a thread#SHINeePavedTheWay 1. Skinny jeans (for boy groups) They're basically the contemporary band which SM used as a "guinea pig" for each new genre they touch on.

Anne Thériault

anne_theriault

Ancient Romans: druids are badAncient Romans: they sacrifice humans, according to usAncient Romans: we just invade placesAncient Romans: slaughter innocents, etcAncient Romans: conscript our own young menAncient Romans: but it’s,

InTheLightOfData

InTheLightOfDa3

Deaths toll is more solid target of analysis but it's too extreme to say no. of confirmed cases is useless.You can check the trend of increase at least.(but noisy i

Sol 太阳 쏠

SolTaiyang

A clarifying thread to the racists who may have thought I was “your people,” but have now learned otherwise…When I discuss “white supremacy” it’s used as a macro-historic term—the imperialistic

STAR MAN

Funk_Pump

So I just had my first venture out on my own since lockdown and it turned out to be one of the best afternoons of my life. I went across

EndSARS

Omoh_fated

Open Letter to the Nigeria Police Force and Army Force Dear Nigeria Police / SARS Please permit me to exhaust just 6minutes of your time, let me tell you a

Charmain

Charmai08239129

Written by a 21 year old female.....in NZ"The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a

Қазмонавт

kazmonaut

I was feeling kind of bad about having positive thoughts about Trump getting Covid, so then I began to think about why... 1/ i actually don't want him to suffer

GreensForNuclearEnergy

Greens4Nuclear

On this day 34 years ago, a misguided and poorly executed test of safety systems was conducted by inadequately trained operators on a poorly designed reactor that employed no secondary

Jamie Windust

jamie_windust

Want to talk about bits because as someone who publicly campaigned for X passports and governmental recognition, after speaking with people and reading further it's actually an issue that can

Peter Daou

peterdaou

THREAD — THE WILLFUL MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE LEFT Let me clear some shit up:1. The left does NOT want Trump to win2. The left is fiercely anti-fascist3. The left believes

Michael McAuliff

mmcauliff

Klobuchar gives Yates another chance to sum up the threat: "The Russians were coming at us with multiple ;attacks]. There was a, an organized effort to break into the DNC