#WashingtonPost

Erin Blakemore

heroinebook

At long last, my piece on sexism in research is live at @washingtonpost. (It will be in print on Tuesday.) A brief reporter's notebook follows. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/sexism-science-medbikini/2020/10/23/4ac00e0a-1229-11e

David Roberts

drvolts

1. OK, it's been a couple weeks since my last Trump thread. Time to down some Pepto Bismol & jump back in.First: the US intelligence services that Trump alternately insults

Catherine Rampell

crampell

So...I just scraped new State Dept data on student visas (F-1's), and it looks like student visa issuance fell by ~70% from FY2019 to FY2020. This is an astounding idiotic

kayla perkins

kbp104

I've been trying to put a tweet together explaining my love of the male dominated sports world from the perspective of a female and it's tough. This incident with the

Joshua Tait

Joshua_A_Tait

A friend asked me why so many conservatives reflexively back the police while fearing the state. Aren’t the police armed representatives of the state? I’m gonna work this into something

Pedro Nicolaci da Costa

pdacosta

"This virus is still out there. We respond to 911 calls for covid every day. I’ve been on the scene at more than 200 of these deaths—trying to revive people,

Shem Horne

Shem_Infinite

Here we go, let the leaks begin!"The inspector general in recent days has invited witnesses and their lawyers who were interviewed for the report to review portions of a draft

Alissa Wilkinson

alissamarie

Recommending this @replyall episode, which is nominally about who Q actually is but, more usefully, provides a window into the fringe origins of something that’s swallowing whole parts of the

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

ON LOOTING, RIOTING, VIOLENCE{please RT}RESPONSIBLE (per FBI): Boogaloo Bois (Trumpists) Proud Boys (Trumpists) Militias (Trumpists) Anarchists (apolitical) Organized Crime (apolitical)NOT RESPONSIBLE (per FBI): BLM (progressive) Antifa (an

Alamo_On_The_Rise ↗️🆘 🇺🇲

AlamoOnTheRise

Trump: Day 1,179 (THREAD)-586,941 Confirmed US CV19 Cases-US CV19 Death Toll Rises to 23,640-Threatens to Override State Orders-Plays Campaign Ad During Briefing-Trying to Rewrite Response History-Navy Sailor on Aircraft Carrier

Pelosi: The Real Khaleesi

Rick_H_CA

Why is Congressional subpoena enforcement taking so long?I decided to find out and produced this thread as a Primer to explain what the House is up against vs tRUmp. The

Peter🌹Gaughan

pidgejgv

Remember that theft and violence aren't a crime for everybody. When protestors turn towards the redistribution of property and the destruction of institutions of exploitation, they are criminals. But that

Sherrilyn Ifill

Sifill_LDF

We have reached the nadir of lawless, reckless conduct by the Repub Senate leadership - which has relinquished any claim to integrity & responsibility in its zeal to rush through

Citizens for Ethics

CREWcrew

THIS WEEK IN CORRUPTION: We saw the Ohio Majority Leader arrested for his role in a $60 million dollar bribery scheme where a $1 billion public bailout was extended in

Yu-Jie Chen 😷

yujiechentw

(1/X) Lots of talk about this, so I’m starting a thread on @WHO's actions that appeared to help China downplay the outbreak & as a result delay international response. Make

Jesse Dougherty

dougherty_jesse

Sean Doolittle just gave a long and thoughtful answer about baseball's return and how America's pandemic situation is worse than it was in March, when the sport shut down. Will