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Charlie Anderson

EconCharlie

THREAD: Today's the last day of the $600/week unemployment benefits. This was completely foreseeable & avoidable. Four months of Republican dithering is now throwing 30 million+ people over a financial

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING: huge Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine study of 96,000 patients at 671 hospitals found:Increased risk of DEATH by 33-45%Increased risk of ventricular arrhythmia by 2.3x to 5x. Not a trial but

BP Capital: Energy & Midstream Funds

bpcapitalenergy

A trifecta of events in 2021 have brought energy reliability into the forefront: the Suez Canal, Winter Storm Uri, and Colonial Pipeline. 1/14https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/colonial-pipeline-hack-claimed-russian-group-darkside-spurs-

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Someone asked me yesterday why schools aren't mainly open in San Francisco (despite 30 cases in city of 896K yesterday (& they test),

John P. Hussman

hussmanjp

THREAD: Pinning my prior #COVIDー19 threads and a 2/3/20 post here. Adding more posts below. If they're helpful PLEASE RETWEET. Feb 2 thread: https://twitter.com/hussmanjp/status/1224040569476874244March 8 thread: https://twitter.com/hussmanjp/sta

Tanvi Madan

tanvi_madan

THREAD. On the rhetoric we've seen - or not seen - from China & India during the ongoing boundary tensions.Bottom line: thus far, both govts have largely been restrained in

Megan McArdle

asymmetricinfo

Well, I've had the weekend to round up the responses to my column on cancel culture, so now I'll run through them. A lot of them will be familiar from

Brooke Binkowski

brooklynmarie

Today I got the idea to put together a thread of every public official, elected or appointed, who is advocating for or trying to normalize mass die-offs as a right

Matthew Sheffield

mattsheffield

As the co-creator of NewsBusters, the most prominent anti-media website, I was part of a decades-long tradition of complaining about media elites being "unfair" to conservative views. There is still

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

I want to comment on the issue of free expression at art museums. In general, I don’t think art museums should *ever* yield to people demanding that work they find

Todd N. Tucker

toddntucker

Here is a short thread on why it's important for an American - if you're going to choose to talk about Bolivia - to call it a coup. First, as

Nicholas Loubere

NDLoubere

The article 'The Long-run Poverty and Gender Impacts of Mobile Money' in @sciencemagazine is an excellent example of how prestige academic publishing and the media can manufacture a 'development miracle'—in

Drew Harwell

drewharwell

New: Conservatives can't stop tweeting about Parler, their new online safe space away from the reality of Trump's election loss. But if mainstream social networks are such censorship prisons, why

Kathryn Anne Edwards

keds_economist

Reading an article about how it's hard to hire food service workers right now. Here's four things I wish each story on this would mention:One: What is the access to

Jeremy Snyder

jeremycsnyder

Are you a reporter or casual viewer wondering who Natalie Harp @NatalieJHarp , one of tonight’s featured convention speakers is? Then this thread is for you! The RNC describes Ms.

Ben See

ClimateBen

Remember:1. The oceans are being killed.2. Forests will soon be gone.3. Fertile soil is disappearing.4. Megafauna risk extermination.5. Insects are vanishing.6. Climate chaos is inevitable.7. Extinction is now.8. Plastic is