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Parker Molloy

ParkerMolloy

Remember in 2016 when Republicans thought Clinton was going to win and planned to change the size of the Supreme Court because it would be politically advantageous?https://www.npr.org/2016/11/03/500560120/senate-republicans-could-block-pote

Jeremy Littau

JeremyLittau

This week saw a one-two punch to local news: the GannettHouse merger and news that McClatchy is in serious financial trouble. @Sulliview captures the worry quite well here (https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-death-knell-for-local-news

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 2181/ Excellent @washingtonpost piece today on Operation Warp Speed, & its (likely) success in moving us from discovery of a new virus to having one or

Walter M Kimbrough

HipHopPrez

A THREAD: As a response to charges of racism, supporters of President Trump offer several defenses. Examples include “funded HBCUs” “giving 250 million to HBCUs” “permanently funded HBCUs” and “record

L.r. 🔆

RevUntelevised

Zócalo asks, "Can we build a better Summer Olympics?"Welcome to the mega-thread of *reasons why the Olympics should immediately fuck off forever*https://twitter.com/ThePublicSquare/status/1271587145220669440 "The six Summer

Sam Anderson

shamblanderson

Some Oklahomans are mad/defensive about my recent thread about the White supremacist history of OK.I get that & can sympathize. "History is what hurts." Americans are hurting right now. We

Saul Justin Newman 🏳️‍🌈

saul_newman

Last year I posted a very simple argument to #bioRxiv. It became the 6th-most discussed preprint ever.Today I am posting the sequel. #Supercentenarians and #BlueZones – are they a vital

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AlamoOnTheRise

Trump: Day 1,291 (THREAD)-4,861,522 Cases of COVID-19 in US-US CV19 Death Toll Rises to 158,906-Continues 2 Push Unproven Hydroxy-Wants Slice of Possible TikTok Sale-Lies Could Cut Payroll Taxes w/EO-Fraud Investigated

Invest in Survivors & Abolish Carceral Systems

abolitionistfem

11am NYC Twitter #PowerHour HAPPENING NOW!! We are telling @NYCMayor, @NYCSpeakerCoJo, @NYCFirstLady, & @CrimJusticeNYC to #DefundNYPD and #InvestInSurvivors #FreeThemAll #NYCCareNotCages Carceral systems revictimize many survivors in t

Drew Holden

DrewHolden360

With the news that Elizabeth Warren is the last white woman on the short list of VP options for Biden, I figured it was a good time to go to

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RouReynolds

Like most of us, over the last few days I’ve felt horror at the #GeorgeFloyd murder & the resulting unrest.And I've just not known what to do.Here's a THREAD of

Bret Devereaux

BretDevereaux

This is an entirely fair question in response to my article in @ForeignPolicy on why we ought to avoid the term warrior (https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/19/united-states-afghanistan-citizen-soldiers-warriors-forever-wars/), so let's a

Robert Young Pelton

RYP__

Anthony Tata, Erik Prince's boy and mercenary fan, sneaks into the Pentagon via the back door.https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/02/donald-trump-anthony-tata-pentagon-390851 Tata teamed up with Erik Prince to insist that for profit m

Eliza

elizableu

Fact Check: Twitter profits off of human trafficking which is a human rights violation.Right now, @jack is giving a key note speech at a human rights conference @HRF @OsloFF #OsloFF

David Wolfe Bender

dbenderpt

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, August 12, 2020. There's been A LOT of news in the past 24 hours, so let's get started and look at the big headlines in

Firas Durri

firasd

1) When the Covid crisis is over, one of the strangest sub-plots will have been the fracas around Hydroxychloroquine. Starting from medical practitioners worldwide adopting its usage in a ‘cargo