#Freedoms

Ben Sabin

benjamin_sabin

The fight for black people to, not only live, but also experience the same freedoms as their white neighbours isn't just an American cause, and that cannot be forgotten. I'm

Andrew White

StandUpAndrew

I see all this anger over the Pride train and the replies, and I just want to cry. Just a day after uproar over inclusive sex education as well.People always

Jenna

jennaep7

Some of the biggest whoppers I've ever been told are about Martin Luther King Jr. and came straight from the american education system. Based on what I was taught about

reason

reason

Even as debates over cancel culture have swept the nation, free speech defenders have disagreed about what, exactly, cancel culture is, and what it means for freedom of speech.For some

John Hayward

Doc_0

The myth of benevolent totalitarianism is pernicious and incredibly dangerous. Totalitarianism, the politicization of everything, NEVER ends well - no matter how benevolent and high-minded the totalitarians claim to be.

Robert M Califf

califf001

Memorial Day is different this year--as we remember the Veterans, 3 cemeteries come to mind. This is the American Cemetery in the Ardennes, where my Dad was deployed in WW2

Lorian Hardcastle

Lorian_H

We won't know the results of the vote until tomorrow, but the UCP is finished debating the policy to allow a two-tier health care system. Some thoughts... 1/8 We heard

Jon Allsop

Jon_Allsop

For @CJR today, I jump off @benyt's Macron interview to outline some more context around the laïcité debate, and to link it to the other big free-speech issue in France

SanchSZN (1-1-0)

Sanch2020

I’d like to make a quick thread on my thoughts about police brutality and racial violence in America. Sorry if it seems a bit disorganized, I’m writing this down as

Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🇳🇱 🥪

CliveWismayer

Do you remember the fleeting moment when we hoped the Queen would refuse what was obviously a bogus request for prorogation? But no, she complied. The BBC is servile &

grace douvos

graciannaaaaa

Not the people who stay benefitting from a capitalist system constantly tweeting about being anti capitalist And please educate yourself first.https://www.google.com/amp/s/fee.org/articles/anti-capitalism-trendy-but-wrong/amp I’m really

Vicky Again 🍂

VickyCBooks

I've realized that the statement "Teens in YA books act old" is meant to mean "the current range of modern YA overrepresents teens that are hypercompetent/extremely mature."Teens are on such

Hector Martin

marcan42

So NVIDIA "released" their kernel driver as open source. By which they mean, they moved most of it to firmware and made the open source driver call into it. There

Lee Jones

DrLeeJones

Lord Sumption's lecture on the govt response to COVID-19 is definitely worth watching. Makes crystal clear there has been an unconstitutional power-grab by the executive and agencies like the police.I

Dan Diekema

dan_diekema

Agree with @richdavisphd and @SBtotheDub here, though I've not waded into this weird non-dispute for several reasons. Major one being that hospital-based clinical microbiologists (like me) aren't obstacles to the

Ilyas Nagdee

ilyas_nagdee

Had this drafted but thought I'd post after Dalia's statement below. Her intervention that we have to be careful about the factors that play into sentencing are not without merit.