#Measures

Steve Faktor

ideafaktory

Officially, inflation is 1.5%, below the Fed's 2% target.In reality, some assets, esp financial ones & homes, are ballooning, as are some cherry-picked commodities, but not the overall commodities index.What's

Isaac Bogoch

BogochIsaac

1/ So #COVIDzero is trending. What's not to like about zero cases of #COVID19? 1. How can we get there? 2. Is this feasible in Canada?Some unpopular opinions & perhaps

NYC Black Mutual Aid

NYCBlackAid

Govts take advantage in times of crisis to expand policing, surveillance, & incarceration. @NYCCouncil & @NYCMayor aren’t providing the aid our communities urgently need. Check out our list of demands:

Aidan Smith

aidan_smx

The thing about Paul Krugman is that he's deeply scarred from being passed over for the CEA Chair job by Bill Clinton in 1992, which is why on election years

Helen De Cruz

Helenreflects

This is utterly fascinating. Why did the UK react so slowly, in spite of seeing the pandemic unfold in other countries? "British scientists assumed that such drastic actions would never

Louis Stedman-Bryce

Lstedmanbryce

THREAD: A Comprehensive Timeline of China’s Coronavirus Lies. All sources are listed.It is *incredibly* important that everyone is aware of how the Chinese Government suppressed whistleblowers, punished Doctors and lied

Lisa Kramer

LisaKramer

In Canada, provinces have jurisdiction over both healthcare and education. In my province of Ontario, some terrible things have happened in the past week. A thread. #onpoli #onted 1. Yesterday

Julian Gewirtz

JulianGewirtz

I was talking with a friend yesterday about how, as we're all rightly focused on the COVID-19 crisis, a bunch of important books related to China, Asia, & U.S. foreign

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

THREAD1/ I asked people to be outraged that our epidemic disaster continues. Complacency now will kill us later.Someone replied that they were outraged, but now what?Outrage isn’t enough if it

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jaythenerdkid

I've received a few responses to my prison abolition thread along the lines of, "so you're saying I'm a bad person for wanting my rapist locked up?"no, I don't think

OPB

OPB

Good evening, all. Ready for an emoji-laden pandemic update? Good. Because here it comes. This is your daily thread of Northwest coronavirus news for Thursday. NEW NUMBERS

Ben McCluskey

BenkersBen

Portugal reports 390 new cases in the last 24 hours.A fairly large increase from yesterday.7-day case rate per 100,000 remains above threshold of 20.Hard for the government to defy

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aarongell

1/ Recently, for @Genmag, I spent some time looking into the “right of the people peaceably to assemble,” one of the 5 liberties guaranteed by the #1A. (Not the one

Erin Smith

erinsmithSF

1/ Let’s talk Response Dilemmas and Spectrum of Allies, and their utility in reaching political goals.In this recent piece with @NancyRomm we talked dilemma actions in Portland:https://reason.com/2020/10/02/the-conservative-trans-woman-wh

ScotGov Childcare

ELCScotGov

Important thread for the childcare sector Today the @ScotGovFM announced that Scotland will begin to cautiously ease out of lockdown and move in to Phase 1 of the routemap.We've outlined

Aman Thind

Thind888

Part 1:*Defining ventricular preload*The conceptual definition of preload is quite straightforward: end-diastolic myocardial load/stretch. At the microscopic level, it's the sarcomere length we are interested in, which would increase wi