#Partisan

David Roberts

drvolts

I will be anyone any amount of money that this 45% figure is wildly high.https://twitter.com/tgradous/status/1385907479637336067 Don't wanna have this whole dumb argument again, but I will quickly explain why Gates'

Jack Bernhardt Who Died Exactly 25 Years Ago Today

jackbern23

This is a fair (and simple) description, and it's pretty compelling for the narrative that UK satire has run out of ideas and/or is part of the establishment elite, but

Sandy Shaw

shaw_sandy

Last week I raised the horrific story of one resident being forgotten for 18 hours in an evacuation of The Rossyln Retirement home in #HamOnt. I asked the Premier why

Andy Green

AndyGreenSF

BREAKING: SEC Stifles Shareholder VoiceThe SEC today voted along partisan lines to insulate management from accountability to investors, workers, communities & others.Raising ownership requirements to offer sh/h proposals from $2k

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The "contact tracing" apps don't do "contact tracing" - they do "exposure notification." Contact tracing is a labor-intensive shoe-leather process built on relationships and it is stubbornly resistant to au

R. Daniel Kelemen

rdanielkelemen

Many have been rightly criticizing the EU for its disjointed response to Coronavirus, for not doing enough to help Italy etc. But note that the US federal gov, which has

Matt Bevan 🎙

MatthewBevan

A little story we ended up being unable to squeeze into America, If You're Listening that is relevant today:Six months before the 2016 election, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who

David Frum

davidfrum

Yesterday, @USATODAY posted an item rating as "TRUE" the Trumpist talking point that it's the Obama administration's fault that the national emergency stockpile was depleted. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/03/

Fake History Hunter

fakehistoryhunt

I won't go into detail but if the women in 'The Handmaid's tale' had studied how resistance/partisan/guerilla groups worked in the past, they would have avoided quite a few mistakes.#blessedbethefight

Harold Pollack

haroldpollack

I found this 2013 post, where I proposed a set of quantitative skills every reporter should have to cover health care+public policy. These are roughly the skills I'd expect of

Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary)

SpockResists

Why Are Christians So Easily Fooled by Conspiracy Theories?Especially adults who claim to be followers of Jesus and people of “The Truth.”During Barack Obama’s presidency, it was Christians claiming online

Chris Kromm

chriskromm

My vote for most under-reported 2020 election story: STATE LEGISLATURES, especially in the South. States are where policy moves, bases are mobilized, and, thanks to redistricting, Congressional control is shaped.

Democracy In The Workplace

ChrisWestsideJX

Lies of omission? Word games? Bad faith framing? Going viral, then retracting? Staging fabrications? Trusting obvious psy ops? Culture war distractions? Protecting profits? ABSOLUTELY.https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2021/04/11/six-things-i-

Tadeusz Mrozek

TadeuszMrozek2

Republican Recruitment Update: As with the Dems, the Reps' best candidates mostly won their primaries. However, sometimes they didn't. In this thread, I will cover those times. AL-01: I would

Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall

lindstorian

Really bizarre that this happened on the same day that @TIME published the @obwax piece I consulted on about how this exact political anxiety is a predictable cycle in the

Andrew Prokop

awprokop

NEW: I profiled Joe Manchin. I cover his 4-decade career, and his improbable rise to become Democrats’ key 50th senator.I interviewed him about the filibuster, HR1, the minimum wage, whether