#Permissive

Want (another) lesson in how CA cities abuse the state's Housing Element Law? Hard to do better than the place I teach, Davis, which just released its draft housing element
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Welcome to the bright side of Brexit. We know disruption is looming, but there are opportunities... 1/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-29/how-leaving-the-eu-could-help-britain-s-economy?sref=yMmXm5Iy w/ @DeirdreHipwell @lucy
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Things I should not have to explain in 2020 part 2: - SARS-CoV-2 exists- SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19This time, a (long) thread I think that when people make these claims- these
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NEW: A Russian operation posed as a far-right website to target U.S. divisions and the election.Most active on Gab and Parler.A few months old.Looks related to the IRA-linked PeaceData (which
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You jest, but when Malaysia sent their first astronaut (a Malay Muslim who wanted to pray while in the ISS) they actually organised an entire conference with 150 Islamic scholars
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Right now we exist in an overly permissive environment, a hyper-feminized environment, and this degrades our ability to discern right from wrong. That’s because women don't respect laws, they only
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I came across the latest @eu_eeas blog post by @JosepBorrellF only todayIt's really a must read on #ChinaTho clad in diplomatic language, it's a geopolitical that would have been
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1.Sexual harassment in academia is a serious and systemic issue that is too often left unchecked. I spoke with @IrishTimes about my experience of sexual harassment by a colleague @ucddublin
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Our preprint is up on bioRxiv! We discuss key findings about the adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 for humans, scenarios for cross species transmission (pangolins, Wuhan Huanan market), and measures to prevent
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Is it Assur to have a Minyan now?With moves towards reopening across the board, it is worth reflecting again (as we did 2.5 months ago) on different views on the
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(4) •POTUS will win the election. •[They] will claim he “cheated”, and call his refusal to leave (because he didnt lose), a coup. (The seeds for this are already being
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I’m really not looking forward to the anti intersection with the narcisphere, but I’m also genuinely surprised they haven’t gotten there yet alreadyI think it has something to do with
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(1) Thread time! Before we get rolling here, I wanna give a shoutout to @17Commentary and @GemmaSilent for the help with these digs. Yall made this a lot easier than
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How divination is like psychotherapy: a thread on healing, culture, and colonialism. (This thread jump off from my previous thread on how colonialist academic psychology denigrates astrology and divination as
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#OTD 1988. Section 28 is introduced. Law states that local authorities cannot 'promote homosexuality' or 'the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship'. A look back at the controversy
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THREADAlmost everyone who supported Tulsi Gabbard opposes @realDonaldTrump.That's because these people are crippled by confirmation bias.I want to show you what this despicable woman actually stood for.https://nationalinterest.org/featu
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