#Structural

Lyric Kelkar

lyrickelkar

A thread (rant) about what’s been going on in LA.The City of LA went into a state of emergency in the middle of March. It required people to be INside

Fiona Robertson♿🧂

FionaSnp

Honestly, I'm a little surprised Alba went directly to 'gay people are paedophiles' this early - I thought they'd build up to it.When the anti-trans people started spreading this nonsense

Wesley Yang

wesyang

NYT editor Dean Baquet makes highly revealing statement about the 1619 Project: "The project fell fully within our standards as a news organization. "https://twitter.com/cliffordlevy/status/1316017794664652800 The declaration is t

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/12Very good, sober @noahpinion piece on digital RMB (it seems hard for most to write soberly about digital currencies). He makes at least four important points:First, given how advanced China's

Aliza Ovadia

OvadiaAliza

The one high brow European Marxist who is worth reading would be Nicos Poulantzas for how he conceptualized capitalism as a system that is ever evolving, how class position is

Thomas Fazi

battleforeurope

[thread] I’m sorry to disagree with my good friend Dirk Ehnts (@DEhnts) but this analysis is just wrong. Here’s why https://twitter.com/BRAVENEWEUROPE1/status/1246844644203335680 MMT makes a crucial distinction between countries that have

Kevin Bass, MS

kevinnbass

Telling people to "lose weight" to survive COVID-19 is in really bad taste and stupid as well, because it: 1. Won't work if "you will die early from heart disease,

Zeke Hausfather

hausfath

In a new analysis, we find there are now 32 countries that have absolutely decoupled economic growth from CO2 since 2005. In these places both territorial emissions and consumption emissions

Heather Meadows - BLACK LIVES MATTER

alirendara

Rich white people stay silent about/actively encourage racism because they’d prefer people hate each other rather than notice the way they became rich. For decades there have been organized movements

Enrique Neblett, PhD

DrNeblett

(THREAD) Solutions to address COVID-19 racial disparities first require an understanding of contributing factors. In this thread, I briefly summarize recent explanations for racial gaps in C-19 mortality. I hope

PILoSSopher

pilossopher

These are wonderful. I have been meaning to write a post on tips for solving and estimating structural models efficiently. Some advice for people starting out on this endeavor, in

Sharon Nyangweso (She/Her)

Sharon_Okeno

I'm currently studying for my Canadian citizenship test (don't even get me started), but I think Canadians really need to know the kinds of rhetoric shared with newcomers. The section

Tim Morris

bristimtom

In need of some lockdown reading? @nm_davies @explodecomputer @mendel_random and I have a new paper exploring how population level mechanisms may inflate genetic associations and bias conclusions: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/16/eaay0328

David Gordon

davidagordon9

This is a good article but I think there is clearly some good news for Democrats in here that is kind of being overlooked in favor of red herring good

Aaron Brakel #StayHome

junolocal

CW ableist slurs. I just got blocked by someone for calling them on ableist language they were using to mock and insult. They used “Dum Dum” and “stupidity” about statements

Seth J. Meyer

SethJMeyer

I have reorganized my Intro to PA class to have a social justice focus. I will continue to use the same text (Public Administration), but I have added readings which