#Articles

Bob Calhoun

bob_calhoun

If we become our own nation state, can our national anthem please be California Uber Alles? Jello Biafra can sing it at Giants and Dodgers games.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-09/california-declares-independence-from-trump-s-coron

Svetlana Lokhova

RealSLokhova

For those pushing "Russian Disinformation" by Halper through Steele, ask yourself the question, when did Halper become a "Russian asset"? 2008? 2009? 20010? 2011? 20016?Halper was a paid informer for

BBC Radio 4

BBCRadio4

What would be the first sentence of your novel? Use your situation as an inspiration and 7 other tipshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5ybDXytm3KczwYqjjvlxGHT/eight-expert-tips-for-writing-your-first-novel Listen: Owen Sheers on adapting The

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miichheellee_

why bts isnt the best boyband ever - a thread for btspoppers okay congrats ur an idiot bts is the best fucking boyband to ever exist in the world but

Jay Geller

OtherJayGeller

1. I never thought I would hear a Jewish intellectual say, “Vote for the czar!”2. This isn’t a choice between the czar and the Bolsheviks. Biden isn’t Lenin, in case

tedfrank 💉

tedfrank

This great @WSJopinion editorial on norm-breaking understates what Democrats did and how they rebuffed Republican attempts to de escalate. Democrats held up a bunch of intermediate appellate nominations in *August

Infectious Disease Ethics

ID_ethics

Has it been shown that #covid19 viral load is strongly correlated with infectiousness or number of others infected?Clearly this is intuitive, but is it true?I see this assumed a lot,

Brad Setser

Brad_Setser

U.S. corporate tax reform didn't get rid of the incentive for big multinationals to play tax games."“The location of intellectual property is more of a tax-planning exercise than movements of

Christopher Mims

mims

What's going to happen to all the streaming services, Pelotons, Amazons and DoorDashes of the world once Americans are broadly vaccinated?Probably not a lot. This week I tallied all the

Dreamweasel

Dreamweasel

HA HA HA HA HA are you fucking serioushttps://www.wsj.com/articles/if-he-loses-trump-will-concede-gracefully-11604772109?reflink=share_mobilewebshare 1. Trump will never acknowledge he lost because he never admits failure2. He will always i

Robin Koerner

rkoerner

I've been doing some research. It's back-of-envelope stuff so I invite any professionals with better data to correct anything here.The median cost of adding one year of life to an

David S. Joachim

davidjoachim

N.Y. UPDATE:731 people died since yesterday, the largest one-day rise so farTotal dead: 5,489 138,836 infections (+8,147)“Every hospital has what it needs to date,” Cuomo says@brianreports Cuomo talked to the

JustAnotherFilmBuff

J_A_F_B

FILM-CRIT TRANSLATION EVENT OF THE YEAR!Starting May 10, the indefatigable @laurentktz will be putting up translations of over 20 texts that Daney produced during the Cannes Film Festival of 1984.

DefinitelyNotSweetDee 💨

NotSweetDeeSez

Govt schools are held accountable?21% of adults in the US are functionally illiterate 36% of 12th graders score below basic in math65% of public school 8th Graders can’t read, 67%

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franzkarma

#BlackLivesMatter #raisethedegree I have many things to say that I will keep to myself because I do not want to speak over black people but at the very least

Jason Schreier

jasonschreier

NEWS: Blizzard staff put together an anonymous spreadsheet Friday to compare salaries and pay raises as part of an open revolt against low compensation. While CEO Bobby Kotick makes $40m/year,