#Economic

Barrister's Horse

BarristersHorse

thread UK OK1. Just remember we could now be facing a debt union & sharing €1.8 trillion of an EU bailout. So much for remain & reform!Germany will sacrifice maybe

Politics and Health

lamarshall

Let's take the opportunity to debunk the #LizardSquad idiocy with actual data on #childabuse, how often it happens, what it looks like, and who commits it.First, a page full of

Beyond The Spectrum

BT_Spectrum

Thread @DarrickHamilton call for a federal jobs guarantee: "We face a recession with the potential for Depression-era job losses, and we know from experience that black and brown workers bear

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

It is manifest that retailers in many parts of the world, owners of airlines, restaurants, bars, shops, are pressing governments to open up the economy even though it will cause

Kat

KathyAnais

The principal of Tarrant High School made a really important point last night. He said that in his experience he has realized that all these rules about how you wear

Prof Nic Cheeseman

Fromagehomme

Final thought. Another truly worrying thing about tonight is how many smart and well meaning academics and politicians - including @JoeBiden - are saying “this is not America” or “this

Lulu Seikaly

LuluForTexas

Today marks 55 years since President LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act into law. This historic achievement was the result of decades long battles to form a more perfect union

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

This is exactly backwards. Urbanization was driven by desire to escape oppressive togetherness of small town/village life. The primary draw of cities in history has been escaping your tribe. The

MelWNI

MelWNI

Some thoughts from a NZ food producer & Ag Trade Envoy perspective on the signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Free Trade Agreement (RCEP FTA) with 15 member economies

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

Trump is a historically ineffectual President when it comes to policy. But he’s been historically successful in the sense that his policy failures have had minimal impact on his popularity

Tom London

TomLondon6

"Mainstream journalists are accorded a certain degree of independence if they demonstrate their ability to produce copy that is not only competently crafted but also free of any politically discordant

Elizabeth Warren

SenWarren

President-elect Biden has already committed to reentering the Paris Climate Accord, reinstating DACA, and ending the travel ban against certain Muslim countries. But there are lots of big changes that

karen ward

kwardvancouver

synthetic drugs are very profitable; we got too poor in a place that was getting wealthier by the day. https://twitter.com/kwardvancouver/status/1323101577566056448 the Poisoning Massacre is similarly an economic crisis. in fact

henwy

deathnography

A lot of the discourse around class is pretty ill-informed. Working class does not mean "manual labour" and it's not just a collection of aesthetic signifiers like "drives truck". The

Elizabeth Warren

ewarren

This is a straw man. The problem isn’t the ads. It’s Facebook’s unwillingness to regulate those ads and their inability to control organic disinformation on their platform—which they’re now letting

Michael Clemens

m_clem

Tweetstorm continues! So *why is it* that in lower-income countries, richer people emigrate more? What does that mean about the effects of *immigration*?@MariapiaMendola and I went all-out to find

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