#Governments

Catherine Rampell

crampell

Two cheers for the July jobs report. A 7-digit monthly payroll growth number sounds great...until you realize we had an 8-digit loss in April we're still trying to recover from,

AustralasianEpi

AustralasianEpi

How do we conceptualise the use of data to drive health equity in Indigenous populations? This is a brief Tweet storm on the main considerations required when using data pertaining

Tim Shiel

timshiel

The mental health crisis among artists takes many forms: frustration, loneliness, low self-worth, all of which can lead to deeper depression & anxiety. If you're an artist or know someone

Greg Jericho

GrogsGamut

Congrats for clearing the lowest barhttps://twitter.com/matt_keanmp/status/1334955576472694784 Compare the congratulations conservatives get for doing less than the bare minimum on climate change with the vitriol they’re allowed to heap o

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

It is discomforting that most people still underestimate true impact of #Covid19. Immediate effects are so shocking that we are all caught up in them.But longer-term implications may be more

Thulasi Muttulingam

mthulasi

Trans women and men have always existed. Gender dysphoria is real. People who have it should be allowed to live as they identify without persecution.Why though must they - especially

Moolie61 #KBF

moolie61

Article by Dan Astin Gregory on FB1/ WHO IS AT THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM?Many people are angry and frustrated with the UK governments handing the of the Pandemic, with

El Sandifer, Rationality Expert to the Stars

ElSandifer

I have complex and mixed feelings about Trump's Twitter ban. On one level it's obviously good, in the sense that it makes the world a tangibly, measurably better place. But

Matthew Happold

MatthewHappold

Some quick thoughts about Teare J's judgment in the Central Bank of Venezuela case. Not a decision I found easy to read. 1/n https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Comm/2020/1721.html Under the one voice principle, Teare

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/5The biggest cost to the US economy is when workers are willing but unable to find productive jobs. That is why a major economic stimulus can bring short-term growth to

Joia S. Mukherjee

JoiaMukherjee

ya know....I am sick of sanctomonious Americans comparing the US to a "banana republic"...The writer O. Henry first coined the term to describe a fictional small, single crop country with

Eoin Breathnach 🚩

daddymanphd

Fascism isn't an immediate possibility in the US or Europe. But bourgeois governments are increasingly taking on features of fascism as the economic equilibrium has been shattered, the threat from

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

I think we're dancing around a terrifying issue: Q: Do our institutions believe that there a right to inform/misinform/disinform that is peculiar to certain institutions/voices but not others?A: Clearly there

Dan Cox 🇺🇸 🦅- Maryland Delegate

DanCoxEsq

“...how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest

kiwi.hodl

TSIndigenous

A short thread of @JeffBooth quotes.“Technological progress has changed the rules. Ignoring that structural change by printing money is coming at a great cost to our society, our environment, and

Gulag Inmate 1646

ReformingNick

Story time: I had Covid in April. TL;DR1) I had COVID2) It was a bad experience with long lasting possibly permanent effects3) You can be pro liberty and love your

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