#Public

Jeff Stein

JStein_WaPo

!! GOP Sens. Rubio & Lee come out swinging against Romney child benefits plan: "We do not support turning the Child Tax Credit into ... a ‘child allowance,’ paid out

Irina

Wer_ko_der_ko

Today is the November Pogroms memorial day in Germany, also known as "Kristallnacht" when in 1938 German Jews were killed, beaten up, humiliated, imprisoned and their homes and businesses looted

Genevieve Lakier

glakier

Since the detailed and ambivalent account of the FOB that @klonick recently published in @NewYorker is generating so much discussion, I thought it might be useful to place the FOB

Cupcakes

cupcakesarenice

I'm tired of police officers who have literally had nothing bad happen to them complain about how scary and dangerous their job is when someone criticizes the police.I'm also tired

Quito Maggi

quito_maggi

Watching the coverage tonight on #cdnpoli fallout of closing of WE Charity reminds me of one detail that bothered me all alongThe Kielburgers repeatedly said that WE wouldn’t profit from

Julia Marcus, PhD, MPH

JuliaLMarcus

I've been writing about the need for empathetic public health messaging, which is more effective than trying to shame people into changing their behavior. Some have asked what exactly that

Karthik Muralidharan

karthik_econ

In a new @nberpubs WP, with @renata__lemos & @danielascur, we show that the quality of school management (esp. people management) in Indian schools is strongly correlated with both teaching activity

Post-Culture Review

PostCultRev

FUN FACT: Uber lost about $5B last year. If fares were set high enough to just break even they would cost more than a traditional taxi. Every rideshare you take

Kenton de Kirby, Ph.D.

KdeKirby

Great piece, as usual, from Shannon Osaka. This is the central question about US climate attitudes: what happens after Trump leaves office and Biden tries to pass ambitious climate policy?THREADhttps://twitter.com/shannonosaka/status/135159

Dr Lindsay 'Difficult Woman' Tedds🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺

LindsayTedds

At the last GFC @UCalgary the topic of political staffers/related intimidating academics from speaking was raised. The provost asked for examples and said academics are members of the public and

Jonathan Wilson

jnthnwwlsn

And not everyone has been paying attention to how many working-class Americans are now saying college isn't worth the price.https://twitter.com/williamrblack/status/1328518211202142208 This is the key thing, actually, and it's why I

josie duffy rice

jduffyrice

some interesting news these past few weeks about defunding the police. austin is using money form the police budget to help fund a new wraparound services initiative for the homeless.https://theappeal.org/austin-cut-police-budget-supportive

Gloria Purvis

gloria_purvis

If you think a discussion of manifest grave sin of public figures only applies to your “political enemies” then you are missing the fact that the demands of the faith

Bette Lynch

BetteMLynch

A couple of thoughts, excuse the thread. Firstly the ‘paps’ thing, I’ve noticed an assumption by the public that all photographers are ‘paparazzi’ especially during recent discussions over allowing access

Rev. Jacqui Lewis, PhD

RevJacquiLewis

I've been thinking a lot about a "personal relationship with Jesus" and here's what concerns me most:What if cultural focus on a "personal relationship" confuses worshipping whiteness with worshipping God?

John Harrington

johnhharrington

The @NPPA, by endorsing a “toolkit” calling for photojournalists to get consent of subjects in news situations has done a grave disservice to journalism. Photo: past Pulitzer winner Nancy Siesel

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