#Purpose

Rob Henderson

robkhenderson

The common understanding of propaganda is that it is intended to brainwash the masses. Supposedly, people get exposed to the same message repeatedly and over time come to believe in

Usman

UsmanAhmad_iam

The second biggest Muslim country in the world, with a 95-98 per cent Muslim population also has the highest rate of blasphemy offences against Islam - funny that isn’t it.

D-GOAT (dlo)

ClxtchKobe

(Short Thread) A comparison between Kobe, MJ, and LeBron’s Finals numbers & why Kobe isn’t as bad of a Finals performer as many people think The purpose of this thread

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Kind of interesting that Trump seems more aware than Congressional Rs that failure to provide more Covid relief will be a political disaster 1/ https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F08%2F07%2Fworld%2Fco

POJU OYEMADE

pastorpoju

1. (On politics) I was once in a conversation with an elderly friend of mine who is American. He is deeply involved in politics in the States and I asked

Jericho Brown

jerichobrown

Later tonight, I’m writing to Joe Biden about the power of the black vote to elect Presidents & the expectation that this power have leverage when it comes to moving

Paul Rosenzweig

RosenzweigP

Musings on the "day after" (ok, several days after, but you get the idea): America faces three over-arching interlocking large-scale challenges that, in any reasonable world, should be the objective

bich

saoirse_idk

reminder that the BMI scale was invented by a racist mathematician (not a doctor) for the purpose of eugenics and he himself even admitted later that it was and is

Hugh Miller

HughPMiller

New EMHP or CWP? It's an incredibly demanding role. Here's some tips on how to survive and thrive from some of the amazing trainees I've had the pleasure of working

Claire Willett

clairewillett

as with Y2K, there will always be a market for "lol you all panicked about Thing and then Thing didn't even happen" takes which ignore all the absolutely balls-to-the-wall nonstop

Doug

OSnewsletter

Tiny suicide drones are the future of small unit combat. I've been saying this for years, ever since we first encountered ISIS using them in Iraq. The effect on even

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

Kurt "Masks Save Lives" Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

...events that will be frighteningly familiar. First, understand: Fascism is a political process, not necessarily an ideology. Its sole goal is obtaining power. How is it done? Read this....sound familiar?

Lindsay P Cohn

lindsaypcohn

Argh.No.Stop appointing recently retired GOFOs as SecDef. OSD is not a military shop, it’s supposed to be the main locus of defense POLICY-making. The person in charge will have PLENTY

JJ Smith

JJSmithPrime

UNPOPULAR OPINION: SCREENWRITING HAS RULESThe thing that separates screenwriting format from other writing (poems, short stories, novels, songs, etc.) is its format.Scene headings, slug lines, dialogue tags, action lines...1/9 Each

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