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gab.ai/murali

muralipiyer

My customary #IndependenceDay thread.I will be short and, hopefully, sweet this year./1 2.We are in 2020 now.At 73, we are still a very young nation, literally and figuratively.The most populous

Craig Spencer MD MPH

Craig_A_Spencer

The White House released the ‘National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness”.It opens with “America deserves a response to the COVID-19 pandemic that is driven by science, data,

PluckyCanuck

CanuckPlucky

COVID-19 Mega-ThreadOn propaganda, fear, and conspiracies. 1/ Covid is real. It’s a real virus with real victims.But if there is anyhing I’ve learned from the last year, its that media

Layers Bakery Stan Account

notsafaimran

I was speaking to my new cook a few days ago. Those of you who may recall, my old cook Meena aunty passed away from coronavirus this summers. and our

David Frum

davidfrum

1) The pace of COVID vaccination is accelerating in US, UK. Rest of developed world lagging - but will catch up. 2) Huge vaccination drive launching in India too. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/02/06/964396284/photos-the-wor

Baby Drew 🏂

SocioDrew

Colleges are still excluding African American students from low-income and/or urban backgrounds and are instead recruiting 1st/2nd gen African students then grouping us all together under “Black/African-American” in their diversity

Edward Ongweso Jr

bigblackjacobin

In the decade before IPO, Uber wasted over $24 billion of investor capital. Since IPO, Uber wasted over $14 billion. Driverless cars, flying taxis, bikes, and scooters were supposed to

Joe Bortner

joeb_draws

People have been begging me. “Joe, what’s your ranking from worst to best of every main series Pokémon game?” Well, wait no longer. 16. X/Y - They’re so boring, you

Citizen Stewart

citizenstewart

Here's how Black erasure takes place in public ed politics. Sonja Santelises leads an urban school district with 80k students, 76% Black, 13% Latino, 8% white, 1% Asian.She has 30

Rebecca Nagle

rebeccanagle

On this HISTORIC day it’s important to remember the history that got us here.Originally the Bureau of Indian Affairs—the agency tasked with managing the US gov’s relationship w/ Indigenous Nations—was

Ujaval Gandhi

spatialthoughts

I am teaching a month-long course with @AurozOgra offered via the University of Johannesburg. This course is the result of months of work developing 100+ scenarios where GIS - particularly

Martin McKee

martin_mckee

I’m stuck by the parallels between the ant-LTN and healthy streets lobby and climate change deniers from 10 or 15 years ago. Every new piece of evidence they don’t like

Geoff Coventry

gladkiwi

If there is an effective vaccine coming quickly that can save lives - and I truly hope there is - it will not be a legacy of the outgoing administration

R.P.

ResonantPyre

Stayed up late reading about the Hasidic community, these tightly knit passionately religious groups existing in urban technological modernity are so interesting to me for thinking about the future of

Nina Teicholz

bigfatsurprise

New report: obesity-related costs in 2018 were 6.76% GDP ($1.389 trillion) vs. 5.57% ($0.976 trillion) in 2014. Obesity rates rising for men, esp. Of 7 factors ID'd as crucial, none

Chris Murphy

ChrisMurphyCT

I want to tell you a story - one I don’t think I’ve ever told publicly before - about the man we have a chance to elect President of the

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