#AmeriCAN

John Bull

garius

There's a weird tech bro version of the American dream. They idolise generally distasteful people like Jobs or musk and excuse their behaviour, because they believe that one day they

Bob Clark

Clarkivist

Ok, a thread about why there won’t be a real Donald J. Trump Presidential Library. #trumplibrary 1/x Let’s get our definitions straight. By “presidential library” I mean a facility owned

Paula ROADell 🐝 🍷🚂🛤🚗🛩

paularadell

Hey, #TeamPete! Today it's my honor to take you a few feet down the rabbit hole that is the Office of Commercial Space Transportation as we #LearnAboutDOT. The Office of

Matt Korda

mattkorda

There is a ton of hype around the notion that "new technology and enemy efforts" is likely to make American SSBNs suddenly vulnerable, and therefore we need to keep ICBMs

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Ring - Amazon's surveillance doorbell division - has 4,000 "partnerships" with US police ("public safety") orgs. The company has lied about how these work for years, but the basic deal

Sarah K Mock

sarah_k_mock

We need to talk about A California Christmas RIGHT NOW This movie is the most god-awful agrarian porn turned romantic patriotic love story, potentially ever. Here's the synopsis: “With his

Arjun

gkmc_10

Happy birthday Cudi! Today is the birthday of Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, commonly referred to as Kid Cudi. He’s one of my favorite rappers oat and in my personal top

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HydeSister

Word of warning: I will block you if you call liking classic movies “elitist”. Thousands are literally free right now on youtube. This is literally our shared cultural history. To

#Resist Trump's USDA

altusda

Since the news is now out that workers were being infected and killed to increase meat exports to China, I wanted to share an audio clip making clear just how

Dr Fiona Rawle

FiRawle

Because of the awful @WSJ piece & the editor’s doubling down of its sexism, I thought we could use a reminder about some research that exists showing that women are

T.C. Aurelius

q_aurelius

I'm thinking this morning about Christmas nostalgia, and how our popular Christmas culture is, in many ways, frozen.The American popular Christmas traditions are heavily influenced by the Second World War

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

1. I would love to read a sympathetic (yet critical) essay that assessed a central claim made by Never Trumpers like @davidfrum--that conservatism today is an embarrassing bastardization of what

Becky PLEASE WASH YOUR HANDS Hicks

HixBec

My uncle died of a massive heart attack last week. His funeral was yesterday. While in church, my family all masked up & stayed socially distant, but the “family get-together”

Robert McNees

mcnees

Physicist Polykarp Kusch was born #OTD in 1911. His measurements of the magnetic moment of the electron revealed that its value disagrees with naive predictions by a tiny amount —

Open Ocean Exploration

RebeccaRHelm

This is a big deal, but let's talk about all the reasons WHY this a big deal (not *just* that they collected lots of plastic), and how to REALLY fix

Ferris Jabr

ferrisjabr

For @NYTmag I wrote about the possible origins of the new coronavirus, the profound links between ecological disturbance and disease outbreaks, and why zoonoses do not so much leap as

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