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Juicy_Smol_Lit

Why Lenin Was A Queer Man: Re-Evaluating Our Common Misconceptions About The Sexual Identity Of History's Greatest Revolutionary(thread) Reason One:Lenin & his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya famously practiced ethical nonmanogamy, although

Jenny Schuetz

jenny_schuetz

Friends, let's step back a bit from "abolish the suburbs" & talk about the underlying problem. Economic opportunity varies a lot across places. And high housing costs in some suburbs

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

A core liberal/left principle for decades is we shouldn't just denounce people who do bad things -- criminals, terrorists, etc. -- but try to understand the underlying social causes, both

Leaving here on 10/10/2020

samisdat_info

The Jewish War of Survival (1947) by Arnold Spencer Leese"The appalling events which have taken place in Europe since the Spring of 1945 are sufficient justification for all that I

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/-I've re-read a brilliant 1939 speech by Marriner Eccle that has much to teach the next administration on how to emerge from many years of weak growth exacerbated by Covid-19.

Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance

nickreeves9876

1/ This is a huge political story –The 'Leaders Group' whose members are worth at least £50bn has given £130m to the Tory Party and has secret quarterly meetings with

Jon “Please Stay Inside” Wolfsthal

JBWolfsthal

If you think the Covid collapse will hit the US hard (and it is and will) it will be even harder on Russia and China. All those arguing RF and

Quincy Larson

ossia

Hi friends, in solidarity with those demanding justice and equality, I am going to stop tweeting about programming for the next few days.Instead, I'm going to leave you with this

Oren Cass

oren_cass

1/ Let's discuss this remarkable article in @nytimes about the importance of universal daycare. No, not the @KathaPollitt op-ed from Sunday. An article from 1974 about conditions in the Soviet

Alex Jacquez

AlexSJacquez

Interesting NBER day paper on Credit Smoothing, or the idea that people will use more/request more credit as a response to negative income shocks. The paper finds, contrary to standard

DocTalk

DocTalkSports

Non political thread: 1) Yes, wearing a face covering does actually help protect you. 2) It actually protects those around you more. 3) No, it’s not absolute or perfect (far

NYC-DSA Antifascists

NYCDSAAF

Capitalism is an inherently right-wing and anti-democratic system. To be antifascist is to fight for the rights of workers against capitalism. A thread. Fascism is capitalism in decay. Antifascism, however,

James Macbeth Dann

edmuzik

the idea that Ardern should get John Key in to run the economy post-COVID is insulting to her own leadership and competence, but also an ignorant reading of Key’s economic

Darrell Owens

IDoTheThinking

The sad truth is that the sudden prevalence of parklets shows the true capabilities of a city when the business and merchant community approves of it and that all those

Karl Laureau

casualgamer_sa

Here are some fun facts, figures and diagrams I found from the latest Statistics South Africa study on inequality in South Africa I was able to easily find using a

Rachel Loopstra

rloopstra

Building on @Food_Foundation's headline figures on food insecurity under #COVID19 #lockdown, I've put together a report on drivers. Isolation and a lack of food in shops increasing vulnerability for poorest: