#GOVERNMENT

Matthew Lesh

matthewlesh

The Government is doubling the plastic bag tax from 5p to 10p and expanding it to include corner stores, markets and takeaways.This is a hit to small business as the

'Fisayo Soyombo

fisayosoyombo

For four months, all samples submitted for testing by the Cross River State Govt returned -ve for COVID-19. However, just last week, ALL five samples independently collected by UCTH and

Praying for Nigeria🇳🇬

PempheroMphande

As promised here is my CABINET HEARTBREAK thread;Alot of people including myself are let down with the new cabinet. It's not that we had any people in mind left out.

uphold shi zhiyong thought 🇨🇳 🐙

koaleszenz

slightly less than nuclear take: she is right, at least about this. in a two party system, you essentially have two options for signaling discontent with your preferred party:1. vote

Alison Blunt

AlisonBlunt

"Without the test, Covid-19 might not have been noticed as an independent disease event."An auto-translated quote from the German Extra Parliamentary Inquiry 'SARS-CoV2 and the lockdown consequences' (1st short report,

John Stoehr's Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Hi! I'm about to do a thread, as I do every weekday. This thread is from the Editorial Board, my email newsletter. This is my job. This is my livelihood.

Absurdistwords

absurdistwords

Philly police are unhingedhttps://twitter.com/berniebromanny/status/1321275608186408963?s=09 This is not police versus protest. This is the Philly Police vs Philadelphia.Philadelphians are the enemy.Anyone. The police are angry. They got mo

Corbin K. Barthold

corbinkbarthold

A few abstract thoughts for today's #Section230 hearing:(1) Primates with big brains can now use networked electronic devices to meet and learn. Also, they can form digital tribes and throw

Montana Skeptic

montana_skeptic

1/ Spent some time this evening catching up on past issues of Grant's Interest Rate Observer (@GrantsPub). A few observations...https://twitter.com/ttmygh/status/1285229899146461184 2/ The biweekly publications found their way to me lat

Billy Gendell

billygendell

This thanksgiving, I'm thankful for @BernieSanders commitment to food justice. A promise to farmers, farmworkers, food service workers, and the millions of Americans who go hungry that we are going

feynudibranch

FeyNudibranch

I’m tearing up. I’m so happy. I’ve been wishing for this day for ten years now. Can’t believe it’s real! And the severed arm omg! My degree is in History

Scott Hamilton RTM

SikotiHamiltonR

1 In the Guardian Rutger Bregman describes the survival of some Tongan teens wrecked on the deserted island of 'Ata in the '60s, & contrasts their happy story with that

Ash Presto 💜

sosyolohija

[THREAD: WOMEN ISSUES DURING COVID-19]Gendered threats in the Philippines’ covid-19 crisis (mis)management can be analyzed on five fronts-- and more.You can listen to the podcast here: http://bit.ly/GGUsapTayoS4 Covid-19 is a

Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger?

HasBezosDecided

UBI is not a good idea and it's very simple as to why it's not. If everyone gets say, $12k a year from the Government, $1k a month, the verb

OECD Eurasia

OECDeurasia

Our new report on the impact of #COVID19 on #economicinformality in Eurasia is out now.Read the report here http://bit.ly/oecdeurasiainformality https://twitter.com/OECDglobal/status/1386971129437466624 Why informality, and why now?A few t

John Paul Tasker

JPTasker

The prime minister is up. He says four planes worth of N95 masks have arrived in Canada. "These new N95 masks are in addition to the more than 820,000 that