#Political

Randy Nesse

RandyNesse

A recent news article in @ScienceMagazine, “Rethinking #anorexia: Biology may be more important than culture,” illustrates the human tendency to stay committed to a simple theory despite contrary evidence, even

redphonecrypto

redphonecrypto

It's no accident #bitcoin rose from the ashes of the Great RecessionNecessity = the mother of invention after allThe money-printing happening today is kindling for a Grand ConflagrationIt's the

Andrew Seal

andrew_seal

This op-ed by Jill Lepore is a disturbing example of professional arrogance--a belief that the agenda and needs of one's own profession are actually identical with the needs and agenda

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

With today's news of us divorcing the WHO in the middle of a global pandemic, gonna re-up this thread. Trump remains in power because he's a bull in a host

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

In the hopefully unlikely event that Bad White Lady kills herself, we'll hear this:She did it to recenter whiteness. The real issue in this case is racist police violence killing

Hassan Javid

HassanJavid_

1. The establishment's desire to repeal/change the 18th Amendment is the manifestation of a desire to centralize and control all decisionmaking in the hands of an authoritarian, quasi-technocratic state. Like

Jesse Wegman

jessewegman

In fact it's already been tried. Into the 1960s, Georgia used a kind of "state Electoral College" in its primaries. The Supreme Court struck it down in Gray v. Sanders,

Bo Winegard

EPoe187

1. Thread on progressive political language. Many terms and phrases in political discourse have at least two meanings. This makes it difficult to debate and combat noxious movements because they

Mike Hales

ekimtiki

I have a Twitter confession: I love collecting memes. And Holy shit, this week has been amazing for memes. I try not to post political stuff, but this week is

random facts girl

soychicka

Guess what I heard?The Dems might know predators when they see them -but they don't think the American people care about it enough to force change.Because we aren't in the

Tuomas Malinen

mtmalinen

A thread, why the breakup of the #Eurozone is a near certainty.The unfortunate fact is that the EZ has been an ill-conceived political project from the beginning. And that's why

Erik Wim During

ErikwimDuring

Some recent reading makes for an interesting collection of complementing work. A lot of the mechanisms of societies evolving found in , can also be found in the work of

Zaid Jilani

ZaidJilani

I often say that the political and media environment was way more repressive under Bush than Trump. I understand it's been almost 20 years since Bush took office so many

Michael Cohen

speechboy71

I’m obsessed with this NYT inflation story. In the opening the authors say it’s “not rocket science” that voters are worried about inflation … and then say the reason inflation

Kyle J. Howard

KyleJamesHoward

1. Going back a few years, after losing my church and most of my friendships & mentorships due to my advocacy for racial justice, I began being approached by many

Jason Marianna

jwmarianna

Busy, so a short non-political thread that I would LOVE to spend my day discussing with you instead of politics. 1) I need to pray for you guys more. How