#SOCIETY

James Sumner

JamesBSumner

On the value of all subjects and all parts of the HE sector: this thread, from a colleague with a locked account, struck a chord with a lot of people

Rizoma Field School

RizomaSchool

Ok let's dig deeper into this theory, which is informed by the findings from the fieldwork I did for my book.https://twitter.com/RizomaSchool/status/1344287828667228161?s=20 In educated circles (that is, among college educated and

Rob Henderson

robkhenderson

The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1937) "the ugly fact that most middle-class Socialists, while theoretically pining for a classless society, cling like glue to their miserable fragments

Dhananjay Mahapatra

toi_dhananjayM

Centre tells Delhi High Court that same sex marriage is not recognised in law till date and that several questions of law arises in the issue which could only be

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

At what point do “can do” societies became “can’t do” societies and what do we do about it?In a time of crisis, when the response of those with authority is

John Ganz

lionel_trolling

Yeah well look a minority elected Trump, an obvious moron, and majorities rejected him twice. I think there's proof of concept right there. Not to mention there are very few

jentaw (she/her)

jentaw1

1/ Gods of the Upper Air is brilliant. A taste: "If there is any moral progress at all, it lies in our ability to ...develop an ever more capacious view

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

This graph has been making the rounds today on the effect of masks at reducing #SARSCoV2 #HCoV19 #COVID19 #coronavirus transmission. There's a lot more going on here than mask/no mask

Matt Zapotosky

mattzap

Barr says America is becoming like eastern European country. "Now you have to call your adversary a criminal, and instead of beating them politically, you try to put them in

Purnima Nath 🇺🇲🕉

PurnimaNath

Kashmiri separatists came in many dress, shapes and colors: Hindu haters, Jew haters, white haters, atheists, religious supremacists, Islamists, communists and so on, such as, Hindus For Human Rights....they even

Jie Jenny Zou

jiejennyzou

If journalism is overwhelmingly white, then investigative journalism is blindingly white. It wasn't until I joined the @latimes 3 mos ago that I reported to an investigative editor who isn't

Róisín

RoiSinMinh

It cannot be overemphasized how fucked up it is that everyone knows Shamima Begum's name, but not the name of Yago Riedijk, the white adult man who groomed and married

kiiwi 🌱💛 ok undertale done

kiiwisoda

i don’t know how specific of an asian-american experience this is, but something that i’ve always struggled with is my family’s perception of my asian-american identity VS the rest of

Chloé S. Valdary 📚

cvaldary

This sums up @DrIbram ‘s premise pretty well I think and what’s horrible about it is not it’s sophist attempt at reducing America to its ills but in its casual,

Kam Buckner

RepKamBuckner

The revelation of reality sometimes stings in the most unassuming ways. Last Friday, @GovPritzker's Exec Order requiring facemasks for those who venture outside went into effect. This EO was the

Mairéad Siobhán

mairead_siobhan

1/9 LONG THREAD ALERT: My dad mentioned this article over lunch today. In it, Susie Pinel suggests taxes may have to rise to replenish the rainy day fund that is