#State

NEW: The White House is pushing Pentagon to hire a conspiracy theorist for a top job who among other things said impeachment witness Alex Vindman was "spy," that BLM was
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What is really happening with VCs right now? Here's my take partly based on conversations and partly based on my own life: 1) Everything has changed. AND things are business
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Thread on how to apply for the TOO online fansign Disclaimer: this won't apply for all fansigns. This is only for sound wave and I do not know if they'll
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Hi #PreMedTwitter, me again! With virtual interviews this year, I’m sure you’re feeling nervous about not getting to meet as many current med students, so I’ve come here to help
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1. Starting a new thread of "I wish people would make up their minds" and will add examples of when I think of them. 2. I wish people would make
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OK, I see today’s hysteria is, “New York City is throwing dead COVID-19 patients in mass graves you can see from space,” so here’s the truth about Hart Island: (1/n)
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THREAD: In new @ForeignAffairs, @JesseJenkins et al propose #industrialpolicy and #innovation as keys to successful #ClimateAction. Their proposal is necessary for success but does not offer much insight into how
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PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY is the ability of an individual, generally one of high rank or position, to deny that they had information about activities committed by others in a business, organization
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Criticism of failures at the FDA and CDC re:ventilators and COVID screening (among others) and what they say about the state of big American domestic agencies. Examples here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-showed-americ
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THREAD: on Dec 29, 2016, day of Flynn-Kislyak calls, there was third leg to Obama statement on sanctions against Russian intel agencies and expulsion of diplomats: the release of “declassified
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Expanding upon Hannah Arendt’s “common present”, Pankaj Mishra wrote in his “Age of Anger” that globalisation & internet has placed societies & individuals around the globe in a common present
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THREAD: COVID situational update, Memorial Dayh/t analysis by @EmilyG_DC @WheresWaldrop New cases (incidence) have plateaued, and are now slightly increasing. Daily tests are slightly decreasing. The positive rate was very
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I thought an absentee ballot, postmarked by Election Day, that arrives Wednesday or later wasn’t a problem, but then I encountered this argument…https://bit.ly/3e6fJJs  When the polls close on Election Night,
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When he was a child, Wei Ying didn't have money to buy gifts, and he didn't want to ask and bother his adoptive family. So he had the habit to
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the JTD encampment in philly is the most radical thing i’ve seen come from #georgefloyd protests since the riots. houseless people came together w/ community support & built a place
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Indians must avoid buying #MGHectorPlus. In fact, the Indian Govt., must ban #MGHectorPlus, just like they banned @TikTok_IN. (1/n) The parent company, Morris Garages, is promoted as a British Automobile
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