#Crisis

Alex Scott

RealAlexScott

420 Policy Thread Exec Summary:MJ = Cannabis. MJ was criminalized in 1930s, this movement was rooted in racism & fear & have caused disproportionate racial composition in prisons. In states

Harriet Marsden

harriet1marsden

Frustrated that the (huge) cost of childcare and the career sacrifices of having a small child is still seen as a “woman’s issue”. Where are the fathers in this? Is

Hearts of Oak Alliance

HeartsofOakUK

UK unemployment has more than doubled during the three last weeks of lockdown. We do not need charter flights to bring in foreign workers to inflate supply.https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11401973/romanian-fruit-pickers-uk-flown-in-coronavirus/ Former

Justin Wolfers

JustinWolfers

GDP rose by +7.4% in Q3 (pretty much exactly as expected), after falling by -9.0% in Q2 and -1.3% in Q1. All told, the economy is -3.5% smaller than it

el gato malo

boriquagato

i am not an epidemiology experti just thought someone on twitter should say this at some pointthat said, i do know a fair bit about biotech, data, & have a

Red

Scudery

someone (Mel?) said recently that my threads always start in a fairly normal place and end up kind of wtf, which I think is not always my fault but then

Pam Long

PamLongCO

Friday nite feature. A thread on the most helpful predictive programming movies that benefit me daily in navigating the current shadowy reality we live in. A crash course in

Brian Cox

ProfBrianCox

1. Interesting - I said yesterday I think government will ultimately agree to a bare bones suboptimal Brexit deal. Here, based on article by @ShippersUnbound , @Sime0nStylites argues that no

Kowalski’s Vanishing Point

Smith_runs_late

Being an optimistic kind of dude, I initially thought MI gov whitmore was just an imbecile for her lockdown extensions, but now it's plain obvious it's more nefarious. Based on

George Zornick

gzornick

Rep. Clyburn on CNN re: select coronavirus committee he will lead: "My understanding is that this committee will be forward-looking. We're not going to be looking back on what the

Sherrilyn Ifill

Sifill_LDF

“Today the USPS comprises nearly a quarter of the entire federal workforce. Nearly half of its...workforce are people of color. They handle....nearly half of all the mail in the entire

the Redwoods, bunch o' people

treemunity

anyone else feeling abnormally fucking pissed off right now? a thread: we're multiple so we share who is speaking sometimes. This is Eliza: Needs live somewhere in you, in me,

Dan Rose

DanRose999

I was at Amzn in 2000 when the internet bubble popped. Capital markets dried up & we were burning $1B/yr. Our biggest expense was datacenter -> expensive Sun servers. We

Amy Westervelt

amywestervelt

my small cadre of fellow climate law nerds already gave up on the Supreme Court when Kavanaugh was seated. It seemed pretty obvious that eventually a climate case would wind

नील सरोवर भवेश Neel Sarovar Bhavesh

neelbs

With dedication, efforts and cooperation of all we will soon overcome #Corona pandemic. But we must learn from this crisis. #Viruses evolve rapidly and in future new ones will come;

Staedtler

Staedtler

This country is dying of lies, and it's horrible to watch. Being able to see it and do nothing because nobody is thinking The Tories keep chasing Brexit even though