#Crisis

Twitter, as we know, is a world full of foghorn debate, denunciations, virtue signalling, misplaced vanity and hugely misplaced certainty. We've seen it with #Brexit and debates within @UKLabour. But,
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Middleclass, liberal British racism is expertly subtle. Yet it plays a powerful role in criminalising black communities. A recent article by Mark Townsend for The Guardian called "Out on the
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BREAKING: WE FUCKING WON https://philadelphiahousingaction.info/release-philadelphia-housing-action-claims-victory-after-6-month-direct-action-campaign-forces-city-to-relinquish-50-vacant-homes-to-community-land-trust/ While this is only th
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Re @WHO unable to verify China #COVID data. Key post-SARS reform enabled @WHO to use unofficial data sources (indep scientists/civil society) to improve accountability & transparency. But it didn't work
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Read this week's LFI Key Issues Analysis on new @UKLabour leader @Keir_Starmer's first steps to tackle antisemitism in the party and @_LFI's response.https://www.lfi.org.uk/starmer-tackling-antisemitism-a-moral-imperative/Summary thread b
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1/n On the occasion of #EarthDay2020 , we've compiled a few of our works about the #environment and our relationship with it#WorldEarthDay #EarthDayAtHome 2/n We start with our first
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Stanford is leaving grad students in even more precarious positions mid-pandemic by leaving funding up to departments. Not guaranteeing summer funding across the board was always a problem. With Covid-19,
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1. My new paper with @kimmelmanJ is out at @ScienceMagazine. “Pandemic Research Exceptionalism” is the idea that the urgency of a crisis warrants lowering #research standards. We argue against this
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NEW: Cummings hits back. Says- He wasn't source of Dyson story, he doesn't have the texts in question but does have OTHER texts between PM/Dyson.-Says he told PM his plan
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A thought on the numbers of the dying we're seeing right now, and the people we know and we admired who may have passed: Death has a finality we're not
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It’s not quite the same, but it’s worth remembering that sports video games can help fill the void left by traditional sports being postponed or cancelled due to the current
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We're seeing a political failure by Democratic leaders to stand up and explain to Americans that after infections start to drop we will need to stay isolated for some time,
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Care homes have therefore being tasked with two enormous challenges 1) treating the very sick for #covid19 for which staff (often on minimum wage) have no medical training 2) to
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I started crying during Springsteen's first few notes to kick off the #Jersey4Jersey benefit on Wednesday. But what really took the waterworks to the next level is when they visited
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You can keep arguing about how many genders MTJ meant when he said "behaya". You can't argue that only one is killed for it in this country. And terming a
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someone asked me to tweet this so i will: the dispatch article wasn't calling them out for going outside or not "social distancing", the article was calling them out for
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