#2020

There is *so much* coronavirus content out there; it's incredibly overwhelming. I did this last week, and people seemed to like it, so here's the best, most cogent, most compelling
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One of the dark things we're going to discover is the number of shittier health outcomes that are going to come from the non-COVID populations whose care we're delaying to
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Hoo boy this is a good one.- "Erasing history" punchline- Pretending that removing the statue is all about Roosevelt himself- Acting as if this statue wasn't a source of controversy
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Though exams are left... I tip my hat to my law students - and law students everywhere for doing their best in 2020-21. My students endured: 1/ 1. The March
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#India #China locked in secretive border talksIt's still not clear if disengagement is what China has in mindChina: “We hope the #Indian side can meet us halfway""Halfway" means concessions &
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https://quillette.com/2020/07/31/lessons-from-the-last-empire-of-iran/Being ahead of the curve, I had originally planned a series on lessons from Iran but it didn't materialise because I'm lazy. The quillette piece is written from a
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In the "Programming Parallel Computers" course, we had weekly online lectures. The students were free to watch the videos whenever they wanted, but it seems most of them followed the
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According to https://www.congress.gov/committee-schedule/weekly/2020/03/09?searchResultViewType=compact&KWICView=false, the last House hearing was March 12. Hearings could be held by video conference. Oversight is one of Congress’s duties. Maybe
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"There is not a single person in the United States—not the President and not anyone else—whose job description includes slandering women they sexually assaulted."Tonight, @kaplanrobbie & I filed our brief
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THREAD: A few slides on the current state of the economy. Let's start with cumulative job creation as of month X of presidency, where Trump was in 3rd place of
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The school board president of the @VancouverSD has apparently suggested that fire hoses should be used against protestors.@markstoker, are you suggesting that hoses should be used like this:https://www.columbian.com/news/2020/may/31/vancouv
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The idea that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs should call in the military if Trump loses the election and refuses to leave the White House is an extraordinarily bad
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This article, which cites my article, tries to make the case that COVID proves that the climate movements shift to structural change over individual action was a wrong turn. They’re
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I see so many kids getting into stock market during bull run, like the past 2 months, with random theories. Everything gets proven right in these times.And then things crash
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Thread of resources from webinar on Philanthropy, BLM Protests, & 2020 Election We said the quiet things about power & racism outloud…honest convo that covered lots of groundin gratitude: @CHayling
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Arguments like this miss the point. Asian Americans proving their "Americanness" isn't going to stop racism. Respectability politics isn't the solution. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/andrew-yang-coronavirus-disc
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