#2020

Good thread on “contact tracing” apps to slow spread of COVID. Spoiler: thread suggests you need 60% of a population to use it for it to work, aka: 150M+ DAU
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Some new twists in the fight over how far past Election Day absentee ballots can be counted in Pennsylvania:- Recall SCOTUS voted 4-4 not to disturb a PA Supreme Court
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So I'm going to try and create a thread of good ideas to transform this country into America 2.0Here. We. Go! Save taxpayer dollars on corporate bailouts and invest in
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ThreadNotes of Procedural Hearing of @CraigMurrayOrg's case:HM Advocate said he thinks what some of the witnesses (for the Defendant Mr. Murray) may say are not relevant to the case.Judge said
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Frankly, I've never seen Asian American Twitter agree about anything as much as they agree about hating this op-ed by @andrewyang.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/andrew-yang-coronavirus-discrimination/ One major failing of this
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How to understand the big Israel-Bahrain/UAE deals?Today Trump will preside over normalization accords between Israel and Bahrain and UAE.Let’s unpack this:One: Is this a good thing?In terms of reducing tensions
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If you need a break from elections coverage, may I recommend reading about another important issue: Oregon's mental health care system has been ranked one of the worst in the
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But as for me... a new blog for anyone who has been struggling with 2020https://brandongrimm.org/2020/11/25/but-as-for-me/ If you are like me, it is safe to the last 6-10 months have constantly
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1) Interesting review of neuroimaging studies on ME/CFS. The Australian authors looked at all papers from 1988 to 2018 and found 63 relevant studies.I’ll try to highlight their main findings
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1. As a former elections commissioner, I have witnessed firsthand the ins and outs of election administration. I’m going to share some of what I’ve learned about how public officials
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Black men are breaking my heart with this caping for Cube-cum-Trump. Apparently y’all want to be to 2020 what white women were to 2016. And this is why to be
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This thread contains @TheSpec #COVIDー19 coverage for April 9Life will not go completely back to normal until there a vaccine for #COVID19 , said the prime minister on same day
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The argument that "original" Trumpians (like Steven Bannon) got this crisis right ignores a simpler explanation: The "original" Trumpians are (mostly) catastrophists with a taste for the apocalyptic and thus
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Out of the all of the Republican changes to voting laws, Florida's most directly targets Democrats by cancelling 2022 absentee ballot requests for hundreds of thousands of registered Democrats (FL
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In five years, the @nytimes newsroom has hardly diversified. This is what failure looks like: Since 2015, zero increase in Latinos in the newsroom, African Americans went from 7% to
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Is it possible to build a fairer trading system, that is equitable & anti-racist, without actively dismantling the existing one? I reflect in my blog on the racist history of
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