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Ben Coates

bencoates1

Thinking a lot this morning about Dutch attitudes to government failure today (given the news that having made bold pledges about delivering covid vaccines, preparations for actually doing this are

Laurie Voss

seldo

I don't make a big song and dance about it, but I have to. Somebody asks "what's her name?" when I talk about my fiancé. My tax preparer asks about

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

For the next four years Trump is going to behave like an antipresident in exile, holding a shadow presidency that not only critiques the Biden Administration but undermines it and

RobbieRescue

RobAdam74497148

1. To all you out there calling for Canada to close it's airports, be careful. Here's why: A. First and foremost, we will become prisoners in our country, like the

Amandeep Madra OBE

amanmadra

Today #VJDay and #VJ75 is trending as we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of WW2 with Japan's surrender India gathered the largest voluntary army in history for WW2-

Yohannes Gedamu

yohanethio

A short thread: Abiy & his Nobel prize. I didn’t nominate Pm #Abiy for the Nobel peace Prize he won though my academic position permits me to do so. But

Moina Spooner

Samooner

Facebook is blocking content from The Conversation Africa. - .@TC_Africa. (1)Facebook has blocked access to news websites for its Australian users in response to the legislation to force it to

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

People are going to try their damnedest to tell a story that Trump was the cause of this crisis and a total aberration.The truth is that America’s history is lousy

manu #BLM 🖖

trekonomics

Me I'm always amazed that America is much wealthier than France by every standard economic index and yet no universal healthcare, no high speed rail, the mail doesn't arrive, elections

Kevin Gannon misses Grogu

TheTattooedProf

Seeing a lot of discussion about how "we need an alternative to the GOP for rational conservatives to join/have a legitimate opposition/restore the balance/whatever." OK, maybe. But you know whose

Vinu Ilakkuvan

pursuitofPH

"So if you actually want to close racial gaps by raising the minimum wage, expanding union membership, expanding Medicaid, and reducing student debt, the last thing you want to do

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

Quick thread on evidence being presented that schools are main drivers of transmission (and here: primary aged children just as much!).There really are papers claiming to show some of these

VIBRANIUM

SheedahXII

Sometime last month, this woman posted reasons why she loves her husband and one of them was that he lets her visit her mom. A lot of people were in

Amita Arudpragasam

aarudpra

(1) Elections are strange creatures. Quick reflection on why: (2) You vote, and momentarily feel connected to all those casting their votes in the same polling booths, of the same

Jill U Adams

juadams

I’m sad today. My son will not join us for Thanksgiving. 1/Thread It was his decision, not mine. I thought we could both be extra cautious, essentially self-quarantine for

John P. Hussman, Ph.D.

hussmanjp

To my pro-growth, free-enterprise, supply-side friends. It's time to recognize that 45's tax policy doesn't encourage productive capital (K), but instead creates a preference for financial capital (c) over economic

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