#Commonwealth

Steve Cicala

SteveCicala

Some new results that highlight the stress that American households and businesses are currently under: Utility disconnections and fees in IL.Thread: This spring the Illinois Commerce Commission requested zip code-level

Indian Bronson 🍥

Indian_Bronson

China isn't an Imperial power. China's power comes from its internal scale. China isn't exploiting African countries; it's was true before any external Chinese investment that African countries were unable

Chinaza

ChinazaArinzec1

#LongThread This issue is really a matter of what we want in life, priorities and how to manage external factors. I’ll share a story briefly to encourage those that are

Daniel Korski

DanielKorski

THREAD You may be thinking - #Belarus? Where? Odd European corner of the post-Soviet community. But many great people were born in what is modern-day Belarus, people who created much

Michael Avitzur

MikeAvitzurBBA

Today at 9am, the SJC hears arguments in Vazquez Diaz, a case on requiring virtual hearings for criminal defendants. @bostonbar @MassCrimDefense & @houstoninst filed jointly as amici.Watch live, via @Suffolk_Law:

MAPC

MAPCMetroBoston

New analysis from MAPC: New TNC fees included in the transportation bond bill could raise over $100 million annually. We strongly urge @MassGovernor to sign them into law to encourage

Prof Paul James Cardwell

Cardwell_PJ

As @AndrewSparrow at the @guardian points out, Johnson led Vote Leave and then wrote the following in the Telegraph after the referendum result. Line by line analysis of the key

sai priya

priya_27_

At the risk of talking about syphilis as little too much: Why did Englishmen and Royalty wear powdered wigs? According to William Clowes, an “infinite multitude” of syphilis patients clogged

Richie Merzian

RichieMerzian

Minister @AngusTaylorMP has (again) gone backwards on climate policyIn the underwhelming 'future fuels discussions paper' out today the Minister has confirmed no real support for Electric Vehicles Or as the

Will Tanner

Will_Tanner

THREAD - The UK university system and its overreliance on overseas students, particularly from China. All figures taken from my report for @ukonward today unless otherwise stated. Since the 1980s,

Alessio Patalano

alessionaval

Two excellent questions at the end of a very sensible thread summarising the post-Brexit UK FP debate. My own take at attempting to offer an answer - ahead of the

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Someone on Twitter asked me what my top three priorities to boost American material prosperity would be.So I wrote a @bopinion post about it.They are:1. National health insurance2. Cheap housing3.

William Reynolds

war_student

A great little thread, though the Korean War did see some tensions rise between the Japanese and UK Governments. One such incident involved some Matelots from HMS Belfast. 1/https://twitter.com/LOS_Fisher/status/1276073062220337153 By

Stephen Fisher

SeaSpitfires

Not actually 79th Armoured Division, but the Canadian 1st Hussars of 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade. This is one of a series of pictures taken by Sgt Stubbs on 14 January

Ben Zimmer

bgzimmer

Decent @snopes treatment of "shanty" vs. "chanty"/"chantey" by @davidpmikkelson. But the Google Ngrams graph with spelling variants is misleading, since the frequency of "shanty" is significantly boos

zeta mask yo

mormo_music

'The rules of capitalism' = Work will be rewarded to the extent that it facilitates making stuff that people enjoy enough to pay for. To be outraged about this exchange

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