#POLITICAL

A few random thoughts I've been thinking about watching the militarized crackdown on Portland protesters... DHS - ordered by Trump - launched a heavy-handed crackdown on the relatively small group
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Here is my take. I am not an expert, but during my reporting of public housing lockdown in July, both observed the DHHS at work and developed good contacts throughout
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1. By failing to mandate masks in schools for children and staff, we’re not just ignoring the scientific consensus. We’re laying the groundwork for a less compassionate, pretty brutal society.https://twitter.com/adamhamdy/status/1304535
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Why, as a doctor, do I feel the need to be so political? That question was posed to me in a relatively civil conversation on Twitter by someone who disagrees
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Would you want to know ahead of time if your future president suffered from a dangerous, incurable character defect — not mental illness — that was typical for all tyrants
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I'm a little amazed by how quickly the Democratic victories in Georgia dropped off the news radar yesterday amidst the violence at the Capitol given how closely those two events
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Man this profile of what Stephen Miller was like in high school sounds so much like me at that age: Conservative town, started listening to Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing
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1. [THREAD] Yemen, Middle East Watchers, NatSec Pros: A few thoughts regarding Biden’s major news regarding the Yemen war in the past few days. 2. Biden visited the State Department
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This isn't confined to "internet opinions". The shift in Democrats' attitudes on a wide-range of issues over the last few years, starting *pre-Trump*, has been astronomical. This radicalization, which is
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Robust,resilient,surge capacity, long term sustained funded, based on excellence,trusted, multidisciplinary,research, leadership,independent,values, morale,attractive place work, long term partnerships-keys to successful critical public hea
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. @brianstelter You need to have a sharp focus on the culpability over the past many years of the mainstream media. @paulkrugman, @jayrosen Tom Mann & I were among many
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A 10-year schedule on carbon pricing is a really, really big deal. #cdnpoli #ClimateAction I was lamenting recently to a university sustainability class that clear, long-term price signals are
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*sorry this thread is a lil political and long but... Arcadia,CA is home of the LA Arboretum and Santa Anita Racetrack with ~70% population of non-white families, making it a
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Political disinformation spreads across TikTok in different ways compared to other apps. Here’s an example of a false claim about Joe Biden currently on the platform - and how TikTok’s
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[THREAD]Could UBI be AN answer?Universal Basic Income has been hailed as inevitable by technocrats like @elonmusk and politicians @AndrewYang Could it work? and why is it needed?Let's go down the
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To understand the sickness of America, you have to understand the story of Rey from the Star Wars sequels. Rey is the story of America America in the 20th century
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