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Ashkan Etemadi

AshkanTweets

A month on Twitter What do I see?‘Accursed Alliance of Red & Black’ pretending2represent meIranian patriots left with no voiceOverthrow ‘blue checkmarks’ so millions can rejoiceSearching for sanity, the Shah’s

Rutger Bregman

rcbregman

I think this is wrong. People don’t turn into monsters if you put them in a uniform. The Stanford Prison Experiment has been thoroughly debunked. See this recent paper, by

Dhruva Jaishankar

d_jaishankar

There's been a lot going on in the world apart from the #Covid_19 pandemic, and some of it - while important and even related - may not be getting sufficient

Marco Chitti

ChittiMarco

I had a couple of exchanges here about a planned development in Jersey CityOne thing that helps understand my criticism is to put it in the light of the centrality

Rooshan Aziz

rooshanaziz

Extremely tired/fatigued of discussing PK monetary policy given we have bigger (structural) fish to fry but reneging since @81shaz published piece yest on how SBP is pushing to focus solely

Drei

_drei

There are now 24 cities in the Philippines with more than 1,000 confirmed cases. This includes all cities in Metro Manila, 3 cities in Metro Cebu (Cebu, Lapu-Lapu, Mandaue), 3

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

From Spain to theU.K. to the U.S., the coronavirus epidemic has exposed poor leadership and governance worldwide.But there’s one noticeable and surprising exception: Greecehttps://trib.al/c7Dp7wo Greece imposed severe social distancing measures

aishah ⁷ CHECK PINNED

beyinyourarea

for everyone who doesn’t really know what’s going on in the middle east, here’s a thread explaining what’s going on in a couple of countries. If I miss anything please

Armenia, Tavush updates

ArmeniaTavush

What is going on in Armenia, a thread! please read will only take a few minutes Armenia and Turkey/Azerbaijan have been in a war for decades now. In 1915 1.5

BudgIT Nigeria

BudgITng

Hello Nigerians, let’s talk about FUEL SUBSIDY!• In 13 years, Nigeria spent at least N10 trillion on subsidy• NNPC cabal possibly swallowed extra N11.8bn subsidy in June 2017• Despite equalization

Glen Peters

Peters_Glen

THREAD: N₂OWe have a new paper in @nature on nitrous oxide (N₂O), five years in the making!Like many GHGs, N₂O concentrations have been stable for thousands of years, but that

Elizabeth Paton

LizziePaton

Today marks the 7th anniversary of the #RanaPlaza disaster which killed over 1100 Bangladeshi garment workers and forced a long overdue reckoning for the fashion industry. Now, with Covid-19, the

Chris Hopson

ChrisCEOHopson

1/14 Reports today that NHS Test and Trace is experiencing some teething problems. Thread follows, distinguishing between the things to worry about & the things that should be easily fixed.

Dr Oyèyínká

DrFeruke

One day in the future, historians will do a study on the nature and cause of the irrational hysterical response the vast majority of the world had to Covid.And

Timothy, The Funky Homo

ncanarchist

Okay, so we all know how sometimes the line of defense for some MJ stans when all else fails is to mention his sales figures, how many high-grossing tours he

Mathieu Duchâtel

mtdtl

Our series on public policies options in East Asia against #Covid_19 starts with Taiwan: rapid action, precise situation awareness on all cases, a strict quarantine policy, a nationalized mask economy,