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Sarah_Woolley

Sarah_Woolley

[suicide / mental health]I opened Twitter to those “200% increase in suicide under lockdown” tweets doing the rounds again. This is a lie. Samaritans issued guidance that it doesn’t spread

Judd Legum

JuddLegum

1. Joel Kaplan, Facebook's global head of public policy, donated $2800 to Loeffler and $2800 to Perdue on December 24 2. Here, I document how Facebook has failed to enforce

How-To Heretic

howtoheretic

Marjorie Greene's hideous ideology is now the mainstream of the Republican party. That's depressing but hardly surprising given the party's trajectory from the idiotic occultist Reagan all the way to

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AndrewMurphie

This blog, recently on various vaccines, seems a good one to me. by @dereklowe on the AAAS site. Better than one of our experts here saying ridiculous things such as

R.P.

ResonantPyre

Stayed up late reading about the Hasidic community, these tightly knit passionately religious groups existing in urban technological modernity are so interesting to me for thinking about the future of

Samer Al-Atrush

SameralAtrush

The Libyan dialogue meets today to agree on a voting mechanism for a new executive. Behind the scenes, the PM Sarraj is seen as angling foil the talks (he's not

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

Keep schools closedhttps://twitter.com/paysupplystaff/status/1343120741693317120 The scientific evidence of multiple studies shows that students can be infected and infect others, and that outbreaks occur in schools. 2/ Because students are

Jake Hanrahan

Jake_Hanrahan

Spent a week reporting in #Karabakh / #Artsakh, covering it from the Armenian side (Azerbaijan refuses entry to independent journalists: https://rsf.org/en/azerbaijan ).Some thoughts on the frontlines...My first impressions were just h

Chelsea Wald 🌳

chelseawald

WORLD #TOILET DAY READING THREAD: It’s the day you’re all waiting for, and it can’t come fast enough, right? #WorldToiletDay. November 19th is the day we get to celebrate #sanitation

Sarah 🍓

SarahJ_Berry

My take: driving is bad for our cities, our environment, our climate.Some people, for a bunch of reasons, have to do it. They shouldn't feel bad about that.But all those

Seffi Kogen

seffikogen

The ⁦@nytimes⁩ bizarrely highlights Rashida Tlaib as POC while marking Chris Sununu (who is also Palestinian!), Alex Azar (Lebanese), Farnam Jahanian (Iranian), and probably others as white.Why not use the

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izParrot

MSM is cancer #worldcancerday2021 the state of affairs, from the "rise of all things nasty", the "seasonal flu hecatombs", through to "disinformation" and the soon to be promoted "mental

Ibraheem Thurial B.

Afghan_Policy

This is an intriguing quote from TPC members of the Taliban. What had me curious was that the TPC has largely been consistent in their public messaging and generally abstained

Tom Williams

shirleymush

While the blue ticks circle the wagons to protect a journalist who claimed that Brexit and Corbyn gave him a heart attack, it’s notable that when someone from outside that

Nicholas Sarwark

nsarwark

There is a pattern in online argument that is worth exploring and explaining. Many of my critics falsely accuse me of calling them or their idols terrible names like “Nazi”

Ben See

ClimateBen

Remember: Fiji The Marshall Islands Kiribati Nauru Tonga Micronesia The Solomon Islands Vanuatu Timor Lesteare set to be virtually uninhabitable by 2029 due to climate shocks. Pacific island nations -

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