#AMERICA

R.

Sediziose_Voci

A few notes on books read and liked by me this year-- Good Behaviour / Molly Keane – A intensely compressed family saga set among the decadent and inbred Anglo-Irish

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

In 1963, SCOTUS ruled in Brady v Maryland. They held that when prosecutors called on police officers to testify against a defendant, the prosecutors had a legal duty to inform

Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D.

wormmaps

A quick thread on the McNeil thing. A few years back, McNeil wrote a book called Zika: the Emerging Epidemic, which I read and reviewed for Quarterly Review of Biology

J Gopal Rao

gopalisation

My kids are asleep and my wife's on call. So I have the evening to explore whether my latest acquisition might enable some of my students to access online learning

Melanie “Stay Home” Gilbert

melanieinboston

This past December, the @HolocaustMuseum in Washington, D.C., accepted a donation of the book, "Fahnlein Fibel" from my family for their Nazi propaganda exhibit. Here's the story of this book

David Leonhardt

DLeonhardt

Affirmative action is one of those issues on which motivated reasoning is especially alluring, because there's evidence that allows both sides to persuade themselves that public opinion breaks their way.

@amuse

amuse

CESAR CHAVEZ THREAD: Is President Biden sending a message to immigrant communities by placing the bust of Cesar Chavez front and center in the Oval Office? When conservatives see his

A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon

JuliusGoat

6. ALIGNTry this: suppose you belong to a society that has done something good. Suppose you belong to a society that has organized in such a way that when the

emily⁷

turnofphase

TIME is is deep deep shit for this one. a pile of manure so big they won’t be able to crawl out of it. let’s review. the cover looks horrendous.

WAKE UP AUSTRALIA WAKE UP

WakeAustralia

This a thread where I will try and explain what I am sure is happening with all these violent police videos circulating around Melbourne. And to call out @OzraeliAvi for

Dan Hon

hondanhon

I see we're talking about volunteer vaccination websites again, thanks to this (imho) irresponsible NYT article about "building a new [vaccination website] for $50".Some observations and references:https://www.nytimes.com/2021

GET A GRIP 💙

docrussjackson

One of the scariest things I've read.Respected historian Nancy MacLean contends that James McGill Buchanan's influential philosophy is behind the dramatic, unnerving & profound changes we're seeing played out in

Giorgos Kallis

g_kallis

Interesting thread, but I don't think ecosocialists or degrowthers are arguing that if German socialists had come to power the world would be green by now. Socialism is not automatically

Robert Gebeloff

gebeloffnyt

1) Deaths attributable to coronavirus rose faster in college towns than the rest of the U.S. this fall, new analysis finds, though it’s often difficult to prove the link between

Pervert’s Guide to Anime

PervertGuide

Notes on Anime and Politics—1. The Japanese language has built into it the structure of the Law. 2. Animation makes direct contact with the realm of imagination (fictional representations of

Dirk Chatelain

dirkchatelain

Wanted to share a brief conversation I had today with Rodney Wead, a prominent Omaha civil rights leader in the 1960s. (He’s also Bob Gibson’s best friend). Rodney was my

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