#Economic

Tom Sugrue

TomSugrue

1/ The Trump family business was built on housing discriminationhttps://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1278136326647406593 2/ I trace the troubled history of Trump, real estate, and race here:https://www.publicbooks.org/the-big-picture-

Katie Stewart

Katie_L_Stewart

A thread: I'll be discussing this with my Comparative Politics students, but wanted to share on here as well. Statements like "we look like a third world country" or "this

Ryan Jespersen

ryanjespersen

Nobody working in #harmreduction will argue efforts/resources should start and stop at Supervised Consumption Services. Premier @jkenney continues to choose ideology over evidence on this file. Defunding SCS simply means

RR Seattle

RRalstonAgile

President Trump built in tax increases beginning in 2021, for nearly everyone but those at the very top. via @NYTOpinion https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/opinion/republicans-biden-taxes.html?referringSource=articleShare ...a stepped tax i

Guillermo Beltrà

gbeltra

The Wilfried @MartensCentre, the official @EPP think thank, organizes an event to ask: "Is the #DigitalMarketsAct giving the European Economy and Consumers what they need right now?"Important detail: the event

andrea grimes 🦂

andreagrimes

We’re not *going* to see this at some future point. We already see it. The right to abortion is meaningless without access. It’s why @AbortionFunds exist. It’s why @AllAboveAll and

Rory Horner

rory_horner

What kind of development problem is COVID-19? THREAD on crisis, inequality, multi-directional learning, global value chains, digitalisation, debt, climate change & future research agendas for development studiesbased on new @WorldDevJou

Mark Brown

MarkOneinFour

This makes me think about how 'end of history' the war on benefits claimants stuff from 2007 or so onward feels. The idea that everything was going so well that

George Mack

george__mack

Just re-read 'The Almanack of @naval'Despite scraping his Twitter library for the @NavalBot, @EricJorgenson included a tonne of gems I'd never heard before. Here's my favourite 17 highlights below... THREAD...

M Mabeuf

mmabeuf

It kinda sucks that we still talk about "MK ULTRA" as these discrete, unfortunate psychological experiments that happened, and not as the 50 year campaign to create and deploy an

Nelly Tells

NellyTells

You don’t need to be a conspiracy theorists to say wtf is going on when:- the dodgy monopolist & Microsoft founder gets all over the tv at the beginning of

Karthik

beastoftraal

I sense the 'Gujarat model' being applied to Uttar Pradesh, to prop the CM as PM material. Consistent advertising and PR efforts in the last few weeks/months. Also a full-page

University Wankings

UWankings

This infuriating article from the @thetimes – and the ‘research’ it is based on – is classist (and every other -ist). It's inaccurate bullshit on so many levels and as

Bruce Adamson

Bruce_Adamson

1. Closing schools to protect life and health requires further action to address impacts on children’s right to education, on mental health, relationships, and the support and protection school usually

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

In @rowanmg's @techreview feature "Unmade in America," we get a vivid picture of how little industrial capacity remains in America and how much that has harmed the country's resilience to

Global Awareness 101

Mononoke__Hime

By the power and authority vested in me through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, I reverse any evil pronouncement, curse, spell, hex or vex, hoodoo or voodoo against President

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