#Economic

Here's a short thread on why it's important you share local media reports of last night's #PortlandProtest, the 54th major demonstration since late May. Mayor Ted Wheeler is the police
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Today is Climate Day at the White House, and President Biden announced a series of climate-focused executive orders aimed at creating clean energy jobs, protecting workers, and advancing environmental justice.
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To lower the risk of conflict in the East & South China Seas, while promoting maritime stability & open shipping lanes, the US needs a new strategic mindset --one that
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155 years ago, the last slaves in the U.S. were freed.They were promised "40 acres & a mule," a path to financial independence. But this promise was broken, ultimately depriving
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Tree planting is often portrayed as an easy answer to the climate crisis, but a new review led by @KewScience and @bgci highlights the issues with large-scale tree planting. Follow
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The Timbuktu Syllabus part finale 2/3The Blueprints of Black Industrialisation Building a new Black SA#BuildingBlackSA The ground roots of apartheid was building a "whites-only" city in Johannesburg.But since cheap labour
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Going to tweet through the Knight Commission meeting on NCAA reform. What's the over/under on how many times they use the word "guidelines" Nancy Zimpher starts off: governance of NCAA
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The countries of South-East Asia are 1000 x better in social distancing than other countries. Interestingly enough, the same is true for the countries of central Africa - they are
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1/16It is a little frustrating to see the response many analysts had to the GDP growth data Chinese released today. These numbers aren’t especially good, and they certainly shouldn’t have
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How the anti RW ecosystem works and how they collectively set the narrative @TheQuint and @iyersaishwarya published this story on 'Minority Panel' report on Delhi riots and blamed Kapil
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I chuckle sometimes at how truly, truly difficult nuanced discourse is online.A'ight, I'll start! I don't think this story from my 2020 faves got enough love, because it's not free-to-read:Dare
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1) Two interesting maps of Ohio from the NY Times' fascinating Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html 2) Here are the final 2020 results in Ohio. The overall pa
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The next 5-10 years will be a critical time in right wing politics in the U.S. (and bc of their outsized electoral influence, on ALL our lives). Here’s how I
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Speaking truth to power is easier said than done, but if we conceal the reality of our journeys, we become complicit in the structures that oppress us. Catch me on
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Some thoughts on the viral IP/Gates/OxAZ vaccine tweet, rare for IP-related content to go viral. My main discomfort is w/ the reductive singling out of Gates instead of diagnosing IP
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Fascinating historical science, twice over—how Native peoples over millennia engaged in sciences of agricultural experimentation and exchange on a hemispheric scale. Corn didn't just radiate out from Mexico; it returned
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