#Government

The Inventio FortunataGerardus Mercator was a 16th century cosmographer who wrote about the Inventio fortunata voyage detailing what was found when the voyage went to the North Pole - RABBIT
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As soon as I started investigating QAnon, I understood the scale of the damage it has done and the effort it will take to undo it.I started @projectthinkin one month
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SolarWinds follow up. Very good tweet explaining what happened.https://twitter.com/weswilson4/status/1338328385198632962 Basically what this means is that SolarWinds itself was exploited. Someone posted an infected update as legitimate (dig
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(1/9) A photo thread from my visit to Achin district for @starsandstripes for a story on life after the Islamic State. Story is here and photos follow:https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/with-us-troops-gone-from-two-bases-in-eastern-af
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After what we've seen over the past week, I think it's time to revisit this question posed by @wblau.At this point, having UK media be the *main* way the world
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They’re still finding bodies buried in Serbia, victims of Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.Over 900 Kosovar Albanian victims have been found to date.https://balkaninsight.com/2020/11/17/suspected-mass-grave-of-kosovo-war-victims-f
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Things my 4th- & 5th-grade students have achieved this school year:-typing, navigating thru different technologies & platforms & multiple online virtual meetings, mute/unmuting themselves with sonic awareness of backgrounds, ent
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1940-1945: Until 1940, the Japanese generals had a Jewish resettlement plan. It would simply move all Jews within the empire to Shanghai. Japan would work with American Jews to finance
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Trump uses social media as a weapon to control the news cycle. It works like a charm. His tweets are tactical rather than substantive. They mostly fall into one of
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"It was obvious there would be a trade-off between sovereignty and market access. The only question was the balance the next prime minister would strike between the two." @CamCavendish https://www.ft.com/content/0c5637d3-c193-4527
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New paper out today with @Doug_Rand and @LK_Milliken on the little-known ~International Entrepreneur Rule~. It’s a dormant Obama-era parole rule that should be renewed immediately to begin letting entrepreneurs from
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For @Shelterforce, I wrote about what's been happening in Massachusetts since Charlie Baker allowed the eviction moratorium to expire.The short answer is that the situation is not good, but here's
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South African science was crucial in helping UK discover its new variants; but then the UK govt claimed (wrongly) that the SA variant is more transmissible. No evidence to support
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A Thread About #SCOTUS Justices The #SCOTUS has not had a Democrat-nominated Chief Justice since 1953. "But the #SCOTUS justices!" has been a Republican campaign-issue since Nixon's campaign in 1968.
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Whether Labor wins #EdenMonaroVotes or not, since we’re going to hear every spin possible on whether @KristyMcBain and @AlboMP ‘overcame their challenge’ the media set for them, here is my
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I'm seeing the discourse in certain circles taking a very alarming turn so I'm going to need everyone to do two things for me:1- Acknowledge that the whole professional transphobe
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