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Sol Gamsu

SolGamsu

This was the right policy. We've been providing free second hand laptops to people for the last six months through @NCLMutualAid groups in the West End. Would this practical, real

R. Scott Clark

RScottClark

This country has its grave and grievous "original sin" and culpability for tolerating Jim Crow and for those acts of injustice, e.g., the killing of George Floyd and others, since

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

SHORT THREAD: I think saying teachers inflated student grades is way too simplistic and completely ignores massive element of chance in any exams Many students are capable of getting any

Kat Woods

Kat__Woods

Once upon a time there was a boy who cried "there's a 𝟱% 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗹𝗳!"The villagers came running, saw no wolf, and said "He 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 there was a

Gabriel Zucman

gabriel_zucman

There's a funny collective amnesia in the US about what happened before 1980The tax system used to be highly progressive (ahem, 91% top marginal income tax rate)—but hey, never happenedThe

Juliette Kayyem

juliettekayyem

THREAD: Trump compares himself to Churchill? That's bold. But here's the irony: the story of Churchill's "Keep Calm and Carry On" slogan and poster is also a myth. It never

Ben Burgis

BenBurgis

(Thread) Before the whole #ForceTheVote spectacle disappears in the usual ways that these things do in the Eternal Sunshine of the Very Online Left, something it might be worth taking

griller7

CeilingStains

Okay, before the year is done here’s my 2020 reflection thread:Clearly, this year sucked ass. I really don’t have much hope for next year coming from a travesty of a

Matthew Hartke

MatthewHartke

The “group hallucinations don’t happen” meme is a red herring. By focusing on whether it’s possible for multiple people to share the same hallucination, apologists take for granted that the

Mick Finnegan

Mick_Finnegan

1/ It took me 20 years to try and hold St.Johns Ambulance to account. I was ignored and mocked. Laughed at and told it never happened. @tusla finally completed an

Jenn Budd ✊🏻

BuddJenn

1) Been having a hard time this week. At first I thought it was from digging back into a horribly violent death case, advising the counsel. Then I thought it

Ngwoke Ifeanyi

Ngwoke_Ifeanyi

Something happened here on Twitter last month between me and Sir Henry Shield @henryshield.I do informative threads on "Improving Your Writing" from time to time.I never knew he has been

DJ Babbage

RealCabbageMan

The Invasion KissAn Absolutely Massive Thread People who use this moment to attack Kataang tend to pretend it happened in isolation. They argue “Katara looked disappointed and uncomfortable” and “Aang

Kunal Singh

d_extrovert

Thomas Schelling's manipulation of risk concept is often used to explain brinkmanship pursued by leaders of states possessing nuclear weapons. What happened in India on 26th January can also be

Dr. Indu Viswanathan

indumathi37

In Anticipation of the Inevitable Strawman ArgumentsEvery time I write about Hindu genocide and persecution and it gets shared, inevitably people come back with a "retort" about how that doesn’t

K Balakumar

kbalakumar

Ordered food via Swiggy an hour or two ago. The guy delivered on time. But one peep into the pack, I saw the contours of dosai, which I had not

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