#Worried

Isabel Yap (on semi-hiatus)

visyap

Thought more than a little about sharing this, but: my book is queer, and it's queer in this specifically forever-half-in-the-closet way that I don't see enough in fiction. When you're

Daniela Gabor

DanielaGabor

In his Macron Doctrine, @EmmanuelMacron promised a post-colonial, post-financialisation Afro-European Axis.Yet, @nssylla & I show, in Africa, France pushes a 'development as derisking' paradigm that financialises development &am

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

I am an economist and I am very much not worried about this. 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/road-to-recovery/2021/02/17/unemployed-workers-retraining/ In the aftermath of any recession, when the unemployment rate is still elevated, *witho

Pete Millwood 米维德

PeteMillwood

Today would have been first day of #SHAFR2020. An abstract of my paper, 'Ping-Pong Diplomacy’s Return Leg: A Transnational Encounter in the U.S.-China Rapprochement', is online. Here's a thread on

Brendan Nyhan

BrendanNyhan

As always with questions of Trump and democracy, we're bogging down in a false binary."Coup" language is too simplistic to describe violating the norm of accepting the results of an

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Today, Pornhub took down all videos from unverified accounts after a @nytimes report documented instances of nonconsensual pornography can child sexual abuse material on the service.1/ But the Times editorial

Casey Fiesler, PhD, JD, geekD

cfiesler

The question below is part of a thread that starts with an NYT profile of Heather Cox Richardson, who writes a daily newsletter with a huge public audience: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-b

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

Hypothesis: Much of the intolerance on the intellectual Left comes as a backlash to the insane, neverending aggression of the online Right. The GamerGaters and Nazis and rape threats come

Margaret O'Mara

margaretomara

Because I am getting Qs on this today, useful to run down all the many times that US presidential election results have taken days, weeks, months to call. Here are

Jordan Pascale🎙️ #WeMakeWAMU

JWPascale

Four days after #WMATA GM Paul Wiedefeld proposes MAJOR cuts (https://dcist.com/story/20/11/30/dc-metro-proposes-reducing-service-cutting-weekend-trains/), now Metro's board gets to hear and respond to the budget.Follow live here (or fo

Wellbeing in Medicine Society

WellbeinginMed

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. This is a really important opportunity for us to talk about something which is often really difficult to discuss.In the U.K. in 2018, there

Margot Sanger-Katz

sangerkatz

There's so much fighting about how to open schools safely with Covid. We asked 175 pediatric infectious disease experts what standards matter. Here's what they said: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/upshot/schools-reopening-corona

they/them ⁷

28jmn

if you think any of this is okay, you don’t care about bts. this has nothing to do with knowing your place as a fan. bh’s co-ceo himself has said

Ubaba ka Melusi™

Ndlhovhini

09 June, 2019, The day I conquered The Ultimate Human Race. Today marks a year since I tortured myself. A thread... Well, it all started when i landed a job

Sam Connor

criprights

So many of you are writing from the perspective of the entitled.Because the businesses have Jobkeeper, it’s the workers, who have been laid off. The crips who have been locked

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Yes, Democrats are 'nervous.' Good by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/yes-democrats-are-nervous-good?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. The headlines over the last seven days have be

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