#American

Sarah Churchwell

sarahchurchwell

C4 news tonight leading with data leak from Trump's 2016 campaign database: “a major investigation reveals data leak & evidence that 3.5m Black voters were marked as ‘deterrence’ in a

Steve Bezner

Bezner

Lately I've been trying to ponder and circumvent the way (predominantly evangelical) church economics unintentionally hinder our effectiveness. Below are some observations. Would love any suggestions you may come up

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

Contrarian opinion: it might not work, but the Trump White House gambling that US voters will become numb to ongoing, needless death as a fact of life even in the

Crayola Virus

wes_bosch

It's really wierd to think of it this way, given how conservative my family is, but there were a lot of communistic lifestyle choices made in my home growing up.

James Sumner

JamesBSumner

On the value of all subjects and all parts of the HE sector: this thread, from a colleague with a locked account, struck a chord with a lot of people

:

borie_nla

Before 1948, chicken wasn’t a mainstay of the dinner table. A contest to breed a bigger, better bird changed that. In 1925 there were more than six million farms in

Jennifer Ho

DrJenHo

Attending a talk by @Centerwest by Dr. Alison Rose Jefferson (PhD from my alma mater @UCSB) “Black Leaders in the Struggle for Freedom during the Jim Crow Era”—public history in

Open Source Defense

opensrcdefense

Even people who know about guns, let alone the laity, are frequently shocked at the level of gun nerdery required to actually know the differences between gun laws in different

Margot Sanger-Katz

sangerkatz

Abortion declines in a post-Roe world. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/15/upshot/what-happens-if-roe-is-overturned.html @qdbui @clairecm If states ban legal abortion, clinics will close. When clinics close, women have to travel

Karla Monterroso 💉💉🎉

karlitaliliana

One of the things I think is important to pull out of this @dhh piece is how difficult this work is. He is not wrong in that. The internet changed

Jessie Hawkins, PhD

drjessiehawkins

*Thread* Why is the death toll so low? Is it true that we have the "lowest fatality rate in the world?" No. Far from it. And really and truly, I

Palmer Report

PalmerReport

Liz Cheney is (correctly) betting that Trump will be so toxic by 2024, even the republicans will be pretending he doesn’t exist. So she’s forcing them all to side with

Liam Hogan

Limerick1914

In 1793 the U.S. Congress enacted their first fugitive slave law which required every state to forcibly return slaves who had escaped from other states to their owners. It included

Jeremy Kress

Jeremy_Kress

I can't stop thinking about this misguided op-ed by @bankpolicy's Greg Baer.So here's a thread about why it's wrong, and why policymakers should absolutely suspend bank dividends.https://www.ft.com/content/182e8048-09f0-45bc

Andrew Schwab

AndrewSchwabNJ

THREAD: These are my semi-educated opinions since I'm not an epidemiologist or public health expert but I have been working in health policy and advocacy for almost 20 years. 1/18

The Anti-Mafia Wife

kristenzeta

Is every man in quarantine watching The Godfather?! I was asked about it twice yesterday, probably because I live in Sicily & work on organized crime. Here's a thread with