#Claim

When we think about gatekeeping in scholarship, it is kind of like trying to think about ‘children’s literature’. We have two ill-defined terms that we have to define before we
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Former staffers who worked on @AndrewYang’s presidential campaign said they experienced sexism, discrimination, and hostility from top male campaign leaders. https://www.businessinsider.com/former-staffers-say-they-experienced-sexism-host
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This is a must watch video. Ann Vandersteel plays the tape of grandson Scott Koch, a grandson to one of “the” Koch brothers, admitting to the whistleblower that a
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It smells like performative activism in here...Ça pue l’activisme performatif icitte... [ENGLISH] STOP TAGGING USIf the content is unrelated to the work we do-- chile, stop tagging us. We are
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Welcome to #PlanetMEP."We have to take public transport. Is that the protection that you think we are worthy of?"A German MEP whines he can no longer claim his daily allowances,
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Here are two specific questions for @LozzaFox about his statement.I hope these can be put directly to him, if he is interested in open debate, so as to challenge and
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One of the worst examples of wishful thinking masquerading as news I've seen was the right wing claim that the 'Swedish model' could deal with virus. There was no need
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A couple of people have asked how I found my new job, so I present to you How This Introvert Found A FT WFH Job: A Thread . Please
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So Lisa Page's last day with the Special Counsel's Office was July 14, 2017. And she was ordered to not delete the text messages from her iphone... https://twitter.com/IvanPentchoukov/status/1304114041372241925 Seems she
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Self-Awareness in MacbethOne of the best and clearest insights into Macbeth I've seen comes from Robert McKee's influential book on screenwriting, STORY. See pics below.I'd like to dig into this
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Russian philosopher DMITRY GALKOVSKY on the 2020 United States presidential election: Houston, you have a problem.The standard argument against Russian schadenfreude about the outrageous things happening in the U.S. is
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Ladies and gentlemen, I do not believe the Fake News media reports that Donald Trump made such disparaging remarks about our troops. There is no proof that he ever diminished
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I went down the rabbit hole with some contemporary reactionary writing recently. Wild trip. One thing I like about the reactionary writing style is the overwrought, mystical tone (not snarking
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Conservatives want to talk about "cancel culture." Ok, let's talk about it -- about how right-wing groups created it, continue to benefit from it, and warp the entire debate about
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A claim which is made from time to time is that Auckland housing is unaffordable because "land is made costlier by planning regs" which is not really true. There are
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"He went out looking for the Ark of the Covenant and came back with a completely different discovery"Haaretz's somewhat misleading headline on Israel Finkelstein's excavations at Kiriath-Jearim (Deir el-Azar) with
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