#Dramatic

Simon Rabinovitch

S_Rabinovitch

A long read this week on how Xi is remaking China's economy. Conventional wisdom is that he's reverting to a statist model at the private sector's expense: a sure-fire recipe

OpenSecrets.org

OpenSecretsDC

It has been 11 years since "Citizens United" - when SCOTUS ruled the longstanding prohibition on independent expenditures by corporations violated the 1st Amendment.Last year, on the decision's 10th anniversary,

Geoff Shullenberger

daily_barbarian

Buried in the Atlantic's vague, catastrophizing "Facebook is a Doomsday Machine" article is a fair question: "How much real-world violence would never have happened if Facebook didn’t exist?" An article

Merriam-Webster

MerriamWebster

Language change! It's a thing.For example, 'precipitation' originally meant “haste” and “the act of hurling or casting down”—it had no connection to water falling from the sky.https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-p

Nick | Grad School Arc

Nikpicking

Why Honey and Clover is a worth a watch:Hachimitsu to Clover is a title that is comforting, strange and emblematic of the show’s essence as an ode to the bitter-sweetness

A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon

JuliusGoat

Mitch McConnell’s Senate has effectively broken our government.The Senate is a part of the government in the same way a deadly intestinal blockage is a part of the body.https://twitter.com/sentinasmith/status/1328869292117532674 We

Ian Bezek

irbezek

Some thoughts on $SQ and its dramatic overvaluation. 1/ Square is around 60% payments revenue today. Post-IPO Square's payments business has struggled, generating weak margins and losing many key customers.

Christopher Ingraham

_cingraham

Oh my God frog twitter please help me -- one of our darts (tinctorious) somehow escaped his heavily fortified tank and when I scooped him up he had *several wriggling

Wade Caves, STA DipH 🌍 Astrologer

wadecaves

I get this question often, and was just raised again in a DM:"when Mars and Saturn are in their own signs, are they more malefic? or are they easier to

Gert Jan C. Veenstra

GJCVeenstra

Paper alert! Now published @stemcellreports: Our analysis of the recruitment of the Polycomb PRC2 complex to DNA in mouse embryonic stem cells1/https://www.cell.com/stem-cell-reports/fulltext/S2213-6711(20)30284-8 The paper consititutes a r

Rock Flag Eagle

FiverMacGyver

With the dramatic increase in friendship-loss (online or otherwise) among members of the #ChurchofJesusChrist of Latter-day Saints over politics, we're approaching a day where polarization will cause members to move

Daniel Swain

Weather_West

Thread on very strong inbound CA storm. A cold & clear morning will quickly give way to increasing clouds, NorCal valley rain & snow down to 1,500-2,000 ft (locally lower)

Flavius Clemens Grammaticus

flaviusclemens

With apologies for the profanity: a thread on "bitch" and the problem of journalistic pseudo-scholarship. The major argument of this Vox article is that the insult "bitch" became more common

Harry Cole

MrHarryCole

What do we know tonight? PM and senior Cabinet are still holed up discussing new super strain of Covid ripping through South East. New evidence shows is "frighteningly transmissible" but

Telegraph Business

telebusiness

Sterling has started the year with a bang, smashing through $1.38 against the dollar to its highest level in years.And there's room for improvement, with analysts predicting it will soon

Jeffrey Sankoff

Sankoff

The last thing I did before leaving at the end of my overnight shift this morning was call the father of a 20's patient who died in an MVC overnight.

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