#Policy

Ben Hellerstein

BHellerstein

Interesting debate at #BrooklineTownMeeting tonight over whether to allow micro-units (apartments under 500 sq ft) to be built in town. A few of my observations, as someone who supports micro-units

el gato malo

boriquagato

"if so many smart people knew that this covid response was absurd and unwarranted, why did so few speak out?"this is an interesting question.i think a great deal of the

Dr. Ayodele Oni

ayodelegoni

whilst the Dangote Refinery is a great idea, it appears that it is more for exports & it too won't necessarily solve our petrol/PMS/gasoline problem & in the immediate, importation

Ruchir Sharma

ruchirsharma_1

Hindutva does not belong to Modi nor his party, it belongs to the people as a unifying, decolonial ideology similar to pan-Africanism or Yugoslavism.His own brand of "positive secularism" is

Glen Peters

Peters_Glen

1. "Mathematical models are a great way to explore questions. They are also a dangerous way to assert answers. Asking models for certainty or consensus is more a sign of

Frederik Ducrozet

fwred

Last week, the ECB started to publish the breakdown of Minimum Reserve Requirements for banks (MRR), which was lacking in the Eurosystem balance sheet. It matters because we can now

Oscar Davies

Oscar_Davies_

I'm a non-binary lawyer and the judgment of Taylor v Jaguar Land Rover published this week means a lot for the non-binary community. Here are the main points to take

Tom Williams

shirleymush

https://www.businessinsider.com/moran-starmer-labour-should-fear-me-lib-dem-leader-2020-6 I, of course, will never vote for a party with 'liberal' in its name. But people I know who approved of Labour shifting left under Corbyn but

Matt Hannon

hannon_matthew

A really fantastic piece of work.@theCCCuk commissioned report on Local Authorities and the Sixth Carbon Budget.Some great and entirely achievable recommendations here. The big and obvious ask beside funding seems

Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌

RachelBitecofer

You know how you can tell @TheDemocrats suck at messaging? After 2 economic collapses, the starving of the govt till it can't deal w public health crisis, & the absolute

BenjaminThomasWhite

rain_later

One thing that's very clear from the @UKRI_News report on Covid-19 extensions for doctoral researchers is how few they actually spoke to (see p7). They did *not* survey all funded

AbZeroNow ''Save The Post Office''|BLM

abzeronow

Time to review the first week of the Biden Administration from my leftist perspective. This will be idiosyncratic as I do not listen to the YouTube Left and I'm not

waldy!!

w_____redacted

One like for one hot take, I'm bored 90% of sports are boring as fuck Most people are straight and cis and that's not a big deal Death penalty is

Nur

NurCaduun

Many people have the misconception that Somalia under Siad Barre was a golden age. This couldn't be further from the truth.1/8 Siad Barre's Somalia had a life expectancy of just

Palm Collective

PCollective2020

Anybody up for participating in this ongoing thread? Let’s call it “Bullshit you hate to see.” I’ll start:Getting ur W-2s in the mail and seeing how much of your tax

Tom Fowdy

Tom_Fowdy

China and the EU: 2020The media and the US think tank complex have persistently touted the narrative that Europe is "turning against China" and presumed instantly that a Biden victory

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