#Policy

"Measuring the Economic Impact of Covid-19 with business website data" I enjoyed presenting joint work w/ @AlexJBishop at today's @ESCoEorg seminar. Thank you for inviting us @rebeccasriley!This thread summarises that
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Whose useful idiot are you?Politics and propaganda in 2021.A thread. The "useful idiot" is one of the best new terms of recent years.It's a neat term for people who whole
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Excited to share my 2020 #Bitcoin review.2020 will be remembered as the year the long fabled institutions finally arrived and #Bitcoin became a bonafide macroeconomic asset.Below are the
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In light of all that's now coming to light, this deepwater seaport CCP Chinese Submarine Base on Abaco Island, Bahamas, should get some attention.@LLinWood @RudyGiuliani @SidneyPowell1 @JennaEllisEsq https://patriotssoapbox.com/world/hu
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Hi everyone, I'm really really happy about this @BBC Future piece "Who is to blame for climate change?" which came out yesterday. It does a great job at explaining that
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How the occupation policy looks like in different parts of #Rojava and why we have to strengthen the #resistance against turkish fascism A Thread For years, the Turkish
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1 of 53Providence, I’d like to think, smiles upon us all from time to time. If one is especially fortunate, it smiles upon you, the individual, at your most difficult
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There is a relationship between these, however. Though it's often extremely complicated. The issue is to get competent bureaucrats you often need fewer of them, so that they can actually
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NOT SURPRISED: A THREAD (cc: the entire media industry but esp the enablers @nytimes )RCMP arrests ‘Abu Huzayfah’ for allegedly faking his past with ISIS | http://Globalnews.ca  https://globalnews.ca/news/7350363/rcmp-arrests-abu-h
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Standing by for media conference (due 10.15am AEDT) from Premier Daniel Andrews re news on lifting Victoria's snap 5 day lockdown which was set to midnight tonight...signs are good but
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The incident in Islington illustrates the asymmetric reporting of policing perfectly: on a scale of 1 to 100 the brief use of a restraint method which caused no actual harm
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Imagine a mental health field that doesn’t center on the DSM diagnoses where people could preventively see a psychologist annually and a neuropsychologist every three years, both covered with $0
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Years ago my friend got a job interview with L'Oreal."You speak fluent French?" they asked."Oui, Oui," lied my friend.The rest of the interview was in French. It didn't last long.This
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Art Pope, one of the most powerful conservative donors in North Carolina, was nominated to the UNC Board of Governors by state senate Republicans yesterday. In 2010, we launched an
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Just published my new @OurWorldInData post:• Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?→ And what can we do to use this global opportunity for green growth?https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth Today fossil fuels
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EXPLAINED: PAKISTAN’S MISSILES, WHY WE TEST THEM? As defense analysts, this question is a no-brainer. Our missiles are an essential component of our defense strategy and provide us with
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