#Year

THREAD: Who are the rising stars of Chinese elite politics in the central Party-State bureaucracy?For @MacroPoloChina I analyzed last year's ministerial-level promotions to posts in BeijingTLDR: Ties to Xi Jinping—or
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(thread)In 2018, Iowa State Auditor (and amazingly, twitter mutual!) @RobSandIA defeated incumbent Republican @MaryMosiman by about 4.5 points. He did fairly well across the state, especially given that it is
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FYIThis is the "knockout game" which gained momentum against wypipo in 2008. Remember that? (what else happened that year?) This piece of shit probably started doing this when he was
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An odd side aspect of the pandemic: the many images of chest X-rays in science articles/ tweets, makes me think daily of my dad. He was a respiratory specialist &
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I’m still so mad about the “lack of a market” for public interest law comment. America is nothing but laws that aren’t enforced because people can’t afford to enforce them.
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.@TheHustle just had an opening for a staff writer. Hundreds of people applied.I wrote up a few takeaways on the search, including:- what we look for in writers- how you
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#Vanilla prices are likely the most volatile of any agricultural commodity.After a 5-year boom, prices seem to crash this year.Time for a thread on vanilla price volatility, the impact of
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it’s one thing to avoid consciously electing an eclipse as the moment to start something (wise)it’s entirely different to declare that anything in the larger world or lives of your
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Tale of Two Summer Summer 2019: Post ACL Surgery The first month consisted of laying around & resting. The next few months resting & an occasional physical therapy session.
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2020 may well be the end of the American century. Here's the reason to say all this now. Maybe, just maybe, we will get lucky because of some aspect of
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Nice write-up on Roblox & how it mirrors rise of no/low-code ecosystem - Game-creation platform w/ 170M MAUs- Engagement: 3B hours in Aug'20 or 18 monthly hours/MAU - 60M games
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2021 Rookie RB ProfileChuba Hubbard(and his fall from grace in 2020)@TheUndroppables (a thread) For the 2019 season, Chuba was the most dominant running back in college but elected to go
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The next pertinent question that needs to be asked is who do they want to see him replaced with.https://twitter.com/khaledabutoameh/status/1339322591346036741 “Most of the respondents believe that the renewal of the PA's
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Everyone has these fun year-of lists for 2020, but I watched less, read less, played less, slept less because virtual kindergarten on top of a day job/writing is just exhausting
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This morning's person I appreciate is Peter Cronyn of @NelliganLaw whom I don't believe is on Twitter.https://twitter.com/JMR_Lawyer/status/1328322558752677889 I had a month long trial against Peter in my first year of
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[THREAD] After Steve Purcell, I wanted to talk about the second iconic artist in the series #MonkeyIsland, the talented PETER CHAN ! (known as "the second most fun person in
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