#National

shuffling deck chairs 🚢

narskdy

With all the furore around that well paid upper class guardian columnist calling for the end of anonymity, here's a thread dedicated to numerous occasions throughout history where people with

Jesse Singal

jessesingal

1/ Earlier this week, the NPR show 1A told God knows how many listeners all over the country that I had made "transphobic comments." This falsehood was presented as a

Samuel Miller McDonald

sjmmcd

This is obviously stupid and dangerous for a lot of reasons, but the last card ("No science. No shutdown.") stuck with me because I think it speaks to something that

Brian Gjurgevich

gjurg

I can muster up some respect for @tedwheeler showing up to the protests last night. I can appreciate that images like this will get national attention and continue to expose

A Shady Dame From Seville

SorayaMcDonald

MLK/FBI is available on-demand now. It's excellent. Sam Pollard shows, through the FBI's own records, how hard it tried to subvert King, and how it regarded him as dangerous to

David Henig

DavidHenigUK

We have entered the era of political appointments at the highest level of the UK government (yes I know Frost was also a political appointment as our EU negotiator, but

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

"We are still under an attempted coup. He won't concede, public officials are being threatened, he blocked the transition. Don't sugarcoat it. Every coup reflects its own cultural and political

Gavin Kelly

GavinJKelly1

Given events over recent days (weeks, months) a few quick thoughts on policy & comms during a crisis. Caveat: this may all seem elementary to some. Tone: offered with due

State of Utah COVID-19 Response

UtahCoronavirus

How can we be sure the COVID-19 vaccine is safe, given how quickly the vaccine is being developed and submitted for approval by the FDA? THREAD 1. The U.S. national

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livlaugholive

TO PEOPLE LIVING IN SOUTHERN STATES WITHOUT POWER: If you have a tent, bring it inside and set up it up to create a smaller area to conserve heat. RETWEET

Michael Govern Ready

mikegove12

Extracts from the plague diary of Mark ne-Francois-PepysJuly 1st 1665Up and after my morning victual of Monster on Sugar Puffs, by coach to watch The Johnson enacting our national anxiety

Jeff Sharlet

JeffSharlet

Slowly all kinds of lesser details are emerging from the Capitol coup attempt, not *really* important but of the texture I've always used to understand the experience of rightwing movements

Joe Dunman

JoeDunman

Just after 9/11, my grandfather asked me if there was an American flag hanging at the local store where I worked. He assumed there wasn't because it was a hippy

BrianMier

BrianMteleSUR

After 15 years, corruption charges are dropped against former top PT officials José Genoino and Delubio Soares related to the "mensalão" lawfare attack, orchestratedto block Lula's reelection. A key argument

Anthony Citrano

acitrano

In light of recent developments, a redo of my 2017 nuclear football thread.Jokes about Trump and the nuclear codes are well-worn. But most people don’t realize how it all actually

Renaud Egreteau

R_Egreteau

Terrific assessment of the state of social research in #Myanmar by @GDNint, @IDRC_Myanmar (pdf here: http://www.gdn.int/sites/default/files/u115/Doing%20Research%20Mayanmar%20Country%20Report.pdf). Some key takeaways (thread ): 1. Academics

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