#Policies

Loving every bit of this: Metascience as a scientific social movement, by David Peterson and @AaronPanofsky https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/4dsqa/ "[R]egardless of whether one believes there is a legitimate crisis of reproducibility
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America continues to become more geographically polarisedIn 1992, two-thirds of votes were cast in counties that were fairly even split, with the winning party securing less than 60% of the
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Learn the difference between enemy & rival. An enemy is someone you fight against with an opposing goal. A rival is someone you compete with toward the same goal. Russia,
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@shaunking I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting you, but I’ve lived in the State of Massachusetts all my life. Let me be clear about @SenMarkey he has been detrimental
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threadTHE ART OF DEBATE1. We spent too many years in a cosy & harmful, unholy political alliance. Those years when New Labour, the Conservatives & the Liberal Democrats all sang
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Carbon pricing is supposed to incentivize change we know must happen, not punish households and companies through the inaction of governments. The time for democratic debate on policies that can
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One thing that always troubles me about #TDoR2020 is how the focus on the individually-perpetrated acts of violence can obscure the systemically facilitated death of so many trans people
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One of the weirdest things about the cost-benefit debate on restrictions, beside the fact that it's almost non-existent, is that almost everyone talks as if restrictions didn't have an immediate
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My thoughts for the day. Conflicted. I miss the shit out of going to shows. I miss my friends. I miss the stress relief that comes from a good day
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Why is California experiencing blackouts? In a tweet: Policies that reward or mandate unreliable electricity from solar and wind and punish or outlaw reliable electricity from nuclear, natural gas, coal,
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Good morning! This is your daily reminder to contact your representatives and advocate for the USPS.How? Ask that USPS be included in the next relief package. This is non-negotiable. Tell
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‘We shouldn’t be against capitalism, only crony capitalism.’ This is the dullest right-wing argument, made by people who see our economic system as fundamentally good but corrupted – ignoring the
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Today is Climate Day at the White House, and President Biden announced a series of climate-focused executive orders aimed at creating clean energy jobs, protecting workers, and advancing environmental justice.
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It is erroneous to suggest that all 2020 excess death can be rolled into "COVID-19 death toll"The article reeks of a messaging technique called "priming", which prepares ppl to accept
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I re-read Quisumbing-King's (2019) piece and want to share a few highlights. 1/https://twitter.com/alizaluft/status/1062206356336197632 2/Q-King starts with Du Bois's famous quote "the problem of the twentieth century is the pr
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Friendly reminder: Mass incarceration disproportionately harms Black people. And as a result of systemic inequality, Black communities also disproportionately bear the psychological and economic burden of staying connected to incarcerated
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