#Priorities

Interesting new results from @EchelonInsights Verified Voter Omnibus on impeachment and fallout from the Capitol riots. Follow along! Support for various punishments for Trump over the Capitol unrest. Barred
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Listening to @PodSaveAmerica fellate corporate agriculture tool Vilsack this morning is infuriating. Have y’all ever even spoken to an actual farmer? In 2001, as Governor of Iowa, Vilsack was named
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1/2 The top objective of this year's National Defense Authorization Act is to keep Americans and our servicemembers safe, prepared, and to offer accountability through oversight. I'm proud to share
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1/25Some absolutely amazing research by @lewis_halsey and @SteveStuWill that came out this month; 'Men, women and STEM: Why the differences and what should be done?'https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0890207020962326 Some
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#MintPlainFacts | Nearly half the ministries will end FY21 using less than 80% of their allocated funds. The rejig of govt priorities during the pandemic may have impacted flagship schemes
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Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, is presenting at DVRPC's Board Retreat right now! Join or follow our thread
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What do trainees want from their mentors?Turns out, it's not so different from what people want in any other relationship.A top 10 list based on some recent discussions (and not-so-occasional
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As an ER doc who's spent the last year of my life trying to stop a deadly virus from killing my neighbors, 6 words in @joebiden's speech lifted me up
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Yesterday a prominent philosopher noted he'd only had one Black colleague during his career spent at 4 leading departments. He also noted that he's effectively powerless to change this in
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Hey #medtwitter, let's talk about physostigmine.Suppose you have some patient come in with a reported history of diphenhydramine ingestion. They're agitated, picking at things, mumbling, trying to get out of
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It’s been on my brain so I’m gonna write a bit about why lots of people who aren’t one percenters in Texas are not actually crazy for voting for republicans,
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A great thread by @elotroalex laying out the case for Wax -- which I'm working with right now and support! But tech platform choices come down to trying to make
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Good review of China’s local government debt problem. Economists Yin Jianfeng & Wang Jiangjiang suggest it could turn into a “European-style” debt crisis as periphery gets into deeper trouble (though
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The proposal for $2000 stimulus checks is divisive, and not along simple left-right lines. Lots of disagreement among progressives, with people like Bernie Sanders very pro but many others not
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The stimulus deal should be enough to avoid the immediate "cliff" that would have pushed millions into poverty and threatened to plunge the economy back into a recession. But it
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At some point today or tomorrow, I fear we will pass the boundary beyond which there are no additional resources--no crews, no aircraft, no IMTs--to assign. If that happens, areas
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