#Institutional

S.P.A.

TheRealSPA

Happy 34th Birthday Aaron SwartzA thread http://waldina.com/2020/11/08/happy-34th-birthday-aaron-swartz/ Today is the 34th birthday of the programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz. He fought for net neutrality, open source, and transp

Megan McArdle

asymmetricinfo

Well, I've had the weekend to round up the responses to my column on cancel culture, so now I'll run through them. A lot of them will be familiar from

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

Supposedly broad-thinking people are decidedly zero dimensional on face masks. Here are some questions everyone needs to ask about face masks. 1 ASYMPTOMATICSAre asymptomatics major contributors of transmission? If not,

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

When the news reports stuff like ‘The Pentagon lost $21 Trillion’, mfs are always like ‘that could’ve paid for college tuition for every student in the US for 50 years!!’—but

Chrissy Stroop

C_Stroop

1. As yet more Jerry Falwell Jr. scandals come to light, I've decided to do a thread of everything I've ever written about him and Liberty University in the context

Abhinav Agarwal

AbhinavAgarwal

Now that #KamalaHarris has is going to be the Democrat Party's vice-presidential candidate, I am plugging here excerpts from a book that I had tweeted about a few months back.

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

Thread: 50 years ago, on Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago cops killed 21-year-old Black Panther, Fred HamptonHampton's death wasn't just another police murder. Even more than MLK or Malcolm X, Hampton's

𝓹𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓪𝔀𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓻

thekervincible

A Primer/Disclaimer to the term "Igorot"Arguments presented here are not just mine but integrates those from relevant scholars in the field. References, links, photographic credits will be posted at the

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ THREAD on Sweden & "natural herd immunity":COVID cases RISING in Sweden since August/September, as is the case across Europe. DEATHS are a LAGGING indicator (~6-8+ weeks after infections). It

ashley yates

brownblaze

*ahem*THE HOUSTON POLICE AND SHAUN KING COLLABORATED TO FRAME TWO INNOCENT BLACK MEN FOR THE MURDER OF SEVEN YEAR OLD #JazmineBarnes. Pass it on. ....because he didn’t do it.https://twitter.com/nategrifffox26/status/1083408112223170560?s=21 Shaun

Tiffany Green

Tiffany_L_Green

So excited to FINALLY be able to share my new @greenjrnl article w/ @heidiwbrown @DrJasmineZapata and Nao Hagiwara. We issue a challenge to policymakers, health care orgs and med schools:

Sascha Ruppert

SashRu88

While the SPD-led Justice Ministry in #Germany is providing the political infrastructure to investigate crimes against humanity committed by agents of the #Assad regime, its sister party in #Denmark decides

=Orange but mostly peaceful=

LynwoodTalks

'Michael Atkinson used his post to protect himself and his allies while denying the American public a true watchdog over the intelligence community.'Adam Mill @theamgreatness https://amgreatness.com/2020/04/07/the-inspector-who-never-inspecte

Max Evjen

cantus94

Week 1 for #MSU_LIM @SpartanACM: Intros, Syllabus on Monday. Today dove into readings. Dana's (1917) "Gloom of the Museum", Low's (1942) "What is a Museum?", and discussed barriers to museum

Niskanen Center

NiskanenCenter

MASSIVE NEW PAPER: Last year, we released our policy vision that rejected the false dichotomy of “pro-market” and “pro-government."We've transformed this into a concrete agenda, our blueprint for the "free-market

Greg Lukianoff

glukianoff

THREAD: As you may have noticed, "cancel culture" has intensified in recent weeks. Everywhere you look online, people are organizing to get people fired or kicked out of college for