#Institutional

lying completely dead on the pavement

makokaazo

it's not that we don't want the diagnosis because it FEELS ICKY to us, we don't want the diagnosis cos having "lying manipulators disease" ON OUR MEDICAL RECORD means that

antirobust

antirobust

on a purely tactical level, epistocracy proponents should probably endorse turnout-boosting efforts like vote-by-mail or election day holidaysconsider (thread)https://twitter.com/antirobust/status/1244375817758445568 a big barrier to epistocracy is t

Lydia X. Z. Brown

autistichoya

For others planning Zoom events: More and more have been taken over by violent abuse and harassment, including trolls showing their penises, yelling the n-word and other slurs, other similar

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InclusiveLucie

Just like straight people don’t understand straight privilege, many, if not most white people don’t understand white privilege. They have always occupied what is considered social ‘norm’; the benefits of

Claire

ClaireRedacted

12/05/19, the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) submitted redacted 70 sworn testimonies from current and former staffers, and concluded that Labour is suffering from the “corrosive disease” of institutional racism &

Shannon Young

SYoungReports

Hello new followers.Today's 7.5 earthquake has drawn rare international news attention to Oaxaca. Please allow me to take this moment to tell you about a brutal massacre of 15 people

David Rothkopf

djrothkopf

We like to refer to the U.S. as the strongest nation in the world. But this crisis has revealed how deeply fragile we are. In a nation in which millions

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

The @CDCgov recommendations to institutions of higher education are a mess. While some universities are struggling with how often to test, we get this zinger from CDC: "CDC does not

U.S. Surgeon General

Surgeon_General

1/ There is no easy prescription to heal our Nation, or to take away the pain people are feeling. It’s a pain I too am experiencing- as a father, brother,

Joe McIntyre

Dr_Joe_McIntyre

A quick thread on Judicial Accountability. The widespread disgust regarding the sexual harassment allegations against former High Court justice Dyson Heydon has - of course - got people thinking about

Alex Gladstein 🌋

gladstein

1/ While doing research for my essay on the negative externalities of the petrodollar, I learned a huge amount. Much of it was shocking or surprising.Here's a thread with a

Simon Fraser

SimonFraser00

1/10: A win for #JoeBiden in the #USElection next week would be good for the overall interests of #UK but problematic for the #BorisJohnson government. How would the arrival of

Alexandra Mihai

Anda19

I've been working in faculty development for a decade. Yes, mostly in pre-Covid-19 times but also in the past months' mad rush. Here are 5 things I learned. 1/#facdev #edtech

Xavier MacDuff

xvrmdf

I keep seeing arguments against bailing out companies which might fail during the Coronavirus crisis cite "moral hazard" as a rationale. I want to explain why this is faulty logic.Thread

Daniel Schneiderman

SchneidermanDM

1/xWe @CrisisGroup do not release this statement lightly. A few things to highlight:https://www.crisisgroup.org/united-states/united-states-internal/too-much-lose-steering-us-away-election-related-violence 2/xAs we say, there are a number o

Traditionalist

HinduTrad

Muslims are our enemy but we shouldn't refrain from learning from our enemy & upgrading.Many people point out that we should learn things like unity & ruthlessness from them but