#Institutions

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Here's the thing about the "foreign interference" narrative that bugs me: it seems undeniable that Russian state elements (and quasi-state elements like "patriotic hackers") interfered in the 2016 election It's

Joelinton Travel Tavern

2__Benitez1892

Here, the Saudi Arabian government are appalling shitebags. We should not be welcoming them into the city whilst they outlaw homosexuality, indiscriminately bomb Yemen among many other things. However the

David Rothkopf

djrothkopf

What do you do when your country breaks your heart? When not once but repeatedly it fails to live up to the aspirations of even those citizens with the most

Matthew Graham

mattysino

DCEP thread in advance of our 10 AM EST Twitter AMA 1) A DCEP wallet application from a test that included the Agricultural Bank of China was inadvertently published. It’s

Brad Setser

Brad_Setser

Brilliant first draft of world economic history from @adam_tooze in the London Review of Books1/xhttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n08/adam-tooze/shockwave But since it is a first draft, I do want to push back on one

Chisomo Kalinga, PhD

MissChisomo

I'd like to talk about the value and innovation of social media use, particularly by black/African scholars, especially women. For me, decolonisation = innovation and I turned to social media

Ted Cruz

tedcruz

1/x Important article, worth reading in full. WHO IS the “important person” at Harvard who called trying to silence this brave Chinese dissident? The following are 100% verbatim quotes from

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

"The danger is that Dems will forfeit the fight before it starts, that they'll pre-surrender. If journalists want to be useful, quit asking Biden about nonsense and ask him about

Astral

FlightAstral

I used to perceive Raskolnikov & Zarathustra as diametrically opposed responses to the “modern condition” or “death of God.” I now see that they are not opposed at all, rather

Debbi ~Freedom is wearing a mask to protect others

OutcomeOptimist

This will be a very long thread. This came across my facebook page. Some of you might recall that I did something similar, stating my reasons for voting for Biden

Phil Nobile Jr.

PhilNobileJr

Bond thread for your Sunday. (originally at BMD)There’s a recurring complaint about the Daniel Craig era, that Bond goes rogue too often in these films. They’re not wrong, and I

Art + Museum Transparency

AMTransparency

#Thread for new museum activism, collectives, groups: The last few weeks has seen a dramatic rise in museum activism on social media. This comes after museum execs & boards have

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

Powerful column by @NickCohen4 on the extreme rightwing culture warriors who began their political lives in the deeply weird far-left cult that Frank Furedi built among his students: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/the

David Rothkopf

djrothkopf

The people who say once we get rid of Trump we'll be okay are part of the problem. The damage to our country--to our system of law, our courts, our

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declamare

lots of understandably frustrated people on the timeline wrt corona unfortunately a lot of you are in danger of being taken in by snake oil merchants on average, the people

Qiao Collective

qiaocollective

A short thread on China-Bolivia relations as we celebrate the watershed victory of MAS and the return of people's democracy to Bolivia: Chinese investment played a crucial role in MAS's