#Institutions

Some institutions planning for a fall in-person semester are allowing for *some* at risk faculty/students/staff to be online. This is messy. How do we decide who’s *at risk* enough to
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Book thread for Yuval Levin's new book, https://amzn.to/2TvZxsi  @NationalAffairs Brilliant and worth the read, and I'm only 1/5 done. IMO, he correctly diagnoses today's hard to decipher ill - failing
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Major pro-Taiwan legislation proposed in the US today, thanks to bipartisan support I anticipate all of these will pass. I highly recommend people take the time to read specifically what
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Citizen TV accepted that they had wrongfully described Pombe Magufuli's fight against COVID-19 and will now run an apology to the Tanzania president for one week. #JKLive The apology that
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Feels appropriate to be writing my PhD thesis about institutionalised violence right now. 1. Innocently boarded @TPExpressTrains train w/o ticket having been told could purchase on board. 2. Received penalty
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For fuck's sake there is no such thing as "PMC" it explains absolutely nothing. It is what Bachelard called an "epistemological obstacle." It displaces the structural problems of forming mass
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1) Major Holders of Treas Securities:Unlike what some people on twitter are saying, it is actually money market funds along with the Fed that are the major buyers of Treasury
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SOURCE: Big Ten coaches are meeting on a call right now. Am told "it's a real possibility" that the Big Ten may try to reverse course and play later this
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There has been some discussion about the role of faith communities w.r.t. responding to #covid19. In this thread I wanted to share a (very small) glimpse into the herculean response
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A thread on #Egyptology and interdisciplinarity, or: Why #theory is too western, how Egyptologists can help, and why everyone needs to #decolonise.#academicchat #academictwitter Egyptologists and other ancient world folks will
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No. This is just readjustment of the power equation in international trade and finance than closure of global institutions and transnational businesses. Much of what had been surrendered on the
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If personal protective equipment like masks, gloves, and gowns are being sold overseas, it means that Trump doesn’t believe in America first. It also means that hospitals around our country
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Maldives has been a 100% muslim country for over 800yrs. When my mom n aunt married, they married when they were 15y, 14y or 13y. But in year 2000, a
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I don't think America has entered a Weimarization phase. We risk confusing the symptoms with the disease. Our two party system remains stable, constitutional rights protected & our institutions strong
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when you grow up in poverty, you're always focused on "the next 2 weeks", you're gonna work some OT, pay that one bill, get some shit squared away, and you'll
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If employers say "vax or be fired", and campuses say "vax or can't enroll", if travel says, "vax or no ticket", if retailers say, "vax or no service/entry/FOOD", it will
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