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Paul Scharre
paul_scharre
I’ve seen a lot of these “the pandemic was not a black swan” takes lately. Here’s why I don’t think they’re very helpful. [THREAD]https://twitter.com/EvansRyan202/status/1248247272699117571(which, judging by the amount of people
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Nadine Levratto
NadineLevratto
Avis (défavorable) du @lecese sur la LPPR. En plus de la précarité des nouveaux emplois, la loi accentue la question du financement de la recherche. Dépense budgétaire ou fiscale ?
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Oliver Stuenkel 🇧🇷
OliverStuenkel
The harrowing video of Bolsonaro's cabinet meeting, which reveals the gov's complete disregard of the independence of the judiciary & the environment, confirms Brazil's pariah status in the West in
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Kirsten Goa 🌈
kirstengoa
Stop paying (mostly) women, tell them to continue working in a crisis (significant emotional labour & mental load, care work & educational expertise) for free. It's never "free". Carrying the
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Sébastien Miroudot
smiroudot
Many people seem to think that COVID-19 has exposed the vulnerability of global value chains and that local production can increase their resilience. This is not what the evidence suggests.
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Jane Caro
JaneCaro
Actually, I can’t let the appalling report on @abcnews go. To allow blaming teachers (‘teacher quality’ is code for that) for the appalling gaps in educational opportunity & outcomes in
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David Zipper
DavidZipper
Fall seems to be the season for Mobility-as-a-Service panels and debates.Speaking at several has led me to reflect on my own MaaS journey, summarized in the below (w/article links).TLDR:
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The Sharing Scientist
ScienceShared
Find, Test, Trace, Isolate, Support (FTTIS).In this thread, I’m going to summarise the premise of FTTIS, and why it is absolutely crucial to have a robust FTTIS system in place
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Jade Khalife
JadeKhalife
1. #Lebanon is entering a very dark period with #COVID19, as we expected. The next 2-3 weeks will have more regular daily deaths of 10-20 people. Little can be done
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Kurt Eichenwald
kurteichenwald
These numbers are horrifying.If Trump had done an average job compared to other industrial countries, the numbers on the left would be our new cases per thousand and new deaths
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Financial Bounty Hunters USA
LWDoyleUSA
Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers, (Doyle-Moynihan): In light of our current public health crisis, I expect we will be hearing more from/about the World Health Organization (WHO) and the need for more
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Joe Stanley-Smith
TaxStanley
In OECD countries, women make up 60% of tax administration employees. In Africa, that's around 25%, says @Vvandenboogaard, making the case for tax authorities to hire more women @ATAFtax She
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Johnny Fekete
FullStackMaker
We expect my niece to be born today. And as the excitement grows I started thinking about how lucky she is to be born into this family.I wouldn't say we're
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Gary Croton
Gary_Croton
Data brief: Compares USA's MH-AOD burden & treatment capacity with 10 countries - Australia included @RosenbergSeb @PatMcGorry @johno0910 @RCMentalHealth @ian_hickie @GregHuntMP @MartinFoleyMP @ozprodcom https://www.commonwealthfund
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Antoine Levy
LevyAntoine
Countries are best summarized by their corporate income tax schedule description in the OECD tax database, a thread. Canada: the description is three lines long, it's clean, everyone agrees. It's
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Paul Krugman
paulkrugman
Since it's now a right-wing talking point that a weak economy may kill more people than the virus, question: have we actually seen that in past slumps? No. 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/peter-navarro-coronavirus.html The
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