#Political

Paul D Williams

PDWilliamsGWU

Reminder: the @UNPeacekeeping budgets are some $3.16 billion in arrears. Have you anything to say about the large US slice of that @USAmbUN? https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/04/02/world/ap-virus-outbreak-un-cash-crisis.html?searchResultPosition=

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LoJiKuLJohn

One coronavirus, two terrible responses a threadSo the newsof US cables warning years ago that a Wuhan lab did not have strong enough safety protocols while working with bat

Tenali Raman

TenaliTalks2

Dear Thalaivaa @rajinikanth,I am not sure how to reach you to convey what I feel today.I am sure you know every inch of information I am going to say in

Holtz

Biorealism

The political decision by the UC Board of Regents to suspend ACT and SAT test requirements despite their faculty taskforce recommending they keep them makes little sense. Unless you look

Tom Williams

shirleymush

Having seen the tweet below, I've decided to do a thread on why every progressive should be very worried by what's happening in the Labour Party.https://twitter.com/miriksmit/status/1293633920928485378 It now seems highly

Ernest Ming-tak Leung 梁明德

ernestleungmt

The EF55 class locos, aka "Moomin", has mythical status in Japan. Built by Hitachi in 1936 for Tokaido expresses, they were the poster child of wartime high-tech Japan, and could

Seaver Wang

wang_seaver

Alas, I remain really pessimistic about the collective impact of individual actions to cut carbon, partly for reasons @themadstone already touches on in this piece.But the main reason is that

Philmonger

phillipmbailey

The governor (and secretary of state), ladies and gentlemen. #KYGov #COVID19 #KYSOS .@GovAndyBeshear says Pike Co. tested 535 people yesterday, which far exceeds their goal of around 340. #KYGov #COVID19

Justin Guay

Guay_JG

There’s a big important bailout no one is talking about. To be fair there’s so many pigs at the trough it's hard to follow all the action. But don’t take

Jerome Roos

JeromeRoos

The thing about climate change is that its immediate effects over the next decades will be felt differently from one region to another—and the impacts on local populations will in

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Covid Epi Weekly: Immunizing Against Herd StupidityBad week for fight against Covid. Reopening without sufficient care. Failure to isolate. Failure to communicate. Dangerously misguided theory on immunity. Cases increasing, hospitalizations

Charles Adler

charlesadler

This was tweeted by the Conservative MP representing the South Surrey-White Rock, @KerryLynneFindl The MP later apologized for retweeting a video on this tweet that was harvested from a hate

National Bail Fund Network

bailfundnetwork

It’s #FallFreedomDay2020! Today, members of the @bailfundnetowrk are working together to pay nearly $3 million in ransom to get our people out of cages. This action builds upon years of

Shachi Kurl

ShachiKurl

Good day! @angusreidorg's signature quarterly study on how Canadians view their premiers' job performance is out. Suffice to say, this wave is an anomaly wrapped in outliers sprinkled with exceptions.

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

My statistician/data-science friends all tell me that if you're using a spreadsheet, you're not doing science, you're courting disaster. Real analysis requires Python, or, possibly, #julialang.https://arstechnica.com/science/202

lizdanelly ☭ 🇵🇷

lxzdanelly

why puerto ricans don’t claim lin-manuel miranda and why you shouldn’t support him [thread]: lin-manuel miranda supported the obama promesa bill. what is promesa? after the puerto rican economic recession