#Politicians

COVID Update August 13: Its long past time our government stopped learning on the job. We’re 7 months and a lot of learnings into how COVID works & in so
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Lots of interesting detail in this article. But..v sceptical about claims from ‘senior Conservative Party politician’ that scientific advisers had ‘cognitive bias’...& consequent blaming of scientists not politicians. Feels like
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1/5 Harvard will not accept funds from the CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund. Like most colleges & universities, Harvard has been allocated funds as part of the CARES
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Thread: I think something is going on here that merits a balanced & thoughtful perspective from all parties. It concerns the relative take up & therefore benefit to the economy
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2016, Scotland wanted to stay in the EU. England voted no.2017, Scotland wanted to stay in the Single Market. England voted to leave.2019, Scotland was happy to have a referendum
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Burnaboy didn't lie. He didn't speak the truth either. His premise is that we should keep the same energy when criticizing the govt. We already do that. He lied when
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#Germany has increased the number of intensive care #beds quite quickly, from 28k to 40k, of which 15-20k are available. I was curious why, so I asked a health economist.
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“No decent Filipino wants the government to fail in this battle,” sharing strong points from this VICE article packed with sources. (pls see article for sources)If any1 can translate it
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If you don’t plan to watch the video of #GeorgeFloyd’s murder, a few things you should know: 1. He said, “Please, Officer” numerous times. 2. He struggled to breathe, pleading
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1) I'd like to posit a few possibilities about our leadership.What if when our leaders commissioned all these people, sincere academics to come up with plans to address the climate
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Because of the country we live in, many of us fail to offer people the empathy & care they deserve because we have internalized harmful ideas around physical & mental
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Nothing like this steady stream of former staffers coming out against a president has ever happened before. Don't expect any direct effect, but as with cross-party endorsements by politicians it
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Thread for SNP Members- I’m theory we get to choose our candidates for March 2021. #DontVoteWoke is a way to keep an eye on “urged by members” Nominees are
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I've been using the term "pandemic militarism" for a month now, and folks have been asking what I mean. I don't have time to write something formal, so let me
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Global Times is making the news for publishing a threat on the Taiwan president's life. Some important context here by @pingroma on the belligerent state-owned newspaper. It's not quite a
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A big thank you to @GeorgeMonbiot for highlighting my response to him and I will try to explain what I meant in a tweet thread here. I have been inspired
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