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Yurij Rudensky

yurijrudensky

Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that the independent redistricting citizen ballot initiative is constitutional. One of the issues at play: the legality of ending prison gerrymandering. The Court got it

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Tony Fauci says the US death toll is ‘going to be very disturbing’, even when you consider the 120k+ lives lost already. He’s right. I would optimistically estimate that the

Michael L. Barnett

ml_barnett

I’ve been especially depressed about the state of the world the past few days and this illustrates exactly why.Covid-18 is now officially Yet Another Public Health Crisis where no accumulation

BWC Implementation Support Unit

BWCISU

#OnThisDay in 1972 the #BiologicalWeaponsConvention was opened for signature at ceremonies in London, Moscow and Washington DC #OTD #1972BWC The Convention had been negotiated in Geneva, Switzerland, within the Eighteen

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IlluminateDark8

All Wars are Bankers' Wars[THREAD] RT and Follow The United States fought the American Revolution primarily over King George III's Currency act, which forced the colonists to conduct their business

Tobi Haslett

TobiHaslett

Also—yes the police are likely to be less brutal to whites than to Black people, and maneuvering with that notion in mind is wise. But the cops are a hard-right

Jon Sabal

MrBurnNotice

Polling Data Tread: Let's talk about it. Biden leads in the national polls by about 8pts. That 8 point lead has been consistent for the past couple months. Now, you

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

THREAD1/ We are 1 of the only wealthy places in the world that actually tried, failed, & gave upWe tried to mitigate, this epidemic ran away, we tried to lockdown,

Jesse Wegman

jessewegman

Not picking on @jonathanchait here, b/c I see this repeated all over, but it makes no sense to argue that state legislatures' power to bypass voters & appoint presidential electors

Soutik Biswas

soutikBBC

THREAD: India has the world’s third largest caseload and the true scale of infection in the population is still unclear. 1/9#COVID19 #India India’s official caseload is high in absolute numbers,

Torben Schütz

_schuetzt

Inspired by @DanielFiott's take on the effects of #COVID19 on defence spending, let's throw some more data at the problem - a short thread.Spoiler alert: NATO will (hopefully) have to

Zoe With An E

PlumSykesPicot

One thing that bugs me about the anti-AOC/Squad discourse is the implication that left-leaning liberals should vote for their own representatives based on what will appeal to people in moderate

laurence norman

laurnorman

This will worry, if not surprise, some govts. First disbursement from recovery fund only at some point in 1H 2021, officials say, which wld be 10% pre-funding. Next tranche late

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

Let's try a test then: predict what the top 10 surge areas will be 2 weeks from now. (Must be specific cities/metro areas and you must define which metric you're

Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych

Nick_Carmody

U.S. has 4% of the world's population, but 22% of Covid deaths. If U.S. accounted for the same share of deaths as population, it'd have 38K deaths. Incoincidentally, that falls

デイヴィッド (XSPR)

XSPR_DARU

ALL YOU DIE References and Sources in subsequent tweets in this thread, one for each line. Please post extra (esp. better) references/sources under a line's corresponding tweet below. The title