#WIDESPREAD

Russell Taylor

RussTayles

For what it's worth, here's my diagnosis of the government's response to the virus.At the start, it was faced with conflicting advice and opted for the most alarmist option out

Sargon Maradkel

TheRealMaradkel

This is a weekly reminder it's been: 103 DAYS since Dr. Ioannidis @METRICStanfordconducted a study that concluded people

Solveig

Solveig1290

"You are starving? This is not famine yet! When your women start eating their children then you may come and say we are starving" - Bolshevik Leon Trotsky in

Oni #BraylaStone Blackstock

DrOniBee

A recent poll showed that “22% of white and Latino respondents and 42% of Black respondents said they agreed with this statement:“The coronavirus is being used to force a dangerous

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feraIboy

as pro-shippers, we MUST be aware of how our arguments can be used by bigots & strive to be anti-censorship without pandering to those who would use their freedom of

Caroline Kitchener

CAKitchener

Six weeks into widespread self-quarantine, editors of academic journals have started noticing a trend: Women — who (ofc) shoulder more family responsibility — seem to be submitting fewer papers than

Adam Roberts

arrroberts

A lot of gloom on my lefty-peeps timeline this morning, for obvious (UK political) reasons. But I’m more optimistic, at least medium term. I don’t see we’re facing another generation

Fr. Bill Dailey, CSC

wrdcsc

This is a very poorly assembled set of disparate claims, some mildly worrisome, others not at all so. Amusingly, it is an open advancement of a conspiracy theory that people

Stephen Punwasi

StephenPunwasi

Quick lesson on the cost of poor vaccination priorities.Vaccinating the wrong person in Ontario costs up to $5,000 per vaccine. Sounds absurd, right? Let's run through some quick napkin math

NoBonzo

NoBonzo

After years of anti-trafficking orgs/ngos pushing some of the most intense terf, swerf, evangelical, xenophobic, white supremacist disinformation campaigns, it should be no surprise that Qanon responded to them, and

Bo Winegard

EPoe187

1. Thread. Political language. Many ideological terms have at least two meanings, one to get you to sign up and one to promote a radical cause. “Black Lives Matter,” “Feminism,“

Asia Fields

asiakmfields

Coronavirus has spread to at least 137 long-term care facilities in Washington state, killing 221 people, according to state officials.This is the first time we've received a list of facilities.

Matthew E. Kahn

mattkahn1966

This is very interesting. Permit me to make some Roy Model migration points and one general equilibrium point. A "slow moving" local disaster shifts expectations about the future economic opportunity

@_basant2

_basant2

Anna picks up on an aspect of Israeli state mythology that justifies the dispossession of Palestinians as an essential reparation after the Holocaust. The myth mischaracterizes Zionism though. The quest

Ketan Joshi

KetanJ0

What we're seeing play out with the repeated, completely unstoppable 'discussion' of BLM protests and COVID19 is extremely reminiscent of the 2010s-2015s era where media outlets helped politicise climate change

Chris Fuentes

ChrisFuentes42

Many "value investors" have stayed away from "technology" - it took Buffett a while to get into Apple, and it wasn’t until after missing the early days of $MSFT, $AMZN,