#Austerity

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

The American Right has controlled the direction of this country for decades, has hastened this decline and national ruin, and is engaged in projecting the blame and rage for their

Rory Meakin

rorymeakin

The more I think about coronavirus, the more I think there are three key questions that need to be resolved:1. What's the objective?2. Should we manage risk or promote virtue?3.

Alana (She/Her) BLACKLIVESMATTER

AlanaSivin

Okay so Puerto Rico statehood has come up a few times in the past month and then I made the terrible decision to suffer through Fox News talking about it

Tamanisha J John

TamanishaJohn

The other day I noted that harm reduction arguments only work if “incrementalist” progress is happening in the direction that we want it to happen in; And that you can’t

Melissa Hubbard

melissa_hubbard

Omg so many thoughts about this (see previous tweets). Indeed, one of the main goals of my dissertation project is to invigorate conversation about public good and public goods in

Phil Stevens

stevens_phil

Decent discussion about the opportunities presented by a great reset. One clanger is Agar's casual victim-blaming of the children of the Hongerwinter, though. 1/https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/04/13/1121400/nicholas-agar-op-ed A groundbreaking lo

Vidya Shah

VidyaShah6

1/ There have been significant changes to ed during this pandemic. Many of these changes have exacerbated existing educational inequities & some of these "changes" will become dangerous educational *reforms*

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

September was the 7th month of the COVID crisis in the U.S. labor market, and the situation is dire. We added 661,000 jobs in Sept, but the labor market remains

Mary McCarthy

MaryKnowsBees

I lived in #Greece for four years and my youngest son (Άρης) was born there & I feel a deep connection - the φιλοξενία is real! (even if my Greek

Will Ryan

wdryan2000

Re-opening of Primary Schools (Long thread): Of course, we want our schools to be open. We understand that this closure is far from ideal although - naturally - we encourage

darren

DarrenGoldner

I live right near Prospect Park. It's a nice place to exercise at distance. Today, I ran into @nycmayor @billdeblasio w/ @nycfirstlady there.But they live 11 miles away *inside* another

Stephen McGann

StephenMcGann

This piece on the carelessness of crisis metaphor by the ever-admirable @MarinaHyde prompts two reflections - one a book, the other on those elements our country's past that might provide

NortherlyRose #AncientAutistic

NortherlyRose

I can’t find any official confirmation #Dominicummimgs’ son is #autistic but there are lots of tweets saying:‘The medical issues Boris didnt want to discuss is that Cummings' child has autism,

David Jamieson

David_Jamieson7

It's a shame that this video has been removed by the BBC - because it demonstrates perfectly how institutions help to generate and sustain state ideology. Wee thread 1/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-53597663/coronavirus-can-rish

Diego J. Aranda Teixeira

DiegoATLAW

Can't find my WA Ballot livetweeting but here I go again. Will tie em together if I can Measures and Referendum:Referendum obvs yes - sex ed should be much better

Ross Douthat

DouthatNYT

Going to argue, mildly, with this @streeterryan piece for a moment:https://thedispatch.com/p/trumpism-is-more-about-culture-than I said mildly because I completely agree with him that Trumpism is "an anti-leftist, anti-elitist cultural