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nsram

nsram

Today I decided to do a county bellwether analysis of the 2020 elections based on data from 2000-2016 (5 elections). This data can be downloaded from https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/VOQCHQ This thre

Michael Luo

michaelluo

I wrote about the racist attitudes embedded in American Christianity, a problem that has long festered in the church, and the difficulty of dislodging them. I end with some thoughts

Bruce Preston

BruceJPreston

1/ We no doubt accept this argument for an intensive care specialist forced to choose to apply a *single* available ventilator to *one* and not the *other*. But it is

Phil Syrpis

syrpis

This thread (popularised by @mrjamesob) was from a year ago today. It didn't turn out *exactly* as predicted, but there isn't a lot which is wildly wrong. A quick follow-up

Chaos

chaosprime

a big, contentious, people-flouncing-out-of-the-DM-group argument about astrology this morning has forced me to work out what i really think about divination. you may be shocked to learn that i'm a

Atif Mian

AtifRMian

Most seem focused on finding villains in this sugar crisis report. But the report does not talk about the real crisis that is eating away at agriculture and the broader

Jeena Cho 조지현

Jeena_Cho

Let's talk about managing the worried mind. {Thread} There's a natural tendency to continuously worry, catastrophize, imagine the worst-case scenario.We tend to do this ESPECIALLY when the thing we're obsessing

Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych

Nick_Carmody

Trump lives in the "eternal, immortal now", so the real danger comes this fall when Trump goes for broke for re-election. Trump didn't reverse course on "the cure is worse

Douglas Connors -- Decency First FFS! (he/him)

calmecam

1. @jkenney is fucking little bastard weasel.On @PnPCBC he was asked directly about his reckless and dangerous decision to not wait for Health Canada vetting of tests, test vaccines, and

Daniel I. Weiner

DanWeiner329

Relief over the #SCOTUS June Medical ruling likely will overshadow today’s other significant case, invalidating part of the CFPB’s structure. But given attacks on law enforcement independence and other safeguards

Gerard Roland

gerardrolanducb

You make good points. US foreign policy after WWII was completely dominated by cold war considerations and opposed all national liberation movements. The realists in international relations find that on

Conscious Reflection 🌖

ReflConscious

40 PRINCIPLES FOR REALIGNMENT - ELEVATION//PRINCIPLE 37. //**THREAD**You are a limited being, in a finite existence, constrained by timeMake the most of thingsPRINCIPLE 37. PRINCIPLE 37. RUMINATE ON DEATH:

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Keynes's 1940 pamphlet "How to Pay For the War" reframed the question of large-scale project financing. Rather than focusing on money (which governments can print at will), it focused on

Todd McKinnon

toddmckinnon

Companies like @SnowflakeDB @asana @Airbnb are making headlines as some of the most anticipated IPOs of 2020. It feels like yesterday we were preparing to take @okta public.What it’s actually

Ranu Dhillon

RanuDhillon

1/It’s easy & obvious to say we need more testing to stop this epidemic. (I have been guilty of this too.)When we say ‘test, test, test’ or ‘mass testing’, we

Olivia💛

terfalicious

Here is my response to this explanation that a man wrote about why it’s wrong to identify as a different race. I specified that a man wrote it because a