#Crises

OK, the thing is, this is a really unusual thing to do and it's totally possible this person has something going on themselves that makes it difficult to control what
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In 1994, I was part of a protest group trying to stop the building of a dual carriagewayOne day we were accosted by an old gent. "Go away, you're spoiling
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Shallow solidarity says I need you to show up for me, but I have very little interest in also showing up for you during your crisis (although I might hide
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Something else we need to understand more than ever is that fascism relies on capitalism. In fact, I think it’s fair to argue that fascism is a distinctly capitalist phenomenon
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The ECB and the EU Commission need to start developing contingency plans and conditionality for EU cooperation with the IMF if emergency assistance packages for the Turkish economy are needed.You
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There are (at least!) four big reasons why Biden's presidency has been so much bigger, so much more ambitious, than the rest of his career:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/opinion/biden-jobs-infrastructure-economy.html 1. The collapse
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The more I learn about environmental economics the more I come to the conclusion that a lot of companies and capitalists either ignore it or are just fucking stupid Like
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It is very unfortunate what happened at Council today. We have residents walking into the street because they want to physical distance. We were talking about 19 of 320 parking
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Just posted my latest newsletter, on how necessity was *not* the mother of invention. Although invention increased in the teeth of one of England’s worst ever crises, it was because
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Democrats participated in McConnell's charade of a confirmation instead of boycotting because they didn't want to "politicize" it. Now Trump has a party with Barrett, proudly desecrating the separation of
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Teaching public policy in Global Cities @GPS_UCSD has clarified for me so many of the central challenges facing cities. Today, the NYT editorial board hit a home run summarizing many
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What gets me about respectability politics is how the *entire* political and journalistic establishment will be tweeting concern for B**** getting sick but for ongoing gov engineered crises (e.g. Windrush,
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Turkey's Crises: Demographic Shift [THREAD] Fertility Rate By Province VS Majority Ethnicity Make Up Quickly Declining Areas & Decreasing Areas >Turkish Sunnis/Atheists No Change Areas >Turkish Sunnis/Atheists>Arab Shia AlawitesIncre
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using the object noun form of apart is weird cause it reminds of “another” but at lease that makes sense you can’t say “this is other x” or “an other
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If you are graduating now or nearing the end of a postdoc, it sucks to have to go on the job market with hiring freezes being announced left and right.
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Dear Mr President,@MBuhari Sir, this is one final appeal to you to use your good offices to avoid the impending doom.What our country is facing right now with these #EndSARS
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