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Brandy Mai
crisistalker
Gather round, here’s a Twitter thread version of the research paper I’ve been working on forever. It involves the intersects of disaster doctrine, disinformation, and First Amendment. 1/ First, let’s
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Doctora Malka Older
m_older
unconditional cash transfer nowhttps://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1245787069076602880 from a humanitarian/disaster response perspective I don't understand why this is even in question. there's NO reason not to help people out, and help
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
KendraWrites
First: US emissions declined despite trump. It's because we are quitting coal because coal is too pricey. Trump rolled back a whole bunch of regulations including air pollution regulations that
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Scott Knowles
USofDisaster
Fellow disaster researchers I offer some hope--major outlet news coverage of the compound pandemic-hurricane-wildfire-social justice disaster seems to have absorbed some of our core conceptual premises and empirical findings! 2.
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Valerie Marlowe
ValerieGMarlowe
Sure, okay. I'll see your isolated early 20th century maritime disaster and raise you the 1991 Bangladesh Cyclone, in which 90% of the 140,000 people who died were women. (Thread)
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Ananth Krishna Subhalakshmy
Ananth_Krishna_
Yet another controversy is brewing regarding the allocation of Disaster Relief Funds to Kerala - which is a lower ₹157 crore compared to higher amounts other states received. Is this
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Akira/Sam
Heroclueless
I thought these books in the this thread need a second birth, where its revival seems more important than anytime else. I hope people can learn from this literature. Please
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jenn m. jackson
JennMJacksonPhD
Every academic who studies race, gender, and class, disasters, and social welfare should be spending more time supporting communities right now than focusing on how they can publish off of
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DRI International
DRI_Intl
Starting the @columbia_ncdp Q&A:@ChloeDemrovsky: What makes a mega-disaster different from a regular #disaster? @jeffschlegel: Disasters so large they disrupt the systems designed to respond to them Where human development/activity also
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michael wave
SzMarsupial
obviously the belief that states shouldn't feed people is both callous and against a wealth of evidence, but i think the real victory for a conservative worldview here is the
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Leena
LeenaVanD
I don’t know if it’s just because of disaster-fatigue but I’m curious why there aren’t as many selfies with surgical masks now with COVID like there were with our smoke
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Paul Krugman
paulkrugman
Let's be clear: we don't know whether Trump is actually taking hydrochloroquine. We only know that he *says* he's taking it. But why would he say — and possibly, maybe,
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Shirley Tillotson
stillots1
I don’t care about wealth taxes. I DO care about a lot of things wealth taxes are supposed to do.I hate to be out of step with my progressive "tribe."
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
bethsawin
It's easier to stop a pandemic before it starts than to fix it once it's out of control.It's easier to protect a species than bring it back from the edge
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Blackwell's
blackwellbooks
Right now, as part of the ongoing @blackwellbooks virtual festival, @ilankelman is here to talk about ‘Disaster by Choice’. Welcome everyone! https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Disaster-by-Choice-by-Ilan-Kelman-author/9780198841340#BlackwellsV
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Doctora Malka Older
m_older
The great Jamaica Kincaid writes, in her book-length essay A SMALL PLACE, "A tourist is an ugly human being." It's a hard truth but a very important one, because it
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