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Stephen L. Miller
redsteeze
Some of us are old enough to remember Gamma and the Party Boy turning the White House into an Air BnB for Chinese State Donors. Argument can easily be made
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Kai Kupferschmidt
kakape
“Out of 220 countries and economies, 194 have now started vaccination and 26 have not”, says @DrTedros at #covid19 @WHO presser. “Of those, seven have received vaccines and could start,
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Marcel Dirsus
marceldirsus
I’m not even sure populists will have to make that argument to succeed. Our economies are crashing, millions of people will lose their jobs. That alone will be a big
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Tony Dutzik
FrontierTony
This paper is the most thorough and insightful deconstruction of car dependence I've seen. Should be required reading for anyone working on sustainable transport.Read @giulio_mattioli's thread below. A couple of
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vitalik.eth
VitalikButerin
Yesterday I talked about the benefits of total decentralization. Today I'll talk about the benefits of deliberately engineered *bounded* centralization.Thread: The best argument in favor of any centralization is often
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Nentawe G. Yilwatda
nentawe1
The Three 2020 World Wars (PART 1).The year 2020 gave the world a triple hit in less than two quarters. World leaders were taken unaware by the global ravaging scourge
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Brad Beauregard Jr 🇺🇸
BradBeauregardJ
We've now reached the phase of this nightmare presidency where Trump actually believes he's a dictatorHe does not have "total authority" over the states and when he's pressed on it,
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David Henig
DavidHenigUK
Yes, unsure there will be such a swift recovery in trade / economieshttps://twitter.com/baharmouti/status/1247888716594417666 Specifically on the UK economy in the coming years, this thread is worth reading.https://twitter.com/TimPitt11/status/124785
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Upfront
iamiqbal
Covid-19 is wrecking the economies across the world. A new category “Neo-Poor” is emerging to join ranks of poor and marginalized.#neopoor#neopoor According to estimates about 25% uptick in school drop
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Ludwig Straub
ludwigstraub
1/NMy very first thread! ... I’d like to use it to explain some new work.Let’s start with a thought experiment: Say all US household debt was refinanced to a 1%
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Stephen Reicher
ReicherStephen
Out today in the Lancet.A comparison of countries with eliminationist vs. containment strategies shows that those with a systematic strategy to suppress the virus rather than living with significant levels
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Joy-Ann 😷Reid
JoyAnnReid
This is true. With the exception of Texas and Alaska which are basically mini petrostates, most red states are on the federal dole, with their budgets infused with blue state
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Strategic Cities
StrategicCities
Thread: headlines about #OilPrices crashing to 0 are simplistic. Prices *will* go back up, but then bump along at $20/$30 a barrel. That’s the big story: the heavily indebted shale
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David Sligar
DavidSligar
jg folk really lean into the idea of "federally funded, locally administered". the word "local" conjures up cuddly communitarian vibes for many ppltotally opposite for me. the "local" level of
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Ivor Cummins
FatEmperor
Portugal numbers on all-cause mortality spike due to #Coronavirus #Covid19So were the people who were saying weeks ago the below...essentially correct? - isolate and *protect* >65 yo's - use distancing/masks
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Marlene Daut
FictionsofHaiti
But Las Casas’s sympathy for “the Indians,” and later the laws he tried to pass to prevent abuses against them, did not become the dominant mood at court, did it?Instead,
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