#Midwest

1/ This week has been a whirlwind. Gen Z VCs went from 40 friends to 1,250+ members in 6 days We're a global team of young investors, building strong friendships
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NBA 2K11 is in the conversation for being the best sports gaming title of all time. It revolutionized the genre and dethroned NBA Live as the basketball simulation king. Something
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Right now there is understandably a real lack of quality fresh content out there. I am deciding to do my part to flip that with the help of my incredible
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Nous voici à quelques heures du jour J. Comme en 2016, je partage mes différents scénarios pour l’élection présidentielle du 3 novembre. Sous réserve que les résultats soient nets et
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A little thread/rant on the casual misuse of the word "sherpa": It's getting colder in the Midwest, which means I'm seeing ads for:"oh so sherpa" jackets- @lululemon "signature sherpa" pullovers-
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An idea to build a brighter future for local news instead of applying band-aids to the moment: Create a revolving loan fund to start, support and expand local news co-ops
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This NYT piece on the dawning realization that farmworkers do essential work regardless of their citizenship status touches on — without mentioning — two related economic phenomena that are necessary
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As US hits new highs in national and state COVID cases, and rising hospitalizations, some leaders say we're rounding the corner. Others offer fatalism that there’s nothing more to be
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So, why is it that conventions only can ban someone like Diezel now that he has discussed making a fake Covid-19 vaccine card?It's time for another LinnThread filled with facts,
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Hi I just wanna give @nytimes a shout-out for this article, "Tenant Farming (But Make It Fashion)."NYT keeps setting up their writers to fail by assigning folks with little or
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THREAD: *taps mic* Just here to highlight our incredible team of @swingleft college fellows! They’ve been working hard for the past several weeks organizing their schools in a completely virtual
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#USElections2020 Winner takes it all, and would it be @JoeBiden or treasonous #IMPOTUS45 pimping for #Kremlin?https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1302818494053003264?s=20 Got to wake up in this early morning, to see formative #USelec
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You need to read this.Institute of Medicine (US) Forum on Microbial ThreatsThe Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? Workshop Summary. 2005. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22156/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK22156.pdfParticularly this section startin
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MLK: “Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit. Now, there
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Deep Dive!This is an important thread about testing for SARS-CoV-2 which will explain:-why herd immunity is possible at 10-20%-why testing has really let us down and led to bad policy
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OK-The one-legged bisexual narc in the swimming pool—a reminiscence. Of all my outré stories, this one is the most Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers of them all. But first, some exposition.
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