#Officials

Cindy Ermus

CindyErmus

I wrote this piece for @STATNews to mark the tricentennial of the start of the Great Plague of Provence, the last of the great* outbreaks of plague in W. Europe.

alison gillespie

alg_alison

One thing was very very clear at the visioning session for downtown Silver Spring this week. People are pissed off that Ellsworth is now a parking lot instead of an

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee

CommonsDCMS

This morning we'll be putting questions to @OliverDowden, Secretary of State for @DCMS. We'll be sharing key points on this thread, but you can also watch live from 9.30 here:

Douglas McDonald-Norman

dougmcdnor

Government officials make decisions. Those decisions rely on findings of fact. What if those findings of fact are illogical or irrational? How does that affect the official’s ultimate decision? Let’s

Brandy Zadrozny

BrandyZadrozny

“For months leading up to the incident, Swenson had been sharing memes from boogaloo pages on Facebook.”https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/boogaloo-boy-arrested-texarkana-swenson Like the OK sign and Pepe and Kekistan, and just about

Major Patriot

MajorPatriot

THREAD: The Hunter Becomes The Hunted: Joe Biden, his son Hunter and China (1/20)Dec 4, 2013: Then Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Beijing, China aboard Air Force 2. Accompanying

Aura Bogado

aurabogado

NEW: An unaccompanied minor held in an NYC shelter was set to be reunited with his sponsor in March, but was halted by the federal government, which issued a policy

The Sparrow Project

sparrowmedia

UPDATE: Several attempts were made by this mixed bag of federal officers (Marshals, Border Patrol, HSI) to grab people out of dwindling crowds. At least two people were detained in

Janet Johnson

JJohnsonLaw

One final viral infusion: Trump’s move to block travel from Europe triggered chaos and a surge of passengers from the outbreak’s centerhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/one-final-viral-infusion-trumps-move-to-block-

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

Let's talk about academic freedom and the police.There are all sorts of third rails in academic discourse. The kinds of topics where if a prof says the wrong thing, his

Marilyn Marks

MarilynRMarks1

The most outrageous, reckless, irresponsible, dishonest thing I have seen in my 11 years in elections is what the GA SOS is doing to replace system software with untested uncertified

Maya Dukmasova

mdoukmas

Spent a few weeks examining the carjacking issue in Chicago.Fellow journalists in local media, especially in breaking news: Please stop obsessively reporting on carjacking with information obtained from the police.

Polina Ivanova

polinaivanovva

Eight days since voting ended on July 1 on Russia's constitutional reforms, that open the door for Putin to stay on in power for another decade and a half.Since then,

Detention Solidarity Network

detsolnet

Last year, we saw the state respond to COVID-19 as a law & order problem rather than a public health disaster. We saw the violence of #PandemicPolicing , more criminalization,

Sharad Bishnoi

SharadBishnoi05

A thread courtesy @vbanno Some thoughts below are from my colleague at IIT and the figures he quoted herein are copied from other sources.When the country decided to adopt the

Maureen Cassidy

MaureenPCassidy

My colleague @ArielkeK just shared with me the text of an email she received without revealing the personal info of the sender. I know that this person has, in the