#Policies

Institute for Democracy & Higher Education

TuftsIDHE

How should colleges and universities think about political learning in 2020? Some thoughts from this week’s new IDHE release, Election Imperatives 2020: 1/ First, consider the context of the moment:•

CNN Philippines

cnnphilippines

THREAD: Vice President Leni Robredo addresses the nation. | Watch here: https://bit.ly/3aTsuFz Robredo: Gobyerno lang ang may kakayahang magbigay-saklolo sa ekonomiya. Government must spend more, spend efficiently and quickly as

Judd Legum

JuddLegum

1. Facebook is lying about its fact-checking program and its approach to climate disinformation.This gets a bit into the weeds but its worth it because Facebook is trying to use

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

Hey there’s a teacher out there who is saying she got fired for teaching a poem about Asian American racism, and I don’t know all the facts, but I am

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Australia - like many English-speaking countries - is full of lovely people who somehow manage to keep electing far-right, genocidal, climate-denying governments of surpassing administrative incompetence.1/ The most likely explanation:

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

This summer, NASA will launch a rover designed to collect samples of the Martian surface. When the samples arrive on Earth, they’ll be “quarantined and treated as though they are

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

caitoz

American liberals & progressives talk a bit about white privilege, male privilege, straight privilege etc, but one thing they never talk about is American privilege: the ability their nationality gives

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Covid Epi Weekly: The First Cluster Cluster at White House is symptom and symbol of the failure of Federal response. Overconfidence in testing. Lack of basic safety precautions in crowded

Ryan McGreal

RyanMcGreal

Thread:I think it's fair to say most white people - me included - don't really know how to talk clearly, directly and explicitly about race and are uncomfortable even thinking

Ottawa Sport Council

SportOttawa

We know that sport is paused for now, but when we are able to play again, the goal is to do so safely and responsibly.Follow us along the Ottawa #ReturnToPlay

sai priya

priya_27_

THREAD: Venereal Disease and the Prostitution Policy of the British Rajfull post (with much more detail, sources, and links)https://saipriyac27.wordpress.com/2020/08/03/venereal-disease-and-the-prostitution-policy-of-the-british-raj/ In 19t

Blue Birds Dance

FreeFourEver

Was William F. Buckley Jr. a pioneer in the intellectual justification of racism? This article brought Steve Bannon to mind. As if there could ever be any justification for racism...https://www.truthdig.com/articles/there-is-no-donald-j-trump-without

eugene

Shoah4Israel

Who are the Jami Madkhalis ? (jews of the qibla) [thread] They are named Jamiyah and madakhila in relation to rabee al madkhali and his teacher aman al Jami They

Danielle Citron

daniellecitron

(1) Long threat alert: yesterday, I laid low about the EO on “online censorship” because I didn’t want to be lured into, and be trolled by, absurd distortion of Section

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RareforMyself

All the Good things Selena Gomez has done & reasons why she should be more respected: Starting off with the fact that she's granted so many Make-A-Wish requests that the

Jonathan Symons

symons_jon

*A long earnest thread*Here, @GrogsGamut argues that reflexive centrism undermines climate action - I agree! Unfortunately Greg also:- makes misleading claims re climate science. - defends radicalism against 'reason' as