#Policies

So many of these potential @JoeBiden admin picks are revolving door figures and their selection would violate Biden’s own campaign promises. (1/x)https://twitter.com/CNBCPolitics/status/1247283975426658306 Larry Fink held a position on Trump’s Econom
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Time for an update on COVID data! US test count and positive rate continues to fall.That's great news!However, some news reports claim this may be because states are reporting serology
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PART 8: IMPERIALISM: THE HIGHEST STAGE OF CAPITALISMThis thread is summarizing a book of the same name by Vladimir Lenin. I would recommend reading it. It's 162 pages so not
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never wanted to make this thread, sorry in advance. This is not about trying to change or shame you but about why I’m choosing to vote for Sarah for Mayor.
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Current debates on automation and income inequality miss two points:1. Redistribution is not enough – we can & should also directly improve market incomes2. Workers adjusting to new technologies is
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When people don’t know what to believe, or feel like they can’t believe anything….they will attach their beliefs to bias-confirming narratives…even if they are illogical. I’ve previously used a “circuit
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So @BrianWebster18 tweeted a question I asked to @RCNScot students and NQNs yesterday night: “What do you think about 12-h shifts?”It triggered a Twitterstorm! I will try to unpack the
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Yesterday @guardian presented shocking report of violence, pushbacks & deaths @ EU borders. Which raises questions: Why has such news (130 deaths on one day this April) ceased to shock
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Tech Hearing (I've forgotten which number) on #Section230 live tweet threadhttps://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/does-section-230-s-sweeping-immunity-enable-big-tech-bad-behavior .@SenatorWicker opens that the light touch regulatory a
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New paper! #conservation #ornithology #agriculture Full text here (paywalled, sorry, I know. DM for pdf): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cobi.13316 @RSPBScience blog here: https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/biodiversity/posts/sp
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Philippine legislators seek probe into CoI of its FDA receiving funds from foreign anti-vaping NGOs while drafting vaping policy. Such investigation needs to be conducted across nations, including India. Here
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I’m going to geek out on this thread more than normal b/c new Science paper is WTF bananas awesome, and I don’t want it to get lost in the news
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Several people have expressed their surprise, sometimes more than that, that I keep harking on this, so here is a short thread to explain why I don't let it go
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THREAD about how Douyin, the Chinese version of #TikTok, is banning livestreamers for speaking Cantonese instead of Mandarin. 1/ On Monday, the Guangzhou-based WeChat account Yangcheng Net (羊城网) posted an
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This is a long thread meant to be read as one contiguous stream of consciousness. It addresses my dire concern for our democracy in #Alberta.I fear @jkenney is a false
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Time to spill some beans... Or truths as it were.Alberta is in financial crisis. Deep financial crisis. Several economists and pundits are calling for a provincial sales tax.I’m going to
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