#Policies

Angus Satow

AngusSatow

Policy detail isn't the clearest, so here's a little thread of the policy commitments dropped or watered down in Labour's green recovery plan...https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-green-new-deal-jobs-30-billion

Ben Pile

clim8resistance

How councils are using Covid as an excuse to drive cars off the roadhttps://mol.im/a/8654475 The government and (mostly but not exclusively Labour-dominated) councils have been lobbied by the usual suspects

Ammar Ali Jan

ammaralijan

This year, poor countries owe $25 billion in installments to creditors in rich countries in the midst of a pandemic. Demands for canceling Third World's debt are absolutely rational and

Erica Ifill

wickdchiq

Ok here’s the article I wrote on misinformation and particularly how it worked with this push to re-open the economy #cdnmedia #cdnpoli https://www.hilltimes.com/2020/05/13/push-to-reopen-the-economy-fuelled-by-disinformation-political-ga

William Dance

williampdance

Here’s a thread on how social media platforms and tech companies have responded to #COVID19. For each site, I’ve tried to capture any messages appearing organically in newsfeeds as well

Roscoe B Davis🎖⭐️⭐️⭐️

RoscoeBDavis1

Okay here's what the democrats want, and this is why they are blocking the Senate bill. The Pork list is long.OVER 1400 damn pages of this shithttps://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6817711-Updated-House-Bill $100,000,000 to Nasa,

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

I'm at @FamStudies today explaining why universal childcare programs are a poor policy *even though* childcare costs are indeed a huge problem for families.https://ifstudies.org/blog/why-a-child-allowance-is-preferable-to-subsidized-chi

Black Together Again

KProtein19

THREAD: The everpresent *affirmative* comparisons of Blackface to drag & transgender males pretending to be females are not only offensive, but reflect whites’ well-documented, callous disregard for the humanity and

Siyanda Mohutsiwa

SiyandaWrites

In November, the @nytimes published an article about efforts in Asia to fight back COVID. They mentioned specifically 3 countries (Hong Kong, Korea and Japan) and outlined long histories of

Giorgos Kallis

g_kallis

Last year I published a book on Malthus and Limits. Let me explain what I argued, and how it is relevant to current debates where the name of Malthus and

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

When you think of the @rcmpgrcpolice, you probably imagine the romantic sight of guys in archaic red brocaded uniforms doing close-order drill on horses while waving Canadian flags. 1/ The

nicole elan

nicole_chenelle

Happy Tuesday, y'all. Today, we'll be exploring a group called The Parent Association, Inc. parentassociation dot org. This group has been on my radar now for a while. They are

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

In "The Effect of White Social Prejudice on Support for American Democracy," a pair of political scientists used data from the World Values Survey to analyze the rise of authoritarian,

Super Deluxe

sachp

Today is International Sex Workers' Day. I'm sending love and gratitude to sex worker friends and comrades from numerous countries who I've worked and learned with. From Sri Lanka to

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Because it's Palm Sunday and evangelicals are getting loud about the pandemic being a godly plague, we need to talk about how America was taken over by a Neo-Confederate, hypercapitalistic

Srdjan Cvijic

srdjancvijic

A thread placing in context the accusations of Nacional that Djukanovic ordered the murder of Pukanic: Since 2001, a Croatian weekly newspaper “Nacional” run 43 articles almost exclusively dedicated to