#Statistics

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Grifts are undertheorized, and too often conflated with long cons, scams, frauds and other more blatant soft crimes. Lemme offer a definition.A grift is a scheme that profits from the

Wyatt, Austere Deplorable

austere1717

It started with an incredibly suspicious Pedosta email that was leaked by Hero Seth Rich to Hero Julian Assange which had skeptics suggesting they weren’t actually talking about pizza, but rather in code:

WarNuse

WarNuse

The U.S. Death Penalty.Description Of Each Execution Method, And Methods Of Execution As Authorized By Each State.28 C.F.R. § 26.3 - Date, Time, Place, And Method Of Execution.https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/methods-of-execution/description-o

Narumi Momose

HardFastAndFree

What kind of healthcare system is #Cuba's? Is it really all milk and honey as claimed by Havana? How competent are Cuban doctors? What's the story of Cuban doctors who

andie🕊 ♀is in jail

SAINTMAGNOLIAS

The effects of pornography & prostitution a thread: TW ahead for all types of abuse, sexual abuse, child abuse, incest, rape. basically the lot. this thread is very long! please

Aaron Carr

aaronAcarr

New Zealand, South Korea, Germany, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, Singapore, HK, Japan, Norway, Canada, + CA have a combined population of nearly 500m people, but 1,900 fewer COVID deaths than NYC.

WarNuse

WarNuse

'The U.S. Foster Care To Sex Trafficking Pipeline.'So Much Innocence Lost.Urgent And Serious Challenges Face U.S. Child Protective Services. Disturbing Statistics.Megan Fox, PJ Media, December 27, 2018https://pjmedia.com/parenting/i

Christine

christinelu

Asian Americans being unapologetically Asian American in America is my favorite mode in the face of all the xenophobia and anti-Asian sentiment of 2020. We mobilize. We vote. We say

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

Today I got some listener mail from my appearance on @IssuesEtc to discuss my article about the "crisis of men" in the church. The mail specifically asked me to engage

Leo Murray

crisortunity

Hi! We need to talk about the role of advertising in fuelling the climate crisis through generating insatiable demand for carbon intensive goods and services. Meet @_wearepossible’s new campaign with

Rex Douglass

RexDouglass

Today I'll be live tweeting (Clinton et al. June 29, 2020)"Partisan Pandemic: How Partisanship and Public Health Concerns Affect Individuals’ Social Distancing During COVID-19" which has a summary thread here:https://twitter

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

One dynamic i really love on Twitter Person: The Holocaust happened & is badLeft Twitter: wow i guess you don’t care about other genocides? It’s not even the worst one.

Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life

rajbhagatt

#Thread#Elections are supposed to be about electing representations for framing legislationsHowever the geography behind delimitation which doesnt consider complex socio-economic conditions promote communal polarization leading to deteriora

The Passenger

gordonschuecker

Paper Notes | The Appallingly Bad Neoclassical Economics of Climate Changeby @ProfSteveKeen The subprime moment for Neoclassical economics and how citing/quoting Nordhaus became a liability.https://www.patreon.com/posts/appallingly-bad-3804

Homegirls and Handgrenades🌈

ItsLithaAfter9

Book 1 of 2019: The Private Joys of Nnenna MaloneyThis is an incredibly intelligent book. However, I find it hard to relate to this seemingly mature 17 year old that

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

Asymptomatic Deep-DiveRead on, you’ll be surprisedThis NYT article revealed that high Ct PCR was identifying mostly non-infectious positives (trace viral RNA)The upside to supersensitive PCR is that it also tells