#Subsidies

Kevin Goebel 🏳️‍🌈

kgoebel

When Kennedy picked Johnson to be his running-mate in 1960, many of JFK’s advisers were aghast. Organized labor universally opposed LBJ and JFK’s advisers said he was too conservative for

Roméo Levi

HanumanOlam

Why colonialism happened, a thread: Human resources have always been limited by how much we can extract from the environment. In hunter gatherer societies that meant possessing just enough to

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Let's meet some job creators! Private equity plute Leonard Green bought Prospect Medical a decade ago. He and his CEO Sam Lee, spent the years since buying up hospitals that

Amy Washburn

AIWashburn

THREAD: 1) Student loans are a problem. Mine are still a problem for me, and I graduated from law school in 1994! The current crop of high school graduates are

Mx. Dianna E. Anderson

diannaeanderson

SO HEY Last night, I briefly mentioned that the american suburb is a creation of government intervention, and I want to expand on what I meant by that. So, redlining

Leah Stokes

leahstokes

Today, the climate plan conversation continued, with a bold new intervention from @ClimateCrisis. The Democrats are getting serious about the climate crisis. Let’s break down the Select Committee’s ideas in

जनस्यागोप: (Janasyagopah)

bmskuks

This is the main reason why Dalits in meat business were made jobless over a period of time.Please demand jhataka in eateries aggressively.Crowd fund a dalit/SC or anyone interested &

Lettwrs

cantypelettwrs

Renting in #LosAngeles sucks.Every year, there’s fewer options. Despite the dozens of cranes stacking new towers up outside our windows, there’s nowhere we can afford, and the new buildings sit

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

arghavan_salles

This thread is based on conversations with doctors at 3 large metropolitan hospitals, all in the position to know what’s happening with their ICUs. Here are some important points that

Miftah Ismail

MiftahIsmail

1. SBP has released its annual report. Statistics confirm a continuing economic downturn. Our GDP growth went from 5.5% in 17/18 (PMLN’s last year) to 1.9% in 18/19 and -0.4%

Melissa Sweet

MelissaSweetDr

Please join me as I read @LancetCountdown report just released on health & climate change, tweeting out snippets as I go. It is 43 pages and has been making headlines:

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

This is a very odd take … Biden’s positions on these issues are not mysterious or unknown. But if you would like to know, a thread. Biden does not support

NickManchester- Something Else

Native_Orchid

I'm going to begin my thread with a post that I believe was written by @Vickie1701 on Facebook. #IntersexDayOfSolidarityAndRemembrance Intersex people don't always find out about being intersex in infancy

guynewey

guynewey

Heat. The decarbonisation nightmare. All conversations I have on climate in the UK inevitably lead back to buildings. Normally followed by a short period of banging head against a (badly-insulated)

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

At the Truth & Reconciliation Commission in 1997, Professor Sampie Terreblanche made a submission that South Africa should impose a wealth tax. This was accepted by the TRC but rejected

Kaden McArthur

KadenMcArthur

The Trump admin has finalized their new rule exempting the entire Tongass National Forest from the Roadless Rule. This means removing protections from 9.3 million acres of America’s largest national