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Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today's @bopinion post is about how poverty imposes impossible demands on poor people, making it harder for them to escape poverty.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-20/poverty-is-all-about-personal-stress-not-laziness

Fred Wellman

FPWellman

Continuing my review of Trump's many acts of disrespect to veterans and service members today. Back to 2017, just a few months after taking office he sat on his toilet

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ratmiddleman

hey guys ... pride month is beginning and i wanted to do a lil thread on marsha p johnson! she's my hero and she should be yours too :-)( most

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soarel325

my life is over and i don’t have a future (thread)ive made this thread like 3 times before but i figured id make the short version so to start i

Michael Clemens

m_clem

A thread of remarkable research on the economics of international migration that I've discovered recently.I'll add to this regularly in the days ahead, in no particular order. I'm summarizing frontier

Claire Berlinski.

ClaireBerlinski

This is the most revealing sentence: "Trump treated the debate like he was trying to win an argument between two baby mamas on a trash daytime show." Part of the

Lloyd🛡️Hardy

lloydhardy

Did you behave with selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty & leadership when you had sex on your sofa in your marital home with your mistress you helped get money

K-Mart

KaleiaMichele

Thanks to @CodyGathersMD I just spent the last hour + reading an anti- affirmative action article (that was written by an Asian male doctor) and published in the Journal of

Malcolm Clark

TwisterFilm

What level of death can we live with? A thread on an uncomfortable question that needs answered in the coming weeks. It's posed in a remarkable interview in Der Spiegel's

Inquisitive Native

InqNative

1. This article has been circulating in recent days. Written by an "expert", seemingly well-researched, yet sloppy with facts and highly misleading. This (long) thread explains why. It's for anyone

salma | ACC LIMITED

gloserine

WHATS CURRENTLY HAPPENING IN CHINA TO MUSLIMS (a thread) Muslims have been put into concentration camps in China. they now consider Islam a mental disease. Muslims are being treated as

Dan Byers

DByers21

40 years ago today: Julian Simon & Paul Ehrlich agreed to their famous proxy bet on the future of humanity. Ehrlich and his partner John Holdren bet $1,000 that a

Maureen Fitzsimmons

mojos55

Outsourcing Brexit: £180 Million in Cabinet Office Contracts for Corporate Giants https://bylinetimes.com/2020/10/26/outsourcing-brexit-180-million-cabinet-office-contracts-corporate-giants/ Huge #Government contracts for the delivery of #

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

An explainer thread (often I feel I am pitching these to journalists as much as anyone else) on COVID this month. Context: I am an expert in one area (human

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Bihar_ke_lala

Tiktok videos glamorizing dua over dawa. Attack on health workers. People wiping snot on notes. Urinating. Hiding travel history. Spitting. These are some ills that are on display in trying

John Hayward

Doc_0

Debates over big spending bills like "infrastructure" absurdly proceed as if the U.S. government is tiny and underfunded, and this is the first time it has asked the American people