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because they killed off or disempowered the midwives and destroyed or scoffed at their accumulated knowledge and then didn't bother to study it themselves.https://twitter.com/BeeCycling/status/1388027338580021251 Same reason that pregna

cars are already a tool of privilege (like many such, they can also be a support for the vulnerable), such a small but terrible step to literally weaponize them. cars

The great Jamaica Kincaid writes, in her book-length essay A SMALL PLACE, "A tourist is an ugly human being." It's a hard truth but a very important one, because it

Rich countries failed to deal with the pandemic. They failed to prepare for or deal with ice storms & hurricanes. They can't even protect their citizens from poverty. We should

Population is power, borders are arbitrary, and citizenship is an invented category with invented rules that can change at any time. #Infomocracy #Microdemocracy https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1319575809632292864 Imagine if US followed

There are two problems here: the power of name-recognition and incumbency -ok, 3 problems, because those are distinct but related; and the power of political partieshttps://twitter.com/danielmarans/status/1316823249074913282 Name-recognitio

"Believes in democracy" should be the absolute minimum qualification for serving in public office in our aspiring democracy.https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1314089207875371008 As I wrote for @ForeignPolicy, democracy is a pr

For @ForeignPolicy, I wrote about how we need to refocus on a principle that supposedly all US citizens should share: democracy.https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/25/building-a-shared-worldview-among-democrats-and-republicans-could-be-more-d

For @ForeignPolicy, I wrote about the fallacy of public panic in disasters, and why elites keep using it as an excuse even though it isn't true.https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/16/trump-woodward-elite-panic-coronavirus-pandemic/ I hone

Every quarter I donate 10% of my royalties from my novels to non-profits that work in areas related to the themes in the books. Thanks to everyone who bought a

"a lack of basic supplies like ladders and cable" gives me the squicks because of the research I did on Fukushima Dai-Ichi. The meltdown happened because they couldn't connect to

We've been saying it for years. We've been saying it about health, about the environment, about human rights. The economy doesn't exist without people, without society. Choose the economy over