#Collapse

Rosewind

Rosewind2007

I’m thinking about how we think about what is true.Now, I love words. Though apparently the way I think about them is odd, since I lack an internal monologue.I honestly

Rex Douglass

RexDouglass

Polity's measurement problems have been known since the 90s. Vdem was made bc of them. The new score is below 1800s levels which is impossible. So what are we supposed

Alex B

Fwoggie

If you send goods across a non porous border you need-lots of paperwork. Filling it in triggers delays.-trained customs staff. We're short by 50k. That'll cause delays.- IT systems. Several

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Bill_Kezos

[some moron]: *attempts to guilt me into feeling sympathy for the plight of the white man, oppressed by racial minorities who are rude to them online; in the hopes that

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

Almost all modern governments are highly conscious of what journalists might call "international opinion". They don't like to be condemned in the United Nations, they do not want to be

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umairh

If you want to fix America, you need to start with its broken economy. And it’s economy is really, really broken. Americans have little idea how much they overpay for

Jana Morgan

prof_jmorgan

How experiencing dem erosion elsewhere can illuminate life in US today. A thread. /1Lately I find myself thinking a lot about my ~1.5 years doing fieldwork on party system collapse

Poppy McPherson

poppymcp

Breaking -- Another landslide at a jade mine in #Myanmar has killed at least 50 people.https://news.trust.org/item/20200702044920-bbgvv/ @Shoon_Naing, @sam_aungmoon and @Simondlewis did an in depth-story on the issue last year. There

Billy Easley II

billyez2

Talked to multiple news outlets on state data privacy laws today and I have two big takeaways for them:States are taking action because Congress hasn't prioritized privacy law changes Not

Matthew Roberts

MPWRoberts

In other words, saying 'we need to do x' and/or 'we can do x' does not mean (even if one or both is true) government can therefore legitimately do x.

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bpwarsh

In 2005, Americans asked questions like this about Katrina. The answer was already clear before covid but it’s definitely clear now. What the moneyed powers inflict on New Orleanians, they

Rob Steinernomics 🍆

Steinernomics

If you’re someone who wishes Republicans and Democrats could put aside their differences and work together in the best interest of the American people, Joe Biden’s your guy...he sure is

Alistair Hamill 😷

lcgeography

The ash fall from Pinatubo 1991. Rain water added weight to the ash, causing some buildings to collapse. The ash travelled up to 65 km away from the volcano, not

emily

see_em_play_

good for mulaney, but the way we treat people with addiction in the anglo world is fucking ghastly. it will be basically impossible to care for people dealing with addiction

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

I have heard this email thread created a hostile working and learning environment in the department described as "a cloud of despair."Might need a thread about how diversity training rooted

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LuluLemew

Secret tapes show neo-Nazi group The Base recruiting former members of the militaryhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/secret-tapes-show-neo-nazi-group-base-recruiting-former-members-n1243395 Secret recordings of a militant neo-Nazi org Th

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