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Matt Schrader

MattSchrader_DC

Checking in on the status of the "PRC's impact on academic freedom in the United States" debate https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1296049522842324994 It appears that US universities have this particular "global

Jill Filipovic

JillFilipovic

Life in America is getting worse: "out of 163 countries assessed worldwide, the United States, Brazil and Hungary are the only ones in which people are worse off than when

Neil Fawcett

BarristerNF

The "free speech" movement is a sophisticated campaign to suppress free speech. Don't fall for it. It is disinformation. A good article in the NYT on this: http://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.amp.html

Joshua Weitz

joshuasweitz

Re-upping a prior thread on joint work on heterogeneity and #Covid19 spread in light of today's @nytimes piece on heterogeneity and herd immunity thresholds; in which we found a way

Cynthia Lummis

CynthiaMLummis

A couple things are of particular note to me and, I suspect, have played into the calculus for folks like Michael Saylor and Elon Musk to add bitcoin to their

Zaid Jilani

ZaidJilani

One thing you rarely see anyone admit is that most of the Obama years were terrible for lower income people and the Trump years until covid were significantly better. Acknowledging

Kimberley Strassel

KimStrassel

1) This "all is lost" NYT story is a stunning reminder of how the press keeps moving the goalposts to other planets. The lede says it is finally "dawning" on

Ezra Klein

ezraklein

Over the years, I’ve had a lot of discussions with Facebook officials about how engagement-based, algorithmic social media changes people. They tend to argue it doesn’t: It just reveals what’s

Hillary Monahan

HillaryMonahan

Fuck the @nytimes for firing a queer Jewish woman for being relieved she no longer had to live under a regime that glorified antisemitism and homophobia. The people who want

Alec MacGillis

AlecMacGillis

"Americans who might once have felt qualms about buying from Amazon now have social license to do so — it has become our cause larger than ourselves to fulfill our

Matthew Miller

matthewamiller

Can't help but ask why we are just learning now about this incident that occurred in 2018. A nakedly corrupt act by POTUS and the ambassador, yet no sign that

Guy Spier

GSpier

Gamestock and Horsehead Holdings: a thread. A few years ago, a company I had invested in, Horsehead was the subject of a vulture attack by large New York hedge funds.

@DRJessieNYC

JessieNYC

"Non-Hispanic white people account for 60 percent of the U.S. population; in 2018, they wrote 89 percent of the books in our sample."https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/11/opinion/culture/diversity-publishing-industry.html

Jed Shugerman

jedshug

Congress was attacked and seized 48 hours ago after Trump told his mob to go there and "fight like hell"... Yet @SpeakerPelosi waited around for the 25th A. & is

Jim Dao

jimdao

There are 13,000 school districts in America, and just about 13,000 approaches to teaching during Covid-19. How do you cover that?....https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/schools-coronavirus.html?smid=tw-share We decided to take a look at

Nick Kapur

nick_kapur

I admit I'm one of the people who has gotten into watching chess streaming online during the pandemic.It's thrilling to watch some of the greatest to ever play this extremely

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