#Disasters

Shelley Kath 🌊 🇺🇸 🌊 🇨🇦 🌊 🌎 🌊

SLKath

#OVEarth will be highlighting the Trump administration's environmental rollbacks with the hope that @Transition46 takes notice and reverses all of them once @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris take office. We will highlight

Fr. Robert R. Ballecer, SJ

padresj

Interesting note about the GA election:The runoff system, proposed by segregationist Denmark Groover, was adopted in 1964 after the US Supreme Court struck down the "county unit system."The CUS, in

Neil Renic

NC_Renic

This is a fantastic article by @STS_News on technology criticism and hype. Some thoughts on his arguments and the role of "shock" in our approach to emerging technology. 1/10https://twitter.com/STS_News/status/1356309192248872960

Maggie Koerth

maggiekb1

Friends, I assure you that your non-Texas chunk of the electric grid is also deeply flawed, aging, and bonkers in its own special way. ERCOT is a weird system, but

Barrister's Horse

BarristersHorse

THREADIN WHICH THE EU BREAK INTERNATIONAL LAW1. Their own Treaty to be precise. And not in a 'limited & specific way' either. I refer to the latest bailout, the €750

Jen Bartel

heyjenbartel

I've been thinking a lot about how if we're lucky, some of us will get to spend around 80 years on this earth, and how those of us who have

Aug Tells

aug_tells

Some literally do not understand what logic, reason, or knowledge is. They actually believe that yelling, making a display, and pretending that mockery is important, is how one debates, argues,

David Scales

DavidAScales

I wrote this piece at the peak of the pandemic. It's paywalled, so here's a thread about it https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00810 Also, you can listen to a recording for free here: https://www.healthaffai

James Miraflor

futilityfunc

There is nothing wrong with "pulitika" during disasters, especially if it is coming from citizens. This, because disaster is ultimately a "political" problem. (1/9) Truth is, we already possess and/or

Chris von Csefalvay

chrisvcsefalvay

Russian roulette with one round in the chamber has a one in six (16.67%) chance of killing you.This is only marginally less safe than being in a New Jersey nursing

vakibs

vakibs

In this thread, I will discuss the history of the Kalinga region, that is stretched between the Godavari and the Mahanadi rivers.Just as western civilizations refer to the whole of

Kaiser Health News

KHNews

NEW: 3/4 of Americans live in states that spend under $100 per person on #PublicHealth annually. A @KHNews @AP investigation tracks the systematic underfunding that left the U.S. ill-equipped for

Jan Bobrowicz

janbobrowicz

Here's why I'm not convinced QAnon was part of a plan:Q first posted 170 weeks ago. It isn't clear what effect the QAnon phenomenon has had on the US body

Restrained Elegance

RElegance

Thoughts for 2021 (not exactly cheery I'm afraid).1) Brexit is finally "done" and it's consequences will reverberate through the next decade or more. It is a stupid act of national

CB Lee is in the final act of 2020

cblee_cblee

Queer people exist. In the past, present and future. Years and years of prejudice, erasure, being unseen, unvalued can add up to feeling alone, like you're wrong, broken, unwanted. You

JaQie Space Force

jaQieSpaceForce

"STORM ACT""Revolving Funds to provide hazard mitigation assistance to reduce risks from disasters and natural hazards."--> Revolving Funds... such as a LINE OF CREDIT???--> Anyone else think of @Ripple's new

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