#Midcentury

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

An important @BuzzFeed piece by @RMac18 and @CraigSilverman uses leaks and insider accounts from @Facebook to paint a picture of a company where morale is in freefall, as techies are

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

We have very strong evidence that racism has been a major factor in shaping our stingy welfare state, our weak labor unions, and our hyper-local education & land use institutions

Michael Craig

TheEnergyCraig

I suspect a lot of utilities, regulators, & policymakers are asking themselves: is our power system prepared for climate change? Below, a short thread with suggested analyses and action items

A Sunday in McMansion Hell (1976)

mcmansionhell

welcome to this thread, which is a text-based simulation of an episode of the hit HGTV show House Hunters using real estate listings I found online. let's begin. You are

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Nice of @NYMag to give @nicholsonbaker8 a 5000 word marketing package for his most recent nonfiction book...which is partly about lab accidents in the 1950s.https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1346083776594636804 "I hadn’t interviewed s

Justine Barron

jewstein3000

If you feel you aren’t versed in disability issues related to Covid, please read. In the meantime, I want to share some stuff I learned working on this that I

rose suchak

bristling

so i logged 100 films on letterboxd this year, by coincidence and not design - and i may have rewatched a couple or caught something on live tv and forgotten

Reece Jones

ReeceJonesUH

I'm looking forward to teaching my graduate seminar in political geography again this spring. Here is a thread of the books we'll be reading on sovereignty, territory, and borders 1/15

Damon Mayrl

yrlsoc

A few thoughts on today’s Espinoza decision, which appears to invalidate most state constitutions’ no-aid clauses, which prohibit public dollars flowing to religious bodies. 38 states have such clauses. https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/0

Brian Goldstein

bgoldst

Thanks to @MelArch3 for flagging this. The @NatUrbanLeague seems ready to rise in #Harlem, on what I'd argue is the most interesting block in the history of the Civil Rights

Daniel Firger

dfirgs

Thread on new @CFTC #climaterisk report. Here are the highlights: First & perhaps most importantly, this report was a) commissioned by a majority-Republican federal regulatory agency and b) represents the

Jeff Sharlet

JeffSharlet

The beginning: In '15 I asked editors if I cld cover Trump as a convergence of strands w/in U.S. Right. Editors thought he was a joke. But in early '16

Jeff Sharlet

JeffSharlet

I’ve been reporting on US & global rightwing movements for 20 years, 4 years on the Trump beat. I read Trumpism from a religious studies background, attentive to the myths,

Midwest Modern

JoshLipnik

Time for another stop on the Midwest Modern tour: this time we’re looking at the modern architecture of Columbus, Ohio—houses, schools, churches, banks, and even a cool Space Age horse

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