#Progressive

What the SFDA's race was, and was not, about. A thread.So for some people, there's the horse-race analysis of elections. This can be somewhat interesting, in the same way that
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THREAD: @20003ist asked me why I support Ed Lazere as the best candidate in the 2020 At-Large Council race. There are so many reasons and I wanted to share some
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so they're still doing copaganda, but like...more thoughtful copaganda?I love b99 but honestly I don't think there's any good way to do a police procedural right nowhttps://tvline.com/2020/06/23/brooklyn-nine-nine-spoilers-seaso
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Terrible unemployment data from DOL this morning, so a thread to tell you how much is at stake in the final negotiations over a rescue package. Today’s unemployment report shows
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So...as a newly elected DNC member, I'd like to provide some insight on "the DNC" to folks who like to complain about "the DNC" and such.Because "the DNC" doesn't work
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I’ve been digging into some of the stories of people getting fired for supposed racism.What I found was companies cravenly sacrificing employees—some of them working-class people of color—who did nothing
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* Selling Climate Change to Trump Voters *I recently tweeted about telling the climate story better (https://twitter.com/AukeHoekstra/status/1326175135087341570). Now I want to take it to the next level.I will use Haidt's
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A deeply interesting tutorial by @fchollet @MelMitchell1 @ChrSzegedy at #NeurIPS2020 "#Abstraction & #Reasoning in #AI systems: Modern Perspectives "or "What are abstraction, generalization and analogic reasoning?"1/
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THREAD: While we are tweeting today that SCOTUS unanimously denied a bid by Trump to overturn Pennsylvania’s election, let's be clear. The dark money powers who used Trump to pack
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Insane! The @washingtonpost editorial board attacks @revolvingdoorDC research file on Jeffrey Zients for being fair enough to include the positive purpose of Zients in government (seeking efficiency) & ignoring and
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So thread alert re: NASCAR, Bubba Wallace, and the events of the past three weeks. CW: racism Good NASCAR Twitter has been very vocal about supporting progressive change this past
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#Thewhitewalker thread -- on why we don't need more copaganda in 2021, among other issues with #Walker. And why we certainly don't need more of Gen Z being trained into
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I often wonder why Helen Joyce is suddenly so HUGELY exercised about trans people existing.https://twitter.com/HJoyceGender/status/1346885628634550274 The comment Helen Joyce responds to so appreciatively—"God that is good."—i
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We need to discuss something — and it’s important. Yes — Joe Biden IS running on the most progressive platform of any major party nominee for President of the United
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This article needs some context. Good thing I’m prepared to offer some.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-trumpism-wont-happen-in-canada-but-not-because-of-our-politics/ WOW! I’m stunned by the hubris and ignorance of this
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I’ve just handed in my mphil dissertation ! It’s on the Ronan Point scandal of 1968. I found some interesting archive materials that I’d like to share. The disaster gives
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