#Suffering

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Today we are seeing tons of hype around the corticosteroid dexamethasone, prompted by this press release.It does indeed look like good news, but it is important to recognize the limitations

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

The economic & humanitarian crisis we are living through right now was 100% entirely avoidable.It’s just that Wall Street, large corporations, the 1%, and the political duopoly they control simply

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Covid Epi Weekly: A Week of Great Progress for Vaccines…But Also, Unfortunately, for the VirusEncouraging vaccine news but deeply discouraging lack of action to stop pandemic. Coming weeks will be

Megan McArdle

asymmetricinfo

Still think that whatever its ostensible subject, an enormous amount of performative rage on the internet--and its audience counterpart, rage-seeking--is about using rage to suppress more normal anxiety and sadness

chingy “person who needs an endoscopy” nea

TheGayChingy

the commodification of queerness, being fed straight-washed media representation, and mixing rigid identity politics w/ fandom bullshit has actively fucked up so much of how the current gen of queers

Perry Gorelik

PerryJGorelik

People often fail to realize how extremely difficult it is to be as massive a piece of shit as @RealSkipBayless. I'm impressed with his dedication to saying horrible things and

James Palmer

BeijingPalmer

the most worrying possibility is that the government itself actually believes in this mad bluster and in the idea that a war with Taiwan would be an easy victory. I

Rod Graham

roderickgraham

A conclusion one can draw from the social science work on the white working class is that yes, there is racism, yes there is nativism, but...(1/5) ...at the heart of

Lafayette Lee

OrangePartisan

1. I’m feeling uncharacteristically wistful this morning, so I’ll probably delete this later, but nothing drove me into a deeper rut than being torn away from a brotherhood of barbarians

Mad Scientist Pod!

MadScientistPod

Being a kid in NYC during 9/11 was terrifying. I was in 6th grade, and suddenly kids were being brought to the principals office to go home. Finally they brought

Justin Logan

JustinTLogan

Rare sappy personal thread. Four years ago today, I opened a restaurant, a dream I had had for years. Two years ago today, I closed that restaurant. I’ve just been

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hardc0reSouma

“Pretty privilege” is this lazy analysis of colourism, featurism, transphobia, fatphobia, etc that dull people perpetuate as some sort of cursed gift there are people 10x more mesmerising and beautiful

Purge_TT

Purge_Suddhi

1/nMany of you know I have a pinned tweetIt’s there for a reasonThere has not been a SINGLE day that goes by that I don’t get at least one messageA

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bacchianbabe

I know it’s good that people are realizing immigration is not simply a non-Black Hispanic problem, but I’m still furious. Haitians have been talking about this since at least the

Sanchita Balachandran

Sanchita_writes

With all the calls for diversity work in predominantly white institutions, I quote @andersonpaak: "I'm glad that you finally made it to the future but you're late/And the price is

sophie gonzales writes fiction

sgonzalesauthor

The Me Too movement is great. Stories about resistance are great. But we have to be careful we don't let that cross over into a cultural expectation of survivors to

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